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  • text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …

    ... to use a kind of text compression routine

    each location ...
    chop983 chop983 July 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Simple text scrolling routine...I'm having trouble writing a very simple text scroller, the idea is to use the ROM printer routine to print 32 characters each time the routine is ca…

    ... simple text scroller, the idea is to use the ROM printer routine ... 32 characters each time the routine is called, updating the de ... de with new start of text
    call attr ;call colour ...
    daveysludge daveysludge September 2014 Development
  • Text scroller and custom fontYesterday I was testing this text scroll routine taken from Jonathan Cauldwell's Intro Maker (labels have been inserted to allow partial code relocab…

    Yesterday I was testing this text scroll routine taken from Jonathan Cauldwell's ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu January 2016 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ...
    The fat-text scrolling routine must run during the interrupt ... malloc, which supports variable size blocks, may not be ... memory blocks of requested size and u_free for reabsorbing ... (void) // an interrupt routine called every 1/50s
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... =joefish;734909]How about a text print routine then, that can write ... , I'm now convinced this size is too small for multicolor ... this way.

    The routine interface could be something like ... I should really provide a routine for both tasks (drawing the ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2013 Brand new software
  • Tile routinesHi all, Please does anyone have any examples of tile routines in pure asm to set up maptile screens. I would like to try and understand them and ti…

    ... something simple such as this text print routine

    [code] ld ... full-screen monochrome 8x8 tile routine now. :)

    From there ... -tile color, change the tile size to e.g. 16x16, experiment ...
    Hikaru Hikaru February 2014 Development
  • Html / Css HelpGuys I have been busting my gut over this problem all evening maybe you can help me out. If have the following code that presents me with a well lai…

    ... ;}
    span.formItemText{text-align: right; width: 35%; font-size: 100%}
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk January 2009 Chit chat
  • probably a stupid question about RST16I'm using the 'hello world' code borrowed from [url=http://equant-retrochallenge.blogspot.com/2008/07/zx-spectrum-assembly-programming-under.html]her…

    ... the basis of my text printing routine for the intro screen ... /> ret

    printline: ; Routine to print out a line ... checked the chunk of text in the spin debugger ... chunk of zero-terminated text and I haven't ...
    sack sack October 2011 Development
  • The Incredible Shrinking ForumMy forum fonts have suddenly gone small! What's up with that? My browser text size settings haven't changed. Hang on! Everything's gone small, not j…

    My forum fonts have suddenly gone small! What's up with that? My browser text size settings haven't changed.

    Hang on! Everything's gone small, not just WoS, on both Explorer & Firefox. What's up with that?
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2013 Chit chat
  • Issue 2 colour problemsHey all, I've got a slight colour problem with my Issue 2 Spectrum, as can be seen below: [IMG]http://www.bennyalford.com/images/issue2a.jpg[/IMG] …

    ... /images/issue2a.jpg[/IMG]
    [SIZE="1"]Note the overall blue ... , and pink fringing on the text[/SIZE]

    [IMG]http://www ... /images/issue2b.jpg[/IMG]
    [SIZE="1"]This is meant to ... be red border and paper![/SIZE]

    I know about ...
    balford balford June 2013 Hardware
  • SpecBAS 0.780 releasedHi all - Back again with a new SpecBAS release! It's all been about arrays this time around, and to add to those lovely associative arrays from las…

    ... array. Subscripts can be any size, and varied in number. They ... />
    Will draw text in twice the size. The first parameter is ... SCALE command will change the text size (duh!) which will affect all ... ,2;"Hi!" will display 2x text size. SCALE 2,3 will do ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Zero 0.7 / Zero 0.6.5 releasedAfter months of grueling work, I?m proud to announce the Vanilla version of Zero, which is a regular Windows version of the emulator. I?ve tried to m…

    ... and image placement if Windows text size is increased.
    ? Fixed incorrect ... + TAB (karingal).
    ? Fixed window size incrementing by 100% instead of ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2015 Emulators
  • Should WoS get a facelift?I think everyone would agree that "The World of Spectrum" has the most comprehensive collection of Speccy related stuff, and is essential resource fo…

    ... too big, and altering the SIZE="x" makes no difference, even ... 800*600, though setting my text size to "smallest" solved the problem ... do this. so for this size problem i guess the spectrum ... ?

    apart from the size being too big it does ...
    Amigo Amigo June 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Should WoS get a facelift?I think everyone would agree that "The World of Spectrum" has the most comprehensive collection of Speccy related stuff, and is essential resource fo…

    ... />
    For me, setting the text size to "smaller" solved the problem ... suppose that's the font size that others have set on ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • GUI in sinclair basic.Can anyone point me to any existing subroutines or functions or library to be called whithin sinclair basic to create visual command like messageboxe…

    The 3e ROM / Basic extensions have a new channel for windows. You can even specify the size of the text.

