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  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... to add 32 to desired screen location
    [/code]
    a scan conversion in the ...
    puts_cons is a lower level string print routine ... to put out one byte at a time:

    [code]< ... to add a printf("\x01\x20"); at the beginning ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2006 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... string to the screen without any interpretation. A good chunk of ... functions for printing to screen and reading from keyboard ... each interrupt and only a single keypress at a time can be read.< ... several keys are pressed at the same time. Again, self-contained ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2006 Development
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... drives they purchased or manufactured at a time and how cheap they ... pretty much dead as a development line with Sinclair. This is ... had their own line to look after at a higher price range ... s production line) and to introduce something fresh (in a cosmetic ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... z80 can address 64k at a time, so with the screen taking up two ... I'd be looking at would be a reduction in performance rather ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong December 2006 Development
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... z80 can address 64k at a time, so with the screen taking up two ... is 8K spare above the screen memory as only 24K out ...
    Quazar Quazar December 2006 Development
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... z80 can address 64k at a time, so with the screen taking up two ... of on-screen bytes - so good luck getting something running at a good ...
    Chris P Chris P December 2006 Development
  • Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …

    ... redrawn in order to restore a "clean" screen. Thus, it is more ... /> 3. Write directly to the screen.

    If I have ... how the Sam does its screen swapping so I can use ... I can copy two bytes at a time just as fast as I ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong January 2007 Development
  • Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …

    ... ROM call that does the screen grabbing / putting / scrolling. These ... faster, because of the higher screen resolution). You have to ... since it draws the screen using a differential screen update algorithm -- ie ... I can copy two bytes at a time just as fast as ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2007 Development
  • "chunky" gfxHas anyone some experience with coding "chunky" gfx routines ? (chunky is something like this [url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13204[/url])

    ... is the same... you have a linear "framebuffer" which is ... you POP/RET two pixels at a time - you get an address ... either pre-shaded rasters for a given pair of pixels, ... Rasterize:
    ld h,a ; A holds current videoram line
    ld (hl ...
    baze baze January 2007 Development
  • Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …

    ... it transfers to the target screen by whatever bastardised mechanism they ... the active routines onto whatever screen is sitting in the remaining ... the 8k spare at the top of the screen.

    4 ... ,y which it will do at a time to limit page swaps.
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong January 2007 Development
  • hollywood remakesseeing as remakes are en vouge at the mo. which old films would you LIKE to see remade. please don't abuse this thread by posting a 8 paragraph rant…

    ... wings were slightly laughable. A scene-for scene remake with ...
    Aliens (A vast, deeper complex, and, This time, lets have more ... than 6 creatures on screen at a time!)

    Star Wars ( ... (As per the book (With a budget!))

    Glad ...
    Graz Graz January 2007 Chit chat
  • hollywood remakesseeing as remakes are en vouge at the mo. which old films would you LIKE to see remade. please don't abuse this thread by posting a 8 paragraph rant…

    ... wings were slightly laughable. A scene-for scene remake with ...
    Aliens (A vast, deeper complex, and, This time, lets have more ... than 6 creatures on screen at a time!)
    [/QUOTE]

    ... - Aliens is just right. - a true rendition of some of ...
    Saboteur Saboteur January 2007 Chit chat
  • Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…

    ... now -- there are real time OSes that are seeing ever ... people to think, not just fill out a job application. Also, I ... EE and that was taken at a time when computers entered the program ... , with much course time taken by digital electronics, algorithms ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Chit chat
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... you will start at that screen. #71AE shows the last screen (at #C375) giving ... , perhaps display half the screen at a time and have your editing menu ... the whole when you design a screen it will be similar ... user to write a smaller or bigger screen and give them ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Good review, bad gameSomeone mentioned Jailbreak earlier on in the week. I bought that on the strength of a Sinclair User review. The review gave it 5 stars but the colli…

    ... have to question whether a magazine should be awarding ... which are virtually empty, at a time when other games were ... provide any sort of challenge at all.[/QUOTE]

    screen six or seven and ... many games in Crash at the time were reported as ...
    Spector Spector February 2007 Games
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... get read as the screen is drawn from the ... each level 1 at a time, I figured a maximum of 50 ... , leaves 2242 bytes free at 47920. And of course ... could load a new success screen with each level at 30609, 78 ... 2 pixels. Been designing a level on old fashioned ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • Games that look a bit like Manic MinerI'm looking for any platform games where the challenge is set up like Manic Miner - no own route exploring, no scrolling screens, no need to map, ju…

    ... I decided this one deserved a mention of its own. I ... should that be single screen at a time, single screen kinda implies it never changes ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2007 Games
  • Dead Spectrum +Hi all, I've recently dug out my old Spectrum + with the idea of repairing it. When I last looked at it, when I was much younger, I was soldering a …

    ... in a 48+ or a 128 toast rack is a pain ... speaker, and a character appear on the screen. If this ... only touch one metal contact at a time. I don't think ... signals and very odd screen displays after being on ... for keyboard failure. Buy a new membrane, fit it, ...
    DEATH DEATH March 2007 Hardware
  • The most unique game loaderFor me it has to be Technician Ted, when the stripes give way to walking men and a timer.

