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  • Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available!Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available! [IMG]http://mirror.viperfang.net/silentdevelopments/images/ent-preview1.1.zx.png[/IMG][IMG]http://mirror.…

    ... after one. BASIC is too slow to display real bzither images ... 42240), copy other image to screen (slow in BASIC): FOR a=0 ...
    LCD LCD March 2010 Announcements
  • Best way for programming in BASIC?New to the ZX Spectrum, and fixing up ccowley's vbSpec emulator. Aside from that, I would also like to try programming a game or two in BASIC. What's…

    ... Spectrum is the 32 column screen, slow performance, no clipboard and poor ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…

    ... ;511322]Wouldn't that slow down screen access, as you'd ... when drawing sprites on spectrum screen, slow row-segment crossing has to ... . So even wider columnized screen would be still much faster ... than spectrum screen.

    [QUOTE=Crisis ...
    TVzombie TVzombie February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Which Ultimate Play the Game game's do you like (tick the ones you like)After discussing Sabre Wulf in another thread, I thought it would be interesting to see which games of theirs we liked and disliked in proportion to …

    ... effect, the excellent wrap around screen, the physics and the fact ... into at all (and that screen slow-down really got on my ...
    Retrobrothers Retrobrothers November 2011 Games
  • Original specy game that can be a big hit on mobile nowThere are old games with very good gameplay. Some of them are big hit on mobile gaming, for example: Frogger / Crossy Road. Is there original specy …

    ... /> Control will work on touch screen (slow movement, slow game).

    Years ...
    endi endi February 2016 Games
  • Fastest way to write something to screen$Hi, I just got pasmo.exe and start playing with attr scrolling, well, not scrolling, just write different values to a block and see if I can introdu…

    ... update the screen. I know that ldir/lddr are slow, but not ...
    AE.Vasconcelos AE.Vasconcelos April 2005 Development
  • Can Anyone Suggest a Good Emulator for a Slow Laptop?I have an old Pentium 2 Thinkpad. I have already tried Spin on it and although it does run. It is slow. The only way I could get decent speed out …

    ... it does run. It is slow. The only way I could ... it was to run full screen at the lowest resolution. Can ... do this). The LCD laptop screen tends to bring out the ...
    Klepto Klepto March 2006 Emulators
  • NEW: SCREEN$ 1.9dWell, after the stunningly enthusiastic reception to 1.9c, I toddled off and fixed a few bugs and issues which arose after people had tested it. Hen…

    ... Partial (4:3) and a screen mode of 640x480, with Maintained ... SCREEN$ used to run on. Scanlines and Rounded corners may still slow ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SCREEN$ 1.9e Released!And here's another update! [url]http://paul.dunn.googlepages.com/SCREEN_1.9e.rar[/url] There's a few new things in this release, but it's mostly bu…

    ... *before* the stripes appear on-screen.

    I've also ... , and DirectDraw scanlines (although still slow) should be quick enough when ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Screen to vector?I've found old topics covering this subject and even spoke to Geoff about this, but still want to ask a few questions. I've been playing with vector…

    ... (yes, I know it's slow, but I like it) and ... complex image would be too slow, so here's the second ... to fix using Dunny's screen editor.

    And speaking ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 59 animated loading screen reveals in 15 minutesHere's the product of a lazy Sunday listening to Test Match Special :) 59 of the more interesting loading screen reveals in 15 minutes - I've doubled…

    ... of the more interesting loading screen reveals in 15 minutes - I ... speed as original speed is slow enough to send me to ...
    NickH NickH July 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish ... the buffer in the real screen. The problem is that the ... action screen must be little becouse if not, the game goes slow ...
    climacus climacus January 2012 Development
  • BOB the Screen BuilderHere's my first attempt to use that tokenising idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p…

    ... on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www ... pourri/bob.zip]BOB the Screen Builder[/url]". There's ... The cursor's a bit slow, but I'll do ... much room as possible for screen definitions (there's about ... idea is that each screen is encoded as a ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…

    ... I've done a little screen slicing program in both assembler ... & move things on the screen once the structure of the ... BASIC version is not unreasonably slow, and the actual slicing bit ... the details:

    The screen is divided into three segments ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…

    ... Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game ... onto the main display screen. This allows me to ... />
    The DB screen sits at mem 25000d and ... hl, 25000 ;Start of DB Screen
    ld de, 16384 ... sprites milling about with no slow-down - the target is ...
    LuMan LuMan April 2014 Development
  • Slow/fast games - change speedSome ZX games are too slow or too fast. Problem with speed is aslo in russian ZX games or thanks to different memory layout on zx128 and +2a models. …

