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  • Crash: On The Screen compo scansAs the work on Microhobby's Pixel A Pixel printed loading screens restoration is going well lately, I would like to start preparing for making the sa…

    ... start preparing for making the same work on Crash: On The Screen competition.
    Which ... ?

    [code]Full name On the Screen
    Publisher Crash (UK)
    On The Screen into same restoration process, but ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 October 2015 Support files
  • is there something special about the left hand column on the screenSo.... I've noticed that when I move my player round when it bumps into the left hand side of the screen (print at 5,1;"X" etc that the controls rev…

    ... it bumps into the left hand side of the screen (print at 5, ... the same code is working fine on the right hand side of the screen (say print ... at 5,19;"X" etc) it seems to be overridden by ... this weird reversing effect on the left hand side ...
    Wookiee Wookiee February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • z88dk : FIle Handling in C on the +3e environment under Win 764bitHello my fellow WoSers! I am wondering if someone can help me solve this little pickle of z88dk / Windows using +3e Filesystem. So a little inf…

    ...
    9999: LOAD "e:" : CLS : PRINT "Saving Program" : SAVE "e:test ... .bas" : CLS : PRINT "Program Saved"
    [/code]
    So the program prints out on the screen "Writing text to file" followed by a ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 June 2017 Development
  • Here is a list of all the games on the Amstrad e-mailer.I reallydon't recommend getting this e-mailer for the Spectrum games! I bought it cos my BT e100 died. Anyway this is a list of the games, as a coup…

    ... Ultimate Warrior


    The category headings, and stuff in ... Amstrads wording as it appears on the screen.


    ... [ This Message was edited by: thx1138 on 2003-07-17 16:17 ... [ This Message was edited by: thx1138 on 2003-07-17 16:21 ...
    thx1138 thx1138 July 2003 Games
  • Into the screen driving simulator effectI was wondering how the racing games of yore did the into the screen scrolling effect. I'm sure you could do something crude drawing bars on the scre…

    ... how the racing games of yore did the into the screen scrolling ... effect. I'm sure you could do something crude drawing ... bars on the screen of differing heights (in ... very, very crude and on the Amiga so I'll ...
    SnakeOilSteve SnakeOilSteve February 2008 Development
  • Question on copying screen bufferHi, Al my prevoius games were copying graphics directly to screen memory starting at 16384. Now I'm experimenting with screen buffer where I could d…

    ... games were copying graphics directly to screen memory starting at 16384 ... Now I'm experimenting with screen buffer where I could draw ... m not clearing any sprites on the screen, I'm just copying static ... image from buffer to screen after HALT.

    ...
    Ralf Ralf December 2009 Development
  • problem on the video output (spectrum 2+)Hello, I'am french. (Sorry my english is very bad). I have a problem on my spectrum 2 +. At the beginner the picture (on my tv) have 2 area where 2 t…

    ... a problem on my spectrum 2 +. At the beginner the picture (on my tv ... (even after extinguished the tv).
    Now, the picture is very bad ... are some square and line on the screen.

    Please, help me ...
    pacman pacman February 2007 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... would like to print a text string on the screen and I ... wonder how to do that in the ... 16 (?), but can that print more than one character? ... world of spectrum" and print at a position of choise ... am looking for the equalient of PRINT AT 5,10;" ...
    Rickard Rickard October 2010 Development
  • VIC 20 on the SpectrumThe original "20 Commodes" program released for CSSCGC 2008 has been improved and now has its own entry in WoS. The improved code has been sitting on…

    ... ) Updates to the VIC charset pointer are reflected on the screen immediately (try pressing ... CAPS+SYM+C on the emulator screen)

    If you only ever tried out the ...
    Jimmy Jimmy October 2010 Announcements
  • clear a windowed area of the screenHi everyone! Ain't been on here for donkeys, but have recently started messing around with a little game. I'm looking for ideas/opinions on the bes…

    ... ideas/opinions on the best way to clear a window on the screen RAM.

    My last attempt at a game used the ... stack, but the code took up a ... a 25x24 char section of the screen.

    Any suggestions?< ...
    Atari_Jetman Atari_Jetman October 2014 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... There's another register on the Z80, the stack pointer ('SP'). ... and writing to memory by other means, so some ... screen clearing by setting the stack pointer just past the end of screen ... to point the stack pointer to tables when drawing on the screen, to use ...
    joefish joefish April 2009 Development
  • Looking for some bog standard soundspreferably using PLAY command.... example 10 LET a$="the sound code" 20 PLAY a$ ideally I'm looking for noises for 1) A space ship engine, pref…

    ... bit - it's any drawing on the screen that's so slow and ... 's really shown up by the speed at which BBC ... game graphics on a full-colour hi-res screen.
    ...
    P.S. I didn't know that the ... I learn something new about the 128s every day around ...
    joefish joefish September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • help with issue 3 48k speccy after recap and new tr4 and tr5I have a 48K speccy that was not working. After recapping and replacing TR4 and TR5 it came back to life However after a short while running weird …

    ... a few times, followed by black squares on the screen.
    It can continue ... could be please? and suggestions on what to do next?
    redfiat redfiat July 2018 Hardware
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…

    ... definitely one of the better BASIC interpreters on machines at the time - ... certainly superior to the Commodore BASICs ... structured programming keywords, functions for drawing on the screen and for playing sounds.
    JamesD JamesD September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Mothswhere the buggery do they come from? if theyre "house" moths why arent they in a house to start with? do they move from house to house and if they fo…

