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  • Anyone help re-factoring a tile functionI had some excellent feedback for re-factoring my function that displays the colour for my screen tiles. Can anyone offer some help to improve the fu…

    ... in each third of the screen is corrupted. I think ... this because the screen value is rolling over into ... modified by the code. See above
    LD A,E

    SET 5,E
    LD A ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside February 2005 Development
  • Anyone help re-factoring a tile functionI had some excellent feedback for re-factoring my function that displays the colour for my screen tiles. Can anyone offer some help to improve the fu…

    ... states. The transition between screen thirds has been sped ... JP NZ,NXTROW1
    SET 3,D
    JP ... by the code. See above
    LD A,E ... E,A

    SET 5,E
    LD A ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside February 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... -separated games) can now be set very easy, there are no ... also for Direct-X full screen.
    ??? (+) Keyboard state now provided ... (case of 1 bit per pixel, 4 planes). But other modes ... mode requested for DirectX full-screen but the hardware can not ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov February 2005 Emulators
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... sense.

    Let's set our goal: I think we ... perfect TZX file with loading screen and stuff, but maybe that ... .
    * Aesthetics (graphics, sound, loading screen, intro scenes, etc...): 30% of ... .

    As I wrote above, I'm completely open to ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... The location of the UDG set is stored in the same ... and can be used to set the BORDER color (bits ... can read them in a SCREEN$. [Dr. BEEP]
    * ... points to the right character set when PRINTing, LISTing, etc, ... Bit 1: This bit being set to a one indicates that ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Game endings..which are your best / worst ones?I'm not sure how valid this is on a spectrum site considering the memory capacity of the machine,but were there any games out there with any good gam…

    ... The face from the loading screen appears with quite a long ... />
    [B]* Jet Set Willy[/B] ... (Couldn't leave ... So the whole game was set
    in Joffa Smith ... ... (People come on the screen to congratulate you! They didn ... In both 7 and 8 above, if you have the ...
    jil jil May 2005 Games
  • Does anyone play a Speccy through a Plasma/LCD Tv?What does it look like? Without the scanlines of a normal cathode TV, it would be all blocky. In fact it would probably look just like an emulator wa…

    ... the screen. Is this the same on a LCD / plasma set. ??
    pixel data that the Speccy sends ...
    gasman gasman May 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The BIGGEST Speccy ebay auction everdon't believe me? go looksy [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8176797909"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…

    ... Mastertronic Entertainment USA - Bump Set Spike
    Mastertronic Entertainment USA ...
    Software Projects - Jet Set Willy
    Software Projects - ... Sacred Armour Of Antiriad
    Screen Heros x2
    Sega ... />
    As mentioned above, I have 2 ZX-81 ...
    usspeccyfan usspeccyfan May 2005 Sales
  • The BIGGEST Speccy ebay auction everdon't believe me? go looksy [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8176797909"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i…

    ... Mastertronic Entertainment USA - Bump Set Spike
    Mastertronic Entertainment USA ...
    Software Projects - Jet Set Willy
    Software Projects - ... Sacred Armour Of Antiriad
    Screen Heros x2
    Sega ... />
    As mentioned above, I have 2 ZX-81 ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty May 2005 Sales
  • T.I.M. - A New Interlace - Demo for DOWNLOADHere's something that's been in the works for quite a while ( mostly in my head ) and recently I've aquired assistance to help it come to fruition. …

    ... from linear backbuffer to screen... aprox 14.59T/B ... ;6

    set 4, l ;8 prepare HL ... ;6

    set 4, l ;8 prepare HL ... ;6

    set 5,l ;8 HL down ... />
    ;same code as above

    3rd left,3rd ...
    Fikee Fikee May 2005 Development
  • Presevation malarkey - what i've found in my collectionhey, just gone through all my old speccy games, the original purpose was try get rid of them but i'm finding myself loath to do it anyway, i've run …

    ... Movie. Its a double tape set, i have it but with ... emulator and do a "save screen" is all it needs but ... / reject what I have put above please.

    ADJB
    ADJB ADJB June 2005 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Changing the colour of the screenCan anyone tell me the ROM command to change the paper colour of the main screen ?

    ...

