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Clearing 22 lines of the screenHow do I go about clearing the top 22 lines of the screen and leave the bottom #0 area untouched? I have a routine to reset the attributes, but cant…
... ; 192 and minus another 32 for each line up
jr ... -Tape... your code is next - thanks for the comments in the code ... -
Finding an empty cell in a grid[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I?m after some advice on ways to tackle the following problem. I?m not after code to do this but would be interested in possibl…
... y) = obj: RETURN
FOR dist = 1 TO max
FOR a = x-dist TO x ... ) = obj: RETURN
NEXT a
FOR b = y-dist+1 ... = obj: RETURN
NEXT a
NEXT dist[/CODE]
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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…
... tile size to 32*32 for example?
[CODE] ... make up the tile. So for a 16x16 tile it prints ... the XY screen co-ordinates (for example B=0, C=0 ... that to move to the next space for a 16x16, you need ... along to get to the next tile after printing, as the ... -
My new Punk music radio showHi folks, just posting that i now do a punk music radio show on the internet if anybody fancies a listen, i play punk, OI!, folk punk, goth, bit of t…
Been busy the last couple o' weekends..but I might tune in next week for a listen! So long as you play me at least a couple of mellower tracks...I intend to be horrendously hungover! :D -
My new Punk music radio showHi folks, just posting that i now do a punk music radio show on the internet if anybody fancies a listen, i play punk, OI!, folk punk, goth, bit of t…
... ..but I might tune in next week for a listen! So long ... even played offspring - pretty fly for a white guy and new ... -
BrewDog beerI've recently been working my way through the wonderful range of Brewdog beers. Yum yum, shame there's no BrewDog pub near me :( I wonder if anyone…
... brewing? Haven't done any for over a year but I ... have a bash at this next, I think it's in ... />
Off to Barcelona next week for a three day beer tour ... -
So shooting 360 degrees?...[I]How do I go about having - for example - a cannon in the middle of the screen, that can shoot in any direction towards the player?[/I] Well, I do…
... you use the upper bytes for screen co-ordinates (and count ... ). [/QUOTE]
...and for simplicity of it all - ignore ... 255 will fail because next value for x++ is 0 and ... you could do a check for x < max(x) ... 's a performance penalty for that[/I] ) -
NEW CRONOSOFT RELEASE: Captain Drexx (128K)Hello all. It's been a while but there is a brand new Cronosoft release this week, CAPTAIN DREXX which is a 128K only Tower Assault type game. P…
... starved to death while waiting for the release :-D.[/QUOTE]
next up for release. Just need to ... tapes working and have done for a long long time, which ... -
What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... have been a selling point for many folk, although not everyone ... would have made this prohibitive for many home users who ... officially positioned as the ?next step? for most Spectrum users anyway ( ... users), the only sensible route for Sinclair would have been to ... -
games that need mouse supporthas anyone ever tried to hack in mouse support to existing speccy games? HeroQuest needs it badly, the cursor moves so slowly that the game isn't fu…
Yes, but it's not all. I must add next software for K-MOUSE, soon....
Now I have no time, but if anyone need, can I adjust any game to order ( 30 USD / one game ) :lol: -
Vintage Computing Festival Berlin (VCFB) Chiptune-Party 4. October with irrlicht projHi, sadly I can?t be there: Vintage Computing Festival Berlin (VCFB): [url]http://vcfb.de/2014/[/url] with Chiptune-Party on 4. October 2014: [url…
... ! We hope to join them next year for all 3 days. The ... -
Creating a linked list in Z80[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am using a circular buffer to store tiles to be displayed on the screen. Tiles only appear for a set period of time, so when …
... for a single two-byte next pointer. For list, there must be space for ... two 2-byte pointers (next ... : defs 4 ;; four bytes for the list structure
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Fast Condition TestingHello my friends, I have been writing some input and string handling routines in BASIC lately - yeah I could write them super fast in C/ASM via z88d…
... 2902/3: wait for key release before next keypress check
... FOR a=1 TO 31: LET a$(a)=CHR$ 30: NEXT ... a:
FOR a=1 TO LEN ... l$(a))=CHR$ 30: NEXT a:
LET a$( ... CODE a$(c)*100:
NEXT z:
RETURN
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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…
Brilliant mashup Myke!
Have you decided the results yet or wavering?