    ... )[/QUOTE]

    The bit about the light and why don ... their head against the bedroom window whenever I turn on a light ... them just fly up to the man on the moon, that's just ... about whatever is on TV at the time by sitting right on the screen. Bastard moths ...
    Collie Collie July 2009 Chit chat
  • Internet on the ZX SpectrumThis has been a bit of a personal holy grail for years and years, so I'm very pleased to announce a humble speccy browsing the Internet with Firefox.…

    ... then if you've done the real deal :) I'll ... probably get the official Spectrum and TT fonts ... real speccy connected to the internet... although the adobe flash player ... zx browser, just print an "pwned" message on the screen ;) (the most recent exploit ...
    brownb2 brownb2 June 2010 Announcements
  • 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…

    ... would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder how ... to do that in the most ... screen
    PRINT "" AND USR adres = upper screen and undoing print of BC on return
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2010 Development
  • New Tool: CheqEdit[b]CheqEdit[/b] it's a simple and small program that helps you to draw 64x48 graphics on screen in GRAPHICS MODE. Program can output as text in CHR$ …

    ... how many copies the program would dump on the clipboard when I ... hit the COPY CODE ... simple patten at the top of the screen, then change the "Number of ... to use, and makes drawing on the screen actually quite pleasant, and ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil February 2012 Announcements
  • Yea hee hee we have an S3.The latest phone to arrive on my desk. The Samsung Galaxy S3. :D Here it is beside my current Galaxy S2 (the black one). Good job they ordered a whi…

    ... far less functional than the iPhone. The S3 screen is also AMOLED ... blue dot is shared by two pixels on the screen leaving islands of blue ... fan of screen sizes over 4 inches. 3.5 inches on the iPhone ... to reach all areas of the screen single-handedly. Its also ...
    takapa takapa June 2012 Chit chat
  • Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…

    ... w bits for the characters. Keeping the bit size for ... remove from the standard set), just by displaying it on the screen, and ... then having a routine to scan those characters in the ... display file which (given the three ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Looking for some bog standard soundspreferably using PLAY command.... example 10 LET a$="the sound code" 20 PLAY a$ ideally I'm looking for noises for 1) A space ship engine, pref…

    ... 722737]it's any drawing on the screen that's so slow and ... t know that the PLAY command blocks the CPU.[/QUOTE]< ... BASIC doesn't execute the next command until PLAY ... has finished, so the CPU is just idling ... not sending data to the AY. The SOUND command in SE ...
    chev chev September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... engage the player - or promise a reward of adventure. Playing on ... a C64 for the most part leaves ... I been truly delighted by what transpires on the screen. You never know ... that.

    Even the Dragon 32 manages to achieve ...
    Graz Graz November 2014 Games
  • Interrupts, 16k Spectrums and snowI'm writing something for the 16k Spectrum and I want to use interrupts. The avilable documentation doesn't seem clear enough for me to figure out ho…

    ... also have the option to catch the beginning of the bottom border ...
    I currently set the whole of the bottom attr row to ... re-use that colour by mistake elsewhere on the screen. This means that ... just BLACK+BLACK) to make the screen "even". This gives me a ...
    evilpaul evilpaul August 2017 Development
  • Interrupts, 16k Spectrums and snowI'm writing something for the 16k Spectrum and I want to use interrupts. The avilable documentation doesn't seem clear enough for me to figure out ho…

    ... re-use that colour by mistake elsewhere on the screen. This means that ... just BLACK+BLACK) to make the screen "even". This gives me ... thereof) this way by doing IN A,(#1F) on the border
    ... For instance, looking for the beginning of the screen (a single 'non ...
    Hikaru Hikaru August 2017 Development
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... screen:

    1. Work directly on the screen, and somehow synchonize your drawing so that the screen ... 't want to continue coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
    windenNTW windenNTW July 2003 Games
  • Can anyone tell me how to emulate the ZX Printer on a PC-printer?What code's do you sent to the PC-printer to make it print a LLISTING or SCREEN$ with Sinclair font or the SCREEN$ as it has loaded on the screen? I…

    ... make it print a LLISTING or SCREEN$ with Sinclair font or the SCREEN$ as ... it has loaded on the screen?
    By emptying the Spectrum printerbuffer I want to ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2004 Emulators
  • BOB the Screen BuilderHere's my first attempt to use that tokenising idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p…

    ... idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[ ... /pourri/bob.zip]BOB the Screen Builder[/url]". There's ... used in the game to print the screens directly from the DATA statements ... the reason for the speckly line which appears at the top of the screen ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    ... machine code for the specy (with a load screen and perhaps ... a
    [code]
    PRINT USR 61440
    [/code]
    the code was correct just the values were never getting 'remembered' by the ... getting a handle on the registers... Time to test the theory again.< ...
    wibble wibble August 2013 Development
  • Custom Menus on the ZX Spectrum +3Today, my Friends, i have the pleasure of presenting a program i have written which gives a set of custom menus on the +3. The main features of my p…

    ... the lower screen. Its companion in the Lower Screen switches to upper screen and restores the ... , this is the same as the [b]Print[/b] in the standard menu. *
    the value held on the Stack (pointed to by the ERR_SP system ...
    The_Bert The_Bert October 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... the edge of screen, you can put the code anywhere in a space on the screen ... 173035]How are you drawing tiles at the moment?
    the bottom of the screen are POKED there directly from the ... PRINT them in the correct location.
    I display the attributes by ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Development
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