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  • DivIDE interface help neededhave got my DivIDE interface, CF adapter and CF 1 gig card all linked up, on a +3 I get the DemFir intro screen, good! Problem is I get no screen wha…

    ... , otherwise yo'll get black screen when divide is mapped - coz ... can drop near to the switching level. Thus, try to pull ...
    zilog zilog November 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…

    ... bit 3 to 0 ;normal screen is visible
    write ... to 1 ;switch to shadow screen, your sprite is now ... select the visible one by switching bit 3, in this case ... /> -wait for interrupt when switching normal/shadow screen, the effect takes place ...
    Fikee Fikee February 2006 Development
  • ZXCF InterfaceI'm just trying to get an idea for the ZXCF interface, and to me, it looks a much cleaner design compared to divIDE (Of course, that's just my opinio…

    ... huge need for task switching on the Spectrum. One ... that the SE's screen modes can be supported ... as well (Timex screen modes in the 128 ... 's shadow screen area)?[/QUOTE]

    screen. This is indepentant of ...
    MikeW MikeW April 2006 Hardware
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... f200 + 1 = 3584 bytes. By switching to pre-shifted graphics we ... sp1_Invalidate() invalidates the entire screen, there is little sense ... sp1_UpdateNow() to draw the screen BEFORE the character cells ... each character cell on screen with a struct_sp1_update. The ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Speccy 128k Double Buffering.If I understand this right, you display either of the screens, and draw to the one that is not being displayed. Am i right in thinking that the Non …

    ...
    Now using the extra screen:
    1) Draw the gameplay ... if you include some simple screen selection code). Copying a ... space you lose from switching in the second screen, and still won ...

    Using the second screen provides it's own problems ...
    icabod icabod May 2006 Development
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    When switching Memory Contention Model from ZX to Pentagon, the screen is drawn ... lower, when switching back to ZX ...
    FrankT FrankT August 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... ]When switching Memory Contention Model from ZX to Pentagon, the screen is ... drawn lower, when switching back to ZX ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2006 Emulators
  • +3e ROMs v1.28 releasedAfter a slight delay (ahem), I have updated the +3e ROMs to v1.28. Amongst other things, this release provides: [LIST] [*]Completely rewritten (and …

    ... a fairly crap test before switching the ROMS to get approximate ... Hard Drive to load, the screen just froze, finally figured out ...
    dasteph dasteph October 2006 Hardware
  • Speccy, a new Spectrum emulator for Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphonesThose of you with Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphones may have been suffering from the lack of a Spectrum emulator. All the existing emus were writte…

    ... able to rotate the Speccy screen by 90 degrees to better ... ]

    You could try switching off the zoom function so ...
    udgoverload udgoverload October 2006 Emulators
  • When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…

    ... , there is no date for switching all transmissions to HD?[/QUOTE ... in Britain has even mentioned switching to HD, and no one ... , I can watch a tiny screen with snow, and not care ...
    udgoverload udgoverload November 2006 Hardware
  • When there are no more analogue TVs...It won't be long, I suspect, before it's impossible to buy a new analogue TV. This will of course doom real Sinclair Spectrums to not being able to d…

    ... /> But this tecnology will change screen grammar too, we will see ... watch "Coronation Street" in 256x192 screen? When all switched to HD ... long enough. it's like switching from typewriter to zx spectrum ...
    Arda Arda November 2006 Hardware
  • 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…

    I've got the idea of saving SCREEN$ in ramdisk, then load code it at 49152 after switching banks, but it does not work. Apparently LOAD from ramdisk does not honor the bank selected.
    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…

    ... saving SCREEN$ in ramdisk, then load code it at 49152 after switching ...
    Dunny Dunny 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…

    ... SCREEN$ in ramdisk, then load code it at 49152 after switching ... , eg, load up a screen$ and then copy it to ... that extra memory back to screen$. As the name suggestes ... or equiv) into/from the screen RAM would be much quicker ... re just copying a screen to and fro.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous 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…

    ... saving SCREEN$ in ramdisk, then load code it at 49152 after switching ... , then copy that area into screen buffer.

    I ... thought basic only draws selected screen buffer. That's why when ... pages and print something on screen I got nothing.
    < ...
    Arda Arda November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Sentinel ? :( ?Huh I need help. What do we do in The Sentinel. All I can do is look around and I crosshairs... :( help?

