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MOVE_M Object Movement Manager for BASICAs moving things around on the screen is usually the slowest part of a game written in BASIC, I've been pottering around with this routine to handle …
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PowerSlave's Sinclair/Timex collectionNow that I cataloged all the items I have, it's time to show them :) Between bought and offered, my collection items are: - Sinclair Spectrum 128k…
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SCREEN$ bug fixI've been using the SCREEN$() function recently for reading data off the screen rather than taking up space with an array and I got fed up with the s…
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Dizzy spellsNo, this isn't a new game starring a certain egg! I've been getting random dizziness spells over the last few days especially if i look upwards or so…
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Video problem on grey +2I have a bad video problem on grey +2. The computer is in a poor shape, but the major problem is with the video. With a (known good) SCART cable I ca…
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A few questions about ZX Spectrum assemblyHi, I have a few questions about ZX Spectrum assembly language programming: - What's the best assembly tool for ZX Spectrum? I tried a bit the ZXSpi…
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Some *** accessed my home network?!?I'm not completely stupid (supposedly) but equally I'm hardly bordering on the all-knowing end of the scale either so I wondered if any of you more t…
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ZX81 hires gamepack for good cause.[B]1K Hires games pack finally for sale! [/B] Hello World, great news! I found someone to help me make tapes for the 1K hires game collection. As…
z88dk and im2I set up a minimal IM2 mode so I can draw sprites for a laff [code] #include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <im2.h> #include <stdlib.h> #in…
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threadbase_t threadbase; // Global ...A Bundle of Singular Spectrum Games &..A Rare console!'lo folks :) Just banging up my varied auctions again, might be some in there to tickle your interest. [url]http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/vaxalon[/url]…
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Some other random stuff up...amiga, cdi, and ...I've had better nights...So I got a broken issue 2 today, case in good nick but the diags board showing multiple failures in both lower/upper RAM. Never mind, good as a spare…
... stuck data line during the random fill test. Replacing the ULA ...Hikoki's new gameSo putting together all Hikoki's suggestions: This is going to be an arcade maze but also a vertical/horizontal scrolling game; with puzzle element…
... it together with many different random animals from the woods (hedegehogs ...spectrum pixel experimentsWell, As a spectrum fan, I started recently learning about how to pixel for the speccy, I did pixelart in the past but not speccy style (until now). …
... know where to put it. Random characters.
about 70 ...Does anyone play footy?Just a random thought as I sit here post match - we're all clearly geeks but are we all the stereotypical couch potatoes?
Just a random thought as I sit here post match - we're all clearly geeks but are we all the stereotypical couch potatoes?Troublesome routine, help needed!Having problems with this routine, it basically fires a rocket up the screen, but refuses to detect collisions. I'm using attribute blocks for detect…
... ;load co-ords into print string
push bc
call ...that "listing variables during runtime" thingWell, I did eventually finish this, but with my meds playing up I don't have much time each day that I can spend at the computer, so it's taken rathe…
... they appear in the array. String array elements are scaled to ...FZX Driver for z88dkAn fzx library for z88dk can be downloaded [URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWM2hWNjAxMVkxaEk/edit?usp=sharing"]here[/URL]. The libr…
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Output zero terminated string.
[B]int ... the pixel width of the string. Newline and AT sequences count ... they are contained in the string.
[B]char * ...Listen to Spectrum Game Music Directly In Your Web BrowserI found this forum a few weeks ago when a user linked to my site. I run a little site called [URL="http://gamemusic.multimedia.cx/"]Game Music Apprec…
... suffice (and there are also "Random Spectrum/Amstrad song" links available ...mp3 archiveJust a random idea, but what about an mp3 archive for games, Seems a lot of people are using this method to load games these day. Any thoughts on t…
Just a random idea, but what about an mp3 archive for games,
Seems a lot of people are using this method to load games these day.
Any thoughts on this?Gubbins and Miscellaneous scansHere's a few random Speccy-related thingies I just found from a few years back. 1: A note from a pal (1 of three people I think it could be from, …
Here's a few random Speccy-related thingies I just ...Problem with Pasmo Assembler/Speccy emulator?I'm at the start of trying to learn Z80 assembly for the ZX Spectrum. I'm using Speccy 1.7 as my emulator, Pasmo as my assembler, and am following t…
... "" which I learned from a random video I watched is what ...Interesting 48K failureI thought I'd recount a failure I've not seen mentioned before that I saw tonight while fixing a 48K issue 6 board. The background: The initial fail…
... the border changed to a random colour, and then activating the ... , sometimes activating and causing some random IO function to be activated ... (hence the random changes to the border colour ...128K RGB Display problem.I have just got my hand on a toast rack, but when powered and connected to the telly the picture jumps horizontally at random intervals. Could it be…
... the picture jumps horizontally at random intervals.
Could it ...SpecBAS 0.800 Released!Hi folks, it's that time again for another release. I was going to add a few more features, but I have other projects on the go at the moment, and it…
... /> More optimisation to internal string handling
You can, ... speed boost
String operations should now be ... these take precedence over regular string slicers
Streams can ... screen display
String slicing with one element ...Code analysis on SNA filesI was wondering if anybody has attempted to convert all TZX/TAP files into SNA files? I would prefer SNA files as they're easy to use and search from…
... blanked out the copyright/version string. Even more blanking has been ...Composite picture qualityI have read many many discussions here about the composite video modification of the Spectrum 16/48K models. I have choosen one of the simplest comp…
DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…
... much joy with is generating random values for the array initially ...mirroring bitsIf I have a string of 1408 bytes, each of which has one bit 'b' set, what's the shortest way of mirroring that string, so that each bit set at positi…
If I have a string of 1408 bytes, each of ... shortest way of mirroring that string, so that each bit set ...





