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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…
I 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 possible. Can anyone advise on how to call this command or some similar routine to clear the screen? -
Using the lightgun...I am thinking of developing a game for the Sinclair/Cheetah lightguns, how do I go about reading the data from it (Basic and MC)? I am under the imp…
... of developing a game for the Sinclair/Cheetah lightguns, how do ... I go about reading the data from it (Basic and ... )?
I am under the impression that it will only ... that correct?
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Clearing 22 lines of the screenHow do I go about clearing the top 22 lines of the screen and leave the bottom #0 area untouched? I have a routine to reset the attributes, but cant…
... about clearing the top 22 lines of the screen and ... leave the bottom #0 area ... have a routine to reset the attributes, but cant delete the 16384 display ... is an easy way to do it without me ... reverting to PRINTING 22 lines of ... -
Trying to remember the name of a gameHi all, Just joined up today as there is a Spectrum game that I remembered playing from years ago but cannot for the life of me remember the name. I…
... with hostage negotiation (IIRC) and the game is based in an ... the elevator talking the various team leaders and advisors. You have to balance the ... if you actually go along to the hostage situation or not.
the only game of that name ... -
Problem Reading the KeyboardHi Folks, I'm working my way through Toni Baker's rather good book and thought I'd write some code to scan the keyboard and store the results so tha…
... well except that the code to read the keys seems to ignore which segment ... />
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;Routine to scan the keyboard and store the results.
;Outline ... /> ;2 - Copy current keyboard state to the old keyboard state memory area ... -
How to boost the wi-fi receiver power, please?My Internet connection is playing up, and the lady next door says I can leech off hers until mine is sorted out, but (when in my house) my laptop kee…
... feet from her router. The laptop reads the signal fine when in ... wondering what can I do to increase the laptop's receiver strength ... ? I can't really ask her to ... software settings that can increase the laptop's signal reading ... -
The Flintstones - help![URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001799"]The Flintstones[/URL] stuck on the first level where apparently you have to paint th…
... org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001799"]The Flintstones[/URL]
< ... level where apparently you have to paint the wall
... task is not only to paint the wall before Wilma ... elusive paintbrush!
To Paint : Space[/QUOTE]
My attempt to restore the CPU clock signalI know Winston has already got this, but I can't see any thread with details about it. Only wanted to share my (still early) results. I'm not taking…
... and yet, maintaining the phase with the original clock with as ... s easier to syntesize a replica of what the internal ... the avobe mentioned thread. The output is the restored CPU signal clock, with the ... it's inverted with respect to the clock input signal.
...How to get the current line position of a +3e's text window?Does anybody know how to get the current line position of a [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/zxplus3e/]ZX Spectrum +3e[/url]'s text window? I've r…
Does anybody know how to get the current line position of a [ ... text window? I've read the docs: Window channels are output ... BASIC command can be used to get info from them, and ...How to move the location counter backward with GNU binutils?I've converted a 8000-line assembler source from Pasmo to GNU binutils. It was not difficult. It's the first time I use GNU binutils. In my code t…
... the macro used `org` to select the address where the value of the symbol ... , and finally used `org` to restore the location.
... can not be used to select the same address every ... to extract the value of the symbol from the listing produced by the ...How to amplify the TV out signalI have one of these handy USB sticks where you can input a composite signal, left audio and right audio, but it can also accept UHF/VHF signals (in o…
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I actually bought the USB stck to use it for my ... to give a composite out mod. It seems the TV output of the ... (or something simple to build myself), to boost the UHF/.VHF signal that ... comes out of the ZX?A MESSAGE TO ALL THE DEVS IN THIS SECTIONI just wanted to ask have you heard anything about when you guys get one of the distributors to publish your games on cassette where they claim video…
... guys get one of the distributors to publish your games on ... because they seem to think they have the rights to your game ?
to talk to the person to clear the strike.
Below is the videos ... had around 10 screens of the game which just showed ...Fast way to clear the screen ?So I was wondering fastest way to clear the screen. I've tried this and this works but is it better than CLS ? LD HL,16384 LD BC, 6144 Loop…
... I was wondering fastest way to clear the screen.
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To get rid of flickering my ... is that I still have to use double buffering or something ...I can't seem to get the quotation mark character in SpecBASFor some reason I can't seem to get the rather vital quotation mark at all. I'm using SpecBAS on Windows. I'm on 8.1.
