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  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... ), there isn't enough time for a screen 32x20 chars to be ... without flicker, synchronizing just near screen pixel start, the best suitable ... /> NOTE: rollover right side of buffer is off by one pixel ...
    3 - Blue Border marks screen end.

    So ...
    Maziacs Maziacs June 2016 Development
  • Buying a new TVMy Philips 9 year old flatscreen TV is on the road out and recently wouldn't switch on (and the picture is starting to go) so I think I need a new TV…

    ... in relatively short order. Just compare with say, many Android phones ... is cheap these days, and screen real estate is something you ... uses. By the time that has changed, time for a new TV ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie June 2016 Chit chat
  • Help needed with MIA software with custom (?) loaderHi, I've got into my hands recently a bunch of Polish educational software which are unknown MIA on WOS. I believe they are protected with some…

    ... 0x5CD9 LDIR ; Fill screen with random data from ROM ... LD A,CB ; Compare the remaining time with ~2400t (ROM)< ... /> ;Update destination (screen) address in IX
    ;Screen goes from
    screen address space
    ...
    lfaria lfaria August 2016 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…

    ... a rectangle on screen (see the zx screen address functions that ... array like "unsigned char buffer[1024];" and load the ... [code]
    extern unsigned char buffer[]; // buffer points at the array in ... that will go away with time. Among them, the new ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2016 Software
  • Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…

    ... 's taking most of the time. Having the sprite draw in ... sprite in a buffer and then copies the buffer to screen, then draws ... one sprite to the next buffer and ... copies it to the screen, etc, until ...
    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…

    ... one sprite every time.

    frame 1: buffer 1, 1 ... sprites
    frame 10: buffer 5, 2 sprites
    ... 3 sprites
    frame 12: buffer 2, 3 sprites
    ... and clears the whole screen. I was thinking of ... copying that to the screen to speed it up ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Time Gate graphics patchI've rediscovered Time Gate and one thing I don't like about the game is that it's hard to remember what's what in the status indicators. The manual …

    Thanks!
    jp: Yes that screen from Battle of the Planets ... do. As for the hack, Time Gate uses a self-running ... I can use as a buffer to copy it down to ...
    textvoyage textvoyage October 2016 Games
  • Rendering techniques in emulatorsI've been giving thought to the possibility of speeding up the rendering in Zero considering I've been putting it off long enough. My approach is c…

    ... reducing the amount of wait time till the CPU can start ... takes 110% of a frames time. In a double buffered scenario ... one. By inserting an intermediary buffer, you can get back to ... quicker and updates to the screen should happen more often (the ...
    AndyC AndyC October 2016 Emulators
  • Control methods to support in new game (kempston, sinclair, redefinable keys etc)Hi guys, I've been busy lately working on porting a game from the C64 to the Spectrum, and I'm at the point where the main game is working pretty …

    ... input devices at the same time, then ideally it would ... are active on the title screen. If however the game ... be typically executed while last screen rows are being rendered.< ... that copy images from buffer to screen inside interrupts (for synchronization ...
    Hikaru Hikaru November 2016 Development
  • Speccy Retro TypologyHow many types of Speccy Retro are there?

    ... a tape recorder and TV screen in a nice small package ... input/output ports myself given time and care to figure out ... attach what and how to buffer it to protect the circuitry ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch November 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... a buffer screen in memory anyway. Drawing lines on Spectrum is quite time ... you have several lines on screen.

    In such ... clearing Spectrum screen at 16384 as copying the buffer onto it ... of actual screen memory. If you make your buffer linear, then ...
    Ralf Ralf December 2016 Assembler
  • What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…

    ... charge of Sinclair at the time (and armed with hindsight) ... was a waste of time and had taken most ... memory buffer for use with DMA to increase screen draw ... an improved ULA with additional screen modes:

    ... the initial cost at the time for a drive, it ...
    retrogod retrogod January 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States?Would it be possible to write a scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States? I have a custom screen load routine that loads attribute first, then the …

    ... the custom screen loader without slowing it down. The compare byte in ... at 145. Standard load speed compare byte is 172. This is ... one pixel line at a time,
    FrankT FrankT February 2017 Assembler
  • Xmas present from Hood:))Dear MB-02+ users, on my site[url="http://hood.speccy.cz"] http://hood.speccy.cz[/url] I have made quite significant update in download section. B…

    ... new and for probably long time the last version of MBC ... the middle third of the screen to refresh badly. Now OK ... line end comes to a buffer start, the one line will ... not going to waste my time and free memory for fixing ...
    Hood Hood April 2017 Brand new software
  • 2 scrolling linesHow would you draw, delete and scroll a 2 line landscape? [img]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/scramblines_zpsw0r2joew.png…

    ... just scrolling the entire screen (likely in a buffer); it's only ... 's not redrawing the screen every time from the lines or else ...
    joefish joefish April 2017 Development
  • 2 scrolling linesHow would you draw, delete and scroll a 2 line landscape? [img]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/scramblines_zpsw0r2joew.png…

