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  • Border emulationHow is the border emulated to do all the fancy little tricks such as in Aquaplane? I've got some basic border emulation working but it only displays…

    How is the border emulated to do all the ... />
    I've got some basic border emulation working but it only ... like Aquaplane or Starion the border colour is being changed as ... the screen and border are being redrawn. How is ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2007 Emulators
  • Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…

    ... stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour?
    ... the C64 used the border area occasionally to display ... than the screen can draw the border changing colour completely. With ... Has a more closely controlled border usage already been done?
    Vertigo Vertigo November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Paging memoryI've been thinking about a possibility of paging blocks of memory to and from disk. Imagine dividing usable 32KB of Speccys RAM (why do they call it …

    ... but being wrong on so basic level probably will not help ... . Hell you can even draw on border by OUTing with precision timing ...
    tstih tstih October 2011 Development
  • Naughtiest keywordWe've had how to generate each of the error messages but which keyword can be used to generate the most errors? BORDER CODE VAL$ "WOS" Nonsense in B…

    ... $ "WOS"
    Nonsense in BASIC
    BORDER 0/0
    Number too ... big
    BORDER 255
    Invalid Colour
    BORDER 256
    Integer out of ... range
    BORDER WOS
    Variable not found
    Bethan Bethan September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • US Elections: It's going to be McCain/Palin, isn't it?Surely the Palin gimmick won't win McCain the election? But it's looking that way :(

    ... more, depending on where you draw the border)

    Boris/Palin ...
    NickH NickH November 2008 Chit chat
  • My first platformerHi all! How do you do? Been lurking here for a while, but never had the courage to join the forum. :) The Speccy was my first computer, so I've alw…

    ... Thanks! I usually turn the border off when testing so I ... 's suggestion works because the BASIC BORDER command sets BORDCR to the ... BEEPs in Z88DK using any border colour, then simply change the ... library function to change the border colour
    zx_border(b);
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2010 Development
  • ZXSpin question...Hi Folks, ZXSpin has the ability to set the Z80 CPU Speed and the Emulation Speed. Not sure I understand the difference and my installation of ZXSp…

    ... first border executes and the ULA starts to draw a "black border". Then ... the second border is executed ... , the ULA will start to draw the border at the same speed ...
    Zup Zup January 2011 Emulators
  • New utility: LoadVerify, tape azimuth adjustmentIt's a tool derived from [URL="http://speccy.org/cargandoleches"]CargandoLeches[/URL], but I think that it's a good idea publish it separately. [URL…

    ... reads to the EAR port, draw the border, and paint a cursor ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena February 2012 Brand new software
  • Stuff the Speccy can do but we all thought it couldn'tHey all, Does anyone have any good examples of stuff the speccy can do - graphically, sonically, etc that we thought it wouldn't be able to do? Che…

    Emulate PacMan.
    Draw in border.
    Defeat 8 x 2 attributes.
    Play happy birthday while loading :)
    MrCheese MrCheese April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Scrolling a mapCan someone explain in idiots terms how you scroll a map. I'm not after code as such, just an explanation of how it can be done. I'd like to scroll…

    ... map (0,0), then you draw the map on screen, starting ... you already know how to draw the map on the screen ... 're already there. How you draw the map depends on how ... faster so that you only draw the border tiles, but on the ...
    Timmy Timmy May 2012 Development
  • ULA bug and snowI am tryng to improve the snow emulation in FBZX wii but I do not have a real spectrum to test the results. I used the information taken from Harele…

    ... also affected, as when border is blue (by BASIC BORDER command, so 2 ...
    ub880d ub880d August 2012 Emulators
  • Border art viewerRecently, we were working with diver/4d on border art. The idea was to push the techniques of drawing on the border to the limit and to see, how much…

    ... that MLT is infact a border contineuosly written over the ... a change that the border-art-viewer will show ... a border + mlt ??
    is the ' ... trivial to add to a border image, because all the ... of having to both draw the border and to deal with ...
    introspec introspec September 2013 Development
  • ZXBaremulator 35th anniversary editionHi, to celebrate the 35th Spectrum anniversary, I've released the first complete Spectrum 48K bare-metal emulator for Raspberry PI. It's available…

    ... />
    ZXBaremulator draws the full border, so you can see lines ... doc is correct, I draw the border from the precise point. My ... -TV have an option to draw the image in "Scanning only ...
    zx81 zx81 May 2017 Emulators
  • Raster effects - quick questionHi Guys Just a quick question regards what the ULA is doing as its drawing each scan line. Assuming the beam has finished drawing the border, am I…

