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  • ZX-Paintbrush new feature requestI would find a .tile file format very useful, basically like a .btile or .ctile but with the data arranged for normal Speccy attributes So it would …

    ... data arranged for normal Speccy attributes

    So it would ... , if your intension is to get an assembler output, you can ... eight pixels) area of the screen.
    - use the main menu ... " file. In that case, you get a flexible customizeable method of ...
    clausjahn clausjahn September 2014 Emulators
  • 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].…

    ... . I can't seem to get it work in ZXSpin though ... graphics first and then the attributes (unlike Alkatraz which loads the ... attributes first) - I remember the loader ... drawn. Result is much smaller screen size.

    Here is ...
    Timmy Timmy October 2014 Announcements
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... ld sp,nn ; start of screen "half-line"
    push af ... entire screen... it's just I didn't want to get ... a linear buffer to store attributes, implemented as a "multicolor ... linear buffer and modifies attributes on screen every 4 pixel lines ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2014 Development
  • Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…

    ... macro to bulk convert every screen (in which case the resize ... to get a better result; before attempting to clean up the attributes ... pirate on the left, his attributes are very wrong, but not ... clean up). How you would get Guybrush walking around this is ...
    weesam weesam December 2014 New game ideas
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... platform for isometric games as Get Dexter will show quickly. The ... and between the two you get the best of both worlds ... , and not 8x8 attributes like on Speccy, 8x1 attributes like on MSX ... -15 is same for whole screen). And the hardware is much ...
    Geco Geco December 2014 Games
  • assembler for PcHi guys, I'm in the process of teaching myself machine code, and wondered if there is a good pc program for writing code. Or is the best thing to use…

    ... of the ROM to the attributes area:

    [CODE]
    get an error message explaining which ... a label name you'd get an error message like this ... using my example file, the screen should display coloured squares.
    GReW GReW December 2014 Development
  • FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…

    ... reset. I had to get rid of the planned cpl ... attribute bits on the screen are retained. In the ... first screen, four coloured squares on screen are created ... I have to apply attributes in every pixel row ... windows are defined on screen and the program pours ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2015 Brand new software
  • FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…

    ... if you simply change all attributes in a square area corresponding ... . This is still quick as attributes are only applied on average ... nothing is actually output to screen which is why you might ... the ink colour you will get a solid background colour like ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2015 Brand new software
  • Some Spectrum Adventure ReviewsHi, HeeHee... Today I found some old short reviews I did of some Spectrum Adventures for contributions to "SynTax" disk adventure magazine in the 19…

    ... the top
    of the screen - quite handy. Game positions can ... use of colour and brightness attributes
    to highlight bits of ... -kicking security
    officer, and get past the evil Rook on ... be doing there??
    I get the feeling that this was ...
    catventure catventure March 2015 Games
  • Double height text...<p>Is here any good routines for printing a font double height?</p><p>I've concocted this ridiculous routine but I'm sure it can be done much better.…

    ... another version, doesn't do attributes and no Y,X for ... br />  ld a,(ix+0) ;get char number
     cp 255 ... get_char
     push de  ;save screen address
     call print_tall_char
     pop de  ;screen address
     inc ix  ;next ...
    R-Tape R-Tape June 2015 Development
  • Russian Pascal CompilerHello,<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately I started a discussion (as OutBush) on the Temporary Forum Board not knowing how long it would be until the W…

    ... current attributes, attr=attribute byteScreenThaw - gradual screen thawVirtScreenClear - clear for virtual screen in ... operators. Tile screen is 0..31 x 0..23WindowClearWindowScrollUpWindowScrollDownWindowScrollLeftWindowScrollRightWindowGet - get to memory ...
    Andrew771 Andrew771 June 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone up for this? Speccy picture challenge.I know it's summer for some of us, and modern life is busy, but is anyone up for this? Spend an hour (or less, or more) making a spectrum loading …

    ... trying to create a speccy screen with attributes etc. It's pretty ... ! Think I managed to get the screen size wrong from the start ... next one. Hopefully I can get better with a bit more ...
    Maroc's Other Projection Maroc's Other Projection July 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Peeking the contents on screen? How?You will have to forgive me for growing up on the C64, but I know I can peek the location of a character (1024 is top left from memory) and the peek …

    ... /> You can't move the screen display around in memory, there ... Spectrum, this is all you get. Machine code programmers refer to ... RAM' because it holds the screen display, and the video chip ... 8 rows.