    Some ZX games are too slow or too fast. Problem with ... /> DOUBLE DRAGON 3 is also slow. One POKE 43315,0 replace ... instruction use for screen synchronisation, but also for slow down game code ...
    velesoft velesoft August 2014 Games
  • ZXSCLZF - Yet another Screen CompressorQuick disclaimer before I continue, this compressor does not shrink screens as small as some of the others posted here, in particular the very good z…

    ... but it was very very slow so opted for C on ... /> //
    // *****************************************************************************
    // zxsclzf ZX Spectrum Screen Compressor
    // by Tom Dalby ...
    TomD TomD April 2017 Development
  • ZX-2-PC Interface continue...A couple of months ago I started to built an interface for less then ? 5,00 which should communicate to the PC on a high speed. Yesterday I managed t…

    ... I managed to load a SCREEN$ from the PC harddisk in ... 't reached due to my slow LAPTOP (486-25) and the ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2002 Hardware
  • Screen$ +3 disk to tape helpHi, I have several full screen pictures of my +3 disks (Screen$). How can I transfer these pictures onto tape without losing the last to lines beca…

    ... />
    I have several full screen pictures of my +3 disks ... (Screen$).

    How can I ...
    Stephen Stephen February 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Most nice Loader ScreenHi, What is the better loader screen from speccy games?? or simply which is the screen you more remember.. I remember a lot the screen$ from Roboc…

    Hi,

    What is the better loader screen from speccy games?? or simply which is the screen you more remember..

    I remember a lot the screen$ from Robocop and HeadOverHeels.. also GreenBeret.
    Javier Alca?iz Javier Alca?iz March 2002 Games
  • Screen PreloadersDid any of you chaps write your own spectrum games or applications. If yes , did any of you guys manage to get a preloading screen going..... Its …

    Did any of you chaps write your own spectrum games or applications.

    If yes , did any of you guys manage to get a preloading screen going.....

    Its been a mystery to me , how to do this.
    ozonic ozonic April 2002 Games
  • Identify game - flip-screen mazeI was playing this game in the mid-80s, I would say. It was a flip-screen game, a bit like Jet Set Willy in that regard, although it was viewed from …

    ... say. It was a flip-screen game, a bit like Jet ... small gaps.

    Each screen was a bit of a ...
    pelago pelago May 2002 Games
  • Screen$ ScreensaverDoes anyone know where I can get a screensaver called "Screen$" that apparently simulates a Speccy loading?

    Does anyone know where I can get a screensaver called "Screen$" that apparently simulates a Speccy loading?
    Zagreb Zagreb August 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • windows loading screenhello all, anyone got a windows98 bootup screen that looks like a spectrum tape loading screen? Will be cool isn't it? Imagine...a grayish screen, w…

    ... , anyone got a windows98 bootup screen that looks like a spectrum ... tape loading screen? Will be cool isn't ... ?

    Imagine...a grayish screen, with the sinclair copyright line ...
    newbie88 newbie88 October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which game has best ending screen?Spectrum games lacks ending screens mostly, but there may be some brilliant games with very good ending screens/demos. I'm now searching for them. I…

    Spectrum games lacks ending screens mostly, but there may be some brilliant games with very good ending screens/demos. I'm now searching for them.

    I like ending screen of captain blood and rainbow islands 2. I know there are better ones.
    Arda Arda October 2002 Games
  • Manic Miner - your favourite screenThis is one of the most famous games, and the reason why is becasaue it's one of the best. The screens are so stylishly done and brilliantly structur…

    ... . But what is your favourite screen out of the 20 you ...
    Spector Spector November 2002 Games
  • ZX Spin 0.4 available for Download.Standard Cut-n-Paste from the CSS post: If all goes well, I'll upload it to WOS on monday. ----------------------------------------- Okay, it's th…

    ... how SPIN performs in full screen mode using the new DirectDraw ... those listings to disk :) Normal slow printing for compatibility, and a ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2002 Emulators
  • Spectrum +3 fault - flashing screen on power onHi ive just bought a +3 When I power it on the power led and disk drive led come on. The screen just flashes black and white around the border, almos…

    ... led come on.
    The screen just flashes black and white ... does not show the diag screen,
    and I dont see ...
    mlasham mlasham December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Something i'd like to see in future spectrum emu'sI haven't checked every emu out so i hope this hasn't been implemented somewhere already...one thing i'd like to see is a special enhanced mode where…

    ... slow down when a lot of things are moving on the screen ... ...i know the purists probably love the 100% emulation(slow ...
    Technician-Ted Technician-Ted January 2003 Emulators
  • ZX DIGEST ISSUE 2 - NEARLY FINISHED!HI FOLKS! ZX Digest issue 2 is nearly finished, at the moment it looks like its going to be about 25-30 pages long. We have incorperated many new s…

    ... !!

    Virtually all the screen shots are in colour and ... , the website is a little slow and basic at the moment ...
    ANDREW RYALS ANDREW RYALS March 2003 Announcements
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