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Some things to talk aboutThere's not too much posting going on here, so to hopefully break up this temporary lull in the postings, feel free to answer or discuss these follow…
... to you, as though the screen was a sheet of glass ... one of the boxes you push around, perhaps? Hmm, now that ... -
VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... nybbles, dedicated to the colour screen map.
All this ... map seem very simple by comparison. :D -
Help Identifying a GameHello fellow Spectrophiles (now legal in 28 countries!), I need your expert help in identifying a particular game I used to play when I was but a la…
... /> At a push it might be an underwater screen in Kokotoni Wilf ... -
Help Identifying a GameHello fellow Spectrophiles (now legal in 28 countries!), I need your expert help in identifying a particular game I used to play when I was but a la…
... /> At a push it might be an underwater screen in Kokotoni Wilf ... -
ANN: Spud v0.201New version of Spud released. Nothing major just a few bugfixes thanks to user feedback. At the soon to be usual link [COLOR=#4040c0][URL]http://…
... be resized, but the Spectrum screen isn't re-scaled to ... you can make the Spectrum screen overwrite the FPS counter.
screen with a black bar at ... /> 23 - In debugger, tools -> Push and Pop value, do they ... -
ANN: Spud v0.201New version of Spud released. Nothing major just a few bugfixes thanks to user feedback. At the soon to be usual link [COLOR=#4040c0][URL]http://…
... be resized, but the Spectrum screen isn't re-scaled to ... you can make the Spectrum screen overwrite the FPS counter.
screen with a black bar at ... /> 23 - In debugger, tools -> Push and Pop value, do they ... -
alternate BASIC ROMI've come up with a few patches to the standard ROM to make it use the 128 shadow screen by default. The ROM is reorganised as follows: RAMTOP is se…
... For most writes to the screen it's enough to ... had to change it to push 110 (0xC0) instead. ... quote]Does basic page the screen in/out when it needs ... the moment. Currently the screen is permanently paged in ... (which would overwrite the screen). The 128 editor ROM ... -
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…
... Pressing a key undraws (?) the screen.
[code]
org ... ; poke to screen
inc hl ; next screen address
... /> nextline: inc hl ; next screen address
dec c ; ... next line
push bc ; temporary delay loop
A video interface for the Spectrum, MSX compatibleSo you can use the same code for displaying sprites, tiles, characteres, and so no, on both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has a…
... is that, even if the screen isn't in the normal ... of data you have to push over the I/O. You ... SE. ;)[/QUOTE]
The Screen 2/4 of MSX 1 ... can be combined), so the screen size is 12288 bytes.
Not sure about this, but screen 5 may be MSX 2 ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... outline for a fast full screen vertical scroll:
[CODE ... /> add ix, de
nextln: push af
ld a, (x_off ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... outline for a fast full screen vertical scroll:
[CODE ... /> add ix, de
nextln: push af
ld a, (x_off ...Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... memory contention in the screen ram which will add ... the stack to the screen RAM and pushing the ... push the return address on there and corrupt the screen ... many registers you can push and repeatedly re-loading ... a lot of full screen scrollers use it very ...Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... stored in this sequence
push hl
...
This ... amount of memory for the screen buffer and special drawing/printing ...Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... damage videoram content (SP for PUSH) or you damage source graphics ... to fast clear the complete screen, or fill it with 2 ...Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... stored in this sequence
push hl
...
... amount of memory for the screen buffer and special drawing/ ... .xx T/byte
PUSH/POP in theory 10.5 ... )
LD HL, xx / PUSH HL 10.5 T/byte ... was example of very fast push/pop copy routine. he ...Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... fastest way to write to screen is to move the SP ... ,...
LD DE,xx
PUSH DE
LD DE,yy ...
PUSH DE
...[/code]
But ...Fast screen writesI wondered what the faster than LDIR methods of writing to the screen were.
... will push the return address on there and corrupt the screen in ... the process.[/QUOTE]
In PUSH-filler case ... in register pair and PUSH it into screen buffer) interrupts can be ... POP then write it to screen buffer) you have slightly more ...Cecco is overratedThe man has [B]literally[/B] no talent as a game designer at all. and I'm annoyed :) he is obviously one of the greatest programmers for the Spectru…
... speed is too fast in comparison to your craft's movement ... from less than 1/3 screen length, then it's literally ... Your Sinclair say its flip screen whereas its scrolling. Sinclair User ... accurate review. Maybe the flip screen version played better?
Cecco is overratedThe man has [B]literally[/B] no talent as a game designer at all. and I'm annoyed :) he is obviously one of the greatest programmers for the Spectru…
... speed is too fast in comparison to your craft's movement ... from less than 1/3 screen length, then it's literally ...Cecco is overratedThe man has [B]literally[/B] no talent as a game designer at all. and I'm annoyed :) he is obviously one of the greatest programmers for the Spectru…
... speed is too fast in comparison to your craft's movement ... from less than 1/3 screen length, then it's literally ...Cecco is overratedThe man has [B]literally[/B] no talent as a game designer at all. and I'm annoyed :) he is obviously one of the greatest programmers for the Spectru…
... " which completely destroy everything on screen completely counters this issue and ... these sections less cheap in comparison to the spectrum
ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p
... and I stupidly entered a screen at the wrong place and ... minute or so won't push the file size to extortionate ...what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... to represent all on-screen objects with them and ... the size of the screen RAM, or any deficiencies ... screen uses very little CPU power (especially in comparison ... scroll parts of the screen at different speeds on ... Dragon and the whole screen flickers to hell whilst ...what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... access to a primarily monochrome screen makes for very fast/smooth ... that put the Speccy in comparison to other machines like the ...Whoa - someone gave Match Day 50% on release![url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairPrograms/Issue8502/Pages/SinclairPrograms850200017.jpg]Sinclair Programs review[/url]. M…
... bouncing a ball around the screen until it went in the ... making the [B]lack of comparison[/B].Whoa - someone gave Match Day 50% on release![url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairPrograms/Issue8502/Pages/SinclairPrograms850200017.jpg]Sinclair Programs review[/url]. M…
... bouncing a ball around the screen until it went in the ... making the [B]lack of comparison[/B].[/QUOTE]
Oh ...Whoa - someone gave Match Day 50% on release![url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairPrograms/Issue8502/Pages/SinclairPrograms850200017.jpg]Sinclair Programs review[/url]. M…
... bouncing a ball around the screen until it went in the ... making the [B]lack of comparison[/B].[/QUOTE]
I ...RGB on speccy ?hi, just a question : are you aware of scene demo trying emulate rgb ? i was a bit ill last few days so laying in bad i come with a (stupid ?) idea.…
... the alternates, then PUSH them out again into screen memory) can only ...RGB on speccy ?hi, just a question : are you aware of scene demo trying emulate rgb ? i was a bit ill last few days so laying in bad i come with a (stupid ?) idea.…
... 's possible. No matter which screen is paged in at any ... attribute data per scanline. 128 screen paging does help in one ... is a big issue because PUSH works from right to left ... /> [/code]
Even with screen paging at your disposal, this ...Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…
... of the Spectrum, having to push around a larger display file ... games running mightily slowly in comparison. And that matters for games ...
