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  • DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…

    ... ) followed by 768 bytes of color information. Organization of pixels is ... to 23295: poke i,255 : next i

    Color information is ... pixels) and ink (set pixels) color for 8x8 pixels. Bits 0 ...
    brownb2 brownb2 May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Image to ZXSpec 1.0Hi, I've written a piece of software (still not finished) that outputs any kind of image onto a Spectrum having being converted on a PC. It takes a…

    ... fill empty space by given color). That tall or wide pictures ... on screen. I think peek/poke can do this, how fast ...
    brownb2 brownb2 May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ToadrunnerDid anybody finish this game? I would like to map it, but I would need some concrete tips how to use objects, respective which object can kill druid,…

    ... toadrunner.htm[/url]

    POKE 50011,X (1-28, there ... , object number)
    POKE 50014,X (66-71, object color - red, magenta ... use this combination:
    POKE 50011,1 : POKE 50012,X (1-28 ... possession:
    1. insert POKE 50011,1 : POKE 50012,21
    2 ...
    Pavero Pavero June 2009 Games
  • RBG monitor for Spectrum?I'm using a very old TTL RGB monitor with my Spectrum, with a RGB adapter that I made many years for my Sinclair QL. It works perfectly with my QL, b…

    ... black background. In this case the monitor shows a gray color which ...
    ingo ingo September 2009 Hardware
  • An idea for a possible(?) new interfaceDue to the Spectrum's processor speed and the way the ULA works, there are a couple things (among others) that are difficult to do: -Gigascreen or a…

    ... effects (rotating background, multicolor tunnel, falling lines of color picture in multicolor ...
    Shiru Shiru October 2009 Hardware
  • Spectrum loader ringtone! (funds for a good cause)Hey all. Recently, I made myself a Speccy ringtone and I liked it so much, I though I'd share it with all my retro buddies. I've put it up for sale…

    [QUOTE=ZnorXman;399162]"[B][SIZE="5"][COLOR="Navy"]Service Unavailable[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B]"

    I guess you're in no hurry to make money :razz:[/QUOTE]


    Bah! Bloody LULU!!

    I'll poke them with a naily stick...
    Andy Severn Andy Severn November 2009 Sales
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... they are transparent = take color of the background it looks a bit ... can't have too complex background in Spectrum because the sprites ... /> I like both sprites and background and consider them a big ...
    Ralf Ralf January 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... to keep one dark "ink" color in attribute characters. I mean ... more colour just replace white background with different colour backgroud, so ...
    Ralf Ralf February 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... to keep one dark "ink" color in attribute characters. I mean ... more colour just replace white background with different colour backgroud, so ...
    Swainy Swainy February 2010 Development
  • Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…

    ... assume a minimal level of background. Eg, a linked list data ... entries used these to directly poke the udg data of characters ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2010 Games
  • Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…

    ... not clearing the viewport background, so the border color always filled the ... changed is the [B]viewport background[/B]. The emulated Spectrum border ... don't clear the viewport background, running a demo with border ...
    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 March 2010 Emulators
  • Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…

    ... doesn't clear the viewport background while zooming the screen in ... A14) or the current border color (like old versions) upon user ... that using the border color as the viewport background will render ugly ...
    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 March 2010 Emulators
  • Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available!Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available! [IMG]http://mirror.viperfang.net/silentdevelopments/images/ent-preview1.1.zx.png[/IMG][IMG]http://mirror.…

    ... on skype...
    50:50 color mixing is also my appoarch ... , (I know very little of poke so documenting these would also ...
    brownb2 brownb2 March 2010 Announcements
  • address 23760 etc.Hi all, Where could I find Spectrum 48 addresses, what's in 23760 for instance ? Thanks for advance ! -jp

    ... Prawn, very good explanation, my background is from Atari XL/XE ... code must be somewhere, those POKE's I posted was just ... commands:-
    Memory:- PEEK and POKE are used.
    I/O ...
    jukka_k jukka_k March 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • New Game and HelloHi All, Long, long time lurker and contributor (hardware index, PiMan files etc..) but having been quiet for a few years I thought I might register. …

    ... , especially the screen layouts and background graphics.


