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Print routine for BASIC (or BASin)For anyone interested there's a crappy binary here to print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import the binary at 60000, USR 60000 to initia…
... print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import the binary at ... -
Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was ... -
Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…
... the '9' will scroll one pixel upwards at a time into ... -
Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …
... time doing an array to pixel using plot mechanism (yuck) then ... -
Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …
... converts the nibble-per-pixel to byte-per-pixel so I can ... -
Mode 2 Tile Editor SourceA Timex Mode 2 Tile Editor incorporating a byte mirror table. The compiled version is available in the CSSCGC 2008 collection from the WoS archive. …
... displaying and editing 16x16
; pixel tiles for use with TS2068 ... -
Issue two picture qualityDoes anyone know if issue two and earlier spectrums have worse picture quality (in general, beside colours) compared to issue 3 and later? I mean on…
... , i can see faint vertical bars on a white paper and ... -
Emulating RGB triad (aperture grill effect)This post is slightly off topic. But I'm going to use this effect on my speccy screen viewer... I was trying different kind of tv emulation effects,…
... know how to calculate every pixel colour in rgb triad effect ... -
horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…
... move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m ... -
Competition Pro 5000 Joystic.As promised here is a short(ish) review of the joystick. (I have taken the afternoon off work in the hope that it would be here when I got in and it…
... Miner Willy moves just one pixel along the screen.
I ... -
Problem with my speccy 48+My machine boots up but apon booting it freezes and you can see feint grey horizontal 1 pixel lines going down the screen. Is this fixable at all?
My machine boots up but apon booting it freezes and you can see feint grey horizontal 1 pixel lines going down the screen. Is this fixable at all? -
Name this gameI'm looking for a side scroller thats set in space (the main char is on foot not in a ship) the main character was a bit like Johnny Bravo. The only…
... roof (sort of like monkey bars) and kick enemy's while ... -
So you think you know your Spectrum games, do you....I thought this might be a fun thing to test your knowledge of Spectrum games - below is a quote taken directly from Crash in their description of a p…
... /> (6) "Each location contains four bars, and on the wall opposite ... -
kempston mouse gamesHi velesoft, I've just been on your site trying some of these out. There are certainly some spectrum games that could have benefitted greatly from …
... the mouse to generate new pixel coordinates? I ask because I ... but if it were using pixel coordinates I think the game ... -
HD enclosures - might be of some use to someone?Basically, it's an external 'icy box' 3.5" HD enclosure but i've taken out the circuit board that was in there and power supply gubbins for an embedd…
... . It also has blue LED bars in three of the sides ... -
Those RANDOMIZE USR lines that look like tape loading...I often see on here people mentioning those RANDOMIZE USR lines which when entered, seem to simulate a tape loading, with the colours and lines in th…
... "lead in" blue and red bars, and when record is pressed ... -
Death of CRT=Death of Spectrum?I was testing an old PC Engine console on the LCD TV in my house, and couldn't believe how awful the picture was. With giant ugly unblended pixels th…
... I'm playing Jet Set Pixel, 3D Pixelchase and Target Pixelcade ... -
Happy birthday FontsHelvetica which is the secondary font for WOS is fifty years old this year whereas Arial, the primary font at WOS is 25 years old. That's the same a…
... -case font which is one pixel slimmer than the 1979 ZX80 ... -
Does anyone else find Dan Brown suspect?Don't get me wrong, he's a good entertaining [i]fiction[/i] writer -- as long as the emphasis is on "fiction"; unfortunately, he has the annoying hab…
... , despite the fact that the bars of soap in Louvre toilets ... -
Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…
... character across the screen one pixel at the time. I do ... -
Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…
... 4 vertical black and white bars over the screen. I suspect ... these characteristic black and white bars appear on the screen (I ... -
Tommy GunHi, Got a few suggestions etc. for Tommy Gun. Well done Kiwi et. al. for a fantastic application. I would like to add the following suggestions: …
... to suggest that you store pixel data in a [B]HexString ... -
Something completely different (new game tech-demo)Since finishing Stranded 2.5 (available soon from Cronosoft - plug!) I've been playing with the idea of doing an attribute-based, rather than pixel-b…
... an attribute-based, rather than pixel-based, game, and you can ... -
Preferred way of determining Y co-ord in assembly?I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking…
... the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in ... the Y address of each pixel row.
But are ... y co-ord of a pixel row efficiently? It would be ... -
is the great british pub dying?the pub i went to last night has closed, the landladys leaving it cos her 6months lease is up and shes moving to portugal to run a pub. she said its …
... /> also due to the clone bars / wine bars in larger cities / towns ... -
Breakdown (especially ATTN Starglider)Has any one played the XBox (maybe PC/PS2 etc?) game Breakdown? It's a first person shooter that I'd forgotten all about, and so didn't mention when …
... , such as walk, hang onto bars, or climb ladders. Alright, so ... -
Has the airport scanner killed my laptop??I am now in the USA and am writing this from my Best Western Hotel room. I am basically in the sh1t a little bit. Rather than fork out for a new la…
... vertical stripy, like every other pixel is being coloured bright green ... -
concerning soviet graphicsis there any game using a similar tricky technique how to let colorful objects move fluently with no color clash as soviet? (the colorful tops of bui…
... above do move in 8-pixel steps, but lower floors of ... -
Things that games didn't had, but...you wish they did. Here's my list, and if there's someone out there who knows how to make any of these things possible, please share it with us. :) …
... Studio: Replace that square (the pixel tool) with an arrow, just ...
