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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…
... all scrolling effects (vertical and horizontal?) are better on the C64 ... -
IN 255 behaviour not emulated in Spectaculator and ZXSpinI'm not speaking about "normal" IN 255 behaviour. All of you know what I'm taking about: IN 255 can be used to "read" screen data as it's retrieved f…
... syncronize a program with the horizontal retrace.
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ANN: ColorTILEColorTILE is a Timex mode 2 (8x1 attribute) tile editor that allows you to create up to 256 tiles of 16x16 pixels each. It features: * 4x zoom editi…
... , BRIGHT and FLASH values.
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Strange but true things that you've experienced?On Monday I had one of those days where you just shouldn't have got out of bed. I won't bore you with the details, and I've sorted most things out, b…
... apparent downwards movement would be horizontal movement, like when you watch ... -
Graphics mode:64x48x8 colors possible on Spectrum?That multicolor River Raid demo inspired me to make this question: If we filled all the screen with chessboard pattern [code] 00001111 00001111 00…
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ANNOUNCE: JSW64 Manic Miner: James Bond [v1.1]I am delighted to announce the second gamma-release of [i]JSW64 Manic Miner: James Bond[/i] (v1.1), which is available as a free download from: [url]…
... (e.g. diagonal guardians, fast horizontal guardians, triggers and stoppers), new ... you to stand on certain horizontal and vertical guardians), and I ... -vector to flip Willy's horizontal position every 32 time-frames ... -
Multiface One - brokenFor a long time I have had a Multiface One, that since I got it never worked. When I attach it to the computer (edge connector completely cleaned), i…
... distorted with a thin, short, horizontal line or the (c) Sinclair ... -
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%…
... flickering blocks and sometimes small horizontal thin lines. When I switch ... -
PitPatI am coding the digital version of PIT-PAT [IMG]http://www.berg-en-dal.be/images/thumb/pitpat_spelen_2_kleur.jpg[/IMG] In fact it is golf on a tabl…
How do the swingy ropes in Jet Set Willy work?Not sure if this should go in the programming forum but here goes. I remember back in '84 being totally blown away by the realistically swinging rope…
... same end point on the horizontal axis, it was just sooo ...1999Ice Cool Coders programmed one of the most unforgiving horizontal shumps... Why would aliens keep coming from behind you? Dead Mean Coders more like.
Ice Cool Coders programmed one of the most unforgiving horizontal shumps... Why would aliens keep coming from behind you? Dead Mean Coders more like.Help identifying hardware peripheralA few months ago someone gave me all their Speccy stuff. The Spectrum itself was broken, but I got with it quite a few useful peripherals. Among thes…
... upside-down M with a horizontal line through it near the ...Adjusting your code for screen refreshingOk, I'm aware that I should know it already after writing 5 Spectrum games in machine code but interrupts and screen refreshes were always my weaker …
... refresh begins from top border horizontal line A (see my picture ...+2 (grey) Faulty Black & White StripesI believe that there was a thread before about a +2 with same problem but I couldn't find it. So I am posting again hoping to find the same advice. …
... now displays a set of horizontal black and white stripes on ...Liverton vs EverpoolIt's been a few ages since I last saw a proper football game on TV, it was sometime last century but anywho amazingly enough there's a match going on…
... . They used to be either horizontal boards which flipped over, or ...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…
... written some code for basic horizontal and vertical patrols, plus another ...V (official 1986 game)I've been trying the game V, and I was wondering if anyone had any tips or thoughts on the game? Is there much else to it than the corridors and the …
... definite final end in either (horizontal) end?
What do ...FS: Gould OS300 oscilloscopeHi all, I need some space on my equipment rack for a new "man enough for everything" bench power supply and lamentably my old analogue oscilloscope …
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* 10x horizontal magnification button
* I'll ...Genesis: dawn of a new day, new game from RetroWorks!It's been a long development, but finally we made it. We proudly present the latest game from RetroWorks, Genesis: dawn of a new day. [img]http://ww…
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A horizontal scroll shoot'em up, with ...drawing a series of stacked 3D shapes in ExcelI've been working on a problem concerning water emptying from a container, and how this is affected by the shape & size of the container. I've divide…
... each slice depending upon the horizontal (X & Z) dimensions, the ...Sprites masterclassHi All, You guys are probably tired of explaining sprites but I'd like to clarify a few things if possible. I've sorted the vertical aspect of scro…
... struggling with the concept of horizontal movement.
If you ...Drawing 3D grids in Basic...This is probably very simple for someone who feels comfortable with Math, but it's driving me crazy... Let's say I want to draw a grid of 16 by 16 s…
... , how do I calculate the horizontal coordinate for X so that ... I can draw the 16 horizontal lines? How do I calculate ...50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy ...Name of game needed - sort of robot wars...Well, I reckon this one's a tricky one. Can't quite remember the year, maybe mid-eighties. Have tried WOS searching to no avail. It was: - a 2 pl…
... just shuffle along in a horizontal line in 2D (one from ...Just Got Spectrum +2 grey model off ebay a few problemsFinally decided to get a real Spectrum after catching up on a load of games on emulators I missed in my earlier years due to having a C64 and Atari 8…
... to a screen of large horizontal black & white lines seemed ...Nemesis the Warlock (BUGFIX)This is a bugfix for game [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003387"]Nemesis the Warlock[/URL], please add the following "known …
SpecBAS 0.690 Now AvailableHi folks - 0.690 is now available at the usual location: [url]https://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/SpecOS.zip[/url] You can also download the rece…
... editor would wrongly size the horizontal scrollbar.
Sprites, when moved ...ZX80 and 81 hardware questionsI'm finding a lot of the documentation that is ostensibly about the hardware of the ZX80 and 81 to be primarily about the software. I was hoping some…
... (ie, interrupt acknowledge) triggers horizontal sync, with sources diverging on ... 's zeroed by the horizontal sync and will autonomously ... counter. That counter increments on horizontal sync.
... NMIs are triggered by horizontal sync and are enabled ...Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch:
1. If hardware scroll is supported, use smoth scroll (1 pixel scroll). In this code tiles we don't need that tiles ...
