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[BOOKS] The Story Of The Sinclair ZX Spectrum in Pixels + 2 othersI'm having a clear out and have 3 speccy-related books for sale: The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in Pixels by Chris Wilkins (RRP £19.99) S…
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The Story of Sinclair ZX SPECTRUM in pixels books 1,2 + Ocean and US GOLD JOBLOT!!!http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/172045216896? Have a nice bid ;)
Updated: added also ZX SPECTRUM in PIXELS Volume 3!!!
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Function with push and popIm trying to see if I understand push and pop when it comes to using to pass parameters to functions: [code] LD HL,16384 LD A,5 Push AF Ld A…
... sprite right by 0-7 pixels depending on the exact ... need to shift right 3 pixels, eg, you have to ... mix the three rightmost pixels of the sprite char ... left with the 5 leftmost pixels of the current sprite ... draw the top row of pixels in a char to a buffer ... -
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
... // create a 3000-byte heap in BSS section
# ... char dx; // signed horizontal speed in pixels
unsigned char dy; // ... signed vertical speed in pixels
};
// ... -
I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…
... which is quite commonly used in many of the zx tools ... /> The other gotcha with sdcc in particular is that sdcc does ... 's not viewable try again in a day.
[quote ... measure string and buffer widths in pixels to allow text justification and ... -
Land of Mire Mare[Quote]This game has to be considered as a tribute. It's inspired by the unreleased Mire Mare game & characters created by Ultimate Play The Game in …
[quote="grey key;876278"]A perk for what ?
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Communal Project for ASM NewbiesHi Folks, I tend to learn best by trying stuff and then going through the pain of it not working so that I can research and fix mistakes. I suspec…
... ;1/4 - BC = Y-Coord in pixels
LD B,0 ;2 ... /7 - BC = Y-Coord in pixels
LD HL,__row000 ;3 ... 4 - C = Player 1 height in pixels
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Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
... a crap game entry in itself. Both listings do ... 9000 onward. Note that in each of the listings ... screen's attributes. The pixels of the screen aren't ... the same then anything drawn in pixels will disappear (so you ... extra UDG data. Then in your program, POKE the ... -
Graphics extrcation QIs there an easy way to extract all graphics from a game. E.G manic miner. I want to rip out out all the 'sprites' and blocks etc not the title sc…
Ta - i'd assumed that sprite width and height was in pixels.
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Graphics extrcation QIs there an easy way to extract all graphics from a game. E.G manic miner. I want to rip out out all the 'sprites' and blocks etc not the title sc…
[quote="Saboteur;900744"]Ta - i'd assumed that sprite width and height was in pixels.
What measrement is it in ?[/quote]
If I'd have thought about it then maybe I would have coded it as that (or at least make it more obvious!!) -
Graphics extrcation QIs there an easy way to extract all graphics from a game. E.G manic miner. I want to rip out out all the 'sprites' and blocks etc not the title sc…
... sprite width and height was in pixels.
What measrement is ... it in ?[/quote]
Width is in bytes.
Height is in pixels.
The sprites in Manic ... -
Tapes 85-88Hello! I am hoping this will be of interest to some of you. I've recently rescued everything I could from cassettes that have been sat in my loft …
... /> Also, if anyone's interested in stories from this time, I ... and Roll Years: A Life in Pixels
It's all ... in there, sleeping under desks, psychotic ... -
z88dk terminalsto set up a terminal a bunch of numbers are needed: m4_zx_01_output_fzx(_window_1, 0x2330, 0, 0, 1, 14, 1, 19, 0, _ff_ao_Prefect, 14, 0, 14, 8, 1…
... dnl## $3 = cursor.x coordinate (pixels in paper) ##
dnl## $4 ... (pixels in paper)
$4 = cursor.y coordinate (pixels in paper ... the printing goes) in pixels relative to the paper ... margin on the paper in pixels. Proportional fonts can kern ... -
z88dk terminalsto set up a terminal a bunch of numbers are needed: m4_zx_01_output_fzx(_window_1, 0x2330, 0, 0, 1, 14, 1, 19, 0, _ff_ao_Prefect, 14, 0, 14, 8, 1…
... will fit into some width in pixels without splitting words. The ... />
// print the string in lines that fit the terminal ... like its font and width in pixels. The allowed width for ... points at the current position in the string being printed. " ... -
Xelda now releasedMy game Xelda has been finally released. You can download the game at [url="http://andyspeccysite.simplesite.com/"]andyspeccysite.simplesite.com/[/u…
[quote="andydansby;927761"]It's in the area between woodsman and ... very similar to Garfield in pixels :)
Now in the dungeons, I ... -
Chris Wilkins pdf's for free for some ammount of time[url="https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2018/11/pdfs-da-fusion-retro-books-gratuitos.html"]https://planetasinclair.blogspot.com/2018/11/pdfs-da-fu…
... Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Volume 1
The Story ... -
Reading DEFB for backgroundsHi all I suppose the question is kind of silly but I'm a completely newbie with assembler :-S I'm drawing some side backgrounds with ZX Paintbrus…
... c,8 ; height of sprite in pixels
loop: ld b,8 ... ; width of sprite in characters
loop1: ld a ... -
im looking for other games like the muncher that use double height and width graphics with colouri havent come across this type of graphics mode on the spectrum before and would like to know if there are any other games that use it.
