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  • New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…

    ... amazingly good and RLE'ish compression works very nicely.

    screen file to empty area) with compression (on some ...
    Arda Arda November 2010 Announcements
  • New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…

    ... the Spectrum memory map. The screen occupies the first 6912 followed ... am not interested in the screen, the area processed is from ... to 65535 (42240 BYTES). The screen is left alone as it ... with this method as final compression size is decreased depending on ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Announcements
  • New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…

    ... /> I decided to improved the compression system for ZXBOOT as Jon ... - Snapshot Batman on a blank screen to save more space!
    ASM ASM November 2010 Announcements
  • BMP2SCR delta formatdoes anyone know where I can find a file specification for LCD's delta compression format used in BMP2SCR? I've tried looking at the bmp2scr source …

    ... specification for LCD's delta compression format used in BMP2SCR?
    screen using LDIR. Then again count ... two bytes are copied to screen.

    Amiga Delta works ... as rectangles are blitted to screen, not the bytes.

    LCD LCD November 2010 Development
  • BMP2SCR delta formatdoes anyone know where I can find a file specification for LCD's delta compression format used in BMP2SCR? I've tried looking at the bmp2scr source …

    ... will my copied to the screen using LDIR. Then again count ... praxis this does not improve compression much.
    32: Next 32 ... two bytes are copied to screen.

    Amiga Delta works ... as rectangles are blitted to screen, not the bytes.

    guesser guesser November 2010 Development
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... sloowww..
    3. After compression is [b]100%[/b] done ... for when a screen$ structure is important or compression is not ...
    After looking Asm's compression, I started to think that ... mere 11kb (note that: including screen$).

    That way ...
    Arda Arda November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…

    ... block. AFAIK it ignores the screen, analyzes the code that' ... some free space. The compression used was a complex LZ ... routine, allowing great compression rates. It was called ... />
    Antonio explained the compression and I analized the decompression ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain November 2010 Announcements
  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ... to the elimination of the 'screen' member of the 'struct ... both would reduce the full screen update array requirements from ... versus spritepack for a full screen.

    But the ... even small structures at optimal compression). Games could be written to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2010 Development
  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ...
    [QUOTE]2. Suitable data compression for sprites and level data ... believe that music need some compression, but since complete songs ... them on the same screen so compression is not very useful ... already looking at huffman compression and decompression as a ...
    Timmy Timmy December 2010 Development
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... on how well the compression works and when the ... [QUOTE=jammajup;502064]I think screen 3 `The Black Hole` is ... area and disappear off the screen. This happened once and ... dropped back into the screen from above when I ... the top of the screen much quicker than it ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2010 Brand new software
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... around and also employing data compression (shrinking the levels down from ... as it's a flip-screen title I'm aiming for ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2011 Brand new software
  • Just wondering (Data compressors back in the 80s)While utilizing some sort of data compression is admittedly the norm for Speccy productions nowadays, it doesn't seem to have been the case back in t…

    ... gain significant benefits from compression. The stronger and more ... bitmap of the entire 256-screen map of [I]Sabre ... many .TAP releases are using compression?

    Again, ... separately for random access, conventional compression is less efficient.
    ...
    joefish joefish January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Just wondering (Data compressors back in the 80s)While utilizing some sort of data compression is admittedly the norm for Speccy productions nowadays, it doesn't seem to have been the case back in t…

    Compression was used pretty frequently if ... most obvious when loading the SCREEN$, which would come up as ... a bit over half the screen then suddenly would decompress and ... appear as the game's SCREEN$.

    (For commercial titles ...
    Winston Winston January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.

