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Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... green\blue platforms are INK Green and PAPER BLUE then every time ... your INK Blue Sprite goes ... colour as well under the same scenario when one sprite just ... detection but was in the same character block.
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Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…
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Mr Do! ?Not exactly a new idea (at least twenty-seven years old now :-o), but how about a port of Mr Do! to the Spectrum? There was never an official one, ev…
... that the ink colour is made the same as the paper colour, to ... literally thousands of sheets of paper covered in notes. This way ... -
Mr Do! ?Not exactly a new idea (at least twenty-seven years old now :-o), but how about a port of Mr Do! to the Spectrum? There was never an official one, ev…
... that the ink colour is made the same as the paper colour, to ... literally thousands of sheets of paper covered in notes. This way ... -
ForthTrying to search for FORTH programs and FORTH articles within the forum is proving to be a complete nightmare!! If I search for FORTH in Infoseek I …
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Print text in assemblyHello, a perhaps simple question: I would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder how to do that in the most easy way? I seem to re…
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HP printer inks FRKN BSTRDS!I have a HP309g photosmart premium printer that I was given by HP when in the US last. Its a very high quality printer. Ok so one of the inks has ra…
... a filled-up purge spilling ink.
[b ... to the paper, it is recovered into a waste ink depot. ... the drum and the paper. That band also has ... monochrome printers, the waste ink depot is placed into ... the quality is nearly the same.
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inverting graphics using basic?just curious if it could be done by poking screen memory ? and what's the structure. (foreground / background for each char ? ) reason I ask is I'd …
... "over" could I do the same with Bright and / or flash ... ; BRIGHT 1; FLASH 1; INK 2; PAPER 6; AT 11,15;""
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BASIC Listing for loading screens then gameCould someone explain the code required to load a screen image followed by the game file please? I've lost my notes on loading the game (which I thin…
The easiest way to do it is to arrange to have a blank area on the screen where the "Bytes:" text will appear. Then all you have to do is set the INK and PAPER colours to be the same as it and you won't see anything appear. -
Push/Pop data copyingWe all know that stack pointer cheese and push/pop is faster to move data than LDIR - which in turn is slower than unrolled LDI's anyway. I rewrote …
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New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…
... BASIC loader now sets the INK/PAPER to black in the lower ... reverted back to 8, the same as in the pre-release ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... (1) look up the equivalent ink colour in the attribute map ... backbuffer pixel to the equivalent ink colour (basically define 8 + ... set (0) set the equivalent paper colour. You will of course ... />
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Rom Cartridge - How does it work?So I've got me an IF2 and it has this ROM cartridge slot. How does it work? I read Paul Farrows site but one question remains unanswered. If I have o…
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Legend of Kyrandia - ZX Spectrum DemoI was browsing the ZX Open Source site [url]http://opensourcezx.untergrund.net/[/url] and I found an interesting tr-dos disk image of a playable demo…
... priority values for the INK and PAPER pixels inside each character ... separate priorities for the INK and PAPER pixels for each character ... PAPER pixels are opaque (i.e. using same priority as the INK ... separate priorities for the INK (fence) and PAPER (brick wall) ... -
Legend of Kyrandia - ZX Spectrum DemoI was browsing the ZX Open Source site [url]http://opensourcezx.untergrund.net/[/url] and I found an interesting tr-dos disk image of a playable demo…
... In your suggestion, the INK and PAPER cells in the platform would ... higher priority than the INK and PAPER cells above and below ... of depth information for the same screen, switching between them ... would also work without the PAPER information anyway.
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... shades of the same colour for your INK and PAPER.
And it ...Printing photos on ZX PrinterIve looked, and even though i remember seeing how its done i cant re-find the post, someone point me in the general direction please?
[QUOTE=Macc;565443]exactly the same, still prints, how can i ... converter is making white ink on black paper areas instead of keeping ... it all black ink on white paper.
