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Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... a very expensive, significant upgrade for a standard C64. It's ... way Exile could be done for the spectrum and it still ... by that slow small-screen jerky character square scrolling in Soldier of ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... by that slow small-screen jerky character square scrolling in Soldier of ... that many C64 games supplant for the old, unrealistic, slidey,"it ... -
Resurrection of ZX SpectrumHello everyone. I recently emerged from my attic bearing my childrens 128k ZX Spectrum +2 with a bag of games etc. Like many before it hasn't seen…
... that a black square appears in the centre of the screen and the ... perimeter.
Well that black square only appears momentarily and then ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... the smaller apparent size on screen. I suppose the actual crt ... be a perfect (1:1) square. (Deviations caused by CRT technology ... emulators out there draw their screen.
On a ... of a traditional display, for perfectly square pixels on a width of ... -
Return to basic from sna created by Z80 compilerHow can I go back to basic when running sna created using Z80 Assembler ([url] http://www.worldofspectrum.org/utilities.html#crossass [/url])? For e…
... works properly
- screen goes black and waits for SPACE to be pressed ... -
Return to basic from sna created by Z80 compilerHow can I go back to basic when running sna created using Z80 Assembler ([url] http://www.worldofspectrum.org/utilities.html#crossass [/url])? For e…
As for EmuZWin...
It always reports that cannot find some ddl. something like Load???.dll and when it runs the screen is black - like that it expects different screen resolution or colors.
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New Style Proposal.<font face="Arial, Verdana" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-…
... with a rather bright white screen and black text....
And one ... , but it can cause problems for some people. And sometimes pictures ... -
New biColor Game: MultiDude[IMG]http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/mdpic.png[/IMG] Get controls on strangest team ever! [URL="http://www.retrosouls.net/zx/MultiDude.zip"]Download[/…
I have this odd vision where some colours, such as deep blue, look 3-d-ish on a black screen. For instance on the first screen all the platforms look as if they are sticking out of the screen due to the blue background. It is really odd. -
So I did a thing...And it's nearly ready for release: [img]http://s18.postimg.org/4453ayo5j/Screen_Shot_2016_03_30_at_16_18_17.png[/img] Apologies for the enormou…
... -gl) to display the screen, reducing the workload on the ... lost
New Splash-screen and startup sound :) The ... font scaling for UI elements, looks better for non-square editor fonts ... system messages to mess with screen update timings
Menu ... -
1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
... discover your mission. The screen is black, there's no description ... Radio. Clear on-screen instructions are given for saving or loading ... game. Everything else you discover for yourself![/i]"
... is too noisy around here for serious prayer[/b]" [[i ... -
Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
... idea of zapping the whole screen with CLS and then restoring ... (but as most of the screen is black anyway, it might not ... avoid wasting a whole byte for the sign bit on every ... -
WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …
... move. The main reason for me writing it was that ... game was too complicated for good AI routines to ... RAM, it just turned the screen black (it didn't even ... key had been pressed for a user defined period ... quote]
Sorry for answering to such an old ... -
New Game: Crappy CratesHeres something I knocked up for the festive period, a bit of a Sokoban type affair where you have to stack crates in the designated area whilst avoi…
... crate appears (7 on screen) this crate can also ... become a waiting game for the cracker to appear ... of noise, the screen fades to black, then the big ... /> again and fades to black, the score line appears ... the rest of the screen is black, then it goes back ... -
Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…
... board square, such as blue for black squares or cyan for white ... destination, for instance. A few examples:
Moving black pawn ... img]
Moving black pawn 2 squares:
[ ... img]
Moving black knight:
[img]http:// ... -
Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…
... seriously thinking about interleaving the Black and White piece data.< ... br />
Currently Black occupies FD00-FD7Dh and White ... standard data infill (FFh for Black, C0h for White, with first or ... is done direct to the screen, so needs to calculate ... -
Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…
... ;
ld h,a ;HL=square address
get_piece_height:
pop ... /> jr nz,put_bit ;A=00 for Black overlay
jr put_bit+1 ... -
Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…
... ;
ld h,a ;HL=square address
get_piece_height:
ex ... /> jr nz,put_bit ;A=00 for Black overlay
jr put_bit+1 ... -
Memory questionsQuestion 1: PRINT PEEK 23732+256*PEEK 23733 returns 65535 for a 48K Spectrum and 32767 for a 16K Spectrum. PRINT PEEK 16388+256*PEEK 16389 return…
... and Arjun did the tutorial for that I mentioned earlier (https ... me, like a blue square slamming into a black square... seeing as the ... I'd need a manual for an Issue 2 Spectrum ... have, one is for the +2, one is for the +2A, ... and one is for the +3. No Issue ... -
Things you only figured out after all these years.Its funny isn't it when for almost all your life you believe something to be true, and then after all these years realize it's not true, or never hap…
That those little black and white revolving stripy squares ... advertisements. They were shown on screen for 55 seconds, and then once ... -
SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…
... (to your gmail address) showing screen grabs of all 3 different ... .910?
