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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…
... The only other type of game that gets developed ... side. This way, parts of different ships will never ... . If brick width is multiple of 8 pixels, the ball ... occupy the same character square of a brick, even when ... like to implement any of the ideas listed above, ... -
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. For instance, each execution of [B]NIRVANA_printC[/B] takes ... the pixel line is a multiple of 8, or 649T otherwise. ... used it for pixel lines multiple of 8, and adjusted all ... for arbitrary coordinates (sometimes multiples of 8, sometimes not), you ... -
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. For instance, each execution of [B]NIRVANA_printC[/B] takes ... the pixel line is a multiple of 8, or 649T otherwise. ... used it for pixel lines multiple of 8, and adjusted all ... for arbitrary coordinates (sometimes multiples of 8, sometimes not), you ... -
ZX Spectrum +2A and +2B - finding the true factsI'm confused. Some told me that a +2A has a +3 board, and the +2B got the simplified board. But I think that is not true. I have had over a dozen b…
... 2 until they ran out of +3 boards. I heard that ... that first batch of +2A were made using +3 boards. Both ... repaired at Amstrad using +3 boards (but I highly ... on the upper side of the computer) was due ... the board design (another revision of +2A board?), but is ... -
New Year's Resolutions 2014* I will finish recording my album * I will finish the character generator for ZXodus II * I will spend more time with my family What are your plans?
... result in a modular kind of thing where the end user ... i only own a couple of +3's and a +2A(B ... i've gained a lot of online friends which i could ... -
Romania and Bulgeria.Now I can work and live in Romania or Bulgaria, I wonder if there's a need for semi-skilled computer programmers over there now? Regards, Shaun.
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The thing is millions of Britons are enjoying the freedom ... going to deny the opportunity of millions of Britons to work or ... . That's the equivalent of 3/4s of the entire Bulgarian population and ... doesn't stop the freedom of Europeans to move around and ... -
Game quiz - name the game from the loading soundSpotted this idea from the show us your collection thread. If anyone wants to start it off by posting a audio snippet of a game loading for everyone …
Well, I'd made a quiz like that once, though only 1 of 3 games were identified from the loading noise. It can be found [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44489]here[/url]. -
Idiots Guide......To machine code, or assembler language...whatever the appropriate term is Basically at this stage I want to fiddle about and try and get used to…
... in asm minus the headache of register allocation. An expert C ... assembled code, to the tune of 3-5x larger and slower. However ... able to approach the performance of hand coded asm games. More ... are.
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Graphics questionHello. I was wondering, does anybody here know of a method to display a large (as in, the better part of the screen) bitmap/raster image using ZX Sp…
... ensure it running under +2A/+3 is to replace the +2A ... /> The RAMDisc Syntax on +2A/+3 is
LOAD "M:Filename ... ll look into the use of +3 ramdisk further to see if ... I can make use of it putting the code together ... will run on the +3 and produce code that will ... -
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…
... stop "in the middle" of a Z80 instruction. It must ... will have a maximum delay of 3 T-states (if the computer ... delays.
Current implementation of NIRVANA for ZX-Spectrum models ... "re-synchronization". Luckily, lack of contention makes it run faster ... -
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…
... stop "in the middle" of a Z80 instruction. It must ... will have a maximum delay of 3 T-states (if the computer ... delays.
Current implementation of NIRVANA for ZX-Spectrum models ... "re-synchronization". Luckily, lack of contention makes it run faster ... -
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…
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SAMPLE-TRACKER vast INSTRUCTION with screensHi, I wrote it mainly for CrashNicker and other 1-bit / Beeper users, but I suppose it could be also useful for every lo-fi musician (YM/AY chip, Co…
... it sound in 4ch instead of 3.
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Is the +3b a myth or just rare?I have a few speccies, one of them being a +3 with terrible sound (terrible that is, until I did a minor mod to replace some resistors, now the sound…
... . All but one of the photos I have of +3 and +3Bs have ... /> If anyone wants to research +3 data separator circuitry and see ... -
How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…
... /> The 6 bytes consist of:
3 bytes for where to ... a 6 letter word instead of a space at a particular ... -
How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…
... /> The 6 bytes consist of:
3 bytes for where to ... a 6 letter word instead of a space at a particular ... 17,3 for the paper colour and change the length of the ... -
New Game:Killer BeesI have ported one of my favourite games for the Phillips G7000 to the ZX Spectrum. Killer Bees, I spent hours playing this as a kid. The original g…
... up input signal. TVs of that era were pretty ... a recovering within a couple of frames.
