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  • Best and worst loading coloursWas just thinking the other day about this, what are the worst / best loading colours that have been seen ? :) Apart from loaders with either mult…

    ... ones are switching screens on a 128K at the same time ... border changes, so the stripes fill the screen. I thought I'd ... , or switches colours within a frame on-screen or something - though that ... may have been a demo too ...
    joefish joefish September 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... can hire a trainer, book a fight , buy a gym - ... status. The status screen shows his strength, stamina ... are then taken to a screen which shows the ... br /> ......Rocco wasn't a bad clone of Frank Bruno ... a while, but it was basically a game I was using to fill ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek October 2017 Games
  • 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 …

    ... for end of screen. The Spectrum's screen layout always rather ... can simply keep incrementing the screen address (held in the ... curious way simple loading screens fill up the display). Two-hundred ... br />
    Adding one to a screen address will move us one ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore December 2017 Development
  • Random GRASSHello guys, Many yrs ago I used predefined UDG as grass to fill some area, adding to it via PLOT or POKE. It seems that PRINTing a string$ combin…

    ... be faster to randomly fill a UDG character using the ... />
    Like, think of a number between 0 and 255 ... call it Y, plot a pixel at those co- ... wait, this will randomly fill the screen but the actual final ... UDG prints will give a random appearance and might ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch February 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Random GRASSHello guys, Many yrs ago I used predefined UDG as grass to fill some area, adding to it via PLOT or POKE. It seems that PRINTing a string$ combin…

    ... that the UDGs replace A ~ Z
    Fill the screen with the arrays ... using a random number of the ... /> using a loop to draw across and down the screen.

    Luny Luny February 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Overview of crosshair shoot'em-ups for SpeccyHere is my [url="http://speccy.pl/articles.php?article_id=59"]article about crosshair shoot'em ups[/url] for Speccy. It's written in Polish but I tr…

    The cross hairs in Hypersports were the best. Once you hit multiple ducks and your puny target square gets emboldened to fill a good part of the screen, that felt special.
    morph morph July 2019 Games
  • Any love for Cholo?I remember really wanting this, but seeing very little coverage on it... so I bought it, and loved it. I always wonder why it never got any covera…

    ... that for the edges of a screen, but if you have ... multiple defined areas of the screen, it takes far, ... the highest (up the screen) pixel along that line. ... to nearest. And either fill or erase the entire ... machines and do a solid coloured fill to hide anything ...
    joefish joefish February 2020 Games
  • What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…

    ... much just a short ASM routine to fill the screen with a checkerboard background ... - as for a desktop wallpaper ... filling one third of the screen or a depth of 8 character ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2020 Development
  • What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…

    ... one will fill the screen with a user defined graphic as a sort of ... wallpaper - stored as a ... is USR "A".

    It uses a table of screen addresses of ... for one character to the screen starting at the top ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2020 Development
  • Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...

    ... make my own. I have a screen recorder (OBS Studio) and ... one to four blobs; fill them any further and the ... the previous videos show only a few seconds of the ... my mistakes; I made a new save state after each ... Github. There's also a much cruder representation of the ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone August 2020 Games
  • Textured Scanline Flood Fill for ZX Spectrum 48KPity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the…

    ... />
    The fill operates on whole screen bytes at a time rather than ... can imagine a starting point to fill from "00010000" into a screen byte "11000100 ... /> A pattern fill using this last method can be completed on any screen ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2021 Software
  • CSSCGC 2021: 25th edition extravaganza![img]https://csscgc2021.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/yellow_programmer_960x600.png[/img] [url=https://www.rickdangerous.co.uk/csscgc2021/][b][size=…

    ... not only does it fill the screen with PLAY and SPECTRUM on ... have any UDG graphics on a 48K machine.
    Pobbit Pobbit February 2021 Games
  • Need help finding a suitable emulator...Hi All, I've been working on a concept of superformatting a microdrive cartridge, so that a normal interface 1 can store up to 600Kb on a single c…

    ... a blank cartridge and a full cartridge merged together. It contains 18 screen ... file 50. All are 7k screen image files from zxart. Total ... 't large enough to fully fill the format as they are ... takes 35 seconds to load a screen image due to the size ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk June 2021 Emulators
  • Windows 11 - It's commingJust when you thought that there was going to be no more new versions of Windows, a recent leak reveals Microsoft are due to announce Windows 11 soon…

    ... . So drag and drop of a folder from one location to ... , Snap-ping them to fill the screen and then drag dropping between ...
    AndyC AndyC July 2021 Chit chat
  • Windows 11 - It's commingJust when you thought that there was going to be no more new versions of Windows, a recent leak reveals Microsoft are due to announce Windows 11 soon…

    ... Snap-ping them to fill the screen and then drag dropping ... If I have a folder with say a mixture of different ... I can then open a new window from the existing ... window for a different folder. In the ... and open another folder as a tab. So now the ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK July 2021 Chit chat
  • Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…

    ... quote]
    Mike, you make a fantastic point which also applies ... when I first saw a ZX81 at a friend's house and ... is ace!" with a GOTO loop to fill the screen! I even progressed ... characters to depict a spaceship shooting a bullet across the screen, all with ...
    Gwyn Gwyn March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Ah DiddumsI hope this is some help to the person who was asking how to complete a screen on Ah Diddums. The idea of the game is that you are using the blocks …

    ... was asking how to complete a screen on Ah Diddums.

    a bridge out of the toy ... at a time. Take the block to the top of the screen ... move on to the next screen.

