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Help with Spectaculator pleeeaase!Ello, Ive been using spectaculator 4, now when i try and use it it just minimises to the task bar and will not come back. when i click it or try and …
... have a p4 2.2 with xp home and geforce4 ti4600 ... -
Need help with transferring games to real tapeHello. Sorry for asking this as I suspect everyone has solved this problem by now -- or am I the only one with a real problem? My problem is this: …
... am I the only one with a real problem?
with the PlayTZX utility and I ... into some of the ones with non-standard loading-schemes (for ... I am having most trouble with are games from Ocean (Robocop ... -
The problem with early arcade adventuresWhether it was a programming reason or not, you find that a lot of the early arcade adventures on the Spectrum (1984-85) had 256 screens. I think "P…
... " too, I think. The problem with this is that 40K of ... a game of that size with variety on each screen.
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Need som help with fuse code.Hi I'm working on a fuse port for the xbox. Nearly done actually, but I have a question. I would like to see the whole loading cycle (when using .tap…
... file) is that possible?
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Ultimate Games - With Head Cleaner TapeHi There I was checking some auctions on Ebay and I noticed Cyberrun with a Head Cleaner Tape. I have a number of questions..... Does anyone know …
... Ebay and I noticed Cyberrun with a Head Cleaner Tape.
with this extra tape? Primarily for ... -
Problem with WOS and images.I am having a problem when visiting image links like screen shots and cover scans in WOS. Basically what happens is that either the JPG comes up and …
... hangs.
Its perfrect with other sites!!!!!
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IM 2 interrupts and smooth scrolling - easy peasy!Okay, been fiddling around with IM 2 and have actually mastered (I think) how to use IM 2! Now I run my game Ragnar Revival in IM2 and use HALT to sy…
... Revival in IM2 and use HALT to sync screen drawing ( ... one with IM2 for synchronizing screen manipulation (a scrolling text) using HALT ... code.
(The table with pointers is not located at ... ,58880 ;Building up a table with
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Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …
... working with a simple EI,RET interrupt function, so that HALT ... jr z,nosprdraw
halt ;Wait for interrupt
call ... . Should I always synchronize with the interrupt in the game ... it should be synchronized with the interrupt no matter ... -
Jet Set Willy RZX!Had to post this one - DarenP, the maintainer of the RZX Archive ([url]http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk/[/url]) has been testing a new SPIN release with R…
... testing a new SPIN release with RZX "rollback" support - if you ... EmuZWin may have a few timing problems). It's about 50 ... has Jet Set Willy complete with only one life lost.
Strange layout of Spectrum video memoryHello, does anyone have an idea why the Spectrum's video memory has such a strange layout? I understand that a resolution of 256x192 is an easy mean…
... TV without having to deal with two separate interlaced pictures. The ... timing etc., I quickly arrived at a resolution of 256x192 pixels with ...A few questions regarding EmuZwinA few questions regarding EmuzWin 1. I have been trying to write a program to generate multicolour effects on the Spectrum,ie more than 2 attributes…
... might have something to do with contended memory, but don't ... lot about how that affects timing.
2. When assembling ... sets of Lables generated, one with the correct addresses and the ... other with 0000. It doesn't seem ...A few questions regarding EmuZwinI had posted this in the development forum and then remembered there was an emulators forum, so apologies for the repetition. 1. I have been trying …
... might have something to do with contended memory, but don't ... lot about how that affects timing.
2. When assembling ... sets of Lables generated, one with the correct addresses and the ... other with 0000. It doesn't seem ...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 …
this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the ... screen with x-coordinate in pixels.
