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Loadsa bullets on screen (silkworm)Did games like silkworm just draw everything to the screen or did they have complicated optimisations? and the types of games where sprites can occu…
Did games like silkworm just draw everything to the screen or did they have complicated optimisations?
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Black screen on my 48k SpeccyHi! I have a problem with my 48k rubber key speccy. I keep getting this black screen with white stripes after the computer has been running for a w…
... /> I keep getting this black screen with white stripes after the ... then kaboom.
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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 ... -
Test of screen switching timings.I modified the btime.tap test by Jan Bobrowski to explore the timing of screen switching. The new test, ptime-128, produces different results on diff…
... to explore the timing of screen switching. The new test, ptime ... appears at the left-top screen corner (press the Q button ... -
No-tearing (“vsync”) Full Screen FadeSeeing as most screen fades exhibit visible tearing, I wrote my own routine which does away with that problem. Simple, effective, short, and fully re…
Seeing as most screen fades exhibit visible tearing, I ... de ;until we reach active screen area,
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Madballs - Wrong in-game screen?[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002971&loadpics=3"]Madballs[/url] I don't recall this in-game screen being a part of the g…
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New loading screen for LA ABADIA DEL CRIMENMy tribute to the most mythical game of the "Golden Age of Spanish Soft", although not very well known outside of Spain due to, among other things, l…
... distribution.
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Mixed bag - Mangled in-game screen and/or loading screen.[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012757&loadpics=3"]Black Raven[/url] Mangled in-game screen and loading screen.
[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012757&loadpics=3"]Black Raven[/url]
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New loading screen for CAMELOT WARRIORSContinuing with the great Azpiri. The original screen: [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/bb5ako6d7eh33xv/CamelotWarriors.png?raw=1[/img] My ver…
... Azpiri.
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Screen$ (x,y)Hi everyone As you know, Screen$ doesn't recognize UDG characters. Is there any way to solve this problem? I want to "identify" an UGD character o…
Hi everyone
As you know, Screen$ doesn't recognize UDG characters.
Is there any way to solve this problem?
I want to "identify" an UGD character on screen...
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Broken Issue 2 - likely culpritsI've just got hold of an issue 2 spectrum with an interesting layout (heatsink is vertical and goes down to the speaker, some variable resistors and …
... but then crashes with a corrupt screen after a few seconds. I ... of the motherboard and a corrupt screen.
Thanks
New loading screen for ABU SIMBEL PROFANATIONHI, this is my new screen. The original: [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/vzxoutej1a8z0oj/AbuSimbelx2.png?raw=1[/img] and my version: [img]htt…
HI, this is my new screen. The original:
[img] ...is there a way of reading characters off the screen and turning that into a string? this has to be done in basic. i know it would have something to do with peeking memory (maybe screen memory) but would this change due to programs r…
... do with peeking memory (maybe screen memory) but would this change ... to carry on reading the screen through the scroll? message (maybe ...The Cycles Disk, stuck on picture of bike and bottom of screen is blue?Have a Loose Disk of The Cycles by Accolade, made a DSK from it and loaded it in Spectaculator but it sticks on a screen that just shows a bike at th…
... but it sticks on a screen that just shows a bike ... but no mention of this screen and there is nothing to ... I should do on this screen, any ideas?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 ...printing to the screen using pokei remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyon…
i remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyone remember?Unknown Hardware tape copier?Back in the mid 80's A friend bought a hardware tape copier (similar idea to a multiface, except all it did was re-dump memory after pressing a butto…
... pressing a button & corrupt the screen because it loaded some of ...Does anyone have a good Spectrum screen shot pack?Man, I hate to ask a question like this - and I'm sure there is one out there somewhere ... but I just can't be arsed to look, lol. The screen sh…
... look, lol.
The screen shot pack I already have ... and contains it multiple identical screen shots of the same things ... />
The name of the screen from TLL has had its ... 'HURRICAN.gif' and the Nexor screen is named 'FLEXO_.gif' and ...Printing text using direct screen addressingHaving some problems printing using the FASE engine which is currently defeating me. Hoping to have someone clear out the bit of fog currently dwell…
Having some problems printing using the FASE engine which is currently defeating me. Hoping to have someone clear out the bit of fog currently dwelling in my brain for this function. I'm trying to get the text working properly in 128k mode which uses ...Another Chaos Remake - But wait! It's 3D split-screen multiplayer in realtime etc..I thought I'd mention this in case anyone was interested. I've just finished developing a 3D split-screen multiplayer realtime version of Chaos. I'…
... finished developing a 3D split-screen multiplayer realtime version of Chaos ...Hiding a Loading Screen?Hi folks! Is there an easy way (a POKE or something) to hide the drawing of a loading screen? I did find a post from leespoons in an old thread wh…
... the drawing of a loading screen? I did find a post ... when you've got a screen$ to load and don't ...New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…
... works great, doesn't corrupt the screen or require a lot of ... snapshot from disk without any screen corruption including restoring all the ... can even add a loading screen if you want, which is ...New loading screen for JABATOHi, The original screen: [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/d0zq89k38hg55qv/jabato_original.png?raw=1[/img] My version: [img]https://www.dropbo…
Hi,
The original screen:
[img]https://www. ...PAPER&INK: screen/character differenciation?So I was looking at a type-in listing earlier and I got to wondering how the Spectrum differenciates between knowing that the PAPER/INK commands need…
... commands needs to change the screen background/text colour or just ...New loading screen for BRUCE LEEMy version: [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/hiqwt874hcstpqa/bruceleex2.png?raw=1[/img] Original screen: [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9rcbfewf9ao…
My version:
[img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/hiqwt874hcstpqa/bruceleex2.png?raw=1[/img]
Original screen:
[img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9rcbfewf9aoc1i/F._David_Thorpe_-_Bruce_Lee_%281984%29.gif?raw=1[/img]Fastest emulator screen renderingHi, I'm developing an algorithm for fast emulator screen rendering and here is what I came up with. 1) Use 4bpp indexed image format as target …
... an algorithm for fast emulator screen rendering and here is what ... algorithm.[code]byte=next screen byte // get next screen byte
p32 ... offsets from 16384 for each screen line as[code]uint16_t ... copying 32 bytes from speccy screen for every line directly ...New loading screen for THANATOSIn 1986 we already had a Mother of Dragons : ) My version: [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/dydp51vil0vth1h/thanatos.png?raw=1[/img] [img]http…
... =1[/img]
Original screen:
[img]https://www ...New loading screen for LA AVENTURA ESPACIALMy version: [img]https://www.dropbox.com/s/hpwcadkkolea977/aventura%20espacial%20x2.png?raw=1[/img] The original screen: [img]https://www.d…
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The original screen:
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