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  • Programing ROM CART from PCHave anybody tried to make a piece of hardware that would be able to program (burn) SINCLAIR cartridge from PC? In the sense, you take TAP or TZX and…

    ... from adress 0 (Alternative: a routine to copy and decompress it ... different ROM of 16 Kb size.
    LCD LCD April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Urban Speccy MythI remember many moons ago my mate telling me that there was some RANDOMIZE USR command that would destroy your speccy!!!! Is there any truth in this…

    It's bollocks.

    There is a one line routine which turns all the text to gobbledegook, but of course as soon as you switch the machine off and on again, it stops it.
    thx1138 thx1138 May 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... dont exceed a certain file size. if others want to sure ...
    Amigo Amigo June 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • *** CRONOSOFT *** help a little so it can Serve YOU betterSalud if you believe in what [url="http://www.cronosoft.co.uk/"]Cronosoft[/url] is doing and would like to help out a little bit, you could mention…

    ... will(should) bring down the size considerably. otherwise delete all the ... linking to cronosoft. button, or text or whatever. im sure he ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... vertical "rotation", forcing the vertical size to be 3 characters rather ... as being tiled by character-size cells.

    Anyway, using ... in an alternative sprite draw routine for drawing sprites without any ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • Russian machinesbjohnnybravo's post about importing computers into Yugoslavia set me thinking... As I've seen a load of Russian Dizzy games (and others), all using …

    When I lived in Russia I played a whole bunch of translated into Russian games, and also Russian originals. I think there is no way to switch the language in the game because most likely they dumped the English text to reduce file size
    Vortexrider Vortexrider August 2003 Games
  • Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…

    Here's the Lenslok proggy I chose...
    It's TT RACER but I'd imagine the following could be applied to all Lenslok games...


    =====================
    TT RACER AND LENSLOK
    =====================

    Ok, So the ...
    BadBeard BadBeard August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    Dunny, copy-paste text into basin is a very ... how useful a compression/decompressio routine would be for ordinary users ...
    Arjun Arjun August 2003 Development
  • Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…

    ... put some text into something like A$, then call the routine. it ... would print out the text in either of ...
    icabod icabod October 2003 Games
  • Long Lost ListingsWay back in the day when I still had those three issues of Sinclair Programs (which got lost in the Great House Move of three years ago DAMNDAMNDAMN)…

    ... User routine, which is very small. It takes a line of text ... * the PRINT AT 0,41; routine I'm looking for, but ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…

    ... Atlas Assignment and The Island (text adventures by Martyn C. Davies ... to be a machine code routine? Oddly enough, though the game ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…

    ... can then list all the text in the program.

    routine which even I could nearly ...
    dave_beer_uk dave_beer_uk October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Whats wrong with my spectrum 48 kWhen i startup, instead of copyright messsage i get gray screen with black square in middle.

    ... see any square but the text in the bottom of the ... starts fine with the copyright text and then I can type ...
    Bergman Bergman November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... that his first-ever sprite routine is working. I too have ... update it'll be plain text. Besides Geocities is my dumping ...
    GOC GOC November 2003 Development
  • The 5 games you thought you should like or should be better at playingThe games i think i should really get into or should be better at but cant cos im crap at em / just dont like em are :- 1) All flight sims (really r…

    ALL text adventures. I'm so sick ... the old 'guess the verb routine' that I've never explored ...
    GOC GOC January 2004 Games
  • ZX81 ScrollingI'm tempted to have a go at a bit of ZX81 programming, using MCODER II, though I could really use a fast multi-directional scrolling routine. Does a…

    ... about it. First determine RAM-size, over 3,75K then it ... /> Up is the normal SCROLL-routine in ROM
    and down ... left you could use the routine as above and not compress ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... current program. If the library routine itself contains more LIB declarations ... final binary. Importantly, each library routine is attached exactly once to ... ROM (eg certain constants and text strings) and RAM data. With ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... an issue since the size of CSW2 is already ... comparable to the size of the TZX.
    ... bitstream that the loading routine makes from the series ... after the compression the size of the block would be ... almost the same as the size of block $10.
    ...
    Mikie Mikie February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • 42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…

    ... program) to the machine code routine. The problem this presents ... , insofar as using the routine with PAW is concerned, ... from PAW's text formatter (the wordwrap routine which prevents words ... the Print Utilities machine code routine rather than straight to ...
    woodcock88 woodcock88 February 2004 Development
  • emuzwinyeah i ran my game and i can't get back to the programming screen bit! when i used to have a speccy i'd just bang the keyboard a few times and it'd …

    ... to store result as text (resulting text is inserted into the ... a bit to allow compiling text from the disassemble directly ... menu now resized to smaller size to fit place available.

    [*] Display size is changed now with Alt ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov February 2004 Emulators
  • 42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…

    ... enable or disable the print routine.

    The print subroutine ... get better looking 42 column text.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2004 Development
  • Changes that would have made a bad game goodA posting about technician ted beign far too hard to be playable got me thinking - what changes could have been made to existing games to make them b…

    ... hard on the eyes in text adventures and the like.
    routine, and substituted nice hi-res pc text instead - not ... that that would work with games with custom text ...
    Neil^P Neil^P March 2004 Games
  • No speech in Cobra's Arc? A mystery tale from Spain...I once downloaded CsA - probably from some Spanish retrogaming website - in TAP format. While I usually discard TAP files in favor of TZX ones as soo…

    ... Spain. I've seen several text adventures in both the Speccy ... you had your M/C routine somewhere and you could use ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2004 Games
  • Martianoids Map Editor Yup, I`ve managed to get instructions written it`s now ready for downloading at [url="http://www.angelfire.com/retro/carcass/index.htm"]www.angelf…

    ... sprites are 32x32 pixels in size.
    So it would wave ... one-character-square-per-pixel routine that are easy (in theory ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins April 2004 Games
  • SinistarFollowing on from the post asking for games with digitized speech... I'd love to see a Speccy version of Sinistar with speech - either digitized or …

    ... /> I have a Digital speech routine, not by me, that could ... it to sound like English, text in the strings need to ...
    Sadako Sadako May 2004 Games
  • The Speccy Games Programming CompetitionFor those who weren't following the OT thread... We have the CGC and we have the Minigames competitions, but we don't have an actual Spectrum Games …

    ... a text adventure use music written in WHAM! or simply mc routine ... . ask people for fast MC routine (there is a development forum ...
    Fikee Fikee May 2004 Games
  • Text-based Adventure GamesI really got into these after playing "The Hobbit" on the Speccy. I really enjoyed the Level 9 games: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon …

    ... ]

    However, not truely text adventures, but adventure nonetheless, I ... />
    Now these weren`t text typing adventures, but the ones ... ; shrink down the EMU window size and spend the day going ...
    The_Sentinel The_Sentinel July 2004 Games
  • Program sizeI am typing a basic program into a ZX and I need to find out exactly how much memory it is using. Is there a way to calculate this? :confused:

    ... machine stack.
    An unused routine in the ROM is used ... /> This was probably a debugging routine left in by the developers ... free memory further.
    The routine allows a general overhead of ... the calculator stack or the text you typed in to obtain ...
    Geoff Geoff August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …

    ... . Then call your sprite drawing routine.

    If you ... want the sprite routine to be versatile and cope ... if you tailor your sprite routine one size of sprite then you ... particaulr size of sprite.

    In my own sprite routine, which ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2004 Development
  • need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …

    ... 'm writing into the draw routine itself, what part of 8 ... a big variety of middle-size sprites (each about 4*50 ... make separate procedures for each size.
    I'll think how ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 August 2004 Development
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