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  • Clear the screen from assemblerI want to clear the screen before I draw my graphic elements on it. Speed is not important so I was thinking of using the rom CLS option if that is p…

    ... Millside;736977]I want to clear the screen before I draw ... this command or some similar routine to clear the screen?[/QUOTE]
    < ... is the attribute value you want to set for the whole screen. The ... byte contains bits in the ...
    chev chev November 2013 Development
  • Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…

    ... even get together on Sundays to paint the store out of love for ... needed to negotiate the minefield of pot holes in the rear yard to get to ... and in the winter break the ice to use ...
    PeteCoops PeteCoops January 2014 Games
  • Old software shops that have come and gone.One that i remember fondly was Software Plus in Great Yarmouth, i bought my copy of Streetfighter II C64 there, and also a little gamestore in the Ma…

    ... even get together on Sundays to paint the store out of love for ... needed to negotiate the minefield of pot holes in the rear yard to get to ... and in the winter break the ice to use ...
    Clakkers Clakkers January 2014 Games
  • How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…

    ... character in turn to the print routine, which is what the ROM does in ... 'll knock up an assembler routine to use the data. Apart from being ... .

    Add this bit to the routine to PLOT an enlarging character across ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2014 Development
  • How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…

    Is this routine ok?

    " ... call 3503 ; Calls a routine to clear the screen
    ld a ... ; We'll set the border colour to blue
    ld ... /> call 3503 ; Calls a routine to clear the screen

    ...
    alienbanana alienbanana February 2014 Development
  • Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…

    ... to display the image immediately).

    With Jerri's diagonal reveal routine ... I now have the image and attributes ... depack it to the shadow area ($a000) for the routine to reveal the image to screen and ...
    Speccy_James Speccy_James February 2014 Development
  • Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…

    ... to write a routine to change the attributes so that my text previously printed to the ... the start of the highlight subroutine I need to set the attribute address to hl ... based on the ...
    Speccy_James Speccy_James February 2014 Development
  • Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…

    ... to write a routine to change the attributes so that my text previously printed to the ... the start of the highlight subroutine I need to set the attribute address to hl ... based on the ...
    Jerri Jerri February 2014 Development
  • New game (conversion): AltairHello, I only want to announce this game Altair I programmed for the Spectrum 48K. Altair is a game from 1981, for arcade machines, developed by the…

    ... not able to paint the "shield" of the bird (the white rectangle on the bottom where ... you have to shoot) and the ... shots of the player at the ...
    ibm ibm March 2014 Brand new software
  • Retro Games Battle 2014Retro Games Battle 2014 started! [url]http://retrogamesbattle.com/index.php?lng=eng[/url] Archive for playing on the ZX Spectrum [url]http://retro…

    ... with all the pieces of the chip but died in the way to the computer ... help you to complete the first level. also there is the second secret ... =) a certain player advised to draw the map to find such place which seems ...
    Oleg Origin Oleg Origin March 2014 Games
  • The Hobbit - Chaos EngineI had a bit of a slow day yesterday, so I ended up playing 'The Hobbit' (Version 1.0 from this site) for a few hours. I know how to complete the gam…

    ... Elrond read the map do? Gandalf always tended to nick the map anyway, so ... I used to play through the game ... You don't have to return via the 'Pale bulbous eyes' ... to, and he just seems to get stuck in the mountains near the ...
    morph morph March 2014 Games
  • Help needed with calculating screen addressesCan anyone help me finally crack Jonathan Cauldwell's screen addressing calculator and, more to the point, is the reason I'm struggling because this …

    All part of the service.

    If you want to address all ... ,0 origin at the bottom left of the 24th line.
    < ... /> There is no ROM routine to reverse the procedure, but PIXEL_ADD is only ... 't take much work to derive a reverse routine based upon that.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2014 Development
  • Help needed with calculating screen addressesCan anyone help me finally crack Jonathan Cauldwell's screen addressing calculator and, more to the point, is the reason I'm struggling because this …

    ... 'move' your startcoordinates to the left upper corner of the screen and not ... .

    In this way the routine will not effect BC anymore ... used the DRAW routine to calculate the direction the ball moved. After calculating the next position, the ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2014 Development
  • Another ZX Compact.As a follow up to finding and posting this last year , [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42473[/url] I took on the challen…

    ... a +2. Got the top part of the case cut and glued ... /> I was wondering what colour to paint the case, seeing yours I think ... for black and may pinch the keys from a +2A.
    to get rid of the heatsink.
    rune rune April 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Another ZX Compact.As a follow up to finding and posting this last year , [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42473[/url] I took on the challen…

    ... /> I was wondering what colour to paint the case, seeing yours I think ... the PBC to power an arduino to decode the PS/2 signals and wire to the ... advised that the signal to the divide is critical to the extent that the length of ...
    carl_retrotext carl_retrotext April 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…

