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  • Best loading screen.What's the best loading screen in your opinion? I really liked the one on Rescue from Atlantis (maybe minus the text) [url="http://www.worldofspec…

    What's the best loading screen in your opinion?

    ...
    Skarpo Skarpo March 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cant remeber the names.Can anyone help find out the names of these two games. I once got a boulder dash type game of the cover of a magazine and cant remember the name. It…

    ... towards the top of the screen). I cant remember which mag ... boulders rolling down from the entrance. It was a single screen game ...
    KingSize KingSize March 2005 Games
  • Map to screen address problemCan anyone help me out with what I guess is a screen address calculation problem. I need to calculate the screen address of a tile based on a number…

    ... what I guess is a screen address calculation problem.

    I need to calculate the screen address of a tile based ... to calculate for the other screen thirds.

    Could someone ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside April 2005 Development
  • Fastest way to write something to screen$Hi, I just got pasmo.exe and start playing with attr scrolling, well, not scrolling, just write different values to a block and see if I can introdu…

    ... fastest way to update the screen. I know that ldir/lddr ...
    AE.Vasconcelos AE.Vasconcelos April 2005 Development
  • Sinclair flat screen pocket TV problemCan anyone give me some advise regarding a picture problem on a Sinclair flat screen pocket TV The picture has a black curvy band at the top and bot…

    ... problem on a Sinclair flat screen pocket TV

    The ... top and bottom of the screen

    Here is a ... is not moving across the screen

    channel 4 is ...
    Bluegoat Bluegoat May 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Changing the colour of the screenCan anyone tell me the ROM command to change the paper colour of the main screen ?

    Can anyone tell me the ROM command to change the paper colour of the main screen ?
    Mr Millside Mr Millside June 2005 Development
  • Screen distortion problems, I can't fix it!I just managed to get myself a ZX Spectrum +2 from the local car boot sale but for some reason theres a distortion halfway down the screen when i pla…

    ... a distortion halfway down the screen when i play games.
    screen the screen goes out of wack ...
    Resident0 Resident0 July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • screen$ and ramdisk 128kDoes anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape?

    Does anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape?
    mgmetro mgmetro July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Screen damaged while loadingI've written a simple Spectrum game and did a loading screen for it and now i'm trying to put it together into tzx file. My Basic loader is really s…

    ... game and did a loading screen for it and now i ... simple:

    1 Load'' Screen$
    2 load '' Code
    My problem is that after screen is loaded,
    Spectrum starts ...
    "Bytes:code" statement into screen, just into hero's face ...
    Ralf Ralf July 2005 Development
  • 128k Speccy ScreenAm I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and d…

    Am I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and draw the sprites etc... a-la 48k ??)
    dansauk dansauk August 2005 Development
  • screen$I'm wanting to create a game which is written mostly is Basic, due to lack of MC skills but i need a MC routine if someone would kindly supply it I…

    ... these in memory
    eg screen 1 at address 23296 to ... 30208
    screen 2 at address 30209 to ... used to mess up the screen if you were pressing a ...
    chop983 chop983 August 2005 Development
  • SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…

    How can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC?
    If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and the last two lines are destroyed!
    wilko0070 wilko0070 September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • NEW GAME COMING SOONMr Cauldwell has been busy again. How about this for a scenario....... Loco Bingo ========== The Plot -------- In the very near future a hith…

    ...
    auction off their new rolling stock to the highest bidder ... from the top of the screen, and Chug may manipulate them ... off the bottom of the screen its
    number is
    the top-right of the screen, the number flips over and ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2005 Games
  • Hidden piccy in Cylu loading screen.I was looking at the eggs at [url="http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#"]http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#[/url] and I was wondering about …

    ... wondering about the Cylu loading screen ... the little doohickies* on the ...
    Skarpo Skarpo November 2005 Games
  • The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …

    ... to understand the way the screen is controlled.

