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How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... wearefine call text_out
add a,6
jp airloop< ...
cltoe31
; draw a checkerboard pattern at column 31 ... if we press a
ld a, #fd
in a, (#fe)
bit ... 0, a
... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... of string
ld a,(ix+2) ; column in A
cp 32 ... to get the column back in A before adding 6
ld ... if we press a
ld a, #fd
in a, (#fe)
bit 0 ... , a
jp z ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... of string
ld a,(ix+2) ; column in A
cp 32 ... to get the column back in A before adding 6
ld ... if we press a
ld a, #fd
in a, (#fe)
bit 0 ... , a
jp z ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... ; clear attribs in 128 * 3 pushes
ld h, a
ld ... , #00
gfx16x16_wall db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
db ... , #00, #00
db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
db ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... clear attribs in 128 * 3 pushes
ld h, a
... 00
gfx16x16_wall db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
...
gfx16x16_exitN db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... 32
gfx16x16_wall db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
db ... wall
gfx16x16_exitN db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
db ... 'll notice a marked improvement in performance over doing this in Basic though ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... ; clear attribs in 128 * 3 pushes
ld h, a
ld ... if we press a
ld a, #fd
in a, (#fe)
bit 0 ... , a
jp z ... b ; OR in the ink colour
ld (hl), a
ret ...Robospec (new project, hopefully useful as a tutorial as well)Starting a new project after my graphics investigations. * It's gonna be a Robotron clone since that's not too ambitious (although I'd like to hav…
... , & B
; ld a, port
; in a, (#FE)
; to do the ... space
ld a, #7F
in a, (#FE)
bit 0, a
jr ... W?
ld a, #FB
in a, (#FE)
bit 1, a
jr ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... clear attribs in 128 * 3 pushes
ld h, a
... 32
gfx16x16_wall db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
... wall
gfx16x16_exitN db #FE, #FE, #AA, #AA, #FE, #FE, #00, #00
Robospec (new project, hopefully useful as a tutorial as well)Starting a new project after my graphics investigations. * It's gonna be a Robotron clone since that's not too ambitious (although I'd like to hav…
... , & B
; ld a, port
; in a, (#FE)
; to do the ... space
ld a, #7F
in a, (#FE)
bit 0, a
jr ... or L?
ld a, #BF
in a, (#FE)
; are we pressing ...all in a good cause...We are hoping to attract the attention of a magazine publisher to launch and support the UK?s first glossy (and hopefully rather funky) retro gaming …
... to attract the attention of a magazine publisher to launch ... magazine (Retroid is thankfully only a working title) hopes to ... systems, and, of course, a fat dollop of gaming nostalgia ... people would be interested in buying such a magazine, no publisher will ...What was the text adventure game based around surviving a nuclear war in suburbun London?I remember playing a game, I played loads my dad had a shop selling them, text adventure. You were based in a suburb as a civilian, and a nuclear w…
... a shop selling them, text adventure.
You were based in a ... suburb as a civilian, and a nuclear war was ... ' style shelters that the Jim in 'When the Wind Blows' built ... , using an old door and a matteress. - but you just died ...need helpw with speccy i found in a binToday what a find, walking past a wheely bin I saw an atari box, after more investigation I uncovered a wood panel atari and a speccy plus leads for…
Today what a find, walking past a wheely bin I saw an ... investigation I uncovered a wood panel atari and a speccy plus leads ... the speccy when connect to a tv has audio feedback but ... its aerial lead is wired in
any clues?Install a Sintech Video adaptor in a Spectrum+Hi all, I'm an old Commodore user (boo! hiss!) that's aquired his first Spectrum. Since my modern TV doesn't like the RF output of any old computer …
... old computer I also bought a video adaptor from Sintech ([url ... . There are two leads going in there. Which one should I ...First Y2K bug found in a spectrum program ?I've just been making some tzx files and I always test the file when its finished. So I loaded up Micro Fitness by VO2 software which is a fitness ut…
... by VO2 software which is a fitness utility program. First it ... date, so I type it in, then it asks for your ... DOB so I type it in. Then it tells me I ... me I wish I was a lot nearer to 16 than ... year and ending up with a minus number....
