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  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... should be obvious in the loading screen)[/QUOTE]I recorded to tape ... with thin blue lines; the screen stays black. I don't ... reading the ROM timed header block.)[/QUOTE]I've had no ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 August 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... it direct, and got some loading screen corruption:

    [IMG]http ... in blocks, and one failed block might only influence a certain ...
    balford balford September 2013 Development
  • ZX Spin kicking up a strange errorDon't know if this is a 'strange' error or not, but it refuses to load certain Z80 files stating: [B][I]This Z80 file contains a block that decompre…

    Loading a Z80 snapshot will ... the current mode (although loading 128 snapshots can be a ... packed the RAM as a single block which would unpack to ... a 2-byte additional header block length, then the additional ... v2+ snapshots have a data block with a "packed" length ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2013 Emulators
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... also allows me to display "Loading error - rewind and retry" ... messages, and do graphical loading progress bars. It can also ... to display sprites over the loading screen - the 'print text' routine ... all data goes through a single 'addbit' function bit by ...
    GoingDigital GoingDigital September 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... has the loading screen as a standard-speed block, then the ... turboloading of this BASIC block. As a side-effect ... I had trouble with loading BASIC as code and ... gets a credit. The loading screen and game have not ... 't even do the first screen! :-)

    ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 September 2013 Development
  • Lime Rick, like Snake but with gravity[B]Lime Rick[/B] by [url=http://www.kissmaj7.com/games/]Kissmaj7[/url] is an elaborated version of "I Left Myself Behind". It's a puzzle game with an…

    ... to tape as a binary block of 3321 bytes (with an ... "mods". This game will have loading screen, multicolor tiles, level set, and ... one loaded as a separate block. This way, users will be ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2013 New game ideas
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... emulator users can see the loading screen[/QUOTE]

    Correct.
    block was 27314 or 27361 bytes ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... demo using the K+D loading screen[/URL].[/QUOTE]
    [B]stephenw32768 ... SCREEN$ loading, you should reliably catch the start of the following turbo block ...
    GoingDigital GoingDigital September 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... . I don't have a single executable that takes a standard ... it's a simple case (screen plus single block of code, like Knights ... the "rippling" effect of a block of red stripes followed by ... a block of yellow stripes.

    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 September 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... be achieved with a compressed loading screen, at a fraction of ... game in a separate block. The compressed screen is of course ... must say that the reverse-loading screen I tried with the " ... try to write a bidirectional loading screen that should look really neat ...
    stephenw32768 stephenw32768 October 2013 Development
  • Thumbnail icon of TZX in Mac OS X FinderI only noticed this today on my Mac that for some TZX files (presumably with standard tape loaders) I can see a preview of the loading screen as a th…

    ... 't have the loading screen as a recognisable 6912-byte block?

    gasman gasman January 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 …

    ... .

    A single sprite frame at 16x16 pixels ... 4 versions of that single frame at 128 bytes. ... pixel blocks and the screen is compressed along the ... more you repeat a single block and the more open ... the screen so they didn't appear inside a block.
    BiNMaN BiNMaN January 2014 Brand new software
  • Loading AGD games into AGD to check codeHey there Not sure if this is quite the place to put this but it covers both Jonathan's AGD and Spin and is a question about developing my AGD game.…

    You must only load the block containing the game code, not ... (e.g. BASIC loader program, loading screen etc.)

    Also remember ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2014 Development
  • Loading AGD games into AGD to check codeHey there Not sure if this is quite the place to put this but it covers both Jonathan's AGD and Spin and is a question about developing my AGD game.…

    ... ]You must only load the block containing the game code, not ... (e.g. BASIC loader program, loading screen etc.)
    [/QUOTE]
    Could ...
    Maroc's Other Projection Maroc's Other Projection February 2014 Development
  • Loading AGD games into AGD to check codeHey there Not sure if this is quite the place to put this but it covers both Jonathan's AGD and Spin and is a question about developing my AGD game.…

    I have tried loading the largest block in land of mire mare and get a black screen with a white pixel,I will try something else
    jammajup jammajup February 2014 Development
  • Loading AGD games into AGD to check codeHey there Not sure if this is quite the place to put this but it covers both Jonathan's AGD and Spin and is a question about developing my AGD game.…

