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  • Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…

    ... game. You have to use an assembler or at least a ... compiler. So you need to load assembler or compiler first. Then ... when starting out) to use an assembler in combination with a ... to use. Zeus Assembler was a pleasure to use, especially after adding commands to ...
    meow meow September 2011 Development
  • FFS... (the ignorance of modern youth)Sorry for the foul acronym, but I was just talking to a bloke I work with, and I mentioned that Bob Hope's widow had just passed away, and he asked m…

    ... they don't seem to show anything like that ... anymore. but they seem to show westerns alot these ... a syndicated package, this applies to everyone (BBC, ITV, CH4, ... order for say ITV to screen the last 2 Harry ... include a lot of straight to DVD fodder.

    Jimmo Jimmo September 2011 Chit chat
  • FFS... (the ignorance of modern youth)Sorry for the foul acronym, but I was just talking to a bloke I work with, and I mentioned that Bob Hope's widow had just passed away, and he asked m…

    ... a syndicated package, this applies to everyone (BBC, ITV, CH4, Sky ... in order for say ITV to screen the last 2 Harry Potter ... include a lot of straight to DVD fodder.

    Therefore ... TV stations are choosing not to buy the rights, or 2 ...
    mile mile September 2011 Chit chat
  • Tile based graphics and scrolling thingy...Here's my best attempt so far at a tile based rendering and scrolling routine. It draws in 22 8*8 graphics tiles along the top of the screen (junk i…

    ... I think it's possible to do it. I anybody knows ... /> I have a few suggestions to improve the 'draw_tile_line' routine, if ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2011 Development
  • Tile based graphics and scrolling thingy...Here's my best attempt so far at a tile based rendering and scrolling routine. It draws in 22 8*8 graphics tiles along the top of the screen (junk i…

    ... thinking about will perhaps be to change the address table so ... by roughly 3% is worth to waste few hundreds bytes. anyway ... . not saying it is worth to do so in most cases ... background is copied to screen and sprites are put directly to screen. so next ...
    Fikee Fikee September 2011 Development
  • line, plot and circle in whole 256x192 displayhi! are there some way to draw lines, or whatever, in the whole 256x192 display, than just the above 256x176 part? (this is the msx1 version i made o…

    ... /> ;--The coords are used to calculate the screen address ------------
    ;See ... LD H,B ;now HL = screen addr
    AND %00000111 ;now ... /> LD (HL),A ;move to screen
    POP HL ;coords
    roko roko September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Barleywood Z80 Simulator LicenceHi All, Does anybody know if it is still possible to get a Licence for this Simulator? The reason I ask is that I'm currently using it to develop a…

    shando you might like this also

    [url]http://www.desdes.com/products/oldfiles/index.htm[/url]

    how much of the code can be re-used though ? I mean you can use the logic , but how you draw to screen etc is different ?
    fog fog October 2011 Development
  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... thats VERY bias in favour to c64..

    2 things ... />
    3d iso's ... due to screen redraw cpu were slower on ... (e.g. sabautor and karnov to name but 2)

    to hardware... part down to lazy ports and ...
    fog fog October 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASIC menus for PlusD discsIs it possible to use BASIC to code custom autoloader menus for PlusD discs? For instance, I can make a disc copy of Dizzy Collection and could make…

    ... changed the auto-run line to be 9999 and then ... Then type "PAPER 0: LIST" to see the loader. All the ... hidden 5-byte forms have to be checked, which gives ( ... code runs from PROG+86 to PROG+1519 and is ... emulator and then typed in to an assembler on the Spectrum.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Multi-screen mazes?Well, it's been decades since I last mucked about with speccy BASIC, so over the last couple of weeks I've been starting out as a newbie learning a b…

    ... when a player leaves the screen, the xy distance between ... sprite is following you from screen to screen. May put up a ... flashing to indicate they're about to arrive in the screen. For ... simplicity this is always the original screen ...
    Morkin Morkin November 2011 Development
  • Pac-Man EmulatorMy Pac-Man Emulator for the Spectrum +2A/+3 is now available for download from: [url]http://simonowen.com/spectrum/pacemuzx/[/url] You'll need to su…

    ... />
    It's a way to run the actual ROM code ... interfacing stuff (read controls, write to screen, make sounds...). If the original ... things would be quite difficult to achieve. For example, in this ...
    na_th_an na_th_an November 2011 Brand new software
  • Pac-Man EmulatorMy Pac-Man Emulator for the Spectrum +2A/+3 is now available for download from: [url]http://simonowen.com/spectrum/pacemuzx/[/url] You'll need to su…

    ... interfacing stuff (read controls, write to screen, make sounds...).[/quote]
    ... trap at &0038 to get control every interrupt, ... mapped registers and converts them to the equivalent AY note ... .

    Compare that to my Space Invaders 'emulator' (I ...
    obo obo November 2011 Brand new software
  • Newbie says 'Alreet?'Hiya dudes, Just dropping a line to say hello as i've decided at 33 to try and fulfill a long time ambition to write a speccy game in machine code..…

    ... see how memory locations correspond to screen location:

    First ... the total to 6912 bytes = size of a ZX Spectrum screen.

    If you listen to tape sounds ... usually easy to hear what part of a title screen is loading ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie November 2011 Development
  • Super Stick ManBeen thinking about doing a weird platformer for a while now, but since I have zero programming knowledge, and a modicum of drawing skills, I thought…

    ... movement, jumping - now to sort moving from screen to screen. Only limitations I can ... happens... I'll post something to play about with within the ... not, i'll leave others to judge :)

    Si
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi November 2011 New game ideas
  • Up/Down Left/Right scrollCan anybody give a newbie some pointer to simple one char scrolling by pixel? I've looked at a lot of resources, but as you can imagine, it's all a …

    What are you trying to scroll? The screen or sprite graphics data?< ... 5 seconds to cross the screen) and many games stick to two ... br />
    ; write A byte to screen somehow maybe like this
    screen address to write to by moving down one ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • Up/Down Left/Right scrollCan anybody give a newbie some pointer to simple one char scrolling by pixel? I've looked at a lot of resources, but as you can imagine, it's all a …

    ... before writing the sprite graphic to the screen.

