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  • So easy to use.Back in the 90s I was off work for 3 months following an operation, anyway in my boredom I dusted off my old speccy+ and the manual, and got my head …

    ... "Red" I have entered the text "Red" and then coloured it ... . or I have built a string containing the control codes externally ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…

    ... ) hidden in the lower 8 text lines and also a standalone ... print to a 42 column scrolling display.
    There is also ... character set squeezed into those text lines too.

    It ...
    Geoff Geoff January 2012 Development
  • Using the ROMs PRINT routineI really am starting from scratch again it seems, but how do you utilize the ROM routine to print characters, I think you point te BC register to an …

    ... 33000
    ld ix,string ;point ix at text
    ld de ... /> inc ix ;next ascii in string
    inc e ;next column ... ;is the end of the string.
    jr pstring ;continue printing ... ascii
    ret
    ;
    string defb 'THE ROM FONT ISN ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2012 Development
  • House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …

    ... plain test version with minimal text & graphics, just to demonstrate ... />
    I'm presently using scrolling menus for selection, but that ... for combat - possibly some others. Scrolling through the exits gives a ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 New game ideas
  • What's your favourite game of 1982?I know we've probably done this before before someone posts a link.... [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekadv.cgi?what=1&regexp=&yrorder=1…

    ... , typically having very large vocabularies, text compression and lots of locations ... ', in The Hobbit you could string together complex series of instructions ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2012 Games
  • LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…

    ... ' to each after a matching string has been copied to the ... is found, after which the string matching (cp+n-1), plus ... ; so it's getting efficient text compression which is more of ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2012 Development
  • A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…

    ... NULL (e.g. an empty string). Using a debug mem command ... number will be your REAL text source code line number).
    boriel boriel March 2012 Brand new software
  • LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…

    ... /> 6. Encode the rightmost match string at position PB length PL ... minute for a similar sized text file), so it's not ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2012 Development
  • type-ins in zmakebas formati were about coding some type-ins from MicroHobby magazine, and found that there are 'semanal' tape series available at http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... that it's just a text file:

    ... VARS memory space. Again, String arrays will be as< ...
    Var [some long hex string] -

    a simple ... be entered as plain text, using the escape codes ... you should not split quoted text that way - any ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2012 Support files
  • Scrimpy screensHere's a question - how small a window can you get away with as a playing area for an arcade/action game before anyone notices? From the very earlie…

    ... of [I]Egghead[/I] is text, not play area.

    scrolling game it's counter-productive ...
    joefish joefish March 2012 Development
  • House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …

    ... and option descriptions activated by scrolling down the list. The depth ... the location window once the text had been read. The second ... impinges into the viewable text zones. (The text windows can present more ... text than fits in the window, ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2012 New game ideas
  • Willy's Guide to the GalaxyJust starting out, trying something a little different. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/DaRkSiDe74/WGttG-BabelFish.jpg[/IMG] The idea i…

    ... />
    Message text written, title screen flashing scrolling message text colour issues fixed ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi April 2012 New game ideas
  • BASin v.15 DEF FN bugThe bug would appear to be in "BASSupport.pas : Procedure ProcessDEFFN"; as it's not inserting the 6-byte variable place holder after each parameter …

    ... the post--skip all the text if you want.)

    string sometimes). Now it's hopefully ...
    Arda Arda April 2012 Emulators
  • Blood MoneyAs the C64 had a version and it was good (although i rahter the ST version) this could be done with ease on the spectrum I feel. Music can be ripped…

    ... white, with black text - no picture, music, or scrolling, just the crack ... credit, maybe some text, and the ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2012 New game ideas
  • ZXDS 0.9.9 beta 1OK kids, here we go: Let me announce the latest and greatest [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz"]ZXDS release[/URL]. Mouse emulation, tape recording, stats …

    ... the font on the other text like the load file & ... I can think of is scrolling the name around automatically. But ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak April 2012 Emulators
  • Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …

