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  • How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…

    ... converts the "real" TV screen position to the correct ... data for 8 pixels at a time. When it needs to ... br />
    Have a look at this [URL="http://www. ... interlaced fashion -- in even screen refreshes it draws on ... lines and on odd screen refreshes it drawn on ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ...
    - It must be a pixel scroller
    - The message ... it continuously scrolls across the screen over and over)
    ... scroll the message on screen one pixel left. The ... the raster at the top of the screen (so no ... to print 1 char at a time into the buffer and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... going on is to do a zcc -a [other options] which ... double printed message 1 pixel at a time in the buffer
    ... the stuff from buffer to screen
    ////////////////////////////////////////
    .dump
    ...
    wokani wokani July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... double printed message 1 pixel at a time in the buffer
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    a pixel line -- you can use the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Voltage SchmoltageOk then. Don't flame for wanting to use a C64 tape deck for this - it was the only one I have to hand which may be cannibalised for the purpose. So …

    You're right, the USB allows only 500mA to be drawn at a time.
    Looks like i'll be using a line from the PSU, seeing if only 5v will suffice.
    wilsonsamm wilsonsamm July 2007 Chit chat
  • graphics on the speccy...how?I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did arti…

    ... best match to the pencil line.

    Then the low ... image up into 8 pixels at a time and convert that from binary ...
    IN31 IN31 July 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... p(a)=52+a-(a=1):
    PRINT 'm$(a*w-11 TO a*w ... );:
    NEXT a ... =CODE INKEY$-48:
    FOR a=1 TO l+2:
    LET g=p(a):
    LET d=SGN (RND ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2007 Development
  • Net guru help neededHELP! Okay, I'm out of sorts when it comes to the internet these days.... this whole 'MAC' code is new to me and seems really confusing compared to …

    ... phone line then realistically your stuck with one provider at a time, ... effectively you would be trying to use your phone line twice at ... the same time so it ... you could take a second line via a different method like ...
    ADJB ADJB August 2007 Chit chat
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... buffer used for a specific land plot on screen. "gfx_plotGfxBuff" is ... the address of a 72*5 ... of units produced which is a function of the production ... dots are shown one at a time to create a little suspense.
    < ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... SP1 creates sprites one column at a time, with each column being one ... correctly display the sprite on screen because of how the engine ... the colour already existing on screen before the sprite's ... white on a white screen and red on black on a black screen.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... above:-

    Take this line of BASIC:-

    DATA ... DATADD after reading one value at a time.

    You will find ... many DATA elements on a line before you cross a page boundary, and ... to an arbritrary position within a line.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…

    [QUOTE=bcass;214514]Auf Wiedersehen Monty would be 1000% better if it was split up into levels rather than once continous game.[/QUOTE]

    Do you mean levels as in clumps of rooms per level, or like Manic Miner (single screen at a time)?
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek September 2007 Games
  • Freak or Unique[url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004231]Roller coaster[/url] is probably the most unique game there is, yes there are other bet…

    ... tubs, interesting and not boring at all I hear you say ... but forgotten again by the time I get to my computey ... , after all it's a one screen at a time type puzzley collects the items ... it's just the first time you lose all your lives ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek September 2007 Games
  • Got my mac mini and I'm in loveI have had it for about 2 days now and it is the 2nd best piece of computer equipment i have had, it is quieter then my dvd HD recorder i have been s…

    ... place at the top of the screen than attached to a window ... one menu bar at a time.[/QUOTE]

    From a usablilty point ... side by side on screen I can imediately see ... screen, for instance a messenger style application. Not much of a problem on a ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2007 Chit chat
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... to save many lives at the first few levels ... playing more than one level at a time.


    [ ... would just fit on the screen.[/QUOTE]

    ... player would alternate choosing a pair of numbers to ... s turn). If a player finds a match he scores 1 ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... playing more than one level at a time.
    [/QUOTE]

    ... different colours and position on screen would distinguish between the ... 's turn). If a player finds a match he scores 1 ... is better suited to picking a pair at a time, for the same reason ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... like this:

    "A pair of cards is matched ... only choose one card at a time, by inputting a number in the range ... cards remain permanently on the screen, with their positional numbers removed ... the new card remains on screen, the previous card is hidden ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... like this:

    "A pair of cards is matched ... only choose one card at a time, by inputting a number in the range ... cards remain permanently on the screen, with their positional numbers removed ... the new card remains on screen, the previous card is hidden ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Development
  • Fly me to the moon...[url]http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Vintage/auction-123876540.htm[/url]

    ... cores together. Applying a certain voltage simultaneously to ... picked up on a third line which runs through ... , named the "sense/inhibit" line.

