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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 …
... torn between this and Zoltars vertical scrolling thread.
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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 …
... the dumping part of the scroll. You may change the speed ... in -1, -2, moving the scroll upwards.
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What annoys you about SpecBAS?Ok, here's another direction for me to go in - I'm almost done with SpecBAS, there's very little left to add. So... What don't you like about it? Wh…
... its easier to port old basic programs.
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GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…
... children (i.e. menu bar, scroll bars, workspace window, etc.)
basic events, such as:
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Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... yesterday integrated it in ZX Basic with no much effort, and ... covering the entire screen: strange vertical bars appeared). At first I ... it it, there is a vertical line not fully covered. It ... -
Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…
... , with double height pixels the vertical strokes just seem to look ... before transplanting it into SE Basic. Early days now, but I ... 'll be able to edit BASIC programs with an 80x24 display ... -
New recoloured game - After The War 1 :)As suggested and requested by some people I tried my skills with adding colour to this well known Spanish beatemup. And well... I did it :) I can sa…
I may have a look at DD2 later :)
It seems to have smooth vertical scroll so it would need corrections.
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Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
... the 8 lines hidden when vertical scroll is enabled, but the circuitery ... implementetion (in theory) for horizontal scroll is delaying X cycles (for ... and 7.
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Printing a ListingHello my fellow WoS'ers Todays trouble starts with the need to print-out a listing - personally I would prefer a text file, but beggars cannot be c…
... prints each numbered line of BASIC as one unbroken line.
BASIC listings from Z80, SNA, SP ... ; size, print width, keyword highlighting, vertical spacing and separating multi-statement ... -
Printing a ListingHello my fellow WoS'ers Todays trouble starts with the need to print-out a listing - personally I would prefer a text file, but beggars cannot be c…
... ;CHR$ 0'"Windows will automatically scroll upwards when required, or you can ... scroll them up manually:"
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80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
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It's possible. SE BASIC IV pages in bank 7 ... needs to draw a character, scroll the screen, or clear a ... both worlds, but with SE BASIC IV it is greater than ... -
80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... ]It's possible. SE BASIC IV pages in bank 7 ... needs to draw a character, scroll the screen, or clear a ... time?
How does SE BASIC keeps the image if it ... if it was available in BASIC or a kind of "advanced ... both worlds, but with SE BASIC IV it is greater than ... -
Computer pranksAnyone ever play a computer prank on a friend, or had one played on you? Here's a few which will make you laugh that I did back in the day... In 19…
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The BASIC was also pretty fast. A ... wrote a 'BBC Emulator' in BASIC that gave the impression of ... who were typing in a BASIC listing, only to find the ... ,A forever, making the border scroll stripes and shriek loudly, turned ... -
Work out attribute location in MCHow do I go about writing a MC routine which calculates the attribute address from a set of PRINT co-ordinates. I know you in basic you multiply the…
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Currah microspeech schematics?Has anyone got details on the currah microspeech? I've found the ROM online and the manual is available but that seems to be about all. What I'm afte…
... similar I believe, both trapping BASIC variable assignment to page in ... at every address from 10000 upwards until BASIC crashed. The last printed ... -
Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Spacecrafts.what's missing? for updated lists look [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/concealedwords/home/zxspectrumgames/vertical-shoot-em-up-s"]here[/URL]. …
Ano Gaia
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WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…
... , as I want to test basic functionality (JTAG and configuration PROM ... output generator, with horizontal and vertical counters, and a simple RGB ... -
best EmulatorHi, what is the best emulator for the speccy, I'm sure someone on here knows and could i get a link please
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Converting UDG to 2x2I've got a udg that I want to display in different sizes. Obviously I just print it for normal size, I can use the udg in bin format to display it ea…
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BASIC dialect, although as I see ... of code, whereas the various BASIC routines were just a couple ... I was clicking on the scroll bar and the page wasn ... -
Converting UDG to 2x2I've got a udg that I want to display in different sizes. Obviously I just print it for normal size, I can use the udg in bin format to display it ea…
... have an interpreter for that BASIC dialect, although as I see ... of code, whereas the various BASIC routines were just a couple ... I was clicking on the scroll bar and the page wasn ... 's is on the ZX Basic wiki. I just noticed :D ... -
decoding loading barsI was idly pondering if it would be possible to decode the tape loading bars - just the header, say, for a standard loader, to determine the title o…
... frames of video of a BASIC header loading. And I've ... about missing data during the vertical blank earlier made it sound ... that was lost during the vertical blank at the end of ... -
smooth movement in basicWas trying to figure this out myself but i would like to be pointed in right direction now :-). How do I make something move in Basic without gettin…
... x5 if doing it from BASIC with a number array).
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WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…
... has been implemented. I say "basic" because I've just discovered ... with Cobra too, and the scroll is as soft as always ... -
Compressors are available for Speccys ?Hi folks, although I was an wasn't strictly a speccy coder in the glory days (amstrad & amiga for the most part), I have secides to arse about with …
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ZX Spectrum 48K help and Hello :)Hello out there I am a long time admirer of the ZX Spectrum range of computers my first go at one was in the early 1980s with my dads ZX 80 now its …
... (the wide black and white vertical stripes), it has been caused ... /> If you've got a basic multimeter, it could be a ... -
RCS (Reverse Computer Screen)[B]RCS[/B] ("Reverse Computer Screen", or simply SCR written backwards) is a small utility I'm about to release, that reorders bytes from the ZX-Spec…
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Screen is reordered into vertical columns (6912 bytes)
Phase ... simple: if you run the BASIC programs I provided in my ... -
Help extracting a MIA from an Outlet dsk.The game Operation Gunshot is MIA: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0010017[/url] but its included in this issue of Outlet: […
... a REM statement within the basic part, I can't think ... , but I suspect it would scroll up 1 line. Maybe a ... -
Designing an icon-driven adventure: looking for adviceHi fellas, after the release of Funky Fungus, I am currently contemplating the possibility of designing an icon-driven adventure with location graph…
... "new" functions of Boriel's BASIC would be useful to implement ... ASM procedures (thats like new BASIC commands) written and publihed by ... put graphics blocks extremly fast, scroll-up screen area routine, new ... -
Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…
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First off, smooth vertical scrolling is a doddle as ... main methods - one is to scroll some data in-memory or ... [/I] works by having a scroll routine with a different list ... chunks of scenery. It could scroll at any speed and refresh ...
