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Timex undocumented video modesHi people. Please check my assumption about the functioning of the Timex in undocumented video modes: D2D1D0 wr #FF 0 0 0 - ZX color mode, the base …
... patterns of the same 8*1 pixel "attribute" ... columns being the same 8*8 pixel bitmap, taken from ... . Bit 1 selects between 8*8 attributes (bit 1 = ... produce 8 pixels in 2 colours plus flash and bright ... attribute" data. In the 8*8 modes, each attribute byte ... -
Books that you just can't quit.Much as parts of the presentation,writing style infurates me, there is a book I just keep comming back to again and again. Its like the Yang to the …
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Problem With POINT StatementHello everyone this is my first ever post, So firstly i'd like to say hello to everyone and secondly thank you to the admins for such a great site, …
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Problem With POINT StatementHello everyone this is my first ever post, So firstly i'd like to say hello to everyone and secondly thank you to the admins for such a great site, …
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1 PAPER 0: INK 7: BORDER 0
2 ... CLS : PRINT AT 10,13;INK 2;"GAME OVER": PAUSE 100 ... -
Remove colour clash from Everyones a WallyWonder what the game would be like if the main sprite attributes were 8 hence avoiding the awful colour clash. Surely a handful of pokes would remed…
... the main sprite attributes were 8 hence avoiding the awful colour ... be precise attribute=8 means black ink on navy paper. I suppose you ... taking attribute from background, like INK 8 or PAPER 8 in Basic.
Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... would give you up to 64 colours on screen at one ... the cost of losing the FLASH and BRIGHT bits). [url]https://sites ...SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…
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[*]CLUT?set FLASH and BRIGHT bits
[*]COLOR?inline ... between block graphics/UDGs and 8-bit character sets[/list]
P47 Thunderbolt Colour/Attribute hacking?I've seen someone (can't remember who now, sorry) hacking into monochrome games such as After The War and Outrun Europa and adding/changing the colou…
... level 1 is PAPER blue & INK cyan (ATTR=1*8+5=13 ... ), the objects being drawn in the PAPER colour ... and the background in the INK colour. The ...Pentagon floating bus timingI wanted to take a little break from working on the ZXDS UI yesterday, so I added support for Pentagon timing instead, so I can finally enjoy the lik…
... can be imprecise. And the flash circuit is similar - instead of ... it can flip between the paper and ink even somewhere in the ...THE HOBBIT loading screenHello again, thought I'd have a go at an alternative loading screen for The Hobbit. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/THE%20HOBBIT%…
... doubt that using only bottom 8 lines for text would be ... such), just calling a different paper or ink. It might also solve ...SpecBAS / SpecOS documentationHi, I just find out about SpecBAS and I was so impressed by the new functions while retaining compatibility with ZX Basic that I've been playing wit…
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10 PAPER 0: INK 7: CLS
20 ... PLOT SCRw/2,0: DRAW INK 7;0,SCRw
160 ... 200
190 FOR f=64 TO 0
200 IF ...Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …
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1000 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 7: CLS : RESTORE
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1050 ...ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…
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INK 0 (black atttribute)
PAPER 8 (transparent)
... picture with inverted pixels and INK 7; PAPER 0.
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[IMG ...Game of Life.Last year (I think) or maybe the year before, I entered a Game of Life simulator into the CSS CGC compo but for the Sinclair ZX81. I decided to port…
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BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 4
12 CLS ... /> ld (hl),$10 ;INK control
inc hl ... /> ld (hl),a ;INK colour
inc hl ... CH_ADD
ld bc,8
add hl,bc ...Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…
... : : BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 0: CLS : PRINT BRIGHT 1; INK 7;AT 9 ...Specbas new game PacmanWell I have been beavering away at this for a bit and I am now happy with it. (nearly) it's not bad (even if I say so myself) [img]http://i699.phot…
... :" TO "sys:demos"
50 INK 0: PAPER 8: CLS: CLEAR
60 ...Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
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10 BORDER 6: PAPER 6: INK 0: CLS
20 FOR ... a=22528 to 23295 STEP 64 ...SpecBAS 0.844 releasedHi all - it's been a while... Having some unexpected extra time off work, I've been able to get some work done on SpecBAS and it's now a bit more …
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20 PAPER 0: INK 15: OVER 8: CLS: SCREEN LOCK ... =2/(bsize-1): LET ov=8: DIM ov$="None","Exclusive Or ... +2)*6
90 CIRCLE INK sz*11;sx,sy,sz ...Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
... /> [code]100 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 7: CLS
110 REM ...How do I use colour control codes in 128 basic?Just started using a toast rack in 128 basic and I am struggling to understand how to easily create coloured characters and graphics in a print state…
In a PRINT statement, PRINT PAPER 1; INK 6;"Woohoo!" would do just ... Extend mode does work in 128 BASIC (eg. execute INPUT i ... still gives the INK token), just not in the 128 editor, so ...The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
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5 PAUSE 0:PAPER 6:INK 1:CLS
10 PRINT ...What am I doing wrong?Working on the idea of making a book type game I decided to start with a title screen. However I thought that the extension .scr was what the Spectru…
... empty of pixels with black paper/black ink.
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8" in shoes and despite that ...Speeding up PRINT code in ROMHi Folks, I seem to recall that someone stated the PRINT command is rather slow because it has to handle screen and printer printing - is this cor…
... /> ld bc,0xff0c ; Blue paper, green ink
call PRINT_CHAR
8
add hl, hl
sla a ; Multiply by 8
sla a
sla ...Speeding up PRINT code in ROMHi Folks, I seem to recall that someone stated the PRINT command is rather slow because it has to handle screen and printer printing - is this cor…
... do this
IF ink=8 Then do this else if ... Ink=9 then do this else do this
If paper=8 ... then do this else if paper=9 then do ... case: over 0, fixed ink, fixed paper, you can crunch the ... you can get to about 8-10 times faster then the ...Cubic RevealI just though I'd develop this a little further. Written a while ago on a whim! [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/p44y5dda49ucmop/square_reveal_1_1.gi…
... ld a,h,add a,8 ld h,a
isn ... end
xor a ;Black PAPER, Black INK
slp0:
ld ...Please, convert your game to EP128The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80-based home computer first produced in 1985. It can simulate the specy screen, so most of the EP128 game is specy conver…
... (there is no flash, and bright bit, instead 4 bit paper, and 4 ...Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
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ld a,%00111001 ;PAPER 7,INK 1
ld (char_attr1+1 ...
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align 8 ;align your font addr to ... be cleanly divisible by 8
;else, use INC HL ...
