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  • ProTracker manual/instruction in English?Hello. A friend of mine would like to start making AY music on ZX Spectrum. In this purpose he'd like to have a ProTracker's instruction/guide/manu…

    ... br /> √ Volume (global gain)
    √ Write data (auto-fill input note ... errors are shown on border.
    Since v3. ... in basic block:
    5d3b, 5d3c = colours;
    5d3d: bit0-2 = border ... br /> Special commands (right column in every channel):

    ...
    Alone Coder Alone Coder July 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... m not used to coding in pure assembly. Will check ... used as a backend to write simple games.
    [quote ... a masking border.[/quote]
    As mentioned in my previous ... positions could be held in a table of address ... area.[/quote]
    C, in this case, is just a ...
    na_th_an na_th_an December 2014 Development
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... to have 32 columns in Spectrum 48K. The solution ... the colour combining is to write colours, instead of '6 ... s the idea I had in mind.

    ... pre-calculate them during upper border.

    However ... stored as single attribute in linear buffer. It means ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2014 Development
  • THE HOBBIT loading screenHello again, thought I'd have a go at an alternative loading screen for The Hobbit. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/THE%20HOBBIT%…

    ... it should save additional 3Kb in final version)Optimized game ... Each screen has its own BORDER color to improve atmosphere (just ... it. I didn't write any names in the current credits screen ...  participants will be properly credited in final release!
    However ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2015 Games
  • Russian Pascal CompilerHello,<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately I started a discussion (as OutBush) on the Temporary Forum Board not knowing how long it would be until the W…

    ... 0..23TextColor(color)TextBackGround(color)Border(color)Color(attr) - ... - clear for virtual screen in memoryVirtScreenPut - put a virtual ... setting for compile flag in compile window)
    ... coordinates for center (search in rectangular region from center);- ...
    Andrew771 Andrew771 June 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecBAS 0.844 releasedHi all - it's been a while... Having some unexpected extra time off work, I've been able to get some work done on SpecBAS and it's now a bit more …

    ... never had the time to write any! You can look ... to be coloured. No BORDER. No ATTR function due ... your files will live (in Win7) in c:\users\\specbas which ... see" outside that folder in SpecBAS, but you can ... contains everything I ever wanted in a BASIC (almost - ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Removing solid borders around Jim in BootyI've seen a lot of impressive mods for more complicated games ([i]including recolouring mono titles etc[/i]), but something I'd love to see is the re…

    ... quite a re-write of the sprite routines, resulting in lots of ... has the best version though, border or otherwise. I wonder if ...
    Mousey Mousey September 2015 Games
  • IN and OUT in hardware terms... what are 'ports'?Hi all, I understand PEEK and POKE, but have never managed to get my head around IN and OUT. The books all go on about how they read from and wri…

    ... the rear edge connector. In reality, they use the ... OUTs that change the border colour or toggle the speaker ... be detected by plugged-in bits of hardware to ... of addresses, but efficient in terms of detection circuitry.< ... memory and read and write with INs and OUTs ...
    joefish joefish September 2015 Hardware
  • Minor updateWhilst there is nothing major to announce, be assured that a lot of work is being carried out 'behind the scenes'. We now have 3 developers workin…

    ... it, you can see it in action :-)
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    1024MAK 1024MAK September 2015 Updates
  • No contended memory?Sorry if this is a stupid question. But I'm trying to learn more about the ZX Spectrum. If I had a stock 48k Speccy and I could wave a magic wa…

    ... the screen) so programs which write right up to the raster ... in the right place, or draw it a line lower. (getting border ...
    i love the z80s i love the z80s December 2015 Development
  • Vega ARM SOC?I read that the core of the new Vega was an ARM SOC. I thought it would have been an FPGA. But it seems it's an ARM running an emulator. Anyone kn…

    ... timings in the Z80 is known, so one can write ... a program that, say, changes the border color ... /> ld a,0 ;initial border color
    ld d, ... beginning of the left border
    NewFrame rept 311 ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix December 2015 Vega
  • Vega ARM SOC?I read that the core of the new Vega was an ARM SOC. I thought it would have been an FPGA. But it seems it's an ARM running an emulator. Anyone kn…

    ... is designed to recognize a write made to the (emulated) ... work. The same with the border port: it recognizes writes to ... and update the current colour border accordingly.

    BUT ... colour of many pixels in both paper and border areas.

    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix December 2015 Vega
  • New game: SETO TAISHO VS YOKAIHello Spec-chums! At last, my new game is available for download: [img]http://www.alessandrogrussu.it/zx/Seto-art.jpg[/img] [b]Features:[/b]…

    ... read joystick port after interrupt (border time) then on D5-D7 ... original kemspton joystick interface also in other AGD based software.
    border time
    XOR A
    IN A,(#1F ... :
    LD (MASK+1),A ;write mask byte #FF for modern ...
    velesoft velesoft March 2016 Brand new software
  • Let's copy buffers!Figured I'd do some double buffered graphics, so I can render for several frames before displaying stuff. Yes, I mean on a 48k speccy, so no 128k spe…

    ... try copying the whole line in one pass - you POP ... two bytes into HL and write with LD (NN),HL, ... more. The contention pattern works in 8s.