    ....
    ---------------

    set up permanent colours for paper ... use above code, open stream two to output to upper screen,call ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) June 2005 Development
  • Maps in progressIf you are working on some map, this thread is just for you! Post here the name of that game for which you are creating a map. Only then we can preve…

    ... top of a screen yet enter the next screen from a door ... Gem[/B]
    [B]Jet Set Gertie[/B]
    [B]Play ... 'll be finishing off the above listed maps before I bother ...
    jil jil June 2005 Support files
  • Help! +3 won't work anymore!I've just set up my old +3 and it just won't work - it used to a few months ago but now it won't :( I'm in need of some expert help so here's the pr…

    ... wrote:
    I've just set up my old +3 and ... signal. There is some black screen but it is fuzzy. I ... a definte change in the screen so I'm sure I ... was on but just black screen (sort of, just the same ... was okay

    All above I took from the damaged ...
    Timppa Timppa August 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Shoot-em-up Demo 4 availableHi, Work continues on my Shoot-em-up game which will now be known as Retro Fighter (working title). Since the last demo, I have added collision det…

    ... less sprites on screen, guess you need to set some kind of ... collision to work, is it pixel perfect, does it work on ...
    robpearmain robpearmain September 2005 Development
  • Manic Miner Basic Source?Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making…

    ... move a single pixel(PLOT x,y) around the screen using up ... , when you have a single pixel moving without leaving trails, add ... in another(uncontrolled) pixel and make the program print ... I'll send you the above code at each stage - but ...
    alanspec alanspec September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... while (game_on) {

    // update screen -- everything drawn at once

    // nextFrame is set to address of
    // next ... draw with
    // graphic selected above

    sp_MoveSprAbs(sp_phantomas, ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2005 Development
  • The game that works only on RealSpec and not on other emulatorsDaley Thompson Decathlon - day 1 (small case) could not load in EmuzWin. Then I tried Clive and Spin and these did not work for this game either. Of …

    ... is best cos it's above my head.

    If ... 7ms pause before the tones (Set by MakeTZX) to whatever the ... freezes resulting in a blue screen after a three finger salute ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2005 Emulators
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... into a small buffer to set registers in the next interrupt ... sprites and graphics primitives. Every pixel can be any colour. This ... /> If you could use a set, print with it, and select ... is inside sp_UpdateNow when the screen is drawn. Whatever the tile ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2005 Development
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... the notation for the alternate set of registers - I've been ... sprites and graphics primitives. Every pixel can be any colour. This ... mean adding native support for pixel*pixel scrolling? Whoah man - that will ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2005 Development
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... the notation for the alternate set of registers - I've been ... mean adding native support for pixel*pixel scrolling?
    [/quote]

    screen is drawn. I've read ... ultimate used to update the screen bottom to top to somewhat ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2005 Development
  • The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …

    ... to understand the way the screen is controlled.

    [/quote ... attribute per 8 pixel line.

    ie, set attr 1, then ... set attr 2 to the ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2005 Hardware
  • ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…

    ... ]
    Difficult to read on screen

    I don't ... few hours staring at the screen, it was starting to bother ... as I lost the initial set that were sent to me ... but as was pointed out above this isn't practical in ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…

    ... ]
    Difficult to read on screen
    [/quote]

    screen, it was starting to ... of staring at a screen. I think a large ... I lost the initial set that were sent to ... quote]

    Setup as above, downloaded this morning, non of ...
    ADJB ADJB December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 128k Screen Flipping - Sample Code PleaseI know this has been covered before, but I cannot find out code to do the following: On a 128k Spectrum tell the speccy to display from address 4915…

    ... ;bank 7 = shadow screen is on 49152
    set bit 3 to ... 49152 ;writting to shadow screen
    set bit 3 to 1 ;switch ... to have your sprite routine above 49152 except you have the ...
    Fikee Fikee February 2006 Development
  • New JSW/MM game releasedHere's a download link to a new JSW64 game that's been written. [url="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/UltimateManicMiner.zip"]http://homepag…

    ... a real fan of Jet Set Willy to find out ... real fan of the Jet Set Willy engine.

    ... a story-based, multi-state screen game with background details and ... I end up in a screen with no exit. I really ... don't have to jump pixel-perfectly halfway into a block ...
    Jmk Jmk February 2006 Games
  • Great games that aged badlyAny thoughts of games that were great at the time, but are just not fun to play anymore. eg. I loved manic miner at the time, and still enjoy playin…

    ... .

    Anyway, yes, Jet Set Willy has aged far worse ... just an irritating sequence of pixel perfect jumps to pick up ... Gyron, Dark Star, Starion and above all Starstrike II for their ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2006 Games
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... as a number on the screen

    Associated keywords
    The above program will produce different colour borders on the screen. It ... colour of the screen. The other bits should be set to zero ...
    Blondin235 Blondin235 March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • How many Speccy games did you complete on the actual machine?I couldn't resist posting this question, it gives everyone a chance to flex their egos and gives an insight as to what people were playing when they …

    ... -Pac
    Jet Set Willy
    Jet Set Willy 2
    Kick ... can get past the 3rd screen without it crashing).
    < ... at least 30% of the above practically impossible now. For instance ... 've never completed a flick screen isometric 3D game, scrolling adventurey ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2006 Games
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... />
    - When firing the missile, set its initial iX and iY ... and increment-decrement (say 1 pixel per frame) the missile's ... to the given absolute maximum above. This way the missile will ... still in the wrong direction, set the new course, then speed ...
    TrueVideo TrueVideo March 2006 Development
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