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  • Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …

    ... easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in ... to be a great way of storing object info.

    of this number? I think I ... there any reverse of ATTR, allowing me to apply attributes to the ...
    Dock Dock June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…

    ... " program from "Fast and easy read/write of attributes?" with more animation, and still maintain a ... reasonable turn of speed in ... .tap]TAP file[/url] and [url=http://www.users ... .bas]BASIC listing[/url] and [url=http://www.users ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • NEW INTERFACE FOR ZX SPECTRUM!!Hi all zx-maniax! Here is a letter from Polish inventor, Yarek Adamski. He constructed a new brilliant interface for ZX SPECTRUM. Ready carrefuly i…

    ... connect the extentions easy and easy disconnect them.
    (Of course while ... /> - YAMOD.IDE8255 - easier (read: slower) IDE multiplexer.
    - ... undefined (for me) very fast
    parallel interface, with ... you have more question, write to: [email="zx@yarek ...
    Yerz Yerz July 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    ... character based, include Attributes and be capable of handling sprites anywhere ... take the original sprite and write it to the ... it's fast, and a simple compression of empty characters ... of bricks, one section of fence etc. but used multiple times. Very easy ...
    Turkwel Turkwel June 2010 Development
  • binutils questionSince there's a few people using binutils these days I thought I'd give it a go and see whether it solves my hunt for a replacement assembler/librari…

    ... sections read or write only and in reality the only enforcement of a read only ... (an ldir, eg) and it should write the constants into the ... proper initialized data. This is fast and easy (no inserted code prior ... to be allocated as read-only and this can make a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2011 Development
  • Were the full Sinclair Loki specs ever actually known?I was just curious. A lot was leaked to the media, but the exact specs seem different depending on source. Some say it could support up to 512x256 an…

    ... that hard, but requires fast ROM and fast RAM
    > ... CP/M? ) - not heard of anything.

    > ... />
    UARTS are surprisingly easy and cheap to build with discrete ... 3.5 MHz too, and have read/write and read/read/write operations. From what ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk August 2021 Hardware
  • 999 and counting, the Dean of GamesOver on Spectrum 2.0 [url]http://www.spectrum20.org/[/url], a true landmark is about to be reached as the amazing Dean of Games will very soon chalk …

    ... 2 and a half years of page-a-day rewiews to read.

    WoS is a massive archive, and much ... values the preservation effort, and makes sense of the archive as a ... suggest posting a review of your own and putting a note to ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack January 2014 Games
  • Best "Quick and Easy " Games for JoystickYes I know , the immediate reaction to this is that it must have been covered here loads of times before . And yes , of course , there are loads of …

    ... find any that covered "quick and easy" and good for old style JOYSTICK ... relatively few quick and easy (fun type) joystick games . Batty of course works ... few that were quick and easy to set up and play for a ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio July 2021 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... ) which was really fast and easy !
    I read that the C64 basic ... was just a rushed and uncomplete version of ... the MSX one, and the system ... (inspite of some great sound) how poor and less playable ...
    Arm73 Arm73 February 2004 Games
  • Forum Non-usersLeading on from a previous thread about registered users who never post, do you realise that there are people who have been registered users for over…

    ... an issue with this version of PHPbb.
    [/quote]
    of spam accounts, in the ... form of porn homepage links. Such ... so you can automate this fast and easy). Since I edited the ... a forum, even just to read.

    I ...
    mheide mheide March 2005 Chit chat
  • 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 …

    ... chunks of memory at high BAUD rates. It was so easy to ... hack games. The 2 or 4 megabytes of memory ... the register you wish to read/write and then read/write the data one word ... (not pixels). The width and height of a sprite can range from ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Emulator for PandoraAny Pandora users here? I want to know how good is ZX Spectrum emulator on it, and how is it compared to emulator on another handhelds like the aweso…

    ... -free scrolling. That was one of the main prerequisites for designing ... :
    - can read several files inside zip
    - fast and easy to remap keyboard ... />
    Yes, FUSE is capable of doing all those. I ported ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2014 Emulators
  • ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…

    ... a fast and easy way to flip between displaying and non-display of any ... it, then select it, and copy and paste, then move that ... (previously copied there) using Attributes AND pixel data, if he clicks ... using pixel data only without attributes, if he clicks it ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil August 2014 Emulators
  • ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…

    ... a fast and easy way to flip between displaying and non-display of any ... (previously copied there) using Attributes AND pixel data, if he clicks ... using pixel data only without attributes, if he clicks it ... : In the days of LCD and plasma displays I suppose ...
    clausjahn clausjahn August 2014 Emulators
  • *The* Sinclair Knowledge baseOk, get ready for a long post. :p Let's consider a few facts: -The WOS ftp has thousands of important files, but it can be difficult to find what w…

    ... temporarily, sometimes permanently. Those of you who are ZX81 users ... to have mirrors of WOS, especially because of the permits, but ... /> -Such site should be fast and easy to navigate. I imagine it ... br />
    An example of what a partially expanded directory ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I am currently reading...Haven't noticed one of these threads, so here goes... I'm currently reading (depending on my mood...!): - [B]The Jesus Papers[/B] - Michael Baigent…

    ... a look at the life and times of Jesus Christ, separating the ... mythical Jesus of Pauline doctrate from Jesus the ... this book is an interesting, and easy, read.