    Hope this helps ...
    Chris Chris December 2001 Games
  • Search engine problemsHi, I cannot use the search engine to seek games neither click on "[more]" into games archive.. (appears a screen with that says "abuse denied!") I…

    ... "[more]" into games archive.. (appears a screen with that says "abuse denied ...
    Javier Javier October 2001 Games
  • ZX-2-PC Interface continue...A couple of months ago I started to built an interface for less then ? 5,00 which should communicate to the PC on a high speed. Yesterday I managed t…

    A couple of months ago I ... . Yesterday I managed to load a SCREEN$ from the PC harddisk in ... load any 48K game into a real spectrum in just 21 ... seconds without needing a Disciple/OPUS/MB02. On a faster PC it ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2002 Hardware
  • Anyone Recognizes This Loader?Hi there! I live in Argentina. I have a -dead by now- CZ Spectrum (a ZX clone made by an argentinian company, Czerweny, which used to make... Excell…

    ... , usually with the original loading screen "hacked" or completely replaced. ... loader (no assembly), which LOADs a SCREEN$ and two CODE blocks. The ... the second third of the screen. The last sentence in the ... />
    I used to POKE a game before the RANDOMIZE USR ...
    Marcelo Marcelo November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • spectrum mode smiilar to c64?i dont know much about machine code assembler routines, zilch actually to be honest, ive always fiddled with basic on my spectrum, only doing maybe a…

    ... spectrum, only doing maybe a couple of machine code ... brown and Ive done a screen following all the guidelines ... know of, the screen is the loading screen of The Last ... of the speccy's screen and stayed true to ... as good as the c64 screen though some may disagree. ...
    tommy tommy July 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Randomize USR xxxxxA weird topic: When I was a kid I use to mess around with the RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx, sad I know!!! For instance RANDOMIZE USR 51234 would give me a loa…

    ... USR 51234 would give me a loading screen with noise funny colour ... "crashed" return codes, others give a screen of basic simialr to the ... Speedlock protection screen i.e a zero as your first ... loading things come from or a website explaining these things.
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Compeletly off-topic, technical help with Windows 3.1 sought...I have been tinkering with bits of 386's and have got one up and running, and I bought a modem today (14.4k) for ?2. IT works! I know it works, 'cos …

    ... and running, and I bought a modem today (14.4k) for ... ISP with it, and got a screen full of gobbeldegook.

    a browser that will work on ...
    thx1138 thx1138 July 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Nodes of YesodYes! Having compiled a screen-shot map of Nodes of Yesod, I have finally completed the damn game at LAST! This particular feat has eluded me ever s…

    Yes!

    Having compiled a screen-shot map of Nodes of ... /> If anyone's interested in a snapshot of the game just ...
    DJ_Dusty DJ_Dusty November 2002 Games
  • ANNOUNCE: SPECSAISIE 1.2 released!SPECSAISIE is a Java system which enables one to perform surgery on SNA and TAP files, and various other gubbins (some functions relate to Spectrum e…

    ... Set Willy!). SPECSAISIE gives us a pretty powerful Spectrum toolkit, especially ... SCR screenshot from a SCREEN$ file.
    + SNAtoBinary: Save a raw binary from ... .
    + Poke: Write a byte-value into a specified address.
    - Compare ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad January 2003 Emulators
  • ANNOUNCE: SPECSAISIE 1.2 released!SPECSAISIE is a Java system which enables one to perform surgery on SNA and TAP files, and various other gubbins (some functions relate to Spectrum e…

    ... Set Willy!). SPECSAISIE gives us a pretty powerful Spectrum toolkit, especially ... SCR screenshot from a SCREEN$ file.
    + SNAtoBinary: Save a raw binary from ... .
    + Poke: Write a byte-value into a specified address.
    - Compare ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad January 2003 Games
  • Xenon 2?Please take a look at this... [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?s=99ca6e2a299f2aafa5cc9b5ca6a7e198;act=ST;f=2;t=3818"]http:/…

    Please take a look at this... [url="http:// ... />
    In that thread, theres a screen shot for Xenon 2 on ...
    Swainy Swainy April 2003 Games
  • Spectrum +2 faultHave recently purchased a +2 but it is not working. When you switch it on all I get is a screen with lots of different coloured boxes on it and it wo…

    Have recently purchased a +2 but it is not ... on all I get is a screen with lots of different coloured ... me or tell me of a place that repairs spectrums as ...
    kennymjt kennymjt May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Zynaps compo.Hi all. Lets make a competition with Zynaps. Ok? Grab a screen with some emulator of your score in game?s hi-score table. Post a link to that image …

    ... with Zynaps. Ok?
    Grab a screen with some emulator of your ... ?s hi-score table. Post a link to that image so ...
    judasEZT judasEZT July 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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