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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…
... easy to fix though - the border drawing routine would just need to ... timing very slightly, but not in a way that would be ... why I had to put in the clunky "use I/O ... you've got things displaying in the right place 100% of ... -
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…
... see why I'm so in awe of the end part ... -Trade[/url]. On the Pentagon, border colour changes take effect immediately ... the screen drawing, scroller and music routines with the border effect, counting ... -
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…
... solution to having more colours in the border.[/QUOTE]
so ... , if you want :)
and, in general, began to pray for ... peace.
Topic is drawing on the border or what?
I ... showed that you can draw in ... -
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…
... , if you want :)
and, in general, began to pray for ... peace.
Topic is drawing on the border or what?
I ... showed that you can draw in ... -
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…
... ;623260]
Topic is drawing on the border or what?
I ... showed that you can draw in ... the TC2048 that was popular in Portugal and Poland is rarely ... -
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 …
... the start address higher in the buffer each time ... the start address for drawing it, when the buffer ... in this case) and masks 8 sprite blocks on top. Yellow border ... is the time taken to ldi the background in ... treating 16 bit numbers in an 8 bit fashion ... -
Zymosis -- WTFPL'ed Z80 Emulation Corebreaking news! i'm back with another useless project: new Z80 emulation core written in pure C! i hear you screaming: "oh, no! WHY?!" let me tell yo…
... it is timing (but other border lines seems to be ok ... same postions as in FUSE) or bug in upper/lower border drawing routine.
Zymosis -- WTFPL'ed Z80 Emulation Corebreaking news! i'm back with another useless project: new Z80 emulation core written in pure C! i hear you screaming: "oh, no! WHY?!" let me tell yo…
... it is timing (but other border lines seems to be ok ... same postions as in FUSE) or bug in upper/lower border drawing routine.[/quote ... the CHEV and 2012 are in the middle of the screen ... the 256x192 area is *not* in the centre of the screen ...Spectrum Emulator that supports low resolutions and runs smoothlyHello to All, I have been trying to find a spectrum emulator that will work well through my CRT TV (using RGB to Scart) Most emulators seem to supp…
... on counting the pixels in the screenshot and dividing ... especially the analogue type! Interested in your research.[/QUOTE]
No ... is drawn suggests a simplified drawing of the video signal ... the dashed lines separating the "border" sections from the central ...BIFROST* ENGINE 1.2 released!Another improved version of the BIFROST* ENGINE is now available! Download it here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027405[/u…
... get to variant H in terms of size and ... use the upper border time for drawing sprite tiles only. ... "L");
[*] Automatically drawing up to 7 sprite tiles ... implement a custom version. In the meantime, developers are ... contact email is available in the forum!BIFROST* ENGINE 1.2 released!Another improved version of the BIFROST* ENGINE is now available! Download it here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027405[/u…
... massive. Including support for drawing tiles partially outside the multicolor ... arbitrary locations during the upper border, similar to Buzzsaw+, if ... can just be redrawn in the new position.[/QUOTE]< ... already! This is demonstrated in the Buzzsaw-like demo I ...Pentagon RAM memoryDoes anybody know or have reference to technical docs, how no contention on RAM access is achieved in Pentagon 128K clone ? Looking at schematics it …
... now best free tool for drawing digital circuits - kicad, ... video timing/interrupt and border colour behaviour stills the ... that the uncontended modes work in 7MHz "turbo" mode too ... it could work also in 14MHz mode, but I ... I can't use (in a standard way... maybe ...WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…
... ROM chip. This resulted in strange behaviour when connecting the ... mentioned Shock Megademo, Dark Star border effect (mmm... I have ... application, Colorator, to aid drawing images that could be loaded ... same alignment errors both in Spectaculator and the Spectrum ...Yet another glitchy graphics 48kHeyo, I'm new both to the forums (sorry if this is the wrong forum) and to Spectra I'm afraid, picked up a 48k from a steam fair sale thingy (not th…
... keyboard response, white noise coming in through the RF sound (that ... drawing vertical red lines on an otherwise blank screen. The border's ... flashing K sounds like something in the keyboard membrane worked enough ...FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... discussion about FZX font system in common, but I want to ... an undo/redo function, also drawing lines, freehand, ellipses and ... border lines (the 4 icons on the right side).
While drawing ... is calculated automatically when a drawing is done.
