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PonderingsWhen a website is loading really slow, I hear the sound of a Spectrum loading a SCREEN$ from tape in my mind. Am I normal?
[QUOTE=Winston;242056]When a website is loading really slow, ... hear the sound of a Spectrum loading a SCREEN$ from tape in my ... -
Z88DK fun and gamesHi, I was wondering if anyone here uses Z88DK with TommyGun and knew about how to link the two together (e.g. how do I use a screen, sprite or map e…
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Anyhow for a raw screen the best thing would be ... just to store the screen$ as a binary and memcpy() ... memcpy() call copies the screen bytes to the display file ... .c you'd insert a screen$ resource in place of ... to save the SCREEN$ in a standalone binary file ... -
Mapping big games using screenshotsI know it's an unpopular thing with some people, and I object to whoever did the Deactivators map as it's shit and only shows room layouts and nothin…
... about looking at the screen number and/or put ... thought into forgetting which screen I was in in ... copying from each individual screen and pasting into the ... me if there is a screen with a lot of black areas ... afaIcr) with PSP8 (after a whole day of working with ... -
Pot NoodleQuestion for the people in here who used to enjoy a pot noodle. Is it just me or now they have take the salt out are they completely inedible? I us…
... i used to always get a microwave one from the garage ... but i still get half a bone or something rock hard ... Used to buy and microwave a Ginsters pasty or slice and ... .
I had a pasty shaped burn on my ... about 36 of them to fill a gap. The crappy meat and ... -
Pot NoodleQuestion for the people in here who used to enjoy a pot noodle. Is it just me or now they have take the salt out are they completely inedible? I us…
... about 36 of them to fill a gap. The crappy meat and ... -
games you persevered with, even tho' they were cr*pI remember spending ages on 'Metal Drone' ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003143)[/url], and to be honest it's not a great g…
... ... Since when was Daley Thompson a screen hero?! Sports hero, maybe, but ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... there will presumably only be a small amount of left/right ... down, it could be half a screen out of position! It is ... a faster principle to try and ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... ... is a very important thing.
And the screen editor is ... , i think it will be a screen editor in blocky mode (for ... code).
An ASCII screen editor is more usefull under ... BASIC, and BASIN is a BASIC editor. -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... doesn't work... is a very important thing.
And the screen editor is pretty... but not ... think it will be a screen editor in blocky mode ...
An ASCII screen editor is more usefull ... a BASIC editor.[/QUOTE]
I think that the Screen ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... is something that bmp2scr lacked, a real-time preview! But ... instead of letting us select a screen area? Yes, I would go ... /> Some comments/requests:
-A mouse pointer/arrow would be ... alternate cursor? Another example of a cursor that is difficult to ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... /> You [i]should[/i] get a warning - obviously, that's broken ... />
Make this without a editor is a waste of time, but ... the result is great. A character designer, that translate result ... ... I *could* try to convert a screen to ASCII with UDGs, block ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... or adding it as a tool into the paintbox.[/ ... *could* try to convert a screen to ASCII with UDGs, block ... graphics and a custom font. It might ... translate the custom font to a file.
... for BASIN, for create a whole project (BASIC blocks ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... instead of letting us select a screen area? Yes, I would ... a routine that converts a screen to strings (which, combined with a ... 4x4 pixel-ise would create a ... block graphic strings), or a separate block graphic paint ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... a routine that converts a screen to strings (which, combined with a ... 4x4 pixel-ise would create a ... block graphic strings), or a separate block graphic paint ... levels of a platform game, or a map in a simple maze ... -
hard drive issuesi turned on my laptop last night and it started to make clicking noises, and failed to load. i presume it's the hard drive that has gone, i took it o…
[QUOTE=guesser;251722]a usb port? and a iffy hard drive? cor!
my laptop has no hard drive, no usb, no cd, no network, and no batteries.[/QUOTE]
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How to crash an emulator??Ok, new game. a quote from Digital Prawn from another topic "I have crashed virtually every emulator out there." The game: Make a routine that …
Fill a +3's memory entirely with 0xdd. Works on Fuse, and I believe RealSpectrum as well (but that's not really much more of a challenge than WinZ80...) -
Why don't you like homebrew games?Alright folks, I'm sure that there are a lot of people here who like the releases from Bob Smith, Jonathan Cauldwell, CEZ Games Studio and the likes…
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Justin was also a fun new remake of Dustin ... it aside for a while (nearly a year now). I ... mapping it too! Only have a few screens left.
