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Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... the rules a bit in that I've already ... s the Casio game in the "ZX Spectrum page" link at ... I could revive. Bear in mind I was nine when ... styled game... something along the lines of "Guide Frodo through ... written the music. Or, in truth, Luca Turilli wrote it ... -
If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…
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4) I thought the Spectrum had one of the ... Also, you knew what the Spectrum was doing too! Ever spent ... />
:cool: In all fairness, the only thing the Spectrum didn't ... put down the Spectrum as an inferior machine in 1983/4 - it couldn ... -
Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... the processor power, same resolution in Mode 4, and yet because every ... br />
Basically, because the spectrum screen is stored as 256 ... colours available you`d need 4 bits for each pixel, that ... even in Amiga Format they paid homage to the way the Spectrum ... -
Straw Poll - Wot machine did u get after the SpeccyOK here goes, after the speccy with no time line; Atari st520 (Great great sound and music) Super Nintendo (Some great games) Playstation 1 (Now) P…
In chronological order:
Spectrum 48k
Spectrum +2
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Amiga CD32
Sega Saturn
PC (Pentium 2, 266)
Spectrum 128
PC (Pentium 4, 1600)
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Straw Poll - Wot machine did u get after the SpeccyOK here goes, after the speccy with no time line; Atari st520 (Great great sound and music) Super Nintendo (Some great games) Playstation 1 (Now) P…
... bought it back in the 70s)
Spectrum 48 (1986)
Spectrum +2 (1988/9 ... STE (1991)
Another Spectrum 48 (2nd hand to replace ... )
800 Mhz Pentium 4 (2004)
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The Spectrum Oscars...Seeing as it's nearly Oscars time; I thought it would be fun to have one of our own. So get your votes in folks :) 1) Best spectrum game 2) Best gfx…
... spectrum game
Bomb Jack
2) Best gfx in a ...
3 Weeks In Paradise
4) Best spectrum programmer
Mike ... the greatest
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128k Shadow Screen?When emulating the shadow screen in bank 7 should that bank be switched into address C000? If so, what happens if bank 7 is switched out without canc…
... does the same thing but in a more direct way ... t need bank 7 paging in as it doesn't ... coming in on their address lines. You could happily swap the lines ... but stuff would be stored in a different part of ... a byte of pixel data in only 4 tstates?
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Investronica Inves Spectrum +Hi, Has anyone here ever heard of the Investronica Inves Spectrum +? This site [url="http://www.silicium.org/uk/sinclair/inves.htm"]http://www.sili…
... sell this ZX Spectrum + clone 'cause they were in charge of ... with the original PCBs used in Sinclair Spectrum + computers. The Z80 CPU ... are two 64K x 4 bit chips connected in parallel. The lower ... as the ones used in the Sinclair Spectrum +, but with the ... -
"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... I get bored after 4 minutes of scrolling greetings.< ... was designed with "cheapness" in mind. Note that things ... are hardly absolute. Taking in account how much did ... chips. That's, in my humble opinion, the ... have them won: in 1985 the Spectrum + costed around 35 ... -
Programming MC challengeIn the 80-ies I got the following assignment for a programming course. 2 16-bit values stored in #8000 and #8002 must be added together and stored i…
The CPC has RAM at #0000, as can the +2A and +3, so does the SAM and indeed anything that can run C/PM (i.e. pretty much every Z-80 machine in existence)
The Spectrum and ZX80/1 are quite unusual in having a fixed ROM -
wouldnt it be good if:I know that some guy basicly said he waqs going to do what Im suggesting here but anyway: I was thinking and worring about the future of the spectrum…
... /> With these you can have Spectrum with all the games there ... rom-files
In my opinion Spectrum needs still to be ... 48k it is easy, for +2a/+3 more difficult but there ... comparing different CF solutions for spectrum from normal users perspective. Would ... -
sprite making in +3 BASIC?Any sprite tutorial I come across is far too complicated! Can someone help me? For instance, how do you create a person-shaped animated sprite which …
I am a games developer in my spare time, and I use the PC language DarkBASIC which is very different to +3 BASIC. Anyhoo, I have a Spectrum +2a with +3 BASIC and 48BASIC. So how do I get machine code? Surely you can tell by now that I am really stupid! -
Samsung Syncmaster monitor with ScanDoublerI have a black Spectrum +2A and have tried to connect the RGB from my Speccy to a Samsung SyncMaster 753DFX and an Apple Monitor too, using an Amiga …
... simple as just plugging it in with your adapter.
... what comes out of a Spectrum +2A.
You ... bit of rewiring to the Spectrum side.
... signals coming out of the +2A there.
