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what was the thing that impressed you the most ?on a Spectrum game - you know, those things that you thought to be impossible, yet.. e.g the wide screen mode in Dark Star, Technician Teds loader..…
... screen going black (border and all) with nothing but two red ... squares on the screen ... (just before the loading screen appears ... the loading screen appear and the two red squares changing ... -
ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... map is on the upper screen.
Besides controlling some ... you can touch the screen anywhere(even the tinest ... an icon on the screen that once touched would ... side) of the touch screen with various icons (a- ... read the fine red, yellow or white inprint on the ... -
how do I tune the speccy to tv?hello folks :) I am come here for help rather than because I am still a speccy person. I did start with the ZX, many moons ago,had a couple of thos…
... tv is showing a screen half white and half red. Could you pleaseadvise ... F2 TV, I get a red area underneath which is a ... -
Links to WOS - only 99p each!How about selling links to WOS on eBay?!?!? I'd like to give mine away for free!!! Don't know which link this item refers to, but it could easily be…
All those in game screen shots people are kindly uploading ... 'd like an in game screen shot of Jetpac, with the ... 1 red, 1 green and 1 blue baddie on screen for artistic ... purposes, with a cyan border and at ... -
game graphics ?sampled? from c64I´ve got a hunch that some of the games on speccy were scuffled conversions from C64 - the graphics was just ´sampled´ bit by bit... a…
... colour) they just lay the screen RAM out differently.
border for the game.[/QUOTE]
screen like [b]Dizzy[/b] uses ... when Dizzy walks over a red (it could've been brown ... -
req: hack/poke for 3D deathchase border colourBack in the day, I used to have a version of 3d deathchase which had a black border instead of the usual white one, it made it much better, especiall…
25921,3 and 26031,0
You have to put these in BEFORE the border is set to white because it's only done the once, at the start. That funny little noise it does when the loading screen is still up is ideal -
Egghead 4 available to downloadFollowing his adventure in space, Egghead is today Entertaining a guest. Yes, Shelley is coming to tea and it's up to Egghead to get the food on the…
... , or are they all just red herrings?
There also seem ... to be a couple of white objects that can't be ... Graham R. for the loading screen too! -
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…
... // Initialize SP1.LIB
border(BLACK);
sp1_Initialize(SP1_IFLAG_MAKE_ROTTBL | SP1_IFLAG_OVERWRITE_TILES ... that are black ink on white paper.
" ... to "sp1_UpdateNow()" draws the entire screen.
"sp1_TileEntry()" ... -
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…
... SP1.LIB
border(BLACK);
sp1_Initialize(SP1_IFLAG_MAKE_ROTTBL | SP1_IFLAG_OVERWRITE_TILES ... // if sprite went off screen, reverse direction
se ... their bounds -- the RED-INK sprites in one ... -
rubber troublejus got 48K rubber speccy into my possesion, which was my first computer back then but only for few months before daddy decided to upgrade it for 48+…
... socket, neither the border flashes red/cyan, it stays white - the only way ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... . Which meant 4 colours on screen max in graphics mode. And ... choice between Red, Green, Orange and Black or Cyan, Magenta, White and ... -
SjASMPlus cross compiler of Z80 assembly languageHi! I want to present you cross-compiler of Z80 assembly language: [B]SjASMPlus[/B]. [SIZE="4"]Features:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]Z80/R800 documented and un…
... executed on black screen with white ink (instead of BASIC white screen with black ... and improvements.
Download: [color=red][...see first post...][/color] -
Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... like a dark yellow greened, red is purple and magenta is ... screwdriver to adjust colour on screen. If you're not comfortable ... to make use of the border area?[/QUOTE]
The ... border behaves the same in every ... -
SCART Lead and C= 1940 MonitorHi, I've decided to make a SCART lead for my +3 I've been doing a lot of searching on the internet and forums but I'm a little confused as some peop…
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Also I noticed the screen in the cable is connected ...
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BROWN Spare.
WHITE Sound out 3 - 2+6 ... resistor)
RED RGB Red out 7 - 15 RGB Red in (connect via ... ).
Half works on +2 (screen fine, but no audio - just ... -
TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …
... function works while in the Screen Layout Editor, nor how to ... an empty area of the screen and drag - this will start ... tile, its border colour is suppose to change to red (if the ... tiles.
