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Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... had blocky graphics but better colour handling.
Why ... something similar have much better colour handling? It was still ... are Z80, but handle the colour better? mmmm....
... colour clash.
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Best use of colour in a spectrum gameEven though the spectrum couldn't manage individual colours per pixel like the Commodore and Amstrad, some games managed to achieve very effective fu…
... Commodore and Amstrad, some games managed to achieve very effective full colour ... graphics while keeping colour-clash to a ... boasted the best use of colour?
To start the ... -
Just Put 1500+ Tapes on Ebay for Grabs, alsoa few game and watches if anybody is interested, thanks for reading.. [url="http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZcornishdaveyQQsorecordspe…
... /> 4-Most Balls, Boots and Brains Compilation
4- ... Compilation MIA
Alvin and the Chipmunks MIA
... /> Cartoon Capers Compilation
Colour of Magic, The Piranha
Raging Beast MIA
Rock 'n Wrestle Melbourne House
Popeye 1 no colour clash?How was Don Priestley able to get rid of the colour clash in this classic game (and the Trapdor etc)??? Was it because he was doing the fast switchi…
... rid of the colour clash in this classic game (and the Trapdor ... , a technical term ;) )
And why didn't more popular ... can only remember the colour clash one and barely a handful of ...(OT?) Windows colour cycling?Is it possible, in a Windows program, to get colour-cycling by the "proper" method?? That is, by changing the bitmap/window palette and having the sy…
... changing the bitmap/window palette and having the system re- ... in a web browser window (and in Microsoft GIF Animator -- quite ... available free), but Googling for "colour cycling" (or "color" for ... "works" by the crude and clumsy method of manually repainting ...Worse on a colour tellyOnly with the power of emulation have i bothered to try out some old games which i only ever played on a black and white portable. It's amazing how …
... black and white portable. It's amazing how some games in colour ...The Biz: Tips and BugsHi, Speccy lovers, I totally got into the Biz but I seem to have run across some difficulties there. When I sign a contract with a record company and…
... contract with a record company and release my first single ... you to be a 100% rock star!
I ... When you sign a contract and relese your first single then ... . Just to 1, not rock'n'roll or punk, just ... but the screen flashes and blinks and I can't see ...Worst Collision Detection & Colour Clash in gamesSorry if this as been mentioned before but i did do a search ;) In a recent discussion with a friend we talked about probs with the older games such…
... spring to mind? i remember colour clash being present on most ... speccy games like chuckie egg2 and pajamarama spring to mind for ...ANN - ZXSoftware Update 29/11/05The following titles have been updated or added. Around another 400 games have been mapped to the emulator. Your milage may vary on how well this wo…
... please so I can try and address them.
... Global Software
Beaky and the Egg Snatchers Fantasy Software ... Lambourne Games
Helping Hands - Colour Aslett Scholey
Kat Trap ... Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd
Rock 'n' Lucha Erbe
...Grell And Falla - Am I doing something wrong?OK, anybody remember a game called Grell and Falla in the Enchanted Gardens? It was one of the Codies last budget releases on the Speccy, and quite a…
... remember a game called Grell and Falla in the Enchanted Gardens ... Speccy, and quite a decent, console-esque platformer with full colour graphics ... out of my collection recently and booted it up on my ...Instructions image/background colour matchingI'm doing a PDF from one of the JPEG instruction scans; OCRing the text, cutting out the pictures, composing a document in Word 2000 and using Acroba…
... document in Word 2000 and using Acrobat PDFWriter to ... t get the document and image background colours to ... never get all six colour parameters to match between ... me change the background colour of the inserted image ... match the document background colour, but I can't ...Spectrum (and other) Programming BooksHi All I have the following books for sale. I can post to anywhere in the world and take PayPal. All in excellent condition unless stated: Microcom…
... br /> Handbook of procedures and functions for the BBC Micro ... Tim Langdell
The Computer and Video Games Book of Adventures ... the Spectrum (book and tape)
VIC 20 Colour Computer : An ... Introduction to Basic Part 1 (large book and ...Sol Negro Colour Version (trained)Hi! You can download a Final version which has Colour and is trained (with a nice cracktro) by Triumph / Mayhem from here : [url]http://retrospec.s…
Hi!
You can download a Final version which has Colour and is trained (with a nice cracktro) by Triumph / Mayhem from here :
[url]http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/tomcat/SolNegroColour+8_128.tap[/url]
TomazRock & Roll Hall Of FameIt's time for my second annual "R&RHOF" picks The Cure (on sheer influence alone) Van Halen (yes, they are not in yet) Weird Al Yankovic (the obliga…
... feild pick that is popular and influentail and nobody would think even ... ?
do you think the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame ... founders (Atlantic head Ahmet Ertegun and "Rolling Stone" founder Jann S ...If you could choose one extra colour for the ZX Spectrum??The post "Im not trying to start a flame war......" by Ewgf got me thinking. The ZX spectrum had 8 colours. 15 if you count the bright as separate …
... have done with one more colour.
If you had ... in time and choose an [b][u]One[/u] extra colour [/b ... with my thinking.
