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  • Scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States?Would it be possible to write a scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States? I have a custom screen load routine that loads attribute first, then the …

    ... counter in 85 T-States?

    I have a custom screen load ... br /> ld ix,16384 ; load headerless screen
    ld de,6912< ... can fudge in a scrolling load counter in 85 t-states. Should ... possible to update the counter in the load routine, not sure ...
    FrankT FrankT February 2017 Assembler
  • LOAD "" CODE in machine code/store 128 bank dataHow do you LOAD "" CODE from machine code? I have written the following MC routine that fits into a REM statement in a basic program. I want to cal…

    ... screen colours.
    xor a ; quick way to load ... 3503 ; ROM routine - clears screen, opens chan 2.
    ... />
    ;LOAD loading screen

    ;LOAD 128 bank 6 code ...

    ;LOAD ...
    daveysludge daveysludge October 2014 Development
  • Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…

    ... address+x for the counter if the counter is flashing.
    ... Basic Instructions:
    Position 1st counter(q,a,o,p) and ... 'c' for compressed screen
    Position 2nd counter. (For when game ... is pressed, and the compressed screen load address if you loaded a ...
    FrankT FrankT November 2006 Development
  • Computer pranksAnyone ever play a computer prank on a friend, or had one played on you? Here's a few which will make you laugh that I did back in the day... In 19…

    ... could remotely grab someone's screen and insert keypresses remotely. So ... fake loading screen I had drawn, an on-screen rolling counter, and a ... and wait for it to load.

    I'd done ...
    joefish joefish August 2012 Chit chat
  • ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…

    ... height
    ld a,(sprwide) ;Load counter with sprite width
    ld ... it on the screen
    dec b ;dec the counter
    jr ... /> sprloc:
    .db 25000 ;Sprite screen position

    spratloc:
    LuMan LuMan March 2014 New game ideas
  • Compressed Loading ScreensHi everybody From my speccy memories I could swear I could remember games with loading screens that took less than normal time to load. But up until…

    ... to load (C)ompressed or (N)ormal screen.
    3. Position counter on ... the loaded screen. This is ... . You'll be asked for screen load address if compressed, then game ...
    FrankT FrankT February 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Quiz QuestI know that on Quiz Quest, that you can create your own quizzes and questions, but is it possibe to. Save a created questions file via an emulator, …

    ... Quest file, then at file load screen, load the created set from there?
    travisp travisp October 2002 Games
  • SKYFOXAnyone aware of loading issue of Skyfox from tape. Already tried several tapes, but at the end, it results in the OK message after the screen load. …

    Anyone aware of loading issue of Skyfox from tape. Already tried several tapes, but at the end, it results in the OK message after the screen load. Could it be a faulty tape ? At the other hand, load problem with all three tapes I loaded up was identical.
    vandenf vandenf September 2022 Games
  • Microdrive fault.I guess some of you may know this... My microdrive has a problem: the motor starts running as soon as I plug the computer in, and won't stop! It is …

    ... amazed
    at watching a SCREEN$ load in from it like someone ... a blind over
    the screen!
    David David July 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Screen$I wasn't sure where to put this! Has anyone got or does anyone know where I can download a load of Speccy Screen$ in 1 file. Let me explain..... I …

    Well, there's a screen saver that simulates spectrum SCREEN$ loading.

    SCREEN$ as additional files - Art ... a .tap file of various SCREEN$ he made using it.
    SCREEN$, load in the SCREEN$ and save them all ...
    darkman darkman September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…

    ... created a nice loading screen for the game using ... piccy with SAVE "my pic" SCREEN$

    then ... BASIC prog:

    10 LOAD "" SCREEN$: LOAD ""

    put that ... ) then load your screen and save it (LOAD "" SCREEN$ : SAVE "piccy" SCREEN$) then ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    I was always impressed by the spiral screen load in 720 degrees.
    SnazzyParrot SnazzyParrot February 2005 Games
  • Turbo Imploder Anyone clued up on how to use this ? I've managed to pack a few of my own games, but I notice the default start address is always 24576, can you go…

    ... following:

    * Load screen at 40000
    * Load Turbo Imploder
    * Set ... .)
    * Save compressed screen

    * Load compressed screen at 40000
    * RANDOMIZE ...
    gasman gasman July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Some thoughts about emulationWhile discussing about 'real tape loaders' I just thinked about wat is total emulation (most complete, perfect). Some authors prefer for example loa…

    ... Speccy, with couple simple programs - load it in RAM, see begin ... made of course for nice screen load (what is name for that ... of RAM in same time (screen/rest ratio was 1:8 ...
    piters piters October 2005 Emulators
  • Convert Screen to TAPHow do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one …

    I assume you want to save a .scr file to tape. Simply type PAUSE 0: SAVE "screen" SCREEN$, load the .scr file, press the record button and then press a key to save it.