    ... circular) buffer that is traversed using RET at draw time [color=#CCCCCC ... each tile begins on the screen and such you could probably ... over the contents of the buffer.
    Hikaru Hikaru April 2017 Development
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... portion of the spectrum community. Compare that to a hundred or ... of wasting a lot of time for a non-retro when ... capacity) AND on-chip line buffer AND yet some extra logic ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... static 256x192, 32x192 colour Timex screen created by Jim Bagley:
    time is very important. Most people ... sense in arguing about it, time will tell, and I ... capacity) AND on-chip line buffer AND yet some extra logic ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... terrible on a regular spectrum screen. To use ula+ to its ... capacity) AND on-chip line buffer AND yet some extra logic ... hw defines exactly how much time is required in each frame ... is the space or the time there for someone to do ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... talked about it all the time. Bankswitching and hi-res mode ... b] Instead of using this time to write other Spectrum software ... sprites' relative positions on the screen (and no, it has nothing ... /> The 128k added a double buffer mode :- NOT ALLOWED
    The ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Super Wonder Boy antimultiface[url="http://bizzley.com/"]Bob Pape's book[/url] mentioned that Rob Hylands put Multiface protection in Super Wonder Boy. The program can detect whe…

    ... selection or the pause screen, normally some of the ... 't actually crash every time after doing a NMI ... the way the buffer is copied to the screen here. Essentially ... [/b] of its running time inside this loop. If ... this time, there's a high chance that the buffer ...
    Hikaru Hikaru May 2017 Development
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... tile help conversion, and similar screen area means that the level ... simple :)

    If you compare the level 1 that I ... color limits, most of the time.

    I truly believe ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2017 Development
  • z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…

    ... overwrite anything drawn to the screen directly.
    [/quote]
    screen. You can draw into a buffer and ... drawing into a buffer instead of screen. You'd have ... to screen and copy that to a buffer which ... assign them at compile time using [url="https:// ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…

    ... clipping rectangles extend outside the screen area which will cause ... sp1 from drawing outside the screen boundaries is this clipping rectangle ...
    Another thing is your buffer to print se->dy ... the compiler) so the first time this code is encountered, ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • off screen bufferwhen using an offscreen buffer is the memory copied to the screen in a way that makes it easier to draw sprites to the buffer? E.g. Lets say you…

    ... procedure which will copy buffer to screen and take into account ... the way you organised the buffer ... - just the same as Spectrum screen memory is organised

    - redraw whole location each time (slow but may be necessary ...
    Ralf Ralf June 2017 Development
  • z88dk terminalsto set up a terminal a bunch of numbers are needed: m4_zx_01_output_fzx(_window_1, 0x2330, 0, 0, 1, 14, 1, 19, 0, _ff_ao_Prefect, 14, 0, 14, 8, 1…

    ... I would like to save time, so I will try ... the terminal pause when the screen is filled before printing ... to 0,0 when the screen is filled.
    bit ... if you run out of buffer space to enter more text ... ); // disable short beep when screen is filled
    ioctl(1 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2017 Development
  • What is the maximum fps the spectrum can achieve?I have been doing some reading and from what I understand the Spectrum outputs a PAL signal, but that means it will display @50fps or @25fps? If t…

    ... TV behaviour at the same time as emulating the Spectrum.
    screen memory, which took time and slowed your ... approach. When you double-buffer, you render one screen, then stop and ... of the screen where the monitor switches from one buffer to the ...
    joefish joefish August 2017 Hardware
  • What is the maximum fps the spectrum can achieve?I have been doing some reading and from what I understand the Spectrum outputs a PAL signal, but that means it will display @50fps or @25fps? If t…

    ... but without using an offscreen buffer. It synchronises to the ... it can update the screen memory right after that ... bit of the screen has been drawn by ... behaviour at the same time as emulating the Spectrum.< ... the bottom of the screen is actually redrawn at ...
    Renegade Renegade August 2017 Hardware
  • What is the maximum fps the spectrum can achieve?I have been doing some reading and from what I understand the Spectrum outputs a PAL signal, but that means it will display @50fps or @25fps? If t…

    ... scroll a background scenic buffer 1/3 screen high and copy it ... use a background buffer. It redraws the screen every time from pre-shifted ... than scrolling and copying a buffer, but if you look ... myself to redraw the entire screen from simple blocks, scrolling at ...
    joefish joefish August 2017 Hardware
  • Gandalf - A ZX Spectrum platformer that looks rather nice indeed![img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BuVmuvmRXfg/WYhRw0z0lMI/AAAAAAAAisA/LFKD4SipiSkm3x0FsCNjJCRsCnHgE6W6gCLcBGAs/s640/GandalfZX.jpg[/img] [quote]As ma…

    ... the full height of the screen.

    Technically it' ... it requires an extra attribute buffer in high memory (for speed ... another 20% of the processing time, so most multicolour engines will ... use this time to draw a limited ...
    joefish joefish August 2017 Development
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