    ... the time it takes to draw the border on the right, flip ... back to the left, and draw the ... next line of border on the left ...
    joefish joefish August 2019 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…

    ... /> and have a switch for border drawing on/off

    draw a border
    [/code]

    If you draw the border as ... well it will get corrupted though (unless you draw ...
    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…

    ... /> and have a switch for border drawing on/off

    draw a border
    [/code]

    If you draw the border as ... well it will get corrupted though (unless you draw ...
    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…

    ... debugger disassembler
    ; change the border colour between vblanks to see ... : I will leave adjusting the border drawing so it is the ... screen movement and does not draw a border.
    If DRAWBORDER EQU ...
    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…

    ... routine to use that to draw a map (of static objects ... tiles that was 11x11, and draw a border round it, dunno if ...
    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…

    ... 16x16 sprites off screen (to draw the border, walls optional), then I ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • BASIC Keyword ReferenceRealised that the Sinclair Basic section would be a better place for discussion of BASIC keywords, so for reference the old thread is in [thread=2005…

    ... : KLC : SYM + S
    BORDER : K : B OPEN # : E ... D REM : K : E
    DRAW : K : W RESTORE : E : ... colours within strings in a BASIC listing.

    ...
    icabod icabod March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • How to claim back the border space in basic?Hey, I'm wondering if there is a way to reclaim the space the border usually occupies in BASIC? I am sure I have hit BREAK on some games and ended up…

    ... reclaim the space the border usually occupies in BASIC? I am sure ... +2 basic and noticing they had got rid of the border and ...
    KK128 KK128 June 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Vector font in BASiCHi guys) Some fifteen years ago I saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate a vector font with size/ thickness/ italicization params. I remem…

    ... saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate ... a'la vector font in BASiC.

    I ... PAPER 0: INK 3: BORDER 0: LET a$="VARIATIONS": LET ... BORDER 2: CLS
    210 PLOT 20,165: DRAW 0,-145: DRAW ... 1440 PRINT "THEN, WRITE YOUR BASIC LINES TO"
    1450 ...
    NRA NRA February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • GEDit syntax highlighting for Boriel's ZX BasicHi! I just tailored this syntax highlighting code and would like to share with he community. Suggestions are always welcome, though the file works w…

    ...
    beep
    bold
    border
    bright
    byref
    dim
    do
    draw
    else
    elseif
    pkersey pkersey February 2014 Development
  • draw single pixel in the borderI have problems with drawing in the border. I can get it to draw a line ,but it always becomes a line and not a single pixel. <br><br>rept 3580 <br…

    ... drawing in the border. I can get it to draw a line ... as I am using for border drawing?
    micken micken May 2015 Development
  • Help With AY Music Program in BASICHi, last year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it would be easier than learning how to use Soundtracker…

    ... year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording ... screen ***
    405 PAPER 7: BORDER 0: INK 0: CLS
    780 REM *** now draw window top/bottom ***
    790 ... on startup.
    1300 REM Draw bottom right screen 'speaker' ...
    RetroPhase2014 RetroPhase2014 December 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…

    ... a lot of PLOT and DRAW statements. Not being an expert ... on PLOT and DRAW in those days, and even ... slightly hard to use Super Draw program from Sinclair Programs all ... , unless there's a blue border to make it stop.
    BASIC?
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone August 2003 Games
  • Ported whole casettes of backuped utiltilitiesHi! A friend of mine gave me a few casettes he found in the attic - he used these to backup ORIGINAL casettes he had back in the spectrum games. The…

    ... 35-177A4: Program : Beta Basic Length: 19 Normal Speed ... -226CA: Program : M DRAW Length: 19 Normal Speed ... 63-3E779: Program : BORDER Length: 19 Normal Speed , ... 65-3ED2D: Bytes : BORDER Length: 19 Normal Speed ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Why Spectrum has a lots of software?I'm thinking a lot of it and can't find "magic" which produced a lots of software (games, educational, utility) for Spectrum. My suggestions: 1. Ea…

    ... />
    1. Easy-to-use BASIC with editor separated from listing ... allows using PRINT AT to draw a game screen. Draws 8x8 ... and DRAW.

    3. Good SAVE/LOAD routine with nice border ...
    kmatveev kmatveev June 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…

    ... write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW commands ... text to my box but basic seems to position text in ... should be in the Spectrum Basic section.. I didnt see it ...
    javaguy javaguy August 2005 Sinclair Basic
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