    ... ;755599]I have tried loading the largest block in land of mire ... mare and get a black screen ...
    Maroc's Other Projection Maroc's Other Projection February 2014 Development
  • Tile routinesHi all, Please does anyone have any examples of tile routines in pure asm to set up maptile screens. I would like to try and understand them and ti…

    ... the single block tile and prints them onto the screen one ... right hand side of the screen (column 32), row (y ... to indicate where each block is printed. For example, ... br />
    - print block 1
    - increase tile_x by ... things are put on screen. Also, if you ...
    Morkin Morkin March 2014 Development
  • Spectipede (mastertronic)There are 2 different inlays for this in the archive. I have just checked my copies and noticed there is a difference between the 2 versions. [URL=…

    ... , and the only block that matched was the loading screen. So I concluded ...
    Hairy Hairy March 2014 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Pac-Land: can be coloured?All versions of this game are full coloured, but not the Spectrum version. It has large sprites, but maybe the scroll is too fine to make a coloured …

    ... tool that would make a single sprite from this pieces and ... 'll add the logo and loading screen to the game and let ...
    Ralf Ralf March 2014 Games
  • ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…

    ... is one HELL of a screen, MykeP. Brilliant.

    loading screen, and then I read It ... an identifier for each block of the map, I ... starting byte of the 8x8 block. So, if the ... the starting location for the block. Much quicker than checking ...
    LuMan LuMan March 2014 New game ideas
  • 1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.

    ... www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/c/CodeThe ... it. I like the blue screen, with lines separating the ... Maybe I should drill every single room and see if something ... B]

    note: the loading screen is a good Humphrey Bogart ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel April 2014 Games
  • X*Y*Z - A community project?Five years ago I wrote a game called [B]W*H*B[/B] ([URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0023478"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…

    ... a few people doing a loading screen we can have a vote ... want to consider enlarging the block like in [URL="http://www ...
    bobs bobs April 2014 Games
  • THE HOBBIT loading screenHello again, thought I'd have a go at an alternative loading screen for The Hobbit. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/THE%20HOBBIT%…

    ... loader to draw the screen a character block at a time. Attribute ... />
    I used the new loading screen with the Sinclair Research release ...
    FrankT FrankT May 2014 Games
  • Games with Plus3/Disk enhancementsFor about 95% of games of +3 disk, it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being reduced loading times. However, there were a few excep…

    ... extra AY music and a loading screen? Talk about a bloody ripoff ... 're lucky, or the occasional single-load.
    chev chev May 2014 Games
  • ZX-Art graphics updatesWe are gathering a large collection of in-game graphics on ZX-Art at the moment. The ultimate purpose would be to make an easily browsable online arc…

    ... the page of added screen. Please take a look ... and upload them by single button press. Year would ... WOS link. Each screenshot/loading screen can be connected to ... "Loading screen" or "Game graphics" to this screen. First screen automatically gets "Loading screen", ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 September 2014 Announcements
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... then enter the first code block start address.
    Repeat ... this for the other code block lengths and start addresses.
    block lengths that were previously defined ... you define the way the loading screen is rendered, so time to ...
    jp jp October 2014 Announcements
  • Robot SantaAlien Ferox has grown beyond what could be accomplished on a humble Speccy - i've run out of memory AND ideas so that's indefinitely halted. BUT In…

    ... J >= 101
    LET SCREEN = 25
    REDRAW
    ... I've drawn the title screen manually btw (and used blocks ... just need to insert a loading screen, double check a jumping issue ... but for some reason whatever block is placed after the number ...
    SimonLCFC SimonLCFC November 2014 Brand new software
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... we want the first BASIC block to have.
    Note, that ... usual Program: message when loading the BASIC block. It's just like ... border to 0, clear the screen, put in a BASIC protection ... off with the traditional Ultimate loading BEEPs!

    Once the ...
    jp jp November 2014 Announcements
  • The official CSSCGC 2014 threadJust to announce that the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2014 is now open. It's home for the year will be; [url]http://www.mykeweb.co.uk/c…

    ... we close our eyes to block what we see, but not ... close our ears to block out the utter crap that ... Mr R-Tape.
    Cracking loading screen

    Hack Pack...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins December 2014 Games
  • Diamond DiggerA collaboration between Dave Pierce 'davepierce07' & Jim Grimwood 'Battle Bunny'. [center][url]http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/dd-…

    ... the diamonds but managed to block off the exit, next time ... with it! (Where's the loading screen?!)

    EDIT - perfect at ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2015 Brand new software
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