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  • Why no PLOT, etc. on bottom two lines?I was pondering if there was any way to get PLOT, etc. to address the full screen from BASIC without having to write a few lines of assembler to bypa…

    ... full screen from BASIC without having to write a few lines of ... commands to the top 22 lines anyway? Why not just have ... the full screen area? Then again, SCREEN$ can address all 24 lines (0 ... to use #0 for the bottom two lines?
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…

    ... the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 ... to wipe out the bottom two lines of the screen. Is there a way ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... the information on the bottom two lines. I use the bottom two lines for user instructions ... a part of the lower screen (bottom two lines). Those are my theories of ... poke necessary bytes in the screen area to zero to clear ...
    Arda Arda May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Hiding a Loading Screen?Hi folks! Is there an easy way (a POKE or something) to hide the drawing of a loading screen? I did find a post from leespoons in an old thread wh…

    ... of a loading screen? I did ... bottom two lines black on black - handy when you've got a screen$ to load ... and don't want to see two lines ... of white ink on black paper before the attributes load ... effect with the first 22 lines. [/i]"
    ...
    GreenCard GreenCard April 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • How paint in the down two lines ?The down two lines on the spectrum screen cant be used. But i remeber from the 80's that exist some code that allow us to paint on these two lines wi…

    The down two lines on the spectrum screen cant be used. But i remeber from the 80's that exist some code that allow us to paint on these two lines with plot or draw or others.

    Someone remember the code ?


    thx in advance
    arfgh arfgh May 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Bottom 4 lines of the screen fileI'm wanting to save the bottom 4 lines of the display memory (AT 20,0 to #0; AT 1,31) 23168 is the start of the attributes and its length will be 32…

    ... 'm wanting to save the bottom 4 lines of the display memory ... out how to store the bottom of the display data as ...
    daveysludge daveysludge February 2013 Development
  • Invisible loading screenI can't remember how this is done (I did it years ago but can't remember how). When loading a screen$ from basic you can see the lines being display…

    To eliminate the chance that the bottom two lines (of the line editor) are still visible use POKE 23693.

    POKE 23693,0: POKE 23624,0: CLS: LOAD "" SCREEN$
    will give the proper result.
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... waste your nice loading screen) you can use this ... and POKE the first two bytes (corresponding to the ... can read them in a SCREEN$. [Dr. BEEP]
    * ... is placed on the screen then use a different ... Specifies cursor. Values zero, one, two or four specify the L ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?

    ... .worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/b/gif/BubbleBobble.gif"]Bubble ... 87 years to load.

    And finally, any screen after about ... 1983 which didn't utilise the bottom two lines. I ...
    lee_prince lee_prince March 2006 Games
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... done within a program the bottom two lines are saved

    [code ... /> 30 CLS
    40 LOAD ! "myscreen" SCREEN$
    50 PAUSE 0
    Geoff Geoff May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…

    ... printer buffer to load the two headerless blocks ... is just a SCREEN$, the second one ... ]
    CLEAR 23965
    LOAD "" CODE 23966
    SAVE ... except that the bottom two lines get lost and I ... to stop the LOAD addressing the lower screen.
    ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • List of useful POKEs?Hi all. :smile: Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of a thread/file somewhere here containing a list of useful POKEs? Stuff like POKEs to make …

    ... bottom two lines black on black - handy when you've got a screen$ to load ... and don't want to see two lines of ... white ink on black paper before the attributes load ... effect with the first 22 lines.
    leespoons leespoons July 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • List of useful POKEs?Hi all. :smile: Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of a thread/file somewhere here containing a list of useful POKEs? Stuff like POKEs to make …

    ... bottom two lines black on black - handy when you've got a screen$ to load ... and don't want to see two lines of ... white ink on black paper before the attributes load ... effect with the first 22 lines.[/QUOTE]
    My suggestion: ...
    TK90XFan TK90XFan July 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • How to add a loading screen to my tap file[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I?ve got my game created as a tap file generated by Pasmo. I now want to add a loading screen. Can anyone explaine the best way…

    ... /> [CODE]1 LOAD "" SCREEN$ -to load screen
    2 LOAD "" CODE - to load game
    3 ... /> I basically executed SAVE "name" screen$ command, pressed enter and at ... way I avoided problem with bottom two lines being overwritten.