... = height * 8 (e.g. height in pixels)
ld d, 0
ld b, (ix+3) ; width in bytes
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Raster effects - quick questionHi Guys Just a quick question regards what the ULA is doing as its drawing each scan line. Assuming the beam has finished drawing the border, am I…
... refers to the size, in pixels, of a single diminished attribute ... com/2017/09/aline-colors-in-sync.html]automagically[/url] ... just use an OUT in the middle of a ... doing some additional work in parallel to the OUTs ... find them rather crude in a number of respects. ... -
Raster effects - quick questionHi Guys Just a quick question regards what the ULA is doing as its drawing each scan line. Assuming the beam has finished drawing the border, am I…
... size of a single attribute in pixels. e.g. 16x24 characters with ... -
MagicavoxelApologies if this is in the wrong forum, as it's not directly related to any particular Spectrum game. Has anyone here created anything Spectrum-r…
... painted image?
Because in creating it all the hard ... tools are worth their weight in pixels! I feel that this voxel ... -
Other books worth getting as good as "Speccy Nation"?I bought this off amazon - it has reviews of fifty Spectrum games that capture the essence of the machine, and it looks good fun. I'm wondering if th…
... about the 80's in general, but instead focuses ... Chewits" in his list of things in the description, but in the ... than the first, and in my opinion is the ... book), and are written in a very engaging style from ... Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels (volumes 1 - 3)[/b ... -
Other books worth getting as good as "Speccy Nation"?I bought this off amazon - it has reviews of fifty Spectrum games that capture the essence of the machine, and it looks good fun. I'm wondering if th…
... ="Spector;958474"]I am in fact interested in recommendations of books that ... mainly pictures. With that in mind here come some recommendations ... fascinating bits of information in this book that it ... very similar to the "Spectrum in Pixels" books, with a good ... -
Wide sprites in SP1 + Z88DKThe calls to sp1_CreateSpr(); and sp1_AddColSpr(); seems to have changed. Could someone please offer help in how to create a wide (wider than 16 pix…
The calls to sp1_CreateSpr(); and sp1_AddColSpr(); seems to have changed.
Could someone please offer help in how to create a wide (wider than 16 pixels) sprite (preferably starting from SevenuP) using Z88DK and SP1. -
How do I clear only a specific area of a screen (quickly) in machine code ?I'm looking for a machine code routine which will clear the first 20 rows of the Spectrum's display (or any number of rows or columns) . I have found…
... routines which do the job in thirds (as is
how ... the display is mapped in memory), which can
clear ... way the screen
pixels are stored in memory) then that would ... -
Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…
... changing colour completely. With that in mind, would it be possible ... quickly i.e. every few pixels, that you could have some ... control over making things appear in the border such as text ... course the rolling border effect in Anfractuos that springs immediately to ... -
Deteriorating quality of artwork in Crash... during the "commercial" life of the speccy. I am making this topic about Crash magazine as that's the only one I know almost every issue of, so I…
... time to do his work in, because with all written ... - the quality of screenshots in Crash near the end also ... correctly) for the speccy, resulting in some of the screenshots for ... aliasing effects and pixels clashing/blending in with each other. In my opinion ... -
Calculating how many pixels each mapper has created - for Skarpo especially :)Pavel Plíva : 2992717027 pixels Ladderman : 2058908818 pixels Sherwin Robb : 411890200 pixels Viktor Drozd : 266748605 pixels Victor Daulichen :…
... pixels
FishyFish : 14369160 pixels
anonym : 13763712 pixels
Kathleen Brakewell : 13284757 pixels ... ideas I will realize sometime in the future ;-).
(maybe ... -
Dead Pixels.I wandered into Comet today to look at their laptops. Not my favourite shop, but it beats next/boots/mothercare on Silverlink. Last time I was in …
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Last time I was in I asked one of the ... asks me: "Are you interested in a laptop."
Yes, ... that if there are dead pixels you won't replace ... 5 dead pixels and they have to be in a prominent ... .
Apart form "in a aprominent place" which is ...
