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Using a TV as a pc monitor full timeRight<br><br>the pc i use is in the corner of the bedroom, the tv / dvd player / wii is in the other corner. theres a connection to connect a pc to t…
... of drawers, having a bigger screen to watch films from the ... select the pc channel every time i switch on.
Original Knight Lore loading screen artworkJust stumbled upon this on facebook:<br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/1514905765406040/photos/a.1514911125405504.1073741828.1514905765406040/1664…
... screen. It's great to see
this after all this time ... hope he can find the time to maybe dig some of ...spindizzy infinite timeHi i tried to add infinite time into spindizzy. in tipshop its says to enter PAT or PAC from the start screen - tried it and didn't work i also tr…
... /> i tried to add infinite time into spindizzy.
in tipshop ... or PAC from the start screen - tried it and didn't ... also tried the pokes (Infinite Time 48072,201:48401,201) - didn ... the right pokes for infinite time in this game?BBC to screen live game tournamenthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34475037 interesting, could be the start of something? [quote]The BBC is to stream live coverage of a majo…
... -gaming contest for the first time.
BBC Three will ... we can get them to screen a knockout manic miner tourny ...Spindizzy - looking for new infy time pokeThe current pokes for infinite time for Spindizzy on the Tipshop (48072,201:48401,201) work fine, apart from one thing. They leave an invisible ba…
The current pokes for infinite time for Spindizzy on the Tipshop ( ... an invisible bar across the screen, which hides your character when ... /> So can anyone provide infinite time pokes which have no side ...Loading screen neededAnyone interested in producing a loading screen for my new Infeasible game? The game is finished and tested but I'd like to release it with a decent …
... interested in producing a loading screen for my new Infeasible game ... it with a decent loading screen. I could do one my ... it difficult to find the time. This game will be free ... your name on the loading screen.
Ian ...Let's copy buffers!Figured I'd do some double buffered graphics, so I can render for several frames before displaying stuff. Yes, I mean on a 48k speccy, so no 128k spe…
... routines, the source buffer is linear (not in screen order) and address ... a frame's worth of time. On this emulator, anyway. This ... for multi-frame rendering the time savings are probably not worth ...Computer glasses and screen filters... or neither?Perhaps this subject has been covered here elsewere, but my search has not been conclusive.. I have always been curious about the advertised benef…
... monitors for prolonged amounts of time.
And I must ... sit fairly close to the screen too, but not always.
(If the screen is too dark I can ...New Game (2016 revival): A Yankee in Iraq (1992)Hello everyone, Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot-em-up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I…
... of the assets—the loading screen, music, and UDG—were lost ... to reduce the overall loading time (an entirely useless skill, I ... menu screen. This is necessary, as there is no printer buffer in ...Finally completed the first screen of ChillerI have vivid memories of this game from my first time round on the Spectrum. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/c/Chiller…
... this game from my first time round on the Spectrum.
Cool inlay, serviceable loading screen and a very fitting spooky ... never got off the first screen BITD. Tried it again recently ...ZXSCLZF - Yet another Screen CompressorQuick disclaimer before I continue, this compressor does not shrink screens as small as some of the others posted here, in particular the very good z…
... /> // allocate enough memory for screen
if((buffer=(unsigned char *)malloc(6912 ... storage+1
buffer_ss=buffer+_START; // move screen check start to start ... of buffer attr space
(*store_c ...greedy bastards or time for a dose of reality?zx1's disappearing pictures hosted from photobucket brought this topic to mind, that and my previous remark about refusing Chrome because of the like…
... cases.
At one time I was hard at work ... up their display, froze the screen and/or crashed their PC ...Spectaculator 8.0 says it's registered but "buy online" nag screen persistsI bought Spectaculator 8 just over a year ago, and now I have a problem with it acknowledging my registration code. I get the nag screen to "buy onli…
... code. I get the nag screen to "buy online", then I ... no longer receive the nag screen, and immediately after the nag ... screen appears again. I try again ... an SSD for the first time (but I doubt that would ...Plug Me, single screen platform puzzlerJust saw the game "Plug Me" on coolmathgames and thought it was very cool. It's a simple retro platformer, but the main gimmick is that the timer …
... get to the exit in time.