    [URL="http://www ... a belting read today but hard to get hold of as a ...
    STeaM STeaM July 2009 Chit chat
  • Massive cloud!Been using Tencents 10TB cloud for a while now, and seems to be reliable, just the job for backing up all your retro stuff. Here's some handy links. …

    ... cloud for a while now, and seems to be reliable, just ... . I was a bit wary of installing the mobile app to ... folders with this, using drag and drop. Fast and easy to use.
    The ...
    Moriarty Moriarty March 2014 Chit chat
  • Sinclair QL Italian Preservation: dumping process videos onlineI post recent "live" videos that I made on FB for let people see how it works the dumping process for preservation. https://www.youtube.com/c/Simo…

    ... only demostrations (mostly in Italian and/or mute), just for let ... of the dumping programs for let all being very fast and easy to do and ... most of all without bugs ...
    ranma_simon ranma_simon May 2017 MIA/STP/SDP
  • 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'…

    ... whatsoever, apart from ease of programming and avoidance of colour clash. Actually, using ... pixel movement games and stayed clear of them. Some of them were playable ... the redraw rate of the spectrum", since using this fast and easy approach forced ...
    Anonymous Anonymous November 2001 Games
  • speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…

    I did read later in my Z80 book ... really fast and really clever control of the speaker output. The amplitude of the ... you are subtracting the amplitude of one wave from another to ...
    cyborg cyborg December 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…

    I did read later in my Z80 book ... really fast and really clever control of the speaker output. The amplitude of the ... you are subtracting the amplitude of one wave from another to ... . It would take a lot of precise timing.
    cyborg cyborg December 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Machine CodeI would like to learn how to use it. Where do I start? Thanks.

    ... you are a fanatic of the Spectrum, it's ... a lot of advantages.

    * Instant save and reload if ... buggered, too)
    * Availability of peripherals which you do not ... of those early 48Ks...
    * And finally, if you're running Windows, fast and easy ...
    GOC GOC October 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Where you jealous of Commodore 64 owners?I most definitely WAS! A sad admission, I know. I knew they had me beaten when I went round to a mate's house and saw 'The Way of the Exploding Fist'…

    ... disk-images - TRD, SCL and others, and for file-converting (even from ... PC format to ZX), AND - for read/write operations on ZX's diskettes ... I was complaining about coders of PC/C64 utils.
    Yerz Yerz March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IDE harddisk emulation usageNot 'howto' question :) I'm curious about how many people tried it. It exists in Spin, Fuse & RealSpec - in last is most interface supported. 8-bit …

    ... got back to me and I'd like to ... up, get our DivIDE boards, and drink beer.

    of software.[/quote]
    ... read/write of some of the more tricky formats (good ol' MB02 floppy discs and ... thought about adding imaging of HDD formats, but ...
    icabod icabod October 2005 Emulators
  • What software do I need so I can transfer tape games to disk?What utility would I need so I can save tape based games onto specci disks? Can I download something of the web or is there something available to bu…

    ... so it can't read or write +3 EDSK images.
    of 2.1. The EXE ... 16K too, so most of the features were probably disabled ... on W2K/XP/2003, and should read/write pretty much any +3 ... still missing a couple of features that were in ...
    obo obo March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • How many different versions of the divIDE are there?So what gives with these interfaces? Some have thru ports, some have built in joystick interfaces - some are based upon one design, one is designed …

    ... some use of the extra facilities on DivIDE Plus and allows writing ... compact flash like lots of PlusD disks and is read/write, but you cannot ...
    rwap rwap October 2007 Hardware
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... when required, on top of the stack (__CALLEE__ convention).
    of memory pools). Saving free- ... free-block itself. They're fast and easy for little memory systems - ... the number of bytes SP must be increased, and all functions ...
    boriel boriel April 2008 Development
  • Firefox vs Opera Fight, Fight, FightI believe a lot of us have migrated from IE to Firefox, but how many are now on Opera, is it any good. And please no Apple Zealots rattling on about…

    ... is missing is a way of opening a new tab just ... +T = New Tab. It's fast and easy and doesn't require the mouse ... the only one opening dozens of tabs every day. :p[/QUOTE ... Tab. Press it 12 times and it closes the last 12 ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz June 2008 Chit chat
  • 12-pixel-wide font on 512x192 screenThanks to Geoff I have a working prototype for displaying this font in BASIC. Machine code to follow.

    ... very easy operation - take its ascii value, subtract the value of the ... to define) and add to the base address of the character set ... data. Multiplying by 8 is fast and easy since ... it's a power of two.
    Winston Winston October 2008 Development
  • Photos from a 1987 Sinclair users meeting in the U.S.These pictures were sent to me by a fellow TS user who told me it was ok to share them online, so here they are: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/1…

    ... it seems to me, most of the attendees were older in ... struck me is the map of the United States, with ... it wasn't quite as fast and easy to advertise. Although I ... few people would have heard of an event like this ... popular in the 80s and early 90s amongst FidoNet ...
    Winston Winston May 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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