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  • Could ELITE's wireframe graphics be improvedWas watching this video last night comparing the BBC and Spectrum version of Elite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov4OAteeGWs It seems that the…

    ... Micro version's total lack of disregard for syncing ... a lot on the screen. If you remember looking ... draw straight to the screen on the Speccy ver ... is the screen layout in RAM, making sure lines are fully ... of them) between each screen refresh was probably too ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay August 2015 Games
  • Preservation prioritiesHi all! Firstly, thanks to the WoS staff for setting this category up. Secondly, thanks to you for all for backing the idea, and in anticipation o…

    ... have a flatbed scanner, but lack a decent soldering iron and ... , you can! There are two lines of attack: ROMs in the ... to display *something* on the screen as soon as possible, so ...
    zub zub September 2015 Hardware Preservation
  • Preservation prioritiesHi all! Firstly, thanks to the WoS staff for setting this category up. Secondly, thanks to you for all for backing the idea, and in anticipation o…

    ... have a flatbed scanner, but lack a decent soldering iron and ... , you can! There are two lines of attack: ROMs in the ... to display *something* on the screen as soon as possible, so ...
    guesser guesser September 2015 Hardware Preservation
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    ... disks It could probably handle Opus "original spec" disks
    Opus is not , "that bad" "red wire" wise ... wiring decisions . The Opus was of course pre ... point. Undoubtedly the lack of modularity limited what ... I will blame the lack of modularity ("that's ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio October 2015 Hardware
  • Awful Q.I. newsTerrible news for fans of the TV programme Q.I., it's going to be hosted in future by Sandi Toksvig. Stephen Fry is leaving after thirteen years, and…

    ... shouldn't be on the screen anyway, and you don't ... either very minor characters (four lines and that's it), or ... also suffer from (stupidity, vanity, lack of a given skill, etc ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2015 Chit chat
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    ... power supply constraints/weakness (and lack of spare parts availability) ... too many Spectrums for Opus Discovery and stick with ... supply on Opus No 1 "Flying Opus" has the same "red wires" ... become available again once the Opus projects are finished . For ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio October 2015 Hardware
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... the gameplay, the total [i]lack of depth[/i]h or ... afford only two enemies on screen simultaneously.

    What's ... above, while the border becomes red when the shields are - briefly ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel November 2015 Games
  • ZX81 Character SetHello, hope I don't offend anyone with my request. I've put together a program on my Amstrad that redefines a condensed text and displays it appropri…

    ... ] to get my Characters to screen, though it's obviously slower ... it once, manually delete the lines, write the rendering program and ... the rendering, especially since the lack of bitwise operations would mean ...
    GReW GReW December 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fallout 4Looks like it will be announced tomorrow: http://fallout.bethsoft.com/<br>

    ... with after setting up trade lines.

    Basically ... own speed. I mean Red Rocket sat empty for the ... me. I only populated Red Rocket a week or so ... to start setting up trade lines. Sanctuary is kind of ... it comes up on the screen "Strong liked that". So ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek January 2016 Chit chat
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    ... br /> Regarding Data and Addres lines a 'false' line can be ... data and address lines against
    ground at the Opus' edgeconnector. By ...
    exchanging the black and red wires. Make notes. A single ... a similar picture of the lines M1, RSFH, MEMRQ
    ...
    roko roko April 2016 Hardware
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... flicker, synchronizing just near screen pixel start, the best suitable ...
    Border Legend:
    1 - Red Border is Sync from Frame ... br /> 3 - Blue Border marks screen end.

    So ... />

    Cutting 8 lines in height, allows for an ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... flicker, synchronizing just near screen pixel start, the best suitable ...
    Border Legend:
    1 - Red Border is Sync from Frame ... br /> 3 - Blue Border marks screen end.

    So ... />

    Cutting 8 lines in height, allows for an ...
    Maziacs Maziacs June 2016 Development
  • IKARI WARRIORS loading screenHello again, here is my attempt at an alternative loading screen for IKARI WARRIORS. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/IW%201.j…

    Superb screen, great use of colors, and ... believe that those small green lines on the left and right ... it's 2 or 3 red pixels, it will break the ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Games
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    ... /> This shows the screen effects when the RED button is pressed on ... fitted on the right side Opus Discovery edge connector.. These effects ... " that I still have an Opus compatible Multiface . . .
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio October 2016 Hardware
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    ... A
    On the "Flying Opus" (Red stripe on Right) on drive ... "Freebird" it did a black screen but it did a "CAT ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio October 2016 Hardware
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... at the side of the screen will lower: once it touches ... the arrive of the [b]Red Cross[/b] parcel, a box ... , [b][i]or just of... lack of memory.[/i][/b]
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel October 2016 Games
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    ... on "Peripheral Through Connector" on Opus Discovery "Big Brother"
    ... up when I pressed the RED button : this worked using ... works on the relatively unmodified Opus Discovery "Big Brother".
    ... Multiface logo showing up on screen.

