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  • 128 spectrum zx +2 is stuck on test screenhey this is my first spectrum i bought it from a boot-sale for 2 pound and it came with loads of games but when i turn it on i get the test screen an…

    ... it on i get the test screen and it makes the beep ... keeps going bk to the test screen can any one help?
    omighty_one omighty_one June 2007 Hardware
  • +2A shows test screen and beepsNew day, new problem. A +2A, which seems to be in good condition, shows the colored test screen when powered-up and beeps about once every second. Am…

    ... good condition, shows the colored test screen when powered-up and beeps ...
    schombi schombi October 2013 Hardware
  • test screencan someone help? iv got a spectrum 128k +2 B i found in the attic form whenn i was a kid. it powers up only it starts on the test screen with out me…

    ... only it starts on the test screen with out me starting it ...
    bartiddu bartiddu May 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum 2+ Stuck on Test ScreenHello, I hope you can point me in the right direction. I recently purchased a ZX Spectrum 2+ which I've never owned before or used. After booting,…

    ... , it gets stuck on the "test screen". After doing some reading I ... understand you can boot this screen by holding break when pressing ... is the screenshot of the test page I am seeing: http ...
    eDrinker eDrinker September 2015 Hardware
  • Load! Screen$ questionI've got a basic program listing in BASIN which among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save!'ed a screen into memory before hand). How d…

    ... among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save!'ed ... a screen into memory before hand). How ... program listing and save the screen(s) in memory to one ...
    Nonsense in BASIC Nonsense in BASIC April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • printing to the screen using pokei remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyon…

    i remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyone remember?
    digital digital August 2018 Development
  • 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…

    ... Leave some space for shadow screen buffer
    20 GO ... Character fill
    340 POKE 63692,o-256*INT( ... lower byte
    350 POKE 63693,o/256: REM higher ... Hatched fill
    380 POKE 63692,196: REM lower ... byte
    390 POKE 63693,248: REM higher byte ...
    Volker Volker February 2021 Software
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... say that the TAP file test was a success :)
    Thanks ... =34768
    30 LOAD "" SCREEN$
    40 POKE 23739,111: LOAD "" CODE ...
    50 POKE extvec,195
    60 POKE extvec+12,20 ... not sure that a single POKE will work with all the ...
    alban lusitanae alban lusitanae March 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... the second version of "Memory test".

    [url]http://www ... the "OVER m" rather than POKE idea was applied. I have ... scheme, from the spectrum defaults, via "POKE 23693,x: CLS". A few ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • BASIC error messagesDoes anyone know what all the numbers mean after the various error messages in Sinclair BASIC? Does anyone know how to instigate each error type?

    ... mode", and the "1987 colour test screen".

    I didn't ... really do that with a POKE? Mr DP, more info please ... enough times you get a screen full of question marks. Mmmm ...
    gcallard gcallard June 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • PC Graphics card incompatibility issueHey all, ive had a mates PC in for repair, well, upgrade. Against my judgement he's gone and bought a PCI card (Geforce 8400GS 512mb), even though th…

    ... machine is doing the POST test? If not, then no driver ... can you see anything on screen via the Nvidia graphics card? Or ...
    The Starglider The Starglider October 2010 Chit chat
  • New SpecBAS available - v0.710Been a while, but I've just uploaded the latest build of SpecBAS. This one now supports tilemaps (with rotation and scaling) and added OVER mode (XO…

    ... I make SpecBAS full screen instead of a window ... doesn't toggel between full screen and windowed).

    via POKE/PEEK? What I ... i.e.

