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New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…
... memory for storing graphics and the display screen(s)
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... to use the blitter to draw to the new screen.
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New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…
... different ways of displaying the graphics on the screen that a generic ... to modify any of the games to use 256 ... colours. I think the Spec256 guys made it ... any description of that on their site... might be ... This Message was edited by: Tom-Cat on 2004-01-16 11 ... -
ebook on graphicsi would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there any scanned ebooks about it on a site?
... , how the heck do i get graphics on the screen and move ... Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner" by William Tang. these ... Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner" by Joe Pritchard is ...
"How to Program the Z80" by Rodney Zaks
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whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... of the sprites and the abuse of the VIC's magnifying facilities (caused by the ... lack of memory to store detailed sprites ??). In fact, the C64 ... on the screen, exploit the VIC's collision detection, dabble with some saw-waves on the ... -
whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... and paper; they don't directly translate to an out command ... learnt POKEing the video registers translate directly.
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whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... lazyness on the part of the coders, not bothering to put colours on the screen ... that is.[/sarcasm]
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whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... don't understand what the word means, judging by the rest of your ... post, what with all the errors.
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First speccy game you ever ever played..Just having a play on Jet-Pac (on my +2 I hasten to add as I would never play a denied game on an emulator...no sireee ;) ) and suddenly realised tha…
It was "Full Throttle". I was amazed :D by the fact that I could turn the bike that appeared on the screen just by touching a key. Nowadays I'm an IT professional :) -
Help with a faulty Spectrum +Just bought it on eBay ( [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=2792353010"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll…
... then sell it on. (Mind you, the membrane is a ... up the Spectrum and examine the ribbon connectors to the keyboard. By the ... keyboard itself (pushing down on the keys a bit might ... and complete the circuit - hence something appears on the screen). I believe ... -
Footie Director 2 +3 versionI am so happy to find the +3 version of FDII on the site! Now at last I can re-live my student years!! One question though - when you play an away …
... - Total of players forms divided by 4
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handbook for newbies ?looking at questions what regulary appears on this forum i have an idea. why not to write short book for newbies. if few experienced coders write eac…
... books suck. some dishearten by saying how difficult it is ... you how to get graphics on the screen, movement, scrolling, sound.
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Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …
... of destroying the gun-thing on the ground on the screen with the last piece ... of clock in it (the ... NEED to put the painting back on the wall (after removing ... [ This Message was edited by: jil on 2004-04-01 11:37 ... -
EmuZWin problem!Hello! I'm trying to load Fairlight I into EmuZWin v2.4.004. It don't load at all. I'v tryed several versions of fairlight I and II. Thees files …
... game is foundamental because sometimes by recolouring the gfx you just miss ... sometimes games just draw something on the screen without using udg graphics, and ... with Emuzwin and the other with GFX editor, by switching from one ... -
Just in case you think IT jobs are easy!I thought you might get a laff from this:- This guy called me last week from India. Me: Command Centre, Lee speaking Caller: IT Please Me: You're t…
... upgraded the sales process system from a green screen system ... was teaching this bloke on the new system and asked him ... desk and placed it on the screen and pressed the right button twice!!!!!!!! ... [ This Message was edited by: stupidget on 2004-04-05 19:16 ... -
Favorite 3D ShootersHow many 3D shooters were there for the Speccy? And which is your favorite. My favourite is StarStrike 1.
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Favorite 3D ShootersHow many 3D shooters were there for the Speccy? And which is your favorite. My favourite is StarStrike 1.
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I redownloaded the TZX and it works!
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Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…
... it`s got few colours on screen but with just a ... for wallpapers, and some games on the desktop etc etc...
... confidence has been eroded by people arriving on the Forum announcing some grand ... s world. But the result is always the same. The Spec-chums, ... -
Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…
"Use the Printscreen, Luke !" (unless you ... even if it's on a platform they're ... just send those screenshots of the OS in action, no ... 't even put a pixel on the screen.
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Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…
... , a small flap dropped down on the front, to reveal about a ... used the Spectrum to make the credits, and flash subtitles up on the screen in ... places, and a b&w camera on a ... /> [ This Message was edited by: thx1138 on 2004-06-29 11:38 ] -
Ultimate PollIt seems that most people like giving their profiles/opinions, so here's another one... see if I can make a poll out of it :) (some questions may ha…
... was able to by looking for any blob on the Screen bouncing up and ... /> Damn, can't remember the name of the game! If i do ... play a game at the arcade, save the game and if you ... i did/do love the TurboGrafx/PCengine. ( The TGrafx handheld is still ... -
Finishing my Ragnar game...Hi all, Way back then, in my youth, I worked on a game for the Speccy called "Ragnar", which was a 3d isometric style mcoded game written from scrat…
... interupt then dumping as much on the screen as quickly as possible before ... want to be in the middle of drawing a screen when an interupt ... be done is done after drawing the last screen.
Clone Project feedbackFinally i now have some time to start again with my clone project. I have decided to drop the 48k project and go directly on a 128k clone. This migh…
... . It could just be centered on the screen in a higher resolution mode ... /> [ This Message was edited by: pern on 2004-08-28 16:53 ]Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
... and then use it everywhere on the screen? This way you no longer ... likely possible to save memory by not storing all shifted positions ... single-pixel precision by using 2 bit rotations in the worst case ... and only 1 rotation on average.< ...8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... like alter the origin point in RAM of the screen i think ... attribute cell. The equivalent on the CPC is 4 colours on the screen (which can ... "I won the review on the strength of a Flip screen version of ... /> [ This Message was edited by: TMR on 2004-09-26 21:59 ...Can Anyone explain sprites in Jet Pac/Atic Atac etcJet Pac was 16k, and yet the sprites were impressively fast. I notice they had a slight flicker at times, but were notmally pretty flicker free. W…
... /> In the part that rotates the sprite graphics into the correct position ... />
Also the Inc_Row subroutine would be better ... placed within the code that draws the sprite on the screen, rather than ... [ This Message was edited by: dmsmith on 2004-10-05 19:05 ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... friend. That DID have the flashing loading screen. That tape eventually wore ... modified the BASIC loader to print the flashing [I]MANIC MINER[/I] on the screen, then ... saved it over the ...Basic info about platformers...I have run a search for an answer to this question and haven't found quite what I was looking for so I thought I would pop a post on here... What ar…
... to make all items on the screen another PAPER/INK color ... place your character on the screen you simply test the ATTRIBUTE of that ... the printed items overlap. If you only work with PRINT ... AT positions, then the ATTRIBUTE is enough (or the SCREEN$ ...New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…
... filed under 'Imploder'. Here's the link:
[url ... loads into screen memory, so just hit 'enter' at the RANDOMIZE ... using it was to save the screen as a .scr file. ... restore the compression code by loading that file directly back into the screen area.If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…
... did now nothing about the way the screen would handle attributes and ... colors crossing each other on the screen without having those horrible ... an Msx 2+ Sony F1XDJ by the way).
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