Also, SCREEN FULL doesn't appear to ... intended. When you type SCREEN FULL the window that you ... screen goes black for about quarter of a second and after that the black screen ... -
Mojon Twins MK2 and lighting effectsDoes anyone have any experience in getting the overlay.h working in the MK2 engine. There were several games written in the churro that used the ove…
... screen is black. I'm trying to use this routine for ... updating the colors of the screen to make the effects ... to work a bit for me. I've corrected ... or bottom edge of the screen, So, I placed a ... case.
As for the unrolling being aggressive, I ... -
Recommend me a Speccy emulator to use with an arcade FE (Windows)Considering the vast amount of choice out there, I'm struggling to find one that really fits my (fairly basic) needs - Starts Fullscreen - Always c…
... yet. You get a full black screen which just hangs until you ... into the usual power-on screen for the speccy model (but without ... -
ZXBaremulator v2.0Hi all, I've released the new version of my ZX Spectrum bare-metal for Raspberry PI. The new features and the images can be found on my project si…
... almost) Black
They say Eskimos have names for 200 shades ... getting better with shades of black! Now I know exactly ... getting a mini HDMI screen for about £25 for the unused side of ... can potentially handle these newer screen displays a lot better . ... -
One of the reasons I still hang onto the Spectrum...Why is it these days you just can't play a game? Take Don't Starve for instance, its Saturday morning and I just fancy a quick game. So I hit the ico…
... when I defeated Deathstroke, the screen went black and nothing happened. It ... downloaded without asking me*) is for multiplayer or mapmaker mode only ... -
MAME in spectrum emulationHey to all Does anyone use MAME as a emulator port for any Speccy HW? I was so far away from MAME developments I forgot they merged with MESS whic…
... defaulted to use the 2xSaI screen filter, which I also like ... . The pixels on modern screen look deliberately square otherwise, which may look ... />
The people taking credit for Mame always seemed to be ... -
Oric Atmos HelpMaybe a bit of a long shot but there are enough skilled people here, so hopefully I can get some thoughts please. OK I have an Oric Atmos here, it…
... PAL/NTSC/SECAM are standards for [b][u]adding[/u ... /> There are various standards for monochrome TV signals. Some are ... screen more black than black” signal. When the Orac outputs a “make the screen black ... Orac, you get a black screen. Okay, this description is ... -
GZX 2019.1 ReleasedI just released GZX 2019.1. You can download it from the [url="https://github.com/jxsvoboda/gzx/releases"]Github release page[/url]. Or you can get t…
... /> - Trying to go full screen produces a black screen for about 4 seconds, then ... -
+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
... basically dead, it flickers with black square and white border and looks ... displayed in the central screen area, just a black box.
Recreated Spectrum .What do we get for the "now" (Aug 2017) best retail price of around £35?Well best/ cheapest retail prices can vary a bit so I thought it best to be specific. At this £35 price ,is it a good deal and what do we get ? A…
... in TAPES folder and outside (for completeness!) . Tried it Pi3 and ... to boot on PI3 but screen went black and boot stopped. I ...Dk'tronics and other similar "add on" Speccy keyboards . What can be done with them and when?. The underlying assumption I am making here is that people who have them will want to "hang on" to them and may also want to get them working . But …
... with switching power on especially for a old 16k Speccy in ... Rampak plugged in though the screen went black when any keys were ...
