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  • New loading screen for VIXENIt had been a while since I had worked on a screen, so I got with this game whose cover art was its best part. Vixen [img]https://www.dropbox.c…

    It had been a while since I had worked on a screen, so I got with this game whose cover art was its best part.

    Vixen

    [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/jbmxvnrnn5mp7vr/vixenx6.png?raw=1[/img]
    MAC_BG MAC_BG August 2022 Games
  • Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…

    ...
    ; base address of the screen
    SCRBUF_BASEADDR EQU #4000
    ; clear bottom line
    ld hl ... .somethingpressed
    inc a ; clear z flag
    ret
    .getkeyval
    or a ; clear carry flag
    rra ; rotate ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter August 2022 Development
  • PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …

    ... at the bottom of the screen shows as follows:

    screen;
    - we are in "Position ... something too. "L2" and "L3" clear the status line, and "L1 ...
    Ed Ed February 2002 Games
  • 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'…

    ... you wanted to scroll a screen at the same speed as ... used was to update the screen about 6.25 times per ... it is watching movement on screen. Games like turrican suffered terribly ... pixel movement games and stayed clear of them. Some of them ...
    Anonymous Anonymous November 2001 Games
  • spectrum on pcI was just wondering,the pc is brilliant for speccy emus but wen playing speccy games on a pc keyboard it just doesnt feel rite for sum1 who used to …

    ... port (parallel would be the fastest, so we sent more bits ... . Speccie will display it on screen.

    By this way ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2001 Games
  • ZX48 to EGAHi ! I have ZX48 Russion version "Master" and old EGA monitor. Is it possible to connect the monitor to Speccy ? I suppose, the RGBS TV output is not…

    ... retrace signal and picture is clear now. So, as I suppose ... moves up and down the screen ! Maybe try to invert horizontal ...
    Konstantin Konstantin October 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    Isn't the fastest way having the sprites pre-rotated in memory before shoving them on screen as quick as possible?

    Uses loads of memory but there shouldn't be much speed difference vertically or horizontally this way?
    +CotL-DS +CotL-DS June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... wrote earlier:

    ; Screen scrolling routines
    ; for quick ... memory address representing
    ; screen data from left to right ... what Clive intended for the screen the memory organisation no ... /> and a ; this will clear the carry - since we don ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • Spectrum helpHello all I run a website which is some sort of community/game information hybrid. It's dedicated to most gaming platforms (currently 62 of them). I…

    ... way as to make it clear and yet will probably leave ... the brighter the colour on screen. The bright bit of the ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2002 Games
  • What is your worst Speccy related memory?We've had the good times, but there were bad times too. I will give you two choice cuts from my back catalogue... Over at a friends house, wanting to…

    ... and back on. The pretty screen was still there. "Hmmmmm", I ... . Nice, yellow blocks filled the screen. I'd done a uh ... about an hour, hoping to clear the RAM, or whatever. I ...
    Scribbler Scribbler November 2002 Games
  • +3 emulation for SpectaculatorThanks to Andy constantly bombarding me with his latest dsk files, Spectaculator's +3 emulation is coming along quite nicely. [url="http://www.spect…

    ... I use Direct Draw, the screen still messes up when you ... , but the centre of the screen does clear up, but the border ...
    martinball martinball February 2003 Emulators
  • "La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…

    ... />
    But its not quite clear if actually William acheived his ... , a message will come on screen telling you to load the ... ; The cursor will appear on screen. Press S to confirm , or ...
    Sard Sard February 2003 Games
  • "La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…

    ... to say that the loading screen is the same as ... i did a brand new screen and then be disappointed ... think i was claiming that screen was originally by me. < ... it. after the intro screen it asked to load a ... a screen of the game that couldn't be cleared with clear ...
    Amigo Amigo February 2003 Games
  • Horizontal scrollDoes anyone know how to do a 2 or 4 pixel left or right horizontal scroll of the spectrum screen. I can make a 1 one pixel scroll with: ... rl (hl…