    Or ...
    Ralf Ralf June 2014 Development
  • Saving all of a SCREEN$I have some .scr files that I have created in img2spec and I can open them in spectaculator and save them by using the EDIT button and selecting scre…

    To avoid losing the bottom two lines, load/save at a different address.< ... to load as a screen either,
    LOAD "name" SCREEN$
    or
    LOAD "name ... SAVE "name" CODE 32768,6912. LOAD it with LOAD "" SCREEN$.
    FrankT FrankT April 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Is it possible to add a listing to a screen?I made this picture (see next message for link) deliberately in the bottom half of the screen hoping to be able to have another display in the upper …

    ... #0; AT 0,0;"LOAD SPECGATE then press ENTER": PAUSE ... POKE 23736,168
    63 LOAD "SPECGATE" SCREEN$: PAUSE 0
    [/code ... don't work in the bottom two lines, so the graphic would need ... accessible.The first LOAD uses the emulator's "LOAD file ..." option, ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2017 BASIC
  • Possible Speccy artist (Name the LOAD SCREEN$)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.…

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

    He described the SCREEN$ as:

    "It was ...
    hackersanon hackersanon February 2011 Games
  • TRUE VIDEO, INV VIDEO!Am I the only one who thinks the two keys "TRUE VIDEO" and "INV VIDEO" on the 128/+2/+3 keyboards are pretty much useless, since embedding control co…

    ... only one who thinks the two keys "TRUE VIDEO" and "INV ... between the big editor screen and the bottom two lines.. or CUT/COPY/PASTE ... figured out why they put two keys with no markings and ... countries, but to leave the two keys like that on the ...
    memrah memrah January 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Shrewsbury Key LOAD SCREEN$Mark Gipson commented on WoS Facebook: His friend, Richard Yaldren did the original LOAD SCREEN$ for Shrewsbury Key. Players replaced this with t…

    ... , Richard Yaldren did the original LOAD SCREEN$ for Shrewsbury Key.
    Players ...
    hackersanon hackersanon September 2016 Infoseek database
  • Pixel LimitIF Y3&lt;192 THEN : LET x2=INT (128+X*A*SIN A): LET y2=INT (Y3): DRAW INK

    [quote]
    On 2004-11-16 21:44, dalmudlee wrote:

    I have never seen this graphics restriction before. Why does the Spectrum have this limitation?

    1720 FOR A=0 TO INT ((50*3.14)-38) STEP 3.14/P
    1730 LET Y3=96+Y*A*COS A
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Poke 23739,111So, I'm looking at some of my old loaders (BASIC stuff) to work out how I got the display to not corrupt on loading code. It's the old POKE 23739,111…

    That's kind of what I was thinking.
    Ideally, you see, when doing a LOAD""CODE, I'd like to have the "Bytes: xyz" printed on the bottom two lines (usually reserved for the input buffer).
    icabod icabod October 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Also authored with the Quil: TerrormolinosAs all games by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Trevor+Lever"]Trevor Lever[/URL] and [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... . There are machine-coded bottom two lines on each screen carrying your score etc ...
    Jimmy Jimmy November 2008 Infoseek database
  • Randomize usrHi, I've often wondered why/how they came up with RANDOMIZE USR <memory address> to invoke machine code couldn't they have used a better keyword (e…

    ... bytes to execute than the two examples above

    screen.

    I ... /> on screen-resident utilities which messes up the bottom two lines in 128K ... BASIC but keeps control at the bottom.
    Geoff Geoff January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... cannot print on the bottom two lines of the screen. How annoying as I ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... cannot print on the bottom two lines of the screen ... Does anyone know if ...
    chev chev May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... print coordinates in the lower screen either, but I believe INPUT ... "" should clear the lower screen area entirely - is clearing and ... the information on the bottom two lines. I use the bottom two lines for user instructions ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Speccy screen display novice: What am I missing?[deleted]

    ... br /> Then the 192 screen+border lines are displayed, followed by ... /> 3)
    The bottom two lines where you type instructions, whre ... hardware. For the hardware all screen lines are equal.
    < ... of complete Spectrum screen, with your 2 bottom lines :) You ...
    Ralf Ralf July 2011 Development
  • Need to scroll one column using m.c.I've used many of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any direction, but I'm not being able to find one that would allow me to scro…

    ... both calls address the whole screen area. (I've changed ... 21 and use the bottom portion of the screen for something else ... ?
    [/QUOTE]
    well, if bottom two lines contain something else, what may ... your default attribute for empty screen instead of 0.
    ub880d ub880d May 2012 Development
  • Need to scroll one column using m.c.I've used many of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any direction, but I'm not being able to find one that would allow me to scro…

    ... to print text in the bottom two lines.

    edit:

    screen doesn't scroll to the ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2012 Development
  • TRUE VIDEO, INV VIDEO!Am I the only one who thinks the two keys "TRUE VIDEO" and "INV VIDEO" on the 128/+2/+3 keyboards are pretty much useless, since embedding control co…

    ... only one who thinks the two keys "TRUE VIDEO" and "INV ... between the big editor screen and the bottom two lines.. or CUT/COPY/PASTE ...
    guesser guesser January 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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