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128k dead, no TV signalI got 128k spectrum (heatsink model) from a friend of mine. He told me that speccy is dead, and he doesn't know what's wrong with it. When I plugged…
... should hear beeps and see vertical colors (during the test)...hopefully ... -
128k dead, no TV signalI got 128k spectrum (heatsink model) from a friend of mine. He told me that speccy is dead, and he doesn't know what's wrong with it. When I plugged…
... should hear beeps and see vertical colors (during the test)...hopefully ... -
Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... art of rendering the screen flicker-free?
Maybe you ... -
gridle fannydoes anyone know what one of these is?
[QUOTE=mile;188879]does anyone know what one of these is?[/QUOTE]
It's what you'd cook a 'furburger' or a 'lab-kebab' on... (or possible even a "vertical bacon sandwich")
fnar! -
gridle fannydoes anyone know what one of these is?
... ' on... (or possible even a "vertical bacon sandwich")
fnar ... -
JSW: 'entrance to hades'this room always used to bug me when I was a kid playing it because even though its always "game-over" whenever you go in there, it looks like there …
... patch to replace ramps with vertical conveyors. Drawing them straight up ... -
Load games on real speccy via laptop?Not sure if i've put this in the right place.. but, I have a speccy 48 which has never been turned on apparently, so i turned it on this morning and…
... get is black and white vertical lines on the display. I ... -
@ footy management gamesIve tried to get back into these management sims on the emulator (which Ive only had about 6 months, - hadnt played a speccy game in about 13-14 year…
... ' pop up, then it would flicker through each player and if ... -
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... stay still the character will flicker as you are continually clearing ... -
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... /> Im 50/50 on the flicker thing. I can see that ... moved it would stop the flicker (or cut it down) but ... stay still the character will flicker as you are continually clearing ... -
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... ]Im 50/50 on the flicker thing. I can see that ... moved it would stop the flicker (or cut it down) but ... -
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... /> There is now very little flicker and the udg's move ... -
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…
... , or the TV is in vertical retrace.
[QUOTE]A ... -
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…
... things this way to reduce flicker. The Spectrum outputs the same ... -
Speccy 128 and Commode 1702 monitorHey Hardware Gurus, I tried to hookup a toast rack speccy 128 to my Commodore 1702 Monitor. It comes through ok but Black and white and no sound (do…
... TVs (autoswitching) rely on the vertical freq. to do switching:[LIST ... encoding method and NOT the vertical freq, there's a good ... in one system when the vertical freq is "the other".
Speccy 128 and Commode 1702 monitorHey Hardware Gurus, I tried to hookup a toast rack speccy 128 to my Commodore 1702 Monitor. It comes through ok but Black and white and no sound (do…
... TVs (autoswitching) rely on the vertical freq. to do switching:[LIST ... encoding method and NOT the vertical freq, there's a good ... in one system when the vertical freq is "the other".
Speccy 128 and Commode 1702 monitorHey Hardware Gurus, I tried to hookup a toast rack speccy 128 to my Commodore 1702 Monitor. It comes through ok but Black and white and no sound (do…
... TVs (autoswitching) rely on the vertical freq. to do switching:[LIST ...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. …
Loading soundIs there a way to kill the loading sound coming from the spectrum during loading but restore the sound when playing a game. This would be for a 48K …
... tantrum screams), doesn't even flicker.
If the house ...best/worst arkanoid clones...?personally I always liked [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002768"]Krakout[/URL] better than Arkanoid itself. really addictive…
... , like sometimes its horizontal then vertical, sometimes youve got 2 bats ...Making your own joystick interfaceJust spied the diagram for the kempston joystick interface in the docs section. For someone who has only made up cables, what is involved in constru…
... connector (rather than use a vertical design with a thru-board ... soldered onto the vertical PCB, like some Spectrum add ...Liverpool rain flashbackThe rain was hard, thick, and vertical this morning. Whilst walking the 10 minute walk from the station to the office (and getting soaked even with a…
[QUOTE=NickH;196621]The rain was hard, thick, and vertical this morning. [/QUOTE]
same here when i woke up, 'cept it wasn't rain. *snigger* *snigger*Low Sound output + Sound distorting pictureHi, I am having a problem with my Grey +2 at the moment while trying to use RGB output. When I load a game the loader tones are fine but the actual…
... (Composite Sync)
5:- VSYNC (Vertical sync)
6:- G (Green ...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…
... a fat character in each vertical pixel row.
For ... 8 times for all 8 vertical pixels in a character.
Yesteryear's Computers.Ahhhh ... [URL="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9023960"]back in the day[/URL] when a 300mb system…
... cabinet, with two 5.25" vertical drive bays (one of which ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... pixels
char dy; // signed vertical speed in pixels
};
ZX81 - Modulator problems...Not a spectrum I know, but does anybody here have an experience of repairing ZX81s? When I dusted mine down recently and plugged it in, the display …
... -solid picture. I mean no vertical lines, no artifacts whatsoever... it ...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…
[code]
1 LET n=191: BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 7: CLS : DIM i$(3,9):
FOR i=1 TO 3: LET i$(i)=" # # # # ": NEXT i: LET p=16: LET b=0: LET a=p:
LET s=0: FOR y=0 TO 14: LET e=y/2=INT (y/2): FOR x=(1-e)*24 TO e*24 STEP e*2-1:
PRINT AT 21 ...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…
... AT 0,0 and occasional flicker on second score digit is ...
