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  • Drawing a dotted line...Hi Folks, I cannot be the first person to want this (?) so here goes! Does anyone have a MC routine that does the same as the BASIC DRAW command bu…

    ... here goes! Does anyone have a MC routine that does the ... BASIC DRAW command but with a dotted line? I want to be able ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... window. Does anybody have a windowing routine "they made ... a character square location. If I intend to implement 40 chars/line ... I also need a routine which can draw a dotted line (of pattern ... byte 'b') with the option of not drawing ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • Line - a one line arcade gameHi, I have published Line, a game written in a single line of BASIC. Thanks to Einar Saukas for additional optimisations, suggestions, and fixes. …

    ... /> I have published Line, a game written in a single line of BASIC. Thanks ... />
    https://patters.itch.io/line

    Enjoy!
    patters patters August 2019 Brand new software
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... ? I also need a routine which can draw a dotted line (of pattern byte ... 'b') with the option of not drawing ... / PixelDown can be shared by a line drawing routine. Comments in the source ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2008 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…

    ... /> sprite16x16ca:
    ; zero A
    xor a
    ; convert row -> ... tbl_scraddr be aligned to a 256 byte boundary

    Example of drawing:

    [code]
    ... /> (that ball graphic has a dotted line at the bottom of it ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 Development
  • IE8 install questionsI've finally installed IE8 for now, and have a couple of questions: There is a favourites bar below the 'file, edit, view...' bar. There's nothing o…

    ... you (or anyone else) give a step by step luddites guide ... . :)

    You will have a bar with the icons for ... , print etc. Do you see a dotted line on the left of the ... , click and hold on this dotted line on the bar, then drag ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2009 Chit chat
  • I might try building a barebones PC.Our Packard Bell iMedia 5077 is literally on its last legs. Every time it is switched on something doesn't work, usually it is the sound, sometimes i…

    ... the chip gently on a solid but softish surface. ... at the middle and drawing your finger to the ... doing the same and drawing a second line next to the first ... the socket (it will line up according to the ... finished.

    A very good guide with pictures ...
    ADJB ADJB July 2011 Chit chat
  • Inlay Project DiscussionAll, It's time this project was actually started in anger. The aim of this thread is to find out what every wants from it and the standards that sh…

    ... /> [LIST]
    [*]Putting Side A, Side B, etc etc into ... files (perhaps bundled in a zip archive)?
    [/ ... a few ideas on some intuitive icons for this purpose involving a dotted line ... and a simple "3D" double ...
    Bangstick Bangstick September 2011 Support files
  • Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…

    ... . After a few - 10-ish - seconds, a dotted vertical line will appear ... never get a solid black vertical line; it is always dotted.
    ... the right of the original dotted line, again vertically oriented. ... through other letters with a dotted line of "0"s as ...
    Trafferth Trafferth July 2013 Hardware
  • Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…

    ... the same symptom of a dotted line in the same place ... that it is a poor connection rather than a chip fault. ... to the PCB track, or a damaged PCB track.
    ... It cannot be a fault with the socket that ... has been powered on for a while, power down, remove ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK April 2014 Hardware
  • ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…

    ... the previous sprayed part like a line tool.
    If ... spray line. Unless it is not closed (with a double ...
    I'm drawing a spray line (but do not close it ... not affect the drawn spray line:

    [IMG ... 2 and draw a new spray line with higher density ...
    clausjahn clausjahn November 2014 Emulators
  • The Worst Addon's and Accessories for the ZX Spectrum.Over the years there must have been some real gems developed for the ZX Spectrum that really added something, but I'm sure by equal measure there wer…

    ... Flight Deck Joystick: a mechanical joystick that sat ... br />
    I had a quick go on one of ... those at a computer show at the ... NEC in 1983 (a ZX Microfair?). It actually ... a very quick go though - on a demo where you just controlled a dotted line ...
    mrmessy mrmessy July 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How to get more than 21 UDG's in BASIC?So with graphics mode under the G cursor how many UDG's can you do from BASIC is it 21? It's all POKE 65368 and above and it's sequential ABCD.... an…

    ... , simplifying the formula for locating a character to CHARS+8×code ... RAM. Make sure you do a CLEAR first. Then calculate the ... every SPACE character will have a dotted line at the bottom. Everywhere. (POKE ... back).

    Lower case 'a' is ASCII 61, so 61 ...
    joefish joefish November 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Good Beginners Basic BookMy 10 year old son would like to learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that would help? There are a lot in the archive a…

    ... the machine (try drawing a red line near a green line for example). Things ... like single keyword entry, line ... numbers etc just make it a chore compared ... to type straight into a text editor, with error ...
    AndyC AndyC February 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Good Beginners Basic BookMy 10 year old son would like to learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that would help? There are a lot in the archive a…

    ... the machine (try drawing a red line near a green line for example). ... Things like single keyword entry, line ... numbers etc just make it a chore compared ... . displayed the famous one line, 1982 Sinclair Research and ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch February 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ... do not go to a line before this one 350. ... REM leaving a shed load of line numbers for icon drawing - ... REM Each key has a quite detailed subroutine to...< ... have a solution along the if...then line of ...
    RetroPhase2014 RetroPhase2014 December 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Drawing LinesHas anyone got any experience of coding a Bresenham line drawing algorithm on the Speccy? I've had a go and I find the algorithm has quite a few s…

    ... any experience of coding a Bresenham line drawing algorithm on the Speccy ... ?