    Come ... longer. So technically putting EXX in front of PUSH IX and ... the copy during the top border time.
    joefish joefish April 2016 Development
  • Z88DK NOOB cplot INK colorHi I am a complete NOOB with Z88DK, I am trying to draw colored circles. How does ink, paper and border work with Z88DK. I started trying to wo…

    ...

    To change border colour you can use "zx_border ... using the display address manipulators in C.

    zx_pxy2saddr ... byte.

    To write the machine code versions I ... explanation, they omit the details in their manual.

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2016 Development
  • I wish I was an American bread-based snack. Oh how happy I would be...D'ya remember this post? [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8665&highlight=bagels[/url] I was just reading it and it led t…

    ... youth hostel I stayed at in Toronto had a day ... a vast amount of time in Ontario. Spent about a ... First big city you reach in Ontario is Thunder Bay and ... drive. (And nothing to write home about). It's about ... t get stuck at the border crossing. Fargo is about ...
    Grunaki Grunaki August 2016 Chit chat
  • Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…

    ... just the coloured border) you can only read or write that memory ... you place your machine code in higher memory on a 48K ... then if it has to write to screen memory, it will ...
    joefish joefish October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • A few questions about sound and keys in BASICIf I want sound in my BASIC game I have to use BEEP right ? It seems to lock up the CPU for far too long . On Arjun's page I found how to use CALL 94…

    ... through one or two cycles in such a short beep. So ... OUT port that controls the border colour. If you do OUT ... 7 it will change the border colour. That's the first ... bits of the number you write.

    The next bit ... run. (It also turns the border black).
    joefish joefish December 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…

    ... strip it all out and write your own code. All ... 9000 onward. Note that in each of the listings below ... the same then anything drawn in pixels will disappear (so ... extra UDG data. Then in your program, POKE the ... 60 INK 7: PAPER 0: BORDER 0: BRIGHT 0: FLASH 0 ...
    joefish joefish January 2017 Games
  • Us or Uz and other British accents.I'm listening to the BBC (radio 6). And I'm hearing something I've heard quite often from broadcasting types, especially on the BBC. Why to people sa…

    ... always fascinated me growing up in Northamptonshire, just south of ... as 'Roughton' but will actually write down 'Roughton' as they ... shuffling around the discount shops in the centre of town. ... up their own sort of border/northern accent where they come ...
    joefish joefish April 2017 Chit chat
  • Disabling the ROM without removing the whole thingHi! I've got my hands on a non-working issue 6a. I suspect the ROM may be bad, but other things may be faulty as well. I've read that in an otherwis…

    ... does is to change the border colour to white. So it ... ROM (or a disabled ROM), in the original Spectrum, the data ... the PC is repeatedly stored in every memory location.

    write to the lower 16k of ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK April 2017 Hardware
  • The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…

    ... would need a Basic to write programs on it.
    so ... Spectrum things like ATTR and BORDER will not work because you ... />
    Specbas creates a folder in your Libraries folder called "Specbas ... /> CD "/demos" should put you in the demos folder
    LOAD ...
    ASH-II ASH-II May 2017 Chit chat
  • Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …

    ... supplying the driver instantiation section in file "crt_driver_instantiation.asm.m4". Each ... . Because port 0xfe is write-only for border colour, you should always ... honour z88dk's stored border colour and in fact has black hard ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • ZX Spectrum 48K it only shows colored barsHello, I'm new to the forum and I need help with a ZX Spectrum 48K which I bought recently unfortunately defective. I want to mention that before t…

    ... it is working.
    The border going to white (that may ... repeatability briefly connect any contact in the left hand keyboard connector ... to any contact in the right hand keyboard connector ... be able to read and write to the 4116 "lower" RAM ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK August 2017 Hardware
  • Troubleshooting RAM IC's on Spectrum +2 Grey?Got myself a grey +2 but at startup it shows something very similar to this: [img]https://preview.ibb.co/mmai5F/2_Ram_Fault.png[/img] I also su…

    ... test ROM can use the border to show which bit or ... working, the test ROM can write the results of the test ... .

    If it is in a socket, then you just ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK August 2017 Hardware
  • Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…

    ... latter, and entirely during border time. Here is ... 55 ;constant to use in write operations below
    ld ... are of course picked in a completely arbitrary manner ... instead of using the border. The value of ... in just in case. Another small change is that the border ...
    Hikaru Hikaru September 2017 Development
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... next challenge is to write a mouse routine in Z80. I knocked ... up the following demo in BASIC so I could get ... REM NY>21=Cursor in bottom half of screen
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
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