    ... a car, or switching channels when Jamie Oliver appears on the screen.
    ewgf ewgf November 2006 Games
  • Is there a way to implement that Gigascreen option of emulators on real speccy ?Well the topic sets my dummy question... Is there any hardware way to avoid that flickering on a typical RGB monitor or TV? ;) [ This Message was…

    ... go corrupted on them. The screen is (nearly) useless. It ... /> GIGA screen is 25Hz on normal Spectrum - it's switching of 2 ... from Czech Republic, made _in_fact_the_same screen layout and named it " ... Linux) and fast switching of colours on the screen. It's a ...
    ellvis ellvis November 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SCART Lead and C= 1940 MonitorHi, I've decided to make a SCART lead for my +3 I've been doing a lot of searching on the internet and forums but I'm a little confused as some peop…

    ... />
    Also I noticed the screen in the cable is connected ... .84V and prevent the auto switching). (Pins 1 and 5 are ... that you can have auto-switching or RGB selection, but not ... ).
    Half works on +2 (screen fine, but no audio - just ...
    Jmk Jmk December 2006 Hardware
  • Windows VistaNever installed my Beta version, too many bad reports. Anybody tried it yet? I was reading a report that said serious 3D acceleration was required …

    ... this I am standing there switching on as many services on ... video playback in a windowed screen (of course I had left ...
    ADJB ADJB January 2007 Chit chat
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... . By bank switching you can place things like a full screen editor ... bank and add some bank switching software. An intermediate step would ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • non standard loader bar coloursAs with my speedloader thread, when did non standard colours start to appear and who came up with the idea and what was the reaction?

    I wrote a loader with full screen width stripes just a week ago now. Cheated though. 128K only. Switching screens :)
    Woody Woody April 2007 Games
  • 128 spectrum zx +2 is stuck on test screenhey this is my first spectrum i bought it from a boot-sale for 2 pound and it came with loads of games but when i turn it on i get the test screen an…

    ... persists you could try starting switching on the spec with the ... to see if the test screen goes away (That should confirm ...
    thingley thingley June 2007 Hardware
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... copy the result to screen. Shift the pixels by ... taken by the scroll; switching to every other frame ... the message on screen directly. With the screen scrolled left ... a pixel row on screen left one pixel (adriaan ... right edge of the screen. If there are any ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Buying a new TV - any advice?My faithful ol' television has just ceased to be, become bereft of life, started pining for the fjords, etc, so I've got to get a new one, and I was …

    ... 'vertical letterbox', meaning all that screen area is just black either ... area than a 4:3 screen with the same diagonal measurement ... perfect, and it has more screen area than a much "bigger ... , even analogue!) has had widescreen switching standards built in for a ...
    Megatron-UK Megatron-UK July 2007 Chit chat
  • Something completely different (new game tech-demo)Since finishing Stranded 2.5 (available soon from Cronosoft - plug!) I've been playing with the idea of doing an attribute-based, rather than pixel-b…

    If you don't mind, I would also suggest another idea. A game in multicolor 64x48. This resolution can be done just by halving the attrs in y-axis. On the 128k it can be done just with switching to 2nd screen at right spots.
    omega omega August 2007 Games
  • Something completely different (new game tech-demo)Since finishing Stranded 2.5 (available soon from Cronosoft - plug!) I've been playing with the idea of doing an attribute-based, rather than pixel-b…

    ... be done just with switching to 2nd screen at right spots.[/QUOTE ...
    bobs bobs August 2007 Games
  • Compatible SpectrumsFollowing some recent coding exploits I've been thinking about compatibility of various models of ZX Spectrum. Yes, it's a common question on the for…

    ... with multicolour effects, but any screen-accessing code.

    So ... CPU clock for reading the screen memory and that is probably ... that goodies as RAM bank switching, AY sound, RS232, sinclair joystick ...
    ingo ingo October 2007 Hardware
  • What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…

    ... everything except transfer the bitmaps (screen bytes) to the display. On ... amounts of memory necessitating bank-switching like most other computers.
    Once you add bank-switching and more memory the design ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2007 Hardware
  • What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…

    ... with it's memory-bank-switching....are there any more available ... for graphics is a second screen buffer which you can ... from immediately. This 'shadow' screen behaves just like the regular ... -buffering (drawing the new screen in the background and immediately ...
    gasman gasman November 2007 Hardware
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