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  • Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …

    ... while the refresh of the screen happens ?

    [/quote]
    drawing the display. The display is ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2004 Development
  • The Perils Of WillySorry if this is a really obvious question, but did anyone ever convert the V20 Perils of Willy to the Speccy?

    ... has multiple conveyors in a screen, but that's been hacked ... 's just a matter of drawing the screens then pretty much ...
    AndyC AndyC August 2004 Games
  • The Perils Of WillySorry if this is a really obvious question, but did anyone ever convert the V20 Perils of Willy to the Speccy?

    ... has multiple conveyors in a screen, but that's been hacked ... 's just a matter of drawing the screens then pretty much ...
    Dasse Dasse August 2004 Games
  • Where do you start!I am fairly new to spectrums, and have only been programming for a couple of years starting on bbc basic. where do you start programming a game. Is a…

    ... putting the 'best' way of drawing sprites et al into my ... learn how to use the screen then you think about how ...
    cyborg cyborg September 2004 Development
  • Where do you start!I am fairly new to spectrums, and have only been programming for a couple of years starting on bbc basic. where do you start programming a game. Is a…

    ... of a particular program where drawing sprites in this way, given ... 're just learning how the screen works. It's something you ...
    cyborg cyborg September 2004 Development
  • 3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…

    ... had/have is just for drawing a 3D object and letting ... it was `scrolled`/`appeared` onto screen.

    The fact is ... faster, but due to the screen being 24.5K people don ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Development
  • 3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…

    ... coordinate system at bottom of screen, or a N/S/E ... the castle you can stop drawing it, and yet, you could ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Development
  • 3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…

    ... coordinate system at bottom of screen, or a N/S/E ... the castle you can stop drawing it, and yet, you could ... rate to a nifty one screen update per day!
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2004 Development
  • 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 …

    ... getting major "tearing", or flicker. I have used IM2 so ... /> EXX
    LD HL,SCREEN+2048+16 ; Destination
    ... ; ON ENTRY:
    ; HL CONTAINS SCREEN ADDRESS
    ; DE CONTAINS CHAR ...
    robpearmain robpearmain September 2004 Development
  • On 48k, can I copy 4k before next screen updateFollowing on from my thread at [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=6423&forum=11"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/v…

    ... 256[/code]
    To avoid flicker and tearing, you'll need ... or immediately after the first screen line has been drawn - and ...
    gasman gasman September 2004 Development
  • On 48k, can I copy 4k before next screen updateFollowing on from my thread at [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=6423&forum=11"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/v…

    ... wait until ULA start drawing pixel part of screen.
    you have ... how recognize if ULA is drawing border or pixels
    reading ...
    Fikee Fikee September 2004 Development
  • Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…

    ... once and using everywhere on screen.
    [/quote]

    Well ... cost of drawing it 20 times all over the screen, so when ...
    Erlstoned Erlstoned September 2004 Development
  • TZX and the ZX81Evenin All. EightyOne is now is a state where I can support a more descriptive tape format. I know how some people have been calling for tzx suppor…

    @b00mzi11a

    SP81 will flicker a lot. Because the ZX81 ... is responsible for generating the screen, the only way to get ...
    MikeW MikeW September 2004 Emulators
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... the lower part of the screen for someone who is testing ... include a demo of plotting, drawing lines, circles and arcs, etc ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • Sprite Graphics TutorialHi everyone, Would like some feedback on the following: I am thinking of writing a Sprite Graphics Tutorial, ie. how to best program and implement …

    ... the raster and flicker avoidance.

    2. Screen Flipping / Page Flipping ...
    dmsmith dmsmith October 2004 Development
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... it slightly better IMHO: the screen layout could have been made ... some address lines - 8x8 char drawing would have been slower but ...
    GOC GOC October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... it slightly better IMHO: the screen layout could have been made ... some address lines - 8x8 char drawing would have been slower but ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Game Production ChallengeGreetings to all the communiy :) I have been around long enough to see that there are some very good spectrum programmers out here. Now, [start obvi…

    ... the tzx archive, writing emulators, drawing graphics or
    writing fanzines ... start designing graphics and complete screen layouts for your imaginary game ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan October 2004 Games
  • Sprites flickeringI am trying to write a Spectrum game in machine code. I am still a beginner in programming, however I did much progress recently, i believe. Now I am…

    ... can perform operations not involving screen, like keyboard reading, data calculating ... is over I may start drawing sprite
    Is it okay ...
    Ralf Ralf October 2004 Development
  • Sprites flickeringI am trying to write a Spectrum game in machine code. I am still a beginner in programming, however I did much progress recently, i believe. Now I am…

    ... top 2 thirds of the screen to be used. One way ... , would be to prioritise the drawing of the sprites so that ...
    dmsmith dmsmith October 2004 Development
  • Announce: EmuZWin 2.5 Release 2.2 Post-FinalEmuZWin Version 2.5 Release 2.2 post-FINAL (16-Oct-2004): [-] A small pause added between TAP blocks while loading tape from .TAP image (otherwise s…

    ... only for case of buffered drawing but to get a special ... other Euro-demos.

    Screen shots? You are really missing ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov November 2004 Emulators
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... provide support for the new screen modes in BASIC, and handle ... to support line and circle drawing in 512x192 mode too.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Announce: EmuZWin 2.5 Release 2.2 Post-FinalEmuZWin Version 2.5 Release 2.2 post-FINAL (16-Oct-2004): [-] A small pause added between TAP blocks while loading tape from .TAP image (otherwise s…

    ... only for case of buffered drawing but to get a special ... :04, Vladimir Kladov wrote:
    Screen shots? You are really missing ...
    V@no V@no November 2004 Emulators
  • OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…

    ... were in place to avoid flicker on the Speccy can be ... amount of shifting necessary when drawing sprites etc. So although you ...
    AndyC AndyC November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum programmingI have a Spectrum+ at home. I tried to write some programs in BASIC (IIRC i wrote a breakout clone in which you had to hit those spider-like characte…

    ... you down a line (when drawing 8x8 characters), rather than having ... to HL. This produces several screen segments that are 64 lines ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2005 Development
  • Unbelievable tape loadersHi, I search the most unbelievable tape loader. For the present I think the loader from game Joe Blade 2 is the winner in this competition. (During l…

    ... running around the screen, and still like the circular drawing on the ...
    Mort! Mort! February 2005 Games
  • New release of EmuZWinEmuZWin Version 2.6 Release 1.0 Beta? ? (30-Jan-2005): A lot of changes. Most important are: [+] Formats supported: RZX, SLT. [+] Sound devices sup…

    ... strange. You can send a screen shot but it is much ... drawing or may be of conversion the image while drawing it on screen ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov February 2005 Emulators
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