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It's a single screen game so it's a ...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…
... from microdrive one character a time using [b]INKEY$#[/b].
screen-in-zx-basic-in-1 ... address of the 512 byte buffer
There is also ...ZEsarUX-7.0Hi! I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX stable version :) This is ZEsarUX 7.0 There are a lot of new features added, more than ever! You can downl…
... Added setting to save spectrum screen to pbm file (black& ... : view TV electron position on screen, new default view, cursor, ... /ZX80/ZX81) at the same time
* now it can ... : better performance, because realvideo buffer is not updated when frameskip ...LOADING screen ?Ok, so - I accidentally decided to make some improvements on my 25year old BASIC text game 'Graveyard Nights' ...I used SPIN to muck about with the …
... do, is make a loading screen.... none of my games have ... a load screen and I'd love to ... and created a .scr loading screen for it ... But now what ... play out the same every time it's loaded - so isn ...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…
... 80's, but my time with the machine came ... again with designing the screen, so was working on ... a coloured border around the screen.
So ... solve the problem around screen compatibility, and leave me ... to set it up each time.
Anyway, ...Whats the smallest amount of time to precise emulate a Spectrum?Whats the smallest amount of time to completely emulate a Spectrum? Maybe the ULAs timings as mentioned here: [url="https://opencores.org/projects…
Whats the smallest amount of time to completely emulate a Spectrum?< ... proper display whats on the screen, we may need to have ... : One which displays "whats on screen" at this step. And another ...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 …
... this game about the same time as the film "Clue" ... start the tape all the time.
So ... Protection System) loads an into screen into $8000, a turbo ... because a) the working buffer sits at $F000 and ... be accessed at the same time as another RAM bank. ...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…
... earlier:
; Screen scrolling routines
; for quick ... being scrolled in from a buffer
; area perhaps, ... be correct most of the time.
; You can ... and a,a - x2 every time you move up
; ... ; srl a - /2 every time you move down
; ...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 …
... it stops until the *previous* buffer stops playing, but you get ... so you certainly won't :). Screen modes, as above, normal rendering ... alternating between "use all cpu time" and not - see which ... methods of polling the Directsound buffer, or even WaveOut (yuck) ...Horizontal scrollDoes anyone know how to do a 2 or 4 pixel left or right horizontal scroll of the spectrum screen. I can make a 1 one pixel scroll with: ... rl (hl…
... of CPU time.
Providing the end of your buffer is ... to the end of your screen or buffer, then repeat the instructions ... times to scroll the entire screen.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…
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Much ... talented Spectrum programmer of all time. Cobra is a masterpiece. The ...Problems with Spin 0.41Whenever I run it, I get an error message saying: Access violation at address 0047CA59 in module 'ZXSPIN.EXE'. Read of address 015F907C. I click on…
... gives me a nasty blue screen and SPIN crashes :(...
time with MakeTZX or perhaps a ... it through MakeTZX.... no DMA Buffer Overruns now (yey !!)..
[NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…
... /2 a second *behind* the screen update[/quote]I decided that ... to stop animation each time then sound buffer is not ready. This ...[NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…
... to stop animation each time then sound buffer is not ready. This ... it runs in a lower screen resolution.
D ...Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …
... generally slow. Using a buffer to prepare the scren drawing ... a buffer than to decide what to draw to the screen ... takes to fill the buffer but simply to flag ... of the game to a buffer your game is still ... - took a long time
no new screen
update the ...TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…
... to appear on a computer screen.
But computers can't ... data within the images frame buffer. The plot pixel function will ... required to render itself next time the application needs to draw ...Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …
... char, saving loads of time and speeding things up ... url].
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; Fill Back buffer with a bright stripy pattern ... ON ENTRY:
; HL CONTAINS SCREEN ADDRESS
; DE CONTAINS CHAR ...