    Well, ... one bit of data at a time, which is obviously quite ... word could be read at a time, one bit from ...
    wilsonsamm wilsonsamm October 2007 Chit chat
  • The most overrated games of all timeWhich games did the magazines say were really good, but are actually... um... not so good? By a combination of [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/b…

    ... Jet Set Willy, it's a huge, frustrating and rather tedious ... playable as each screen can be tackled one at a time, and there's ... still do well today as a phone game, whereas JSW is ...
    neoncherry neoncherry November 2007 Games
  • The direct bus or indirect one... that is the questionThe Ethernet project continues...and I'm in a quandry. So I've managed to implement enough socket library for the W5100 that socket, bind, listen, a…

    ... using a schmitt trigger buffer (from just the /RD line to ... to be stable by the time /CS goes low)
    a few ticks at 25MHz. Then 04 ... it back perfectly every time. The sequence AA,55 ... I can only sample a few signals at a time at that speed, but ...
    Winston Winston December 2007 Hardware
  • Channel redirectionHi! I need help regarding the following problem. I want a BASIC decoder running on Spectrum, written in assembler. I found the great *LIST routine […

    ... on the channel 2, the screen. However, I need the ASCII ... t you send characters one at a time to your 64-col routine ... location
    LD (bufindex),A ; Store new buffer pointer
    AND A ; Signal 'ok'
    RET ; ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston December 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... save my main map as a gif, close down PSP ... reopening the gif (being only a few 100k big) in ... then carrying on pasting one screen at a time onto it, but I still ... /> Aside from firewall and A/V, I am only running ... to me at all.
    Perhaps I'll try a different ...
    Vertigo Vertigo February 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... , although lightforce has a background scrolling in the ... at a time, though.[/QUOTE]

    Scrolling one character at a time ... is usually faster than scrolling a pixel at a time, and ... how the Spectrum's screen-memory is organised, and ...
    bobs bobs February 2008 Development
  • If they've have been ported to the Spectrum...Spec-chums, There were many games that for various reasons never made it to the spectrum. As an aside to the If they'd have been released in the 80s…

    ... /> Snow Bros could have been a cracking conversion, as could Parasol ... same vein as the 1 screen at a time platform puzzler types, that may ... /> Probably would have to be a 128k multi-load jobby, as ... or 10 screens) and a boss at the end of each one ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2008 Games
  • ThrillerJust been watching Thriller,..... Is it me or was he *the* dancer.... great video btw. [URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8[/URL] cool or w…

    ... dunno) extremely talented, as a singer, dancer and songwriter, and ... of those kids are at fault whether or not ... to him from behind a security line at a concert, yet they believe ... of Brian[/I], but at least his part in that ... , or given much air-time, as I'd hate ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2008 Chit chat
  • 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:/…

    I think he means line it up on 256 pixels and then advance by 1 pixel at a time to see if it makes a coherent image. for instance the two solid lines in the gif should to my mind line up under each other.
    dekh dekh March 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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:/…

    ... then advance by 1 pixel at a time to see if it makes ... on line one a white pixel at position 9, on line two a white pixel at ... position 8 and on line three a white pixel at ...
    Vertigo Vertigo March 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum run and guns gamesMy favourite Spectrum game is probably Midnight Resistance, but i completed it yesterday, and so wanted to know if there are any other stand out game…

    ... buggers pile up on screen and shoot me like ... how the Speccy feels at the time. Hold the fire ... multiple enemies are on screen as much as possible, ... Just creep forward a few pixels at a time and duck until he ... creeping forward, take your time and once you can't ...
    Vertigo Vertigo March 2008 Games
  • How many expansions can a Speccy handle ?How many expansions / interfaces / addons can a Speccy handle ? I'm not thinking about the issue of powering the interfaces through the Speccy's PS…

    ... .

    Machine I/O at the Z80 level happens by ... port, and activating the IORQ line.

    If each device ... can actually trap RST 8 at a time - unfortunately, the Spectrum's design ... 't allow for more without a switch in hardware (which can ...
    Winston Winston March 2008 Hardware
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