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Changes that would have made a bad game goodA posting about technician ted beign far too hard to be playable got me thinking - what changes could have been made to existing games to make them b…
I find the speccy font hard on the eyes in ... would work with games with custom text routines tho. -
Sinclair Fonthi,anyone got the Sinclair logo font? not the spectrum basic font, I've got that. Cheers
I had problems finding the type of font you want. When trying to ... -
ot: true type font makeris there a utility downloadable for free, that can make a true type font from jpgs or bitmaps? I loked on google, but I am not so good at finding thi…
... can make a true type font from jpgs or bitmaps?
finding things as some of you ... this can tell you what font is what from a scan ... -
New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
This is what I've compiled so far:
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* Make all caps
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You can turn CAPS LOCK on or off using a simple poke to 23658:
POKE 23658,8: REM CAPS ON
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Has this been done before?Are there any emulators whose speed can be adjusted by the Spectrum program that the emulator itself is running? So that, say the Spectrum program ca…
... [*] to switch between 100% and "custom" speed (which can be adjusted ... Num[+] or from a dialog "Custom Speed"). Or you have no ... the keyboard to toggle Normal/Custom speed already, so that's ... love SGD, as it makes finding and loading a specific game ... -
Legal Sinclair clones?Are any of the cloned Sinclair computers legal, other than the original Timex machines? Are the QL Clones legal? Could a legal clone be produced with…
... and about half the custom Speccy loaders out there ... tape traps actually work with custom ROMs). I should divulge ... clean-room approach - the font. I tried to design ... my own lookalike font, but I'm so ... familiar with the Speccy font that anything so much ... -
National versions of programming languagesI remember reading in old Polish computer magazines that there were serious plans in the 80-ties to create Polish versions of BASIC, Pascal, Logo so …
... could define them in a font, but overwriting existing characters for ... check out some of the custom ROMs that are available on ... -
Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…
... flash, just need to use custom UGDs right? However I'm ... resize the grid so the font gets in place, I'd ... -
TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …
... , Oric and many others had custom graphics chips but a lot ... the MSX machines am I finding a common use of VDP ... -
Saving from actual cassetteIve dug out my old cassette player which I used to load games to my speccy. Ive hooked it up to the line-in port and loaded the game into Spectaculat…
... with a normal (not a custom-) loader....
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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…
... limit, since I really want custom graphics, colors and sound all ... know what you mean about finding out if it is even ... -
Spectrum games coming to the WiiJust received this [url]http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11037[/url] earlier this morning from my brother, who knows of my love of old compute…
... considering making the investment (or finding an already second hand modded ... Winamp. I even have a custom hz mode of 50hz set ... -
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…
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Typeliner & Font Editor (Cardex Computer Software) - Utility ... Prediction" is currently MIA. Finding that software should allow this ... />
Typeliner & Font Editor:-
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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 […
... buffer, because I use a custom 64 columns printing routine, that ... . You would do this by finding the
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What game font did you like?Carrying over the slight venture into game fonts when it was mentioned how some games didn't have their own font in the "What was the first Spectrum …
... =Arjun;267120]I liked the font used in the game called ... you with that the Survival font looks very good, at least ... variable changed, but a whole custom way of printing the characters ... -
Help with hi-res 40 column fontI have created a 12x8 pixel font for use with Timex hi-res (Mode 6).
... use a lookup table for finding the right 8x8 character cell ... />
putc_5by8 is the actual font putter onner, as it were ... -
Looking for a font from a ZX Spectrum game!Some of you know (based on another thread) that I am trying to remake the ZX Spectrum game "Legend" into Flash (for reasons of playability and also t…
There's a font ripper by Antony Purvis that loads into the Multiface RAM which is usually good at finding and extracting fonts. -
12-pixel-wide font on 512x192 screenThanks to Geoff I have a working prototype for displaying this font in BASIC. Machine code to follow.
... aowen;310147]
The font data should be stored on ... will make editing the font much easier and also ... size, then lie the font on its side as ...
For my 6x8 font for the Spectranet, I didn ... little extra flash storage. Finding the character that way is ... -
2008 Lookback/2009 Lookforward ThreadSo, what have we done this year? On the YS site, I've added the Virtual News Stand (the clickable double-page magazine spreads you see dotted around…
... One, modified the +3 with custom ROMs so it's either ... a new version of a font editor.
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Jetpac questionHi all, I just bought a copy of Jetpac off of Ebay and I'm having problems. To start, I'm trying to play it on an issue 2 Speccy with Interface 1, 2 …
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;Use embedded custom PRINTING routine for this program ... - no selectable screen address or font address
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25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
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* ColorPRINT (Timex mode 2 Font/UDG display code)
* GarageBEEP ... used
* ROMs:
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TZX SuitabilityHi All, Firstly thanks for a wealth of info been a long time since Ive seen those set of rubber keys and symbol-shift and now it back around and we d…
... decoders for some of the custom loading schemes so such a ... .
[QUOTE]ended up finding an old version of audacity ... -
Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... /> This displays the Amstrad CPC font. Btw.: ZXB Compiler version 1 ... only drawback is: There are custom runtime routines, which cause the ... -
Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... /> This displays the Amstrad CPC font. Btw.: ZXB Compiler version 1 ... only drawback is: There are custom runtime routines, which cause the ... -
Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
... chars equ 0x5c36 ; start of font - 256
chans equ 0x5c4f ... ; set
inc hl ; font
ld (hl), 0xcc ; address ... 2 ; Select interrupt mode 2 (custom)
; restore registers ... c_print:
ld bc, (chars) ; font address
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Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
... " written in 6-pixel high font in English on the intro ... to generate the bitmap, the font is a bit cramped. I ... may change the font.
I realised there ... way to do this, after finding about 1,800 bytes or ... -
Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
... way to do this, after finding about 1,800 bytes or ... the 'PROGRESS INIDICATOR' and 'SCORE' font to look the same as ... -
The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…
... 8K (even with a complete font in there) so I reckon ... elsewhere, I've written a custom linker (called 'gary') especially for ... -
POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
... you want a brand new font then download or make a ... ) is used you're new font will appear instead.
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The Making Of Manic Miner"Matthew Smith talks us through every level of his classic platformer Sat at the very desk where it was written, Matthew Smith watches Miner Willy l…
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* Custom character set, could add a variable width font but then ...
