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  • Zelda cloneHi all you Zelda fans! This game has been moved from the Wanted: Game Ideas! thread because it seems to have enough people interested in helping wit…

    ... use a simple tile compression scheme to minimise screen data size.
    On screen performance will be limited by ... 't see alot of on-screen action. They keep it simple ... fast. Given such a small screen as the spectrums (and cpc ...
    Kiwi Kiwi May 2006 Development
  • YSRnRY TV Prog: 1986 chapter OUT NOW!The 1986 chapter of the documentary is OUT NOW! Watch as the Speccy world changes forever with the arrival of the 128k machines! See Sinclair Researc…

    ... better than on a computer screen.[/QUOTE]

    Oh yes ... -clear picture with *no* MPEG compression artifacts! Only problem is that ... top and right of the screen, and the centre is expanded ...
    NickH NickH May 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... contains functions for computing screen and attribute addresses as ... to do the actual compression. Pucrunch was successfully used ... block determines the degree of compression achieved, since the decompresser ... 4 clash-free colours on screen. For the ti-calcs ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Background image with SP1 and Z88DKWhat is the prefered way to place an entire (or very large) image in the background when using SP1? Should I convert it to a long (32*24=768 ) list o…

    ... to invent your own compression format to figure out ... to (10,15) on screen and your printing will be ... scenes to be drawn on screen.

    It ... to print an entire level screen with a single string ( ... achieve a decent level of compression as well.

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Background image with SP1 and Z88DKWhat is the prefered way to place an entire (or very large) image in the background when using SP1? Should I convert it to a long (32*24=768 ) list o…

    ... the display file using a compression program like MegaLZ or the ... be done sparingly, for each screen, with the LOAD sprites deleted ... allocator for reuse) after each screen is exited.

    ... you still really need the screen$ as background after reading ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Crazy Spectrum Experiments. Now there?s a thought!!As a Kid I wanted to be a budding inventor and tried all sorts of things with my speckie. I remember buying a second hand reel to reel tape recorde…

    ... . Although the titles and bytes screen reports ALWAYS displayed error free ... rate was lower that the compression of the audio may have ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…

    ... , I can watch a tiny screen with snow, and not care ... get less choice (or mor compression)
    guesser guesser November 2006 Hardware
  • When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…

    ... , I can watch a tiny screen with snow, and not care ... get less choice (or mor compression)[/QUOTE]

    Exactly, which ...
    udgoverload udgoverload November 2006 Hardware
  • When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…

    ... /> Digital has major problems with compression - any scene with movement suffers ... as they walk across the screen. Worse still strobe lights and ... *may* be available to improve compression. When pressed they guardedly admitted ...
    dekh dekh November 2006 Hardware
  • When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…

    ... Digital has major problems with compression - any scene with movement ... they walk across the screen. Worse still strobe lights ... be available to improve compression. When pressed they guardedly ... change). Remember that higher compression doesnt mean more loss ...
    KeepGood KeepGood November 2006 Hardware
  • When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…

    ... the pixelation on a TV screen. Thats what you see with ... />
    You said 'too much compression not enough data', this isnt ... (CBR). There is no extra compression and no more data needed ... the PC without using a screen filter .... looks nasty. Watching a ...
    KeepGood KeepGood November 2006 Hardware
  • The ZX Spectrum Book of MapsFollowing some discussion in a maps thread, I have decided to make THE ZX SPECTRUM BOOK OF MAPS - VOLUME ONE At the moment, I have the following in…

    ... images, please try and avoid compression artifacts and preserve detail right ... 's the reason why the screen layout of the YSRnRY documentary ...
    NickH NickH December 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Early screenshots which differ from the final productI thought it would be interesting to try and list games that looked different in the previews/reviews to the final product. I'll start off with an ea…

    ... speccy screenshot? OK I know compression makes strangely fantastic shaded images ... what you see in that screen shot is possible on the ... go of colouring in a screen shot from the game to ...
    Swainy Swainy January 2007 Games
  • Fuse for Mac OS X 0.8.0-pre1A new public preview of the next version of Fuse for Mac OS X has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project: [url]http://sourceforge.net/pr…

    ... .szx files which have integrated compression.[/QUOTE]

    It's ... : Also, are there only two screen sizes in Fuse? Looks like ... default small size or full screen, cos I'm unable to ...
    CUCHULAINN CUCHULAINN February 2007 Emulators
  • Emulating Spectrum digitizer?Hello everyone, Not sure if this is the right forum part to ask this question...basically, I'm making a video for my brother's band (the song is cal…