    Fastest way is to store sprites pre-scrolled and bang em on screen quick as possible with PUSHs. Takes up loads of memory, but ya can't have everything...
    +CotL-DS +CotL-DS March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …

    ... . Look at the screen. He actually thinks ... _ AT 69
    CLEAR 0
    GOTO 29 ... _ AT 67
    CLEAR 0
    GOTO 47 ...
    BadBeard BadBeard March 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... an end-of-game screen isn't a bad ... knock up your own title screen maybe in BASIC, wait ... then return to the title screen when it finishes. As this ... doesn't clear the status panel area of the screen before ... you could even use a screen compressor to set up ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... doesn't clear the status panel area of the screen before it ... creating your own loading screen, then other screen that can be called ... can be done by loading screen$ into memory and recalling them ... screens - actually at 8k a screen compressor for screens might be ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Most visually stunning Spectrum game?OK, gameplay aside what do you think was the most visually stunning Spectrum game? Personally i would have to give it to 'Starstrike II' for its use …

    ... the graphics. it's pretty clear what he did and the ... game, especially the payer selection screen.

    Prince of Persia ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…

    ... Adventure Builder which does part screen graphics, that I know. ... adventure with loader...
    10 clear 52000
    20 load"" ... B. Make a note of CLEAR number
    5.Enter ... ( the following....
    10 CLEAR number
    20 LOAD""
    BadBeard BadBeard April 2003 Games
  • Spectrum problemHi I've just been trying to resurrect my 48k spectrum. I'm having some problems loading some of my games, but if it does completely load, it crashe…

    aahh.. maybe it's the clear statement wiping the screen, not sure..
    GP GP May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin Release 4a available for Download[Cut'n'Paste from CSS] Ok, after a reasonably successful test in #speccy, I've released BASin's latest version to an unforgiving world. New in this…

    ... BASIC program, .scr import as SCREEN$ etc etc.

    [quote ... ]
    it isn't quite clear.
    [/quote]

    I ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Speccy machine code info where is it?Recently I've been trying to learn Z80 and I've managed to make limited progress (some of my routines even compile now!) but I seem to be having trou…

    ... it is fastest to modify the screen address directly ... than constantly calculating new screen addresses from pixel ... BBLLLSSS
    Notice the screen address 010BBSSS LLLCCCCC
    ... connection between character coordinates, screen address and attribute addresses ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • great giana sistersI dont know if this is the most asked question of all time, but where can one get a download of this incredible game for the speccie?

    Does anyone have a clear screen of one of the sisters in this game? I want one for one of the wanted posters in "Hammer & Nails"

    [ This Message was edited by: Swainy on 2003-07-03 17:01 ]
    Swainy Swainy July 2003 Games
  • Extract files from Plus D IMG files ?Hi folks, I've recently dumped a load of +D/Disciple disks for someone and they have a number of MIA titles on them. Does anyone know of a utility t…

    ... , and of course, after a CLEAR 23999), and saving them manually ... (with a special procedure for SCREEN$ and stuff that overwrites system ...
    GOC GOC July 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... , Fraser wrote:
    Probably the fastest method although it looks weird ... that XORing graphics to the screen is a lot faster, but ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... , Fraser wrote:
    Probably the fastest method although it looks weird ... that XORing graphics to the screen is a lot faster, but ...
    Fraser Fraser July 2003 Games
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... just be RUN ) it'll clear the Poke, the same way ... ? message you get when the screen is filled and there's ... coming to print on the screen. Like say you want the ... screen to scroll upwards by Printing ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... loader which just loads a screen saved with the SAVE command ... I hope this example is clear enough)

    xxxxx xxx ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone July 2003 Games
  • Anarchy (from Hewson) Level Data?Does anyone here have the ability to get hold of the data for all the levels in this game, as I am interested in remaking it for the pc. I can only …

    ... REM Kevin McCarthy
    30 CLEAR 32767
    40 POKE 23739 ... 23740,0
    50 LOAD ""SCREEN$
    60 POKE 42886,201 ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
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