Anybody ...spectrum, microdrive and printer in a briefcaseHi, My godfather gave me a breifcase with a spectrum, microdrive and printer built in, which he and some of his colleguses worked on for the uk mod …
... gave me a breifcase with a spectrum, microdrive and printer built in, which ... uk mod army. It was a kind of lap top the ...A bug in Z80 V4.00Yes, from what I've heard, this emu has plenty of bugs (though I've never heard what they actually are), but this one is my contribution to the bug l…
... list. :)
In a DOS prompt, use the SUBST ... />
Within Z80, in the "Load Spectrum snapshot" window ... the virtual drive (Z: in the above example).
... that since you're in the root directory of ... even though you're in a subdirectory of the actual ...Idea for a new feature to compliment a debugger in an emulatorI had an idea for an emulator feature yesterday. Don't recall having seen this idea before, but I'm sure you'll correct me if it has. :) In that cas…
... it has. :)
In that case I wouldn't ... still be a good idea and could come in handy if ... - all represented using colors in a window where each pixel is ... . And if a word was used as a counter instead of ... a byte, to keep ...IN Port FE bit 6 confusionI know I've got this wrong. Tapes load fine but it all feels messy. Currently my emulator does this: Sets bit 6 of the result to 0. If (and only if…
... level toggles the bit to a 1 on the final edge ... FAQ mentions something about OUT FE affected bit 6, is this ...Interest in a new adventure game?After recently reading the feature on Gilsoft in Retro Gamer I got the urge to go back to my adventure tools and create something which was actually …
... reading the feature on Gilsoft in Retro Gamer I got the ... decidedly ropey adventures I created in the past.
... been most pleasing - after about a week of planning, replanning, ... people would potentially be interested in such a thing. Do people still ...charcter you most wanted to hurt in a spectrum game?mine would proberly be the wolf in saberwulf. everytime i got down to that area he made me lose a life.
mine would proberly be the wolf in saberwulf. everytime i got down to that area he made me lose a life.A spectrum, in a museum!Massive apologies if this has been touched on before but I was at a Museum in Newcastle last week and they had a Sinclair C5, a ZX81 and a Rubber-key…
... I was at a Museum in Newcastle last week ... and they had a Sinclair C5, a ZX81 and a ... Rubber-key 48k Spectrum in ... thing with built in monitor which looked ... thought computers would look in the year 2000.
Help me find myself in a Speccy magI've been boasting to the kids about my programming prowess from years ago, problem is i don't have the spectrum magazine i was mentioned in anymore.…
... spectrum magazine i was mentioned in anymore.
I've ... sure which mag it was in now after all these years ... the magazine article, it was a tape loader routine competion.
old computers in a gallery in germany!!Woo the ZKM galery place here in karlsruhe Germany (1 hr NW of stutgart) has an old computers display thingy going on unfortunatley, behind the gla…
... the ZKM galery place here in karlsruhe Germany (1 hr ... cabinets the spectrum gets a mention only under the ... and others", they have a rubber keyed beastie there ... this way, there is a technology interactive art thingy ... worth spending a couple of hours in if you? ...Jonathan Cauldwell offered a job in this month's issue of Retro GamerHas anybody seen this month's issue of Retro Gamer (Issue 29) ? I was just reading it and there's a big article where a bunch of big name programmer…
... Spectrum games in the mid-Eighties, now I have a company of ... is looking for a rewarding long-term career in a stable, friendly company ... game developers he should get in touch.
I can ... /> I'd sure be interested in finding out how the conversation ...Any Celebdaq players in this forum? .. Wana form a mini league?Are there any Celebdaq players in this forum. I was hoping to form a mini league of Spectrum fans. For those that don'tt know Celebdaq is a celebri…
... can compete against your mates in a self contained mini leauge. The ... Shares in Heather Mills McCartney at 9.43 a share (a 1.22 ... Shares in Sir Paul McCartney at 3.74 a share (a 0. ... /> 1 Share in David Hastlehoff at 1.60 a share (a rise of ...Possibly the silliest thing I've done in a long time..Just in case any of you guys are feeling down on a Monday morning - I thought I'd cheer you up by letting you know that your morning can't be as bad …
... in case any of you guys are feeling down on a ... working. We went to a fairly posh bar/restaurant ... games going. It escalated into a game involving forfeits - mainly ... my desk with a huge scab in the centre of ... other mate who teaches in the local school got off ...Things not to do online in a public forumDue to recent posts on my part, I thought this would be a good one. Basically in joke form I raised the idea that an image uploaded to this forum co…
... this would be a good one.
Basically in joke form ... , things not to do on a public forum.
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