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In colour all these years laterYou know what? Even though I've been playing the Spectrum for more than a decade via emulation and thought I had played everything I wanted to play …
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Help needed with simple MCode routineI'm trying to code a routine to clear the screen and I can't figure out why it's not working: ld hl,16384 ld bc, 6144 loop:ld (hl),0 inc hl dec bc l…
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Why doesn't my routine work?I have a "level" defined by 504 bytes (28 squares across x 18 squares down) I'm trying to write a routine that will take an X,Y coordinate in pixels…
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Toastrack border changes colour with joystickI plugged my Kempston joystick interface into my 128K toastrack last night and had a blast on Beach Head. Funny thing is, the border colour changed…
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Crawling Horror: Dan Colour[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014367[/url] The Crawling Horror's loading screen contains signature of Dan Colour.
[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014367[/url]
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A fast DRAW routineI was investigating how to speed up the line drawing for the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20225"]BASIC compiler[/URL]…
... an asm Bresenham's drawing routine. The routine was shorter an faster ... every call to the PLOT routine, the coordinates were being ... Bresenham's algorithm. This ASM routine "pokes" itself at the ... .
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Crash Issue 1 and full colour Spectrum Games BiblesHaving a big sale, everything 99p starting price... [URL]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/everythingpasses/m.html[/URL] (And yes its my wifes account so she …
... ), Book 3 (87-8_8 - FULL COLOUR ![/B]
Selling ... my full colour perfect condition Speccy bibles. Full ... colour at lulu costs a ton ... some bargains with the full colour Speccy books, Crash Issue 1 ... -
Screen$ command, ROM routineHi All, Does anyone know which ROM routine to call for the Screen$ command (and/or the ATTR command)? Any comments on how well it works or the spee…
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IM2 calls to player routine on 128k?Hi all, Apologies for being crap, and not even in a funky, skillo kind of way but it's been over 20 years since I last wrote anything in machine cod…
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Utility or routine to save/display imagesLet's assume I have an image or sprite at coordinates x,y with w witdh and h height. If I were to store this image, which storage method would allow …
... an utility or any available routine that would allow me to ... also have a machine code routine which can turn an are ... -
The Colour of Magic - movieI just finished watching the 2008 TV miniseries (2 episodes) [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1079959/"]The Colour of Magic[/URL]. This was created …
... .imdb.com/title/tt1079959/"]The Colour of Magic[/URL].
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quick - Zx80 ASM questionWhile I am ploughing through lots of ASM listings, one of my earlier adaptation attempts surprised me [B][asm code][/B] [code] org 32768 start: ld…
... call printtext ; call printline routine
ld hl,text2 ... call printtext ; call printline routine
ret[/b]
... ; condition met to end the routine
ret ; return.
[code]
K invalid colour, 40:1
[/code]
Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
... of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally ...The Spectrum Games Bible - Full Colour Versions - Four VolumesHello all! I'm selling the last four volumes of these books (1987-1988, 1989-1990, 1991-1993 and 1994-200x). These are also the full colour versions…
... ). These are also the full colour versions which if you buy ... /itm/Spectrum-Games-Bible-Full-Colour-Books-Four-Volumes-/230662672255?pt ...Keys redefine routine and key check.I have written some asm code which allows me to redefine keys (for a game etc.), and also allows me to be able to check any keypresses for the redefi…
... br /> ret
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; ROUTINE: print_message
;
; prints a ... , :p
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; ROUTINE: get_defined_key
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; check for ...The zxodus engineI've been playing around with this for a couple of days now. Its one of the best things I've seen for sinclair basic, and I've seen nothing about it …
... forums.
It is a tile mapper running in interrupts, that ... , is the fact that the tile display is in 8x1 attribute ... glorious ( for 1982 ) 8x1 attribute colour. :smile:
It can be ...Othello/Reversi Validate and Make MovesI'm working an Othello/Reversi game The board is represented as a 2d array 8*8 ie: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00012000 00021000 00000000 00000000 000…
... direction:
see if next tile in direction is other player ... pieces in direction until same colour met
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move ...Getting the contents of tablesHi All, I'm risking a potentially daft question here as it seems pretty fundamental but here goes: What's the best way of pointing register pairs a…
... table of tile data and want to call a routine with hl ...tiny routine to shift RAMTOP & stackCompressing some data areas above RAMTOP and wanting to make the released space available for BASIC arrays, I needed to move RAMTOP without using CLE…
... last segment of the CLEAR routine to finish off. It could ...Problem with a small basic routineDear all; I have been messing about with a routine (originally published in Your Computer 1982, by Tim Langdell). The idea of the program is to simul…
... been messing about with a routine (originally published in Your Computer ...Using the ROMs PRINT routineI really am starting from scratch again it seems, but how do you utilize the ROM routine to print characters, I think you point te BC register to an …
... do you utilize the ROM routine to print characters, I think ...Colour blocks on displayHi all, I have just acquired another Sinclair product, my first one being a C5, it's a 48K ZX Spectrum. It shows colour blocks on the display when p…
... 48K ZX Spectrum. It shows colour blocks on the display when ...Game over routineA few years back I remember a routine that printed 'game over' or other message randomly all over the screen in different colours. Think it was out o…
A few years back I remember a routine that printed 'game over' or other message randomly all over the screen in different colours. Think it was out of YS, but not sure.
Anyone remember what it was called or where I could find it?The INPUT command routine ($2089)I was looking at the INPUT routine with a view to modifying the intro so that I could pre-load the workspace and edit an existing value, rather than …
... was looking at the INPUT routine with a view to modifying ...Memory move routine?Hi Folks, I have been searching for the thread that covers the memory move routine that uses a$=b$ via DEF FN. I thought it was written by Battle B…
... that covers the memory move routine that uses a$=b$ via ...A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…
... it! The concept of a tile map automatically rendered on screen ... ). Regarding this, I realized the tile map didn't make much ... the middle of a tile). However the tile map traversal would be ... , and AFAIK gasman invented the routine to render 18 multicolor columns ...Scrimpy screensHere's a question - how small a window can you get away with as a playing area for an arcade/action game before anyone notices? From the very earlie…
... rough edges of the scrolling routine:
[IMG]http://www.worldofspectrum ... meddling more and more with colour routines, at what point in ...Deathchase improvementsI have spent the last couple of months bringing out an "enhanced" version of Deathchase which I called "Deathchase 2012". Unfortunately because it us…
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A custom display routine is used to show a ... final level uses the standard colour scheme, but there are 8 ...No colour after changing LM1889NI replaced the faulty LM1889N in my issue 2 spectrum, since I had a very yellow picture, and soldered a socket to put the new LM1889N into, however, …
... have only black and white colour. I have checked the voltage ...
