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ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…
... drag selections in a straight line, either across, or ... feature when trying to line things up if you ... like using a ruler when drawing manually... Normally, when ... other in a straight line... It would be handy ... option when trying to line things up on opposite ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…
... drag selections in a straight line, either across, or ... feature when trying to line things up if you ... like using a ruler when drawing manually... Normally, when ... other in a straight line... It would be handy ... option when trying to line things up on opposite ... -
SCF/CCF flags - new discoveryI can't believe that no one is interested in discussing the additional, previously undocumented internal state of the Z80 CPU I have discovered recen…
... drawing without any limitation on the number of colours per scan line ... -
SCF/CCF flags - new discoveryI can't believe that no one is interested in discussing the additional, previously undocumented internal state of the Z80 CPU I have discovered recen…
... drawing without any limitation on the number of colours per scan line ... -
What is this Nirvana engine?Ive been trying to look for a thread on this but cant seem to locate one. I downloaded a spanish game called El Stompo that uses this engine which ha…
... a sound-effects buffer per line of the screen allowing for ... , as that is what the drawing routines support. But it can ... -
Why was the Speccy screen displaced?Okay, so maybe this has been discussed before but no idea what search terms to look for. I just watched a YouTube video of someone filiming himself …
... capture the whole tv scan line which seemed to contradict what ... to setting up a video line triggering circuit again and measuring ... the TV doesn't start drawing it until slightly later (and ... -
Spectrum screen layoutSeeing the thread on displacement I was wondering why the spectrum had the stupid screen split into three sections and the addresses for each section…
... get to the next pixel line within a character square by ... />
You can go one line down by [B]INC H ... and harder stuff like sprite drawing even harder. It should be ... -
Timex contended memory timings, the TS2068 kludge board and EXROM at $4000 - $7FFFI haven't seen this documented anywhere yet so I thought I'd share my findings. I've been investigating contended memory timings on the Timex Sinclai…
... for drawing the screen. This means most of the time the line ... -
Spectrum screen layoutSeeing the thread on displacement I was wondering why the spectrum had the stupid screen split into three sections and the addresses for each section…
... completely whilst the ULA is drawing the pixel area, allowing CPU ... or not.
When drawing the screen, the ULA reads ... so that the Z80 A0 line (least significant address bit) would ... -
128K shadow screen?Hi How does the shadow screen feature work , and how can it be used?
... like, you can get quad-line multicolour by just swapping screens ... ASAM. Crash.
When drawing without the interrupt handler the ... -
So shooting 360 degrees?...[I]How do I go about having - for example - a cannon in the middle of the screen, that can shoot in any direction towards the player?[/I] Well, I do…
... column 255. Otherwise all the drawing math that includes expressions such ... .i. trying to draw a line that ends at column 255 ... -
Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …
... is my current method of drawing the next movement, which is ... . It draws two UDGs, a line of spaces, and another two ... -
Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
... string.
Or after drawing him once, you could have ... -by-side, and a four-line string with one above the ... -
Demo of multidirectional scroll 50fpsHello!!! Im working with scrolls, and I want to show you a demo of a posible game. It works at 50fps and can manage about 7 sprites in the screen w…
... tiles per line
i think
drawing sprites on the ... ,af because 3 tiles per line.
good and fast ... -
Toastrack refurbishmentYesterday I opened a drawer in my old desk and discovered 2 complete toastrack 128s and a board only for the same. As I already have a fully working…
... keypad runs off the +12V line, it will not affect the ... circuits (meaning use another 7805) drawing power from the "+9V" rail ... -
+3 Tape/sound socket replacementI've just taken delivery of a rough round the edges but fully functional +3 (chocolate drive belt notwithstanding). However the tape/sound socket is …
... mechanical drawing so you can tell if the pins will line up ... -
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…
... 's" if you use 8x1 drawing style. So anyway even you ... altering the color on every line as the ability to alter ... the color on the line of your choice. The example ... -
Manic Miner loading screen adjustmentHad half an hour spare earlier and wanted to try a few things. Always like to learn anyways even now. [URL="http://www.yellowspider.co.uk/speccy/Man…
... normally returns to basic after drawing it but because we're ... will return to our next line here instead
LD ... the pic (21280), middle of line 17 on the far left ... -
ZX Spectrum 48K Issue 3, loss of -5V rail.Hi all, I've googled this problem and poured over the electrical diagrams for the circuitry concerning the power supplies and I believe I know what …
... it is drawing too much current from the power supply line(s ... -
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…
... times slower than normal. However drawing on screen typically
consumes ... need to spend time with drawing, and can spend the available ... , and 8x1 means every pixel line. Thus it's possible to ... -
Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
... 32 scan lines. Each scan line lasts 64us, so the complete ... site (scroll down to AEC Line Glitch)[/url], interferences from RAS ... /> [QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous;789096]For drawing lines, circles, etc you won ... -
Spectrum 48k ProblemsHi all Got my 48k today but it's playing up abit... First time i turn it on it was like this: [IMG]http://s26.postimg.org/hlg9d3f3d/IMG_20140830_…
... tested it via my PC line in port and its giving ... at the moment.. I'm drawing a blank :p -
Scottish IndependenceJust wondering which way the Scottish Wossers will be voting?
... result.[/QUOTE]
Drawing the line is always a difficult point ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…
... ;792335]When I'm using line draw tool, I see no ... /> If we talk about that line tool...
[IMG]http ... /> there are 2 ways of drawing a line:
a) Select ... /> ... and you may draw another line with new start point and ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…
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By default, the drawing modes of ZX-Paintbrush are ... do with pixel and brush drawing. Well, your picture looks like ... changed by our drawing.
I draw a line on the screen ... ZX-Spectrum related effects by drawing pixels on pixel set areas ... -
ZX-Paintbrush new feature requestI would find a .tile file format very useful, basically like a .btile or .ctile but with the data arranged for normal Speccy attributes So it would …
... 16 would be useful if drawing preshifted sprites.
Claus ... of 4 bytes
; line based output of pixel data ... , 30h, 01h, C0h
; line based output of attribute data ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…
... they are real tools (like line, circle and so on) rather ... size, which is made for drawing all figures.
Using ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…
... that can be edited after drawing. The raster also controls the ... hard to recognize the dotted line of the selectors. I don ... -
Weird symptom number 2...I got a new keyboard membrane for my Spectrum+ plugged it in and low and behold the weird left to right printing of the copyright message disappeared…
... to carry out tasks like drawing text etc.
Interrupts ... adjacent traces. I think this line is picking up noise somewhere ... -
SpritesYes yes, I know this has been hashed over plenty of times before, but... I have knocked up a quick tiling routine which works with my back buffer co…
[QUOTE]I thought this was a standard technique,[/QUOTE]
I have never seen this exact technique in any game and I have peeked into a code of a few.
But actually I've seen something similar in Green Beret.
The sprites don't ...