    Poke name_MP_address, value,


    i.e. Poke dd_MP_32768, 0.

    ewgf ewgf November 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New SpecBAS available - v0.710Been a while, but I've just uploaded the latest build of SpecBAS. This one now supports tilemaps (with rotation and scaling) and added OVER mode (XO…

    [QUOTE=ewgf;579158]Thanks for this, Dunny, but is there an archive of programs I can try for it?[/quote]

    I shall pop an archive of demo programs up for you. Here you go:

    [url]https://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/demos.zip[/url]< ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Microhobby's Pixel A Pixel compoI've recently found out that there's been a graphics competition Pixel A Pixel held by Microhobby magazine, thx to Ivanzx for pointing this out in on…

    ... a direct conversion to ZX-Screen via Javascript with generating a base64 ... concept. My values for the test images had been xStart: 8 ... - but I repeat, the [B]test image is inaccurate and will ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…

    ... proggie I wrote to test plotting with POKE (that is, direct ... slowly. The explanation of the screen addressing comes from [URL="http ... 2010/10/02/zx-spectrum-screen-memory/"]http://flockofspectrums.wordpress. ... /2010/10/02/zx-spectrum-screen-memory/
    1107 REM ...
    JonB JonB October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ...
    [code]100 REM Setup Test Screen
    110 GO SUB 310 ... br /> 150 POKE 63000,X
    160 POKE 63001,Y
    170 POKE 63002,W< ... br /> 180 POKE 63003,H< ... br /> 190 POKE 63004,A< ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • +3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…

    [quote="colourclash;952476"]Does the test screen use the beeper as well ... ). The two sources are mixed via a couple of resistors and ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore May 2019 Hardware
  • +3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…

    ... "][quote="colourclash;952476"]Does the test screen use the beeper as well ... ). The two sources are mixed via a couple of resistors and ...
    colourclash colourclash May 2019 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... getting pixels onto the screen via the drawing or text ... placed anywhere on the screen with no character grid, ...

    That said, SCREEN$ does work (and like AT ... could use that to test if the squares below ... the size of the screen and how many characters ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Help wanted with + 3Recently got a plus 3, checked it over and keyboard works etc. Just got a disc to try drive and nothing is happening. I select loader and when it a…

    ... an easy way to test the drive (poke or something) or is ...
    Fazz Fazz February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • What's the RAND USR code for the test screen?And what versions of hardware does it work on? Ta!

    And what versions of hardware does it work on?

    Ta!
    Vertigo Vertigo December 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 2007, and still no NIC and browser for the Speccy?I've started to read all the w.o.s. threads, starting by the ones that came up with the search function, using the keywords of the topics that intere…

    ... be be displayed in the screen via an engine similar to the ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2007 Development
  • Whats the rarest item in your speccy collection?Title says its all. Mine is probably a service centre test rom card to soak test speccies via the interface 2. Have a couple of ROM games in the ma…

    ... a service centre test rom card to soak test speccies via the interface ...
    Womble Womble February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Two dead SpectrumsHi all, Long time since I posted on here. I'm having a bit of a clear-out, and I've re-discovered two Spectrums I had in the loft : One is an orig…

    ... I can get nothing on screen (via the modulator - don't have ... a nice blocky kaleidoscope on screen; so I'm guessing keyboard ...
    The_Beard The_Beard August 2009 Hardware
  • Looking for cursor routineIt's been a long time since I programmed a little bit in Basic, so I decided to create a simple cursor routine: [url]http://db.tt/SPnSdpx[/url] I k…

    ... movement mode, maybe selectable via one simple POKE before calling it
    via PEEK?)
    -Return to Basic ... n keys could be assigned via POKE before launching the routine.
    zxbruno zxbruno September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Saving space using procedural graphicsAfter spending several hours playing around with various packers to squash the Alien8 test screen$ it occured to me that maybe bigger space savings c…

    ... packers to squash the Alien8 test screen$ it occured to me that ... procedural method to draw the screen. Various key areas of the ... the depacker). Looking at the screen, it consists of what looks ...
    jamorski jamorski July 2012 Development
  • Metropolis - The Arcade GameFRITZ LANG&#8217;S METROPOLIS &#8211; The Arcade Game I&#8217;ve been wanting to do this for over 25 years, and thanks to Jonathan Cauldwell&#8217;s…

    ... />
    I knocked out this test screen today that won’t be ...
    ZX Beccy ZX Beccy March 2013 New game ideas
  • Two more faulty onesCould I get your opinion on these two faults, please? Understanding these two cases would be very beneficial for my ZX education. Thanks! - A Spectr…

    ... a sudden. However, the "Beep-test" (test screen) works, so the Spectrum is ...
    schombi schombi November 2013 Hardware
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