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  • My first program - a vertical scrollerHi all, I'm new here. Nice to meet you all! A couple of weeks ago I decided to learn Z80 assembly language. I spent many hours in front of the Spec…

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    It's a little vertical scroller. My goal was to ... at 50 FPS without any flicker or tearing, and if I ...
    riv riv March 2010 Development
  • Vertical ScrollersI like finding classic Speccy games which i've never really heard of or played before. I like vertical scrollers, any gems i might have missed from …

    ... or played before. I like vertical scrollers, any gems i might ... Cresta

    Any classic vertical shoot em ups please post ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2004 Games
  • Flicker on my scrolling demo, any ideas?I have created a scrolling demo downloadable from [url="http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/scroll.z80"]http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/scroll.…

    ... , there is that irritating scanline flicker in the middle.

    robpearmain robpearmain May 2005 Development
  • what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…

    ... take it all scrolling effects (vertical and horizontal?) are better on ... seem to get much/any flicker when compared to C64/NES ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum dead: 8 vertical bars in alternating colorsI have been soldering on this basterd for a long time now. All IC's now have sockets (except the LM1889). I swapped all 4116's by types that are 100%…

    ... up the system, is 8 vertical bars, with some flickering blocks ... , I even het 8 perfect vertical bars without distortion. The 8 ...
    georgedb georgedb September 2009 Hardware
  • Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…

    ... code, more sprites are supported, flicker disappears, room data is compressed ... code for basic horizontal and vertical patrols, plus another type of ...
    jonathan jonathan February 2010 Development
  • Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…

    ... 's attributes, i.e. the flicker is the new frame using ...
    brownb2 brownb2 March 2010 Development
  • Flicker fixer for ZX 48KHas anyone the schematics for the flicker fixer: [URL]http://8bit.yarek.pl/computer/zx.48/[/URL] Micky

    Has anyone the schematics for the flicker fixer:

    [URL]http://8bit.yarek.pl/computer/zx.48/[/URL]


    Micky
    -Micky -Micky April 2010 Hardware
  • Broken +3I have noticed that some members on this forum prefer to repair Spectrums instead of just buying another one from ebay. I would like mine fixed at so…

    ... can be described as 32 vertical black lines on a green ... plug causes the screen to flicker with interference but does not ... . The power and drive lights flicker and the video output signal ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Hardware
  • Wizball flicker...Just playing Wizball and noticed if you set your emulated machine in either Speculator or Spin to a 128k machine (any of them) - then the graphics fl…

    ... of them) - then the graphics flicker like mad. With a 48k ... machine selected it doesn't flicker (but the sound is crap ...
    kilauea kilauea November 2010 Games
  • JC's GLOOP and flickerI wasn't sure whether to post this question in the Development section, as I suspect there is a technical reason which will be the answer to my quest…

    ... , whereas the mutants don't flicker there?

    In fact ...
    szeliga szeliga December 2010 Games
  • Smooth (vertical) scrolling on ZX SpectrumI was just thinking about this. You know, you have systems like Atari 2600 or Sega SG-1000 that have no hardware scroll, but they have games that sti…

    ... smooth (probably full 50 fps) vertical scrolling. Games like Monaco GP ...
    maiki maiki February 2011 Games
  • Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Humans.Ok. This topic is about those vertical shoot'em up's in which you control a human. Why? Because I say so. It's just a nitpicking categorization. And…

    ... . This topic is about those vertical shoot'em up's in ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel August 2012 Games
  • Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Ground Vehicles.Ok, the topic says it all. We're talking about tanks, jeeps, cars, pogo sticks and futuristic vehicles (as in Marauder). There's no really substanti…

    ... in the gameplay from the Vertical Shoot'em Up's with ... is among the finest Vertical (and non-vertical) Shoot'em Up's ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel August 2012 Games
  • Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Spacecrafts.what's missing? for updated lists look [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/concealedwords/home/zxspectrumgames/vertical-shoot-em-up-s"]here[/URL]. …

    ... .com/site/concealedwords/home/zxspectrumgames/vertical-shoot-em-up-s"]here ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel August 2012 Games
  • Multicolor/RGB3/3color fast low flicker software available?After giving myself a near migraine looking at 3 colour image (3 frames, red, green blue) anim gifs in a test version of image to zx spec I'd like to…

    ... viewer (i.e. barely noticeable flicker)?

