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  • For Tetris experts/mega-obsessed fanatics !A difficult question, this: does anybody know any 'strategy' for clearing the entire area, i.e. fitting the pieces in such a way, that, eventually, a…

    ... ]

    Firstly, it's not easy to make 4 lines ... line constellations" for filling with square (2x2) or "T" shaped element ...
    Alex_Lux Alex_Lux February 2004 Games
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... :
    certainly DRBs are
    not a proper tool for this ... ear port that's simple square waves, or pulse on/off ... because the emulated speccy could *not* tell the difference between a ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • SID vs AY?We've all heard how the music on the C64 was apparently the best thing since sliced bread, and that it beat anything produced on the Spectrum hands d…

    ... triangle waves and the other square. They have different harmonics but ... which it is imaginatively but not literally applicable 2. an instance ...
    Spector Spector February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Martianoids Map Editor Yup, I`ve managed to get instructions written it`s now ready for downloading at [url="http://www.angelfire.com/retro/carcass/index.htm"]www.angelf…

    ... the speccy version (which does not exist)
    After doing some ... to the simple one-character-square-per-pixel routine that are ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins April 2004 Games
  • Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…

    ... , which brings us back to square one... Sometimes you just can ... I loosed ;). My intention was not to win, but to discuss.
    LCD LCD April 2004 Games
  • My first attempt at Gigascreen interlacingWonderful. Did some research on the port which controls memory paging and wrote a short BASIC programme to switch pages 5 and 7 in and out of the scr…

    ... 's right! And it is not an enhanced clone, but a ... .[/quote]
    My +3s in not an original computer, of neither ... , not interlaced. In this mode the pixel is no longer square, but ...
    secarica secarica May 2004 Development
  • COVOX works?My Sprinter "simulates" a COVOX soundcard at port 4Fh, but I don't know how to use it! Can anyone explain to me the process of programming it? (To be…

    ... /> The AY chip creates square wave tones. To simulate that ... then you get perfect square waves like the AY ... not equal the duration of the low value, you get square ... 40%, which is not 50% so this square wave will be ... SID-like and not AY- ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2004 Development
  • COVOX works?My Sprinter "simulates" a COVOX soundcard at port 4Fh, but I don't know how to use it! Can anyone explain to me the process of programming it? (To be…

    ... = 40%, which is not 50% so this square wave will be SID ... -like and not AY-like ...
    Fikee Fikee May 2004 Development
  • COVOX works?My Sprinter "simulates" a COVOX soundcard at port 4Fh, but I don't know how to use it! Can anyone explain to me the process of programming it? (To be…

    ... 40%, which is not 50% so this square wave will be ... SID-like and not AY- ... of what sounds like square waves. I'd guess ... like a 12-16kHz perfect square wave (50% duty cycle ...
    Anyway, this perfect square wave is driving the speaker ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2004 Development
  • Astroclone...Huh... Does anybody make sense of astroclone at all? I have seen the tipshop, but they speak in strange ways. There is this defender game, then kill…

    ... in the previous game). Not so bad now that we ... enemy ships in the square plus the square itself (e.g. ... have more ships in a square than them - this ... from sending ships past the square, although it's usually ... up their forces in a square.

    Destroying ...
    Jmk Jmk July 2004 Games
  • need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …

    ... . But I think it might not be any quicker than shifting ... speed it up is to not perform a check after each ... which line of a character square your will be starting on ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2004 Development
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... when you were a kid (not now) what would it have ... than two colours per character square makes games like Head over ...
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2004 Games
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... only 2 colours per character square.

    By halving the ... an extra 2 colours per square.

    It's all ... colours were used per character square, then the memory used could ... to correct me. I'm not a tech-head :)
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2004 Games
  • Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…

    ... ?

    You know, having not touched a Speccy in earnest ... to work with 1 bit square wave forms of course.
    not try this at home kiddies ...
    Speculator Speculator October 2004 Development
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... or PAPER and BRIGHT is not attribute bound.

    You ... INK/PAPER colours per attribute square. FLASH is crap.

    cyborg cyborg October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... of this, but I did not mention this detail intentionally. I ... or PAPER and BRIGHT is not attribute bound.
    [/quote]
    square. FLASH is crap.
    [/quote ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • gta on the spectrumhas anyone thought about converting the game grand theft auto to the spectrum or mayby making a parody of it.