    ... all your
    sprite and text routines to print to the ... for a 20 column vertical scrolling routine*. Though in data terms ...
    R-Tape R-Tape April 2012 Development
  • BorderTron 3000A little bit of speccy-related fun for a Friday afternoon... I've knocked together a program for Windows which I've called Bordertron 3000 (a suitabl…

    ... other emulators produce a different scrolling effect than what I saw ... /> The scrolling effect in that 01may.sna file scrolls text in the ...
    ccowley ccowley April 2012 Announcements
  • BorderTron 3000A little bit of speccy-related fun for a Friday afternoon... I've knocked together a program for Windows which I've called Bordertron 3000 (a suitabl…

    [QUOTE=ccowley;623483]The scrolling effect in that 01may.sna file scrolls text in the upper border 2 pixels at a time. Looks very smooth.[/QUOTE]

    Indeed it's not possible on a Spectrum...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas April 2012 Announcements
  • Sonic Game PossibleIs a sonic game possible on the ZX Spectrum 48k? I read somewhere that someone tried to create a sonic game for the ZX Spectrum, but the only [url=ht…

    ... Spectrum:
    - 3D games
    - scrolling games
    - physics games (like ...
    - flip screen games
    - text games
    - roguelike RPG you ...
    Ralf Ralf May 2012 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... platform games, or for fast text editing within an assembler, C ... -compiler, text editor, etc.

    So ... them):

    Benchmark 1: string printing. Characters are printed in ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix June 2012 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... it. Then PRINT #n;"some text" to use it, where n ... do token expansion or screen scrolling.)

    Y'know, this ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston June 2012 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... inc bc ;next byte of string

    ex de ... ;get string byte
    add a ;x2 for text character range ...
    ret

    string defm 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890',0[/code]
    Hikaru Hikaru June 2012 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... inc bc ;next byte of string

    ex de ... ;get string byte
    add a ;x2 for text character range ...
    ret

    string defm 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890',0[/code]
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP June 2012 Development
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... than a demo with plain text....[/QUOTE]

    Yes my ... word boundary
    ld bc,string
    jp entry
    loop ... defb 170,085
    ;
    string
    rept 3
    defb ...
    R-Tape R-Tape June 2012 Development
  • Spectrumpedia - the Spectrum encyclopedia.Dear fellow Spec-chums, it is with great pride that I present you the result of an intense work of research I have been carrying out lately. It is …

    ... replicate WOS.. I found myself scrolling down the pages trying to ... of the meaning of the text.

    Just out of ...
    Morkin Morkin June 2012 Announcements
  • Spectrumpedia - the Spectrum encyclopedia.Dear fellow Spec-chums, it is with great pride that I present you the result of an intense work of research I have been carrying out lately. It is …

    ... replicate WOS.. I found myself scrolling down the pages trying to ... of the meaning of the text.[/B]

    Just out ...
    R-Tape R-Tape June 2012 Announcements
  • Encode two positive int numbers into one?Hi guys) Recently I've been trying to simulate short lists in Basic, but the point is that using limited values, say, 0-99 or 0-999, I remembered ho…

    ... ]

    Plus, as a string doesn't have the 14 ... can be packed into a string and elements extracted as zero ... numbers were linked to text then the text items could be held ... elements in a second string, with the number string holding pointer/length ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Encode two positive int numbers into one?Hi guys) Recently I've been trying to simulate short lists in Basic, but the point is that using limited values, say, 0-99 or 0-999, I remembered ho…

    ... can be packed into a string and elements extracted as zero ... numbers were linked to text then the text items could be held ... elements in a second string, with the number string holding pointer/length ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Sorceror of CLaymorgue CastleI feel a bit like a sore loser asking this, but am I alone in thinking that this adventure, whilst it looks very pretty (for its time), is relentless…

    This was the thing with text adventures back in the day.< ... let the user chain a string of commands together. Another plus ... /> Then again, there are some text adventures with fantastic parsers, but ... plenty of lists of decent text adventures on this forum , but ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley August 2012 Games
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