    As it stands ... the flicker is so bad that I ...
    brownb2 brownb2 September 2012 Development
  • Another vertical scrolling questionwhile talking about w256 x h128 vertical scrolling, are 128k modes have any advantages over 48k models? has extra ram or swappable screen buffer any…

    while talking about w256 x h128 vertical scrolling, are 128k modes have any advantages over 48k models?

    has extra ram or swappable screen buffer any use on scrolling?
    Arda Arda October 2013 Development
  • Tile engine and slight colour flickerOver the past few nights I've been working on a simple tile game engine for a rock fold game I'm making. While all is going surprising well I've not…

    ... 've noticed a slight color flicker when moving the main character ...
    richdotward richdotward June 2014 Development
  • Tile engine and slight colour flickerOver the past few nights I've been working on a simple tile game engine for a rock fold game I'm making. While all is going surprising well I've not…

    ... 've noticed a slight color flicker when moving the main character ...
    richdotward richdotward June 2014 Development
  • Vertical XOR filler.. anyone?Hi, I was just wondering whether a vertical filler using XOR has ever been used on Speccy demos/games and if yes when for the first time? Just tryin…

    Hi,

    I was just wondering whether a vertical filler using XOR has ever been used on Speccy demos/games and if yes when for the first time? Just trying to find some references..
    mr.spiv mr.spiv February 2015 Development
  • Vertical Lines Spectrum +3Hi, My Spectrum +3 boots up and shows the following: Grey border with vertical black lines: http://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&p=19…

    ... following:
    Grey border with vertical black lines:
    http://www ...
    ScottC2010 ScottC2010 March 2016 Hardware
  • Flicker-free animationTrying to create flicker-free screen update, but... Where I'm wrong? [url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/pfywhfejfmwt2zq/test_128.sna"]Snaps…

    Trying to create flicker-free screen update, but... Where ...
    Bedazzle Bedazzle October 2016 Development
  • Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly​ I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…

    With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly​ I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations without flicker or trails ? Is this possible in BASIC ?
    ivanb303 ivanb303 March 2017 BASIC
  • Zx Spectrum 48k vertical black lines on boot problemHi all! I've just bought a Zx Spectrum 48k one eBay: all it was working goof but I made a mistake: I've extracted the Kempston interface before pl…

    ... the machine I get these vertical black lines and I have ...
    AmintaSpectrum AmintaSpectrum July 2017 Hardware
  • Need help from people with a 48K/128K/+2 (not +2A/+3)Scared ya, didn’t I? Well, this one is very simple and not as involved as [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55142/need-help-fro…

    ... at that level. It may flicker occasionally when a sound is ... appear anywhere else on the vertical axis, especially above the ground ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore September 2017 Development
  • Replacing lower RAM 4116 ZX Spectrum 48k - desoldering advice please?A long post, but interesting pictures perhaps. :) I'd like some advice: (also apologies I think I picked the wrong 'Hardware' category for this, plea…

    ... getting a blue and white vertical candy-striped pattern. Occasionally I ... one-pixel-thick black stripes flicker across the tiles. I'm ...
    Kamineko Kamineko September 2017 Hardware
  • Nasty vertical pattern on a 128K Toast Rack via RGBI managed to fix the busted membrane on my [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55755/got-myself-a-128k-toast-rack-plus-a-simple-a…

    ... , I noticed a strange, wavy vertical pattern in the display bitmap ... (here, the moiré makes the vertical stripes harder to see):
    vertical lines around high-contrast areas ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore January 2018 Hardware
  • looking for a vertical scrolling routinein basic or like the standard scroll? routine but the other way round with the scroll? removed (this would have to be in code). ive tried a couple of…

    ... a couple of things like Vertical Downward Character WrapScroll here http ...
    digital digital February 2018 Development
  • ZX Spectrum +2B 128K sound distorted and vertical jailbars. How to fix it?Hello, I have a ZX Spectrum +2B 128K (Issue 4 Motherboard) which suffers from sound distortion (the AY music is loud and distorted) and also very fa…

    ... distorted) and also very faint vertical jailbars in the middle of ... ?
    Regarding the issue of vertical jailbars I found fix for ... ) but I also have this vertical jailbars even noticiable on RGB ...
    rfthunder rfthunder February 2021 Hardware
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... trick gets me vertical "rotation", forcing the vertical size to be ... on screen. I eliminated flicker by completely drawing all ... perform the copy. Positives: flicker issues are eliminated.
    ... display file will eliminate flicker issues and allow the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
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