Spectrum Computing

Catmeows offered to help with the compressed screen, and he also helped with other things, as he updated the code and fixed bugs. He was really helpful, I can't help him enough. I just noticed the typo... I can't edit the post as it's not new anymore, so here it is, properly: Catmeows offered to he...

You have to literally type: "password".WTF? Imagine when I just started playing and translating the Slovak version! I couldn't That's why I put this image on the itch.io page: https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMjQyODY4Ni8xNDM3ODQ5Ni5wbmc=/original/sSdtIH.png ;-D I'd like to say this is a full...

In a way, yes. You try to take an item, but you either don't, or you do and leave it immediately. But the text tells you something about the item. E.g. > take > bread bin > You take the bread bin, it looks nice, but then you realize it's a C64, so you put it down. (non game example as not to spoil g...

Ace. Thank you! How do I "USE SWITCH"? With all commands that have to do with items, you enter the command without the item name first, and then it asks you which item. So, it would be: > use > switch or > u > sw Some items you can't take, you just use them, like the switch. I hope you fi...

Hello, Bell of Witch is a Slovak text-only adventure from 1995, by Ayland (Maroš Dzoba). https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMjQyODY4Ni8xNDM3ODQ3Mi5wbmc=/original/zc%2FO1w.png https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMjQyODY4Ni8xNDM3ODQ1NS5wbmc=/original/nJ9lq1.png https://img.itch.zone/aW1hZ2UvMjQyODY4Ni8xNDM3ODQ2N...

But you have the coolest name!
(I'll translate the image soon)

But there is little problem, the unpacked data are actually screen data plus short routine to copy data to screen. I was afraid of that... Well, I just want to translate the opening screen, the one with the instructions. I thought that the programmer would have used one of the compression programs ...

Thank you for your replies :--) What I want to achieve, is not really to compress data, but to compare the compressed data with the existing data in a game (in a .TAP file), which is an SCR image. This means I will have to try as many programs as I can and all their modes, hoping I'll get lucky :--)...

Hello, I would like some help with Turbo Imploder and in general with programs like this, please. For download, there's a .TAP file and a .Z80 file. You can also find a different .Z80 file here: Turbo Imploder (1992)(Saposoftware)[a] . The first issue I'm having is with the .TAP file. I have tried S...

Hello everyone, It took me almost 40 days to finish it, I translated " Duck Tales Kačeří Příběhy ". The original is a Czech text-only adventure game from 1991. As I don't speak Czech, I used ChatGPT to help me translate it ;-) https://i.ibb.co/MGNvgjS/Loading-screen.png https://i.ibb.co/vQ...

Thanks for your reply :--) I can think of two (hard) ways to do it without having the source code (that's the point of romhacking anyway, not to have the source code and work with the binary file). First, if I save the image, convert it to a normal SCR file, then alter it and create a dummy project ...

Hello everyone, I would like some technical help please, if anyone knows how MPAGD handles loading screens. It seems that they are not normal SCR files, but probably compressed somehow. Tiny Nightmares for example, doesn't have a normal SCR loading screen; yet, I can find series of (different) bytes...

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Think it's AdjustWindowRectEx rather than SetClientRect. Presumably all other frameworks have a version of something like that anyway (I wouldn't write a Windows GUI app in anything other than C# these days). Well, I'm not touching anything that has to do with window and controls behavior, I finish...

Out of curiosity, why? It shouldn't ever be necessary to worry about the taskbar position. If you just maximize windows, setting their maximum size if necessary, Windows itself should take care of ensuring the taskbar is not blocked. You can't tell from the screenshots, but the image can't have any...

First of all, thank you all! one tool that doesn't really exist is advanced dithering techniques, particularly taking colour clash into account. Another similar idea, is creating a shape across different attributes in colour and/or brightness where the shape (or just the outline) is automatically di...

Thanks!
No link yet as it's unfinished, sorry. I promise I'll try to make it worth the wait
I'm doing more projects at the same time, I'm translating some games and I'm also programing for work; but I'll try my best to finish it soon.

Hello, Back in 2005 I had translated Krakout in Greek. I remember I had searched for SCR editors and even though there were some, I wasn't completely satisfied with them (the same applies today). So, I started writing my own editor (for Windows). That program was incomplete but working. In any case,...