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Quido In-Place compressor on PC.Does anyone use Quido In-Place Compressor for Z80? It seems to be based on Turbo Imploder http://pmd85.borik.net/wiki/Quido I'm trying to make a GU…
Does anyone use Quido In-Place Compressor for Z80? It seems ... the code.
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C, Z88DK and the Sprite Pack Library I wrote a short demo that shows a taste of what can be done from C on the Spectrum: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/zqa/pacmen.zip"]http://justme…
... was written to help in debugging the sprite pack library. You should ... ) executes a block of assembler in place of a block of C ... code in the hopes of speeding up ... fresh release of the Sprite Pack library in the next couple of ... -
How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... retrace) for the remaining time in the frame (about 70000 - ... likely happen in more than one place on the screen in a transition ... the blank areas of the sprite erase their trails as they move ... and the old sprite graphic will still appear in the old position ... -
Why Hex in place of Denary?Ok - most MC books / tutorials advocate the use of hex instead of denary. But the Speccy doesn't actually have a Hex converter so you need to write …
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New remake in progress - play in browser[url="http://www.multiedge-net.co.uk/wally"]http://www.multiedge-net.co.uk/wally[/url] Play it in your web browser; no nasty downloads (so long as y…
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Play it in your web browser; no nasty ... the game engine is almost in place, adding the final locations shouldn ... long.
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Breakpoints in debuggers in emulatorsA breakpoint, according to Wikipedia ( [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakpoint[/url] ), is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program…
... stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes ... at a given location in memory and your Spectrum ... goes into debugging when instruction in this location is executed. ... it possible to set watchpoints in any Spectrum emulators? And ... -
25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
... /> * Make the ROM writeable in MacSpectacle and FUSE
* ... ROMs which when used in place of the 128 ROMs ... * Suggesting support for command abbreviations in the Gosh Wonderful ROM
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Jet Set Willy sprite evilities.Hello everyone. I am currently trying my hand at modding Jet Set Willy, but there is a big problem - I can't use half of the sprites. I am using JSWE…
... guardian editor, and select a sprite, there's a big list ... , but when I enter it in, the sprite is STILL pliers!! How ... earth do I change the sprite so that only the spinning ... -
Sprite MaskingI was looking at the sprites in some games, and noticed they have sprite followed by mask. Usually a row at a time (so the mask is sort of interleave…
... the sprites in some games, and noticed they have sprite followed by ... /> OR it with the sprite to add in the sprite.
Repeat ... ?
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Euro sign in TZX info blocksI grabbed the TZX info block for Invasion of the Zombie Monsters from Infoseek and noticed that the Price field has the HTML style € string for …
... 1 for the text fields in TZX files[1], which doesn ... string EUR (UKP is used in many TZX Vault files).
in place? I would think that EUR ... the text before acrimony set in. I was hoping that we ... -
XBox 1 hacker to testify in courtThis might be of some interest to some of us: "[COLOR=Blue]Andrew "Bunnie" Huang, the designer of the Chumby ( [COLOR=Red][URL]http://www.chumby.…
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The defendant in the case, 28-year-old ... the scheduled Nov. 30 trial in Los Angeles won?t include ... bypassed, Microsoft put that protection in place, knowing full well that it ... (bypassing the console's built in protection). Alright, so this ... -
New Game: Flynn's Adventure In Bombland (Demo)Hi All Decided to release a demo version of a new game I'm developing. Got to the stage were most of the code is in place so thought it would be goo…
... most of the code is in place so thought it would be ... a link to the file in tap form:
[url ... I first got my Spectrum in 1983! Big thanks to the ... -
Un-named AGD 3 gameI've been playing about with (and learning a lot about) Mr. Cauldwells excellent AGD 3.0 today (being off work with shot knees has given me a lot of …
... and item collection basics are in place, so i'll definitely continue ... IMG]
The player sprite is actually done, fully animated ... sprites yet though (drawn lots in Tommygun - I find it ... there then redraw in AGD when the sprite/animation is complete ... -
BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 3This new demo demonstrates the BIFROST* built-in sprite support that I mentioned before. In BIFROST*, "sprite tiles" are 2 special tiles that BIFROS…
... demonstrates the BIFROST* built-in sprite support that I mentioned ... before.
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SpecBAS 0.754 Now available!Hi all - Due to overwhelming demand from half of my userbase (That's ASH-II to you lot), BEEP has been added! It's not just any old BEEP though - y…
... ADSR envelope control
Sprite cloning - creates clones of ... using SPRITE ERASE
Fixed(?) a floating point error in sprite movement, ... priority
Fixed sprite flickering that resulted from ... of a bank in the banklist
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A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... screen).