    The attributes define a different set of ...
    joefish joefish August 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Full-screen 32 columns bicolor engine NIRVANA+I'm glad to announce the release of [b]NIRVANA+ ENGINE[/b], providing support for bicolor graphics (multicolor 8x2) in 32 columns for all standard Sp…

    ... the Manic Miner engine alters attributes: these are movement of guardians ... a trail of their own attributes instead of restoring them, ... during the uncontended period to get all of the drawing ... allow for very nice full-screen cyclic attribute effects, with the ...
    zub zub September 2015 Brand new software
  • Full-screen 32 columns bicolor engine NIRVANA+I'm glad to announce the release of [b]NIRVANA+ ENGINE[/b], providing support for bicolor graphics (multicolor 8x2) in 32 columns for all standard Sp…

    ... repaint his patch of the screen - I'm pretty sure [ ... to do without the full-screen refresh loops, but some dedicated ... the ropes without redrawing the screen every frame and the code ... assume you can get away without worrying about attributes whilst drawing them ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2015 Brand new software
  • Crash: On The Screen compo scansAs the work on Microhobby's Pixel A Pixel printed loading screens restoration is going well lately, I would like to start preparing for making the sa…

    ... all still exist as Spectrum screen files.

    http ... need to be done is get rid of some of ... to the Ghosts'n'Goblins screen as, after seeing it ... it a pretend real loading screen. The one in Crash ... wrong if you remove the attributes. In the summer I ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones October 2015 Support files
  • Ninjaman 8-way scrolling 50Hz multicolour demo :-)Here's a demo I've been working on for a while. The goal was to make the best scrolling routine possible on a humble 48K ZX Spectrum. I was origin…

    ... non-bright, and changing attributes requires a full line ... change attributes every 8 lines, but you get to ... fill in one line of attributes", "draw one enemy sprite", ... different Y-offsets the screen can start at, we ... ll overwrite the old attributes before the ULA ...
    Kayamon Kayamon November 2015 Development
  • DVD title sequenceHello I'm not sure if this is the best place for this - but let's see how we go. I run a little DVD making company here in Cardiff, and we are …

    ... loading screen is done like Manic Miner, purely some flashing attributes, and ... as the attributes burble in early to finish the screen.

    That way, you could get an authentic ...
    joefish joefish December 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum Screen RAM layoutHi there The spectrum screen layout is rather odd. It seems to be arranged into 3 256 byte groups. If I have an x (horizontal) coordinate (from…

    ... Within each chunk, first you get the top pixel row of ... 256 bytes. Then you get the second pixel row of ... .

    Finally, the attributes are just stored as 24 ... with pixel precision that things get awkward. One saving is ... to re-calculate the screen address.
    joefish joefish December 2015 Development
  • Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …

    ... performing some checks (eg, valid attributes in each 8x8), but I ... ... with that optimization I get the screen to compress into 1885 bytes ...
    reidrac reidrac March 2016 Development
  • Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …

    ... .. you give it the loading screen , game.. and it compresses it ... as an extension and you get a snapshot saved with either ... bit clever with the loading screen though as the whole thing ... bottom two lines of the screen just before the attributes.
    leespoons leespoons March 2016 Development
  • Britsoft - Read-Only Memory Publishing"Britsoft" by Read-Only Memory Publishing is their latest book charting the rise and fall of game development in the UK from the early 80s to the end…

    ... before breaking it up into screen sized sections to colour in ... when it came to the attributes and colouring. I then pieced ... what the hell, eh? You get an aces effect.

    screen height wise and the placing ...
    redballoon redballoon March 2016 Announcements
  • Multiartist to create .tap files - problem.Has anyone used Multiartist sucesssfully to create a .tap file? I downloaded it last night, and I can see how i would make art on the screen. I…

    ... details while having 8x8 colour attributes (using only the colours that ... converter program to get them on a Spectrum screen. The problem with ... control over INK and colour attributes. Multi-artist seems to give ...
    matalog matalog April 2016 Development
  • 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 …

    ... sprites per row of the screen, you could have a data ... stores the address of the attributes then two bytes of attribute ... -modifying code route, you might get another one or two writes ...
    joefish joefish May 2016 Development
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... without flicker, synchronizing just near screen pixel start, the best suitable ... mem copy version, to get some extra time to copy ... have to update all the attributes, just the ones which ... have to update only those attributes which have different attribute on ...
    Maziacs Maziacs June 2016 Development
  • ZX-Uno moddingStarting with ZX-Uno case modding I have not yet received my ZX-Uno yet (it is in the post) but I know that I will have to do at least one mod …

    ... time the idea is to "get the best of both worlds ... ways this has good "wearsaver" attributes. Inside the clear plastic area ... where I saw a computer screen being used on a tilted ... for a small composite display screen for the Raspberry Pi and ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio July 2016 Hardware
  • Basic Screen Shadow QuestionHello, I've been porting a game to the Spectrum from another platform. So far so good and I have per pixel screen scrolling working really nicely …

    ... the attributes, which isn't a problem for the normal screen since ... with the shadow screen at bank 7, the attributes there remain all ... zeros. Hence the black screen I suppose ... to the raw basics to get it working - it's not ...
    pointblnk pointblnk August 2016 Development
  • Help needed with MIA software with custom (?) loaderHi, I've got into my hands recently a bunch of Polish educational software which are unknown MIA on WOS. I believe they are protected with some…

    ... br /> 0xEB27 LD A,C ; Get border color (ROM)
    0xEB28 ... />
    ;Update destination (screen) address in IX
    ;Screen goes from
    ;Attributes goes from
    ;22528-23295 ...
    lfaria lfaria August 2016 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Project: ZX OpusHello my friends, I have been in need of a push lately so I thought if I post some of the work for this project here you guys (and gals) can help me …

    ... screen, and it's not that complicated so you will probably get ... borders are located in 'separate attributes' from the rest of the ...
    Hikaru Hikaru September 2016 Software
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