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  • +2A shows test screen and beepsNew day, new problem. A +2A, which seems to be in good condition, shows the colored test screen when powered-up and beeps about once every second. Am…

    ... good condition, shows the colored test screen when powered-up and beeps ... or am I missing some basic information here? From the flow ...
    schombi schombi October 2013 Hardware
  • 128 spectrum zx +2 is stuck on test screenhey this is my first spectrum i bought it from a boot-sale for 2 pound and it came with loads of games but when i turn it on i get the test screen an…

    ... it on i get the test screen and it makes the beep ... keeps going bk to the test screen can any one help?
    omighty_one omighty_one June 2007 Hardware
  • test screencan someone help? iv got a spectrum 128k +2 B i found in the attic form whenn i was a kid. it powers up only it starts on the test screen with out me…

    ... only it starts on the test screen with out me starting it ...
    bartiddu bartiddu May 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum 2+ Stuck on Test ScreenHello, I hope you can point me in the right direction. I recently purchased a ZX Spectrum 2+ which I've never owned before or used. After booting,…

    ... , it gets stuck on the "test screen". After doing some reading I ... understand you can boot this screen by holding break when pressing ... is the screenshot of the test page I am seeing: http ...
    eDrinker eDrinker September 2015 Hardware
  • 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 ... could help me fix the BASIC program, I'd be very ... ]

    [b][u][u]BASIC listing:[/u][/u][/b]
    1300 REM Draw bottom right screen 'speaker' graphic.
    1310 ...
    RetroPhase2014 RetroPhase2014 December 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... , by having SP1 draw the screen as usual with sp1_UpdateNow ... character square just like Basic's "PRINT AT". ... called sp1_UpdateNow() to draw the screen BEFORE the character ... test programs.

    sp1_Invalidate() invalidates a rectangular area on screen ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 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 ... CR, use
    my_string db "Test string", CR, "This is on ...
    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
  • 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…

    ... own "canvas" I created and draw the Screen$ in Paintbrush/MSPaint. He ... being a simple utility for basic graphics purposes to a full ... . TG will not contain a basic interpreter/compiler or anything like ... used without Forth, but in Basic, by the way ) and ...
    Sadako Sadako July 2004 Development
  • IN 255 behaviour not emulated in Spectaculator and ZXSpinI'm not speaking about "normal" IN 255 behaviour. All of you know what I'm taking about: IN 255 can be used to "read" screen data as it's retrieved f…

    ... be used to "read" screen data as it's retrieved ... memory by the ULA to draw the screen. This has been used ... It's common use to test only for bit 7 to ... url], if you want to test other emulators, or real ... ):
    [code] ;Rutina de test del puerto 255. (C)2009 ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix January 2009 Hardware
  • Saving space using procedural graphicsAfter spending several hours playing around with various packers to squash the Alien8 test screen$ it occured to me that maybe bigger space savings c…

    ... packers to squash the Alien8 test screen$ it occured to me that ... a programmed procedural method to draw the screen. Various key areas of ... the depacker). Looking at the screen, it consists of what looks ...
    jamorski jamorski July 2012 Development
  • BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 5In my [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40437"]previous post[/URL] I demonstrated how to move multicolor images smoothly i…

    ... allows you to test both alternatives in ... />
    // clear bitmap screen
    printMode(32);
    ... />
    // draw background screen and disable tile map areas ... /> }
    }

    // draw stairs
    for (f = 4 ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2012 Development
  • that "listing variables during runtime" thingWell, I did eventually finish this, but with my meds playing up I don't have much time each day that I can spend at the computer, so it's taken rathe…

    ... printed in them). The screen is restored after pressing ... the screen and then continue with the next BASIC statement ... Part the 3rd - the improved SCREEN$ routine assembler listing:
    ... routine:
    PRINTRO:;test from BASIC (otherwise this first section ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Textured Scanline Flood Fill for ZX Spectrum 48KPity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the…

    ... the assembler listing and Sinclair BASIC wrapper must suffice. Have fun ... Leave some space for shadow screen buffer
    20 GO SUB ...
    Volker Volker February 2021 Software
  • Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…

    ... 'm running in 48k mode Basic cos I love the single ... I've got back into basic Basic.

