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  • Why did JSW only have one staircase per screen?Just that really. Could stairs just have been another square type? Or was that just that way it was designed, and it could handled multiple per scree…

    Just that really. Could stairs just have been another square type? Or was that just that way it was designed, and it could handled multiple per screen? JSW2 has more than one staircase per screen.
    morph morph May 2020 Games
  • Is there an archive of Speccy title screen music?Hi, As above :) I've created a little screensaver for my own use that iterates through .scr and other image files, but I want to also play the …

    ... the music to the displayed screen (on multiple displays it would ...
    polomint polomint June 2020 Games
  • why am i getting b integer out of range in this code?ive tried running this in spin but thats what i get [code]main org 40000; ; We want a black screen. ld a,71 ; white ink (7) on black paper (0…

    ... call 3503 ; ROM routine - clears screen, opens chan 2.
    ; Initialise ... outermost bit = key 1.
    push af ; remember the value.
    push af ; remember the value.
    push af ; remember the value.
    digital digital June 2020 Assembler
  • this code wont give me a random starfieldim using a peice of code that ive copied from a book, ignore most of it as it is redundant. for some reason i get a strange random starfield instead …

    ... call 3503 ; ROM routine - clears screen, opens chan 2.
    ; Initialise ... outermost bit = key 1.
    push af ; remember the value.
    push af ; remember the value.
    push af ; remember the value.
    digital digital July 2020 Assembler
  • Full screen animationFull screen animations and other interesting hardware developments mainly z80... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjTpFR0oYQ http://www.fruitca…

    Full screen animations and other interesting hardware ...
    rogerjowett1 rogerjowett1 July 2020 Development
  • Screen corruption with devices on edge connector (grey +2)Hi, I've recently done a full capacitor replacement and replaced all 16x DRAM chips on my grey +2. Prior to this I would get a corrupted screen…

    ... I would get a corrupted screen after a few minutes of ... sitting at the +2 menu screen for several hours and it ... .pl) it starts up with screen corruption. Power it off, remove ...
    Megatron-UK Megatron-UK August 2020 Hardware
  • 48k Spec with composite video mod, screen adjustment possible?I've had a 48k Speccy with a composite video mod for a few years now, and although it works perfectly otherwise, the screen isn't centered correctly …

    ... it works perfectly otherwise, the screen isn't centered correctly - it ...
    Skaepoy Skaepoy August 2020 Hardware
  • New Utility Z80onMDR - Transfer Z80 snapshot to Microdrive CartridgesWith the growing popularity of the excellent vDrive [url]https://vdrivezx.com/vdrivezx/[/url] I've adapted one of my utilities to create Microdrive …

    ... FILE - add a custom loading screen. Screen must be in binary .scr ... .
    |
    | -b - force buffer storage to screen area (with corruption), useful ... has an
    | alternate loading screen and filename, menu & volume ...
    TomD TomD September 2020 Brand new software
  • Direct drive LCD screen - looking for information on previous projects people may have attempted.Hi All, My first post, so please forgive and guide if I've posted in the incorrect section. I'm a speccy user from way back in the 80's, but m…

    ... start again with designing the screen, so was working on building ... and captures writes to the screen location so as to build ... a coloured border around the screen.

    So kind ... also solve the problem around screen compatibility, and leave me with ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk December 2020 Hardware
  • Screen RatioAn interesting thing happened with my photos on facebook of my Spectrum setup with my new OSSC (open source scan converter). Some made a fuss (in jes…

    ... big black borders on the screen, and it makes the text ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk January 2021 Games
  • Killed Until Dead - Spectrum 128K versionI first got hold of this game about the same time as the film "Clue" started being shown on TV, and there was a "Miss Marple" series on TV, followed …

    ... Protection System) loads an into screen into $8000, a turbo loader ... $6000 and copies another loading screen onto the display
    3 ... $F000 if the second loading screen is done away with. The ... complicated because a) the working buffer sits at $F000 and can ...
    Ritchie333 Ritchie333 August 2021 Assembler
  • Extra screen in Jet Set Willy?I was online looking at screens from JSW when i came across a reference to an extra screen in JSW called April Showers that could be accessed by typi…

