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The worst spectrum add on?I once had a light pen for my Spectrum that was really bad. I cannot remember what company made it. It was supposed to 'draw' by holding it directl…
... supposed to 'draw' by holding it directly onto the TV screen. However ... ) at 90 degrees to the screen and move it very slowly ... while the screen seemed to flash every second ... end move away from the screen even slightly, the line you ... -
BASin Release 11 out nowBASin has been updated once again, for your BASIC programming pleasure! Get it at: [url="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/BASin_r11.exe"]htt…
... (.bas), CODE files (.bsc) and SCREEN$ files (.scr).
Added ... the Paste system or the UDG Editor's Send As BASIC ... need to wrap around the screen. A green bar will show ... -
Compressing SCREEN$Guys I'm trying to find an MC type-in routine for the 48K which compressed the screen (including attributes) into an area of memory and also restored…
... the 48K which compressed the screen (including attributes) into an area ... restored said compression back to screen area. Any ideas? I want ... -
Help required to calculate screen addressesDoes anyone have some code that calculates the screen address one pixel below the given address ? Is it best to use a lookup table ? Any examples of …
Does anyone have some code that calculates the screen address one pixel below the given address ? Is it best to use a lookup table ? Any examples of this. -
Help needed with drawing masked spriteI need to draw a small sprite (16 bytes) on to the screen using a mask. Its the only sprite that will be used so speed isn't too important. I was goi…
... draw a small sprite (16 bytes) on to the screen ... screen (based on the sprite x,y). I would then draw ... the sprite to the screen using the ... mask. On the next screen update I would erase ... to a different screen address then draw the sprite again. ... -
Football Director 2Apologies for mentioning football management... I just thought I'd mention a couple of oddities with this title... I originally purchased this cass…
... (and therefore the initial cup draw) were missing.
This ... initial filename and the loading screen) but it's been hacked ... -
Screen AttributesNot sure if this is a devolopment question but here goes... In my limited understanding, the 'attribute file' of a speccy is 5800h to 5AFFh and each…
... each character position on the screen. With bits 0 to 2 ... -
Spectrum loading screen on Ch4?Hi all, this evening I caught a glimpse of a Spectrum loading screen on Channel 4! Just a brief flash, with the borders and some big writing in the m…
... glimpse of a Spectrum loading screen on Channel 4! Just a ... -
128k Shadow Screen?When emulating the shadow screen in bank 7 should that bank be switched into address C000? If so, what happens if bank 7 is switched out without canc…
When emulating the shadow screen in bank 7 should that bank be switched into address C000? If so, what happens if bank 7 is switched out without cancelling the shadow? -
More than 256 colours in full screen Spectaculator?When Spectaculator starts up in full screen and you go to load a game the windows menus are a terrible colour and look garish. I guess thats becaus…
... Spectaculator starts up in full screen and you go to load ... -
Invisible loading screenI can't remember how this is done (I did it years ago but can't remember how). When loading a screen$ from basic you can see the lines being display…
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When loading a screen$ from basic you can see ... />
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Best loading screen.What's the best loading screen in your opinion? I really liked the one on Rescue from Atlantis (maybe minus the text) [url="http://www.worldofspec…
What's the best loading screen in your opinion?
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Map to screen address problemCan anyone help me out with what I guess is a screen address calculation problem. I need to calculate the screen address of a tile based on a number…
... what I guess is a screen address calculation problem.
I need to calculate the screen address of a tile based ... to calculate for the other screen thirds.
Could someone ... -
Fastest way to write something to screen$Hi, I just got pasmo.exe and start playing with attr scrolling, well, not scrolling, just write different values to a block and see if I can introdu…
... fastest way to update the screen. I know that ldir/lddr ... -
Sinclair flat screen pocket TV problemCan anyone give me some advise regarding a picture problem on a Sinclair flat screen pocket TV The picture has a black curvy band at the top and bot…
... problem on a Sinclair flat screen pocket TV
The ... top and bottom of the screen
Here is a ... is not moving across the screen
channel 4 is ... -
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…
... using PRINT AT to draw a game screen. Draws 8x8 bitmap in ... and easier then PLOT and DRAW.
3. Good SAVE ... -
Changing the colour of the screenCan anyone tell me the ROM command to change the paper colour of the main screen ?
Can anyone tell me the ROM command to change the paper colour of the main screen ? -
ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
... for creating strings with perfect screen wrap
Clipboard integration ... into your code.
UDG/Charset editor for creating ... ZX Printer support (including colour screen dumps) which can be ... display memory to the PC screen
advanced scaling options ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
... for creating strings with perfect screen wrap
Clipboard integration ... into your code.
UDG/Charset editor for creating ... ZX Printer support (including colour screen dumps) which can be ... display memory to the PC screen
advanced scaling options ... -
Screen distortion problems, I can't fix it!I just managed to get myself a ZX Spectrum +2 from the local car boot sale but for some reason theres a distortion halfway down the screen when i pla…
... a distortion halfway down the screen when i play games.
screen the screen goes out of wack ... -
screen$ and ramdisk 128kDoes anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape?
Does anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape? -
Screen damaged while loadingI've written a simple Spectrum game and did a loading screen for it and now i'm trying to put it together into tzx file. My Basic loader is really s…
... game and did a loading screen for it and now i ... simple:
1 Load'' Screen$
2 load '' Code
My problem is that after screen is loaded,
Spectrum starts ...
"Bytes:code" statement into screen, just into hero's face ... -
GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…
I can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box on the screen i.e. a box filled with colour? -
Best method for sprite collision detectionHi, I have been trying to incorporate collision detection into a sprite routine I writing. The following is what I have come up with so far: POP D…
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LD A,(HL) ; hl = screen addr.
AND D
NC0:
LD A,(HL) ; draw sprite as normal
AND ... -
screen$I'm wanting to create a game which is written mostly is Basic, due to lack of MC skills but i need a MC routine if someone would kindly supply it I…
... these in memory
eg screen 1 at address 23296 to ... 30208
screen 2 at address 30209 to ... used to mess up the screen if you were pressing a ... -
ZX Adventure Club thingyI've not quite worked out a good 'official' name for us yet. Any suggestions gratefully recieved. Right, for the first game I've chosen Haggisoft's …
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The plot appears on-screen when the game has loaded ... (although you can, of course, draw your own maps and use ... -
SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…
How can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC?
If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and the last two lines are destroyed! -
z88dk + splib2: another question (sprite instancing)I'm making some tests with z88dk+splib2, with the idea of creating a game sometime in the future, and I have come across a problem. Let's suppose I …
... 6 different tiles and draw the whole screen with them. But, if ... of the brick on the screen.
That means a ... to have many bricks on screen (*).
Is there a ... -
TLOTRD - compiling problemsOk guys! A new demo for 'The Legend Of The Red Dragon' is nearly finished (just need my bro to draw some artwork as I'm using sample images from the …
... need my bro to draw some artwork as I'm ... The loader is loaded. The SCREEN$ loads, followed by the menu ... in size. The first screen for the level is displayed ... MCoder 3 encodes the main screen and the level, but when ... the level from the main screen, I get the good ... -
Hidden piccy in Cylu loading screen.I was looking at the eggs at [url="http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#"]http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#[/url] and I was wondering about …
... wondering about the Cylu loading screen ... the little doohickies* on the ...
