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Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
... code to do a 12-pixel deep typeface:
[img ... 't bother to clear the screen area before printing to it ... the above demo was done by printing block graphics to the screen ... -
Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
... code to do a 12-pixel deep typeface:
[img ... 't bother to clear the screen area before printing to it ... the above demo was done by printing block graphics to the screen ... original 24 line option as screen real estate on the Spectrum ... -
Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
... an AT control code, set the ATFLG to indicate
screen
SUB B
... the correct pixel position, place it
;on screen one byte ... ,191 ;mod to access lower screen
CALL PIXADD+2 ... -
New game! Nanako in CJMC for ZX81!Yup, that's true. We've been busy in crafting a nice, small, simple library to code games in text mode (this is, standard, unexpanded) for the 16K ZX…
... to make display to the screen.
[code]< ... br /> begin: ld hl,screen
ld (16388), ... /> ; (you may set screen to 0 to get a ... jp high+32738 ;JUMP above 32K
high: ld ... bytes for your screen
screen: dw 0,0 ... -
RAND USR that doesn't work in emulators and clonesEons ago, I "discovered" a strange RANDOMIZE USR. This is it: [b]RANDOMIZE USR 46578[/b] Using it on a genuine ZX Spectrum rubber key or Plus model,…
... which has to do with screen addressing) lead me to consider ... more instruction before PC is set to 0000? The instruction inmediately ... this ROM never touches memory above 7FFFh.
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Storing and displaying attributes...Hi Folks, I have a requirement to store and then redisplay a line of attributes from the screen. For example: 100 DIM a$(1,32) 110 LET line=10 120…
... ;540867]The above prints 22 multi-coloured lines on the screen and ... in line 360 the whole screen comes back - colours and text ... reset and the second DATA set might be picked up instead ... -
Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…
... and how the game was set up at the start.
So that's the table set up and all seems well ... of them but in the above routine (ld b, $2b) only ... reset between games
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Move objectHi again, I am using paper colors to represent game objects. I have a "paddle" that is 4 pixels wide. I save its position as a 2 byte word in memory…
... I]rightmost [/I][/B]pixel is set to screen location 23248. A loop ... that the paddle uses the screen edges as boundaries and ... of screen
cp 3
jr z,at_left_edge ;rightmost pixel is ... at left edge of screen+3[/CODE]
Move objectHi again, I am using paper colors to represent game objects. I have a "paddle" that is 4 pixels wide. I save its position as a 2 byte word in memory…
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ld a, 8 ; set paper color to blue
ld l, a ; set low to paddle's x ... ; address to draw rightmost pixel of paddle is now in ... ; copies attributes = PAPER 6 to screen
ld hl, ...Move objectHi again, I am using paper colors to represent game objects. I have a "paddle" that is 4 pixels wide. I save its position as a 2 byte word in memory…
... br />
ld a, 8 ; set paper color to blue
ld l, a ; set low to paddle's x ... ; move high bit rightmost paddle pixel from hl to de
screen
ld h, d ...Birthday PlotsHello all; When browsing the web, I stumbled across an oddity known as Birthday Plots. In effect somebody enters a numeric date and the computer prin…
... my conversion above has to "remember" the last coordinate on screen (using ... and eventually fall outside the screen, thus I added an explicit ... is how the seed is set as in RANDOMIZE).[/QUOTE]
Improving existing games by hacking?Certain ZX-Spectrum games are already too close to perfection so it seems nothing else could be changed within the hardware limitations to make them …
... placed at the top of screen (otherwise the player would be ... a curved set of stairs, then arrive into the room above going ...Birthday PlotsHello all; When browsing the web, I stumbled across an oddity known as Birthday Plots. In effect somebody enters a numeric date and the computer prin…
... 210 & 260 could be set to the maximum dimensions of ... don't use the full screen. The pictures below show the ... ) including the corrections you mentioned above, and your improved version (right ...Legend of Kyrandia - ZX Spectrum DemoI was browsing the ZX Open Source site [url]http://opensourcezx.untergrund.net/[/url] and I found an interesting tr-dos disk image of a playable demo…
... the INK and PAPER cells above and below it, thus ... depth information for the same screen, switching between them depending on ... depth information as I mentioned above.
