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How to refurbish my black +2?So I'm pretty chuffed with my black +2A/B just wondering what should I do to ensure a long Speccy life ? I suspect the tape drive needs a service bec…
... wondering what should I do to ensure a long Speccy life ... running. It doesn't seem to save to tape properly either, once ... do you guys recommend ? Recap ? How do I clean the pcb ... -
No-tearing (“vsync”) Full Screen FadeSeeing as most screen fades exhibit visible tearing, I wrote my own routine which does away with that problem. Simple, effective, short, and fully re…
Seeing as most screen fades exhibit visible tearing, I ... it on clones; feel free to change the value of 0x262 ... active screen area,
ld a,d ;plus generous overlap to account ... -
Dear Santa for my Christmas present I would like any one of the followingThe complete Spectrum NEXT in the new design case, with a full manual and maxed out with all the options - please! A working Timex 2068 with power s…
... new design case, with a full manual and maxed out with ... of tools to make programming easier and the full instructions for ... the best, easiest to understand book on learning how to program the Speccy ... into my pseudo Spectrum via FUSE
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Plug Me, single screen platform puzzlerJust saw the game "Plug Me" on coolmathgames and thought it was very cool. It's a simple retro platformer, but the main gimmick is that the timer …
... 's more about figuring out how to get to the exit in time ... />
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1st steps in animation Having finally resurrected my familiar old graphics programs, chief amongst which is DPaint Animation, I was a little taken aback to reali…
... by thinking once converted to GIF's each full screen frame will be ... are largely ignored because of how sharp and colourful they look ... morning, hopes high but knowing how rusty I would be and ... looking, you may not realize how crucial colour is even in ... -
LOADING screen ?Ok, so - I accidentally decided to make some improvements on my 25year old BASIC text game 'Graveyard Nights' ...I used SPIN to muck about with the …
... the changes... I managed to work out how to make it into a ... have NEVER known how to do, is make a loading screen.... none of ... screen for it ... But now what ??? Could someone tell me exactly how to ... get this to load with the game ... -
How to Record Retro Games to Blank DVD's (Scart & Composite)First of all my apologies if this should be in another section but it is about recording games :-D I've been meaning to do this video for some tim…
... been meaning to do this video for some time explaining how I ... record old retro games in perfect picture quality on to ... games from the original hardware to blank DVD's, I personally ...
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PS4 Controller / Fuse 1.5.6 / Windows 10 doesn't work?This is probably going to be stupidity personified but I can't seem to figure out how to map a PS4 Controller into FUSE? [img]http://images2.image…
... 't seem to figure out how to map a PS4 Controller into FUSE?
FUSE that seems to correspond to it
Everything ... -
Printing text, part MMXIIXI'm pretty sure there's been a zillion threads about this already, and I don't think it's the first one by myself either, but here goes. Proportiona…
... I'm unsure as to how to go about it.
to output byte
rla< ... ; Rotate pixel through carry to output byte
rla
; we're full, flush byte to screen
ld c, ... ; Put last byte on screen
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Printing text using direct screen addressingHaving some problems printing using the FASE engine which is currently defeating me. Hoping to have someone clear out the bit of fog currently dwell…
... currently defeating me. Hoping to have someone clear out the ... function. I'm trying to get the text working properly ... mode which uses page flipping to accomplish sprite movement.
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TR-DOS (Fuse) HelpDoes anyone know how to get TRDOS to work with Fuse emulator? I have the TR-DOS.rom, but is that all I need?
Does anyone know how to get TRDOS to work with Fuse emulator? I have the TR-DOS.rom, but is that all I need? -
[mac os x, Fuse] Thumbnail icon of TZX, TAP and z80 files in Finder goneFor a long time I could see thumbnail previews of TZX, TAP and z80 files in Finder. I'm sure FUSE installed this nice feature years ago. Recently for…
... in Finder. I'm sure FUSE installed this nice feature years ... file" icon. Does anybody now how to bring it back? -
Todays rant! There must be something archaic about my wiring! Because Heather bought me a nice smartphone oh about two or three years ago and I simply could not…
... the most perfunctory instructions on how to operate it.
... want a touch screen nor do you want to rely on ... .