And I already prepared for the ...can i connect a +2a to an amstrad colour monitor?can i connect a +2a to an amstrad cmt 464 colour monitor? how ? th output is different , and it even has jacks for power!:evil:
can i connect a +2a to an amstrad cmt 464 colour monitor?
how ? th output is different , and it even has jacks for power!:evil:Dead Spectrum diagnosis and desolderingI have two dead Spectrums - one I'm pretty sure is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps a bad ROM, perhaps a bad CPU (it gets halfway …
... is caused by bad memory, and the other - well, perhaps ... to change state and maybe some colour attributes begin to ... flash, and never makes it ... pins on the CPU and one of the PCB ... Spectrum is quite fine, and most of the ICs are ...Help with Christmas Pop songs in German Spanish and ItallianI am organinsing a Christmas party for a rock climbing club wich I help run... our club includes German, Spanish and Itallian members I was wondering…
I am organinsing a Christmas party for a rock climbing club wich I help run... our club includes German, Spanish and Itallian members I was wondering if anyone of you knew any good christmas pop songs in those languages?
Andrew.Spectrum (and other) books for saleI have the following books for sale. I can post to anywhere in the world and take PayPal. All in excellent condition unless stated. All 5 quid each p…
... br /> Handbook of procedures and functions for the BBC Micro ... Tim Langdell
The Computer and Video Games Book of Adventures ... the Spectrum (book and tape)
VIC 20 Colour Computer : An ... Introduction to Basic Part 1 (large book and ...Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2007I'm not really too happy with the small class of 2007 in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - they just wanted a rap…
... the US alone. Huge influence and respectable body of work
The Cure - Influential, important, and had 3 Top 40 US ... the defining bands in alternative rock
KISS - Redifined the ... s own founders - Ahmet Ertegun and "Rolling Stone" founder Jann Wenner ...Utilities and Codemasters games on ebayFurther thinning out my Speccy collection, here are: a bunch of Codies games, digital distribution denied of course, including Slightly Magic and Roc…
... of course, including Slightly Magic and Rock Star Ate My Hamster. Also ... 1 the graphic design prog, and some old Sinclair/Crystal assembly ...ZX 81 games (and an emulation issue or two)Hi Not really sure this is the right forum, but maybe someone can help. As a Speccy fan, I was always intrigued by the old ZX81, and thanks to the w…
... intrigued by the old ZX81, and thanks to the wonderful world ... Spectrum 128: is this so, and where can I find these ... ZX81 on my emulators - specifically, Rock Crush, Dan's Revenge, Ho_res ... in a LOADing state forever, and never actually run.
New versions of ZX-Editor and ZX-Preview publishedDear ZX-Spectrum Emulator fans, I want to announce that I published new versions of ZX-Editor Second Edition and ZX-Preview today. Refer to [url]www…
... of ZX-Editor Second Edition and ZX-Preview today. Refer to ... you will enjoy my programs and I'm always happy about ... tokenizer, full (!) BASin basic program and variables support, many bug-fixes ... , but also syntax-highlighting. The colour effects can be copied to ...Rock StarI hope someone can help me. I was playing Rock star ate my hamster last week and managed to get a number one single but still didn't get the platinu…
I hope someone can help me. I was playing Rock star ate my hamster last week and managed to get a number one single but still didn't get the platinum discs. I thought that was the point of the game. What do you have to do to get the discs?Compiling FUSE from source for a complete and total beginner...?[b]ACHTUNG: this is going to take a while to read...[/b] A message above tells me it's been nearly 14 months since I last visited here. Ye gods. Wel…
... structure... but they're up and running.
Unfortunately ... description is a prerequisite, and they work absolutely fine ( ... :152: error: expected ?;? before ?colour?
xdisplay.c:153: error ... ]
Tons and tons and tons of errors. As for ...Good platform games for other machines and consolesBasically, what good platform games are there for the SNES/NES/Megadrive/C64/MSX/Amstrad/BBC/Game Boy (and GB Colour and GB Advance)/Atari 8-bit etc?…
... /Amstrad/BBC/Game Boy (and GB Colour and GB Advance)/Atari 8-bit ...No colourHi! I'm trying to fix a 6A 48K machine that outputs no colour and shows the characters as if they were in bold. So far, I've done a couple of thing…
... 48K machine that outputs no colour and shows the characters as if ... modulator and all checks but i still have no colour.
colour and having some skews on ... br />
Although having no colour and boldish characters the image is ...Spectrum 48K colour problemI obtained Spectrum 48K issue 2 in verry good condition. Machine work very good, but picture on my Samsung TV (72cm diagonal flat 100 Hz) is little s…
... is normal, but white colour is not quite white, ... with Spectrum RF modulator, and cant remember if there ... bring some adjustments for colour or not?
... this, with plenty pictures and explanation of all revision ... didnt bookmark them and now forget his name.Change PAPER and INK, but nothing else?Can you in BASIC change the colour attributes in the screen without changing what is already printed at that location? I.e. change the PAPER and INK,…
Can you in BASIC change the colour attributes in the screen without changing what is already printed at that location? I.e. change the PAPER and INK, but keep the character (or whatever is displayed) intact.Poppers and Warfarin yay or nayI have a friend who a few years ago suffered a minor heart attack but didnt go to the doctor his girlfiend noticed he was a blue colour but he claime…
... blue colour but he claimed hed had a bad meal and shrugged ... later he had a stroke and was lucky his girlfriend found ... later he had another stroke and has been on warfarin since ... . She challenged him about it and he claimed that its was ...
