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More than 256 colours in full screen Spectaculator?When Spectaculator starts up in full screen and you go to load a game the windows menus are a terrible colour and look garish. I guess thats becaus…
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Invisible loading screenI can't remember how this is done (I did it years ago but can't remember how). When loading a screen$ from basic you can see the lines being display…
... ).
When loading a screen$ from basic you can see ... />
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Best loading screen.What's the best loading screen in your opinion? I really liked the one on Rescue from Atlantis (maybe minus the text) [url="http://www.worldofspec…
What's the best loading screen in your opinion?
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Newbie Alert - So which is the best Emu overall?hey, yeah this has probably been asked a million times before so apologies for that! but anyway, i was wondering which is the best all-round emu, ju…
... , do any ever run full-screen well?)
it's ... mum is forcing me to sort out my bedroom that is ... summer but info on that sort of thing would be cool ... -
Map to screen address problemCan anyone help me out with what I guess is a screen address calculation problem. I need to calculate the screen address of a tile based on a number…
... what I guess is a screen address calculation problem.
I need to calculate the screen address of a tile based ... to calculate for the other screen thirds.
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Mikro - Gen : "The Game"Me again !! I've got a Mikro Gen cassette labelled simply as "The Game". Unfortunatley there is no inlay. I've loaded it and the program name is "…
... ", and loads with a loading screen simply saying "Mikro Gen". Its ... to Moon Cresta, Pheenix, that sort of thing (pretty crap actually ... -
Stylish Font - Earliest Instance?Hiya, In Sabrewulf's initial screen, you can see the word "Ultimate" with the sort of IMHO stylish font where two or three colors are used in a sort…
... initial screen, you can see the word "Ultimate" with the sort of ... colors are used in a sort of gliding, dithered kind of ... -
Fastest way to write something to screen$Hi, I just got pasmo.exe and start playing with attr scrolling, well, not scrolling, just write different values to a block and see if I can introdu…
... fastest way to update the screen. I know that ldir/lddr ... -
Sinclair flat screen pocket TV problemCan anyone give me some advise regarding a picture problem on a Sinclair flat screen pocket TV The picture has a black curvy band at the top and bot…
... problem on a Sinclair flat screen pocket TV
The ... top and bottom of the screen
Here is a ... is not moving across the screen
channel 4 is ... -
Changing the colour of the screenCan anyone tell me the ROM command to change the paper colour of the main screen ?
Can anyone tell me the ROM command to change the paper colour of the main screen ? -
Screen distortion problems, I can't fix it!I just managed to get myself a ZX Spectrum +2 from the local car boot sale but for some reason theres a distortion halfway down the screen when i pla…
... a distortion halfway down the screen when i play games.
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screen$ and ramdisk 128kDoes anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape?
Does anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape? -
Screen damaged while loadingI've written a simple Spectrum game and did a loading screen for it and now i'm trying to put it together into tzx file. My Basic loader is really s…
... game and did a loading screen for it and now i ... simple:
1 Load'' Screen$
2 load '' Code
My problem is that after screen is loaded,
Spectrum starts ...
"Bytes:code" statement into screen, just into hero's face ... -
Connect Speccy to LCD monitor?Hey all.. I've just busted my 3rd bloody TV set in a single year, I'm just fed up with cheapo old 14s by now.. ;) I do have a 17" LCD screen that ca…
... do have a 17" LCD screen that came with my last ... Speccy to that one? Some sort of TV Tuner thingie or ... -
128k Speccy ScreenAm I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and d…
Am I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and draw the sprites etc... a-la 48k ??) -
Anyone know where I can get retro clacky keyboards for PCs?I have tried the ubitquitous Google, and about the best I can find are old IBM microswitched keyboards. Which were great, but not what I'm after. Wh…
... -screen terminals attached to mainframes. You know, the BBC Micro-esque sort ... -
screen$I'm wanting to create a game which is written mostly is Basic, due to lack of MC skills but i need a MC routine if someone would kindly supply it I…
... these in memory
eg screen 1 at address 23296 to ... 30208
screen 2 at address 30209 to ... used to mess up the screen if you were pressing a ... -
SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…
How can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC?
If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and the last two lines are destroyed! -
Name that game number 23,843,342 in a seriesHello! Name this game please, so I can play it later. OK, I'm not sure if you could select your screen colours but as far as I remember it by default…
... if you could select your screen colours but as far as ... in a craft of some sort and flew through tunnels doing ... -
Hidden piccy in Cylu loading screen.I was looking at the eggs at [url="http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#"]http://www.cl4.org/comp/spectrum/eggs/#[/url] and I was wondering about …
... wondering about the Cylu loading screen ... the little doohickies* on the ... -
The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …
... to understand the way the screen is controlled.
The ... controls output to the the screen and the rom sets out ... the memory locations of the screen ( and attributes ). is this correct ... -
Return of Speccy screen buffer formatI recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only two colours in an 8x8 pixel block has made its return in a slightly dif…
... recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only ... -
Optimisation Needed! Is this the Fastest way to copy bytes from screen and back again?I have the screen address (say 0,0 i.e 16384) I want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the screen to an area of memory. I then want to cop…
... (4433 TStates to copy from screen to store)
screen
Can ...
; Clear the screen to show we are bringing ... ; Copy from store to the screen
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WOS - The Computer Game I may start looking at putting some quick routines together for this over the weekend, so wanted to establish some sort of concensus as to the form …
... , so wanted to establish some sort of concensus as to the ... , and how much of the screen is to be taken up ... -
Convert Screen to TAPHow do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one …
How do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one for memory and then copy them all together into one tap file)
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ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... my time to shrink the screen in a pixel perfect solution ... to show the whole spectrum screen at once !!!
Besides, on ... the touch screen to simulate the keyboard, with some sort of quick ... -
Old trials bike gameHello. I've been trying to remember the name of an old motorbike simulator. It was a side on affair, where you had to balance the rider, and manouvre…
... , at the bottom of the screen, a top down view also ... you to move in a sort of 'z axis'... I know ... -
Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?
Almost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever? -
Name that screen shotJust picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on pag…
Just picked up a half price copy of Gamestm's Retro compilation magazine and was wondering is someone could indentify the spectrum screen shot on page 18 column 2 row 1 -
Name this game...So, for the last week or so, I've been assembling vague pieces of a memory of an old Spectrum game. My best description is: Some sort of arcade/adv…
... /> Some sort of arcade/adventure
May be flick screen or scroll ...
