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A Colloidal Display (Soap Bubble Screen)This looks pretty cool. The screen's transparency, texture, and shape can be controlled dynamically by using ultrasonic sound waves. [youtube]UoG6W…
This looks pretty cool. The screen's transparency, texture, and shape can be controlled dynamically by using ultrasonic sound waves.
[youtube]UoG6WD90xbQ[/youtube]
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What is the best way to detect CAPS LOCK?Hi Folks, Not sure what the correct behaviour is here as I do not have access to a real Spectrum. Under BASin, when you press CAPS LOCK on the PC k…
... a=CODE INKEY$
110 PRINT AT 0,0; a,,
screen. Unfortunately, a second press does ... -
How to change the colour of an input line?Hello my fellow WoS'ers I remember the way-back machine on the humble 48k where I could write a REM statement in basic, but I could also change the …
... background paper of that text input. This would then stand out ... -
ZX81 with black screen and some white dots.Was gearing up to do a composite video mod on my ZX81, and today was going to be it. Unfortunate when started my ZX81 seems faulty. I get a back scre…
... faulty. I get a back screen with a couple dots where ... -
Copying Files in +3e BASIC (not using COPY command)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Yet again I find myself in need of guidance, I am sooo close to getting my prototype up. I am writing my own byte cop…
... IF c = 254 THEN PRINT #5, 254 // EOF ...
1060 PRINT #5,c // WRITE TO SAVE ... br />
1070 PRINT AT 10, 5; c // ... $ are provided by input, however the routine reads ... -
SpecBAS 0.749 Now available!Ey oop, you lot! A new SpecBAS has now been uploaded to the usual place - [url]http://www.specbas.co.uk/[/url] For your delight and delectation. …
... colour item - use in a PRINT/PLOT/DRAW etc statement as ... ) to a rectangle on the screen. CLIP can be embedded into ... -
BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 1In BIFROST*, it's much easier to just make changes in the tile map and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in multicolor for you. …
... = 1;
// clear bitmap screen
printMode(32);
zx_border ... -
Spectrum +2A Sound InputBeen hearing a few pointers that the +2A doesn't have sound input and can't take 3.5mm jacks. I want to hook my iPhone up to it with the right lead …
... +2A doesn't have sound input and can't take 3 ... -
No loading screen for these 2 games??The following games have only a z80. file available, so probably its not possible to say wether they use or not loading screen: [url]http://www.worl…
... they use or not loading screen:
[url]http://www ... -
BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 2This second demo shows animated and moving tiles together, and also how to implement collision detection. This knowledge should be enough to implemen…
... these are drawn "manually" on screen.
Also notice that ... = 1;
// clear bitmap screen
printMode(32);
zx_border ... /> while(1) {
// process input keys
if (lastK != 0 ... -
BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 3This new demo demonstrates the BIFROST* built-in sprite support that I mentioned before. In BIFROST*, "sprite tiles" are 2 special tiles that BIFROS…
... /> [*] "Manually" drawing tiles on screen (using drawTile) only works properly ... ;
// clear bitmap screen
printMode(32);
zx_border ... (1) {
// process input keys
if (in_KeyPressed(KEY_FASTER ... -
Printing a ListingHello my fellow WoS'ers Todays trouble starts with the need to print-out a listing - personally I would prefer a text file, but beggars cannot be c…
... starts with the need to print-out a listing - personally I ... a copy to hand (or screen) and not have to keep ... -
BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 4In previous posts I demonstrated how to move multicolor tiles up and down smoothly by a single pixel, and sideways by an entire char (8 pixels). Thi…
... single pixel. Depending on the screen position, the program will choose ... -
Best books & Sugested reading..Hi i was trying to search the forum but couldnt find it. Looking at WOS there is a number of books on BASIC, programming, machine code ect.. I mess…
... hobbit to display on the screen. I was so happy. ... . only to generate some boring screen example. So of-course after ... things, input, output, maths, changing the ink, border and screen colors but ... CHR$ 16+CHR$ 2+"INPUT SOMTHING:"
20 INPUT (A$); LINE A ... -
problems with rndGot past the whole INKEY$ issue and now am trying to pin down the combat section of the game. got a basic combat routine however, when i try and gen…
... TO 12
60 PRINT PH
70 PRINT MH