    The ... controls output to the the screen and the rom sets out ... the memory locations of the screen ( and attributes ). is this correct ...
    Saboteur Saboteur November 2005 Hardware
  • Return of Speccy screen buffer formatI recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only two colours in an 8x8 pixel block has made its return in a slightly dif…

    ... recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only ...
    vilcans vilcans November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Optimisation Needed! Is this the Fastest way to copy bytes from screen and back again?I have the screen address (say 0,0 i.e 16384) I want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the screen to an area of memory. I then want to cop…

    ... (4433 TStates to copy from screen to store)

    screen

    Can ...

    ; Clear the screen to show we are bringing ... ; Copy from store to the screen

    ld hl ...
    robpearmain robpearmain November 2005 Development
  • Convert Screen to TAPHow do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one …

    How do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one for memory and then copy them all together into one tap file)

    Many thanks
    robpearmain robpearmain December 2005 Development
  • Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?

    Almost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
    PopoCop PopoCop February 2006 Games
  • Name that screen shotJust picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on pag…

    Just picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on page 18 column 2 row 1
    chop983 chop983 February 2006 Games
  • what is the name of this game? If anyone can help me, i am looking for the name of a game I used to play on my spectravideo 318 maybe on other platforms as well You run around an…

    ... wanted person (you see tumblegrass rolling around )

    once you ... you get taken to another screen where you draw against him ...
    Marcello Marcello February 2006 Games
  • Screen DisolveHas anyone got any good assembly code to dissolve the screen I could see

    Has anyone got any good assembly code to dissolve the screen I could see
    robpearmain robpearmain February 2006 Development
  • 128k Screen Flipping - Sample Code PleaseI know this has been covered before, but I cannot find out code to do the following: On a 128k Spectrum tell the speccy to display from address 4915…

    ... that I can display one screen, draw to the other and ...
    robpearmain robpearmain February 2006 Development
  • Screen effects in MCAs I see there is still interest for MC programming on Speccy. So, I made little presentation of screen or slideshow effects with source files, demon…

    ... , I made little presentation of screen or slideshow effects with source ...
    piters piters February 2006 Development
  • Loading screen made of Hama beadsOK, so not your usual approach to preservation, but I thought people might be interested in my attempt to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama…

    ... to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama beads.

    hldswrth hldswrth February 2006 Support files
  • Getting attribute location from a screen coordinates (x,y)I am having trouble figuring out how to convert an x,y coordinate pair (pointing to a specific pixel) to the location of the attribute for the block …

    ... attributes but was in the screen.

    Does anyone know ... that once I understand the screen layout better then I will ... hopefully help me understand the screen layout better.
    Scrapheap Scrapheap April 2006 Development
  • How to put up a SCREEN$ - VB6 only.I'm making a little [B]Opus Discovery[/B] floppy image creator/viewer (thanks, [B]Obo[/B]!). It is made in... VB6 (sorry, don't know any "real" langu…

    ... like to add a [B]SCREEN$[/B] viewer.

    I ... way to display a Speccy screen, like in a picture box ... I tried to figure out screen handling in VBSpec, but the ...
    Marcelo Marcelo May 2006 Development
  • Games that don't use loading screenI thought it would be helpful to start a new topic in which we can say what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don't use it, ju…

    ... what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx July 2006 Games
  • This is total crap, This is The Rolling Stones...The Rolling Stones are insisting that Kasabian, the support act on their live tour, pay $280 each for a ticket to stay in the venue and watch them af…

    The Rolling Stones are insisting that Kasabian, ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton August 2006 Chit chat
  • Loading Screen ProblemI am putting together files on a tape that my game needs. The problem that I have is that after loading the "loading screen", the image is spoilt by …

    ... that after loading the "loading screen", the image is spoilt ... appearing ? When the loading screen was designed there was no ... left-hand edge of the screen ? Is there a way ... it appear elsewhere on the screen. It may be possible ... position within the loading screen.
    Mr Millside Mr Millside August 2006 Development
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