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Identify more games ...Hi all, I apologize for using this forum to prop up my memory (I was very, very young when i had my Spectrum), but this is another one of those thin…
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FZX ScrollI wrote a routine to scroll message in ZX Spectrum screen, using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44088"]FZX[/URL] fonts.…
... the buffer. I avoided to scroll out all bits of buffer ... : yes, this routine works with big fonts, as long as the ... must remember to adjust buffer size according to font height. I ... have to mention that printing big font is very slow and ... -
Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64I found an old oldish, but very informed and interesting article on the ole Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 argument. The article explains the technical d…
One big difference is in C64 ... I]always[/I] the same size. Whereas on the Spectrum, ... complete control over how big the sprites are going ... screen; it couldn't scroll in a window. To ... bottom scoreboards required changing the scroll registers at just the ... -
Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64I found an old oldish, but very informed and interesting article on the ole Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 argument. The article explains the technical d…
[QUOTE=joefish;783770]One big difference is in C64 games, ... [I]always[/I] the same size. Whereas on the Spectrum, because ... have complete control over how big the sprites are going to ... bottom scoreboards required changing the scroll registers at just the right ... -
Marmite game poll: GhostbustersLet's settle this with a poll! :-D
... that the car is the size it is because David Crane ... wanted to show off how big a sprite he could get ... scroll to move it smoothly; my money would be on the size ... -
llvm-z80 statusFew months ago I read about efforts to produce llvm back-end for the Z80 (even perhaps as part of new z88dk). Any update on that? I found [URL="htt…
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ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…
... (especially if the map is big), and it occurred to me ... in ZX-Editor, but for text.
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ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…
... 'm shocked that the sinclair text tool does not work properly ... , twice the clicks is no big deal :)[/QUOTE]
Indeed ... /> it character aligned. Setting raster size to 8 doesn't help ... active, please enable the sinclair text tool again. When you click ... -
Testers for new z88dk clibA long (long, long, long) time ago a few people offered to help test the new clib in z88dk. Much time has passed since then and I won't hold people,…
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It is a big deal in terms of a ... above is creating three different text windows on screen and allows ... a little nervous about the size of it which is why ... -
Testers for new z88dk clibA long (long, long, long) time ago a few people offered to help test the new clib in z88dk. Much time has passed since then and I won't hold people,…
... 0x0f -- foreground attribute (colour of text)
0 -- ... source. Things like org, size of the heap, max ... you can change the buffer size for editing or push characters ... IOCTL_OTERM_PAGE, bool); // page or scroll
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FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... ability to edit text adds a lot more code size than simple ... , the 15k block is the text. The new pragmas employed in ... fzx code is not that big. But I know the memory ... -
Vote the Best Game of 2014! [MULTIPLE CHOICE]You can read the title of the thread, can't you. Remember, it's a [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="6"]MULTIPLE CHOICE[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] poll, vote how many g…
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Sami Troid Decent ... /> The Prisoner Aww sorry, another text adventure I never made time ... never progressed far, bit too big for me ATM, one day ... not played this enough yet[/SIZE]
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Forum bugs and style issuesPlease list any issues found here. I will work through them.<br><br>Bear in mind the forum is still being built and finalised so there will be …
... box doesn't show the text cursor. It appears only when ... .