...Where do you stick the stack?...OK, so I've got a fair chunk of ASM code assembled from 24000 mark. The stack shouldn't get very big, just a few PUSHes and POPs of the main regis…
... possible while it's drawing the top border I figure I may ... chance and put SP in fast memory. In reality I'm sure ...Where do you stick the stack?...OK, so I've got a fair chunk of ASM code assembled from 24000 mark. The stack shouldn't get very big, just a few PUSHes and POPs of the main regis…
... possible while it's drawing the top border I figure I may ... every chance and put SP in fast memory.[/QUOTE]
border though!
[QUOTE=dbolli ... regular warnings about it back in the day too, so there ...20-column multicolour: a half-baked ideaI was writing an email reply to one Mr Jowett about multicolour routines, and in that way that explaining something to someone else makes you think "…
... , the timing will only fail in the last instruction, that was ... the last pair of columns in the last raster scan!
border, so it can start working ... />
Now back to the drawing board...Hello!Hey folks, just checking in ... been a while :) Hope all is well with everyone on the forums. Did I miss much? I know I've not been about these past…
... is now being done with border fx, TR-Dos emulation with ... the use of more colour in the border. Bifrost* was inspired by ... using Frobush's method for drawing sprites with LD/PUSH and ...24-Wide or 26-Wide Multicolour Tile EngineI've been playing about with more multicolour routines (8x1, 8x2 etc.) and have one a bit clever and suitable for a tile-based game. No particular d…
The real trick would be in drawing two or more different sprites ... INKs only. Various wall or border tiles could conceivably share a ... of attributes.
Or in a maze of rooms, the ... can do much better sprites in 8x1.Which games gave you feeling "this can't be spectrum" ?Hello. Long time no post here :) Was looking back into past, thinking about ZX games... So in your opinion, which game (graphically) gave you feel…
... definitely jaw dropping. And drawing text in the border was equally woah.
Border art viewerRecently, we were working with diver/4d on border art. The idea was to push the techniques of drawing on the border to the limit and to see, how much…
... with the same timmings as in the original machine.[/QUOTE]
border drawing on Pentagon and its descendants ... understand/am not really interested in hardware at all. And thanks ...Border art viewerRecently, we were working with diver/4d on border art. The idea was to push the techniques of drawing on the border to the limit and to see, how much…
... get interesting. All of the border drawing on Pentagon and its descendants ... the Pentagon computer are present in the ULAplus specification? AFAIK, the ...Border art viewerRecently, we were working with diver/4d on border art. The idea was to push the techniques of drawing on the border to the limit and to see, how much…
[QUOTE=Crisis;721937]nightmariesh like in my own attempt : [URL ... the current version of the border viewer is multiplatform, and ... cannot do anything during the border drawing, 8x2 multicolour would have ... done by copying data while drawing the screen. This cannot ...display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…
... example) still rendering the top border, then you get no ... redrawing a moving background, then drawing sprites on top of it ... refresh scan, so that in the next frame everything appeared ... instantaneously.
But in these cases, although the games ...Copy 4Kb in Assembly?Here's an interesting problem: what's the best way to copy a block of 4Kb in assembly? The most obvious solution is to use [B]LDIR[/B]: [CODE] l…
... only run timing critical code in uncontended RAM? :)
... ]LDI[/B] during upper border scan, and some variant of ... are always executed during side border.[/QUOTE]
It would ... ZXodus][Engine during border drawing, but the increase in code length puts ...What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […
... as possible during the top border time, then erase them again ... , they will automatically be redrawn in the new position. The game ... have to run in the time left in the bottom border.
drawing/erasing, and do it yourself ...A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... except for the surrounding character border in blue in my screenshots).
< ... the best solution. I recommend drawing the background using [B] ... image will be automatically redrawn in the next frame. When ... it will open automatically in ZX-Paintbrush so you ...Documentation for SP1 for Z88DK?(I was going to post in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11729"]the other thread[/URL], so if a mod thinks this should go…
... can find some beginner examples in [URL="http://z88dk.cvs.sourceforge ... which are sometimes called tiles in the API. Each character ... subtypes LB (left border) and RB (right border) are used for ... engine won't waste time drawing those 10 underlying sprites.
Documentation for SP1 for Z88DK?(I was going to post in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11729"]the other thread[/URL], so if a mod thinks this should go…
... to hold the RB (right border) sprite draw functions. These ... needs to be rotated before drawing the spillover characters. By ... (what is done now in sp1_UpdateNow is draw background followed ... by sprites in plane order, with various ...
