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  • SevenuP and fontsIs it possible to use SevenuP to create replacement Spectrum fonts? If not, can anyone suggest a windows-based Speccy font editor? I've got plenty fo…

    ... differ too much from its sprite editor.
    Metalbrain Metalbrain August 2003 Development
  • 128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …

    The poke in line 40 went to bank 0.
    Confused yet?

    Think along the lines of 23388 and interrupts :)
    Woody Woody August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Trapdoor Has anyone here actually completed this game? I keep getting stuck on the "I want some Fried Eggs" mission. Yes i have read the text on this site,…

    ... to be done - those big sprite graphics are great!

    jil jil August 2003 Games
  • AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…

    ... + save[/B]

    [B]- Sprite creator and animation, maybe used ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Development
  • C, Z88DK and the Sprite Pack Library I wrote a short demo that shows a taste of what can be done from C on the Spectrum: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/zqa/pacmen.zip"]http://justme…

    May I take this opportunity to say a big THANKS to you for sprite pack! That and z88dk are the two things responsible for getting me interested in writing Spectrum stuff again after all these years. It's fabbo. :)

    *round of applause*
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks September 2003 Development
  • YM effects on Atari ST reproducable on Speccy?From the YM music format site: "SID-Voice SID-Voice is a great sound trick on the ATARI, because of low CPU consuming and great sound effects. It …

    ... a good tutorial on using interrupts, so I can use them ... .
    It requires 50hz, so interrupts would be perfect :)
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a September 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…

    ... (non-maskable) and MI (maskable interrupts). Both are triggered by external ... to talk about maskable interrupts.

    MI interrupts are called 'maskable ... returning. The Z80 automatically disables interrupts when an interrupt service routine ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Development
  • Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…

    ... I have been playing with interrupts, which don't seem to ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a September 2003 Development
  • C, Z88DK and the Sprite Pack Library I wrote a short demo that shows a taste of what can be done from C on the Spectrum: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/zqa/pacmen.zip"]http://justme…

    ... available a new version of Sprite Pack at:

    [url ... />
    The spiel:

    Sprite Pack is a machine code ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Development
  • Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…

    ... ei instruction should be removed. Interrupts are disabled while a maskable ... serviced, to make sure that interrupts don't chain, because if ... opens the possibility of chained interrupts (although only for a very ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain September 2003 Development
  • Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…

    ... the possibility of chained interrupts (although only for a ... particularly useful in nesting interrupts and linking different priority ... popped off by 'reti'. Interrupts keep happening, pushing more ... doesn't actually reenable interrupts until after the end of ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Development
  • Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…

    ... and will not generate further interrupts to report changing mouse position ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Development
  • Monochrome Speccy gamesOkay, we all know the Speccy was (allegedly) crap at colour and lots of games just had to be in monochrome (honest). But lots of programmers just us…

    ... clever use of colour and sprite masking! A real masterpiece. How ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2003 Games
  • Machine CodeI would like to learn how to use it. Where do I start? Thanks.

    ... assembly language programs, check out Sprite Pack (click my webpage below ... . Eg: one of the C sprite functions is "sp_MoveSprAbs()" which has ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Anybody got any news on the Double Dragon remake?????

    ... engine looks where is that sprite, what parts does it consist ... )) X,Y size of a sprite isn't fixed.)
    what ... : an engine must recognize when sprite doesnt fit onto the screen ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 October 2003 Games
  • create z80I want to Create z80 code and run it on an emulator for the 48k spectrum. I want it soo easy to use its a dream. I dont like dos based stuff.. Can a…

    ... tool, add a Graphics Editor/Sprite Designer and sound editor and ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2003 Development
  • What is this game?! Help neededEDIT 2 Okay this next game is a puzzle one...you control a red ball, and you have to jump on platforms collecting fruit and such. I'm almost certain…

    ... wizard (he was a white sprite) on it, surrounded by enemies ...
    Dangerblade Dangerblade October 2003 Games
  • Scariest Speccy Games EVER!!!!Were there any speccy games that truly made you smudge your shreddies? When Wolfman and Dracula were released with an 18 Certificate was that just b…

    JET SET WILLY...


    That evil looking sprite that appears in the PRIESTS HOLE, THE CHAPEL, and ENTRANCE TO HADES made me papper me grundies.
    chaosmongers chaosmongers October 2003 Games
  • The REAL minigames thread - TK, you are BANNED !!!!!!First of all: Martijn, don't delete this too. If we delete every topic with TK BS, he'll simply move to another one, and another one, and another on…

    ... be faster with hardware-based sprite scrolling...
    GOC GOC November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • CronosoftI've been reading the other thread, in which Cronosoft is mentioned with interest. :) Everyone is fully entitled to their views, and I'm in no way o…

    the point is that we still producing things for our beloved machines.. hmmm. that reminds me that I must to continue with graphics of "MoreTeaVicar??"... months since my last sprite =(
    judasEZT judasEZT November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • in-game soundhas anybody an experience in writting beeper routines? i tried to code some sound fx but it sounds really horrible...

    ... accidentaly forgotten to disable the interrupts :) ?
    GOC GOC November 2003 Development
  • Yet another TR-DOS questionI have yet another TR-DOS problem. I am using "LD C, command; CALL #3D13" to call the system functions. The problem is that TR-DOS automatically enab…

    ... ? The fact that it enables interrupts on exit does imply that ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2003 Development
  • Wot remakes have you got installed on ur pc?At the moment ive got Manic miner, jetset willy, cookie, the birds and the bees, ant attack, atic atac, attack of the mutant camels, football manager…

    ... coding. We got the main sprite moving around the first room ...
    John H John H November 2003 Games
  • 3D Game makerLittle suggestion to all those wonderful people out there who hack games and write their own wonderful little programs like the jet-set willy editior…

    ... sees that his first-ever sprite routine is working. I too ...
    GOC GOC November 2003 Development
  • 3D Game makerLittle suggestion to all those wonderful people out there who hack games and write their own wonderful little programs like the jet-set willy editior…

    ... sees that his first-ever sprite routine is working. I too ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2003 Development
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    It is dead, but still alive in our memory ;). How about change the graphic of the main hero a bit and bring up tha game as "Moonic the cute sprite". Sega has its own problems, so they don't really care about fan-made games.
    LCD LCD January 2004 Games
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... . Most good games expect some sprite routine to take a certain ... # of cycles that the initial sprite routine used to take.
    GOC GOC January 2004 Emulators
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... Spectrum games all did their sprite displays in exactly the same ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2004 Emulators
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    Just out of interest (assuming this is going to have to be done by patching game code), how many people here believe that they would be able to find and patch sprite drawing routines in Speccy games?
    Woody Woody January 2004 Emulators
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... able to find and patch sprite drawing routines in Speccy games ...
    Refrenz Refrenz January 2004 Emulators
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