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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Screen LoaderCouple days ago i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet Kompjutera" from january 1987. Authors of article, calls this …

    ... "bit-loader" and she load screen verticaly line by line, from ... of most impressive.
    Uncompressed screen must be at 49152, routine ...
    Pegaz Pegaz August 2006 Games
  • two areas of display[quote]Since Timex and ZX Spectrum 128K have two areas from which the screen can be displayed, there's a possibility to switch the areas at every fra…

    ... two areas from which the screen can be displayed, there's ... really a second switchable image buffer in 128K models?

    Arda Arda September 2006 Hardware
  • Q. on WinXP logon screen (how to disable?)Aaaargh! I am sitting in front of an annoying computer. It's driving me crazy! How the f-in A does one disable the stinking logon screen (the "cla…

    ... one disable the stinking logon screen (the "classic" one, not the ...
    Skarpo Skarpo September 2006 Chit chat
  • Full screen help in EmuWinIf I click full screen in EmuWin the program goes full screen but the play area is very small. Smaller than full border with a spectrum. How can i …

    ... EmuWin the program goes full screen but the play area is ...
    HonoredShadow HonoredShadow October 2006 Emulators
  • Spectrum Screen Memory MapWhat's the advantage (mistery?) behind ULA's spectrum screen memory interpretation? 6144 bytes divided into 3 blocks, 2048 bytes long. if you want t…

    ... (mistery?) behind ULA's spectrum screen memory interpretation?

    ... to draw something on screen you have to poke ... behind this implementation? Why screen memory isn't interpreted continuously ... to draw something on screen avoiding 3 block structure?
    Arda Arda October 2006 Development
  • Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …

    ... blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles in the ... an update to a screen on a seperate thread ... physical location of a "screen" address in memory, or ... bit of memory above the screen memory ( yes, I ... have a foremost screen, and a back buffer, which flip when ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong January 2007 Development
  • RealSpec screen$ saves?????Yeah ok, so how do I get RealSpec to save out a screen$ is the scr format? It's a good emulator, no doubt about it, but I just can't find an option …

    ... RealSpec to save out a screen$ is the scr format? It ... find an option to save screen only. I can save the ... or whatever, but not a screen$

    And all because ... Martijn loves........... screen pics of stuff loading...... :D ...
    DEATH DEATH February 2007 Emulators
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... with a base load, a screen$ and then the adventure. First ...
    alban lusitanae alban lusitanae March 2007 Development
  • Fuse for Mac OS X 0.8.0A new version of Fuse for Mac OS X has been released soon or already here at WoS and at the dedicated sourceforge project: [url]http://sourceforge.n…

    ... Universal Binary.
    [*] Much improved screen rendering code
    [*] Loader improvements ... RZX playback
    [*] Don't buffer printer output so text is ...
    Fred Fred April 2007 Emulators
  • What clues were on the Fairlight loading screen?As stated in the manual of [B]Fairlight[/B] there shall exist clues on both the cover and in the loading screen. This might be obvious to some, but I…

    ... cover and in the loading screen. This might be obvious to ... [/url]

    [B]Loading screen:[/B]

    [url]ftp ...
    Rickard Rickard May 2007 Games
  • 128 spectrum zx +2 is stuck on test screenhey this is my first spectrum i bought it from a boot-sale for 2 pound and it came with loads of games but when i turn it on i get the test screen an…

    ... on i get the test screen and it makes the beep ... going bk to the test screen can any one help?
    omighty_one omighty_one June 2007 Hardware
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... . The SP1 engine divides the screen into character squares, each of ... text to either the screen or to a buffer in memory. The ... bitmap from the buffer and scrolls that on the screen.

    screen address manipulators seen in this ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Remembering a loading screen?Can't remember the title of the game, but I'm 99% sure whilst the game was loading, there was a second loading screen, and it featured a fist bashing…

    Can't remember the title of the game, but I'm 99% sure whilst the game was loading, there was a second loading screen, and it featured a fist bashing through either bricks or something right at you????
    Hern Hern July 2007 Games
  • How do I clear only a specific area of a screen (quickly) in machine code ?I'm looking for a machine code routine which will clear the first 20 rows of the Spectrum's display (or any number of rows or columns) . I have found…

    ... , two thirds or the whole screen
    (13 bytes). I also ... , due to the way the screen
    pixels are stored in ...
    bobbyjaykid bobbyjaykid July 2007 Development
  • Games on the "big" screenI don't know if any of you listen to Chris Evans on Radio 2, but I usually do and a part of his program around 5.45 is the business news where some t…

    ... them on a 40 foot screen. Let's assume that they ... playing games on a huge screen, what would you play?
    Vampyre Vampyre July 2007 Chit chat
  • Z-Man loading screen wrongthe Z-man loading screen doesn't appear. cheerssss

    the Z-man loading screen doesn't appear.

    cheerssss
    Ivanzx Ivanzx July 2007 Support files
  • Photographing a Psion 3a LCD screenI'm trying to take photos of a Psion 3a LCD screen for a (very) vaguely Speccy-related project, and they're coming out terribly (usually blurry and o…

    I'm trying to take photos of a Psion 3a LCD screen for a (very) vaguely Speccy-related project, and they're coming out terribly (usually blurry and out of focus even if the screen is frozen). Any hints?
    mjwilson mjwilson August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Emulator Multi ScreenI registered the wonderfull Spectaculator a while ago. I've recently upgraded my system and now have TV out. It's good. I have configured MAME 32 to …

    ... TV and made it full screen. It went fullscreen fine, but ... about so its nearly full screen but its not the same ...
    MrCheese MrCheese September 2007 Emulators
  • Seeking loading screen for Egghead 5To celebrate his forthcoming 18th birthday, Egghead will be taking a Mediterranean cruise on his yacht with a few friends. As with most coming-of-ag…

    ... bogged down designing all those screen layouts, organising patrolling nasties and ... . The game needs a loading screen and perhaps an image for ... 's any consolation. And a screen named after you, if you ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2007 Development
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