... refresh rate which is not 50Hz

looking at your ... opinion using interlace only for sprites should be more easier way ...

... is out, but doing the sprites only or small parts of ... TVs compared to the normal 50Hz. I'm not sure how ...

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You should render your sprites as often as possible - but ... at a rate less than 50Hz as drawing graphics is generally ... 're trying to render at 50Hz as this leaves very little ...

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16000 cycles for 32x32 sprites allows around 4 per frame ... few Spectrum games have a 50Hz update rate (is there more ...

... res super-blocky but colourful sprites (presumably usually for scrolling games ... can do neat stuff like alter the origin point in RAM ...

... engine is designed for larger sprites, hence the high jumping. I ... game in first and then alter the gameplay.

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... engine is designed for bigger sprites and so blows connect from ...

I need to alter these values and everything would ...

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If I define my sprites to be in a position ... as long as there's sprites in there, so splib2 would ... ! tunes but I had to alter the player code to eliminate ...

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If I define my sprites to be in a position ... as long as there's sprites in there, so splib2 would ... ! tunes but I had to alter the player code to eliminate ...

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When using pre-shifted sprites in SP1, the frame graphic ...
And done, pre-shifted sprites! Notice that the total memory ... alter those character squares' graphics. It will appear that sprites ... are background tiles, the sprites float over top of ...

... there rather than erasing 10 sprites and then redrawing all 10 ... few Spectrum games operate at 50Hz. They could probably be counted ...

[QUOTE=JamesD]Sprites automaticly show one in front ... hundred cycles to update your sprites with dedicated hardware, if you ... may be cases where a 50Hz update is visually discernible from ...

... hundred cycles to update your sprites with dedicated hardware, if you ... may be cases where a 50Hz update is visually discernible from ... couple hundred cycles to update sprites in dedicated hardware. It depends ...

... .net/z88dk/z88dk/libsrc/sprites/software/sp1/spectrum-sp1. ... rectangles to prevent colours of sprites from bleeding into neighbouring ... a faster way to colour sprites now using sp1_GetSprClrAddr() and ... mind was using this to alter sprite colours depending on ...

... . To be able to load sprites from disk and place them ... use interrupts, just the standard 50Hz Frame Interrupt signal, to wait ...

... lot if you look at 50Hz vs 60Hz machines, but for ... 50Hz machines the top border is ... graphics change (caused by moving sprites or changes to background), the ... ) in that time. These sprites are LOAD sprites only (they obliterate background ...

... sp1_AddColSpr() functions. SP1 creates sprites one column at a time ... the sprite will not alter colours on screen when ... />
Internally SP1 divides sprites into their characters. This means ... .net/z88dk/z88dk/libsrc/sprites/software/sp1/spectrum-sp1. ...

... that must run in the 50Hz interrupt.

... will also run in the 50Hz interrupt.

... on screen. When the 50Hz interrupt occurs we know ... during the spectrum's 50Hz interrupt. Let's have ... available to make more sprites. So of course the ...

... 't get a Spectrum at 50Hz to vsync with a monitor ... input. You can't really alter this without specialist hardware, because ...

Uploaded screen for "Sprites".

I've been ... machine code routine inside the 50Hz interrupt handler. I can see ... , you can hear a continuous 50Hz "rasp". But the whole point ...

... /> g_downtimer0 = 2; // move sprites horizontally every 2 frames
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// move all sprites

g_uchar0 = g_downtimer0; ... is updated during the 50Hz interrupt (see interrupt. ...

... draw a fixed number of sprites each cycle even if they ... enough time to draw enough sprites to make a game worth ... like trying to do a 50Hz update with a virtual processor ...

... draw a fixed number of sprites each cycle even if they ... , a fixed number of 8x8 sprites can be written in constant ... like trying to do a 50Hz update with a virtual processor ... need to run it on 50Hz ? 25Hz or 17Hz will be ...

... about rotate priority of animated sprites ?
you have at most ... border, then erases the falling sprites after the colour effect is ... I could still be drawing sprites during the bottom border phase ... /> The whole game runs at 50Hz (at least when the pieces ...

... trying the flicker technique with sprites though, back in the 80s ... between two small images at 50Hz on an ordinary TV, the ...

... did notice occasional flickering of sprites in the top third of ... Beret when a lot of sprites were active or in Myth ... didn't happen on the 50Hz spectrum either.

... , I experimented with 4-colour sprites using interrupts to alternate two ... example was magenta and green sprites on a black background, which ... with the Speccy with its 50Hz rate.

The end ...

... first screen line. But some sprites in ZX games can flash ... use correct timing via interrupt 50Hz then games work correct. 3D ...

... perform switching of two complementary sprites in motion both horiz. and ... program is perfectly timed at 50Hz anyway; in fact, the most ... scroll and/or a zillion sprites to move. Display routines can ...

... against your case for "perfect 50Hz timing" because guess what, every ... your hype is that displaying sprites every other frame results in ...