[*][B]Sprite support[/B]: The [B]NIRVANA ... a sprite, you just need to update it (and also erase it ... " a bicolor position (useful to erase it). That's nothing else ... left to animate them. In practice, sprite support should be much more ... -
SpecBAS 0.800 Released!Hi folks, it's that time again for another release. I was going to add a few more features, but I have other projects on the go at the moment, and it…
... be used in INPUT the same as in PRINT
Sprite clones now ... bank ID number
BANK ERASE wouldn't function correctly because ... -and- the display for sprite-to-sprite collision
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Which Spectrum worlds can be recreated in Minecraft?A while ago I started making the first level of Bloodwych in Minecraft; with the original lending itself perfectly to a blocky 3D recreation, I got q…
... the first level of Bloodwych in Minecraft; with the original lending ... (plus, I lost that world in a hard drive crash). I ... from Ant Attack (with spiders in place of ants), which should be ... other worlds that would work in Minecraft? Not including Zombie Zombie ... -
'Ocean Draw' instructionsHere are the instructions for the screen and sprite editor used in-house at Ocean Software, possibly typed up by Joffa Smifff (as the 2 of the sprite…
... for the screen and sprite editor used in-house at Ocean Software ... /> 4 -SHIFT AND PLACE IE A SELECTED
SPRITE IN STORE IS SHIFTED ... /> PIXELS RIGHT AND STORED IN NEXT
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48K Issue 3B ROM to EPROM methodsHi folks, While fixing up a completely dead Commodore PET I needed a way of testing the 4116 RAM chips that make up its 32K, some googling found a…
... 16 pin ZIF socket in place of IC13 along with ... and the ZIF socket was in place, continuity good, ran ... Jumpers removed, BAT85 diodes soldered in (the right way :) ) ... wires and....it works. Erase and reburn the 27c256 ... to leave the 4732 in there and wire it ... -
SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…
... , will flip and mirror it in-place
Compound operators (+=, -=, *=, /= etc) can ... window.
PROGLINE scrolls in view in direct mode (bottom line first ... after ELSE in some circumstances
Fixed issues with sprite collisions based ... -
Trapdoor Has anyone here actually completed this game? I keep getting stuck on the "I want some Fried Eggs" mission. Yes i have read the text on this site,…
... Flunky screenshot maps - all screens in place, just tidying things up, won ... to be done - those big sprite graphics are great!
Artist / Artists Required For 3 Brand-New Spectrum Game ProjectsHi all, I am currently looking for high quality sprite and background tile artists for 3 forthcoming Spectrum games I have on the go at the moment. …
... make "Y buffer": split screen in 4-8 areas and when ... coords, mask Y coord and place sprite number into one of these ... and draw every sprite placed in, then draw every sprite fom second one ...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…
... graphics that are held in memory, in snapshots only. Any graphics ... it's coords in place.
Insert in our little modification ... functions. Trap the Gunsight sprite draw routine. Tell the ... Matthew Westcott replaced Horace in Horace goes skiiing with ...z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... : All your resources in one place, ability to modify ... a code file in the right place and replacing the ... mappings for a single sprite definition. This is ... captured attr only in the sprite squares that I ... for a single sprite frame. In the publish resource ...z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... free strategy is to erase and draw things in a second buffer ... to avoid flicker - don't erase anything. It also seemed logical ... sure the sprites do not erase them.
"struct sp1_update ... 500 cycles per char cell in the sprite in worst case. So at ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... 's logically only one place to send the clicked ... the grid to assign them in place. You can then edit ... in different UDGs. Say you use AB for a sprite, ... I wondered whether a sprite editor should include them by ... can be interleaved with sprite data when sent to ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... the grid to assign them in place. You can then edit ... I wondered whether a sprite editor should include them by ... can be interleaved with sprite data when sent to ... position. Although if the sprite is ever only to be ... plan on adding sprite commands to BASin then?The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... then flash a spectrum emulator in place of the BIOS. When you ... , but I'm not interested in emulation other than as a ... processor (486 up) and decent sprite/graphics commands, games like a ... Cybernoid remake could be written in BASIC without having to resort ...Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... s code unchanged as well in step 2 but you' ... still need a fast copy in step 4 which will ... history but the remaining RAM in the screen pages could ... game would have to fit in 16Kb (as your "on ... get away wish doing your sprite erase/redraws straight after a HALT ...
