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FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... , blank the text left one pixel, blank the text right one ... pixel and then draw the text ... /> The xor is for easy print/erase.
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FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... can vary from one set pixel to all 8 set pixels ... 'shift' that avoids having to print the unused portion above the ... -
So our Spectrums are faster than modern computers at some things...According to John Carmack, anyway: [url]https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480622533120001[/url] who said: [quote="John Carmack"] I can se…
... though. That's a packet based scheme so anything might happen ... a command to write a pixel to actually putting it in ... -
New bicolour game: El Stompo.Phew! Finally finished my first game using Einar's fantastic Nirvana engine. [B]El Stompo.[/B] [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/davey…
... ]aowen[/B] published a tile-based graphics engine, but I managed ... the colour changes every two pixel rows. Making it stable on ... -
Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... display file in both the print character routine and the plot ... plot in full colour, every pixel having its own ink colour ... -
Latin-1 font for FZXI'm currently creating some [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1"]Latin-1[/URL] (ISO 8859-1) characters to be added into [URL="http://www.world…
... , and with an 8?8 pixel bitmap font, this would take ... character set and encoding. Something based on Latin-1 with a ... /fonts/index.html"]PSF fonts based on the fonts of the ... -
Help needed with calculating screen addressesCan anyone help me finally crack Jonathan Cauldwell's screen addressing calculator and, more to the point, is the reason I'm struggling because this …
... use(d) the screencoordinates like PRINT AT and PLOT in the ... a line a moving ball (pixel) was shown on the screen ... -
What is this Nirvana engine?Ive been trying to look for a thread on this but cant seem to locate one. I downloaded a spanish game called El Stompo that uses this engine which ha…
... (the colours) vertically in pixel steps. The screen is ... custom engine that is 8x1 pixel multicolour (8 attributes per ... graphics are mainly 16x16 pixel tile-based, as that is what ... placed to 8-pixel precision horizontally and 2-pixel precision vertically, ... -
ZX Alien Breed - WIPI'm sure a lot of you have seen the discussion in the New Game Ideas area about a Speccy version of the classic Amiga game Alien Breed. I've been dro…
... may check out some stack-based routines to see if they ... deliberately drawn with a 2 pixel border at the opposite end ... -
Spectrum screen layoutSeeing the thread on displacement I was wondering why the spectrum had the stupid screen split into three sections and the addresses for each section…
... much of my reply is based. In particular, see Chapter ... the ULA is drawing the pixel area, allowing CPU execution ... representation of 010YYyyy YYYxxxxx for pixel addresses and 010110YY YYYxxxxx ... make addressing of 8?8 pixel character blocks more cumbersome, ... -
Making new Spectrum graphics on a MacI would love to have a go and try to do some graphics for a NEW Spectrum game. It would be the first Spectrum game I've worked on since I worked on '…
... answer.. lots of people there pixel.. would maybe give a good ... art programs though ? pallete n pixel etc ?
there are ... "ish" modes but again windows based.
can't you ... -
SpellboundOUYA - an official Spellbound remakeWith David actively working on Finders Keepers+, now seems a pretty good time to mention this Spellbound remake, made with his kind permission and cr…
... suggested we write a game based on a knight in armour ... draw a 16 x 16 pixel image :). True, he didn't ... -
UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
... 't know why you'd print chr$ to get the UDGs ... list of UDGs vertically one pixel at a time, so you ... -
Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
... print routines, then try writing the code in my own Macro-based ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
This routine calculates pixel-wise length of a string ... can use FZX Length to print string centered on a line ... -
Why are rotozoomers on C=64 so fast ?Hi, I noticed rotozoomers on C64 are really fast. I'm not the best coder on Speccy but I know my pet I never succeed to do rotozoomer (or rotating ch…
... 200 pixel display with 8x8 pixel attribute cells, bitmapped or character-based modes ... -
Drawing a dotted line...Hi Folks, I cannot be the first person to want this (?) so here goes! Does anyone have a MC routine that does the same as the BASIC DRAW command bu…
... not depend on the start pixel position of the line, but ... on/off patterns that are based on the MC address of ... -
Drawing a dotted line...Hi Folks, I cannot be the first person to want this (?) so here goes! Does anyone have a MC routine that does the same as the BASIC DRAW command bu…
... BASIC. The sub-routine is based on the example on page ... d$="" THEN STOP
11 PRINT AT 0,15;VAL (CHR ... -
Drawing a dotted line...Hi Folks, I cannot be the first person to want this (?) so here goes! Does anyone have a MC routine that does the same as the BASIC DRAW command bu…
... BASIC. The sub-routine is based on the example on page ... d$="" THEN STOP
11 PRINT AT 0,15;VAL (CHR ... -
Change PAPER and BORDER colours from machine codeHow do you go about changing PAPER and BORDER colours from machine code? I've forgotten the system variables for border and paper.
... making the jump from this PRINT based UDG stuff after the next ... -
Change PAPER and BORDER colours from machine codeHow do you go about changing PAPER and BORDER colours from machine code? I've forgotten the system variables for border and paper.
... making the jump from this PRINT based UDG stuff after the next ... -
Susan Kare 5 Dots Font...Hi Folks, Thought I would have a go at creating a version of Susan Kare's "5 Dots" font for the Spectrum. Susan's example on her web site gives the…
... [/url] that enabled speccy to print in 32 (8x8 pixels), 36 ... know if you want 8x5 pixel characters or 5x5). -
Tinkering with Nemesis?I thought Nemesis (Gradius) was a poor conversion especially when put next to R-Type. One main problem was the small area and the large size of the s…
R-Type was a character based game with pixel scrolling for the scenery. It is very fun to play, So would this game benefit from being character based? -
Ocean's 'Road Race' inlayHave you still got your copy of 'Road Race' given away with the May 1987 issue of 'Your Sinclair' magazine? It came with no inlay didn't it! Cheap sk…
... (for screen) or CMYK (for print) using the appropriate colour library ... the quality of the original print and the original scan.
pixel at a time, once coverted ... -
Ocean's 'Road Race' inlayHave you still got your copy of 'Road Race' given away with the May 1987 issue of 'Your Sinclair' magazine? It came with no inlay didn't it! Cheap sk…
... (for screen) or CMYK (for print) using the appropriate colour library ... the quality of the original print and the original scan.
pixel at a time, once coverted ... -
Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
... working out which is which based on position.
[B ... a zero with only 1 pixel gap but it looked too ... -
Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
... working out which is which based on position.[/QUOTE]
PRINT AT O,0;"ZX": NEXT ... -
Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... ULA+ and the every ink pixel different colour toggle in the ... the 2 screens (both every pixel different) and be able ... tract which is an allophone based speech synth which also ... will continue generating samples │
│ based upon the terminal settings of ... -
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…
... more than 2 bits per pixel at the higher resolutions.[/quote ... than one bit per pixel with 8x8 pixel (adjustable vertically in hardware ... speed and use a character'-based mode which only needs 8K ...
