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A video interface for the Spectrum, MSX compatibleSo you can use the same code for displaying sprites, tiles, characteres, and so no, on both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has a…
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How would you make Cybernoid a better game.Following on from the Cecco thread, it might actually be quite interesting to hear people?s views on how they would improve the recognised ZX Spectru…
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what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
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Game engine design, graphic format?Having never written a game engine before, I'm in need of a little advice on the best way to store the game map. Its 512 x 896 map, 4-way scrolling,…
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Screen access in assemblerI am again troubled by the unusal screen design of the Spectrum. :) If I want to do something with, say, a 16x16 bit block of the screen (in the sam…
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ZXSpectrum +3 - New SoftwareHello, This is my first post here on WOS, i'm very glad to be here and be a part of this community. To make this short, i've been programming on the…
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Manic Miner CSS[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014526"]Manic Miner comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] by Nigel Fishwick, 2002 It is the first time I h…
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Thieves School - New Game from World XXI Soft Inc.After aprox. 2 years of hard work, World XXI Soft Inc. announces the release of [I][B]Thieves School[/B][/I], a platformer multi-level for Spectrum 1…
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Thieves School - New Game from World XXI Soft Inc.After aprox. 2 years of hard work, World XXI Soft Inc. announces the release of [B][I]Thieves School[/I][/B], a platformer multi-level for Spectrum 1…
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Graphic enhancements in games!(this message was also posted at [url]http://www.retroremakes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12431[/url]) Hello to everyone! A couple of years ago I …
... , there are problems with overlapping sprites, color collisions, etc. But for ... by increasing the number of sprites we can considerably slowdown the ... -
I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?
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z88dk Help neededI'm starting my tests with z88dk from a very simple example from a tutorial in speccy.org. It works fine but when I make the smallest modification t…
I'm starting my tests with z88dk from a very simple example from a tutorial in speccy.org. It works fine but when I make the smallest modification to the code, it just crashes.
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ANN: ColorTILEColorTILE is a Timex mode 2 (8x1 attribute) tile editor that allows you to create up to 256 tiles of 16x16 pixels each. It features: * 4x zoom editi…
BasIn 14d Bug.The Drag&Drop of "Sprites" into the Animation Filmstrip does not work correctly. I loaded the Manic Miner spriteset, and scrolled down to the end of …
The Drag&Drop of "Sprites" into the Animation Filmstrip does ...Dynamite Dan/Rod BowkettI'm surprised no-one's mentioned this before, but in this month's Retro Gamer, there is the interview with Rod Bowkett. I was looking forward to this…
... flicker free, non-slow down, sprites, great ingame tunes, fantastic use ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
Definitely Not Stonkers**Or the ZX Spectrum equivalent to Nintendo's Advance Wars. With the simple presentation but demon wars, I've thought about a Spectrum version of Adv…
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- if need, scrollable playing ...Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
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2. Drew the sprites in their correct positions
sprites move a few pixels at ... calculating offsets for the blocks/sprites and to draw directly to ...Brand new River Raid remake?one of my friend is trying to make a riverraid remake on flash just to have fun, I checked zx spectrum port of river raid. it is bad, really bad, jer…
... /> As I tried to draw sprites on basin paintbox, I realized ...List of existing games that needs a port to zx spectrumPlease post here the games that exist in other platform(s) but does not exist in speccy. Please keep in mind this is not a to-do list, so don't hesti…
... if available (links to history, sprites, sound, music, story, books, movies ...Tips on optimizing some newbie assembly routinesI'm starting to learn some assembly language. The best way to learn is to actually code something you are going to use, so I'm creating a very simple…
... simplified SP1, but without the sprites on top. I intend to ...New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…
... with control selection, some new sprites and the score-display font ...Trademarks of developersI find some developers have some trademarks on its games, being originals or even conversions. Next some examples: SpecialFX: -Nervous enemies. The…
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-Small sprites. A lot, and moving smooth ...Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…
... to handle collisions between two sprites, especially if you wanted to ... , which switches between two colliding sprites after a COLLISION test, allowing ...Rippin GauntletAfter readin Retro gamer the other day and their left for dead thingy for speccy. I was wonderin would it be possible to hack the graphics for gaun…
After readin Retro gamer the other day and their left for dead thingy for speccy. I was wonderin would it be possible to hack the graphics for gauntlet and replace them with zombie type sprites???2D Scrolling tile based editorOk, first of all, I thought TommyGun could do it, but the option to create a 2d scrolling map is greyed out.... All I want to do is create some 8x8p…
... some 8x8px tiles (or maybe 16x16), and then create a map ...An idea for a possible(?) new interfaceDue to the Spectrum's processor speed and the way the ULA works, there are a couple things (among others) that are difficult to do: -Gigascreen or a…
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-Anything that needs to ...Framerate of arcade gamesThe Golden Age of video games coincided with the birth of 8-bit home computing; this is why every computer of that era has a slew of really bad Pacma…
... of Pacman has five moving sprites, and should be doable at ...Adjusting your code for screen refreshingOk, I'm aware that I should know it already after writing 5 Spectrum games in machine code but interrupts and screen refreshes were always my weaker …
... /> I'm drawing some moving sprites to the screen, first restoring ... old positions and later drawing sprites at new positions.
Jonathan Cauldwell writes.I also found this in me old archives, which was actually written by Jonathan Cauldwell. Again, typos and editorial tags included for authenticity ;-)…
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