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  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ... // Create Ten Masked Software-Rotated Sprites

    s = ... 21) // if sprite went off screen, reverse direction
    dy ... ) // if sprite went off screen, reverse direction
    dy ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2010 Development
  • 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…

    ... I want to load a SCREEN$ in to memory and ... it being displayed on the screen. I am worried about ... />
    [CODE]100 LOAD “SCREEN” CODE RAMTOP+1,6192
    110 SAVE !”SCREEN” CODE RAMTOP+1,6192[/ ... with a simple [B]LOAD!"SCREEN" SCREEN$[/B] or does the ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman December 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • broken 48K, strange screenwell I finally socketed all lower 16K ram chips, (8 of them in a row near corner, not those 4 in two rows) and replaced them with new ones but it did…

    ... work. I still get garbled screen (some interesting graphics!) when 48K ...
    orange orange December 2010 Hardware
  • Machine Code Sprites and Graphics for the ZX SpectrumHi Looking for this book, if anyone can help would be most grateful. [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000229"]http://www.wor…

    ... on how to produce moving sprites / landscapes in Machince would be ...
    Spiky16384 Spiky16384 January 2011 Wanted
  • Screen$ command, ROM routineHi All, Does anyone know which ROM routine to call for the Screen$ command (and/or the ATTR command)? Any comments on how well it works or the spee…

    ... routine to call for the Screen$ command (and/or the ATTR ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2011 Development
  • Singularity (a great first person shooter)I thought I'd post this as I've just played a very good modern game that for some reason most people seem not to have heard of, so maybe some of you …

    ... , where it's just boring, linear-feeling from A to B ... . For one, it's too linear, although it's much less ... at the centre of the screen, I mean) changes according to ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2011 Chit chat
  • Rubber Key ZX Spectrum - White ScreenA customer has just telephoned me about a rubber key 48K ZX Spectrum which he has purchased second hand. It produces just a white screen on the tele…

    ... /> It produces just a white screen on the television - no copyright ...
    rwap rwap January 2011 Hardware
  • Speccy 128 Shadow screen.How much is the shadow screen used in 128k commercial software? I ask because I am looking at putting 128k of memory in the 48k setup I have been bu…

    How much is the shadow screen used in 128k commercial software?< ...
    spodula spodula January 2011 Hardware
  • Help?Hi All, I wonder if anyone has a few minutes to look at this bit of code I'm working on. I'm trying to move to sprites and want to do it with a scr…

    ... move to sprites and want to do it with a screen address ... 66,66
    seed defw screen ;screen address table pointer, table below ...
    screen defw 16384 ;row 0 (first ... or before, sprite misses third screen segment later
    defw 19360 ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2011 Development
  • Strange DivIDE ScreenI've just got an SD card adaptor for my DivIDE and it does something strange. On startup, I can see the DivIDE logo and it registers the adaptor, bu…

    ... normally empty areas of the screen are covered in an odd ... from the bytes in the screen memory. I can load a ... bit of corruption to the screen.

    I actually got ...
    joefish joefish January 2011 Hardware
  • Fuzzy Screen On 48k Spectrum.Hi there. I bought a Spectrum off eBay last week (another for my collection lol), and it suffers with a fuzzy screen e.g. it looks like interference …

    ... it suffers with a fuzzy screen e.g. it looks like ... of writing commands on the screen, even though the keyboard isn ...
    Jimbob-Squarepants Jimbob-Squarepants January 2011 Hardware
  • Possible Speccy artist (Name the LOAD SCREEN$)Hello, all.. This is a bit of an obscure one. Someone I located has said that he did the LOAD SCREEN$ for a Wargame but he can't remember the name.…

    ... that he did the LOAD SCREEN$ for a Wargame but he ... ..

    He described the SCREEN$ as:

    "It was ...
    hackersanon hackersanon February 2011 Games
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    Which do you prefer?
    I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause February 2011 Games
  • Zx Spectrum 48k+ black screenHi A friend of mine gave me his 48k+ and when i tried to turn it on I just get a black screen of the TV. I don't have sound of the console. Where c…

    Hi

    A friend of mine gave me his 48k+ and when i tried to turn it on I just get a black screen of the TV.
    I don't have sound of the console.

    Where can I start searching for the problem?

    Thank you
    Trajano Trajano March 2011 Hardware
  • Screen burn questionDoes anyone know how to get rid of screen burn? I've been watching the snooker on my LCD Panasonic tv for the last 3 hours, when i changed the chann…

    ... how to get rid of screen burn? I've been watching ... the snooker table on the screen (as snooker fans will know ...
    zx1 zx1 March 2011 Chit chat
  • SpecBAS 0.628 now availableFor Windows and Linux (Pandora port coming soon!): [url]http://www.zxspectrum4.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28[/url] Quick list of what's new: [c…

    ... not wrap or scroll at screen boundaries.
    PRINT now behaves ... , including the "Scroll?" prompt.
    SPRITES! Check the documentation for the ... sprites commands.
    Rotation and scaling ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Screenshot as screen$What's the best way (I'm using Spin) of saving the a screenshot and then turning it into a code file. Sorry if its a basic (no pun intended) :oops: …

    ... with a goto) clears the screen first.

