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1986 Best Loading Screen: from O to R.The O to R Group of the 1986 Loading Screen Championship, vote your FIVE LEAST TERRIBLE ONES, for the late December ULTIMATE 1986 LOADING SCREEN CHAL…
... clash-avoiding ghost sprite applied to the loading screen context, which is unjustified ... such a thing in the loading screens. So, the trousers are ... -
Fast way to clear the screen ?So I was wondering fastest way to clear the screen. I've tried this and this works but is it better than CLS ? LD HL,16384 LD BC, 6144 Loop…
As mentioned in the 'how to make the screen negative' thread.
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Loading on a 128k speccyOffhand I'll confess I didn't do a lot of research on this beforehand, but here's my question; How do you load a large program off tape on a 128k…
... loading works as follows:
block 1: basic loader + screen ... unpacker + packed screen data. basic loader calls unpacker to show loading screen, ... way to expand that to 128k would be to make ... And the unpacker only needs to be loaded once. If ... -
ZX-Paintbrush and global palette and ula+ supportHello, I think I need some help for the palette issue of ZX-Paintbrush. I want to check whether the way I'm about to clear the palette handling i…
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[code]; HOW TO REGENERATE THE SCREEN AND PALETTE
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ZX-Paintbrush and global palette and ula+ supportHello, I think I need some help for the palette issue of ZX-Paintbrush. I want to check whether the way I'm about to clear the palette handling i…
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[code]; HOW TO REGENERATE THE SCREEN AND PALETTE
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to images\screen.zxp are saved.
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Very tricky guess the game from description.I found this game on WoS a few year's ago. For some perverse reason I'd like to play it again, if only to work out what to do. -Not well known. …
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Gun Stick / Lightgun SupportJust looking through Opera Soft's games in the Archive and notice a few that are Gun Stick lightgun shooters... Does anybody know of any emulators…
... /> I've worked out how to get Full Screen, but it still shows ... there any way for me to change the zoom or borders ... worked out that I have to change it before I go ... -
The Sword of Ianna from RetroworksNow available to download, enjoy this masterpiece ;) http://theswordofianna.retroworks.es/en/download-2/
How to hide the sword?
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The Sword of Ianna from RetroworksNow available to download, enjoy this masterpiece ;) http://theswordofianna.retroworks.es/en/download-2/
[quote="Yerzmyey;924013"]How to hide the sword?
Fire+UP to bring it on. But how to hide it? [/quote]
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is there a way of reading characters off the screen and turning that into a string? this has to be done in basic. i know it would have something to do with peeking memory (maybe screen memory) but would this change due to programs r…
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What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…
... for beginners? How to display a dot? How to move a dot? How to change the ... colour of the screen? How to scroll the screen ... see the larger picture of how games are put together. -
What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…
... How about tutorials for beginners? How to display a dot? How to move a dot? How to ... change the colour of the screen? How to scroll the screen ... seem to be able to get a clue about how it ... are actually doing, how the bloody thing works ... -
The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…
I was going to rant about Cineworld banning a new film due to pressure from people but not sure how to describe it without being banned myself! :)) -
The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…
... ="zx1;992521"]I was going to rant about Cineworld banning a ... people but not sure how to describe it without being banned myself! :)) [/quote ... ]
This film wouldn't happen to ... -
Game endings..which are your best / worst ones?I'm not sure how valid this is on a spectrum site considering the memory capacity of the machine,but were there any games out there with any good gam…
... anticipation as to just how good it was ... HQ[/B] ... (Excellent drawn-out ending with animations. Some ... (The face from the loading screen appears with quite a ... but there is nowhere to hide or escape - nothing< ... being instantly being thrown back to the start to ... -
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].…
... is to create "boxes" on the loading screen, and decide how the ... box in that series being rendered which ever way ... see the loading screen
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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…
... went
to hide somewhere in ... to type
in, abbreviations and advice on saving/loading ... d figured out how to lure him ... being demolished somewhere, was
able to leg it up to ... /> good split-screen text/graphic affair ... /> graphics to be drawn before an ... -
Smooth Screen Scrolling RoutineHi everyone, this is a follow up to the thread on smooth screen scrolling. As promised here is the code for the routine. It's pretty long and fairl…
... for suggestions and feedback on how to optimise this further, so get ... ;INCREASE DISP. IF SHIFTED DATA BEING USED
Z2 ... of the
;tile just drawn
LD IXL ... the first column
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Invisible loading screenI can't remember how this is done (I did it years ago but can't remember how). When loading a screen$ from basic you can see the lines being display…
I can't remember how this is done (I did ... can't remember how).
