... may be better to draw sprites from bottom to top to ... . Experiment. Or double buffer using 128K dual screens!

EDIT ...

... from the idea to finish. 128K was not reality in Hungary ... menu. Norbert did the screens, sprites, etc. He used Art Studio ...

... "]Popeye[/URL], with its large sprites and very well planned out ... in seeing well planned out attributes.

... character square movement of the sprites; the ship has a nice ... all in one on a 128K machine, it would have been ... that loads all levels in 128K mode, or one level at ...

... this right).

The sprites move far too quickly - so ... to improve them for the 128k version. (Apart from a decent ... on the title screen the 128k version is identical to the ...

... -cauldwell[/url])
Platform: 48/128k Sinclair ZX Spectrum

attributes, and only a limited number ...

... redraw the background, copy the sprites onto it, then copy the ... could do it on the attributes too, and we'd all ...

... (I presume it tracks the attributes in a separate buffer). Extra ... . If you poke some coloured attributes into the right-hand edge ... .

All the game sprites are then drawn from character ...

... obvious detail.

Multicoloured sprites are possible by hogging the ... interrupt and writing to the attributes between scan lines. I've ...

... , just attributes will do, only pixels we have to poke is sprites ...

... pixel patterns with their own attributes.

You would have ... and restore the original scenery attributes in the moving buffer, ready ... draw a fixed number of sprites each cycle even if they ... enough time to draw enough sprites to make a game worth ...

... pixel patterns with their own attributes.
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yeah, that ... draw a fixed number of sprites each cycle even if they ... , a fixed number of 8x8 sprites can be written in constant ...

... to synchronise it with the 128K's screen refresh.

attributes.

... continues) are perfectly legal Spectrum attributes (black on green or ... half way through swapping the attributes, it swaps the border ... scenery are drawn entirely from attributes. Most of the centre ... much harder to draw detailed sprites, as the pixels have ...

... ) re-work it for a 128K with twice the horizontal space ... and a limited number of sprites. Personally I prefer the latter ... better, and never had a 128K. I'd also be expected ... if it was on a 128K, and I'm crap at ...

... is 128 mode only with attributes every 4 pixel rows taken ... pixel rows to select the attributes. You still have to stay ... the time. Tasks include drawing sprites, lines, digital music, etc. The ...

... to try to use the attributes to good effect etc as ... 't really done full attribute sprites before, so I'm curious ...

... the game. In it, the attributes only vary every two lines ... , with the right side attributes offset from the left by ... do, nor is resorting to 128K-only effects.

So ...

... the following:
On a 128K you have 2 screens. Untested ... screendisplay
will alter the attributes too and the screen is ... . Since swapping screens on a 128K only takes a few T ...

... is 128 mode only with attributes every 4 pixel rows taken ... pixel rows to select the attributes. You still have to stay ... the time. Tasks include drawing sprites, lines, digital music, etc. The ...

... 've done 21 different 16x16 sprites that way. Masochistic, I know ... ], I can now define the attributes per line and move them ... at a time, so my sprites are all animated. I just ...

... will be a problem in 128k, but screen space might.
sprites idea which would free up ...

... ? And other emulated machines (48K, 128K, +2)?

[QUOTE=FrankT ... tell with just the two sprites. But if it was running ... /> 1. 48K Spectrum
2. 128K / +2
3. +3 / +2A ...

... smaller screen and had fewer sprites moving around, but it was ... like it uses the 8x1 attributes. The backgrounds look pretty but ...

... best? Robots, fantasy, manga? Small sprites or big loading screens?[/QUOTE ... /> I think to start with sprites mostly, cause I will need ... fullscreen graphics to speccy color attributes.

... the shadow screen present in 128K Spectrum's because "it ... have no idea how the 128K works, and I realised ... I may stray onto 128K if I get stuck at ... mode (full screen 8x1 attributes, character-mapped but with ... this off with the original 128K, so I'll consider ...

... said that a true 128K Speccy must have a ... because the 256x192 pixels + attributes mode is inherently what defines ... I've settled on the 128K as my 'base' ... in, and develop, new 128K Spectrum software, but not SAM ... for the 48K+AY, or 128K, or SAM, or Amiga ...

... for both ink and paper attributes - you could have bright ink ... , I'd also add hardware sprites, but Speccy style: that is ... would be feasible for those sprites to not suffer from attribute ...

... could do it with unique attributes in each column.
[/QUOTE ... alternative is to use 8x2 attributes instead of 8x1, which you ... really like idea of 8x2 attributes. sure, it is not ... using multicolor just for few sprites placed over background displayed in ...

... load the demo on a 128k machine the full-screen stripes ... 'obvious' way (writing to the attributes after every bit loaded). It ... to fake it with the 128K second screen instead.