    I've had a ... Machine Language' actually calls a separate function to plot each ... works its way along the line, so it's performance ...
    joefish joefish March 2019 Development
  • SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…

    ... . I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer my lander ... Note that when supplying a “graphicstr$” (a graphic in a string, such as ... thinking that you can make a drawn line appear 'solid' by not ... one knew how many pixels line/col and chr squares there ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch August 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…

    ... />


    [b]A) Drawing a scrolling screen[/b]


    Note the line numbers are very big and ... therefore, we add the following line to stop that:
    ... /> [/code]

    This line basically just stops the coordinate ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2020 Development
  • How to write a simple C+asm horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial, z88dk)[b]How to write a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b] [b]Note:[/b] This tutorial has multiple parts... I am still writing but this first pa…

    ... works, then you have a working development environment. Congrats!!!< ... .c.

    [b]A) Drawing a scrolling screen[/b]

    We start again with drawing a screen that scrolls. It's ... it exits, it's not a line number.

    The ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2020 Development
  • ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…

    ... can be edited after drawing. The raster also controls ... than modes and describe a dotted rectangle that is later ... hard to recognize the dotted line of the selectors. I ... don't have a workaround now for that ... I understand those who have a problem with that.
    clausjahn clausjahn October 2014 Emulators
  • ZX Spectrum rescued from a friend, has Issues.Hi guys, I've recovered this ZX spectrum 48K from a friend. It's a 1984 ISSUE 6A. He told me the last time it was turned on was about 30 years ago!.…

    ... .cc/Wd9LHv2Q/FFF16-D5-A-EE3-C-4-D46- ... br />
    Which on a 48K plus fitted with an ... the ULA is NOT drawing the screen and hence ... ). When the ULA is drawing the screen, the value will ... s the results (noticed a strange dotted line which appeared once...) [url ...
    TigerZX TigerZX September 2019 Hardware
  • line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…

    ... out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the ... Machine code.

    The line routine that I have implemented ... is a copy of the ROM and ... you guys out there have a fast line routine, plese email me ...
    rtunes rtunes October 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A Spectrum, a couple of felt tip pens and a lot of free time on Sunday afternoons...In my opinion the best part of having a Spectrum was drawing a game map of the latest Ultimate game in the back page of my geography text book thereb…

    ... best part of having a Spectrum was drawing a game map of the ... .

    Surely this is a lost art now? I blame ...
    AndyHerbert AndyHerbert July 2002 Games
  • Does ScanLine[0] have a left border?My emulator couldn't handle Cobra or ShortCircuit so I added some rough port FF values. I now want to make it a bit more accurate. The FAQ gives me a…

    ... an interrupt occurs, 64 line times pass before the ... />
    "define a screen line to start with 256 screen ... 0]! If a TV could display every line would the ... is missing on line 0 and a border takes 24 ... Skipping ahead to line 311 - the last line. What happens ...
    Unique Unique February 2005 Development
  • An idea for a keyboardHi guys, I was just thinking there just now (first time for everything). I was thinking about an AT keyboard on the Speccy. I remember a few peopl…

    ... looking at a site a while ago where a guy built ... used a PIC and looked like a bit of a pain ... protocol, simply made of a PIC microcontroller to decode ... would understand and a MAX232 line driver to convert ... the signal levels. There is a ...
    KeepGood KeepGood October 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Does spin support command line optionsDoes Spin support loading .tap or .sna files via a command line parameter ? When I tried I got a very strange dialog.

    Does Spin support loading .tap or .sna files via a command line parameter ? When I tried I got a very strange dialog.
    Mr Millside Mr Millside February 2006 Emulators
  • Anyone working on a Debugger?Is anyone working on a command line debugger or even a Windowed debugger that can be sent messages? I'm after a debugger that can debugger Z80, thus…

    ... working on a command line debugger or even a Windowed debugger that ...
    I'm after a debugger that can debugger Z80 ... driven from the command line or sent windows messages.< ... Yes I know it has a debugger, Yes I know ... I can control from a users point of view. ...
    Kiwi Kiwi June 2006 Development
  • I need help to figure out the name of a game i used to haveI want to buy a zx spectrum to relive my youth and i am desperate to get a copy of a couple of games that i can't remember the names of. One was a m…

    ... desperate to get a copy of a couple of games ... a maze type game that had a white line that drew a ... - turnig the middlesinto a colour whilst avoiding some ... where you controlled a monkey with a wheelbarrow and had ... from the sky to spell a word.

    ...
    shrekie69 shrekie69 December 2006 Games
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