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Difference between +2 , +2a and +2bWhats the difference between these models Also if I was going to buy a 128k machine, whats the best one for games compatibility (from all 128k model…
... pretty much a Spectrum 128K with a built in tape deck. I ... differences in the +2's comes with the +2A's. The +2A is ... floppy disk controller lives in a +3. The +2A also shares the ... and easily worked around. The +2A/B is also fitted with ... -
How do I save?I've made a HUGE text adventure with lots of collectables and lots of locations, but how can I get the user to save their game to tape if they need t…
i use a spectrum +2a 128k. although i was told ... the way, i'm interested in using machine code. do i ... somewhere or will it work in +3 BASIC? anyhow, i'll ... -
Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…
... long has it been in development?
4 months
3 ... /> 4. What emulator do you use? (ZXSpin, Speculator etc)
Real Spectrum ... -
Machine Code QuestionHi All Not sure if this is the right place for this but it seems closest. Am starting to read the Toni Baker Intro to Machine Code book and its ver…
... of my favourites on the Spectrum was Zeus Assembler if you ... is generating code for a Spectrum).
Besides the ... expression evaluation (you can put in '5*4+3'), labels (give names ... snapshots with the binary embedded in them.
[ ... -
Google VideoOne for Arjun and James really but, as from today, Google Video is available in India. So try this in your browser [url="http://video.google.com/vi…
... wrote:
It works in the 'ZX Spectrum' case but is not ... 'Popular'.
'ZX Spectrum' eventually leads to this which ... word of that song ... do we have anyone fluent in the language ... serious performance? What's the song about?
Skarpo< ... -
Shoot-em-up Development UpdateHi Folks, I am still working away at my horizontal scroller. Here is a link to let you see progress. I have re-written the scrolling routine to make…
... 33536..... etc.
In actual fact each tile only ... 5 bytes wide * 8 lines * 4 shifts). This leaves 96 bytes ... address for the tile in that location. So the ... = 159. A zero in the map data indicates a ... transparent.
In answer to Rob's question ... -
ZXCF InterfaceI'm just trying to get an idea for the ZXCF interface, and to me, it looks a much cleaner design compared to divIDE (Of course, that's just my opinio…
... ;) - The reason I added Spectrum emulation to EightyOne was so ... ideas of memory management in a future Spectrum compatible machine. I'm ... of the machine bank switches in 16k blocks. Essentially what ... could easily emulate the 128k/+2a/+3 ROM management by ... -
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…
... standard zx library and header "spectrum.h").
Next we ... parameters cause a relative change in position in characters; the range is ... are much larger than the Spectrum's display dimensions. SP1's ... last time.
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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…
... () function in program 3A.
[B]2A-2C WHAT ... br />
The situation in Program 2A is this: all 10 sprites ... are iterated over by sp1_IterateSprChar() in row-major order. Row- ... ;cr, frame01, 10, 14, 0, 4);
if (i & ... -
my dodgy speccys.hi people, i was wondering if i could engage some opinions / thoughts / ideas of anyone, regarding my current "fixing up" of my speccys, since you s…
... you about this later on in this reply.
in a black 2a that is of any ... the tape deck from a +2a in a grey +2, you ... in favour of the +2a. It's the most compatible 128K Spectrum ... to work - simply wire in two different sockets for an ... -
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…
... // "update structs" Every tile in the display area managed by ... uchar *screen; // +7 address in display file where this tile ... the keyboard scanning functions. "spectrum.h" and "input.h" ... .
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A very first computer, a very first gameMaybe i'm duplicating some other posts, but... what was your first computer and game??? For me it was a rubber zx-spectrum 48k and tape with only t…
My actual first computer was a Spectrum+2A, and my first games were a bunch of them included in the computer pack, I remember Nonamed, Phantomas, Camelot Warriors, Army Moves, Phantomas 2, and I think there must be some others I am forgetting. -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... sacrificed res. just to get 4 colors at bottom... I don ... screen is 320 pixels wide in hi-res. That takes more ... was probaby faster to draw lines in the 4 color mode than do ... math is slower than drawing lines.
But then it may ... -
Your Speccy Games CollectionJust updated my Spectrum games list today after having a load of tapes lying around for months, managed to sort them out and I now have 1441 original…
... to get to the spectrum tapes which are in a box at ... Spectrum+2A working and all of the games that used to load in ... -
Your Speccy Games CollectionJust updated my Spectrum games list today after having a load of tapes lying around for months, managed to sort them out and I now have 1441 original…
... Spectrum+2A working and all of the games that used to load in ... -
Large spritesQuick question. Most of the documentation refers to creating sprites of a limited size. How would I create a sprite of for instance 32x32 or even la…
... detect etc.
In the book Spectrum Machine Language For The ... touches on game design and in the frogger game it generate ... by 16 pixel sprite from 4 8 by 8 pixel graphics ... -
Location, Location, Location.Guys, Quick question. Im starting to plan my game (as stated in a previous post). You are trapped in a house with zoombies attacking left right and…
Yep I have coded in basic, but also, java ... I did have a spectrum in 1983/4 before going on to ... the commodore +4, atari st, Amiga, pc ... With machine cade and the spectrum in particular Im going to ... br /> What I was interested in was for games like robotron ...