    I don't ... because I never see that test screen thats supposed to come up ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch September 2021 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... I could program, either in Basic or assembly. And I used ... lot since I loved to draw on screen.

    The first ...
    paul paul November 2001 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... ads - all BASIC except a short MC routine to draw each screen - it ... dozens of simpler games in BASIC - used to have tapes full ...
    Neil^P Neil^P December 2002 Games
  • About z88dk and autoexecsThis weekend I was playing a little with z88dk C cross Compiler. Amazing tool! I have three questions: 1- Does anybody know how to change the initia…

    ... " that I "enhance" to test several basic things. Almost everything works Ok ... 3 lines in the first screen marked with :(
    These are ...
    cz2000 cz2000 February 2005 Development
  • Installing Z88DK Z88DK INSTALLATION Z88DK is distributed in two parts. The first part is the platform independent bits (including source and z80 libraries) and th…

    ... formatting of the test program removed some ... original (and correct) test program from the splib2 ... br />
    sp_UpdateNow(); /* draw the screen now */

    for ... clips sprite to full screen */
    sp_MoveSprRel(se ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2005 Development
  • What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…

    ... in basic, in which you are a dot jumping around a screen ... primitive.

    Single screen thrust game, levels designed in ... . It took painfully long to draw each screen though. That was my ...
    Arcane Design Arcane Design May 2005 Games
  • Bug in EMUZWINIt's quite minor actually and is in the Assembler. Ocassionally when assembling the ASM gives the wrong address to a label. For instance I used the l…

    ... of amount of objects to draw on screen, and in that case ... NT systems (I can not test this under 9x).
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov November 2005 Emulators
  • What's the RAND USR code for the test screen?And what versions of hardware does it work on? Ta!

    ... function, those of the 128K BASIC were tied to the 128K ... trouble free when called from BASIC.

    Rupert Goodwins put ... but I thought that the test screen was in the other ROM ... not get excited about 128K BASIC and it never excited me ...
    Geoff Geoff January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... test is when there is lots of ships ect to draw on screen ...
    Sard Sard September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... byte is what tile to draw for that code starting from ... the same position on the screen your in, like when an ... ]Here[/url] is another little test screen showing my new girders and ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • Reconditioned Sam Coup?, two drives + more...I've popped up a reconditioned Sam Coup&#233; on eBay as a Buy-It-Now listing. [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=11012902618…

    ... in the attic if the BASIC was more stable (ROM3) and ... has to be accessed to draw the screen which adds some WAIT ... signals during the active screen area), it does work out ...
    Quazar Quazar May 2007 Sales
  • 8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…

    ... in-line and running some test code on Sony Ericsson K750 ... should leave enough time to draw the screen (this runs much quicker ...
    bigredswitch bigredswitch June 2007 Emulators
  • 8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…

    ... in-line and running some test code on Sony Ericsson K750 ... draw the screen ...
    [/QUOTE]

    Yes, you will need to test ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz June 2007 Emulators
  • Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…

    ... write a fast parser to draw on screen my datafiles.

    draw lines, circles and fills on screen reading from ... to leave enough space for BASIC?

    Thanks ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2007 Development
  • ANN: ColorPRINTColorPRINT gives you 256 fully programmable Timex mode 2 characters (maximum 16 colours per character if you have bright black) to use in your 48 BAS…

    ... to recolour any really good BASIC programs that will fit in ... /> Mined Out is a great BASIC game (like Minesweeper on the ... might want to compile the screen generator, as the game pauses ... then draw the screen.

    Then again, the game is so basic ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…

    ... writing this program to draw the screen line by line. ... draw line by line first. Its my version of a colour test ... address
    jr pokethird ; draw middle screen

    bottomscr: ...
    jr pokethird ; draw bottom screen

    [/code]
    FrankT FrankT October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Ultimate loading screensAs I'm replaying some of my youth favorites, a question arose today that -- funny enough -- I used to have also back in those times. Maybe someone kn…

    ... lines shorter than the spectrum screen?[/QUOTE]

    Do you ... the screen? The bit that's really hard to draw on from BASIC ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2008 Games
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