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  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... /> LET p=5-p:
    BORDER p+1:
    INPUT ':
    This time, the statements to draw the entire board and move ... is only indicated by the BORDER color (without flashing pieces to ... will easily win the game on the next turn as long ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 2010 Development
  • Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]

    ... a wide range of material on the subject.

    draw lists' for controlling sprites/ ...
    14 - A set border routine
    15 - A ... /> 17 - A line draw routine, optimised when drawing one ... code was widely used on the Spectrum so what ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]

    ... saving graphics space, or to draw a wireframe box (calling it ... You would also use it on bullets, rotating objects, animation ... 1 over x.

    Border/Fade:

    Why would ... , pause, frontend presentation and so on...

    Debug:
    < ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…

    ... ld a,0 ; Colour for BORDER
    out (254),a ; ... Set BORDER
    ret


    ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------


    ; Draw all ... 8 x 8 pixel sprite on screen.


    ; ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Development
  • New game coming soon: PhaetonI have thought that I'll announce it now to build some anticipation ;) I'm almost ready with my new Spectrum game called [B]Phaeton[/B]. It is a g…

    ...

    [I]clear and draw sprites here[/I]
    [/CODE ... ULA draws bottom border. This way it does everything on time although ...
    Ralf Ralf December 2010 Games
  • Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…

    ... From the ZX Spectrum manual on Drawing primitives
    6 DIM ... , c AS INTEGER
    10 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 7 ... Random line end
    50 DRAW INK c; x2 - x1, y2 ...
    boriel boriel February 2011 Development
  • Chase HQ Pseudo 3d road algorithm ?Hello, I'm new to that forum and to the spectrum. I'm developping games for Colecovision (may be you hear about : Ghost'n Zombie and Smurf challe…

    ... the algorithm you use to draw the curves. (in 4kRacer refueled ... use one) you used to draw the curve according to random ... compute the coordinates of the border of the road, of the ... , f(4) = 14, and so on. As we can notice, when ...
    Paolo Ferraris Paolo Ferraris February 2011 Development
  • enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…

    ... /> it will not work on machines without proper #FF port ... or upper part of border). then draw map (ray draws the ... have ~14000 ticks to draw sprites and alot of time ... code is dirty and based on 1st demo, but if ... music here. still working on it (interrupts must be ...
    Ketmar Ketmar May 2011 Development
  • Move objectHi again, I am using paper colors to represent game objects. I have a "paddle" that is 4 pixels wide. I save its position as a 2 byte word in memory…

    ... The best solution always depends on the specifics. If your paddle ... calculate the real address based on it. But storing the ... out (254), a ; turn the border black

    ld hl ... add hl, de ; address to draw rightmost pixel of paddle is ...
    ooze48k ooze48k July 2011 Development
  • Frank N SteinThis one > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001849[/url] Always seems to crash about level 7 (maybe a bit more) or so with an …

    ... ]10 REM #0
    20 BORDER 0:PAPER 0:INK 7 ... :INK 4:PLOT 0,38:DRAW 255,0:PLOT 0,33 ... ,0:PLOT 0,26:DRAW 255,0:INK 7:PRINT ... program into smaller chunks based on JP/CALL entries. This is ...
    Jimmy Jimmy July 2011 Games
  • Speccy screen display novice: What am I missing?[deleted]

    ... different shapes and sizes. The border is like outer space, it ... raster beam is used to draw a TV picture. Wikipedia can ... give you a better grounding on that than I can, so ... . Once you have a handle on how that works, the rest ...
    AndyC AndyC July 2011 Development
  • Speccy screen display novice: What am I missing?[deleted]

    ... Spectrum screens are small on your monitor because it ... 4*3=12 spectrum screens on my monitor.
    ... others may be either border or vertical retrace.
    Then the 192 screen+border lines are displayed, followed ... DRAW and which take the color of border ...
    Ralf Ralf July 2011 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. …

    ... thoughts are starting to move on to project #2. A requirement ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Making Loading ScreenJust designing a loading screen for a game I'm working on. Are there any speccy(tape based) programs for making and saving screens? It's been a whil…

    ... a game I'm working on.
    Are there any speccy ... an alternating grid of bright on and off the same size ... , with a orange border that had a palette on both sides so ... /> On the actual machine or emulator I'd write code to draw ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2011 Development
  • Newbie says 'Alreet?'Hiya dudes, Just dropping a line to say hello as i've decided at 33 to try and fulfill a long time ambition to write a speccy game in machine code..…

    ... sprites/software/sp1/spectrum/sprites/draw/"]directory[/URL] where you ... draw functions for different types of sprites (masked, or, xor, left border ... , right border, etc). But SP1 is character ... is mixed with whatever is on display.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • Pac-Man EmulatorMy Pac-Man Emulator for the Spectrum +2A/+3 is now available for download from: [url]http://simonowen.com/spectrum/pacemuzx/[/url] You'll need to su…

