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Any MCODE programmers fancy a challenge?Hi Folks, I have been using the Micro-Print utility in the archive and found it to be really good. It is the one that provides 32, 36, 42, 51, 64 a…
... /Comp/Spectrum/ProgTips/Printout]small-fast character printout[/url] code, and website ... of your battle with Micro-Print.
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A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…
... array (one row each), and print level data line by line ... Golden Egg 2"[/url], I print the entire screen with a ... single PRINT statement, using a single string ... stupidly fast for BASIC and you even get a rudimentary character-level ... -
A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…
... Golden Egg 2"[/url], I print the entire screen with a ... single PRINT statement, using a single string ... stupidly fast for BASIC and you even get a rudimentary character-level ... -
Move objectHi again, I am using paper colors to represent game objects. I have a "paddle" that is 4 pixels wide. I save its position as a 2 byte word in memory…
... have to draw 4 character attributes, you don't ... br />
call 8252 ; print it
GameLoop< ... />
RST 16 ; fast call
ld ... />
RST 16 ; fast call
ld ... />
RST 16 ; fast call
ld ... -
Move objectHi again, I am using paper colors to represent game objects. I have a "paddle" that is 4 pixels wide. I save its position as a 2 byte word in memory…
... with "pixels" he refers to "character attributes". So the paddle is ... bytes
call 8252 ; print it
GameLoop
RST 16 ; fast call
ld a ... synbol
RST 16 ; fast call
ld a ... -
RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... defw CH_ADDR ; address of the PRINT # routine
defw 0x15c4 ... /> ;
; CODE #1: FAST "COMMA" (jump to next column ... ; value 0 if expecting regular character
AT_COL:
defb ... -
Kiwi OS for z80 computerHi everyone, Nearly made my z80 computer with 2K ROM 32K RAM. It has an OS im still writing called Kiwi (apple, blackberry, you get the idea ;D) he…
... ROM.
Some fast winning code when you alter ...
[code]
;*********************************
;(PRINT SINGLE HEX CHARACTER)
;> A IS ... NUMBER TO PRINT
;*********************************
checking bits in BASICThe question of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this [thread=35728]Keys redefine routine and key check[/thread] thread. I s…
... slow in basic but very fast in assembler, so why not ... the address of the last character of the string "0000000000000000" inside ... =FN x(a$)
2023 PRINT "usr",usr
2025 INPUT ... j
2030 PRINT "FN b$(j)",FN b ...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. …
... sprites to share the same character cell. After applying colour, this ... is faster than do a PRINT to erase a sprite, then ... another PRINT to show the updated one ... . The resulting code was so fast that I had to insert ...INSTR function...Hi Folks, Another little program that people might find useful: [CODE]100 DIM i(4) 110 LET a$="This is some sample text" 120 LET b$="text" 130 GO S…
...
5b3f edb1 CPIR ; fast search inside t$
5b41 ... LD A,(DE) ; compare next character
5b52 be CP ... some text"
2005 PRINT s$'''"looking for 'is'"
PRINT AT 1,p;"^": LET ...RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... it cannot detect that the PRINT statement has finished. Thus you ... is similar to the ZX81 character set, where the highest bit ... in each character is set to indicate that ... the comma operator ("standard comma", "fast comma", "no comma"), 3 choices ...Words of adviceHi all This is my first post on World of Spectrum and I'm gradually starting to discover the wonders of the machine. Just to give you a bit of bac…
... hardware would be so fast that this would be ... built to be as fast as I can make ... And why have character-square limitations on PRINT? So I ... added the MOVE parameter - PRINT MOVE x,y;"Hello!" ... pixel location, while AT retains character square resolution.
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... than that. The ROM print routine is reasonably fast, providing you throw ... it's always printing a character from a definition at a ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... can use it for character moving sprites, fast screen dumping for ... codes?
- Can it print in any pixel location?
Character colour is not specified.
Character colour is not specified
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... Comp/Spectrum/ProgTips/Printout]Fast Spectrum Printout Routines[/url ... 196 221
How fast is it?* 381T 449T ... in consecutive char locations. Character colour is not specified.< ... /> RET Z
CALL PRINT
INC IX
...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... that. The ROM print routine is reasonably fast, providing you ... 's always printing a character from a definition at ... BASin's Profiler the PRINT statement below (line 210 ... if we had a PRINT command that did not ... /> 200 CLS
210 PRINT a$[/CODE]
...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
[code]
print
ld a, (hl) ;get character
inc hl
How fast is it? Quite fast
Preserve registers ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... to BASin's Profiler the PRINT statement below (line 210) only ... . So if ou had a PRINT command that did not have ... . I think it's as fast as you can get while ... it also supports 8-bit character sets (so instead of UDGs ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... thinking of doing a fast version holding the attribute ...
[B]- Can it print in any pixel location?[/B ... with the standard Spectrum character bitmaps (or does it ... need the character data to be stored ... />
[B]- How fast is it?[/B]
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... /> makes it a callable character print routine in 296T states in ... 50% faster than my fastest character printer, and only 16% ... /Comp/Spectrum/ProgTips/Printout]Fast Spectrum Printout Routines[/url]< ... 196 221
How fast is it?* 456T 524T 559T ...80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... provide a complete set of character definitions for use with ... in Timex it would be fast because you don't ... of them seem to print the text slower in 64 ... something when wrong.
PRINT PAPER 4 and got green ... but magenta INK.
PRINT INK 2 and got cyan ...Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
... our machine code at free, fast-running (over 32768) and memorable ... so, go to GAMEOVER.
;print car
;scroll road
character square to blue.
- draw ... is slow down our blindingly fast machine code.
Insert the ...Converting UDG to 2x2I've got a udg that I want to display in different sizes. Obviously I just print it for normal size, I can use the udg in bin format to display it ea…
... to detect bits, and then print the fixed Quarter square graphics ... on a UDG or other character, that could fairly easily be ... it's compilation is both fast and easy).
Edit ...UDG in AssemblyHello there my fellow WoS'ers I am currently having a play with z88dk and PASMO and would like to have some fun with some UDG's so is there a tutor…
... we have a discussion on character printing as few months ago ... got more into how fast we could print a string, which I ... butter routines might be nice (print char, screen address table, instruction ...BLOG- ZXSporgBasic RPG development thread- Inspired by the Spectrum 30 show, and after a six-month wait while I was busy playing loads of gigs, I have decided to do a spot of Spectrum coding…
... awake and they strike pretty fast! Line 2230 is where ... TO 15: INK 1: PRINT AT j,0;CHR$ ... 143: NEXT j: REM print background
1220 INK 6 ... 1: PRINT AT y,x;CHR$ (144+d): REM character data: ... 2: LET nw=0: PRINT AT ny,nx; INK 5 ... 200*w
2010 PRINT AT y,x; INK 6 ...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…
... wasn't really small and fast then nobody would use it ... background, it even might be fast and usable.
Like for ... "on-the-fly" for every character to be printed, that would ... fonts several times just to print a single page onscreen.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…
... file format is to enable fast character printing without using dedicated text ... are plenty of third-party print routines that don't have ...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…
... associated with each moving character, so when the ... there before, providing fast & transparent movement ... ret nc ;don't print tokens
cp $ ... /> ret c ;don't print controls
ld ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
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The width of the character is stored, but you also ... at typing and computers are fast at printing.[/quote]
That ... the hassle of unplotting the character, which FZX doesn't support ... can use sprintf(), eg, to print text to a 0-terminated ...