    I was online looking at screens from JSW when i came across a reference to an extra screen in JSW called April Showers that could be accessed by typing some code printed in Your Spectrum. Is this true? Has anyone came across this?
    zx1 zx1 March 2022 Games
  • Robospec (new project, hopefully useful as a tutorial as well)Starting a new project after my graphics investigations. * It's gonna be a Robotron clone since that's not too ambitious (although I'd like to hav…

    ... [/b]of grunts on the screen at once)
    * gonna try ... /> * gonna draw directly to the screen, no back buffers, so racing ... gonna do anything like floating buffer polling though to draw earlier ... for pushing bytes to the screen
    * may have to sort ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • New loading screen for VIXENIt had been a while since I had worked on a screen, so I got with this game whose cover art was its best part. Vixen [img]https://www.dropbox.c…

    It had been a while since I had worked on a screen, so I got with this game whose cover art was its best part.

    Vixen

    [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/jbmxvnrnn5mp7vr/vixenx6.png?raw=1[/img]
    MAC_BG MAC_BG August 2022 Games
  • Name this game!Okay, details are sketchy at the best: 2-d scroller, blocky graphics. U have to go around shooting pipes (actually certain gates in the pipe) so tha…

    ... bit like pipes, at a push, but there's nothing resembling ... in the game. However, the screen does go a different colour ...
    Ed Ed February 2002 Games
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... could not push as many raw bytes on to the screen, most ... .

    The actual screen rate was very much dependant ... CPC had special "monochrome" screen modes. They required _less_ information ... t have that crappy interleaved screen map, which was something ...
    Anonymous Anonymous November 2001 Games
  • Interface for PC ZXSee last entry of former TOPIC. I'm working on the interface. Info about it on MISCELLANEOUS Author: Arjun (---.bng.vsnl.net.in) Date: 08-13-01 …

    ... sure how fast you can push the Spectrum) it would take ... to transfer the 7k of screen memory the spectrum uses. The ... directly sending data to the screen memory and instead be forced ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2001 Games
  • Looking for two games (forgot names?)....1. A game where you bounce around as a little ball. It was like a 2d platform game. You have to collect fruit or something. Later on the platforms di…

    ... a little shape through a screen full of platform collecting keys ... " was to defy ourselves, to push ourselves out of our limits ... cheating because after the 8th screen or so I got "stressed ... not confined to a single screen).

    Moreover, with the ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2001 Games
  • line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…

    ... 's 470 pixels max on screen - before you do anything else ... 'll need to refresh the screen too. Not that you've ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • what did people.................hi there, what did people use their spectrum for? (playing games, programming, graphics, music or just for fun) :) octave

    ... assembler, debugger (64 cols, with screen swapping).
    Later I saw ... -alike to use the editors buffer.
    After adding an include ...
    JHutcheson JHutcheson March 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • new speccy gamesDoes anybody know if there is anyone currently publishing new Spectrum games? I'm about half way though writing one at the moment and just wondered. …

    i like your game dave...similar to a game i got on me mobile called push.You could incorporate a time limit on each level and a reset level button just incase you muck up trying to solve the puzzle...like i did on the 3rd screen with the colour keys lol.
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... quite right. Scrolling a speccy screen is painful at best so ... each background feature to the screen. The big 'mounds' at the ... scroll a small 'buffer' and dump this to the screen.

    buffer' is onlt 64 pixels high ...
    frobush frobush June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... know the way the spectrum screen is organised more fully doesn ... this - it would leave black 'buffer' areas between horizontally different colours ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... wrote earlier:

    ; Screen scrolling routines
    ; for quick ... memory address representing
    ; screen data from left to right ... Clive intended for the screen the memory organisation no ... being scrolled in from a buffer
    ; area perhaps, or ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • RealspectrumCan anyone tell me why sometimes when I launch realspectrum it locks up on the welcome screen? I am running it in a DOS shell within windows 98. I'm …

    ... on frameskip). When that buffer is full, it is sent ... it stops until the *previous* buffer stops playing, but you get ... so you certainly won't :). Screen modes, as above, normal rendering ... methods of polling the Directsound buffer, or even WaveOut (yuck) ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2002 Emulators
  • what features?.............hi there, what features would you like to make emulators even better? :)

    ... ? A push of a key, and it scrambles up the screen in ...
    Ed Ed June 2002 Emulators
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