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  • 50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…

    ... they run right across the screen and just page in and ... two block types on-screen at a time (plus the bottom one ... speed, and re-render the screen all in one go.
    screen scrolling either. Result is a ...
    joefish joefish March 2011 Development
  • 50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…

    ... entire background is redrawn each time.

    The code that ... to the left of the screen). So what registers are being ... just one tile on the screen at that time its as above.
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2011 Development
  • writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…

    ... input (keyboard/joystick) and output (screen)? Which asm instructions and memory ... anything to show up on screen you will have to work ... pixel data of the speccy screen buffer to the PC equivalent backbuffer ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2011 Emulators
  • Sabre Wulf - don't you just hate itThere's lots of Speccy opinions that divide us, but one thing I seem to stand alone in is my dislike for Sabre Wulf. I'm not joking now, I don't like…

    ... many of them on-screen at a time for someone as useless ... , the enemies get me every time, some of them apparently are ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman May 2011 Games
  • New game! Nanako in CJMC for ZX81!Yup, that's true. We've been busy in crafting a nice, small, simple library to code games in text mode (this is, standard, unexpanded) for the 16K ZX…

    ... stuff on it as the screen buffer is character mapped and so ... many writes to fill the screen. For my next game I ...
    bobs bobs May 2011 Brand new software
  • New game! Nanako in CJMC for ZX81!Yup, that's true. We've been busy in crafting a nice, small, simple library to code games in text mode (this is, standard, unexpanded) for the 16K ZX…

    ... stuff on it as the screen buffer is character mapped and so ... many writes to fill the screen. For my next game I ...
    R-Tape R-Tape May 2011 Brand new software
  • New Wii :-Nintendo have uncovered the new Wii. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13689609[/url] Looks interesting. I quite like the idea of informat…

    ... to the tablet screen.

    Guess only time will tell if ...
    Vampyre Vampyre June 2011 Chit chat
  • GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…

    ... way you have a character buffer assigned for each window which ... the main screen has to be redrawn and the screen buffer says it ... belongs to screen 3, which is ... 7,7 from screen 3's own buffer. Leaving two screen char lines ...
    na_th_an na_th_an June 2011 Development
  • Help Wanted: Playtest BUGFIXED games!There's an ongoing effort at WoS to fix classic Spectrum games with serious bugs that make them impossible to complete, crash frequently, etc. More d…

    ... a corrupt screen.

    The first time around the ... I was going from one screen to another when it bombed ... .e. was entering a screen, and that seemed to ... in the middle of the screen.

    Here ... a part of the screen. Have only seen this ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman June 2011 Games
  • New game: WUNDERCHAR$Hi All, Finally finished my latest game: Wunderchar$. [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/loadingscr.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://…

    ... ! The graphics (loading screen, "animated" intro screen, level screens and the ... focused on the playing screen without much time to look around. ... that will be on screen most of the time) and 2 "secondary ... it will interfere with each screen keeping its own "feel ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2011 Brand new software
  • Specventure author working on new game?Some of you may remember SpecVenture - the ace little budget game by Mastertronic that saw you as a little robot droid roaming around the circuits of…

    ... with the toilet the first time it's game over (always ... it had've happened every time it would have got very ... it's a single screen at a time game and quite a ... get a different one per screen. OK it was just beeper ... that many tunes at the time....if any?
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek August 2011 Games
  • Can I modify a Blaze LCD 20 in 1?Hi, I've bought [url=http://www.blazeeurope.com/sega/handheld-console-with-20-sega-megadrive-games/prod_3.html]one of those things[/url] and I would …

    ... display the whole Genesis screen? the last time I tried Jenesis, the ... need to scroll the screen made ...
    Vanamonde Vanamonde August 2011 Chit chat
  • Can I modify a Blaze LCD 20 in 1?Hi, I've bought [url=http://www.blazeeurope.com/sega/handheld-console-with-20-sega-megadrive-games/prod_3.html]one of those things[/url] and I would …

    ... display the whole Genesis screen? the last time I tried Jenesis, the ... need to scroll the screen made ...
    MattLamb MattLamb August 2011 Chit chat
  • writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…

    ... yes, is sufficient with a screen update at the end of ... at ~54000. So, if does screen updates at frame end you ... . You need to update the screen buffer at the same moment as ...
    zx81 zx81 August 2011 Emulators
  • Multi-screen mazes?Well, it's been decades since I last mucked about with speccy BASIC, so over the last couple of weeks I've been starting out as a newbie learning a b…

    ... the nasty was on that screen. Then, when you're ... back into the previous screen before that time has elapsed, the ... he has enough time to cross the screen, then he moves ... as you entered the screen behind him, he'd ... possible to traverse a screen from one exit to ...
    joefish joefish October 2011 Development
  • Multi-screen mazes?Well, it's been decades since I last mucked about with speccy BASIC, so over the last couple of weeks I've been starting out as a newbie learning a b…

    ... time a nasty will take to follow you to another screen ... return to the original screen in that time, leave the nasty its ... them, when returning to a screen. This (almost) instantly advances ... is proportional to the time you were off screen.