... get my way through a screen if I get horrendously ... how to get through a particular screen by continual trial- ... -
Emulator accuracy test?When I first created my emulator it worked fine. But then I found one or two games that had odd quirks. Eventually I found the flag or command that w…
... . Of course, such a program would need to ... altering flags - maybe set a screen memory bit so if ... you get a full screen it's okay ... produce error warnings on a real spectrum (because the ... been relocated), and therefore a correct emulation should show ... -
Memory paging in 128 KB - 64KB RAM possible?I have found a quote in Spectrum 3 manual (available at WOS) -------------------- In the +3, we have crammed in more than twice the amount of memory…
... the "normal" RAM paging, with a screen at 16384.
I ... had a +3 and used to use ... tape to disk. I had a custom "ROM" with various Speedlock ... -
The best portable machine for Spectrum emulation?Which is the best portable or handheld device for Spectrum and non-Spectrum emulation? I only have a PSP, and whilst it has some good emulators, the …
... the oQo but just a silly price. Is a 'cheap' one on ... price but seems to have a screen defect. Plus the missus would ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... , unless you happen to have a screen dump of the maze in ... />
Obviously, you can do a wall hug, but still it ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... , unless you happen to have a screen dump of the maze in ... />
Obviously, you can do a wall hug, but still it ... />
This game would be a lot more playable if we ... [/B], so you can print a compass using [B]"NESW"(d ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... ;255405]This game would be a lot more playable if we ... [/B], so you can print a compass using [B]"NESW"(d ... -
Speccy sound on tv show - againRemember the spectrum loading noise in two CSI shows? Well, fuzzix on c.s.s. has found what seems to be another clip of Speccy goodness: [url]http:/…
... dc component and leveler (at a very high setting) to remove ... anyone upload a .wav recorded from a tape of a screen of a
known ... 't have my tapes (nor a tape recorder, that is old ... /> tech!) here. A .wav from a tape would be a better test for ... -
Emulators on the ZX SpectrumHaving released a Spectrum 16K emulator for Spectrum 48/128 machines as part of CCG2008, I was wondering if anybody knows of any emulators which actu…
... work with selfmodifying code. The screen of the ACE is with ... trick to compare a set of data with the screen and only ... display the altered screenlocations. Also a counter ... intrupt can determine to set a screen only every 4th intrupt to ... -
Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…
... you'd PEEK from a screen's attrs loaded into higher ... gurus that fancy a challenge could have a bash at speeding ... br /> [code]
10 DIM a$(768):
DIM b$(768 ... :
POKE CODE a$(r)+22528+256*CODE b ... 255:
LET a$=a$( TO r-1)+a$(r+1 TO ): ... -
Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…
... need to be to do a pixel version of this routine ... which means you'd need a 16-bit shift register.
a given tap will produce a long enough sequence ... look up the taps in a table like all the ... br />
I tried out a 16-bit LFSR for plotting ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
Uploaded screen for "Tape 2 CF ... on a straightforward emulator config.
Well, the menu screen ... is all we need for a screen grab.
My ... into the top part of screen memory, presumably to save ... in that part of the screen. This is why the ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
Uploaded screen for "Filer".
It ... because RealSpectrum for example emulates a "Beta 128 Disk Interface", and ... draw the main menu screen of the program and obtain a screen grab. -
Changing BASIC loader in Chuckie Egg 2Hi, My aim is to include "PAUSE 0" event at the end of the loading of the Chuckie Egg 2 game. The reason is that I use emulator to load the game and…
... actually cannot see the title screen, it just blinks and disappears ... and succesfully ripped ONLY the screen data from the original. And ... to build a new BASIC loader that loads up the screen, then ... fast, why not load a screen$, wait for a key then load the ...
