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Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…
... addresses to move up/down pixel lines and so on).
I have some ideas for pixel shifting and animation that I ... long run. The game would based on the 8bit/16bit IDE ... -
ZX Spectrum video waveformsAll work for this post was done on a ZX Spectrum issue 1 board (16k bytes of RAM only). This was what the Spectrum displayed on the TV screen: [i…
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Try a single blue pixel on a red background on ... (*). Having a non-bright values based on real hardware will be ... -
1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
... I'm honest. It was based on a game I saw ... an eye for every moving pixel in the screen. Luckily it ... -
Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…
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Best place to start learning assembly on WOS ?So I'm pretty new at this forum but not the Speccy so my BASIC is pretty good. I can see lots of resources on WOS for doing machine code/assembly but…
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Binary - hand coded pixel bit patterns, masks and byte ... hand-coding Intel 8008/8080 based machines, but's that a ... -
ZX Loading animationI saw somewhere recently a loading animation using the coloured stripes - can anyone recall where it was?
... quite a bit in the pixel illustrations for the Bitmap Books ... all with different styled televisions based on the time they were ... -
I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…
... it hooked into the ROM print char routines (I'm trying ... a fuller-featured fzx implementation based on it in z88dk without ... -
Communal Project for ASM NewbiesHi Folks, I tend to learn best by trying stuff and then going through the pain of it not working so that I can research and fix mistakes. I suspec…
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Communal Project for ASM NewbiesHi Folks, I tend to learn best by trying stuff and then going through the pain of it not working so that I can research and fix mistakes. I suspec…
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What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…
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Testing your codeOk, guys, again I here with question. How do you test your works? I understand how to test functions and procedures mathematically (for example, g…
[quote="mik3d3nch;893139"]Easy! On error print "You screwed up again!"[/quote]
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Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …
The CPC's resolutions are based around being able to display ... that because they're doubling pixel size to get twice as ... many bits per pixel without having to alter the ... -
Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
... . Both listings do simple attribute-based scrolling, either vertically or horizontally ... z=USR 63032
280 PRINT AT y,x;"A"
570 REM Always:
580 PRINT AT y,x;"A"
It's a Pixel THING - recent retrogaming Youtube channelHi, guys! I've recently started my own YouTube channel "[B]It's a Pixel THING[/B]" where I do weekly videos about retrogaming (Spectrum, Amiga, DOS)…
... ]RoboCop[/b], the video game, based in the 1987 blockbuster movie ... : Complete Story - It's a Pixel THING - Ep. 111[/url][/b ...HELP!I'm trying to replace a bit in a byte as follows, but having some sort of brain freeze trying to get it to do what I want. A=00 if bit to replace …
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It is a print routine of sorts that takes ... its put at a specific pixel location line by line, with ...Scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States?Would it be possible to write a scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States? I have a custom screen load routine that loads attribute first, then the …
... the and/or'ing one pixel line on each pass, and ... off the left/right. And print the result in two passes ...Scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States?Would it be possible to write a scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States? I have a custom screen load routine that loads attribute first, then the …
... you only ever need to print a single digit followed by ... you stayed with the 4 pixel width font you could store ...48K vs 128K BASIC, I prefer the keyword entry system how about you?Being brought up with the 48k rubber and 48k+ I find the keyword entry system really fast and enjoyable to use. When I've played around with the 128k…
... in 1998 on an Amiga-based Spectrum Emulator keyword by keyword ... unmarked beige keys meant; "INK," "PRINT" etc. "Painful" is a word ...Send in the ClonesPlease name all the Spectrum clones out there ( I would say I need it back on my desk in 5 minutes , but I will be a bit more generous in this case!…
... 256x192 pixels, 4 colours per pixel with 512×192 pixels), ... 16 colours per pixel with 256x192 pixels), Philips ... 0.9 Kg) portable Z80-based computer with built-in LCD ... - An original Brazilian computer loosely based on the {ZX81|Sinclair Research ...Spectrum Use for ZX81 Pseudo Hi-ResHi Folks, I've been looking around at some of the "Hi-Res" stuff which was achieved on the ZX81 and I came across the faq https://www.landley.net/…
... RAM to get the actual pixel pattern from ROM (again with ... a similar thing to RAM based HRG, but instead uses the ...2 scrolling linesHow would you draw, delete and scroll a 2 line landscape? [img]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/scramblines_zpsw0r2joew.png…
... 2 line background by 1 pixel each time, how would you ... drawing/deleting the 2 lines based on YX cords?2 scrolling linesHow would you draw, delete and scroll a 2 line landscape? [img]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/scramblines_zpsw0r2joew.png…
The Spectrum screen is still based around 8-pixel groups, so the most ... know you only have one pixel in each column. Even then ... . By starting them shifted one pixel over then the last thing ...Tapes 85-88Hello! I am hoping this will be of interest to some of you. I've recently rescued everything I could from cassettes that have been sat in my loft …
... director) had designed the game based on the characters and setting ... . The box took longer to print than the time to make ...Can I name a subroutine and then call it by name?No thats not really exactly the problem. I wrote 4 lines of Basic that draws an 8x8 square and then told it to check x,y and subtract 4 from x or y t…
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Although PRINT OVER SQUARE has invalid syntax ... of the square and then PRINT the required 1,2 or ... I can get a horizontal pixel scroll in BASIC with a ...It's a Pixel THING - recent retrogaming Youtube channelHi, guys! I've recently started my own YouTube channel "[B]It's a Pixel THING[/B]" where I do weekly videos about retrogaming (Spectrum, Amiga, DOS)…
... , the home computer video game based on Total Recall suffered quite ... Weeks Mystery | It's a Pixel THING - Ep. 118[/url][/b ...ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... good sprite hardware system one based in the video system) is ... (i dunno, maybe even the pixel data??)
Now don't ...endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... basic's terminal (when you print, the spectrum rom is ... in basic you can print certain codes to change ... take that string and print it with your own ... a real 100% cleared, pixel set clean screen?
... using vt100 terminal driver to print to screen, use the ...im looking for a horizontal scroll routinehi, im looking for a horizontal scroll routine. i read somewhere that you can do it with at 'to' statement, somewhere in a print routine. althoug…
... just that the graphics are pixel resolution rather than character resolution ... to the PRINT control CHR$ I drew a random pixel line across ... * 8 displacements * 2 (as each pixel row extends across two bytes ... any length, but drawn with PRINT rather than DRAW, so it ...What was your first job after leaving school?Just wondering what your first job was after finishing school? I left in 1990 and did a YTS scheme (remember them?) on spraying cars but i left afte…
... data into a computer from print outs, for oil companies, horrible ... mixing formulas for a fuel based on sugar beet. For a ...
