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Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... Es are better anyway the effects/damage of under-powering are ... it undermines too much the basic "as sold" Opus Discovery "proposition ... -
How to improve my program using oversized numbersI'd like my dice program to print out the number four times bigger than normal if possible. Anyone know how to do this? Or I could write a sub rou…
ZX Spectrum Z80 Development Environment on WindowsHi Folks, Just wondering what the recommendation is for a ZX Spectrum Z80 Development environment on Windows? Getting fed up with hand coding Z80…
... should just go back to BASIC and not waste anyone's ... to result in unwanted side effects, such as getting hit in ... should just go back to BASIC and stop wasting my time ...ZX Spectrum +3 repairI have my first +3 here, and it needs repairs. Hoping someone here can help me out. When I power it on I get this screen with black and white line…
... the code loaded, save the BASIC to disc, then reset, load ... from the laptop at a volume level I know is correct ...Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…
... , it's cut off because BASIC is slow enough anyway, without ... all the time generating multicolour effects.
If you don ... to have the Speccy's BASIC interpreter and keyboard support still ...The ZX Spectrum and its derivatives used in a static , semi portable and portable way.Now on "portabilty" is there any where I will not be able to "go" with this (Now let me see!) Hmm ! Well semi portability should be totally OK as …
... a bare speaker : OK the volume I got from the PI ... I would have thought that basic stuff like sound would have ...The I register pointing to $40–$7f causes ULA snow and a crash. Or does it?I have heard it from numerous sources, including a few members of this forum, that 128K/+2 machines crash if the I register points to a range of $40–…
... as a song (the effects provided were vtii songs ... instead of ayfx effects so things had to ... contended memory (the beeper effects are not used in gandalf ... used to store music / effects players and song / effect ... of memory unused if basic and the rom is ...what is the best way to transfer 128k snaphots to hdd?im using the +3e disk system. and i want to do the transfer via tape.
... WAV, possibly adjusting the volume if you can't ... drive and merge the basic loader from tape. Stop ... the tape after the basic block.
3. ... 1.
4. Replace the basic program with:
... disksaving and save the basic with SAVE "GAMENAME" ...TAB - Text Adventure BuilderOk. I wasn't exactly sure which forum to post this, so mods feel free to move to relevant section.. Remember all those old text adventures written w…
... which was written in Liberty Basic (which is now defunct and ... , possibly adding some atmospheric sound effects, background music etc... etc..
Did anyone forsee the internet?I was just wondering, given how much the internet has changed everyday life, did anyone actually forsee any of it in the pre-internet days? I mean, …
... simple UIs to minimize side effects and testing requirements. However, I ... Administrator running some ghastly visual basic application.+2 crashes upon pressing some keysYears ago I purchased off ebay a mint condition, Dixons special offer boxed UK-made issue 1 +2. I did not use it so much until recently however, focu…
... /> Have you ran a simple BASIC program (that shows that it ... physical disturbance of the PCB effects the operation.
[b ...Are there any games/apps developed in Pascal or others?After talking to a friend of mine about a Hi-Soft Pascal I now wonder whether there are Speccy software pieces made [i]NOT [/i]in Basic, C, nor edito…
... the spectrum community are very basic and cannot create libraries so ... nirvana, sp1, tritone music, beeper effects, proportional font printing and so ...How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
... :) just having a rant about BASIC that gets very unBASIC sometimes ... if you come across a BASIC program and decide to rewrite ... change won't have strange effects elsewhere within the code, particularly ... are millions of lines of BASIC that is literally a sea ...Final Fight for 48K spectrum?The original release by US Gold and the Re-release by Erbe state that it's only 128K, but the 2nd re-release by Kixx mentions Spectrum 48K. Was th…
... the USR0 command in 128 BASIC, etc. (See the link in ... chip for music or sound effects did not use extra memory ...Keeping up to date with PC builds.I only do PC builds infrequently and I have stopped reading Micro-Mart so my abilities in the area can languish pretty quickly. But if it is new i…
... were also worried about the effects on the Windows 10 installation ... .
3) Shrink the Volume of the Partition on the ... it is smaller than the volume of the destination drive.
Making sound using the BEEPER in AssemblyI had a look at the the documentation but it doesn't make sense to me. To make music just the beeper all I have to do is send ones and zeros to one o…
... 48K AY interfaces the volume balance won't be ... own mix of AY effects/music and beeper sounds, ... the beeper, the overall volume will drop, so you’ ... make adjustments to the volume of your AY effects.
volume in an emulator:
PGD Based GamesAs I've had this a couple of months now (I do have SEUD too but could not really do what I wanted with it, but that's likely my fault) , I was wonder…
... more advanced version of the BASIC-inspired scripting language used in ... , READ/DATA, user-programmable particle effects and much more. Draw your ...Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
Impressive for a BASIC game. I liked the various special effects you've managed to put in. As for the game I must admit I had trouble figuring out what to do despite reading the instructions.Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... unfortunately at the moment. The effects are very good too, quite ... good thing to do in Basic.
Quite impressed to ...Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... every single byte counts in BASIC, for memory. In this case ... remember where unfortunately) that Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum will still ... the Brain 8 frames and effects, are contained in an array ... can be avoided in the BASIC list. That is why at ...GZX 2019.1 ReleasedI just released GZX 2019.1. You can download it from the [url="https://github.com/jxsvoboda/gzx/releases"]Github release page[/url]. Or you can get t…
... clicking. This is because BASIC will cycle the volume between 0xf (note ... tone channel and controlling the volume bits. I'll have to ...border effectsive been playing around with border effects like 10 border 1 20 border 2 30 pause 1 40 goto 10 ,etc i even wrote one in machine code. …
For border effects of machine code speed I'd do it easily in BASIC with
SAVE "" SCREEN$border effectsive been playing around with border effects like 10 border 1 20 border 2 30 pause 1 40 goto 10 ,etc i even wrote one in machine code. …
... everything about the border effects on BASIC has already been sorted out ...Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... bloody good game especially for Basic, Ivan. Decent graphics, good compromise ... for horizontal scrolling and other effects, and finally it became into ...Fake Events?I remember back in the 1980s, as a teenager, seeing a poster for a concert and saying to someone with me something like "oh look - such and such big …
... as playing a sound effects CD at high volume to scare people =))Fake Events?I remember back in the 1980s, as a teenager, seeing a poster for a concert and saying to someone with me something like "oh look - such and such big …
... as playing a sound effects CD at high volume to scare people ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
... that people like the BASIC features and that all the ... seem to keep to a basic ,simple and very easy ... is a very good volume control wheel with the ... big range allowing very minor volume tweaks to be easily ... 939 uses a slider for volume control (I prefer the ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
... time wasted with the wrong volume level .
Say for ... of day . I remember one BASIC course by Vanguard or Viscount ...Drift!, Valley of Rains and Just a Gal at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019We presented 3 new games at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019 competition! Side-scrolling action "Valley of Rains", sports simulator "Drift!" and racing…
... with a simple, UDG-based BASIC game like [i]Comeme El ... state-of-the art visual effects are worth being made and ...Corona Virus,Is is me or is the BBC sensationalizing this corona virus too much and creating hysteria?
... $18 billion, neglecting severe adverse effects, including infertility/chemical castration.[/quote ... .S. We had the lungs volume/efficency test in the army ...
