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Worst loading screens?For me, I think that it's a tie between [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013355]Star Trek 3050[/url] and [url=http://www.worldo…
... vote earlier today (1/10) and perhaps this voter once were ... lines of the speccy's DRAW command; all jagged outlines. Awful ... -
Spectaculator 7 Beta 1Spectaculator 7 has amazingly somehow made it into beta! I've just sent the usual suspects (aka beta testers) their e-mail with details. I know a f…
... the "ZX Interface 1 and Microdrives" hardware, the emulated ... 1 and Plus D are selected entering a command can ... be entered without parameters - entering
[CODE]PLOT ... trapped with
[CODE]PLOT ?L[/CODE]
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Spectrum more loved than C64It just occurred to me that the Spectrum must be more loved than the C64 these days. After all, it has been more than a year since an update was made…
... not exist (though you can draw up a good case for ... is love why does he command his followers to kill people ... Adam and Eve to leave Eden (paradise), and for Adam and Eve and all ... our own standards and believes. And the more intelligent and sane people tend ... -
Sudoku on ZX Spectrum 48KZX Spectrum 48К Sudoku game 25 years Spectrum and 300 years Leonhard Euler anniversary. 6000 (and more) puzzles, 8 levels. [url]http://www.t…
... the top of the body and the fin at the bottom ... 2 main techniques: cross eye and PARALLEL EYE. This SIRDS are ... LEFT EYE in LEFT POINT and RIGHT EYE i RIGHT POINT ... see 3 points. CENTRAL focused and LEFT&RIGHT defocused.
PLOT 128+x*o-2,y: DRAW 3,0: NEXT ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... a built in BASIC command to do this. I ... I was trying to draw 2 screens that when ... ldir-ing them to 16384 and 49152.
... (including the paging operations and active screen selection), can ... using ordinary BASIC PRINT and graphics commands. Until today ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... , scroll the attributes and do bound checking on ... and can be dealt with by multiplying by 3/16. MOVE (PLOT ... 4) has been implemented. DRAW (PLOT 5) has ... t implemented a LINE-DRAW routine, it doesn' ... converted to OSBYTE 237 and run. Doesn't actually ... -
Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …
... :
[CODE] 500 REM 'DRAW A LINE' from last position ... 255 THEN STOP
740 PLOT PLOTx,PLOTy
750 ... L horizontal or vertical steps and L diagonal steps are taken ... the exchange registers H' and L' are used to ... -
Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …
... it is horrendously long and inefficient compared to the ZX ... , thought the same thing and considered redoing the lot. ... screen resolutions and calls a plot function to plot points and this contributes ... the screen address set to draw patterned lines. If you ... -
Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …
... circles as it calculates SIN and COS values at the same ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... graphics origin
[*]relative and absolute DRAW/MOVE (via PLOT)
[*]PLOT70 - XOR ... point plot - to get Bat'n ... ROMs!
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Oh, and I mustn't forget another ... -
Retro-X Alpha availableChanges from WIP 7 (Alpha 3) to Alpha 4 ( 1.5.08 - 14.5.08 ). Requested by and help by - in brackets. Bugfixes: * Viewer: o File list not displaye…
... . So I use GetDIBits API command to copy a image to ... memory at given pointer, and then I can manipulate the ... this disables the ability to draw grid or Delta-Update (It ... the source of my painter and importer after they will work ... -
Retro-X Alpha availableChanges from WIP 7 (Alpha 3) to Alpha 4 ( 1.5.08 - 14.5.08 ). Requested by and help by - in brackets. Bugfixes: * Viewer: o File list not displaye…
... I use GetDIBits API command to copy a image ... disables the ability to draw grid or Delta-Update ... window for an emulator - and unless you radically alter ... GetDIBBits() once per image and then never use it ... again - just modify and bitblt(). Even so, emulation ... -
Peter Moore ( Xbox boss ) says Chris and Tim Stamper are rubbish ( apparantly )[url]http://www.mcvuk.com/news/31795/Peter-Moore-Rare-is-not-applicable-in-todays-market[/url] By that he means they didn't follow the heard and do …
... a sound chip, aparently!) and superb graphics and draw distance (except in the ... and bots [B]exactly[/B] how you choose. You can command ... the bots on your team in real time, and ... have randomly different heights and skin colours? And that some are ... -
Programming Books for Kids - Whats happened to programming?What has happened to Programming in the 00's :( I remember at the tender age of 9 exitedly going to my library to get one of them colourfull program…
... approach to programming and a method to draw simple graphics.
and it begins by saying ... ." Screw that, just give me PLOT and DRAW...