For some reason I can't seem to get the rather vital quotation mark at all. I'm using SpecBAS on Windows. I'm on 8.1.Any reason to prefer the 48k version of a game over 128k?Title says all... are there any games for which it makes sense to play the 48k version if there is also a 128k version? To my understanding, the 128k…
... for which it makes sense to play the 48k version if there ... is also a 128k version? To my ... understanding, the 128k versions only have ... improvements, usually in the form of additional screens or ...Post launch "unofficial" and creative new approaches to using the ZX Recreated Spectrum..So a line can be drawn under the "old stuff" used to market the ZX Recreated Spectrum at launch as this has already been extensively documented . So …
... be drawn under the "old stuff" used to market the ZX Recreated Spectrum ... apps for it . Instead the focus shifts to the new ideas that WOS ... it will be interesting to find out about the others . So my ... guides can be created to widen out the appeal of using it ...Early +2 photo - help to find the sourceHere is an old photo of Spectrum +2. I found it in old Polish computer magazine Bajtek (December 1986). Photo was used to illustrate the info about n…
... 1986). Photo was used to illustrate the info about new Spectrum. I ... 'd like to know what was the source of this photo ...yet another map editor :)I (too) have decided to make a map editor to make me making games a bit easier. Mappy and Tiled look great but in the end I wanted something that doe…
... too) have decided to make a map editor to make me making ... to do a lot of post-processing of the exported map ... this map editor to draw the map, and it exports the tiles and the map ... in neatly DEFB files to ...Jack the Nipper 2 EditorJack The Nipper 2 - Mapeditor v0.8 (c) Sokurah, May 2012 I made [url="https://tardis.dk/files/Jack_The_Nipper_2_Editor.zip"]this[/url] about 10 y…
... allows you to edit the map and positions of the enemies in the game, but ... the map. Still, plenty of possibility to have fun editing the map anyway.
The ... full map has ...TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …
... the map=8x8 screens. Plus the SAM Mode 2 tile editor seems to ... followed by the attribute map. The file defaults to 256 tiles ... any suggestions on how to make the map editor better?
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For tiled screens, maybe a tile paint ...TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …
... any suggestions on how to make the map editor better?
... click and drag the mouse to place the tile at grid ... thinking along the same lines regarding the map editor.. tile paint mode and ... the ability to copy objects by click and drag, just like in the Map ...Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…
... routine to do.
- Do you want to render UDGs or the ... ). I have a routine which displays blocks based ... had was how to store the map of the scrolling area ... will store the lines contiguously. ie. a map of ... can index into the map easily that way., :)SP1 library questionsI'm working on my first game. I've not written a game since the late 1980s and that was a text based multiuser dungeon for BBC Micros with econet... …
... really want to try the custom routine to rotate the sprite graphic on the fly, the new ... to the ROM character set
* OVERWRITE_DFILE = map SP1's internal characters to the ...Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…
... with smart copy routine.[/QUOTE]
Did this on the ST - 4 ... you're trying to page the other screen into the top of ... give you the nice advantage of being able to alter the map in real ... you just copy data to different rows of the screen. Horizontal scrolling ...Earthraid[img]http://members.inode.at/838331/zx/Earthraidingame.gif[/img] "Earthraid" is available from my homepage now. This is a conversion of a C64 game. I…
... you really undertook all the efforts to recreate my game on ... . I used a assembler routine to put the bytes on screen, but ... that look so because Spectrum map has only 32x22 tiles, while ... br /> The water generation uses the same "grow" routine as the mollusks, but ...How much memory on sprites, maps etc.I've been tinkering with shifting & pre-shifting sprites recently, but as I haven't had that much experience with Z80 assembly I sometimes find it ha…
... maps I've only tried the most basic compression (i.e ... 2x2 tiles and it tends to end up around 100 - 150 ... I'm wary of complicating the routine for printing the map to the screen too much.What Spectrum projects (Software/Games/Utility)(Hardware)(Others) are you working on?So, basically that :) You dont have to give names or more clues if you dont want to ;) Also, if you are working on more than one, you can tell all of…
... place, and the the last is a block scrolling out to the left. ... of PUSH instructions to paint the blocks across the screen from right to left. It ... into my routine, then loop over it 16 times to draw a ... black borders so that his routine can be shifted over by ...Asking for help: ZXBC to ASM routine translationHallo, In order to save some bytes and gain speed, I'm asking for translation of a very simple ZXBC routine to Assembler [code] sub light(x as uinteg…
... s no clean up routine at the exit! Also not all ... the A register for free when the routine starts.
Also does the ... few crashes I sticked to the normal non-fastcall sub ... already to rewrite a routine to count the not lighting candles on the map, to ...IF EXIST?In MS-DOS scripting, there is an IF EXIST command that lets you check wether a file exists in disk or not. There are any way to check it out from BA…
... be possible to write a machine code routine to do the job; + ... large),
this routine permits the directory to be catalogued in a ... this
routine is re-called with the buffer re-initialised ... is too small for the directory, this routine can be
...NEW GAME: Elixir VitaeOnly 2 weeks after Janosik I have a pleasure to announce my next creation - a logical minigame called [B]Elixir Vitae[/B]. Just like another Polish …
... customised unrolled PUSH/POP colour routine from a buffer. Then ... then call the draw function yourself to draw the objects where ... and push the other six registers to paint the hopper. For the 'NEXT' ... rows, divert painting back to the top row of multicolour ...