Want to know how a computer should be? Take ... in stereo with a 30fps full screen animation running concurrently and still ... -
Fuse/SPIN vs Spectaculator border timingsHello, I'm trying to figure out at which moments the 48K ULA samples the current border color into its internal latch. To do that I wrote a small …
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I'm trying to figure out at which moments ... into its internal latch. To do that I wrote ... gave it a try on Fuse (commit 0518e233), SPIN 0 ... 0.3092. SPIN and Fuse seem to generate the same pattern, ... whichever emulator is deviated from how it should be, if ... -
Devils of the Deep - what to do?game is (very) slow, but it has its "charm"... manual is on WoS... 1st thing is to find a KNIFE, then you can chop seaweed and eat it to restore …
... seaweed and eat it to restore STRENGTH..., location of ... is: [b]How to get a clue (to the treasures, I ... in city... it's to heavy to lift, [b]what ... hint: there is trick to faster reach screen with (closest) knife, ... try to find it ... -
converting sna to tapsince i'm struggling to find a simple sna to tap converter that works fine on gnu/linux, i'm about starting to code one on my own (using a scripting …
... 'm struggling to find a simple sna to tap converter ... i'm about starting to code one on my ... poke hide load log on screen variable system
... ":rem 6.75kb - captured screen
50 load"" code ... "R" ($14) means, and how to set "F" register (perhaps only ... -
Setting breakpoints in source code to make debugging easierAfter two years I've resumed my Speccy coding project. I'm porting a yet "unported" game from C64/Atari to 48k Spectrum using Z80 assembler. At the m…
... "unported" game from C64/Atari to 48k Spectrum using Z80 assembler ... code. Occasionally I also use Fuse. All development is done on ... know with my current setup how to efficiently debug my program. What ... time, I have enough time to manually trigger the debugger, ... -
Educational MIA free to a good homeI've just rediscovered a box of educational Spectrum tapes in my loft. Looking at the WOS MIA list, I've got possibly ten items listed on there, many…
... how these have been stored (variously in lofts and garages). Full list ... to take them off my hands, I'm open to suggestions on how to ... get them to you.
how and what is worth preserving ... -
Full size scansHi, I haven't been here for a long time and I see that several things have changed. Specifically I was surprised that there is no longer FTP an…
... I do not know how to find) access to full size scans (600 dpi ... /> Is there any way to access full size images, as before?
How do emulators make code appears as running at 3.5Mhz?Decent Z80 emulators on github return t-states after executing an instruction, giving you the ability to emulate Speccy relatively well. But there ar…
... were to write code to emulate screen I would check how far the screen ray ... the bitmap, then blit to the screen. But if an instruction ... may be pushing something to the screen right in front of ... sync with the screen. So how is this done to support all possible ...Multi-Platform Arcade Game DesignerFirst of all, I should say Hello, having left the Spectrum scene around a year ago. I'm not planning to make a return but figured that I have some n…
... has now progressed to a full set of editors ... /> The editors allow you to scroll sprites around the grid ... no longer loses your screen data but keeps as ... 're stuck not knowing how to use an editor, just ... more formats to this tool. I continue to support the ...How to store and recall a "window"?I would like to memorize and then restore a rectangular portion of a screen, pixels and attributes. To make things easier, this "window" would be sit…
... to memorize and then restore a rectangular portion of a screen ... , pixels and attributes. To make things ... top third of the screen. All of this in ... an Assembly routine to be recalled from BASIC ... en/latest/]ZX-BASIC[/url] to be precise.
< ...Amiga chit chat (sorry but it never really was a commode designed machine)I wish there was a forum like this for the Amiga, perhaps there is but I tried a few and they mostly seem pretty moribund and lots of the links at Am…
... using Fuse, crumbs its bloody hard to get past that first screen.
how to move on is the point ... seemed likely to be a valid image. No one cared how much ... work I did because summer internships were for teachers to ...How to Find a Game You Are Looking for - in a TZX (Emulator) Context I was looking for information about something else but I found a totally different concern instead . Whilst looking I found out that have been lo…
... because it would be easy to find and play stuff .For ... in one place and easy to find in future.
How many Sub Genres can be ...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…
... in the middle of the screen.
Regarding the sound ... I can do is to replace R203 and R206 ... there anything I can do to eliminate this problem? It ... (which I would like to eliminate) but I also ... issues?
I forgot to mention that I already recapped ...Fuse 1.6.0 releasedA new release of Fuse, the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, is now available at the SourceForge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulato…
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-emulator/
Highlights ... /> [*]GTK: Add Fuse icon to the about dialog and ... Improve moving and sizing Fuse's window under Wayland< ... report available screen modes
[*]WidgetUI: New dialog to load/ ...How to copy games to a Spectrum +3 floppy? [HELP]Hi you Guys, Can someone please explain, how can i copy a game from a pc to a +3 floppy disk? Or its also possible, to copy to a floppy using a …
... explain, how can i copy a game from a pc to a ... , to copy to a floppy using a SD device, like the picodivsd? how ...RF to HDMI adapter...So I have been wondering about getting a RF tuner lately, as the only TV set I have that still works and still has a tuner is VHF and most Speccy's a…
... it would be handy to be able to tune a speccy ... and you see a blue screen. It comes with a ... you know you've going to have to tune it.
... anything.
1) How to make it use English.
My small HDMI screen I use doesn't support ...
