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  • SCREEN$ 1.9e Released!And here's another update! [url]http://paul.dunn.googlepages.com/SCREEN_1.9e.rar[/url] There's a few new things in this release, but it's mostly bu…

    ... /> I've added the small (1 second) pickup-pause on the pilot ... tones play for 1 second *before* the stripes appear on-screen.

    Dunny Dunny May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread ... FN l(udg): POKE defadd+1,FN h(udg):
    ... POKE defadd,0: POKE defadd+1,0
    50 CLS : ... l(udg): POKE defadd+1,FN h(udg):
    ... POKE defadd,0: POKE defadd+1,0: PAUSE 0
    [/ ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • NEW: SCREEN$ 1.9dWell, after the stunningly enthusiastic reception to 1.9c, I toddled off and fixed a few bugs and issues which arose after people had tested it. Hen…

    ... the stunningly enthusiastic reception to 1.9c, I toddled off and ... Partial (4:3) and a screen mode of 640x480, with Maintained ... the engine that the old SCREEN$ used to run on. Scanlines ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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
  • My Xbox 360's broke!My Xbox 360 has broke :( I loaded up Dead Rising and as soon as the title screen started, the screen went black and the sound stopped. I took the dis…

    ... soon as the title screen started, the screen went black and the ... intro thingy started for about 1 second then froze up. I re ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob October 2006 Chit chat
  • Several FUSE questions/ProblemsHi. I've asked this on comp.sys.sinclair, but anyway, I'll ask it here too to see if I get different replies. I'm trying to use FUSE in Ubuntu Linu…

    ... /> The problem is that the screen is tiny and I can ... with the tiny and unmoveable screen. Can I
    put the ... , and can see
    the screen bigger, but I lose all ... sound is lagging badly, about 1
    second. I'm using alsa ...
    JaviMM JaviMM February 2007 Emulators
  • "This is a screensaver that do not save the screen"Which was a quote from the first release of SCREEN$ back in April 2001. Little did he know that, against the best judgement of myself and my peers, I…

    ... from the first release of SCREEN$ back in April 2001. ... feel free!

    Get SCREEN$ 1.9c from here:

    SCREEN.zip[/url]

    ... words on configuration:

    SCREEN$ has possibly the nicest Speccy ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Name the game : double impactHi i'm looking for name of two games. 1) the first is na old arcade adventure at least partially written in basic. i think the story revolves about …

    ... of two games.

    1) the first is na old ... , it was flip screen.

    2) second is a top down ... to the top of the screen and when he want to ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2009 Games
  • Operator ANDHi I'm trying to write some very simple game in ZX Basic, but I guess I've forgot most of it because I can't understand why simple IF....THEN sequen…

    ... a=0 AND SCREEN$ (1,1)=" " THEN LET Y=Y-1

    1 is executed even though only second condition is ... :

    100 IF SCREEN$ (1,1)=" " AND a=0 THEN LET ... Y=Y-1

    and ... was not executed because second condition is not true.< ...
    Kuba Adamowicz Kuba Adamowicz July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • VAL SCREEN$I seem to remember being able to find out the ascii code of a character displayed on the screen by typing in something along the lines of PRINT VAL S…

    I seem to remember being able to find out the ascii code of a character displayed on the screen by typing in something along the lines of PRINT VAL SCREEN$ (1,1).

    I cant get it to work now...

    Any ideas?!:-?
    daveysludge daveysludge January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • ULAPlus: showing different screen modes in one screenI wanted to write a demo showing the same screen, converted to various screen modes available on the Spectrum (well, a Spectrum clone capable of show…

    ... showing the same screen, converted to various screen modes available on ... is a standard ULA screen. The second one, a standard Timex ... HiColor screen (hires attributes using ... block is a Timex HiColour screen with ULA+ palette enabled ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix May 2012 Development
  • Bypassing bits of faulty ULAs: the LOAD!Hi everybody, Recently I had a sick Spectrum sent to me. The symptoms were that the machine would run fine, except that it wouldn't load. The border…

    ... up buffer enable pin (pin 1) to pin 33 of ... time except for briefly at 1 second. This meant it was starting ... aborting (you know how the screen goes if it gets a ... it one colour for a second).
    So I hooked ... they'd disappear for a second.. and start again. So ...
    Spirantho Spirantho July 2014 Hardware
  • Three versions of ZubWhile watching this week's Chinnyvision video on Zub I found myself frowning when he came to look at the Speccy version because despite having owned …

    ... .0' on the title screen. The second release is dated 1987, identifies ... the wording on the menu screen scrolly messages - this version can ... be found on the Megaplay 1 compilation on WOS.