The missing red indicator border is a bug from when ... -
Early screenshots which differ from the final productI thought it would be interesting to try and list games that looked different in the previews/reviews to the final product. I'll start off with an ea…
... 'm pretty sure that particular screen shot can be drawn on ... -on-red of the headlights clashing with the black (and white) of ... just any old in-game screen grab - notice how the left ... -
Early screenshots which differ from the final productI thought it would be interesting to try and list games that looked different in the previews/reviews to the final product. I'll start off with an ea…
... 'm pretty sure that particular screen shot can be drawn on ... -on-red of the headlights clashing with the black (and white) of ... just any old in-game screen grab - notice how the left ... -
Response to the BBC Hit piece. please ignore if affended:)[snip] Conspiracy theory [/snip] Ignored as requested in the title.
... a red armband with an ancient black symbol within a white circular border ... -
Did I killed my Speccy ???Hi guys, 1 minute ago I was working on my 128 +2A... But I made a mistake : I cut the gound on the PSU plug of the computer, and I forgot to resolde…
... black screen and white borders, then colored (blue-pink) stripes on white screen and ... black borders, going down the screen during 2 ... seconds, and then white screen with black border stays indefinitely. Same thing ... -
toasted soeccysHello, ive jsut bought a pair of speccys on ebay (one 16k issue 2 & a prob 48k issue 3) unfortunaly the genius who sold them tried to see if the wor…
... additionally - although my analogue electronics fu is not all that strong, looking at the schematics for an Issue 2 suggests that the power supply that generates some of the 'weird' voltages (+12v) is a switch mode power supply, which gets regulated by ... -
48K Speccy not workingHey, A few months ago (hope it´s not to late) I was loading a game into my speccy and from one moment to another it stopped working! I unplugge…
... that nothing changes on the screen when he powers up the ... and attributes, well, at least border. This is very likely power ... , let's forget about that white stuff, and take a multimeter ... -
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…
... to change the border colour to (say) red BEFORE performing the ... /> ...
ld a, 2 ; red border
out (254), a
red band of border will appear approximately the same place on the screen ... TOP part of the border (above the screen) by:
Poorly Spectrum + Fault diagnosis help needed!Hi, I've got a Spectrum+. Sometime in the past I broke it and sent it off to be fixed. It came back working good as new, but with an issue 2 board i…
... the black paper with vertical red lines (i.e. writing 0x02 ... ULA is showing a steady border of the correct colour, and ... lines start appearing on the screen and the machine hangs).
screen shots, it's been bad ...Poorly Spectrum + Fault diagnosis help needed!Hi, I've got a Spectrum+. Sometime in the past I broke it and sent it off to be fixed. It came back working good as new, but with an issue 2 board i…
... the black paper with vertical red lines (i.e. writing 0x02 ... ULA is showing a steady border of the correct colour, and ... lines start appearing on the screen and the machine hangs).
screen shots, it's been bad ...+2B problem stillHi all, I have a spare +2B that still dont work. Richard kindly sent me 4 x 4464 ram chips but the +2B still dont work I have swapped over both ROM`s…
... flashing black to white back to black border.
white blank screen
If ...Don't shoot me...Definitely off-topic, and most possibly dangerous... There's a preview of the first chapter of the c64 book available online at: [URL]http://www.c6…
... gets the better of it. White out of busy dark backgrounds ... leading between the text and border and margins. That would also ... the reader - and making the screen shots stand out more (although ...Don't shoot me...Definitely off-topic, and most possibly dangerous... There's a preview of the first chapter of the c64 book available online at: [URL]http://www.c6…
... gets the better of it. White out of busy dark backgrounds ... leading between the text and border and margins. That would also ... the reader - and making the screen shots stand out more (although ...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…
... (maybe the same as the BORDER, maybe not). This way ... BORDER. The colours which seem to work well with white ... INK seem to be red or blue. ... I went with red, as ... it seems to pleasingly blend in with the magenta border ...Bubble Bobble EditI thought I might have a go at editing Bubble Bobble myself after reading this... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15452[…
... hl,#860c ;location of big border
;get ready to ... started with
;(discounting big border)
or #40 ;set ... bright)=23 = 8*2(red paper)+7 (white ink) for platforms
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…
... , human (blue) versus the CPU (red).
Features:-
BORDER changes between BLUE and RED indicate player or ... (human or computer), before redrawring screen - if space available.
