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  • Startup colours of the Spectrum ROMHi Folks, Thought I would have a go at changing the startup colours of the Spectrum ROMs used within BasinC which ships with 48.rom (16384 bytes) …

    ... border as expected. If I type BORDER 1 (blue or any other colour ... ) and then type NEW the border colour ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman October 2016 Development
  • Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…

    ... , eg:
    [code]
    14 BORDER 1: POKE 23624,7*8 ... )'(20)'"row 21";i$:
    BORDER 1: STOP
    [/code]
    colour with the BORDER colour.[/quote]

    Hi ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • A few questions about sound and keys in BASICIf I want sound in my BASIC game I have to use BEEP right ? It seems to lock up the CPU for far too long . On Arjun's page I found how to use CALL 94…

    ... OUT port that controls the border colour. If you do OUT 254 ... 7 it will change the border colour. That's the first three ... run. (It also turns the border black).
    joefish joefish December 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • where is border/ink, etc stored in rom?hi, i just wondered where these were stored in rom and how i change these?

    The border colour is held in system variable BORDCR (23624) along with the lower screen attributes (the PAPER colour is used for the border).
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • how to edit a romhi, i just wanted to know the best way to edit a rom. im going to do it in an emulator first and then run it in a spectrum.

    [quote="digital;893182"]border/ink and paper colour on boot[/quote]
    I ... bytes.

    The initial BORDER colour is set by:
    $11CC ... can't easily set the BORDER and PAPER to different colours ...
    GReW GReW January 2017 Hardware
  • Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …

    ... register like used for the border colour), that then leaves the attribute ... some ULA pins for extra colour outputs, remove the keyboard port ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK January 2017 Hardware
  • Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …

    ... register like used for the border colour), that then leaves the attribute ... some ULA pins for extra colour outputs, remove the keyboard port ... too? I wonder how many colour would have been available to ...
    Rebelstar Rebelstar January 2017 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum Test PCB I recently read about one of these (I think it may have been the Retroleum site but I am not sure) and I thought "What a great idea" . As pictured …

    ... white screen and with grey border . The screen was white ... within its area .The border area also had some smaller ... of the grey border area so the outer border colour was not just ... clear differentiation between screen and border area.

    Fitting ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio May 2017 Hardware
  • Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …

    ... need one to change the border colour black? Since it's clearly ...
    thricenightly thricenightly June 2017 Development
  • ZX Spectrum 48K it only shows colored barsHello, I'm new to the forum and I need help with a ZX Spectrum 48K which I bought recently unfortunately defective. I want to mention that before t…

    ... questions...
    > Does the border area on the display always ... as white (grey/white in colour)? You need to power it ... , then power on, check the border colour, then repeat the cycle about ... all?

    If the border always shows as white, it ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK July 2017 Hardware
  • Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…

    The original code didn't set the border colour using the BORDER command, only writing 6 to port #FE. The default colours were simply paper 7, ink 0.
    Woody Woody September 2017 Development
  • Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…

    ... start to fill and the border colour changes to yellow:-
    [img ... all rows are filled the border goes back to white:-
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum September 2017 Development
  • zx Spectrum repairHi, First post! My son gave me hi old none working Spectrum, so I thought I'd try to get it working, or throw it away. The RV showed the start page…

    ... its loading phase? Did the border colour change? Did any noise come ...
    thricenightly thricenightly September 2017 Hardware Preservation
  • ZX Spectrum +3 repairI have my first +3 here, and it needs repairs. Hoping someone here can help me out. When I power it on I get this screen with black and white line…

    ... is the registers for the border colour, the keyboard, the bleeper, the ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK October 2017 Hardware
  • Hacking the ZX Spectrum 48K ROMHi Guys, I have modded my Speccy with a dual boot ROM loading on first bank the original ZX kernel and on the second bank an enhanced version. I h…

    The initial border colour is set during the NEW ... the initial border colour. However, for the border to keep that colour after any ... can't easily have the border and paper as different colours ... blue paper, with a blue border, change the following bytes:
    GReW GReW November 2017 Hardware
  • Troubleshooting my +2To put this in context: a while back (i.e. late last year and earlier this year) I was looking to put together a compilation of modern Spectrum games…

    ... if it does *that* (wrong border colour, garbage on the screen, crash ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone November 2017 Hardware
  • Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…

    ... of code to change the border colour, then you can see where ... at this point) and the border time (which gives you just ...
    joefish joefish January 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Multiface ResidentI'm thinking about adapting some existing code to be Multiface "resident"... but being perfectly honest I'm not quite sure where to start. Any top t…

    ... code to set border to colour blue if it ... turn the
    ;border yellow temporarily, then return ... ; ld a,6 -> Border Colour Yellow
    ld (hl), ... ; ld a,1 -> Border Colour Blue
    ld (hl), ... Border is set to colour blue and not only to colour ...
    Luzie Luzie January 2018 Development
  • I introduce myself and my emulator.Hi! My name is Marta, and I've been a Speccy user for 30+ years now. During the past year I decided to write my own emulator, just to see if I cou…

    Hm. I tried a last idea and it seems like it's working... I was latching the border colour when it was received from the CPU. But I wasn't making it immediately available. That's 4 t-states delay.
    TheMartian TheMartian March 2018 Emulators
  • Why no PLOT, etc. on bottom two lines?I was pondering if there was any way to get PLOT, etc. to address the full screen from BASIC without having to write a few lines of assembler to bypa…

    ... reason I chose a different Border colour was simply so it was ...
    spider spider October 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • using the out command to make sound on a spectrumi remember reading somewhere on how to use the out command to make sound. i cant find a reference to this anywhere online. i think it may have caused…

    ... the same port controls the border colour.

    10 OUT 254 ... some noise and turn the border black. Vary the pause duration ...
    cmonkey cmonkey April 2019 Development
  • border effectsive been playing around with border effects like 10 border 1 20 border 2 30 pause 1 40 goto 10 ,etc i even wrote one in machine code. …

    ... to drawing the border, the hardware looks in the border colour register and ... sends that colour to the screen ... real control over where the border colour changes take effect - then you ...
    AndyC AndyC May 2019 BASIC
  • border effectsive been playing around with border effects like 10 border 1 20 border 2 30 pause 1 40 goto 10 ,etc i even wrote one in machine code. …

    It's changing the border colour while the TV is still ... drawn. You then change the border colour as the TV refreshes its ... top border) a short part of each line a different colour. Or ... make the border colour change half-way ...
    joefish joefish May 2019 BASIC
  • What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?

    ... did not have a loading border colour during the main load , talking ...
    spider spider August 2019 Chit chat
  • Loading Schemes > 1-bit per 2 edgesHi Guys, I'm just having another look at loading schemes again (a subject that interests me). Does anyone know if there any loading schemes t…

    ... Bearing) along with playing with border colour options were all part of ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz August 2019 Games
  • Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…

    ... start to fill and the border colour changes to yellow:-
    [img ... all rows are filled the border goes back to white:-
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum November 2019 Development
  • A snapshot to transfer converterI'm programming a tool that takes an snapshot file and convert it to a tape file that mimics those created with transfers. This is a long term projec…

    Some 10 years ago :

    http://pc.sux.org/tomcat/Z802TZX.zip

    Z802TZX

    Z80 Snapshot to TZX Tape Converter v1.2

    ->by Tom-Cat
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat June 2020 Development
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