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  • Double height text...<p>Is here any good routines for printing a font double height?</p><p>I've concocted this ridiculous routine but I'm sure it can be done much better.…

    ... routines for printing a font double height?I've concocted this ridiculous ...
    daveysludge daveysludge June 2015 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... to write a machine code double height character printing routine. I know ... about how to write a double height character routine in BASIC that ... 0,0;a
    145 POKE DTOP,PEEK CHARS
    150 ... DTOP=DTOP+1
    155 POKE DTOP,PEEK CHARS
    160 ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... to write a machine code double height character printing routine. I know ... about how to write a double height character routine in BASIC that ... 0,0;a
    145 POKE DTOP,PEEK CHARS
    150 ... DTOP=DTOP+1
    155 POKE DTOP,PEEK CHARS
    160 ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... screen memory to create the double height characters. For BASIC it runs ...
    220 LET p$="Sample Double Height Text"
    230 LET y=19 ... : GO TO 410
    400 POKE sa,T: LET sa=sa ... +256: POKE sa,T: LET sa=sa ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Arcade Game Designer 4Just released over at the AGD forums. New this time: Sprites can now be individually coloured using the SPRITEINK command. If 16x16 sprites aren't…

    ... effects engine which enables scrolling text messages (either in-game or ... on a control menu/static text screen), double height text and score display routines ...
    jonathan jonathan May 2013 Brand new software
  • The Making Of Manic Miner"Matthew Smith talks us through every level of his classic platformer Sat at the very desk where it was written, Matthew Smith watches Miner Willy l…

    ... another guardian)

    * Fantastic double height text drawing routine!

    * Only ... [slow] when need to draw text (only once at beginning of ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter February 2010 Games
  • Printing a ListingHello my fellow WoS'ers Todays trouble starts with the need to print-out a listing - personally I would prefer a text file, but beggars cannot be c…

    ... Spectrum +3 are powerful text windows, which you ... 14;"You can have double-width text:"
    200 FOR ... #5;CHR$ 14;"Or double-height text:"
    270 FOR c ... 2;CHR$ 1;"Reduced height is also available, allowing ... can be combined with double height as well!!"
    ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 August 2012 Development
  • How to convert a .txt file (ASCII/PC) into a Tasword file?Short version: [B]How can I convert a .txt file (PC) into a Tasword file (ZX Spectrum)?[/B] Longer version: {Maybe I should first re-introduce mysel…

    ... no header or anything, the text is just loaded in as ... of odd markup for doing double height text on the printer, to switch ... ‘‘double‘‘height‘‘on‘‘‘Print‘‘at‘‘double‘‘height‘‘on‘‘
    ‘Print‘‘at‘‘double‘‘height‘‘off‘‘Print‘‘at‘‘double‘‘height ...
    guesser guesser May 2013 Games
  • Double height text...<p>Is here any good routines for printing a font double height?</p><p>I've concocted this ridiculous routine but I'm sure it can be done much better.…

    ... my version
    ; Prints a double height string at address (HL) from ... PUSH BC ; DB011202 11:17 Double height printing
    PUSH DE
    double height text" + $80
    Regards,Derek ...
    dbolli dbolli June 2015 Development
  • Arcade Game DesignerTime I posted an update on this, I've been working on the next version - along with another developer who is writing the editors - since July. Wor…

    ... to redefine the keys. The double-height print routines have disappeared, there ... to switch between standard and double-height text.

    JUMP has a ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2015 Development
  • Pyjamarama remake, players wanted.I've been spending some time recreating Pyjamarama using Mono (C#) on the PC. Why? 1. I started pulling apart the original Z80 and published the [u…

    ... on Linux, but Pyjamarama displays double height text by default.

    Oh ...
    Luny Luny January 2018 Brand new software
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... simplify the scroller. The double width text bitmap will be written to ... poke 8 UDG values into the display. Since we are doing double ... the next UDG byte to poke into the display and "*bmp ... /> [/code]

    First we poke the left half UDG byte ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... ]d_Print()[/b] and the double width text printer [b]d_PrintDoubleW()[/b ... , col;

    r.height = r.width = 3;
    ... , col;

    r.height = r.width = 3;
    ... width ("r.width") and height ("r.height") of the plot of ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... down to a simple Print Text routine. If you want a ... , no-ROM routine to print text anywhere on the screen I ... on-the-fly Bold Text, underlining, Inverse, double height character etc. amendments to ...
    Turkwel Turkwel April 2010 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... for is a simple Print Text routine and nothing else ... text that gets split over some lines and to make the double height ... HL[/CODE]

    Some Text Effects......