When loading a screen$ from basic you ... can see the lines being displayed ... still show up while loading.
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Q. on WinXP logon screen (how to disable?)Aaaargh! I am sitting in front of an annoying computer. It's driving me crazy! How the f-in A does one disable the stinking logon screen (the "cla…
... ! How the f-in A does one disable the stinking logon screen ... User Accounts (in the CP) to no avail. I remember I ... it was a simple thing to accomplish. Then again, my computer ... -
Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…
... either but they did have screen shots (shown below):
... last download being titles I've converted the syntax to load ... For instance the loading screen for WHIST which loads to address 47912, 2999 ... clever person can tell me how to load the following files:< ... -
Jumping to BASIC after importing 23296,1703Sorry for the confusing title. :-D Now that I've learned how to stop a game from starting after loading (in Fuse and Specemu), I have a few more que…
... ve learned how to stop a game from starting after loading (in Fuse ... I would probably import it to the screen memory or even store ... defeat the whole purpose of being able to analyze everything?"
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Problem loading Warajevo tapes even if they are converted to TZXDear readers, Yesterday I experimented with some of my older Warajevo tapes (which are known as being completely different from Lunter tapes) that c…
... tapes (which are known as being completely different from Lunter tapes ... contain also direct recording blocks) to normal TZX files. Worked ... recording blocks are converted properly to TZX type (a new ... well as some of my loading SCREEN$ etc.
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SCREEN$ and Sinclair Basic: Help Required !Two simple questions: 1) When saving SCREEN$, how can I avoid the bottom of the loading screen from being chopped off by the 'Start Tape & Press Any…
... saving SCREEN$, how can I avoid the bottom of the loading screen from being chopped ... BASIC loader to load back a block of code, the loading screen is ... it as my program loads. How can I avoid this from ... -
Loading a screen in to memory...Hi Folks, I want to load a SCREEN$ in to memory and save it out to RAM disk without it being displayed on the screen. I am worried about over writi…
... to load a SCREEN$ in to memory and save it out to ... RAM disk without it being ... displayed on the screen ... /> [CODE]100 LOAD “SCREEN” CODE RAMTOP+1,6192< ... simple [B]LOAD!"SCREEN" SCREEN$[/B] or does ... -
SpecBAS 0.730 Now available!Well, I felt I should release SpecBAS as it is right now - my new son has been born (this one survived! \o/ ) and when he comes home I'll have very l…
... (and gain an insight into how specbas does its job - ... sets the number of frames drawn per second in your program ... your program to become unresponsive, and uses of WAIT SCREEN will be ... MOUSE commands! MOUSE SHOW/MOUSE HIDE are self-explanatory. MOUSE GRAPHIC ... -
How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…
... on here I would like to start learning programming in machine ... /name to the screen at chosen coordinates and a brief explanation of how ... it works. I would like to start with something more simple to ... -
ZEsarUX-7.0Hi! I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX stable version :) This is ZEsarUX 7.0 There are a lot of new features added, more than ever! You can downl…
... /> Added setting to save spectrum screen to pbm file ( ... tiles and sprites are drawn per scanline. Border ... * added a setting to hide directories from file selector ... , useful for fast snapshot loading
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Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…
... my thoughts... Feel free to rip them to shreds.
... that.
First, hide the spectrum screen. Tuck it away out ... , the colour of the polygon being drawn. It then draws one of ... it myself. Anyone tried BASin? How do you think that Editor ... -
New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... : foo" or "Bytes: bar" to appear when loading blocks from tape (so ... don't waste your nice loading screen) you can use this poke ... /> Bit 0: Being a one indicates no space to be printed before ... /> Bit 1: This bit being set to a one indicates that the ...
