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  • Problem with WOS and images.I am having a problem when visiting image links like screen shots and cover scans in WOS. Basically what happens is that either the JPG comes up and …

    ... when visiting image links like screen shots and cover scans in ...
    stupidget stupidget July 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IM 2 interrupts and smooth scrolling - easy peasy!Okay, been fiddling around with IM 2 and have actually mastered (I think) how to use IM 2! Now I run my game Ragnar Revival in IM2 and use HALT to sy…

    ... and use HALT to sync screen drawing (dumping of offscreen graphics ... , one with IM2 for synchronizing screen manipulation (a scrolling text) using ...
    ekoman ekoman July 2004 Development
  • 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…

    ... I created and draw the Screen$ in Paintbrush/MSPaint. He was ... to make me my own SCREEN$ Editor, which I already ... types such as Tiles, Sprites, Screen$, Characters, and UDGs. It currently ... has features for creating full Screen images, Tiles, Sprites, Sounds, ...
    Sadako Sadako July 2004 Development
  • Three questions about Spin1) Why when I load a TZX file without any acceleration/flash loading etc. I can't see the familiar red/cyan and yellow/blue stripes but just a series…

    ... ) Why when I go full screen using GDI (I do not ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2004 Emulators
  • An unofficial conversion of City ConnectionLurking in the depths of the WoS archive I found what looks like an unofficial conversion of the Jaleco coin-op [I]City Connection[/I]. The authors a…

    ... "48K" caption in the title screen suggests that there should have ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • elevator game - pls helpHi guys, back in the 80's i've had got the good speccy as a birthday gift and there was a bonus game, of which i forgot the name. The main characte…

    ... a hole on the top screen With every piece you had ...
    Andris71 Andris71 July 2004 Games
  • XK SystemIn Your Spectrum issue 8 it mentions a hardware paging system called the XK system, this paged the top 32KB of memory. It allowed 4MB to be used and…

    ... other, writing to their own screen window. This program seems to ...
    speccyverse speccyverse July 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • ScanlinesHere's an excerpt from the FAQ: [quote] Now for the timings of each line itself: define a screen line to start with 256 screen pixels, then border, …

    ... each line itself: define a screen line to start with 256 ... screen pixels, then border, then ... then it reads two: a screen and an ATTR byte). ... each side. A video screen line is therefore timed as ... follows: 128 T states of screen, 24 T states of ...
    GOC GOC July 2004 Development
  • 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 …

    ... can be used to time screen drawing.

    The game ... ;Draw offscreen sprite graphics to screen
    call quitcheck ;Check whether ... is eventually painted on the screen - all this to avoid flicker ...
    ekoman ekoman July 2004 Development
  • An unofficial conversion of City Connection (reprise)I hope Martijn and Andrew won't mind if I post this topic once again, but in the STP/MIA section it had no reply so far. I post it here because in th…

    ... "48K" caption in the title screen suggests that there should have ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2004 Games
  • Two colour nice Spectrum screen$Im wanting some 2 colour Spec or SAM screens to use as backgrounds in my OS... i.e. black and white, blue and back etc etc... not using attributes an…

    Im wanting some 2 colour Spec or SAM screens to use as backgrounds in my OS... i.e. black and white, blue and back etc etc... not using attributes and all spec colours...

    Is there a place for pictures of this sort perhaps, or any tips for ...
    CKay CKay August 2004 Development
  • Bug in Match Day...maybe this is old news.This may be old news, but I thought I'd share it with you all. I remember once when playing Matchday I scored a goal just as the timer (which, if yo…

    ... then the part of the screen that held the crowd seemed ...
    Tobo Tobo August 2004 Games
  • Anybody remember this game?About 20 years ago I used to play a game - I cannot remember what it was called. All I can remember was that it was set in space and your character …

    ... your character flew around the screen wearing a jetpack. You could ... , top, and bottom of the screen, basically entering different rooms. One ... you entered the room the screen flashed and you died.
    jason jason August 2004 Games
  • Spectrum tape sound in Bluetones song?!Hi all, Don't know if any of you have noticed it, but I have and I might as well drop a post about it! On The Bluetones' album "Return to the last …

    ... on that it's a SCREEN$ loading.

