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Another Spectrum is brought back to life.Hi Spec-chums. I have been having bit of busy afternoon with repairs today. I've brought back to life a Panasonic Super-VHS recorder, and more intere…
... up displayed a solid black paper area, on a white border ... -
SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…
... if specified, and the current PAPER if not.
The bank ... so as to use graph paper to work it out.
Unusual or Experimental or just New or Quirky Presentations of SoftwareWhen it was all new software vendors had to work out the best way to sell their wares. In the beginning ,there was no absolute consensus ,and so ther…
... juniors . Print labels on backing paper are included in the cassette ... is an additional strip of paper with a set of mini ..."Cottage Industry" creations. In other words software that has a genuine "hand made" quality to it ,such as :- 1) Daisy Wheel printed cassette inlays 2) Cassette inlays prin…
... printed on "silver" Sinclair printer paper
3) Separate "printer" printed ...When did Cassettes Go Paperless?I noticed that my "Rock Star Ate My Hamster" Cassette tape is paperless. In other words , the tape cassette itself does not have any paper inla…
... itself does not have any paper inlays stuck on both sides ...Fastest emulator screen renderingHi, I'm developing an algorithm for fast emulator screen rendering and here is what I came up with. 1) Use 4bpp indexed image format as target …
... pattern. Do the same for paper.
4) Now comes the ... now 0 and opposite
paper= bits B P2 P1 P0 ... // get paper index
p32=paper_4_32[paper]
paper_pattern=np32 ... and p32 // mask in paper color
val32=ink_pattern or ...How does OVER work?I've found a short program that shows an example of the OVER command and it has me puzzled. The listing sets OVER to 1 then plots a point and draws a…
... something to do with switching PAPER & INK?Poll: How about a printed edition of Al's Spectrum Annual?My "experiment" of a Spectrum-related annual magazine was very well received, and many readers have been asking about the possibility of a printed ed…
... laminated cover and high quality paper. To cover the costs of ...Mighty Maths ProgramsIn a break from typing in listings from 37-year-old magazines, I had a sudden urge to write a maths-related program, as I do, occasionally. Some, suc…
... enormous amount of that shiny paper to print out the listing ...Randomised data samplingHere is something that could be written in BASIC, if anyone is interested. Lets say we want to sample a subset of a larger population, we can do t…
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2 RANDOMIZE
3 PAPER 0 : INK 7 : BRIGHT 1 ...Silly things I used to do(and in this case, somewhat spectrum related) When I was much younger I had a strange behaviour: I liked wrecking toys and throw them out of the…
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I even made paper planes, set them on fire ...Fixing a ZX Clone from .ru - 27 years late.Hi there, I've currently assembled another russian clone a "Compact 256 Turbo" from a PCB I bought. The machine appears to be fully functional and o…
... is that the "start of paper" is about 8 lines off ...48k issue 4B display problem etchi,, i have a zx spectrum 48k issue 4B with a display issue it has wavy lines in both the border and paper,some colours seem worse than others ie red…
... in both the border and paper,some colours seem worse than ... fail with white border/black paper with a few red lines ...how do i set this code up, so i can print more than one line of text?well i got it working but how do i set this code up, so i can print more than one line of text? with a loop or something? not sure where to start on …
... ;at command, y, x,**,
;paper, **,ink, **, flash
defb 19 ...why am i getting b integer out of range in this code?ive tried running this in spin but thats what i get [code]main org 40000; ; We want a black screen. ld a,71 ; white ink (7) on black paper (0…
... ; white ink (7) on black paper (0),
; bright (64).
paper (0),
; bright (64).
paper (0),
; bright (64).
paper (0),
; bright (64).
this code wont give me a random starfieldim using a peice of code that ive copied from a book, ignore most of it as it is redundant. for some reason i get a strange random starfield instead …
... ; white ink (7) on black paper (0),
; bright (64).
paper (0),
; bright (64).
paper (0),
; bright (64).
paper (0),
; bright (64).
Test card screenStarted off just messing about in order to test a machine. But ended up with this: [code]10 FOR a=0 TO 0 STEP 0: PAUSE 1: BORDER 1: BORDER 2: BORD…
... 7: NEXT a
20 PAPER 0: INK 7
30 ... b=0 TO 7: PRINT PAPER b;” ”;: NEXT b
... TO 0 STEP -1: PRINT PAPER b;” ”;: NEXT b
70 ... =0 TO 7: PRINT #0; PAPER b;” ”;: NEXT b
100 ... 1 STEP -1: PRINT #0; PAPER b;” ”;: NEXT b
110 ...New Utility ZXSTLC[b]New Utility ZX Spectrum Tape (& Disk) Loader Creator[/b] I made this utility to easily create tape and +3 disk loaders for my projects and have…
[b]New Utility ZX Spectrum Tape (& Disk) Loader Creator[/b]
I made this utility to easily create tape and +3 disk loaders for my projects and have adapted it recently to work with a 128k project which requires all the memory pages to be ...Elon Musks's Blastar (Conversion)Back in 1984, the 12 year old Elon Musk wrote a rudimentary video game for his SpectraVideo SV-328 (another Z80 Microcomputer) [url="https://www.t…
Back in 1984, the 12 year old Elon Musk wrote a rudimentary video game for his SpectraVideo SV-328 (another Z80 Microcomputer)
[url="https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/9/8752333/elon-musk-blastar-pc-game"]https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/9/ ...Standard Sized Cassette Case Inlay Variations.This is all about having "the full instruction" set for the standard sized cassette cases . It is very easy to lose out in this respect and sometim…
... an additional and separate thin paper sheet of printed instructions ( specially ... is that the additional thin paper instructions are easily lost and ...Computer Literacy Project - An alternative realityAlthough given quite a few things sadly it was unlikely the Speccy would of won the BBC's "Computer Literacy Project" , I had a random thought: If…
... a few ideas sketched on paper (if at all?) in 1980 ...z88dk sp1 Scene EditorHi, I've been developing for the last couple of weeks a scene editor (tile editor + scene tile placement+ export to c sp1 compatible) to aid me in…
... in a scene with ink, paper, bright attributes, and generate some ...Textured Scanline Flood Fill for ZX Spectrum 48KPity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the…
... ,c: REM random ink, white paper
500 RANDOMIZE USR ...Pandemic boredom induced hobby revisitedA few weeks ago, possibly because of the promised Biden stimulus check for $1400, I decided I deserved a splurge and went to Walmart to get two new l…
... , enlarger and lots of photographic paper and chemicals with which I ...esxDOS v0.8.9 has been officially releasedhttp://board.esxdos.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2025#p2025 [quote]lordcoxis Today 12:35:17 esxDOS v0.8.9 has been officially released. Grab it at http:…
... : Set default colours to black paper + white ink, configurable in ESXDOS ...