    3) ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio October 2016 Hardware
  • "ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…

    ... posts.[/b]

    The screen for the "ZX81 Brain" calculator ...
    - a redesigned screen to reflect the black, red and white of ... there are a lot of lines of code to execute every ... look flash with all my screen POKEs!)

    Features I ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Café turco com os ex-jugoslavos: o jogoWhile looking for videos of Fuse on Sony PSP, I've run into this recent game. http://arquivosdeelenaceausescu.net76.net/cturco/jogozxspectrum.html …

    ... photos. Please ignore the (lack of) quality of the ... , you can choose from three screen sizes;

    ... enlarge the Spectrum's playable screen. Despite being stretched, the ... I used the Fairlight loading screen, which wasn't too ... as it has a red border.
    ewgf ewgf March 2017 Brand new software
  • Crystal Kingdom Dizzy Remake[img]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hu3KFlY4PPQ/WPKTFRnh2mI/AAAAAAAAhRo/Fb92COWf6oMPL4oyEQ_z_Ep6BrRHUCOPgCLcB/s640/Crystal0.jpg[/img] [quote]Dizzy fan…

    ... , a screen came up and there were black and red "loading lines" round ...
    ianep ianep April 2017 Brand new software
  • Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …

    ... some situations.

    Unfortunately lack of documentation is a problem ... from one of the clib= lines will be read depending on ... to do with keyboard and screen I/O I assume I ... [/url]) that operate directly on screen addresses or with your own ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • ZXBaremulator v2.0Hi all, I've released the new version of my ZX Spectrum bare-metal for Raspberry PI. The new features and the images can be found on my project si…

    ... read which was along the lines of "loaded Batty (Encore) " So ... . I am not seeing any RED but at least I am ... "old style" very heavy composite screen power supply which is normally ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio November 2017 Emulators
  • Replacing lower RAM 4116 ZX Spectrum 48k - desoldering advice please?A long post, but interesting pictures perhaps. :) I'd like some advice: (also apologies I think I picked the wrong 'Hardware' category for this, plea…

    ... now links to just a red lead to those diodes.
    lines across the screen.

    This is ...
    Kamineko Kamineko November 2017 Hardware
  • ZXBaremulator v3.H(ikoki) BetaHi, Thanks to a Recreated ZX kindly donated by Hikoki, I've added support for it to ZXBaremulator. Now two keyboards can be connected to the PI…

    ... bar it not turned RED (to lock the game ... moves the menu screen away to blank screen , then back ... pressed . Ideally the screen menu should stay put ... blank screen a reminder could be displayed along the lines ... to turn selection bar RED and confirm selected game ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio March 2018 Emulators
  • Opus Discovery not WorkingHello hope you can help, or if this thread goes well that you also find the answers you are looking for... I have an Opus discovery that does not …

    ... , with my opus i was getting a simular screen and when i ... and was searching for the opus outputs on its edge connector ... voltmeter here and then the red tests the 5v, 12v and ...
    hedge hedge March 2018 Hardware
  • Not exactly an idea for a new game...... or even something new but more of an idea for existing games. However, I don't know if this has been tried before (or if it is possible to pul…

    ... never tell where the lines are going to fall ... screens on alternate pixel lines so part of both ... HD replicate the Spectrum screen memory for producing ... display the 128K shadow screen whilst the normal Spectrum ... screen-flipping, again you could get it to merge red ...
    joefish joefish August 2018 New game ideas
  • Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …

    ... inverted to white paper with red ink by switching one bit ... alternating lines of colour down the screen, as inverting the opposing lines gives ... the phosphor glow of the screen. Running an Oric (or ... Oric emulator) on an LCD screen makes it quite obvious.
    Antiriad2097 Antiriad2097 December 2018 Hardware
  • Limitations of emulationsYears ago at a trade fair, I got chatting to the guys who programmed [i]Gyron[/i]. They were demonstrating it and showed me an undocumented feature: …

    ... would also use 128K screen-swapping to alternate lines of the two ... (e.g. yellow and white, red and magenta) but trying to ... get orange by flickering red and yellow was just a ...
    joefish joefish January 2019 Games
  • Limitations of emulationsYears ago at a trade fair, I got chatting to the guys who programmed [i]Gyron[/i]. They were demonstrating it and showed me an undocumented feature: …

    ... would also use 128K screen-swapping to alternate lines of the two ... (e.g. yellow and white, red and magenta) but trying to ... get orange by flickering red and yellow was just a ... ]

    I remember alternating lines looking like slight noise on ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek January 2019 Games
  • TZX/Taper headachesI've been doing a stocktake of all my Spectrum stuff, most of which I bought in a job lot a few years back, and there's a whole load of covertapes in…

    ... comes up in the standard red and cyan, the second in ... first of these is in red and cyan but the second ... ; the loading lines appear in red and cyan, the loading screen fails to ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone May 2019 Games
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