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  • For Sales: Crash Tech Tape, SuperCopier & Fast SaveThree utility tapes for Sinclair Spectrum, includes: 1) Crash Tech Tape (not currently in WoS archive). [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek…

    ... =0020024[/url]

    3) Fast Save by Trident Software
    sj_howlett sj_howlett September 2014 Sales
  • Bug-Eyed Blob Things[URL="http://www.speccyjam.com/games/bug-eyed-blob-things/"]Bug-Eyed Blob Things[/URL] is a great game, that won the [URL="http://www.speccyjam.com/"…

    ... z88dk+sp1 can handle in "fast" mode (i.e. occluding sprites ... monster animation requires too many character updates at once, you can ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas November 2014 New game ideas
  • Simple text scroller, first character problemin a text scroller, whole line scrolled to the left by 1 pixels using RL(HL) ; DEC L method. But at the rightmost character must be printed immediate…

    ... method. But at the rightmost character must be printed immediately and ... I just printed the extra character at the start of next ... the fastest method of bringing character in, partially?
    Arda Arda January 2015 Development
  • Character Set FinderSomething I put together a long time ago, just tarted it up a little bit to make it more usable and added few screenshots and a quick readme.<br><br>…

    ... ://jswmm.co.uk/topic/75-character-set-finder/ (Guest viewable and ...
    spider spider May 2015 Brand new software
  • Short & Amusing (was: Soduko Solver)Looking for some ideas for simple but fun programs, I came across this brute force soduko solver which might amuse: [code] // zcc +zx -vn -startu…

    Looking for some ideas for simple but fun programs, I came across this brute force soduko solver which might amuse:

    [code]
    // zcc +zx -vn -startup=1 -clib=sdcc_ix -SO3 --max-allocs-per-node200000 --reserve-regs-iy soduko.c -o soduko< ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2015 Development
  • R.I.P former Damned Bassist Bryn Merrickhttps://www.facebook.com/damneddoc i promised boozy id post this, died yesterday, he was only in em between 83 - 86 but fondly remembered and love…

    ... passed away... and what a character he was. Bass player during ... song, Ignite. Bryn liked the fast stuff... it was the way ...
    mel the bell mel the bell September 2015 Chit chat
  • im looking for a basic routine that adds a numerical character to a stringim looking for a basic routine that adds a numerical character to a string. so a=1, "1", then a=0 "10", then a=1 "101......" and so on

    im looking for a basic routine that adds a numerical character to a string. so a=1, "1", then a=0 "10", then a=1 "101......" and so on
    digital digital September 2015 Development
  • ZX81 Character SetHello, hope I don't offend anyone with my request. I've put together a program on my Amstrad that redefines a condensed text and displays it appropri…

    ... displaying the makeup of each character, the ZX81 BASIC Programming manual ... shows each character, unfortunately it doesn't show ... the makeup of each Character from a Grid perspective (this ...
    CP/M User CP/M User December 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • z88dk v1.99A Release Candidate[b]Z88DK VERSION 1.99A RELEASE CANDIDATE[/b] Download from: http://nightly.z88dk.org/Releases/ The release candidate will be available for te…

    ... . Currently base classes implement serial character devices and terminal (console) devices ... time options allow selection between fast and small library code and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2015 Brand new software
  • Fast load of multiload games on real hardware?I was wondering if there was a hardware device that could allow fast loading of multi-load games for real hardware? I noticed a good many of the b…

    I was wondering if there was a hardware device that could allow fast loading of multi-load games for real hardware?

    I noticed a good many of the best 128 games are multiload and I'm quite impatient and I don't have a +3!
    Korinel Korinel March 2016 Hardware
  • Simple Spectrum Character Creator Web AppHey guys, Here is a simple web app i wrote to create ZX Spectrum 8 x 8 characters: http://www.amelyn.com/speccy_character_builder/index.htm …

    ... view the 8 x 8 character with different foreground and background ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick June 2016 Development
  • Character Based SpritesHi, I'm working through Jonathan's excellent guide to writing games, and have mastered the animation of single UDGs. Before or move onto Pixel…

    ... any examples with 2x2 UDG character based scrolling sprites rather like ...
    jonesypeter jonesypeter July 2016 Development
  • Project: ZX OpusHello my friends, I have been in need of a push lately so I thought if I post some of the work for this project here you guys (and gals) can help me …

    ... a limited environment using 8x8 character blocks for snap moving the ... . This keeps the system as fast as possible with a little ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 September 2016 Software
  • Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…

    ... , I don't know how fast it is, but from browsing ... scanline to scanline, handling one character at a time.