    OPEN #5"w>0,0,24,32,3"

    Opens a new window at line 0, column 0, hight of 24, width of 32, text size 3.
    dasteph dasteph January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • I'm a naughty little man!I've had quite a dodgy week or so, some rather disturbing news back home (bad things going on with my ma, but I won't bore you with the details) has …

    ... />
    For example: (hidden text)

    [SIZE="7"][color="#f5f5ff"]YOU ... SEEN ME RIGHT!!
    [/color][/SIZE]


    Or advanced ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk July 2007 Chit chat
  • worst sites on the internetwhat are the worst sites on the internet that you have come across.

    ... ) which have [B]tiny[/B] text, oh so stylish but you ... be able to change the text size anyway, but I remember on ... could just not resize the text at all on some sites ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG August 2008 Chit chat
  • A Bit of Fun!! Three word story.Ok, so lets build up a random story. [b]Rules[/b] Each person must submit three words each. Consecutive posts are not allowed. You must allow a mini…

    [SIZE="1"]worked on text[/SIZE]
    ZnorXman ZnorXman September 2008 Chit chat
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... think Pavero is referring to text already compressed in spectrum's ... /> In this case, the text printing routine would have to be dissasembled ... guess the format, then the text should be extracted, translated and ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain May 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... think Pavero is referring to text already compressed in spectrum's ... /> In this case, the text printing routine would have to be dissasembled ... guess the format, then the text should be extracted, translated and ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn May 2009 Games
  • The Making Of Manic Miner"Matthew Smith talks us through every level of his classic platformer Sat at the very desk where it was written, Matthew Smith watches Miner Willy l…

    ... )

    * Fantastic double height text drawing routine!

    * Only character ... [slow] when need to draw text (only once at beginning of ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter February 2010 Games
  • New quiz and interview coming on our site...Hello everyone, For those that played (or didn't!) our quiz last week - it's been updated again at [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com"]ZX Spe…

    ... missing something here with the SIZE tag? Why does the smallest ... ]larger[/b] than usual text size? And trying "size=-2" also makes it ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG May 2010 Games
  • New quiz and interview coming on our site...Hello everyone, For those that played (or didn't!) our quiz last week - it's been updated again at [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com"]ZX Spe…

    ... missing something here with the SIZE tag? Why does the smallest ... ]larger[/b] than usual text size? And trying "size=-2" also makes it ...
    Retrobrothers Retrobrothers May 2010 Games
  • Looking for an e-reader handheld device.I've come to a sudden decision that I want one of these :-) basically to create a bit of space by getting all of the books I own in digital format an…

    ... you are playing either). The text-to-speech is only worth ... call the Browser/Music Player/Text-To-Speech are in the ... and allow you to change text size, words
    polomint polomint January 2011 Chit chat
  • Tile based graphics and scrolling thingy...Here's my best attempt so far at a tile based rendering and scrolling routine. It draws in 22 8*8 graphics tiles along the top of the screen (junk i…

    ... routine again. The tile printer part was evolved from a simple text ... printing routine that used RST 16 ... how much stuff the ROM routine does and I thought I ... fair bit with my own routine. It then dawned on me ...
    Zoltar Zoltar September 2011 Development
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim...has been confirmed! [url]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=280129[/url] A direct sequel to Oblivion, and has been in developme…

    ... major gripe with it. The text is practically unreadable on my ... little bit to put the text in. Ive had no problems ... they at least have a text size option for god sake.
    festershinetop festershinetop November 2011 Chit chat
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim...has been confirmed! [url]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=280129[/url] A direct sequel to Oblivion, and has been in developme…

    ... major gripe with it. The text is practically unreadable on my ... little bit to put the text in. Ive had no problems ... they at least have a text size option for god sake.[/QUOTE ...
    Vampyre Vampyre November 2011 Chit chat
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim...has been confirmed! [url]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=280129[/url] A direct sequel to Oblivion, and has been in developme…

    ... major gripe with it. The text is practically unreadable on my ... little bit to put the text in. Ive had no problems ... they at least have a text size option for god sake.[/QUOTE ...
    Daren Daren November 2011 Chit chat
  • So easy to use.Back in the 90s I was off work for 3 months following an operation, anyway in my boredom I dusted off my old speccy+ and the manual, and got my head …

    ... were not displayed properly, the text was too small on my ... /> And can I increase the text size in the BASin window without ...
    RetroGamerUK RetroGamerUK January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • So easy to use.Back in the 90s I was off work for 3 months following an operation, anyway in my boredom I dusted off my old speccy+ and the manual, and got my head …

    ... were not displayed properly, the text was too small on my ... /> And can I increase the text size in the BASin window without ... how to change the font size. There are also a number ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2012 Sinclair Basic
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