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How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
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1942 isn't all that badIt isn't, you know. I played that for the first time in 15+ years earlier today and it's alright. It's got all the enemy patterns, power ups and basi…
Another vertical scrolling in the same vein is Typhoon, which I think is superior to 1942.
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Screenshot with border in SpinHi. I'm probably missing something obvious, but I want to save screenshots of a couple demos, and I want to include the border area in the screenshot…
... I want to include the border area in the screenshot. I can ... out how to do it in Spin (it's the only ... 256x192 image, regardless of the border emulation.
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Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…
... possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart ... draw the border changing colour completely. With that in mind, would ... over making things appear in the border such as text or ... of course the rolling border effect in Anfractuos that springs immediately ... -
How to claim back the border space in basic?Hey, I'm wondering if there is a way to reclaim the space the border usually occupies in BASIC? I am sure I have hit BREAK on some games and ended up…
... reclaim the space the border usually occupies in BASIC? I am sure ... in +2 basic and noticing they had got rid of the border ... -
Super Wonder Boy in Monster Land (BUGFIX)Please add the following "known errors" description for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005053"]Super Wonder Boy in Monster L…
... There were also graphic corruptions in candle timer animation and ... in game menu was displayed incorrectly in 48K models.
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draw single pixel in the borderI have problems with drawing in the border. I can get it to draw a line ,but it always becomes a line and not a single pixel. <br><br>rept 3580 <br…
I have problems with drawing in the border. I can get it to ... can see a blue block in the top left corner. Is ... as I am using for border drawing? -
Scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States?Would it be possible to write a scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States? I have a custom screen load routine that loads attribute first, then the …
... possible to write a scrolling loader counter in 85 T-States?
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Border flashing in solid colors when loading a tapeIs this normal behavior or is there something wrong in the tape loading, if the border just flashes in solid colors? There's some stripes in the begi…
... tape loading, if the border just flashes in solid colors? There's ... some stripes in the beginning but the rest ... />
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ANN: Spectaculator 2.5 available for downloadHi. I've just released a new version of Spectaculator, available from [url="http://www.spectaculator.com/"]http://www.spectaculator.com/[/url]. Hopef…
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- Revised border options. The Border->None option has ... changed to
Border->Small. This border is just big enough ... resolution border emulation (e.g. the number countdown in Starion, the
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IM 2 interrupts and smooth scrolling - easy peasy!Okay, been fiddling around with IM 2 and have actually mastered (I think) how to use IM 2! Now I run my game Ragnar Revival in IM2 and use HALT to sy…
... run my game Ragnar Revival in IM2 and use HALT to ... for synchronizing screen manipulation (a scrolling text) using HALT, and one ... ,07Fh ;Trap Space key
in a,(07Eh)
and 1 ... /> ei ;interrupts. Jump to 0056 in ROM
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Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
... best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion.
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Smooth Screen Scrolling RoutineHi everyone, this is a follow up to the thread on smooth screen scrolling. As promised here is the code for the routine. It's pretty long and fairl…
... the thread on smooth screen scrolling.
As promised here ... /> * The background data is arranged in rows of 128 tiles starting ... 1),HL ;HL HOLDS ADDRESS IN BACKGROUND DATA MAP
INC ... />
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Cobra - scrollingHi everyone, I have been studying some of the code in Ocean' Cobra game using a debugger, in the hope of improving my own scrolling routines. In cas…
... of improving my own scrolling routines. In case your not ... of the best scrolling i've seen in a spectrum ... there cannot be much variation in the backgrounds.
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EmuZWin - border in Full Screen modeWhenever I switch to Fullscreen mode I do not see the BORDER (and it is set to "thick"). Is it because my laptop is "widescreen"?
Whenever I switch to Fullscreen mode I do not see the BORDER (and it is set to "thick").
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Does ScanLine[0] have a left border?My emulator couldn't handle Cobra or ShortCircuit so I added some rough port FF values. I now want to make it a bit more accurate. The FAQ gives me a…
... with 256 screen pixels, then border (right), then horizontal retrace, ... and then border again." (left on next line ... What happens to the left border. Usually this is on the ... retrace so the left border actually gets displayed in line 0? -
Flicker on my scrolling demo, any ideas?I have created a scrolling demo downloadable from [url="http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/scroll.z80"]http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/scroll.…
I have created a scrolling demo downloadable from [url="http ... [/url] (.z80) which demonstrates my scrolling engine.