    ... which revealled the loading screen a small bit at a time, then another bit and ... .

    But my all time favourite loaders would be the ... while it loaded. (Firebird used a simular loader on CPC games)
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 March 2007 Games
  • E-mail from Dom MorrisA few weeks ago I started a thread about a possible ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page about zsock for the z88 and I …

    ... utterly amazed at how fast it was. At that ... at a time but he did it one byte at a time, and what a ... to write this byte at a time pattern flood filler many, ...
    Chris's fill was a depth first effort that could ... complete. Mine's a breadth-first filler that ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • E-mail from Dom MorrisA few weeks ago I started a thread about a possible ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page about zsock for the z88 and I …

    ... amazed at how fast it was. At that ... at a time but he did it one byte at a time, and what a ... to write this byte at a time pattern flood filler many ...
    Chris's fill was a depth first effort that ...
    Chris Pile is a very underrated programmer, for those ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bubble Bobble 2 (not rainbow islands)While i was digging through old cd's, i found this game. It's title is bubble bobble 2 and it has it's levels re-edited. Loading screen: [url]http…

    ... opposite of single screen game is dual screen game, which would ... pc game.
    maybe fixed screen game?[/quote]

    ... only takes place on one screen at a time, where you do not ... screen to appear at a different location in a different screen/part of a ...
    Skarpo Skarpo April 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Bubble Bobble EditI thought I might have a go at editing Bubble Bobble myself after reading this... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15452[…

    ... row positions actually lie on a screen and when you need to ... :) so load your changes one at a time to see where the booboo ... any effect. Enemy might follow a different path or something. So ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous April 2007 Development
  • Bubble Bobble EditI thought I might have a go at editing Bubble Bobble myself after reading this... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15452[…

    ... row positions actually lie on a screen and when you need to ... :) so load your changes one at a time to see where the booboo ... any effect. Enemy might follow a different path or something. So ... didn't realise there was a connection between the direction and ...
    mulder mulder April 2007 Development
  • need some advice,buying my first sinclar specturm[B][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Hi i never had a sinclar specturm and looking at buying one rather the 48k version or 128k but want to know which is the bes…

    ... says "comes up to a blank screen", it's probably *NOT ... starting to command a bit of a price on ebay ... , there's always at least a few of each model ... Yes, I get annoyed too at the "nibblers" who keep ... of increments of about a quid at a time rather than putting in ...
    Winston Winston April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • need some advice,buying my first sinclar specturm[B][FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Hi i never had a sinclar specturm and looking at buying one rather the 48k version or 128k but want to know which is the bes…

    ... says "comes up to a blank screen", it's probably *NOT ... starting to command a bit of a price on ebay ... , there's always at least a few of each model ... Yes, I get annoyed too at the "nibblers" who keep ... of increments of about a quid at a time rather than putting in ...
    spectbeginner spectbeginner April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …

    ... =zxbruno;189312]I created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters ... by reading m$ 8 characters at a time. I was able to do ... this is done the one time so it doesn't ... /> [/code]

    In line 120 I check if the ... the rightmost bit is a '1' so a wall is drawn. ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... 190672]I have had a quick look for some ... that this would mean at least 2 udg's ... a character square at a time movement. If you could "scroll" it around the screen a ... pixel at a time ...
    DEATH DEATH May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... Thereby given the illussion of a 1 pixel move.
    ... It's on WoS as a download :)

    a character square at a time movement. If you could "scroll" it around the screen a ... pixel at a time ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Faster Pussycat, yer man (UDG)Right we are almost into a game area. Ive started to play with UDG and by using bins and pokes I can redesign graphics to my hearts content. Now Im…

    ... corresponding character data, one row at a time, and effectively POKEs each row ... screen addressing, so you can have a text screen or a Hi-res screen (and a ... screen will always only affect one little row of 8 pixels at at time ...
    hldswrth hldswrth May 2007 Sinclair Basic
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