    ... you switch on the game? Instead, I see a multicolor border...[/QUOTE ... handler doesn't run to draw it. By the time I ... building look-up tables. The border colours are just to show ...
    obo obo November 2011 Brand new software
  • Repairing a faulty 48K issue 2.I am investigating one of a pair of non-working issue 2 48K Spectrums that have been sitting in a cupboard untouched for quite a few years. I haven…

    ... the 'mandatory modifications' shown on the diagram is to ... t) and continuity tests on my board suggest the ... I suppose I should draw up a truth table ... with there being signals on the data bus. Normally ... have never seen a white border from this Spectrum.
    ...
    Zorn Zorn November 2011 Hardware
  • Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…

    ... are BOTH Spectrums.
    Come on!48K version doesn't have ... 0: BORDER 0: PRINT " ANY CODER HERE ? "
    20 DRAW 20,20 ...
    30 DRAW 20,-20
    40 DRAW 20,20
    50 DRAW 20,-20
    DaRkHoRaCe DaRkHoRaCe December 2011 New game ideas
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... from the hardware FAQ on this site, then experiment ... 254,A to set the border colour. Copy some data ... loop, then change the border colour again. You'll ... up as the border colour will change on whatever line the ... to the screen and draw the sprites in the ...
    joefish joefish January 2012 Development
  • A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…

    ... installation can be found on page 4 of this ... means you can concentrate more on gameplay or design. The ... 2, 28, 20}; // full screen - border
    struct sp1_Rect levelbrect = {0 ... with some arbitrary patterns, and draw it.
    void loadlevel()< ...
    AndyOaks AndyOaks March 2012 Development
  • A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…

    ... tiles as "building blocks" to draw the scenery, afterwards set all ... move the hero sprite yourself on screen without bothering with ... programmer.
    Regarding the upper border, let engine wait in a ... P.s.: Also there is on more challenge for multicolor maniacs ...
    Fikee Fikee March 2012 Brand new software
  • A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…

    ... about providing a sprite draw function. I always wonder ... generic. During the top border it renders up to ... display timing markers in the border. However, this all ... be written to the screen on each line.

    border or line-by-line, ...
    joefish joefish March 2012 Brand new software
  • A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…

    ... code to draw the sprites operate in the top border, then do ... leave him alone to get on with it - Har Har! :D
    joefish joefish March 2012 Brand new software
  • Scrimpy screensHere's a question - how small a window can you get away with as a playing area for an arcade/action game before anyone notices? From the very earlie…

    ... is to draw attention to it with a bright border image.
    on the screen. I can put ... playing area with a detailed border draws attention to the limitations ... at each side into the border, but three or more starts ...
    joefish joefish March 2012 Development
  • Routine for clearing screenI was looking for a 'nice' way of clearing a screen of graphics in Z80. After a ridiculous amount of time mucking around, this is the best and most …

    ... clear screen (pixels only) based on setting individual pixels in a ... (when uncommented) outputs noise to border/sound
    ;#define BORDEREFFECT
    draw"
    LD IX, IX_TABLE< ...
    OUT (254), A ; Border/Sound effect
    #endif
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2012 Development
  • BorderTron 3000A little bit of speccy-related fun for a Friday afternoon... I've knocked together a program for Windows which I've called Bordertron 3000 (a suitabl…

    ... the ASM listing for any border graphics you do, I should ... /> [QUOTE=Arda;618545]
    come on, it's not that hard ... a mode where you can draw whereever you like in 1x ... says "This won't work on a spectrum, you need to ...
    ccowley ccowley April 2012 Announcements
  • The So What's This Buzzsaw All About Then? Thread.Erm. This: [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap"]http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap[/URL] Keys…

    ... loading a game that the border displays multicoloured stripes. This ... draw. So to get a different colour on each line of the border ... , you have to change the border ... you can do the same border-colour trick with individual character ...
    joefish joefish April 2012 Development
  • BorderTron 3000A little bit of speccy-related fun for a Friday afternoon... I've knocked together a program for Windows which I've called Bordertron 3000 (a suitabl…

    ... top, one for bottom of border)...[/QUOTE]
    Yes, that's ... technically. I only concentrated on the top border because the sides are ... "OUT (c),r"'s to draw the image (with NOPs interspersed ... and show a slightly altered border to similate scrolling or i ...
    ccowley ccowley April 2012 Announcements
  • BorderTron 3000A little bit of speccy-related fun for a Friday afternoon... I've knocked together a program for Windows which I've called Bordertron 3000 (a suitabl…

    ... having more colours in the border.[/QUOTE]

    so who ... my work can be viewed on the Spectrum 48 and Spectrum ... drawing on the border or what?
    I showed that you can draw ...
    azesmbog azesmbog April 2012 Announcements
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