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UDG PaperI remember having a few rare sheets of coarse graph paper with 8x8 grid squares that I sketched loads of UDGs on, and the more normal 10x10 grid pap…
I remember having a few rare sheets of coarse graph paper with 8x8 grid squares that I sketched loads of UDGs on, and the more normal 10x10 grid paper that I had to ink in 8x8 lines myself.
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Alleged Illegal FilesharersI thought that perhaps this might be of interest to some people here. To quote a post I saw on a Usenet group: [QUOTE]A petition against Mandy's pr…
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christmas dinneram making it this year for my gf. so any tips/tricks. am prolly gonna do it in courses so she doesn't explode.
am making it this year for my gf.
so any tips/tricks.
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border graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…
just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border?
is there trickery that you can use to open them up? or has it been attempted.
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Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…
... VALs, NOT PIs and similar tricks?
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Print at 128,87? :)The advanced search function didn't help me find the answer to this, and I don't remember seeing anything similar in magazines or books... so please …
... can print a character or UDG from BASIC but using pixel ... things like cursors and simple UDG game characters without being limited ... -
ANN: Spud 0.204Ok guys, here's a new version of Spud for you to play with, abuse or ridicule. The main new stuff is accurate screen display so all the fancy demos …
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shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…
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Happy birthday joefish!!Merry birthday... have a drink or ten!! :smile:
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tricks to simplify codingWhen i started with programming in assembler i had very simple approach to do things. Just shifting bytes around, doing simple tests and so... Later …
When i started with programming in assembler i had very simple approach to do things. Just shifting bytes around, doing simple tests and so...
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My Totall Recall demo hackwell, I'll never be a hacker, but I'm learning a few tricks. Many people here know the story behing Total Reall game. The first version was delayed,…
... I'm learning a few tricks.
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Tricks with IN 31It's generally considered unwise to use a Kempston joystick's fire button to start a game, because the floating bus effect can make arbitrary data ap…
It's generally considered unwise to use a Kempston joystick's fire button to start a game, because the floating bus effect can make arbitrary data appear on IN 31 from the screen RAM.
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BUZZSAW+ Demo No. 3Right, another demo of BUZZSAW+. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap"]Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap[/URL] The default con…
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[URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap ... -
Full ASM code or a mixed solution ?Ok another important question. Building a program in asm, is it interesting that all the program is done in asm or always is interesting for some r…
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define some udg from teh basic, to be ... -
firefoxwell its been five year but IE6 has finally given up the ghost on me and now refuses to load yahoo mail. its been a good run girl, but you have fail…
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any tips and tricks?
instead of favorites ... -
Die RollerOkay, technically it's in machine code - but it's all compiled in a basic compiler. (you know, the one that people keep telling us is impossible to …
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Games you can walk through...In the thread: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30506&page=2[/URL] the topic drifts onto games such as Airwulf or Roboco…
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Article about Kevin Toms in the TelegraphThe Telegraph have a (very) [URL=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/7943029/Football-Manager-meet-the-man-who-kicked-off-the-genre.htm…
... ). I would love to see UDG matches, and a flashing ASCII ... -
Derren Brown fiascoPlease, please, please, don`t anyone believe that this show was for real, I have been a Magician for 40 years or so and I really take offence at this…
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How do you work with fonts on speccy?just curious really.. I know c64 workings, and obv. the spec you draw direct to screen.. on 64 , you'd make what would be equivalent to UDG.. and sa…
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Help with broken SpectrumHi There, Just received a ZX Spectrum computer. It's an issue 3B (48k version). When I power it up (9V centre pin -V) nothing happens. It's complete…
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Optimization for this codeHello, I have done and submitted a small program for the CSS Crap Game Compo which involves a machine code routine. The z80 with BASIC and MC is av…
... ://www.mediafire.com/file/xp34qhlxj97gdqz/UDG-creator.z80"]here[/URL].
Beware Collaborators[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0015510"]Beware Collaborators[/URL] was written by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infose…
[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0015510"]Beware Collaborators[/URL] was written by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Jim+Whittle$&loadpics=1"]Jim Whittle[/URL] (note the JW UDG in the input line).Harrier Attack[IMG]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/h/gif/HarrierAttack.gif[/IMG][IMG]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cg…
... in spite of its crappy UDG graphics, I think it's ...Smooth (vertical) scrolling on ZX SpectrumI was just thinking about this. You know, you have systems like Atari 2600 or Sega SG-1000 that have no hardware scroll, but they have games that sti…
How do 3D earphones work?Something I've wondered before is how 3D headphones work. Has anyone ever tried them? To be exact, it's not the earphones that are 3D, it's the littl…
... 's the little box of tricks that sits between the earphones ...50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
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[URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_50Hurts_Scroll_Demo.tap ...Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
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LET udg=FN p(23675)
20 ... =23563
30 FOR a=udg TO udg+8: READ v: POKE ... /> 40 POKE defadd,FN l(udg): POKE defadd+1,FN h ... /> 60 POKE defadd,FN l(udg): POKE defadd+1,FN h ... dummy DEFADD area in the UDG space to define a$ as ...