LD HL,DRTABL ;table with preshifted mask bytes for left ... ,#B0 ;| there is a table with all bytes preshifted to all ...Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …
... /> ; Fill Back buffer with a bright stripy pattern
HALT
... ;BUILDING UP A TABLE WITH
LD BC, ... /> ; MERGE SPRITE COLOR WITH EXISTING PAPER COLOR AND BRIGHTNESS ...Smooth Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48k Part 2Ok, After all the suggestions in Part 1, which were all excellent (Thankyou), I opted on the following: I have 2 x 6k Offscreen areas (Yes, that's …
... ),A
; halt
LD A,1 ... /> ; MERGE SPRITE COLOR WITH EXISTING PAPER COLOR AND BRIGHTNESS ... AND (HL) ; And With HL
LD (HL), ... AND (HL) ; And With HL
LD (HL ...Problems with zx32I have two problems with zx32. The first one is connected with sound output. When I play some games with AY music in zx32 I sometimes notice that the…
... . The first one is connected with sound output. When I play ... some games with AY music in zx32 I ...Please help! Spectaculator stopped working with .TRD files...I am using Spectaculator 6.1 (also tried 6.25, same prob). This is what i now see when i try to load a .TRD file: [url="http://server5.uploadit.org…
... /> I have AVG virus checker with latest online update. Its not ...9-Game Set with New ZX SpectrumCan anyone tell me which games were in the 9-Game set that was sold in Europe with the ZX Spectrum 48k. I know there were Psion (Flight Simulation, ?…
... that was sold in Europe with the ZX Spectrum 48k. I ...Smooth Screen Scrolling RoutineHi everyone, this is a follow up to the thread on smooth screen scrolling. As promised here is the code for the routine. It's pretty long and fairl…
... /> LD A,0
MLOOP HALT
LD (SCRPOS),A ;SCROLL ... next tile is
;ORd with the last byte of the ... /> OR (HL) ;tile is ORed with the what is on
OR (HL) ;element is ORed with the rightmost
LD (HL ...Help with a type-in programI've been typing in all the programs from "Games for Your ZX Spectrum" by Peter Shaw, & I've hit a snag with the 'Draughts' program. Basically what …
What is this game? (with a difference)Hello chums... Seeing as the "what is this game" and "guess the game" posts are proving popular, have a look at my slightly warped version: [url="h…
... you recognise, then email me with the picture name and the ...Zaf-forth to Z80 compiler Build 5This forth like complier is changing almost every day with new items been added. Here is a new Zaf-forth word add it the sptword.fth file - which is…
... is changing almost every day with new items been added.
halt
;"End of program"
What's wrong with YS94...Hello, I'm Steve Anderson. You might remember me from such magazines as Your Sinclair and, um, that's it. I was the one who wrote a platform game in …
... of spiral-bound notepaper with Tipp-Ex and scribbling ... Meddings, who came up with the mad colours and ... , and wish him luck with his zombie film - but ... you should follow that with someone who was there for ... that this IS YS, with these shortcomings just left me ...Sprites flickeringI am trying to write a Spectrum game in machine code. I am still a beginner in programming, however I did much progress recently, i believe. Now I am…
... something to do with screen refeshing, interrupts and HALT command, but I ...Strange loading problem with SpinWhen I load certain .tap files into Spin - mostly it seems to be files I created myself with the old freeware version of Spectaculator - they will on…
... be files I created myself with the old freeware version of ... - they will only load properly with the tape acceleration options on ...Which Game was it? with a cat 19 years ago I did all the graphics for a spectrum game in the south of England but I cant remember the name it was published under. the game was p…
... game was pseudo 3d adventure with a cat as the player ...Shoot'em Up with an astronaut?Long time ago I played with a game. You had to kill everything moving with an astronaut. When you start a new game, a space ship descends to the grou…
Long time ago I played with a game. You had to ... kill everything moving with an astronaut. When you start ...I'm a newbie with SPIN and can't load SNA /Z80 filesGuys I need help... I'm running SPIN on XP system but when I load a game using file Load snapshot and use a game ( ihave a Speccy cd from 97 with lot…
... cd from 97 with lots of games on) with an extenstion .z80 ...Games that won't work with the +2a/bIs there a list of all the games that don't work with the +2a/b? Like Fairlight for example. Ta :)
Is there a list of all the games that don't work with the +2a/b?
Like Fairlight for example.
Ta :)Problem with saving picture for game!Thanks for the code guys! The auto-start code is very sweet! And thanks for telling me about programming it to pick up items etc. There's only one p…
... Error', and the screen clears with no code as soon as ...
