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  • Sinclair Light Gun and modern tellies/monitorsDoes the Sinclair Light Gun work with modern LCD/TFT/plasma screens? I have my Speccy linked up by TV card to a PC outputting to a LCD monitor, and …

    The curve of the screen shouldn't matter, but yes, ... timing to work out how far down and across the TV screen ... the gun is pointing. (The same sort of timing that ...
    joefish joefish June 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Light Gun and modern tellies/monitorsDoes the Sinclair Light Gun work with modern LCD/TFT/plasma screens? I have my Speccy linked up by TV card to a PC outputting to a LCD monitor, and …

    ... , then calculate the right fake timing compared to the TV raster ... read what is on the screen at that point, estimate the ...
    joefish joefish June 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Light Gun and modern tellies/monitorsDoes the Sinclair Light Gun work with modern LCD/TFT/plasma screens? I have my Speccy linked up by TV card to a PC outputting to a LCD monitor, and …

    ... , then calculate the right fake timing compared to the TV raster ... read what is on the screen at that point, estimate the ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Ocean's Cobra - +3 incompatability. Is their a fix?Hello all, Anyone know of a fix for Ocean software 'Cobra' (the one with stallone in it) ? This was the first game I bought for my 128k toastrack, a…

    ... ) or the screen area (bright) for flicker free timing crap. And won ...
    frobush frobush June 2009 Games
  • games you love, but you're crap at themGunfighter [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002177[/url] it's such a great game, loads of rooms, loads of characters to shoot,…

    ... managed to get past that screen once.[/QUOTE]

    :-o ... ; Cartoony but fiendishly pixel-perfect timing required. You mess up just ...
    xyzzy xyzzy June 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... , there's lots of errors. Timing is out causing the intro ... at the giant gogin flag screen, when forcing it to continue ...
    FrankT FrankT June 2009 Games
  • Reading from the 128 Serial PortDon't shout at me if this is a silly question. I have Googled extensively, and searched the forums, but I can't find anything discussing what seems t…

    ... exists a relation with the (timing) peculiarities of the BASIC loop ... PAUSE statement.
    Moving a screen (6912) from PC to Spectrum ...
    roko roko June 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • The So What's This Buzzsaw All About Then? Thread.Erm. This: [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap"]http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap[/URL] Keys…

    ... information, the game has 4 timing profiles:

    1. 48K ... one for the 'GAME OVER' screen...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • The So What's This Buzzsaw All About Then? Thread.Erm. This: [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap"]http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap[/URL] Keys…

    ... 'll do its timing checks against the screen memory and probably conclude ... a Pentagon, and set the timing up for that. It'll ... in the Pentagon top-border timing delay. It looks like it ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • The So What's This Buzzsaw All About Then? Thread.Erm. This: [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap"]http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap[/URL] Keys…

    ... feature on the main menu screen where you can press "C ... view and change the colour timing mode. I've postponed some ... of the timing config until the game actually ... no longer adjust the timing, because the timing setup actually modifies the ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • The So What's This Buzzsaw All About Then? Thread.Erm. This: [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap"]http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap[/URL] Keys…

    ... feature on the main menu screen where you can press "C ... view and change the colour timing mode. I've postponed some ... of the timing config until the game actually ... no longer adjust the timing, because the timing setup actually modifies the ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... the address tables into the screen and the attribute buffer (12K ... moment, half of these tables (screen) are in slow RAM (bottom ... done during the top-border timing phase of the interrupts. So ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... the address tables into the screen and the attribute buffer (12K ... you really so tight with timing that storing just a table ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... , once 176 lines of the screen have been displayed. That little ... machine types to get the timing right.

