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24-Wide or 26-Wide Multicolour Tile EngineI've been playing about with more multicolour routines (8x1, 8x2 etc.) and have one a bit clever and suitable for a tile-based game. No particular d…
... been playing about with more multicolour routines (8x1, 8x2 etc.) and have ... probably be common for the whole screen.
Now, is this ... -
Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…
... it is only half of screen with 8x1 attributes, only 128 of ... . :)
[quote]Multitech is 8x1, so I said, Hires IFLI ... were thinking of using the whole screen but i recommended using no ... are reffering too, is Hardware Multicolour, and it is in fact ... -
Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…
... only Spectrum which can use Multicolour lace.
[ ... , and use ULA FX Hardware Multicolour to display it.
< ... - except Jonathan who stumbled on 8x1 ) man, when it rains it ... were thinking of using the whole screen but i recommended using no ... -
SpecNextThis looks interesting... http://www.specnext.com/
... you can do 8x2 multicolour across the full screen width then with ... fair chance of doing 8x1 multicolour for the whole screen. And you'd be ... -
Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …
... the whole screen and two are selectable per-character. Or even per-8x1 ... cell if you want to combine this with multicolour. But ... I think I'd rather have a 16-colour screen ... -
How do I clear only a specific area of a screen (quickly) in machine code ?I'm looking for a machine code routine which will clear the first 20 rows of the Spectrum's display (or any number of rows or columns) . I have found…
... third, two thirds or the whole screen
(13 bytes). I also ... , due to the way the screen
pixels are stored in ... -
Writing to the screen from a bufferI?m designing a game and am spending a bit of time trying different ideas before I commit my self. I?m currently thinking of writing data to a buffer…
... ?back buffer? to the screen. Can the whole screen be drawn from the ... -
Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…
... ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links ...
In my previous single screen game it was the simple ... and every time a screen change was needed I ... no good for a flip screen one.
... x,y coords for each whole screen, but as yet not ... -
3x64 colorsWhile working on the [url="https://github.com/jarikomppa/img2spec"]image spectrumizer[/url] I googled about different "trick modes" people have done …
... 8x4 (and possibly 8x2 and 8x1) cell size attribute change tricks ... thingy: don't swap the whole image, just swap the attributes ... . You can easily replace the whole attribute set in the top ... 't use this for the whole screen, even better. The result is ... -
ZXSCLZF - Yet another Screen CompressorQuick disclaimer before I continue, this compressor does not shrink screens as small as some of the others posted here, in particular the very good z…
... blocks of the screen (or the whole screen if you want ... // *****************************************************************************
// zxsclzf ZX Spectrum Screen Compressor
// by Tom Dalby ... & load whole of input screen into memory, only ... -
TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…
... The hardware improvements included extra screen modes in addition to the ... attributes (color was at 8x1 pixels instead of the 8x8 ... with fixed attributes for the whole screen (one paper and one ink ... for the whole screen). There was also a ... -
Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…
... br /> hold on, isnt multitech "8x1" ( not 8x2 ) with any ... he did get was 8x1 instead, like Multitech. ... he can do a whole screen this way, but ... almost got there, one screen works fine, appears instantaneously ... br /> [quote]The such screen size will be 9216 bytes ... -
Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... do hardware pixel scrolling in multicolour 160x200 or hi-res 320x200 ... on the eighth one, the screen reverts back to it's ... , so you quickly shift the whole screen display by 1 character square ... -
Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?
... ] are two demos that feature multicolour pictures. [url=http://www.worldofspectrum ... move a flashing 8x1 pixels "cursor" over the screen and whenever I ... apply color to an 8x1 cell, the multicolour routine would kick in ... -
MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]
... /> Can it? Looking at the multicolour parts specifically - the reason it ... that it's doing full-screen multicolour, but that it's shifting ... 6144 bytes of multicolour data [i]every frame[/i ... data, and 6144 bytes of 8x1 attribute data. -
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…
... enough to represent all on-screen objects with them and you ... spectrum writes graphics to the screen uses very little CPU power ... a pixel in the "blocky" multicolour mode) and vertically.