    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA October 2016 Development
  • SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…

    ... /> You can now use the ";" character to repeat a keyword with ... in the editor so that fast typing isn't lost
    Fixed small character sized screen updates that line ... SpecBAS by referencing the 0th character of an empty string
    Dunny Dunny April 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • How to separate a character from a number in a string?Hi I've been writing a kind of logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws according to what you give it. Say you w…

    ... can determine if the next character it reads in the string ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 May 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Can I name a subroutine and then call it by name?No thats not really exactly the problem. I wrote 4 lines of Basic that draws an 8x8 square and then told it to check x,y and subtract 4 from x or y t…

    ... .draw would be fast enough and half a character moves would eliminate ... flicker but it doesnt. Its quite fast ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch May 2017 BASIC
  • How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…

    ... some reading up on how character sets are handled by the ... can copy out the redefined character set. However others like Commando ... some games use their own character printing routine (putchar?) instead of ... any way of finding the character sets other than the old ...
    morph morph June 2017 Development
  • Replaying games from Crash Issue 1Only a small conceit in the general scheme of things, but since Issue 1 of Crash was the first Spectrum mag I bought, and I remember wondering at the…

    ... screen followed by a stupid fast Arcadia screen - no way I ... . Shame everything has to be character sized to fit the space ...
    Tan Coul Tan Coul September 2017 Games
  • Games with help for deaf people?On another forum, there's a discussion about the lack of subtitles in some action games. But there are seemingly no game developers on that forum, an…

    ... any sounds your in-game character might make are drowned out ... (PC, console, whatever) are so fast and have so much storage ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2017 Chit chat
  • Fast Binary to Text DisplayI've done this thing that takes some memory contents and converts it to a Binary version of 0's and 1's on screen. However, I've no idea what to use …

    ... the bottom to indicate how fast it runs.

    [img ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed December 2017 Development
  • Character wobbleHello, I have an Issue 2 board which shows vertical character wobble. This happens for a few minutes followed by a few minutes of character sta…

    ... 2 board which shows vertical character wobble. This
    happens for ... by a few minutes of character
    stability. The cycle then ...
    roganjosh roganjosh December 2017 Hardware
  • How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…

    ... I'm experimenting with a character that moves by itself. Using ... CLS is causing the character to flicker, is there a ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch May 2018 BASIC
  • Random-Access to Microdrive FileI am working on a BASIC program to backup a microdrive text-file to standard tape array-file. To backup a text-file from one microdrive to a secon…

    ... the text from microdrive one character a time using [b]INKEY ... in this post) is very fast: it glues together three tricks ... is precisely placed inside B$ character array using slice operator and ...
    mattsteel mattsteel May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • ZEsarUX-7.0Hi! I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX stable version :) This is ZEsarUX 7.0 There are a lot of new features added, more than ever! You can downl…

    ... /+ colour palette
    Added a fast spectrum core (with some features ... : waveform, visualmem, ay player
    * Character width can be reduced to ... Next features enabled, useful for fast snapshot loading

    Improved ...
    chernandezba chernandezba May 2018 Updates
  • problem with symbol shift and caps shift key combinations on multilayer keyboard membranesHello, I know, it is generally know that some ZX Spectrums with multilayer keyboard membranes have problems with some key combinations. Typically …

    ... is not reaching needed level fast enough?) and i newly discovered ... keyboard ports in 512 squares (character/attribute positions).

    It ...
    cygnus cygnus January 2019 Assembler
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... /> -The use of a character variable for fast printing big sprites (6x6 ... are constructed from the normal character set, using OVER to combine ... . In other words: click very fast the action key when the ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • easy character sethave a look at this program im working on: http://pasteall.org/pic/1b1bb11e1d1897f3c3f0b3e6c0db26aa im a bit stuck. what i want it to do is rea…

    ... over the original upper case character set. (i think i know ...
    digital digital May 2019 BASIC
  • how are character sets (fonts) stored?i know its in 768 bytes of memory. does it store each character in blocks of 8 bytes or is it just a continuation of bytes from start to finish addre…

    i know its in 768 bytes of memory. does it store each character in blocks of 8 bytes or is it just a continuation of bytes from start to finish address?
    digital digital May 2019 Assembler
  • PAPER&INK: screen/character differenciation?So I was looking at a type-in listing earlier and I got to wondering how the Spectrum differenciates between knowing that the PAPER/INK commands need…

    ... background/text colour of the character. To change the attributes of ... a character only the command needs to ...
    LevelUp LevelUp September 2019 Sinclair Basic
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