It ... second to run (The actually scrolling takes just under 1/50th ... is that irritating scanline flicker in the middle.
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First game with scrollingMany games are just a bunch of static screens - you have to exit one screen to see another (for example Manic Miner, Saboteur, Bruce Lee). But there …
... and when you go in any direction the scrolling begins (for example ... the first Spectrum game with scrolling.
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Q on Black Magic in Spectaculator & Spin.Yo there! I was trying to load [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Black+Magic$&pub=^US+Gold+Ltd$&model=spectrum"]Black Magic[…
... ;model=spectrum"]Black Magic[/url] in ZXSPIN V0.6 build 050713 ... loading picture (but don't in Spin).
So ... ... I get rid of the border in Spectaculator? (I'm stuck with ... None??? Those settings not available in Options ... tsk, tsk! ;) )
req: hack/poke for 3D deathchase border colourBack in the day, I used to have a version of 3d deathchase which had a black border instead of the usual white one, it made it much better, especiall…
Back in the day, I used to ... deathchase which had a black border instead of the usual white ... much better, especially when playing in a dark room. I dont ... why mervyn used white borders in his games ? lunar crabs is ...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…
... simulations, board games, and non-scrolling arcade games. SP1 *cannot* ... do scrolling well at all. AT ALL ... add some character-level scrolling at some point to ... z80 platforms in z88dk.
- #defines for colours, border(), screen ...Full screen help in EmuWinIf I click full screen in EmuWin the program goes full screen but the play area is very small. Smaller than full border with a spectrum. How can i …
If I click full screen in EmuWin the program goes full ... very small. Smaller than full border with a spectrum. How can ... just getting a HUGH black border that is to big.
Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…
... help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system ... ]
1. Print start number in format (H)ours:(M)inutes ... line(byte) at a time in blocks of 8 bytes from ...Why does Spectrum display has a border?Ok, this is problbly simple and very basic question but I don'r remember seeing an answer anywhere. Don't you think, that at first glance it is irr…
... empty unused border if we could place some graphics in this ... seems to me that eliminating border could have been achieved ... Increasing resolution- adding more pixels in width and height
< ... screen, thus eliminating the border(it would look better imo ...Border size?Hi I've read the documentation on the border in the CSS. But I think I've managed to missread somthings, perhaps som one can explain. it says 64 bord…
... read the documentation on the border in the CSS.
But I ... explain.
it says 64 border lines , 192 screen and 56 ... border lines again.
64+56 = ... goes for left and right border the would 48+48=96 ...Border emulationHow is the border emulated to do all the fancy little tricks such as in Aquaplane? I've got some basic border emulation working but it only displays…
... border emulated to do all the fancy little tricks such as in ... Aquaplane?
I've got some basic border emulation ... like Aquaplane or Starion the border colour is being changed as ... the screen and border are being redrawn. How is ...I'll name that game in ...I was about to recommend Astro Blaster to someone, when I realised it's not the game I thought it was. Astro Blaster appears to be a space invaders …
... scramble variant. You could land in little floating cyan pods, scattered ... to keep up with the scrolling of the screen (but maybe ...First steps in Z80 machine codeI never got into machine code much back when I had a speccy, as I didn't have any development tools at the time. The only machine code I'd previousl…
... code I'd previously done in the past was 6502 on ... also have some 4-way scrolling routines somewhere.
I ... something that's actually interesting in the long term future, but ...48K Not Loading GamesHello. I'm new to the whole Spectrum scene, having just recently aquired a free 48K ZX Spectrum. It was working fine with games loading off my MP3 pl…
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When I type in LOAD "" to load a game ... solid red and blue alternating border but it goes no further ... loading and the border isn't doing the scrolling lines thing like ...lost tribe in brazil (found)wow just seen this on bbc news, a tribe that have had no outside contact EVER has just been discovered in the jungles of brazil (near the border wit…
... been discovered in the jungles of brazil (near the border with peru ...
