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  • FZX Driver for z88dkAn fzx library for z88dk can be downloaded [URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWM2hWNjAxMVkxaEk/edit?usp=sharing"]here[/URL]. The libr…

    ... />
    cp 192 ; will char draw off screen?
    jp nc, error_zc - 2 ... because the original driver has screen orientation with y=0 at ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2013 Announcements
  • FZX Driver for z88dkAn fzx library for z88dk can be downloaded [URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWM2hWNjAxMVkxaEk/edit?usp=sharing"]here[/URL]. The libr…

    ... />
    cp 192 ; will char draw off screen?
    jp nc, error_zc - 2 ...
    Timmy Timmy December 2013 Announcements
  • 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 ... Along value on (1) or off(0!)
    325 LET r ... record 0 to end/switch off record feature
    350 REM ... startup.
    1300 REM Draw bottom right screen 'speaker' graphic.
    1310 ...
    RetroPhase2014 RetroPhase2014 December 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…

    ... question you may be better off asking the author, Tony ... own "canvas" I created and draw the Screen$ in Paintbrush/MSPaint. He ... types such as Tiles, Sprites, Screen$, Characters, and UDGs. It ... TG will not contain a basic interpreter/compiler or anything like ...
    Sadako Sadako July 2004 Development
  • Scrolling Bi-Colour Engine for 4-Player GamesJust putting this code up for people to have a look at. Far from finished. Should simply compile and run a bit of a demo. Only good for 128K and +…

    ...
    ;No return to BASIC
    ;------------------
    never_end ...

    ;Draw character
    ;--------------
    print_char_obj_hl_b_c ... of attr on screen
    ld ... screen
    pop hl ;retrieve data address
    jp print_char_hl_de ;draw ...
    joefish joefish March 2014 Development
  • z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…

    ... = 1 // not returning to basic
    #pragma output CRT_ENABLE_CLOSE ... , 'B');
    sp1_UpdateNow(); // draw screen area managed by sp1 now ... /> // move current 'j' sprite off screen and mark as removed
    slenkar slenkar June 2017 Development
  • off screen bufferwhen using an offscreen buffer is the memory copied to the screen in a way that makes it easier to draw sprites to the buffer? E.g. Lets say you…

    ... the screen in a way that makes it easier to draw ... the top of the screen where you copy your ... was copied to the screen so that the first ... br /> is it
    draw background on buffer (or just ... it)
    draw sprites on buffer
    copy buffer to screen
    slenkar slenkar June 2017 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…

    ... that the template places seven basic time units into PTU, ... " (right border) -- all three draw functions we have seen are ... The sprite is initially placed off screen and is made by default ... "gfx_playerColour[]" array from the draw plot function in display.c ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • can someone help with a rom routinei have been trying to draw a simple line with a the rom routine , but i just cant get it to work , so if anyone can give me an example in z80 that wo…

    ... hold the signs of the DRAW parameters which are held ... code equivalent to the BASIC line DRAW 0,175 would look ... CALL 24BAH
    Or to DRAW ?255,0
    LD BC ...
    Note that these will draw from the current COORDS, and ... if you try to draw off the screen.
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) August 2009 Development
  • Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…

    ... /objects across several screens, while off screen?

    Is the problem ... when in one screen and you walk/fall off into the next ... />
    This is probably pretty basic stuff, but if I can ... need 32 bytes to draw a whole screen, (the downside of that ...
    R-Tape R-Tape April 2011 Development
  • Multi-screen mazes?Well, it's been decades since I last mucked about with speccy BASIC, so over the last couple of weeks I've been starting out as a newbie learning a b…

    ... has some good suggestions for basic AI. But do I need ... monsters moving when they are off screen is no different to moving ... they are on screen. When drawing your screen, you only draw the monsters ...
    Winston Winston October 2011 Development
  • SP1 library questionsI'm working on my first game. I've not written a game since the late 1980s and that was a text based multiuser dungeon for BBC Micros with econet... …

    ... animated frames, writing your own draw code, how to use ... Sprites need to be moved off screen prior to deletion so that ... newly created sprites are placed off screen at column 32 and row ... attribute detection as in many Basic programs. You can investigate the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2011 Development
  • Testers for new z88dk clibA long (long, long, long) time ago a few people offered to help test the new clib in z88dk. Much time has passed since then and I won't hold people,…

    ... 1 // not returning to basic
    #pragma output ... br /> {
    sp1_UpdateNow(); // draw screen now

    for ... ) // if sprite went off screen, reverse direction
    ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2015 Development
  • Trial version of CharAde graphics engine for Sinclair BASICA trial version of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">CharAde</span> graphics engine for Sinclair BASIC is now available. It consists of a block of …