    I did ...
    spider spider March 2011 Emulators
  • Rendering techniques in emulatorsI've been giving thought to the possibility of speeding up the rendering in Zero considering I've been putting it off long enough. My approach is c…

    ... pump the speccy display buffer to the screen backbuffer every frame (69888 ... Swap backbuffer and present to screen. Rinse and repeat. Works ... speccy display and the sound buffer. Dunny?

    * ... be transferred to the display buffer (the one that will ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2011 Emulators
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread ( ... of the solution. Load a SCREEN$/SCR file when prompted, then ... press "j", the screen will erase and then will ... /> 35 PRINT #0;"load a SCREEN$ then press ""j"""
    36 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Load! Screen$ questionI've got a basic program listing in BASIN which among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save!'ed a screen into memory before hand). How d…

    ... among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save ... !'ed a screen into memory before hand). How ... program listing and save the screen(s) in memory to one ...
    Nonsense in BASIC Nonsense in BASIC April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Trantor loading screen?Hi, I just uploaded to ZX-ART an [URL="http://zx.maros.pri.ee/eng/games/t/trantor-the-last-stormtrooper/trantor-the-last-stormtrooper1/"]"alternate"…

    ... -the-last-stormtrooper1/"]"alternate" loading screen[/URL] for "Trantor: The ... />
    I recovered this screen from a hacked version of ... 80's, but the screen style and signature seem to ... designer as the "official" screen instead of the hackers themselves ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas April 2011 MIA/STP/SDP
  • enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…

    ... almost full frame free for sprites and game logic.

    screen using in mind (so programmer can print many flickerless sprites ...
    Ketmar Ketmar April 2011 Development
  • Name of game needed - sort of robot wars...Well, I reckon this one's a tricky one. Can't quite remember the year, maybe mid-eighties. Have tried WOS searching to no avail. It was: - a 2 pl…

    ... TV series!)

    The screen was pretty much empty, and ... right), battling each other. The sprites were very small. The gameplay ...
    Morkin Morkin April 2011 Games
  • Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…

    ... ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links ...
    In my previous single screen game it was the simple ... and every time a screen change was needed I ... no good for a flip screen one.

    ... y coords for each whole screen, but as yet not ...
    R-Tape R-Tape April 2011 Development
  • Mutant Zombie Flesh Eating Chickens loading screen?Anyone know the origin of this apparent [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-extras/AttackOfTheMutantZombieFleshEatingChickensFromM…

    Anyone know the origin of this apparent [URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-extras/AttackOfTheMutantZombieFleshEatingChickensFromMars.gif"]loading screen[/URL]?

    Is it something someone mocked up at one time or another?
    MartynC MartynC May 2011 Games
  • Three Weeks in Paradise V3.0 releasedTeam SpecNG has released V3.0 of our remake. It can be downloaded from the official site: [url]www.specng.org[/url] New in version 3.0 ============…

    ... music in the main menu screen has a higher bitrate ... settings in the help screen would sometimes be too< ... /> d) In the main screen, if trying to quit and ... br /> to the help screen to turn it on, it ... that, before hiding the sprites, it checks if they< ...
    marcoagpinto marcoagpinto May 2011 Announcements
  • Jet Set Willy Turbo edition!Improve the speed of the game with just a few pokes! Do the standard CLEAR 32767 : LOAD "" CODE to get at the BASIC loader (see Your Spectrum issue …

    ... top 2/3 of the screen with a series of LDI ... be quicker if the back-buffer wasn't kept in contended ...
    Jimmy Jimmy May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Support of other SCREEN$ formats in ZX-PaintbrushDear readers, I've already implemented a nearly complete ULAPlus support in my developing version of ZX-Paintbrush. Works fine so far. But I asked m…

    ... some of the other screen$ formats, probably those ...
    [LIST]
    [*]Standard screen$ (256x192 pixels, 32x24 attributes, standard ... 6912 bytes
    [*]ULAPlus screen$ (same as above, but ... 6912+64 bytes
    [*]screen$ with 256x192 pixels and 32x192 ...
    clausjahn clausjahn May 2011 Emulators
  • Full Screen Editor/AssemblerIMHO program [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008187"]Full Screen Editor/Assembler[/URL] should have a "known errors" note as …

    ... /infoseekid.cgi?id=0008187"]Full Screen Editor/Assembler[/URL] should have ... ?id=0016784"]Plus 80 Full Screen Editor/Assembler[/URL].
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2011 Infoseek database
  • New game! Nanako in CJMC for ZX81!Yup, that's true. We've been busy in crafting a nice, small, simple library to code games in text mode (this is, standard, unexpanded) for the 16K ZX…

    ... and currently supports 4x4 character sprites to be printed or grabbed ... a 32x48 characters (two screens) buffer which can be easily scrolled ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2011 Brand new software
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