    ... the past decade. Unlike those Square 'RPGs' it actually plays like ... a roleplaying game and not some glorified linear adventure game ...
    Collie Collie November 2004 Games
  • Recommend a 48k music program for me, or teach me how to search for them in infoseek. ThxThe only 48k music tracker I happen to know is Wham! Which ones do you like? Can anybody point me to some old threads on the subject? Thanks, E

    ... to use more or less square-wave pitches for 1-3 ... and that's it? (NB: not that I wouldn't be ...
    Erlstoned Erlstoned November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recommend a 48k music program for me, or teach me how to search for them in infoseek. ThxThe only 48k music tracker I happen to know is Wham! Which ones do you like? Can anybody point me to some old threads on the subject? Thanks, E

    eh? Not really - the 128k has 3 channels of square-waves ( and a ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recommend a 48k music program for me, or teach me how to search for them in infoseek. ThxThe only 48k music tracker I happen to know is Wham! Which ones do you like? Can anybody point me to some old threads on the subject? Thanks, E

    ... /> eh? Not really - the 128k has 3 channels of square-waves ( and ... much more complex than simple square waves :)

    [quote] Most ... tune using 4 octaves is not going to produce the sound ...
    Erlstoned Erlstoned November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recommend a 48k music program for me, or teach me how to search for them in infoseek. ThxThe only 48k music tracker I happen to know is Wham! Which ones do you like? Can anybody point me to some old threads on the subject? Thanks, E

    ... /> eh? Not really - the 128k has 3 channels of square-waves ( and ... much more complex than simple square waves :)

    [/quote]< ... />
    Nope - it's just Square waves and volume envelopes. On ... - but it's still only square waves.


    ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Pixel LimitIF Y3&lt;192 THEN : LET x2=INT (128+X*A*SIN A): LET y2=INT (Y3): DRAW INK

    ... to pixel 0,0? If not, how would it be CODEd ... you are not referring to the 2 colour per character square attribute ...
    monty.mole monty.mole November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Spectrum 3.5 Floppy help and adviceGod I'm useless. Can I please ask for some serious advice here as I'm just too uneducated to get anywhere with this! The Problem. I want to be abl…

    [quote]
    On 2004-12-07 10:52, DodgyGeezer wrote:
    I have got a plus d and use standed HD disks with it.
    The problem is accessing from a PC.
    You must cover up the hole opposite the read/write tab.
    [/quote]

    yep, thats ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum 3.5 Floppy help and adviceGod I'm useless. Can I please ask for some serious advice here as I'm just too uneducated to get anywhere with this! The Problem. I want to be abl…

    [quote]
    On 2004-12-07 12:35, Steve Parry-Thomas wrote:
    Quazar Quazar December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Heads Up : Sinclair and his C5 on BBC1: 2.20 a.m. soon Don`t know how much`ll be about sinclair or C5, and it`s about Bush as well, and I know how much we all love that.. oops.. him "Seemed like a goo…

    not just that funny man who ... funny man with those big square glasses
    I could go ...
    guesser guesser December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Announce Pasmo 0.5.1Hello. New release 0.5.1 of Pasmo, multiplatform Z80 cross-assmbler. The main news are related to macros: the MACRO parameters now are expanded ins…

    ... indeed! I especially liked the square bracket feature and include-binary ... , because the "module" name is not an entry point. However, in ...
    Erlstoned Erlstoned January 2005 Development
  • Announce Pasmo 0.5.1Hello. New release 0.5.1 of Pasmo, multiplatform Z80 cross-assmbler. The main news are related to macros: the MACRO parameters now are expanded ins…

    ... indeed! I especially liked the square bracket feature and include-binary ... /> Thanks, but these ideas are not mine, both where suggested by ... , because the "module" name is not an entry point. However, in ...
    NotFound NotFound January 2005 Development
  • Spectrum programmingI have a Spectrum+ at home. I tried to write some programs in BASIC (IIRC i wrote a breakout clone in which you had to hit those spider-like characte…

    ... pixel) but the layout is not. The attribute format is FLASH ... INK. BRIGHT affects the entire square. FLASH inverts the PAPER and ... />
    The bitmap file is not contigous between lines. Instead 4020h ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2005 Development
  • Them! (project future modelled game) hello! i was hoping someone could answer a problem i am having completing this game.i have recorded the game for RZX viewing yet,i cannot complete i…

    ... an end to them,however,not as simple as the ... certainly not to me anyway.i often thought that red square had ... as it is the only square of its kind within the ... have gone to the red square,however,you cannot "enter" ... stand on/in the red square? he just won't do ...
    xMIKExFORxLIFEx xMIKExFORxLIFEx January 2005 Games
  • Games Club Week2 The second games club game is the Shoot-em up Uridium you can download the game and instructions here [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.…

    ... me.
    (and it is not flashing - I don?t get ... from Slovakia, and you've not seen the eastern european demo ... ? Christ, "many attributes per char square" is the *least* that these ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Games
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