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Working from home pros and consI have changed job location from London to Southampton but live in Wiltshire. I now only have to be at work 3 days a week and can work the other two …
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... the screen address in hand "disp", the UDG definition to use in "bmp" the loop to ... in hexadecimal) so the loop pokes the UDG byte to the screen incrementing "bmp" in ... one line then advances to the ... -
A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…
... Gun cheating! I think the vectors where drawn to two buffers (1 ... dumped 'as sprites' to the screen. This meant that the images could be moved ... and smoother 'as sprites' and the buffered vector update and maths ... -
A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…
... cheating! I think the vectors where drawn to two buffers (1 ... 'as sprites' to the screen. This mean't that the images could be ... to think that Joffa has hit the nail on the head with the ... the screen, meaning that although vectors are used for the design, the ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... alone would be down to my feet by the time I get ... something to work in machine code ... photo taken to commemorate the occasion!
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Speccy emulator on a Nintendo DS, with M3 cartridgeAny recommendations for a good Speccy emulator on a Nintendo DS (using a M3 cartridge)?
... I intend to add support for sticky keys once the proper keyboard ... ? Mainly to get out of ZXDS and back into the M3 menu ... older emulators. May be related to screen emulation, but I don't ... games flicker, that's due to the screen being sampled only once per ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... we need to include the math library math.h and link to the math ... can print a single "%" sign to the screen. The specifiers printf() understands can be ... as remaining faithful to the original game. The fact that the heads experiment came ... -
Spectrian for Series 60 SymbianMorning any night-owls out there I was just wondering whether anybody else out there uses Spectrian for Series 60 Nokias and what's your opinion? …
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the screen to be used.
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... [/U] within the week as the next batch of code to be written ... ]doing animations[/U] for the random events in the game. Any code ... right in the source, so here's your chance to be famous ... scroller that draws directly to the screen instead of ussing a buffer?< ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... scroller that draws directly to the screen instead of ussing a buffer ... directly on screen so we can get rid of the 240+ byte ... I'll have time to post up the events code before tomorrow ... memory offset to the next graphic frame to use when drawing the sprite. If ... -
Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... assemble code to the screen that will save the game to tape with the standard rom ... it to point to your routine in the screen. At the beginning of the code in the screen ... should be a poke to restore the ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
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I had to remove the dot under the player's starting position ... $ array, as I wanted to print it to the screen as a colour other ... unsure which of the two versions to pursue at the moment. Maybe a ... -
Emulation vs SpecApologies if this is an old thread, what does anyone think is the best - playing spectrum games through emulation or on a real speccy? I feel it's b…
... instructions which could possibly write to the screen .e.g ld (hl),a ... then just copied those bytes to the screen on the fly.
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... little problem with the scroller that draw directly to the screen. I must add ... and slept most of the time recovering from the flu.
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Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
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7 to 9" TFT screen on SpectrumI'm willing to buy one of those and connect the Spectrum via the Composite Video input. Has anyone tried that? What kind of image quality may be expe…
... RGB X 480' is meant to refer to the screen resolution - it seems that ... some LCD TV manufacturers (including the Maplin ... one) have the chutzpah to describe the resolution as '1440 ... -
Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... to the TV, and then there's the the time required to stop the CPU accessing the ... this with actually writing the pixels out to the screen. If we again assume ... that the CSS FAQ timings are ... -
How many players can you cram simultaneous on a speccyYou know how they have those..how many people can you cram in a mini or a phone box things on guiness book of records. Well say someone wrote a game…
... game would work.....where the players had to go in order and ... a bit tedious having to wait for your turn with ... have them scrolling on to the screen measuring the reaction times between a ... could be emulated over the Internet, imagine the multiplayer games that ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... double width printer to be able to print to the screen AND to a block of ... memory (for the double width ... to screen rather than doing it to a buffer and then copying the buffer to screen ... -
Poke 23739,111So, I'm looking at some of my old loaders (BASIC stuff) to work out how I got the display to not corrupt on loading code. It's the old POKE 23739,111…
... 23739,111 too for hiding the 'Bytes: ....' message during loading. But ... Basic programs; printing to the screen in general seemed to be messed up.
Interface rom - Need help to dump itHi, I have temporarily an interface that is similar to a multiface. It has an NMI button and displays a menu where states can be saved and pokes ent…
... to run but if it crashes, the number that is shown on screen ... is the magic number ... that you need to make a ... simply print a number to the screen and return with the normal "OK 0 ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
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The reason is the "Laser Compiler" does not ... with it, it uses the screen area as a temporary buffer ... on the ZX screen.
This is the only time the application writes to the screen ... it is an in-application screen that I have, but it ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... Prawn;221891]I have a screen for "Laser Compiler", ... with it, it uses the screen area as a temporary buffer ... the ZX screen.
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Any screen ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
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After uploading the "GRAF 3" screen, I allowed myself no ... could typically download the program, grab the screen and upload it in ... BASIC program to be written just to generate the needed input ... 't actually write directly to the screen as far as I know ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... are now down to 50 screenshots needed in the current list.
to the screen and then quits.
< ... would like to see this job completed, and in the spirit ... be able to provide further useful screenshots of the remaining ones ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... they ever do print to the screen). The screenshot I have taken ... program (related to the "how to hack" articles?), but the two checksums ... ). However it does output to the screen in one instance, when ... I have simply captured the screen after this program has ...