    Does anyone ...
    ekoman ekoman August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 128k and BRIGHT?Just loaded up Arcadia (nice game, BTW). I have side by side a 128k and 48k Speccies and both are connected to the same tape player. So, I loaded the…

    ... started. The start screen of Arcadia is screen with BORDER 7 : PAPER ... colour. The 48k showed the screen correctly. Then I restarted the ...
    Yanek Yanek August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Pixel setting / general speccy codingi just started doing some cross-coding with the [url="http://www.bigfatpanda.fsnet.co.uk/z80.html"]Z80 SNA assembler[/url] and an emulator, and this …

    ... a pixel at a given screen coordinate:

    [code]
    Lambchop Lambchop August 2004 Development
  • A few questions regarding EmuZwinA few questions regarding EmuzWin 1. I have been trying to write a program to generate multicolour effects on the Spectrum,ie more than 2 attributes…

    ... detect which part of the screen is being read, although I ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2004 Development
  • A few questions regarding EmuZwinI had posted this in the development forum and then remembered there was an emulators forum, so apologies for the repetition. 1. I have been trying …

    ... detect which part of the screen is being read, although I ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2004 Emulators
  • Highway Encounter and Spin.I downloaded a TZX of Highway Encounter from the TZX vault. When I try and load the game up in Spin (the version with rollback),I get a black screen,…

    ... rollback),I get a black screen, with a yellow border and ...
    Vanamonde Vanamonde August 2004 Emulators
  • need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …

    ... /> LD HL,(SPRADR) ; taking precalculated screen address where to draw sprite ... A,(HL) ;taking background from screen
    AND B
    OR ... next bottom line on the screen.
    JP DRAWSPY
    DRAWCH1 ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 August 2004 Development
  • Can anyone help me find the title of this game......I remember a game i liked on the spectrum but i cant remember what it was called, so i cant find it to download. In the game you were some kind of wi…

    ... at the bottom of the screen so you knew which direction ...
    Matt fox Matt fox August 2004 Games
  • 3 in 1 NTG3 in 1 name that game 1) You are a ninja cyborg or something. A side view flip screen. Most screens look alike with just a few details different. Th…

    ... something. A side view flip screen. Most screens look alike with ... way to move to a screen up above or down below ... the same place on the screen. There were four types of ...
    Erlstoned Erlstoned August 2004 Games
  • maketzx problemsDoes anyone else have problems running maketzx v2.33 (with or without the GUI) on Windows 2000 Sp4? I've just changed my OS from Win Me where i've m…

    ... box flashes up on the screen but then immeadiately disapears without ...
    pigdog pigdog August 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • FUSE : APPLE + QI hate this keycombination. I need SYMB+Q APPLE works like SYMBOL SHIFT, but on the Q it's QUIT (without warning). Please program a warning screen i…

    I hate this keycombination. I need SYMB+Q
    APPLE works like SYMBOL SHIFT, but on the Q it's QUIT (without warning).

    Please program a warning screen in between.
    I have lost several programs without having saved it.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2004 Emulators
  • The Pawn and Spin 5.04 - weird behaviourTwo TZX files from the TZX vault: The Pawn.tzx The Pawn v2.3.tzx (both are v 2.3 from the start text, but the first shows the title screen when lo…

    ... the first shows the title screen when loading and the "Pondering ... everytime (just after the rainbird screen comes up)..however with accelerated ...
    Vanamonde Vanamonde August 2004 Emulators
  • Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemBelow is my WIP code to do smooth screen wrapping sprites using char positions and offsets, as opposed to writing direct to a line (0-191) and shifti…

    ... Entry:
    ; HL Contains Screen Address
    ; DE Contains ... Exit
    ; HL Contains Screen Address
    ; BC preserved ...
    ; Low Bytes of screen
    ORG 0FA00h
    < ...
    robpearmain robpearmain August 2004 Development
  • IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…

    ... Entry:
    ; HL Contains Screen Address
    ; DE Contains ... Exit
    ; HL Contains Screen Address
    ; BC preserved ...
    ; Low Bytes of screen
    ORG 0FA00h
    < ...
    robpearmain robpearmain August 2004 Development
  • 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 …

    ... to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll ... kind of interrupt, the 50Hz screen refresh one, but then I ...
    Erlstoned Erlstoned August 2004 Development
  • Help accessing menu on 128k +2Hi, I recently dusted my old 128k +2 speccy off, and got it up and running. I am having one problem though - I can't access the menu! When I turn i…

    ... automatically brings up the loader screen. If I press BREAK, I ... can view the menu screen breifly, but it disappears before ...
    celt197 celt197 August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bouncy maze game???Hi, I've been hanging around other Speccy sites for awhile now but only just come accross this one,which looking at the content amazes me that I didn…

    ... from one side of the screen to the other using various ...
    robomonkey robomonkey August 2004 Games
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