    [CODE];Bold ... /> ld (de),a

    ;Double Height
    p_main: inc b
    Turkwel Turkwel April 2010 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... have been further refining my double height character program i.e. the ... 0,0;a
    145 POKE DTOP,PEEK CHARS
    150 ... DTOP=DTOP+1
    155 POKE DTOP,PEEK CHARS
    160 ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • How do you work with fonts on speccy?just curious really.. I know c64 workings, and obv. the spec you draw direct to screen.. on 64 , you'd make what would be equivalent to UDG.. and sa…

    ... to this you can create double height characters quite easily using machine ... word. Mind you, one simple POKE can change this to "ar ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Development
  • How do you work with fonts on speccy?just curious really.. I know c64 workings, and obv. the spec you draw direct to screen.. on 64 , you'd make what would be equivalent to UDG.. and sa…

    ... remember a way of getting double height fonts using BASIC, similar to ... this:

    9000 POKE 23606,0 : POKE 23607,127 : PRINT AT ... X,Y;A$
    9010 POKE 23606 ... ,0 : POKE 23607,130 : PRINT AT ...
    zxbruno zxbruno September 2010 Development
  • How to Extract a Font from a Game?I remember it was possible to load/save your own fonts in ArtStudio on my Speccy. I also remember it was possible to loop the loaded block of a game …

    ... own custom print routine? Since text was used quite rare in ... Upside Down, Inverse, Mirrored and Double Height with just minor amendments to ... over where and how your text is displayed, no worrying about ... I posted code to print text on pixel rather than character ...
    Turkwel Turkwel November 2010 Games
  • Chloe 280SE keyboard for ZX-UnoI'm sorry. This conversation comes from another forum. It's a spanish forum and can't continue there. [url]http://zonadepruebas.com/viewtopic.php?f=…

    ... an 80 column mode. Double height characters really need double width stems. That ... if you want to print text across more than 32 columns ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena March 2014 Hardware
  • im looking for a double size, height and width character programi want to be able to stretch and scale up udg's

    ... character set and just POKE it with double-height characters. i.e. redefine ... top-half of themselves in double-height, and the lower case letters ... you only need to re-POKE the upper byte of the ... make them up.
    To double things up horizontally, you either ...
    joefish joefish November 2017 Development
  • Editorless AGD Now for Spectrum as well as Next/TimexI've updated the editorless version of AGD to 0.3, fixing the Next/Timex CLS routine and adding a Spectrum engine and compiler. For those not alread…

    ... command to toggle between double height or standard text, PLOT and a command ... an argument to specify the height.
    jonathan jonathan February 2018 Brand new software
  • im looking for other games like the muncher that use double height and width graphics with colouri havent come across this type of graphics mode on the spectrum before and would like to know if there are any other games that use it.

    ... a rampage type game with double height and width graphics and with ... -a-rampage-type-game-with-double-height-and-width-graphics-and-with ... : 1.0
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
    abelenki abelenki June 2019 Games
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... you can write a draw text routine that doesn't require ... can make a version of text out that wraps at the ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... you can write a draw text routine that doesn't require ... can make a version of text out that wraps at the ...
    Kotek Kotek June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... you can write a draw text routine that doesn't require ... can make a version of text out that wraps at the ...
    Kotek Kotek June 2022 Development
  • A few more unlisted Spectrum MIAsIn Home Computing Weekly #67 (19-25 June 1984): The Pink Pearl (Astrosoft Games), text adventure, priced 4.95; half-page ad on page 14 and review in …

    ... /> The Pink Pearl (Astrosoft Games), text adventure, priced 4.95; half ... (Herron Software - spelled with double 'r'), text adventure, priced 6.50; review ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... need to print double width text and scroll double width text messages.
    text printer and a double-width text printer.
    double-width text bitmap from the ... The next test shows double width text being printed. Press a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • im looking for other games like the muncher that use double height and width graphics with colouri havent come across this type of graphics mode on the spectrum before and would like to know if there are any other games that use it.

    i havent come across this type of graphics mode on the spectrum before and would like to know if there are any other games that use it.
    digital digital June 2019 Games
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