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Opinion: Good game design or bad game design?.. thanks to John Elliot for directing me to this series of videos. The below link is a 12 minute playthrough of part 4 of Grannys Garden on the Spe…
I have mixed views on this...
1) Quite impressed ... and font and adventure overall on the speccy... Looks quite nice ... no coconut... [as they say on the fairground]...
PS ... would the text be displayed, directly on the screen??? -
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. …
... address of a character position on screen.
[CODE]LET sa ... at the required location using PRINT AT and then read the ... system variable:
[CODE]PRINT AT y,x;
LET ... -
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. …
... address of a character position on screen.
[CODE]LET sa ... at the required location using PRINT AT and then read the ... system variable:
[CODE]PRINT AT y,x;
LET ... -
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. …
... in simple games. They'd 'PRINT AT' then read the system ... position on screen. Then award you points, kill you, or just simply PRINT ... -
+3 Disk GamesI'm thinking about buying ZX +3. Were there many games released on a disk for +3? I searched ebay, but can find only very few (2). Is there a list…
... would be printed on screen. Although this command would not directly transfer the ... -
+3 Disk GamesI'm thinking about buying ZX +3. Were there many games released on a disk for +3? I searched ebay, but can find only very few (2). Is there a list…
... would be printed on screen. Although this command would not directly transfer the ... -
Speccy repairs?I've finally got round to testing all the various Spectrums that I seem to have accumulated over the years and discovered that "my" two machines (i.e…
... "resets" and quickly produces some on-screen garbage.
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[*]MINE Produces some intense colourful screen garbage. Pretty consistent pattern.
on ebay. The problem is it's all directly soldered ... -
How do you work with fonts on speccy?just curious really.. I know c64 workings, and obv. the spec you draw direct to screen.. on 64 , you'd make what would be equivalent to UDG.. and sa…
... if you wrote your own print function you could either ... character the one on screen changes instantly. The Spectrum screen is bit- ... mapped, so you draw on the screen by copying character pixel ... data into the screen pixel data area.
... -
Machine code[CODE] OPCODE HEX ADD LD A,05 3E05 F000 LD B,00 0600 F002 INC B 04 LOOP F004 CP A,B B8 F005 JP NZ,LOOP C2F003 F006 LD B,00 0600 F009 LD …
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[code]
10 PRINT USR 32768
20 GOTO ... it will show the result on screen. -
Another machine code problem, sorry[CODE] OPCODE HEX ADD LD A,00 3E00 F000 PUSH AF F5 F002 LD B,05 0605 F003 LD C,06 0E06 LOOP F005 POP AF F1 ADD A,C 80 DEC B 05 …
... side of the screen). I first just used PRINT USR 61440 ... to the lower screen (bottom lines).
PRINT USR will output ... to the upper screen
< ... the number on screen when returning to BASIC use
[B]PRINT "" AND ... -
Looking for cursor routineIt's been a long time since I programmed a little bit in Basic, so I decided to create a simple cursor routine: [url]http://db.tt/SPnSdpx[/url] I k…
is it impossible to use push to print 16 pixels of a proportional font on screen having set the sp to video ram?
could a routine print a full third of the screen text with such a font? -
Looking for cursor routineIt's been a long time since I programmed a little bit in Basic, so I decided to create a simple cursor routine: [url]http://db.tt/SPnSdpx[/url] I k…
... push to print 16 pixels of a proportional font on screen having set ... a routine print a full third of the screen text with such ... simply copying bytes to the screen - I don't think you ... -
Gaming annoyancesWhat are everyone's gaming annoyances? Mine are respawning enemies, time limits and games that change styles on each level. I hate buying a side scro…
... auto-aim function which even on the few occasions when ... Duke Nukem: Zero Hour on the N64, which I and ... camera [B]always [/B]directly behind and above Duke, and ... the wall with no view on screen other than the wall, ... 't (say the room on the opposite side of the ... -
The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …
... default number of colours on screen at any one time is ... 64K and cannot be accessed directly by the CPU. A ...
Limitations on VRAM access are impossed during screen display generation. This ... interrupt to trigger directly after the last line on the display ... -
Print text in assemblyHello, a perhaps simple question: I would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder how to do that in the most easy way? I seem to re…
... would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder ... can use upper or lower screen.