    [QUOTE ... the grid horizontally. Anyway, POKE 38472,11: POKE 38474,23 will allow ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2010 Development
  • EPROM servicesAnyone ever heard of these people?. I bought a Spectrum add-on from ebay recently. There is an edge connector splitter, i.e. enables you to plug tw…

    Interesting stuff, thanks for the background info. No battery backup on ... been very useful as one POKE to RAM corrects the "NMI ...
    alien8r33d alien8r33d May 2010 Hardware
  • Resource Web Site for PGD, AGD and SEUD.Hello I'm looking to set up a web site hopefully containing shed loads of resources for producing games in Jonathan Cauldwell's PGD, AGD and SEUD. I…

    ... a few problems with the background (paper) colour and odd colours ... :-

    'You could try POKE 34319,201 - that should turn ...

    'You could try POKE 34301,201 - I think that ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN May 2010 Announcements
  • Turn on?Heya, I just got a ZX Spectrum+, but I have no idea how to turn it on >.> The instruction booklet only says how to program stuff, not how to get the…

    ... background like this:

    [COLOR="Red"]#############################[/COLOR]
    [COLOR="Cyan"]#############################[/COLOR]
    [COLOR="Red"]#############################[/COLOR]
    [COLOR ...
    shmuk shmuk June 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • KING OF PONG: Pong revisitedHello everybody. I'm proud to announce you that my last personal project for the ZX Spectrum, "KING OF PONG" is available to download here at WOS si…

    ... I use for fore- and background to test) both in emulators ... make line effects using constant color changes. So they *never* flick ...
    Ricardo Cancho Ricardo Cancho June 2010 Development
  • Donkey Kong RemakeHello, please click link for my remake of Donkey Kong, cheers. [URL]http://retroremakes.com/forum/index.php/topic,1736.0.html[/URL]

    ... .com/files/401119465/DONKEY_KONG.rar"][COLOR=#832d2c]http://rapidshare.com/files ... /401119465/DONKEY_KONG.rar[/COLOR][/URL] (Updated 20/06/10 ... . Did I mention F2 switches background On/Off?

    Once ...
    mickfarrow mickfarrow June 2010 Announcements
  • 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"…

    ... best methods of avoiding color clash between background and sprites, however, there ... . 'Background', which is behind the sprites, should be the same color as ... completely black background), the sprites should be the same color (obviously, or ...
    Shiru Shiru August 2010 Games
  • Spectrum hangs upWhat might be problem when my ZX Spectrum 48K (rubber keys) hangs up after few minutes play? It had memory problems but i changed (or an expert did i…

    ... TO d+10: READ a: POKE n,a: NEXT n
    color, at the (almost) maximum speed ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix August 2010 Hardware
  • Spectrum +2a / +3 SCART LeadsEvening all, Over the past week or so I've tried two different Spectrum RGB SCART leads from two different Ebay sellers, on a Spectrum+2A and a Spec…

    ... menu on top of (composite) background. This signal may be needed ... . I own a Roadstar mini color TV (23 cm screen) that ...
    ingo ingo September 2010 Hardware
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... black against a dark blue background since they are so hard ... /> LET p=2:
    POKE n+73,8:
    CLS ... $-47:
    POKE (b8)*n,14:
    POKE (t(b+8 ... /> LET p=1:
    POKE n+73,5:
    CLS ... k=CODE INKEY$-47:
    POKE (k8)*n,14:
    LET ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2010 Development
  • Horace in the Mystic WoodsCame here wondering what people were saying about this only to discover that, for some reason, no one's started a thread yet, not even Bob Smith. And…

    ... stand-out against the black background (the previous games all had ... cyan background). But if you must have a blue Horace then POKE ... 42940, 65 for blue, or POKE 42940, 69 ...
    bobs bobs September 2010 Games
  • Horace in the Mystic WoodsCame here wondering what people were saying about this only to discover that, for some reason, no one's started a thread yet, not even Bob Smith. And…

    ... stand-out against the black background (the previous games all had ... cyan background). But if you must have a blue Horace then POKE ... 42940, 65 for blue, or POKE 42940, 69 ... [/i] had a (mostly) black background. But anyway, a white Horace ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu September 2010 Games
  • Brand new Horace GameWe could think on how should the next Horace Game be, taking in account that the past three are mixtures of old, well established classic arcade game…

    ... />
    I agree with others, Color scheme is different than speccy ... is green when on black background. Also, I know graphics came ...
    Arda Arda September 2010 New game ideas
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... 2:
    BORDER 0:
    POKE n+73,7:
    CLS ... b=CODE INKEY$-48:
    POKE (b4)*n,13:
    ... =7 TO 37:
    POKE (t(i)=0)*n,33 ... /> LET p=6-p:
    POKE (g256)*n,12:
    BORDER ... this:

    [CODE]
    POKE (b4)*n,13:
    [/CODE ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2010 Development
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