    In the ... to do it after the screen is displayed. I wanted something ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... ) and there is a little timing problem at the right-most ... -1 position (out of the screen to the top) and then ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2009 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... as shown on the title screen a different colour to the ... screen colours are the same attribute right across, and (b) the timing ... of the title screen colours needs to be ... in real-time so any timing-related changes in the code ...
    joefish joefish September 2009 Development
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... more complex music but the timing will get difficult, especially if ... ? I.e. is the on-screen stuff + music being "flushed" out ... some compression but, again, the timing (and time-slicing) would get ...
    evilpaul evilpaul September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Ahh.. the tape loading era! by ate bit[url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53846[/url] It is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Effects while loading, MUSIC while loading (and loading normal speed !!!…

    ... - but in a loader the timing restrictions are much more severe ... using the 128's shadow screen to avoid flicker (normally you ... HALT to synchronise with the screen drawing, but that isn't ...
    gasman gasman September 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX games for fixingExist any games/software which need fix any bugs ? - incorrect graphics - incorrect or bad keyboard controll - too fast games (need slow-down) - game…

    ... ,88 for block 0 2nd screen etc etc. I used to ... ay sample loops with tight timing would become very slow due ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae September 2009 Games
  • Test ROM Cartridge For SaleI'm selling another load of gear including a Sinclair Research Test ROM Cartridge. [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4000772…

    ... Test
    Flashes the whole screen between black and white, except ... part or all of the screen is not flashing then the ... . It could also indicate a timing failure when the computer is ... normal COPY operation on a screen full of text.
    Failure ...
    murtceps murtceps October 2009 Sales
  • Speccy Tour 2009.Hi All The voting for which games we'll be playing in the Speccy Tour 2009 have begun. Also, for the very first time ever, there'll be a Bounty on …

    ... to get past the second screen after 20 attempts! After that ... screen is a pain, takes a fair while to practice the timing ...
    psj3809 psj3809 October 2009 Games
  • Speccy Tour 2009.Hi All The voting for which games we'll be playing in the Speccy Tour 2009 have begun. Also, for the very first time ever, there'll be a Bounty on …

    ... screen is a pain, takes a fair while to practice the timing ...
    LeeRich LeeRich October 2009 Games
  • Speccy Tour 2009.Hi All The voting for which games we'll be playing in the Speccy Tour 2009 have begun. Also, for the very first time ever, there'll be a Bounty on …

    ... screen is a pain, takes a fair while to practice the timing ...
    LeeRich LeeRich October 2009 Games
  • Snow on screen of 48K Speccyok you wizards I fixed up my 4116 ram issue as Winston and McLeod advised me before by replacing with 4164's.... all I could find here in Singapore (…

    ... like random bits appearing on screen. I will try it on ... humble old hardware but the screen here is black ink (for ... demo (thats gorgeous using ula timing to mask out half of ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae October 2009 Hardware
  • An idea for a possible(?) new interfaceDue to the Spectrum's processor speed and the way the ULA works, there are a couple things (among others) that are difficult to do: -Gigascreen or a…

    ... offcourse also be done with screen.

    On the ZX81 ... displaymachine in slowmode so more timing was used in the game ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2009 Hardware
  • An idea for a possible(?) new interfaceDue to the Spectrum's processor speed and the way the ULA works, there are a couple things (among others) that are difficult to do: -Gigascreen or a…

    ... /> -Gigascreen or any other fast-screen-switching effect
    -Wire 3D ... and demos that require specific timing. It would be used only ...
    Hood Hood October 2009 Hardware
  • Framerate of Spectrum gamesI was reading a bit about framerates in modern games and it got me wondering about the Speccy. First off I'd hoped to find what framerate my old gam…

    ... standard PAL Spectrums drew the screen 50 times a second so ... you can't update the screen that often in your program ... our European games with critical timing look crap or even be ... are any changes on the screen.
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG November 2009 Games
  • Framerate of Spectrum gamesI was reading a bit about framerates in modern games and it got me wondering about the Speccy. First off I'd hoped to find what framerate my old gam…

    ... our European games with critical timing look crap or even be ... 'll notice the screen is affected.. due to the timing...

    fog fog November 2009 Games
  • Real 3D (using 3D glasses) on existing PC games?You know those "3D glasses" they have in cinemas sometimes, and for watching some TV programs, or some magazine articles? Where each "lense" is a dif…

    ... (which is basically 2D, in "screen space"). Because of this there ... are probably making per-game hacks).

    The simplest way ... *View*Projection). So doing these hacks requires fairly deep knowledge of ...
    pSXAuthor pSXAuthor November 2009 Chit chat
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... there are timing issues with changing the palette whilst the screen is ... work with the contention and timing, and just trust that any ...
    joefish joefish November 2009 Emulators
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