    Here ... means you draw you sprite to screen at column 14 with ... writing the data to screen. The particular table to use depended on ... />
    ; write A byte to screen somehow maybe like this
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • Clopit!Well here it is :) Get it here for now: [url]http://www.sendspace.com/file/i75gsq[/url] Forgive me for being a complete dingus? But I can't find th…

    ... saying I only made it to screen two, great graphic of the ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2011 Brand new software
  • Which Ultimate Play the Game game's do you like (tick the ones you like)After discussing Sabre Wulf in another thread, I thought it would be interesting to see which games of theirs we liked and disliked in proportion to …

    My problem with Knight Lore is that the speed varies SO much from screen to screen, and if you have a couple of sprites going the game just crawls.

    Dramatic speed variation, in my opinion, makes gameplay way worse.
    na_th_an na_th_an November 2011 Games
  • Which Ultimate Play the Game game's do you like (tick the ones you like)After discussing Sabre Wulf in another thread, I thought it would be interesting to see which games of theirs we liked and disliked in proportion to …

    ... speed varies SO much from screen to screen, and if you have a ... then I didn't seem to mind varying speeds as I ... taken in by it all to really care.
    GreenCard GreenCard November 2011 Games
  • Which Ultimate Play the Game game's do you like (tick the ones you like)After discussing Sabre Wulf in another thread, I thought it would be interesting to see which games of theirs we liked and disliked in proportion to …

    ... speed varies SO much from screen to screen, and if you have a ... killed but it just adds to the strategy and means you ... just have to check the day timer each screen,of course ...
    jammajup jammajup November 2011 Games
  • Music Trackers, draw a line! __________________________________ This is a little poll and here we can give us tips about music tracking with Zx Spectrum. Ask something and if I can , I'll…

    ... you may want to make a tracker to make things more ... don't know how to use assembler etc, i.e. ... for end users. If you just need to ... music composers prefered to use MML to make music for ... language with syntax similar to PLAY command. I never ...
    Shiru Shiru December 2011 Development
  • PLOT and DRAW in machine codeHow do you go about it? If I posted a really simple BASIC instruction could someone do a machine code routine so I could learn from it? I wouldnt k…

    ... br /> call PIX2SCR ; compute hl = screen address from pixel coordinates
    ld (hl),a ; write to screen

    ret ; note ... must then be converted to a screen address using a ... should be modifying a screen address to move up, down, ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2012 Development
  • Fairlight's use of LDIRYS, comparing Fairlight and Nightshade, said: [quote]Fairlight is much more interesting even though the techniques that Bo Jangeborg uses for screen…

    ... under what circumstances updating the screen line by line bottom up ... occur lower in the screen than the bottom to top draw.
    screen. It redraws the screen in the same ... that are drawing sprites directly to screen. If you sort sprites in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fairlight's use of LDIRYS, comparing Fairlight and Nightshade, said: [quote]Fairlight is much more interesting even though the techniques that Bo Jangeborg uses for screen…

    ... I've not been able to improve much since earlier — it ... , while it is not easy to get under 16T of LDI ... quite big difference when copying to screen. thats where you get real ...
    Fikee Fikee January 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fairlight's use of LDIRYS, comparing Fairlight and Nightshade, said: [quote]Fairlight is much more interesting even though the techniques that Bo Jangeborg uses for screen…

    ... for a spare register pair to hold the offset value.
    to be juggled per iteration, so ... quite big difference when copying to screen. thats where you get real ...
    obo obo January 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fairlight's use of LDIRYS, comparing Fairlight and Nightshade, said: [quote]Fairlight is much more interesting even though the techniques that Bo Jangeborg uses for screen…

    ... quite big difference when copying to screen. thats where you get real ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain January 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Riddler's DenIt turns out that I am following the solution of "Tipshop" to complete this game, but came to a point that I can not move forward. [url]http://www.t…

    ... /> ----

    Move down (to get to screen with BANK)

    Move ... (so you are back to the BANK screen)


    ... statue you just dropped, exit screen to left and re-enter)
    To the right of the screen, across from ...
    saiwong saiwong January 2012 Games
  • Converting jpeg/bmp/gif to SCREEN$ fileMight be a bit of a long shot, but is there any way of converting an image file with the correct dimensions/colours to SCREEN$ file that can be loade…

    ... [B]correct dimensions/colours [/B]to SCREEN$ file that can be loaded ... with a lot of settings to get the best result.
    Ralf Ralf January 2012 Development
  • Willy Meets The BeatlesHere's the almost complete release of Willy Meets The Beatles, which you can download from [URL="http://www.sendspace.com/file/55ps31"]HERE![/URL] T…

    ... /> Yes! Please! I'm anxious to release my next game, Willy ... , in which he goes from screen to screen defeating Forest and Derby players ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi January 2012 Brand new software
  • Willy Meets The BeatlesHere's the almost complete release of Willy Meets The Beatles, which you can download from [URL="http://www.sendspace.com/file/55ps31"]HERE![/URL] T…

    ... ]Yes! Please! I'm anxious to release my next game, Willy ... , in which he goes from screen to screen defeating Forest and Derby players ...
    DaRkHoRaCe DaRkHoRaCe January 2012 Brand new software
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