    ...
    csmith csmith October 2011 Development
  • Phantom downloadingI?m concerned about what?s happening to with the download rates on my broadband line. I?m using a meter to measure what?s happening and I find that s…

    ... 'll put the task manager screen up next time.
    Spector Spector October 2011 Chit chat
  • Phantom downloadingI?m concerned about what?s happening to with the download rates on my broadband line. I?m using a meter to measure what?s happening and I find that s…

    ... put the task manager screen up next time.[/QUOTE]

    Turn ...
    MrCheese MrCheese October 2011 Chit chat
  • Scrollours, a 15 bytes demo for ZX Spectrum 48K[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=57912[/url] Direct download: [url]http://antoniovillena.es/upload/scrollours.zip[/url] Important: You must…

    ... be checking that out some time!!... :)[/QUOTE]

    I did ... ten years ago. How the time pass. Bacteria Z80 core was ... memory, no border emulation, screen generation one time each frame) but can ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena October 2011 Development
  • Arkanoid Hack - Your Sinclair Smash TipsRemember that Arkanoid hack in YS Smash Tips that didn't work? It does now... [CODE] 10 REM ARKANOID HACK 20 CLEAR 65535: LET C=1: LET D=23295 …

    ... one bolt on the screen at a time.[/QUOTE]

    In ... the day I spent some time typing this in, only to ...
    jp jp October 2011 Development
  • Vampire Hunter WillyA very nearly finished version of a game I started in 2004. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/DaRkSiDe74/VHWTitle.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i…

    ... btw, helped me out big time clearing up some issues with ... to keep the original title screen instead of completely redrawing it ... ? I usually go one screen at a time myself once it's ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek November 2011 Brand new software
  • Arkanoid Hack - Your Sinclair Smash TipsRemember that Arkanoid hack in YS Smash Tips that didn't work? It does now... [CODE] 10 REM ARKANOID HACK 20 CLEAR 65535: LET C=1: LET D=23295 …

    ... copy decrypter to
    ldir ; screen buffer
    chksp1 ld hl,dcbuff ... hl ; load into the printer buffer
    ld (hl),$67 ; ... ldir ; copy pokes to printer buffer
    ;
    ld hl,$ ... ($fef2),hl ; execute code in buffer
    ret
    ;
    ...
    jp jp December 2011 Development
  • FPGA ZX SpectrumJust wonder: how many of you would buy "new hardware based" and "in case" ZX Spectrum based on FPGA? ;) [url]http://www.fpgaarcade.com/[/url]

    ... is the ability to swap screen buffers. Then you don't ... to a back buffer and copy to the screen buffer. Page flipping is ...
    JamesD JamesD January 2012 Hardware
  • Noob needs helpSorry gents but decided to have a play with basic...see if I could knock up a shonky as hell space invader type game I seem to have gotten myself co…

    It's a bit flickery!
    You don't have to redraw the screen all the time, just the moving parts.
    Also line 6030 makes it 128k only you fiend!
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Noob needs helpSorry gents but decided to have a play with basic...see if I could knock up a shonky as hell space invader type game I seem to have gotten myself co…

    ... have to redraw the screen all the time, just the moving parts ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Dead or Alive by CronosoftFew years ago I found out that there are at leat 2 different versions of this game. The real cassette I have at home, which I bought in 2006 from Cro…

    ... Cronosoft version has a loading screen, the original release doesn't ... is initially stored in the screen buffer and relocated to one of ...
    jonathan jonathan January 2012 Infoseek database
  • Disable interrupts?Well, I've read the bits from the David Webb book about interrupt modes and (vaguely) appreciate the principles behind having a vector table, after r…

    ... to synchronise to the screen refresh or time anything.

    There ... of the rest of the time redrawing the display. That keeps ... constant speed even if the screen redraw rate speeds up or ...
    joefish joefish February 2012 Development
  • Disable interrupts?Well, I've read the bits from the David Webb book about interrupt modes and (vaguely) appreciate the principles behind having a vector table, after r…

    ... to synchronise to the screen refresh or time anything.[/QUOTE]

    time, and calling an AY music ...
    na_th_an na_th_an February 2012 Development
  • Disable interrupts?Well, I've read the bits from the David Webb book about interrupt modes and (vaguely) appreciate the principles behind having a vector table, after r…

    ... out you need a 6K screen buffer if you've only got ...
    joefish joefish February 2012 Development
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