    ... ambitious - you're still using BASIC, so you can only afford ... a few moving objects on-screen at a time. The advantage ... character per cycle, draw one 3x6 chunk just off-screen each cycle. Over ... start with a simple single-screen platform or maze game. And ...
    joefish joefish June 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Variable sized tiles /tile routineHow would you do a variable sized tile routine where the tiles have position variables too? Thanks would be interested to learn :)

    ... that represent the characters to draw. You pack all these into ... might want to write a BASIC or a PC-side program ... a horizontal-counting loop to draw the characters that make up ... of the tile can go off-screen, and not be printed (using ...
    joefish joefish January 2016 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…

    ... it tries to draw off the edge of the screen (and will definitely ... you try and draw off the bottom of the screen.

    You ... ... it will likely crash since basic needs that always set to ... if you want to draw directly to the screen
    ; (not ...
    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…

    ... A had in it when Basic finishes executing RANDOMIZE USR 32768 ... it attempts to draw off the bottom of the screen (may be getting ... trashed drawing off the right ... hand edge of the screen as well ...
    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…

    ... A had in it when Basic finishes executing RANDOMIZE USR 32768 ... it attempts to draw off the bottom of the screen (may be getting ... trashed drawing off the right ... hand edge of the screen as well ...
    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…

    ... point it to an off screen buffer and copy that ... ; draw column aligned sprite, arbitrary row
    ; DOES NOT check for off screen ... ; DOES NOT check for off screen drawing, entire sprite must be ... /> Press space to return to basic.

    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…

    ... ; back to basic


    ; Print text on screen
    ; ... any error checking for going off screen but will be way faster ... routine if you only draw stuff on screen.

    If ... be able to draw stuff half on the screen that's ...
    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…

    ... point it to an off screen buffer and copy that ... ; draw column aligned sprite, arbitrary row
    ; DOES NOT check for off screen ... /> ; DOES NOT check for off screen drawing, entire sprite must be ... performance over doing this in Basic though I think :)
    ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • Robospec (new project, hopefully useful as a tutorial as well)Starting a new project after my graphics investigations. * It's gonna be a Robotron clone since that's not too ambitious (although I'd like to hav…

    ... can point it to an off screen buffer and copy that to ... at the moment, returns to basic if space is pressed
    draw directly to the screen.
    WINDOW_ stuff ... after the screen)
    STRIPES set to 1 to draw yellow paper ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…

    ... /> Symbol shift + space: return to basic. Originally had this as caps ... + 2: toggle caps lock on/off
    Symbol shift + i: emit ...
    ld (de), a ; draw to screen
    inc d ; move down ...
    ld (hl), a ; draw to screen
    inc h ; move down ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter August 2022 Development
  • BASin Release 6 available for DownloadHi all - It's another cut'n'paste from CSS :) I've been tapping away again, and seeing as a couple of people have recently seen BASin's latest bits…

    ... know". What started off as a Speccy BASIC interpreter quickly grew ... sight.

    Edit BASIC programs, using text-processing tools ... add watches containing any BASIC expression you choose and Single ... that windows can't open off-screen, and are moved back ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2003 Emulators
  • The skiving off topicI'm trying to juggle several (work related) problems here, but I've been at it for so long now that I'm getting distracted, so I'm skiving off for a …

    ... distracted, so I'm skiving off for a bit to clear ... . So to take my mind off things temporarily, I'll post ... , it was all implied or off screen, which really worked, as the ... 't think of many more off hand. The Monster Club's ...
    ewgf ewgf July 2009 Chit chat
  • Rendering clipped glyphSometimes you need to render a glyph of arbitrary size to the screen. And clip it. For example: drawing a mouse cursor means combining drawing of a…

    ... of arbitrary size to the screen. And clip it.
    off screen clipping to get the ... mouse almost leaving the screen at right and bottom ... make sure you only draw rows of glyph that ... has been transferred to the screen.

    Regards,
    tstih tstih October 2013 Development
  • TommyGun with Debugginghttp://goo.gl/HfSXev?gdriveurl Ok, so this is a pretty big release for me and I have added a lot of stuff into the code editor. Mainly of course …

    ... sprites are drawing on screen or in an off-screen buffer.
    ... .
    There is an off-screen buffer viewer; with which you ... -Added (missing) Boriel ZX Basic demo with all the example ... Display View
    o Added Off Screen Buffer View
    Can ...
    Kiwi Kiwi July 2016 Development
  • how to fix instructions on screenI have a problem with my sequencer. I want the top half of the screen to stay fixed but allow the note values to print without pushing the instructio…

    ... the top half of the screen to stay fixed but allow ... print without pushing the instructions off screen. I would rather they print ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch November 2016 Sinclair Basic
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