Gab should be the next host for so cruelly withdrawing his game :p -
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…
... /> Gab should be the next host for so cruelly withdrawing his game ... would be a cruel punishment for all of you ! :D
HELLO RAINBOW: An Aural Guide to the ZX SpectrumHey everyone! My band [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6iwYgMkgg"]YamaYama[/URL] is covering our favorite (mostly) beeper tunes from the ZX S…
Here's our next video for the project, Tim Follin's music for Subterranean Stryker. One of the sillier tracks in the project, and really fun!
[youtube]wJwHsrjyOSo[/youtube]Chromium / Iceweasel screen shotsFogartylee asked me in <a href="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/50633/the-magic-s-gone/p3">this thread</a> to post a screenshot. Pos…
... page I've saved before for this new forum, and there ... total of 640k. My next game for the Spectrum is a bit ...New NIRVANA+ feature: wide tiles!The size of each bicolor tile in [b]NIRVANA+[/b] is 2x2 characters (16x16 pixels), like this: [img]http://i60.tinypic.com/mw358y.png[/img] [i]* M…
... /> here is a little set for example
[img]http ... here is a sprite routine for drawing
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;hl ... ;or here we can calculate next line for scr adr
Iron Maiden - The Book Of SoulsMaiden's new album - I quite like it, but.... What do you guys think??
... the festival circuit as usual next year for us.r-type in development for the sam coupehttp://cookingcircle.co.uk/ we need z80 coders graphics artists and audio this is the amstrad cpc 6128 version: https://www.youtube.com/watc…
Next types for R-TYPE speed increasing:
< ... this memory at full 6MHz for increase speed...
- disable ... on unused parts of screen. For example height of active screen ... be 170 TV lines and next 22 screen lines will disable ...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…
Played Fallout 4 today for a few hours, did the first mission saving the settlers and they went back to Sanctuary, next step for me is to go to Diamond City to help find my son, i bet there's many Deathclaws i'll meet along the way ;)Good modern(ish) comedies?I'm looking for the names of good TV comedies that I haven't seen, so let's start a discussion about good TV comedies so that I and everyone else can…
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+1 for still game .a series with ... then moving on to the next scene for more of the same ...Good modern(ish) comedies?I'm looking for the names of good TV comedies that I haven't seen, so let's start a discussion about good TV comedies so that I and everyone else can…
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+1 for still game .a series with ... then moving on to the next scene for more of the same ... much but they may return next year with a new series ...Good modern(ish) comedies?I'm looking for the names of good TV comedies that I haven't seen, so let's start a discussion about good TV comedies so that I and everyone else can…
[quote="moggy;840590"]+1 for still game .a series with ... then moving on to the next scene for more of the same ...RIP LemmyAs you all know I don't normally like these threads but this is a big one. Lemmy from Motorhead died this evening, thought he was indestructible. …
Next pints for Lemmy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Qzb-tuwbYCompression comparisonsI did some comparisons of different compression methods. To make this relevant to zx spectrum, I first gathered a corpus of relevant data: 6660 .TAP …
... "1", with W>Z. For uniform distribution, average byte duration ... only add the extra bit for the cases where it's ... the number of 1 bits: for 0-2, we add an ... don't add anything extra. For 6-8, we invert the ... 3-5, just process the next byte. For 6-8, it must ...Compression comparisonsI did some comparisons of different compression methods. To make this relevant to zx spectrum, I first gathered a corpus of relevant data: 6660 .TAP …
... only add the extra bit for the cases where it's ... the number of 1 bits: for 0-2, we add an ... extra 0 bit. For 3-5, we don't ... add anything extra. For 6-8, we invert the ... 3-5, just process the next byte. For 6-8, it must ...divIDE emulationI'm banging my head against a brick wall here,so i am asking for some help. Until i get my funds together for a real divIDE for my hardware,i have b…
Yes. Thank you very much. I like it!
The next project for me will be to get FUSE working with ESXDOS v0.8.6 Beta 4 ...Games that need more than one fire buttonI need know list of ZX games that need more than one fire buttons. Ideally games which use more additional keys (lemmings, r-type, etc...).
I fix next games for two fire buttons support in kempston mode:
MAMBO, MARAUDER, R-TYPE, MIDNIGHT RESISTANCEI don't think I'm getting the $22AA Pixel-Add rom routineDear all, I'm misunderstanding how the PIXEL-ADD rom routine works. My code... [code]ld b,175 ld c,1 call $22AA ld (hl),a ret[/code] So…
... / 8'. So let's say for X = 0 this gives 0 ... we've moved to the next byte. For the most part, what ...
