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New protection systemsAs a follow-up to [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14311&page=2"]this[/URL] thread regarding relatively new protection sy…
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PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
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New speccy part 2As a quick recap, I am looking to create a 'new speccy hardware' platform, which will retain the charm of the original 48k beast. The way intend to …
... (and a lot of fancy tricks that Windows already does for ... -
BASIN type editor for Mac OS X (pic included)I'm currently working on a Sinclair BASIC language bundle for the popular Mac OS X text editor TextMate, here's a quick preview for those people who …
... to Basin & properly escape UDG characters in your programs (see ... -
Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …
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Hard Drivin - is it me?I tried Hard Drivin for the Speccy years ago and just couldn't get to grips with it. Then I tried it again recently, and it still seems just as awful…
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Does anyone else find Dan Brown suspect?Don't get me wrong, he's a good entertaining [i]fiction[/i] writer -- as long as the emphasis is on "fiction"; unfortunately, he has the annoying hab…
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Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... another idea I had (swapping udg's on the fly).
UDG (I know that this would ... mean at least 2 udg's butted together) but its ... -
Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... another idea I had (swapping udg's on the fly).
UDG (I know that this would ... mean at least 2 udg's butted together) but its ... -
Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
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Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... per pixel, so copying the UDG memory by an offset of ... pointer to the start of UDG memory, and by POKEing these ... -
Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... need to re-PRINT the UDG to obtain the animation effect ... . Once you print a UDG to the sceen, it's ... if the definition of the UDG changes - if you see what ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... you talking about POKING the UDG system var to a fixed ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... you talking about POKING the UDG system var to a fixed ... has no use to store UDG in REM, since you must ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
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Faster Pussycat, yer man (UDG)Right we are almost into a game area. Ive started to play with UDG and by using bins and pokes I can redesign graphics to my hearts content. Now Im…
To PRINT UDG "a" AT 0,0 in ... i
65368 = start UDG area 48k
32600 = start ... UDG area 16k
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Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... to put a lot of udg's on screen, so if ... -
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... is have waves of multiple udg's going left to right ... towards only printing the character UDG when it has moved as ... -
How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
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Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
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Border emulationHow is the border emulated to do all the fancy little tricks such as in Aquaplane? I've got some basic border emulation working but it only displays…
Border tricks are achieved just by changing ... -
Help with having more than 21 UDGSHi All, I'm trying to work out how to have multiple banks of UGS. What I've read so far is that the default memory area for. 48K is 65368 16K is 326…
... define your UDGs, POKE the UDG sysvar with the address you ... again you should POKE the UDG sysvar to point to them ... -
How did you get games 20 years ago!!Did any of you trade games with penpales?? I had penpales in England, Israel, South-Africa, etc :)
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Miss WOS competition.I think we should have an anual Miss WOS competition. The competition could consist of the Ladies of WOS, and the wives or girlfriends of WOS membe…
... to be your wife, no tricks!!
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Help with having more than 21 UDGSHi All, I'm trying to work out how to have multiple banks of UGS. What I've read so far is that the default memory area for. 48K is 65368 16K is 326…
Another advantage of using an alternate characterset is the fact that you can use SCREEN$ to read your UDG as characters. -
Help with having more than 21 UDGSHi All, I'm trying to work out how to have multiple banks of UGS. What I've read so far is that the default memory area for. 48K is 65368 16K is 326…
Each UDG bank can be 168 bytes below each other. Based at addresses:
65368, 65200, 65032, 64864....
Alternatively, if your UDGs are an organised array for somthing or other, you can repeatedly repoint the UDG base and just use UDG "A". -
Help with having more than 21 UDGSHi All, I'm trying to work out how to have multiple banks of UGS. What I've read so far is that the default memory area for. 48K is 65368 16K is 326…
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Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
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With one UDG on screen everything is fine ... started trying to get multiple udg's to do there thang ... new position for each enermy udg is to loop through each ... udg in turn and increment thex ... -
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
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So how many independent UDG's on screen is going ...