< ... late game Dragon and the whole screen flickers to hell whilst it ... -
multicolor on 48Kmany people tried multicolor 8x1 on 48K model and ended with maximum width about 18 chars. yesterday i tried [b]8x2[/b] on 48K and achieve 24 char wi…
... ;457025]many people tried multicolor 8x1 on 48K model and ended ... More Intelligence 2 have full screen multicolour? -
The So What's This Buzzsaw All About Then? Thread.Erm. This: [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap"]http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_1.tap[/URL] Keys…
... beam that draws the screen. The beam starts at ... the start of this screen draw, so it's ... for each line of the screen draw, under normal conditions ... up with it for the whole screen width, especially as loading ... This is why the multicolour things so far are 16 ... -
Gameboy advance Speccy emulation?I have heard , but can not find clear / understandable info on emulating the spectrum on a Gameboy Advance... but it is apparently possible? Using '…
... on TV raster timing or multicolour effects will flicker, but most ... the option to rescale the screen horizontally (it's 16 pixels ... for separate thirds of the screen. So for example [I]Manic ... . Or, you can scale the whole screen by the same amount. -
Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…
... white striped screen like before, 2. A multicolour vertical striped screen; more ... they flash, they cover the screen, then black bars cover ... from the bottom until the screen is black, and the ... vertical red lines, then the whole screen should turn white, and ... -
The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... same colour or that the whole screen is switching between pink/green ... a good idea. Especially a multicolour remake perhaps? But please could ... -
What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […
... use a nice wide 8x2 multicolour screen, and form the platforms by ... platform games, though if the whole screen is descending I guess you ... if it was a static screen, and just keep adding a ... be based around a 24x24 multicolour screen with players scores off to ... -
A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... 'm not use any 8x1 rainbow engenies just because ... The ZXodus][Engine uses the whole screen. The 18x18 cell area ... /> [quote]I've found 8x1 sprites looks like "color ' ... s" if you use 8x1 drawing style. So anyway ... if multicolor area in 8x1 engenies will be centered ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... 8x8 attributes like on Speccy, 8x1 attributes like on MSX, and ... ]
These pictures are in 8x1 attribute mode, every scanline has ... , 8-15 is same for whole screen). And the hardware is much ... -
Gandalf - A ZX Spectrum platformer that looks rather nice indeed![img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BuVmuvmRXfg/WYhRw0z0lMI/AAAAAAAAisA/LFKD4SipiSkm3x0FsCNjJCRsCnHgE6W6gCLcBGAs/s640/GandalfZX.jpg[/img] [quote]As ma…
Just maintaining the multicolour effect takes up 62% of ... up to 3K for the whole screen. Obviously for your graphics, they ... the processing time, so most multicolour engines will use this time ... this from BASIC? With the multicolour engine running you're now ... -
Smallest playfield game?What is the game with the smallest playfield? I'm not referring to map size, but where the action takes place. Some examples: - Jet Pac: The acti…
... takes place within a single screen (I immediately thought "Jet Pac ... little small box within the screen?
Tetris comes to ... games that do special raster multicolour tricks, because you don't ... to do that across the whole screen. Or for example the 3D ... -
name of the gameim looking for (probably) older game -you play character on a bike (or another vehicle in later levels), sprite was small (say like manic miner badd…
... miner baddies).
-the screen was divided by few (4 ... the left to right over whole screen. on every platform there were ... you reach right edge of screen you continue on platform below ... -
name of the gameim looking for (probably) older game -you play character on a bike (or another vehicle in later levels), sprite was small (say like manic miner badd…
... miner baddies).
-the screen was divided by few (4 ... the left to right over whole screen. on every platform there were ... you reach right edge of screen you continue on platform below ... -
Best scrolling everHi All - I've been lurking here for a while enjoying reminiscing about my magical 10 years of rubber-keyed fun back in my youth! What game featured …
... in Exolon, but with the whole screen scrolling rather than simply moving ... -
z88dk + splib2: another question (sprite instancing)I'm making some tests with z88dk+splib2, with the idea of creating a game sometime in the future, and I have come across a problem. Let's suppose I …
... different tiles and draw the whole screen with them. But, if I ... of the brick on the screen.
That means a ... to have many bricks on screen (*).
Is there a ...