[quote]
" ... exactly that (in actual schools and everything). Over to you ... -
What if...What if when you were a kid in the early 80s your parents didn't buy you a Sinclair Spectrum as your first computer? I was thinking about this earli…
... had one 16K Spectrum, and it had to be specially ... ZX80/81 to the Spectrum and then, if you were ... calculating prime numbers, and another had to PLOT and UNPLOT :p a ... : I think the first command I typed was CIRCLE, ... read how to use the command in a magazine. I ... -
Attn: Dunny Re: Basin[QUOTE=Dunny;282407]Just out of interest, is there any demand on these boards for a standalone version of BASin's graphics tools? It'd be just the U…
... br /> To erase, you need draw with the right mouse button ... Ability to laungh the converter and the paintbox individually, even if ... ll look at adding a command line option for this, ... Paintbox looks very professional, clean and comfortable. Thanks. :)[/QUOTE]
Please help me complete this lil'programI'm editing Basic programs that were saved in Timex TOS discs, and every load command starts with LOAD *"filename". If I want to go through these pr…
... /> I made this small program and it seems to be doing ... ,0;"Working...": PLOT 0,166: DRAW 255,0: DRAW 0,-6: DRAW -255,0 ... :
DRAW 0,6 ... f=s TO e: PLOT x,164:
DRAW 0,-2: LET ... PEEK (f-1)=239 AND PEEK f=42 AND PEEK (f+1 ...Please help an absolute novice with some simple(ish) programming.I'm very, very rusty at BASIC. I'm using BASin, for my GCSE Astronomy coursework [quote] Use a spreadsheet and/or a graphing package, or write a com…
... axis. We have horizontal axis and vertical axis.
... use trygonometric functions to draw both circle and elipse. We will be ... using the center and radius (circle case) or ... 6.28
30 PLOT X+ R*SIN I,Y ... TO 6.28
30 PLOT X+ Haxis*SIN I,Y ...Where did you buy your spectrum games from?I was just thinking today of where i used to buy my spectrum tapes from. I used to buy them at a local WH Smith or John Menzies. I sometimes used a…
... so you could see front and back of the cassettes ... write witty programs (10 PLOT 100,100: DRAW 4,4,4040) including ... a joystick built in) and VIC-20s etc. Also ... first saw Knight Lore and was spellbound for a ... another Lunar Lander clone and realising that it was ...A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …
... , WHILE, and DO...LOOP sentences where broken. Fixed.
[*]The DRAW command sometimes ... 'glitched'. Fixed, and now reimplemented in a ... smaller and faster routine.
[*]Now, DRAW x, y, a ...The Official Red Dwarf ThreadFOUR MINUTES TO GO! I can't fucking wait!
... DVDs of them and their adventures, and so they immediately ... thought.
And the accompanying "joke" that DVDs ... to take command as he used to be, and if we ... to talk about the plot holes than the sad ... , not because of any plot holes, but because the ...Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…
... and draw them in one go. So you don't need to plot ... coordinates) to memory, and then peek and draw. as Y can never ...
(px,py = plot y,x) (dx,dy=draw y,x) (*=a ... bytes two by two and draw until you stumble upon ... , then you can plot again to draw a new shape. ...DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…
... - 6144 bytes long (32bytes wide and 192 pixels height) followed by ... byte holds paper (empty pixels) and ink (set pixels) color for ... what you've done with PLOT and DRAW...).DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…
... - 6144 bytes long (32bytes wide and 192 pixels height) followed by ... byte holds paper (empty pixels) and ink (set pixels) color for ... what you've done with PLOT and DRAW...).[/QUOTE]
I'm ...Draw (x1,y1) to (x2, y2)?I was never very good at math. :( Given the above variables, what should I do to draw a line between the two pixels? How do I calculate the values fo…
... displacement, Y displacement":
DRAW xdisp, ydisp
Which ... you are at 100,100 and DRAW -50, 50, thiss will create ... :
[code]PLOT x1, y1
DRAW x2 - x1, y2 - y1 ... the magic:
30 PLOT x1, y1: DRAW OVER 1; x2 -x1 ...Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... : :-)
You can try and use ZX Spectrum ROM's ... /> On the other hand, original PLOT routine is used, but jumping ... same applies to DRAW & CIRCLE.
DRAW & CIRCLE uses ... take no more of 200bytes and are MUCH faster (specially CIRCLE ...SCREEN$ 1.9e Released!And here's another update! [url]http://paul.dunn.googlepages.com/SCREEN_1.9e.rar[/url] There's a few new things in this release, but it's mostly bu…
... in logging mode from the command prompt or preview it) I ... 'll be happy with Direct Draw. :)
I logged ... Create polygons
Set scaling and filtering parameters
Clear render ...
Free DIBs (scale and corners)
Shutting down DirectDraw ...Home Computing WeeklyIssue 15 seems to have 4 extra images that are duplicates of the previous four. HomeComputingWeekly01500049.jpg HomeComputingWeekly01500050.jpg HomeC…
... done with block graphics or PLOT/DRAW). In the order you listed ... issues, but I was out and it needed a signature so ...Your views on...Red Moon[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006880]Red Moon[/url] This will be the first text adventure that I've chosen for this thread …
... 's a great game; the plot seems highly influenced by Larry ... D&D style combat and magic systems felt a bit ... judicious use of the BURY command they can be bypassed.