Also it ... planning to try using the pixel-perfect implementation without masks ...Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... see that the scrolling is pixel perfect - in the sense that ... it's scrolling one pixel per game-frame.
It ... emulator, and maybe if the screen was bigger I'd be ... at their port of Jet Set Willy... monochrome fest...
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... a 1 bit-per-pixel hi res screen and a 2-bit ... that would let you set different scrolling or screen modes on each ... on and off pixels. You set one screen colour, and you got ... going to be updating the screen in a hurry.RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... screen flipping is done by setting Mbank in the 128k_sysvar, thats above ... by an intterrupt, will it set 48Krom?[/QUOTE]
Good ...Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …
... File) you go to a screen similar to the DOS front ... what Spectrum memory locations to set the emulator speed to normal ... what Spectrum memory locations to set the emulator speed to maximum ... />
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[Note, the above numbers are all made up ...Need help transferring a file to a Spectrum .dsk fileHello, I was wondering if anyone can help me transfer a file that I have into a spectrum *.dsk file? The background to this request is that I have r…
... the screen. When it's in animation mode as in the above ... such as window size is set to an incompatible value for ... innovation but it causes the screen to continuously refresh. In game ...Need help transferring a file to a Spectrum .dsk fileHello, I was wondering if anyone can help me transfer a file that I have into a spectrum *.dsk file? The background to this request is that I have r…
... can be seen on the screen below.
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It's set to x=10, y=18 ... a 'feature'!
The above border with the black background ...Wolfenstein / Doom for 48k SpectrumHi, is there any game / demo of this kind that runs on 48k machines? Thanks.
... four bitplanes for the screen which can be manipulated ... you take the single pixel row from the floor ... screen than the top of the wall then you set ... have to calculate one pixel row of sprite mask, ... stippled patterns were still pixel stipples, however tall you ...writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... Enter and proceed to next screen (game selection menu) both ... : for Jet Set Willy the game's title screen appears for like ... an alternating sequence of title screen and screen from first level: Central ... the upper part of the screen (main window, not border) ...writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... caused Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy to reset. Because keyboard ... Miner and Jet Set Willy, when the first screen of actual game ... title screen) is loaded, Willy is invisible.
In Jet Set ... part of the screen (one of them right above caption "Score", ...Worst Collision Detection & Colour Clash in gamesSorry if this as been mentioned before but i did do a search ;) In a recent discussion with a friend we talked about probs with the older games such…
... would linger around on the screen and tint the scenery ... [/I] - detailed colour backgrounds, pixel-positioned large coloured sprites, and ... out of thin air just above where the generator was). ... scenery you could expect some pixel-precise collision detection, but ...machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…
... appears. The CODE from above STKEND can then be ... .
The SCREEN$ needs a header patched on ... [code]
SCF ;Carry set for load
LD A ... CALL $04C2 ;SA-BYTES - SCREEN$
HEAD_1: DEFB $03,$44 ...machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…
... of BASIC command
SET 7,(IY+48) ;Signal ... the little bit of code above, replacing the BASIC string ... the LOAD addressing the lower screen.
[code]
ORG ... of BASIC command
SET 7,(IY+48) ;Signal ...Sold my stencils at an exhibition!Had some paintings in an annual exhibition, and sold 2 of them :) (Keith Richards was commissioned, but still) ?50 for this one... [IMG]http://i4.ph…
... the above [Phineas & Ferb] pixel style - a nice 3 canvas set, a ... 2 canvas set of ... also do portraits in a pixel ZX Spectrum attribute style ... recently finished my 1st non pixel traditional painting painted straight ...Sold my stencils at an exhibition!Had some paintings in an annual exhibition, and sold 2 of them :) (Keith Richards was commissioned, but still) ?50 for this one... [IMG]http://i4.ph…
... the above [Phineas & Ferb] pixel style - a nice 3 canvas set, ... a 2 canvas set of ... recently finished my 1st non pixel traditional painting painted straight ... each canvas making up a pixel, with a suitably coloured ...