    ... . Dizzy games use the flick screen to completely change the style ... room is bigger than the screen. That works too (and it ... make the most of data compression on cartridge games). That'd ...
    joefish joefish February 2011 Games
  • I am a simple man....a layman if you will!...but I had a Spectrum when I was 12 years old that I loved more than was healthy! It gave me a love of computers which remains to this day and I …

    ... tape menu). Kick off your screen recorder and drag-n-drop ... AVI file generated by the screen-recorder. Job done.
    < ... "scanline" slider, to make the screen look more like an old ... is likely to suffer from compression artefacts - standard video "lossy" ...
    j00ce j00ce March 2011 Emulators
  • New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…

    ... , so compressor clears the screen *before* compressing, increasing compression ratio. Note that ... you'll see a blank screen. SO it's crucial to ... just before it redraws the screen (see tutorial video).

    screen complexity.
    Arda Arda March 2011 Announcements
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... indicator on the "game won" screen to remind the player how ... run pretty fast and simple compression schemes can be used to ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2011 Brand new software
  • Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…

    ... data block for each screen using something like exomizer ... screen, which simplfys things considerably. For those games, you can use compression ... tracking of events off screen, your going to want ... method of storing data screen by screen, even with pointers for ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil April 2011 Development
  • Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…

    ... enormously from horizontal run-length compression, where you store a character ... sized tiles plotted on a screen do look great. Being able ...
    joefish joefish May 2011 Development
  • Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…

    ... Worked this out: Each screen uses RLE compression. There will be 4 ... byte, and after this screen has been written to a ... with 16KB (thanks to RLE compression, with some additional free space ... also thinking about a fractal screen compressor (with pointing to ...
    LCD LCD May 2011 Development
  • New Game: 2k RGB ChallengeThere is something weirdly adictive in creating games in limited memory (I know I need to get out more). After my two very basic 1k games thought I w…

    ... also wrote a compression routine to store the screen which saved me ...
    TomD TomD May 2011 Brand new software
  • Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…

    ... code loader. MegaLZ is just compression for quicker load.

    screen refreshes on the 128, +2a ... and go back to refresh screen. The queen IS dead (on ...
    FrankT FrankT May 2011 Games
  • Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…

    ... few different options for compressing screen data- so I'll have ... rough idea of how the compression is achieved.

    Its ...
    sekrets sekrets June 2011 Development
  • Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…

    ... about through the necessary data compression. And as well as having ... LDIR instruction for the loading screen. It took me two days ...
    Timmy Timmy June 2011 Development
  • Games translation to EnglishIn this thread will released translated games to English (for example Czech/Spanish games...) Here is first: [B]PEDRO NA OSTROVE PIRATOV[/B] origin…

    ... Bandit
    compression/decompression by Roman Borik
    title screen + animated logo ...
    Pavero Pavero September 2011 Games
  • Games translation to EnglishIn this thread will released translated games to English (for example Czech/Spanish games...) Here is first: [B]PEDRO NA OSTROVE PIRATOV[/B] origin…

    ... Bandit
    compression/decompression by Roman Borik
    title screen + animated logo ...
    Mikal Mikal September 2011 Games
  • Meanwhile... in Fikee's insane mindHere are some ideas im playing with in my mind: [B]#1 Stickman virtua fighter[/B] stickmans from international 3d tennis kicking each other [B]#2 T…

    ... but it seems that specilazed compression algoritms like CCIT3 from tiff ... /> the history of this single screen is quite simple - i just ... draw few dozens of such screen for someones else project.
    Fikee Fikee September 2011 New game ideas
  • Inlay Project DiscussionAll, It's time this project was actually started in anger. The aim of this thread is to find out what every wants from it and the standards that sh…

    ... pretty large end image for screen viewing. If Martijn is happy ... back in etc but for screen viewing you really want as ... well. It also helps with compression as big areas of flat ...
    richl richl September 2011 Support files
  • Inlay Project DiscussionAll, It's time this project was actually started in anger. The aim of this thread is to find out what every wants from it and the standards that sh…

    ... TIF files (as the LZW compression system isn't lossy).
    screen devices though (not unless they ...
    Bangstick Bangstick September 2011 Support files
  • Games translation to EnglishIn this thread will released translated games to English (for example Czech/Spanish games...) Here is first: [B]PEDRO NA OSTROVE PIRATOV[/B] origin…

    ... , Jiira, Pepax, Gasman
    Text compression utility: UB880D
    Dekompile, dekompression ... , compression, kompilation: Softhouse[/QUOTE]

    < ... I love the way that screen looks.

    I miss ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2011 Games
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