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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…
... go to the nearest coordinate multiple of N.
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Indeed. The need of selecting both settings is really ... raster feature. The only advantage of those selectors in comparison to ... selects
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Game of Life.Last year (I think) or maybe the year before, I entered a Game of Life simulator into the CSS CGC compo but for the Sinclair ZX81. I decided to port…
... off with a random "*" pattern of that density; 0 allows a ... or drift. The active area of 20*32 characters has a ... />
Here's a couple of useful pages for reference:
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Screen buffer Tip from Raff CeccoRaff very kindly gave me this tip: "Incidentally, I remembered a trick I used on the Z80 for extra speed: When clearing the screen buffer, it was a…
... love a detailed explanation of how the scrolling engine ... a load of UDGs arranged in strips of 3 or more ... within the attribute of a moving bit of scenery suggests that ... start with the top of the skull at 39139, ... the full 32 character width of the screen, as it ... -
ZX-Modules voting eventDear readers, before I went to a 10-hours shift on my real workplace, I want to announce that I've started a voting event for ZX-Modules, where you …
... working on the game scanner of ZX-Explorer. Adding big directories ... would give it a rating of 3 now, but I'm excluded ... -
ADG questionCan some one help me please. Using AGD 4.3, if I want to do a game with say 20 levels all vertical how to I make it so that when my man falls from t…
... that it's always a multiple of 2 as sprites move two ... pixels at a time, use of an odd number can play ... is close to the top of the screen -
Ensure my interrupt handler begins at the same T-stateHi! Is there a way to ensure that an IM 2 interrupt handler starts always at the same T-state (related to the moment the ULA triggers the INT line, w…
... a number of T-states which is a multiple of 4, and ... the main loop is full of ... the loop. The portion of instructions that aren't ... last a number of cycles which is multiple of 4 too.[/QUOTE ... 's an insane amount of work. The method described ... -
Ensure my interrupt handler begins at the same T-stateHi! Is there a way to ensure that an IM 2 interrupt handler starts always at the same T-state (related to the moment the ULA triggers the INT line, w…
... that had inspired that kind of response!!!!
:-D[/QUOTE ... CPU was at the beginning of the read cycle bus, it ... (I mean, that the number of T-states from that moment ... the interrupt comes, is a multiple of 4)
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Ensure my interrupt handler begins at the same T-stateHi! Is there a way to ensure that an IM 2 interrupt handler starts always at the same T-state (related to the moment the ULA triggers the INT line, w…
... CPU was at the beginning of the read cycle bus, it ... (I mean, that the number of T-states from that moment ... the interrupt comes, is a multiple of 4)[/QUOTE]
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Ensure my interrupt handler begins at the same T-stateHi! Is there a way to ensure that an IM 2 interrupt handler starts always at the same T-state (related to the moment the ULA triggers the INT line, w…
... branch would need to be multiple of 4T, that's a lot ... of work.
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Ensure my interrupt handler begins at the same T-stateHi! Is there a way to ensure that an IM 2 interrupt handler starts always at the same T-state (related to the moment the ULA triggers the INT line, w…
... branch would need to be multiple of 4T, that's a lot ... of work.[/quote]
Agreed! Though ... described doesn't need any of this.[/QUOTE]
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64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
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64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
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What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
... everybody else's money instead of their own.
After ... units and the second batch of 3,000 units. But after this ... , they will pay 10% of sales to charity, plus another ... 10% of sales to either charity or ... -
Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…
... 's expected. Litigation is part of their daily work :p
So you have a mix of 3 styles: line art, solid shapes ... don't know, from the 3 options (monochrome dither, solid shapes ... -
Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…
... 's expected. Litigation is part of their daily work :p
So you have a mix of 3 styles: line art, solid shapes ... don't know, from the 3 options (monochrome dither, solid shapes ... -
Monkey Island On Speccy...I would love to see Monkey Island on the speccy...think it can be done...not as much detail or graphics...but along the same story lines.... What ot…
... 's expected. Litigation is part of their daily work :p
So you have a mix of 3 styles: line art, solid shapes ... don't know, from the 3 options (monochrome dither, solid shapes ... -
What's everyone drinking?Since it's the weekend, i assume a lot of Wossers will be enjoying a drink or two. I'm enjoying a nice bottle of Miller. What's everyone drinking t…
... nothing to do, so 4 of us are going in tonight ... going to at least 1 of 3 parties, and I'm f ... -
IX+n and self modifying code and pasmoI'm using pasmo and if I wanted to use ix+n like this: (ix holds the position to a sinus table) ld (symbol), a LD a, (ix+symbol) What I want to do…
... on a page boundary (a multiple of 256, ie $xx00) you ... HL,table ; Point to start of table at $xx00
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This is an optimisation of the standard index-into-a ... -table type of code such as:
... HL,table ; Point to start of table at $wxyz
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IX+n and self modifying code and pasmoI'm using pasmo and if I wanted to use ix+n like this: (ix holds the position to a sinus table) ld (symbol), a LD a, (ix+symbol) What I want to do…
... on a page boundary (a multiple of 256, ie $xx00) you can ... HL,table ; Point to start of table at $xx00
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FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... insert exactly the same amount of space between each character. ... difference.
Because of this variation in resolution and ... 640x200 for an aspect ratio of 3.2:1. All the ... " (aspect ratio and indicator of pixel size). Actually maybe it ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... [QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous;811947]Because of this variation in resolution and ... resolution indicator to the names of the fonts themselves[/B] ... 640x200 for an aspect ratio of 3.2:1. All the ... " (aspect ratio and indicator of pixel size). Actually maybe it ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous;811947]Because of this variation in resolution and ... 640x200 for an aspect ratio of 3.2:1. All the fzx ... font formats that contain lots of metadata including pixel aspect ... likely that given the 4:3 ratio of a traditional display, for ... -
What's on your saucer?Thanks go out to frobush and zx1 for inspiring* this WoSser to create a yet another excellent WoS thread. Lunch 10 minutes ago. [IMG]http://i300.ph…
... from Lidl in a pack of 3 for 2.49 Euros. They ... also got plain Margheritas (3@1.99 Euros). Can't ... my pizzas with a bit of crunch in the crust and ... -
1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... up action consisting of 3 unexceptional minigame shooters. These 3 minigames are further ... protected by the ungainly manoeuvres of the ... -
Would you buy newly made copies of Speccy +3 disks?As a collector of +3 disk versions of games and prog's for the Speccy, I know how difficult it can be to obtain certain titles as they don't come up …
... piracy aside... did a new 3' disk factory open somewhere?
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Pet shop boysNormally this would not be what I listen to a lot of, and I know next to nothing about them. But I keep finding some of their singles worth listening…
... have a special version consisting of 3 12" 45 rpm records. ... track got is own side of a record, and the ... middles of the disk (the label ) ... high speed and groove spacing of a 12" we could ... is a good sounding collection of records but a pita to ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... ]. Just got to part 2 (of 3).
I've ... seems to be a lot of faffing with making/configuring/ ... I've used a lot of different combat tactics (oils, ... I noticed at the time of the encounter there was ... a place of power, which I think was about 3:30 before ...