... clock ratio was some odd multiple of 1/4). To cover ... a much finer gradation of speed than was typical. ... also allowed a novel concept of harm (for the time ... -
Idea: New interface 1There are a lot of great new interfaces to plug into the back of the spectrum, but things quickly get rather messy! The interface 1 is a very tidy s…
... would fail in some way 3 or 4 times a night ... border) or not paging one of the ROMs in or out ... connector, I used a bit of 3-4 mm closed cell foam ... IF1 does have a lot of additional kit on it and ... with getting the most out of it. -
Here comes the sunAnybody ever finish this? Theres almost no help out there anywhere for it. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006427[/url]
... can wander off into parts of the station which are not ... unless you've started a multiple of five times without reloading. I ... 't make head nor tail of that line.
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SpecBAS 0.802 Released!Hi folks - It's that time again when I release the latest round of features and bugfixes to SpecBAS :) New for this version are ZONEs which act ver…
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Modern games you didn't expect to have so much fun playingThomas was Alone: what a addictive little fellow this one is! going for it for the second time, and each time I play it I say to myself "ok, I'll sto…
One that's just sprung to mind is Dead Space. The demo was bloody awful and I picked it up on the cheap a couple of years later. The best survival horror of this generation and the sequel was very good too. Not played much of 3. -
Modern games you didn't expect to have so much fun playingThomas was Alone: what a addictive little fellow this one is! going for it for the second time, and each time I play it I say to myself "ok, I'll sto…
... Far Cry, Thief 3, Doom 3, Chronicles of Riddick (well, this ... The best survival horror of this generation and the ... good too. Not played much of 3.[/QUOTE]
... Dead Space 3 as it was less of an RPG ... movement, real-time management of your inventory, not a ... -
Video Game Characters You Would Like To.....Have certain relations with if they were real! Mine would be Myrtle from Mermaid Madness :-D
Mary the dwarf from Valhalla.
The Legend of the Amazon Women, women. (Mastertronic cover)
Lissa from Olli & Lissa. Oh yus! Not like on the cover of #3 though. She aint no dog! :lol: -
Learning a programming language from scratchSome advice please... At work I use an Excel/Calc spreadsheet of my own making to get address information from various csv/txt files I download ever…
... in a new area of the sheet so you ... 2) No deliberate winding up of your fellow sheet editors (unless ... take a joke)
3) Try to have fun ... br />
So, maximum of 3 internal digits and the second ... : If something useful comes of this sheet please make your ... -
JP (HL) confusionokay.... JP nn will jump to memory address nn. JP (HL) ,I assumed would read the contents of memory address HL and jump to the location and be a gre…
... assumed would read the contents of memory address HL and jump ... cheap goto command instead of using a list of CP...JP nn ... ,bytetocheck ; Has to be a multiple of 2
LD L,A ... (HL) ; read/peek the contents of HL and jump to the ... -
JP (HL) confusionokay.... JP nn will jump to memory address nn. JP (HL) ,I assumed would read the contents of memory address HL and jump to the location and be a gre…
... ,bytetocheck ; Has to be a multiple of 2
LD L,A ... -
JP (HL) confusionokay.... JP nn will jump to memory address nn. JP (HL) ,I assumed would read the contents of memory address HL and jump to the location and be a gre…
... ,bytetocheck ; Has to be a multiple of 2
LD L,A ... ,bytetocheck ; Has to be a multiple of 2
LD HL,jumptable ... ". However, that broke a lot of assemblers and other tools which ... to scribble in the margin of the Z80 instruction set printout ... -
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%…
... respect the artists and copyrights of the original project. So using ... changing the colors of 3 or 4 screens out of 48 is no ... -
Once Upon A Time In Speccy Land....Yea, once upon a time in f@ckin Speccy Land huh.... Pissed off, fed up..basically don't give 2 ****s! Mongy Lards, Big Boobs, Big Women...F@CK IT!!! …
... to tell you any kind of patronizing crap like that.
of 3 months both from cancer, I ... mother, she's a shell of her former self, and has ...