    ... video, you can capture the screen with FRAPS or your Emulator ... /> go to [B]video > compression[/B] and make sure the ...
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2007 Emulators
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... map data address on each screen. Using a map of ... worked out that the 5th screen as played(04 below), ... is the top left screen and therefore the start of ... that it has an extra compression type. e.g.
    ... screens, 4th byte is starting screen, 5th and 6th are ...
    FrankT FrankT February 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... of basic after your screen. This clears the screen before loading the ... number printed on the menu screen. This number is extvec. ... own version which loads the screen$, and then the adventure. ... and then go to the compression TZX business later.

    alban lusitanae alban lusitanae March 2007 Development
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... games that have the loading screen compressed, and some .TRD games ... heard about a Spectrum .ZIP compression utility, etc.

    I ...
    zxbruno zxbruno April 2007 Games
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... for Spectrum used RLE realtime compression/decompression while loading (yes - realtime ... also used only a few screen attribute lines to show the ... used 2/3rds of the screen to store the loaded data ... will see how fast the screen is loaded ;-)

    [url ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat April 2007 Games
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    To explain why realtime compression/decompression is very good for ... not possible.
    With realtime compression the copier loads in the ... the whole game (including loading screen, etc.) in one go and ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat April 2007 Games
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... downloads from Micronet usually used compression. There were fairly limited ... so all they had was compression. The SCREEN$ for instance would load ... and seemed to get reasonable compression. It needed to really ... of line noise, the compression was appreciated :-)
    Winston Winston April 2007 Games
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    ... relocation or similar. And the compression level is decent too ....
    screen, PuChrunch gives 4937 bytes, while ...
    Arda Arda July 2007 Development
  • Help hacking Split PersonalitiesI`ve been hacking away at Split Personalities for the purpose of putting new screens and graphics (items). The current screen is at 41187 and is 160…

    ... , is this important to the compression or just the format of ... and look at the unrolled screen. You'll have 100 spaces ... 6. It's just another compression technique for drawing straight lines ... can see on the first screen starts at $5b2b where there ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous July 2007 Games
  • text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …

    ... />
    [quote=fikee]a vocabulary compression can save much space when ... SUB to write it on screen, and other read/data or ...
    Arda Arda August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …

    ... gives a slightly better compression ration, but the Z80 ... depacked byte, calculate the SCREEN$ line/column by dividing ... incremental method of calculating the SCREEN$ address ordered by columns ... data) to decompress the SCREEN$ and after depacking, reorder ...
    0sAND1s 0sAND1s October 2007 Development
  • Digitized videos and sounds projectAfter starting this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14420[/url] I decided to start converting parts of clips and…

    ... or x4 sizes. Sometimes the screen is too small;"
    ... possibility to display a zoomed screen on right click, with ... Instead of saving the converted screen to hd immediately after conversion ... save, as PUT-Block, Screen (with optiona compression) r Sprite (with ...
    LCD LCD October 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... with double loading speed and compression (a loading message said "Compressed ... running on a PC. The screen$ was also compressed column-ordered ... /TZX (including special care for screen$) to minimize storage space and ...
    0sAND1s 0sAND1s November 2007 Games
  • IDE-media only Spectrum games?A similar discussion is taking place at Speccy.org's forums, but I thought it was worth to start the topic here. Now that we have several IDE interfa…

    ... my Bmp2Scr. This kind of compression would be ideal (except for ... playback because only changes in screen are updated (Sequence: Changed Bytes ...
    LCD LCD December 2007 Development
  • Z88DK fun and gamesHi, I was wondering if anyone here uses Z88DK with TommyGun and knew about how to link the two together (e.g. how do I use a screen, sprite or map e…

    ... m trying to use the screen$ and sprite functions within Z88DK ... some z80 compression utilities.

    Anyhow for a raw screen the ... file assumes you have the screen$ stored as binaries in the ... /> The memcpy() call copies the screen bytes to the display file ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2008 Development
  • Z88DK fun and gamesHi, I was wondering if anyone here uses Z88DK with TommyGun and knew about how to link the two together (e.g. how do I use a screen, sprite or map e…

    ... ;243158]If they're full screen, the first idea I have ... to look into some z80 compression utilities.

    Now for ...
    SnakeOilSteve SnakeOilSteve February 2008 Development
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