The printer ...Printing photos on ZX PrinterIve looked, and even though i remember seeing how its done i cant re-find the post, someone point me in the general direction please?
[QUOTE=Macc;565528]I think i see what you mean now, im using imagetozxspec, paper is set to white, ink is set to black, should it be the other way round?[/QUOTE]
the problem is that the converter isn't keeping the whole picture the same.Is Doctor Who the best that it's ever been?I'm surprised that there's been no Doctor Who thread recently, especially given the revelations we've seen recently. I've loved this last series (and…
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I did the same - Target novelisations FTW! Excepting ... any sense until the final reveal. This year there has been ... constantly getting characters from the same small pool cropping up ... the next series
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Not ...Is Doctor Who the best that it's ever been?I'm surprised that there's been no Doctor Who thread recently, especially given the revelations we've seen recently. I've loved this last series (and…
... going to be a big reveal about who the Doctor really ... have needed any bit of paper, he'd have convinced whoever ... , but do we need the SAME shorthand every single episode? Why ... to kids in quite the same way. Some of the old ...Need help with tzxingI recently got a copy of this Polish text game: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0006622[/url] I can't make a tzx of it howeve…
... 2 WAVs came from the same tape? The registration number ... br /> Yes, it's the same tape dumped twice
PAPER 7: FLASH 0: INK 0: CLS : ... PRINT AT 14,0; PAPER 4;" ... BRIGHT 0; PAPER 4,'' BRIGHT 1; PAPER 7;"\* COMPUTER ADVENTURE ...Annoying colour issues with UDGsMe again... Flush with the success of finding the latest version of BASin to play with I tried to buff the graphics of the various screen items All…
... only support two colours - INK & PAPER. So if the bottom ... right creature is cyan INK on black PAPER, as soon as ... upon the currently active INK & PAPER settings for each square ... the same location, so it affects whether pixels will display INK or PAPER ...IF....AND......THEN statementsSorry...more questions Now initially I thought this should work....but now thinking about it it is doomed to fail as if the player's x co ordinate a…
... have non-bright blue ink on black paper, for example.
... walls are blue ink on black paper (which should be ... and pills are white ink on black paper (which should be ... line 2090 checks the same value of xred, but ... is not checking the same value of xred as ...DATA vs PRINT and OVERjust messing about and came across this alternative way of drawing a map....now before I start mucking about with my actual program.....is there any …
... still seemed to have the same ATTR as the walls as ... line and picked up the ink, paper combo of print statement?DATA vs PRINT and OVERjust messing about and came across this alternative way of drawing a map....now before I start mucking about with my actual program.....is there any …
... still seemed to have the same ATTR as the walls as ... line and picked up the ink, paper combo of print statement?[/QUOTE ... +chr$ 2 would give red ink, iirc) into the strings, you ...DATA vs PRINT and OVERjust messing about and came across this alternative way of drawing a map....now before I start mucking about with my actual program.....is there any …
... still seemed to have the same ATTR as the walls as ... line and picked up the ink, paper combo of print statement?[/QUOTE ... $ 16 corresponds to INK
CHR$ 17 corresponds to PAPER
CHR ...Routine for clearing screenI was looking for a 'nice' way of clearing a screen of graphics in Z80. After a ridiculous amount of time mucking around, this is the best and most …
type-ins in zmakebas formati were about coding some type-ins from MicroHobby magazine, and found that there are 'semanal' tape series available at http://www.worldofspectrum.or…
... and BASin both share the same format - well, zMakeBAS ... 3,3 etc, the
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20 ...Routine for clearing screenI was looking for a 'nice' way of clearing a screen of graphics in Z80. After a ridiculous amount of time mucking around, this is the best and most …
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... and X being solid/empty (=same paper/ink) or a repeating background tile ... sky, you could just have ink/paper 5). In this example, you ... and then have fast moving ink/paper 0 attribute "skyscrapers" scroll rapidly ...