    Necros.
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton December 2005 Development
  • What new game to write...Now that Dominetris is out I'm wondering what to set about coding-up next... ...So I'm asking what kind of new games are people wanting to play? A …

    ... />
    ie,

    10 LOAD "" SCREEN$: LOAD "" CODE: RANDOMIZE USR 30000
    Dunny Dunny February 2006 Games
  • Screen LoaderCouple days ago i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet Kompjutera" from january 1987. Authors of article, calls this …

    It's impressive to watch the screen load like that. And the game's pretty good too! Quite similar to Dialhex, one of the new Bit Generations games for the Nintendo GBA.
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan August 2006 Games
  • Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?

    Definitely, the best multi screen load (if you can call it that)
    is Deflektor. Brilliant game, brilliant screens.

    Check it out
    alban lusitanae alban lusitanae October 2006 Games
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... , then copy that area into screen buffer.
    [/QUOTE]
    < ... file, select bank of shadow screen, load ram disk file into it ... , activate shadow screen, erase ram disk file, paint ... in main screen, activate main screen, save it in in ...
    NotFound NotFound November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... file, select bank of shadow screen, load ram disk file into it ... , activate shadow screen, erase ram disk file, paint ... in main screen, activate main screen, save it in in ...
    Arda Arda November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?

    ... followed by the real loading screen.[/quote]

    There are ... Monty On The Run screen load as a normal SCREEN$ (that means slowly ...
    FRGT/10 FRGT/10 December 2006 Games
  • Little BASIC gameTry to make all standard BASIC-errors and tell us how you did it. Not allowed i.e. : PRINT USR 1362 D - Break cont-repeats but ok 10 GO TO 10 RU…

    ... :

    SAVE ! "a" SCREEN$
    LOAD ! "a"

    [B]b ... ]

    Reset speccy
    LOAD ! "b"

    [B]h ... ! "a" 1,60000
    20 load ! "a" 50000,60000

    Eggy_Guff Eggy_Guff January 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Running code from the display memory?Is it possible to run machine code from the memory area used by the display file? If you were really out of memory and some part of screen is not u…

    ... put together a suite of screen-resident utilities which are available ... need are the 3 SCREEN$.
    Load them with LOAD "" CODE.
    < ... such a utility is to load "Scrabble", BREAK while pretending ... to load a previously saved game and ...
    Geoff Geoff May 2007 Development
  • Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…

    ... ):

    $4000,$1B00 loading screen
    $5FDA,$7C96 code
    screen.tap+code.tap+page1.tap ... /> 10 CLEAR 24537
    20 LOAD "" SCREEN$ : LOAD "" CODE 24538
    30 FOR ... +a : out 32765,16+a : LOAD "" CODE 49152 : NEXT i
    StuBruise StuBruise June 2007 Games
  • Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…

    ... ):

    $4000,$1B00 loading screen
    $5FDA,$7C96 code
    screen.tap+code.tap+page1.tap ... /> 10 CLEAR 24537
    20 LOAD "" SCREEN$ : LOAD "" CODE 24538
    30 FOR ... +a : out 32765,16+a : LOAD "" CODE 49152 : NEXT i
    DEATH DEATH June 2007 Games
  • Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…

    ... 3 more blocks
    2) Screen (LOAD "" SCREEN$)
    3) CODE - graphics ...
    4) Main BASIC program (LOAD "")

    So when I ... split second, displays second block (screen), then gives the error "R ... error", so it didn't load the main 4th block. (I ...
    dabac dabac February 2008 Emulators
  • Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…

    ... 3 more blocks
    2) Screen (LOAD "" SCREEN$)
    3) CODE - graphics ...
    4) Main BASIC program (LOAD "")

    So when I ... split second, displays second block (screen), then gives the error "R ... error", so it didn't load the main 4th block. (I ...
    dabac dabac February 2008 Emulators
  • Disabling scroll? at the bottom of the screen.Everyone must have written something similar to: 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GO TO 10 at some point in their lives. But when you get to the bottom of the s…

    ... clear the bottom of the screen but I didn't know ... #1 to reset the main screen scroll counter too! Which is what ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…

    ... can have fun with the screen load designer though :)
    mulder mulder October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • "This is a screensaver that do not save the screen"Which was a quote from the first release of SCREEN$ back in April 2001. Little did he know that, against the best judgement of myself and my peers, I…

    ... enabled. Obviously it managed to load a screen, so -

    Which ... the background, did the whole screen load ok, or was there a ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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