    ... a routine to generate the table just in case I need to use the table ...
    ; add 6912 bytes to get to transfer_back_to_front routine... (39680d or $9B00)
    the generate routine is called !!!
    ; although ...
    polomint polomint April 2014 Development
  • Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…

    ... 769536]I like the re-done water, especially the reflection. They ... things back in the '80s.
    Regarding the update, fire now ... up" on the joypad/stick still does the same which means ... of RAM left on the 128K. Any chance of ... /> but do not plan to expand the map.
    Jerri Jerri May 2014 New game ideas
  • Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…

    ... br /> but do not plan to expand the map.[/QUOTE]

    ... Now that you have the engine, if ... great to expand the game! you might want to ask Locomalito to give ... It could be interesting to provide the hero with some kind of ...
    hikoki hikoki May 2014 New game ideas
  • Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…

    ... .
    but do not plan to expand the map.[/QUOTE]

    I ... :D

    Maybe with the sources and a new coder ... 't think Jerri would like to start a new project)
    DaRkHoRaCe DaRkHoRaCe May 2014 New game ideas
  • Pacman monster helpso I am trying to write a pacman game in Specbas [youtube]0R4XmkzBfHs[/youtube] got it working ok so far.... now the tricky bit the monsters in p…

    ... matter the ghost just have a target to try and get to.
    in scatter mode the target is outside the ... /> well I have a routine to find the shortest route already I just ... need the target tile and then jump to that routine.
    ASH-II ASH-II May 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Pacman monster helpso I am trying to write a pacman game in Specbas [youtube]0R4XmkzBfHs[/youtube] got it working ok so far.... now the tricky bit the monsters in p…

    ... /> well I have a routine to find the shortest route already I just ... need the target tile and then jump to that routine.[/QUOTE]< ... " routine, and the one I listed that is the top of the tree ... and then chooses the one that's nearest to the given target square ...
    Gedlion Gedlion May 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Not-quite-an-advert for IRCSince my pitiful attempt to solicit more users for #speccy and #spin failed miserably, I'm gonna try one more time! A few of us from WoS are on IRC.…

    [QUOTE=guesser;773652]Shut up you! Does PoloEd use those dark icons yet? :p[/QUOTE]

    Err the routine to do the work is in the app, I just haven't linked it up yet, lol
    I will soon, I've been distracted, :p
    polomint polomint June 2014 Chit chat
  • Willy The Wasp 48KHeres a crude Kokotoni Wilf type affair, collect all the phials to build up your venom then track down the commissioner and sting him. Collect fruit…

    ... it fairly easy to avoid the enemies, but avoiding the scenery is ... on bits like the water at the bottom of the map.

    ... this one looks the best of them all. The large & ... One of those "desperately want to explore the map" type games. Nice work.
    Morkin Morkin June 2014 Brand new software
  • Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…

    I've uploaded the tilesets to ZXGraf: [URL="https://sites.google. ... 's tedious to recreate the map by hand and retouch the tiles at the same ...
    4throck 4throck July 2014 New game ideas
  • Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…

    ... =4throck;776579]I've uploaded the tilesets to ZXGraf: [URL="https://sites ... 's tedious to recreate the map by hand and retouch the tiles at the same ... /> I'll get back to working on the editor soon, maybe I ... can do something to help ...
    polomint polomint July 2014 New game ideas
  • Command and Conquer type game?Hey all One of my all time favourite games although not spectrum based, is the Command and Conquer series. I'm sure many of you are famailiar with…

    ... ask you to select one or more goal positions inside the map:
    to "solve" the map, then the demo will draw obtained ... anywhere in the map will know exactly the best possible route to closest goal ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2014 New game ideas
  • Buffer to screen - how much?[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am starting to build a new game and am researching different ways to accomplish what I need to do. My question is, is it poss…

    ... I am going to store the map data so that the tiles can be ... loaded into the buffer very ... the screen I?ll then look to see if I need to improve the ... performance. The game will ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside September 2014 Development
  • Game of Life.Last year (I think) or maybe the year before, I entered a Game of Life simulator into the CSS CGC compo but for the Sinclair ZX81. I decided to port…

    ... are used when calculating the cells adjacent to the margins but are not ... at the Wikipedia entry the only practical option on the Spectrum is to implement ... /> but the extra routine to handle the margins is a big as the original routine, so ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Hardest games...After the Rally Driver challenge a while ago, and Daren recently saying that he couldn't get off the first screen of 1985 without loads of rollbacks,…

    ... one level till I saw the map on WOS.[/QUOTE]

    to see the map - I couldn't get the map to appear in the post ... directly, presumably because the map ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2014 Games
  • Hardest games...After the Rally Driver challenge a while ago, and Daren recently saying that he couldn't get off the first screen of 1985 without loads of rollbacks,…

    ... to see the map - I couldn't get the map to appear in the ... post directly, presumably because the map ... the same, aside from the colour scheme! Even the money seems to be in the ... gameplay across the three maps?[/ ...
    chop983 chop983 October 2014 Games
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