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ZX-Paintbrush 2.2.1 releasedDear readers and friends of ZX-Spectrum emulator stuff! Today I released the version 2.2.1 of ZX-Paintbrush with interesting new features and many b…
... frame and found no way to grab the other frames ... Could we implement a way to import ALL the frames ... the user which frame he wishes to grab when ... controls the zoom level (which is WONDERFUL, I might ... often find myself doing pixel work when tidying up sprites ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.2.1 releasedDear readers and friends of ZX-Spectrum emulator stuff! Today I released the version 2.2.1 of ZX-Paintbrush with interesting new features and many b…
... /> I tested the POKE which works very nice for ZX ... Could we implement a way to import ALL the frames ... the user which frame he wishes to grab when ... controls the zoom level (which is WONDERFUL, I might ... often find myself doing pixel work when tidying up sprites ... -
Steve Wilcox quote in latest 'Retro Gamer' magOn page 7, in a feature on his IOS Spectrum emulator, he is quoted as saying: "The Android market has been 'poisoned' by a number of very shoddy Spec…
... in the future (which would amount to a formal licence) ... whatever?
They might decide that all their "valuable ... you is a great way to make some easy cash ... nor denienced are likely to do this, but it ... you have the passion to run this wonderful archive ... -
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…
... way is the Display file, from addresses 16384 to 22527, which ... way is the Attribute file, from 22528 to 23296, which affects an 8x8 pixel ... way along the top line.
To save the road position, which ... lddr, which stand for LoaD ((hl) to (de)),Decrement ... -
BRAND NEW VTX 5000 MODEMSI have for disposal a number of BRAND NEW BOXED PRISM VTX 5000 Modems If tou would like to add one or more VTX 5000 modems to your Sinclair ZX Colle…
... meantime here is some text which Brian has scanned from ... driven routines which make the user to user software easy to use.
to your contact to
decide what problems you might ... or run in the usual way. To return to
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Jimmy SavilleJimmy Saville a paedo? wtf?? Does this newspaper ever give up? He's not around to defend himself, why did these people wait till now to 'claim' he a…
... that people can legally do which unfortunately makes policework harder. ... logic to decide guilt.
And whichever way you try to argue ... died) asked me to fix his computer which he didn't ... can construct scenarios in which pretty much any law seems ... -
Newbie says 'Alreet?'Hiya dudes, Just dropping a line to say hello as i've decided at 33 to try and fulfill a long time ambition to write a speccy game in machine code..…
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A few things to remember about the Spectrums display ... about a third of the way down.
... char cell, and is the fastest of the possibilities
... example goes all the way to the end as is the ... 32 gave us 224, which means a has not overspun ... -
SCF/CCF flags - new discoveryI can't believe that no one is interested in discussing the additional, previously undocumented internal state of the Z80 CPU I have discovered recen…
... call "Q" ?), which is not directly accessible to programmers. In fact ... Also there is this page, which shows 2 copies of WZ ... . :-? I have no idea either way...
For emulation ... (along with ZEXDOC), which is pretty much king to decide how accurate Z80 ... -
[Update] Lone Wolf - The Mirror of Death - AudiogenicHi folks, I know we already have a TZX of this, but I can't help feeling that it needs it's blocks deconstructed into Pilot/Sync/Date blocks/pulses …
... , no other, so to decide if polarity for a ... Quote:
This document refers to 'high' and 'low' pulse ... respectively or the other way around is not important, ... to avoid any ambiguities, e.g. with custom loaders which ... job in a different way, but please, don' ... -
Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
... t currently have any easy way to add spectranet filesystem support. The ...
Good luck if you decide to do a floppy disk filesystem ... . I plan to do a skeleton driver which can be mounted ... then complete a reference implementation which will probably be the + ... -
Video generation using a CPUWe know it is possible to generate a video signal using a CPU, and this technique was often used on low-end computers in the early 1980's (for exampl…
... correct timing, any actual pixel on the CRT screen should ... font set is very similar to the Spectrum's, and ... which in effect gives the ZX-81 the same pixel resolution ... pixels can be controlled individually to form the fonts, why ... but there is no way to access it. -
Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…
... map screens together to form one big map (which Iv tried, ... see that it assumes 8x8 pixel tiles (equivilent of a ... one has gone to all this trouble to create detailed ... could be ported to the ZX to look even better ... unless there's a fast way to re do it)
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Your latest gaming purchase.Okay, so we've got an, "I am currently playing......" thread, but what I wanna know is what you've just gone and bought y'self. If you're like me, y…
... up [B]Axel & Pixel[/B] on an XboxLive sale ... kind of football mode which looked really good fun until ... a message saying "migrating to a new host!" When ... controlled, but were all frozen to the spot :-(
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RCS (Reverse Computer Screen)[B]RCS[/B] ("Reverse Computer Screen", or simply SCR written backwards) is a small utility I'm about to release, that reorders bytes from the ZX-Spec…
... cells having at least one pixel
with encoding ... main idea here is a way to distinguish if "next N ... ), it compressed to 5047 bytes including attributes, which is close enough ... to your method that ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... without her getting in my way. I can go back ... to Ryukyu, which I may do if I decide I want to ... />
Anyway trying to finish off what could possibly ... point, not looking forward to that cos' that old ... from the very start (which you may have already noticed ... -
Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…
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So a simple way to exploit the extra memory is ... s not the most efficient way to design a game, but it ... s best to work out which ones are affected before deciding which to use ... 16K guaranteed to always be available and always have the fastest access ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... balls. They decided to use autosaves this time which wouldn't be ... stick as that forces you to float. Which is stupid as the ... some pixel perfect jumping on the Speccy where you've to be ... seem to be a way of upgrading it without changing the tip which ... -
PlayStation 4 AnnouncedAs widely expected, Sony have unveiled the PS4 at an event in New York: [url]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/392432/playstation-4-is-official-so…
... to admire the thinking behind it; they used older, proven technology, which ... about inviting your friend to your console to get you out of ... 's second display is difficult to decide about - PC's have long ... use them in games the way the Wii-U can?
WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…
... , which means that I don't need to peek the address bus to decide ... "real" port at FFh address, which upon reading, it gives you ... routines, that uses port FFh to synchronize themselves with the electron ... issue 2 boards, by the way) The only flying wires are ...Movie: Micro Men (Sinclair)This might not be new to most of you but I just happened to find it. I plan on watching it today. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y8IkcUGV9w&…
... should have had a quicker way of loading software. The only ... thoughts were similar to yours. In a way color clash is kind ... [i]The Sinclair Story[/i], which may be where that originates ... Micro Men I was trying to decide who was Steve Jobs and ...Is anyone else really bad at games?Or is it just me? I do wonder sometimes. A new game comes up and people ooh and aah, and say it took them an hour to complete, and it's a bit short.…
... 've found horrible to get to grips with are ...
Argh! To say the least. The pixel-perfect timing and ... jumping of MM and JSW were enough to ... jumpin' sure is one way to keep this old timer out ... just you, me too. Which is why I ended ...Keyboard scanning routines / techniques?What keyboard scanning routines or techniques do people use? I'm looking to write something which doesn't rely on the ROM-based keyboard scanner, an…
... SDCC symbol table file to find its way around. Ideally, I ... 'd like to extend fuse to be able to ... can't decide which way I want to do it, and how to handle errors ... ) Implement FIFO pipes, which can be connected to file descriptors.
< ...Spectaculator 8.0 scanlines questionVery impressed with the emulator (which I have purchased). Only one thing that's bugging me, and that's with the scanlines, which look perfect when …
That looks like the ATI driver problem, which is triggered by using odd zoom multiples. The only way to cure it is to turn on pixel smoothing, avoid those multiples, or buy a non-ATI video card ;)Speccy on WiiHi, Given than Nintendo have now decided to do the Wii-U, I expect that they wont do any more system updates for the Wii, so I've decdied to go the r…
... , and I'm trying to decide to either save for a Wii ... there's some way to rig the keyboard to be used with ... Is there a way to get it to talk to the Wii via ... telly, and there's way too much to put on disc, ... something on your Wii which allows you to use a USB ...generating a pre-defined list in an un-defined sequenceI've decided to become a drunkard, to which end I've been drinking a whole bottle of beer in one day (whereas normally I'd make it last 2 or 3 days).…
... where the pixel is set, setting all the others to $ffff. It ... takes about 5 minutes, by the way; it ... of the image you want to display (such as address $c000 ... first to decide if each position must be plotted or erased. This way ...generating a pre-defined list in an un-defined sequenceI've decided to become a drunkard, to which end I've been drinking a whole bottle of beer in one day (whereas normally I'd make it last 2 or 3 days).…
... the image you want to display (such as address ... to decide if each position must be plotted or erased. This way ... it takes 10 seconds to complete the picture, ... pass to make it around 10 seconds again (which ... seems a reasonable time to wait for ...Scrolling by 2 pixelsWhat is the fastest way of scrolling a Spectrum screen line by 2 pixels left or right? When thinking about it I've come to this simple solution: [C…
... 716050]What is the fastest way of scrolling a Spectrum ... about it I've come to this simple solution:
... ...[/CODE]
to scroll it by one pixel and then doing ... it again to scroll ... - nibble routine and
- pixel routine.Possible dodgy +2 - resets when loadingSo I have a grey model +2 with a recently refurbed tape deck (new belts and cleaned heads). It might be a product of bad loading, but from what I ca…
... be just about impossible to decide if a capacitor is sound ... the capacitor is close to a component which emits heat. In ...
The only way to test a capacitor is to measure the equivalent ... the capacitors under certain frequencies which is more reliable.
...Cases for New Hardware - Yes or NoAn opportunity has recently arisen whereby I may be in a postion to offer cases for alot of the new hardware which is being made at the moment. Some…
... of aspects which make it hard to decide whether or ... it to make it harder to decide whether or not to buy ... it to make it harder to decide whether or not to buy ... br /> - Printed cases which will finish the DivMMV ENJOY ... a much more stable way and that the pressure ...Hack packs.After reading a comment from Jonathan I decided to ask the communities opinion. I like to hack games and publish the results but I do it want this ac…
... think we are old enough to decide if we enjoy playing ... , even in the games which I consider the hardest ones ... ]
I quite happy to see pokes for my games ... always saw it as a way to get mini mentions of ... my games to keep the publicity going. ...