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SpecBAS 0.753 Now available!Hi again - Thanks to the efforts of ASH-II and Galileo, there's been another round of nice quick bugfixes: [code] v0.0.0.753 ========== Bugs fixe…
... 's escaped characters
Fixed INPUT with print-seperators
Mouse delta ... -
Simple AY library in z88dk/CI was interested to see if I could make the 128k AY chip work, and as there wasn't any library on it, I just made one for fun. It's certainly not th…
... program (note there is no screen output in this one):
screen. My stdio lib is still ... -
40 Column Printing RoutineI've written a 40 column printing routine, which I'd like to share... It's my first piece of 'public' code so go easy on me! I don't think it is a…
... some control codes here 22= print at, (followed by x, ... with hl pointing at the screen address
ld de ... with hl pointing at the screen address
ld de ... shift character before printing to screen
defb 0,128 ... -
'Renegade' loading screenHere's a photocopy of the original 'Renegade' arcade artwork that came with the arcade board when it arrived at Ocean Software. This is the artwork t…
... Fowles based his Spectrum loading screen on, the Bob Wakelin artwork ... when Ronnie did his loading screen. I've looked on the ... -
BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 5In my [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40437"]previous post[/URL] I demonstrated how to move multicolor images smoothly i…
... 8;
// clear bitmap screen
printMode(32);
zx_border ... br />
// draw background screen and disable tile map areas ... while(1) {
// process input keys
if (in_KeyPressed(KEY_FASTER ... -
PRINT a numerical value i.e. the scoreHow do you fo about printing a numerical value using the print routine in the ROM? For instance I have a value 0-255 and want to PRINT the result at…
... a numerical value using the print routine in the ROM?
PRINT the result at say 0 ... de, (address of text to print)
ld bc, (length of ... text to print)
call 8252
Interesting tip to speed up user experience...Hi Folks, I suspect many of you will already know this but it only dawned on me a couple of weeks ago. Whilst trying to improve the speed on my XIN…
... speed on my XINPUT (full screen, typed INPUT replacement) routine I hit ...Game artworkDoes anyone know how to get hold of really high resolution versions of game artwork? I'd like to have some framed prints in the house. Scanning the c…
... use it as a framed print.
I no longer ... results, I suppose SCREEN$ art or in-game screen capture could be ...Replaced Z80 now a very dark screen!Today I dag out an old issue 3 that ive known for a long time has a faulty Z80 (M1 line) so I heat gunned it out, socketed it and replaced it with a …
... known working one, now the screen is very dark (tried the ...mapping a usb to the keyboard input stream?Hi is there emulator suport for this, what i want to do is map a USB input from a game controler to the keyboard input. so when say press button 6 …
... do is map a USB input from a game controler to ... the keyboard input.
so when say ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 6The purpose of this demo is somewhat different from previous ones. Instead of teaching a new technique, the main goal here is to demonstrate how much…
... "action" you can have on screen at the same time using ... ] = 140;
// clear bitmap screen
printMode(32);
zx_border ... automatically draw entire tilemap on screen)
for (f = 0; f ...Ideas for speeding up this BASIC routine?This loop can take up to 2 minutes to run, depending upon the content of the screen being scanned, about 70% of that time being taken up by lines 105…
... upon the content of the screen being scanned, about 70% of ...Revisiting Spectrum CPU clock regenerationWarning: This post will be a bit nerdy :-) Some time ago, I experimented with phase locked loop circuits as a possible way to regenerate the Spectru…
... Speccy sitting at the (c) screen, the PLL would nicely regenerate ... . First off, because its minimum input frequency is 19MHz, over 5 ...Red Head loading screen infoJim Bagley, ex-Special FX programmer told to me "The loading screen was done by Chas Davies, don't know why he did MAC" Charles Davies (aka Chas …
Jim Bagley, ex-Special FX programmer told to me
"The loading screen was done by Chas Davies, don't know why he did MAC"
Charles Davies (aka Chas Davies).
And word "MAC" can removed.Spectrum Print 'n' Plotter JotterSpectrum Print 'n' Plotter Jotter (the A3 one) Would also be interested in scans of the two pages it contained Chris
Spectrum Print 'n' Plotter Jotter (the A3 one)
Would also be interested in scans of the two pages it contained
Chris