So either select ... upper lower screen or use the right start ... screen
PRINT "" AND USR adres = upper screen and undoing print of BC on ... -
Print text in assemblyHello, a perhaps simple question: I would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder how to do that in the most easy way? I seem to re…
... , eh ewgf?), it will print text anywhere on screen and in whatever PAPER ... ]
CALL SPRINT ; Do some screen printing
DEFB $16,0 ... -
Print text in assemblyHello, a perhaps simple question: I would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder how to do that in the most easy way? I seem to re…
... screen
PRINT "" AND USR adres = upper screen and undoing print of BC on return ... the main screen?
[QUOTE=gasman;485248]
PRINT AT (and ... other modifiers like INK, PAPER and so on) are ... -
Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…
... 'Y' position and directly lookup the destination in ... (8 KBYTES). Fortunately, on screen sprite X and Y postions ... BYTE thus 255 on screen sprites on the Spectrum can ... br /> [/code]
Notes on x86 assembler:
MOV ... -
Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…
... ; Clear screen
call draw_sprites ; Print sprites for ... /> call xor_sprite ; Now print (XOR will print/unprint)
print (XOR will print/unprint)
ret ... 8 x 8 pixel sprite on screen.
; ... -
Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... won't be shown on screen to avoid corruption on screen file.)[/QUOTE]
on the WOS forum that I ... work.
Forgetting the screen, a clever piece of PC ... 2049 BYTES of zero data directly after the attributes (the system ... -
Override AUTOLINE start?Hi there, Is there a poke that prevents a BASIC program from auto running, when it was previously saved with the LINE command? Cheers, Steve
... 7:CLS
30 PRINT #0;" Desculador de cabeceras PRESS ... n=50015 TO 50024:PRINT FLASH 1;CHR$ PEEK ... NEXT n
110 PRINT AT 7,0;("Start ... PEEK 50026
130 PRINT AT 15,0;"Byte ... the BASIC LISTING for me on screen.
Twisted, ... -
Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... packing. It draws the memory map on screen and color code ... 1350 bytes long continuous block on every snapshot.
< ... genius, and still experimenting on launcher code, at ... 81bytes long corruption on somewhere, preferably on screen$/belowstack location.
Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... packing. It draws the memory map on screen and color code ... 1350 bytes long continuous block on every snapshot.
< ... genius, and still experimenting on launcher code, at ... 81bytes long corruption on somewhere, preferably on screen$/belowstack location.
Manipulating attributes...Hi Folks, I have written a routine that allows a blue bar to be scrolled up and down a list to select an item. Each item in the list occupies two l…
... each tab is equvalent of print 16 spaces but without the ... 0[/B] depending on the current cursor position on screen.
Try ... ] 10 BORDER 1
20 PRINT AT 1,12;"a","b ... "
30 PRINT AT 5,29;"c","d ...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…
... ; Clear screen
call draw_sprites ; Print sprites for ... /> call xor_sprite ; Now print (XOR will print/unprint)
print (XOR will print/unprint)
ret ... 8 x 8 pixel sprite on screen.
; ...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…
... ; Clear screen
call draw_sprites ; Print sprites for ... /> call xor_sprite ; Now print (XOR will print/unprint)
print (XOR will print/unprint)
ret ... 8 x 8 pixel sprite on screen.
; ...128 ToastrackHi All Just my hands on a 128 Toastrack and have a couple of questions. OK, I have never ever used one of these before so please excuse my ignoran…
... those characters are not printing on screen. Try sym shift + p for ... /> Tried sym + p I get PRINT
Sound now OK ...Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... the rotation tables depends on the number of sprites, ... bytes per character square on screen. That's 7680 bytes ... reduce the size of screen SP1 draws to by choosing ... smaller than the full screen but you also have ... character to any spot on screen. Eg, you may ...Spectrums on the TV and/or in movies?Hi, I've seen a number of threads on these forums about Spectrum sound being used on TV, but does anyone know of any films or TV programmes that act…
... in TV show "Computer school" on Serbian (ex-Yugoslavian) channel 1 ... Digital Tracer, which converts drawings directly on the screen:
[url]http://www ...Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... In spritepack each character cell on screen is represented by a 4 ... mean the program could only print character codes as background ... update struct if the location on screen of each struct is ... both would reduce the full screen update array requirements from ...