    1 below to show the difference ...
    Blerk Blerk November 2015 Games
  • Pointless sections in gamesThere have to be quite a few of these. I'll kick off with: [b]Horace and the Spiders[/b] - the first two screens [b]Screen 1[/b] - lasts 5-1…

    ... two screens

    [b]Screen 1[/b] - lasts 5-10 seconds ... 're chucked onto the second screen
    [b]Screen 2[/b] - basically just ...
    Morkin Morkin April 2017 Games
  • High score table routineI wrote this general purpose high score table routine. It stores 5 scores and displays them alongside the player names, which are 8 characters long. …

    ... />
    CALL 3503 ; clean the screen

    LD DE,POS_1 ...
    LD A,2 ; upper screen area
    CALL 5633 ; open ... /> FIRST: DEFB 244,1
    SECOND: DEFB 144,1
    THIRD: DEFB 044 ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2017 Assembler
  • Random-Access to Microdrive FileI am working on a BASIC program to backup a microdrive text-file to standard tape array-file. To backup a text-file from one microdrive to a secon…

    ... one microdrive to a second microdrive, once we OPEN ... INKEY$#[/b].
    The second version I wrote (and ... /copying-a-screen-in-zx-basic-in-1-second/p1

    The [b]second trick[/b] is the ability ... ):
    POKE defadd+1,FN h(udg):
    ...
    mattsteel mattsteel May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • what were your most..................what were your most memoriable times of the zx spectrum and why? :) octave

    ... 2 modef of colour screen.
    1: every second line is empty - it ...
    Yerzmyey Yerzmyey April 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • helpHi, I am new to this forum. I have purchased a Speccy from ebay but I am having trouble getting any games to load. I dont really have much technical…

    ... the black portion of the screen lasts when you reset the ... , a 16k is proportionally less - 1/3 of the time - when ... main Sinclair logo is about 1 second from power up.

    GP GP April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... display file. Screen updates take more than 1 frame (and ... Drawing to screen:

    1. Work directly on the screen, and somehow ... #1, but at a cost: an LDI'd screen takes ... second display file will eliminate flicker issues and allow the fastest screen ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • Look at the quality online tv could be now ???Follow the link i promise u u will be surprised at the quality have a look at the matrix trailer. name check for Malc at CPCZone for the link [url…

    WOW! :o

    That's not the best quality but it's pretty good and definitely good enough! It didn't skip once! Viewed at full screen, selected hi-quality and in about 1 second it was playing.
    Sadako Sadako June 2005 Chit chat
  • Want a Speccy Repaired?Maybe it's time to put my 'skills' to use.... Now that I've sourced some of the nastier transistors, I've fixed about 6 rubber keyed Speccys in the …

    ... voltages on IC6 :

    1,2,3 - these three have ... some random garbage on the screen (one of them even does ... displayed the picture fine for 1 second and then it went all ... beep for keypresses, just the screen stayed black. I left it ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IDE harddisk emulation usageNot 'howto' question :) I'm curious about how many people tried it. It exists in Spin, Fuse & RealSpec - in last is most interface supported. 8-bit …

    ... T states (except last transfer - 1 of 256), so theorethical max ... , they literally flash onto the screen with no waiting time whatsover ... for any game is under 1 second, I think you're being ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2005 Emulators
  • Speccy 128k Double Buffering.If I understand this right, you display either of the screens, and draw to the one that is not being displayed. Am i right in thinking that the Non …

    ... , not using the extra screen):
    1) Draw the gameplay area ... /> Now using the extra screen:
    1) Draw the gameplay area ... to the non-displayed screen.


    Using the second screen provides it's own problems ...
    icabod icabod May 2006 Development
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    [quote=trellis]I quite easliy discerned the speed difference in Spectaculator.[/quote]
    Really???
    Considering the prog takes under 1 second to run before you get the scroll? message at the bottom of the screen...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... /> Considering the prog takes under 1 second to run before you get ... at the bottom of the screen...[/QUOTE]
    Yep, repeated it ... - you can definitely see the screen fills slower using GOTO than ...
    trellis trellis July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • k7zx, a utility to load programs to Spectrum at very high speedk7zx is a windows program that convert .tap, .tzx , .sna and .z80 files to a wav file that can be played to a real Spectrum. You can down load it f…

    ... Interface loads a complete screen in 1 second.
    For video ... you need at least 18 frames per second ... size to a 1/18 of the screen so a ... best option then (app. 1/18 of 24x32).
    ... 128K and display it 1 after another for app. ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP January 2007 Development
  • k7zx, a utility to load programs to Spectrum at very high speedk7zx is a windows program that convert .tap, .tzx , .sna and .z80 files to a wav file that can be played to a real Spectrum. You can down load it f…

    ... . Maybe not an entire screen, but at least an ... method you can load a screen every second.
    Non Plus ... but when you load a screen$ it is less important ... error.

    1 frame per second it's too poor ... third of screen you get 3 frames per second what is ...
    decicoder decicoder January 2007 Development
  • Several FUSE questions/ProblemsHi. I've asked this on comp.sys.sinclair, but anyway, I'll ask it here too to see if I get different replies. I'm trying to use FUSE in Ubuntu Linu…

    ... /> The problem is that the screen is tiny and I can ... with the tiny and unmoveable screen. Can I
    put the ... sound is lagging badly, about 1
    second. I'm using alsa ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall February 2007 Emulators
  • Did I killed my Speccy ???Hi guys, 1 minute ago I was working on my 128 +2A... But I made a mistake : I cut the gound on the PSU plug of the computer, and I forgot to resolde…

    ... speccy without ram :
    1 second black screen and white borders, then ... -pink) stripes on white screen and black borders, going down ... the screen during 2 seconds, and ... then white screen with black border stays indefinitely ...
    bugpat bugpat March 2007 Hardware
  • 8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…

    ... can get through a second's worth of opcodes in ... a second, which should leave enough time to draw the screen ... frame (e.g. 1 second) of:
    1) H (when stored ... work out/estimate
    1) the ratio of 16 ... br />
    Notes:
    1) You need to consider the ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz June 2007 Emulators
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