2. Quoted text font size is quite big! Can we retain original ... font size and possibly just ...'Input' MagazineJust wondering if anyone else remembers this magazine from the 80s.. And the cheesy TV ads..<br><br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usiyCD2ptBQ…
... , so type-ins were a big part of my computer use ... nice being able to print text and draw graphics on the ...The magic's goneI dunno, i'm glad the new site is now up and running and most of the regulars are here but there's something missing and i can't quite put my finger …
... really clumsy and mostly broken text editor does make participating more ... /> Right there is the really big problem as it is now ...My first Greasemonkey script, up for testingI've decided to play with Greasemonkey and javascript today. (Greasemonkey is an add-on under Firefox)<br><br>Here's my first script written purely f…
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/* change the Big Blue Button into something lighter ... { padding: 2px !important; font-size: 80% !important; }
... /* Makes all the normal text in the message header look ... : darkgreen !important;
font-size: 8pt !important;
/* ...RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
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Here you see two text terminals opened and the program ... fzx fonts. The windows automatically scroll and characters that don't ... where you can enter editable text. (shift+0 or PC ... small too depending on font size and number of characters in ...Reading PC text files from BASIC!I was playing around with my DivMMC Enjoy! and managed to work out that it's dead easy to load PC .TXT files into the Speccy - I've got them viewable…
... plugged my Spectrum into a big TV and had an ... program that would display the text of a book like ... though, so maybe some text compression or use of the ... to read in the text and arrange it in ... . And of course, no "scroll?" nonsense! The whole thing could ...Reading PC text files from BASIC!I was playing around with my DivMMC Enjoy! and managed to work out that it's dead easy to load PC .TXT files into the Speccy - I've got them viewable…
... be to load the whole text into the Spectrum, which wouldn ... the "scroll?", my sofa is about 10 feet from the big screen ... store each chapter as plain text similar to how the Original ...Function with push and popIm trying to see if I understand push and pop when it comes to using to pass parameters to functions: [code] LD HL,16384 LD A,5 Push AF Ld A…
... and easy but has a size and speed penalty?
[/quote ...P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…
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Thanks ... '. Furthermore, if you limit the scroll to 2 directions, then you ... , the big problem is pixel data, due to the shear size of ...Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…
... ability to ready standard ascii text files.
I'm ... in size too much, but given an address of some text, should ... to change character set mid scroll or print without too much ...Shadow of the Beast review:New review at Spectrum Paradise, it's turn for the impressive Shadow of the Beast, an excellent game with nice and neat graphics, smooth animations a…
... repeatable blocks of scenery the size of the smaller tree rather ... of the really big sprites, like the big red dragon that only ... Speccy sometime; doing a foreground scroll at 4px per frame with ...MuCho multiple choise adventure engine, release 2 - little to no programming neededRelease 2 of the MuCho multiple choise adventure (CYOA, choose your own adventure, gamebook) game engine. http://iki.fi/sol/zip/mucho_02.zip Fo…
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Whoopsie yeah. The total size is probably over 100k?[/quote ... need to make some rather big changes to the engine to ... $O blocks to literally remove text, but the result was worse ...New engine: MuCho, Multiple-Choice Adventure Engine, Release 1I made a multiple choice adventure engine, or choose your adventure engine, or gamebook engine. Something in those lines. Win32 toolkit: http://so…
... a command like changing text colour?
And ... changes the text colour, is the text that follows ... as commands without affecting the text flow?
... Y size, and simply take a rectangle that big from ... But it would make text and graphics on the ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... potential disk reads of significant size before you're even started ... /> There is a reason the big database engines entirely eschew the ... your case, this kind of text search is better accomplished by ... use an in-database Full Text Query solution or an external ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... potential disk reads of significant size before you're even started ... There is a reason the big database engines entirely eschew the ... your case, this kind of text search is better accomplished by ... />
If data gets a big larger, exactly the same problem ...z80 Helper?When you are programming with z80 do you get 'lost' you are in the middle of making a routine and you can't remember which registers are holding val…
... could expand this in a text editor but the mass of ... would become huge and too big to understand.
In ... x is big" is good to keep the code size at a ...ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... Spectrum only as additional hardware text modes: 32 x 24 & ... 256, for a total memory size of 2MB. (This is not ... software and it was too big to fit into 16k. The ...endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... lead to trouble. A text should be teaching good practice ... space and increases the size of a program (has ... disadvantage is in the memory size.
joefish ... > And it was a big step back from Basic on ... and about the same size as the spectrum basic ...
