-
Survey: How did you play Knight Lore?Joystick or keyboard? Directional or not? Which keys? Knight Lore lets you use pretty much every key on the keyboard to play. I'm in the later sta…
... 'll add both options to the game. I'll ... layout is pretty much orthogonal to the speccy, and it ... of Sundays to process all the input to support all ... 6809! Thinking of adding Amstrad CPC graphics to it since the overhead ... I'd also like to port something _to_ the ... -
Hi-res graphics mode in the ZX81?Hi all, I am starting to discover this interesting machine :) I have a question for those experts in the ZX81: The Hi-res mode was an option availab…
... set, but with the graphics data coming from the ZX81 ... in designing his/her graphics, but limited to choosing a 'best matching ... programmer has more freedom to design the graphics. This works with factory ... feature, [i]if[/i] adding RAM to a ZX81. It's just ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... Colditz Story[/b] - Bad graphics, almost no sound, and ... -em up with colorful graphics and fast action. Very ... b]Mission Jupiter[/b] - Simple graphics, some dubious color schemes, but ... different strategies to be negotiated, thus adding substance to the gameplay. ... -
What am I doing wrong?Working on the idea of making a book type game I decided to start with a title screen. However I thought that the extension .scr was what the Spectru…
... /> Rather than choices I thought to create a serialized book. So ... story with the choice amounting to moving onto the next ... compression and the ability of adding graphics perhaps there's a better ... the reader some freedom to decide what to try next would make ... -
1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …
... If I altered all the graphics to smaller width, then I ... on the display engine to allow the actual game ... will allow other functions to be faster and more ... is scope to speed it up by only adding a ... br /> The buffer is restored to the line onscreen after all ... -
Free/cheap gamesJust found GOG are giving away Torchlight until 20 June 19.59 GMT [url]http://www.gog.com/[/url] And this lot are giving you a load of games includi…
... ]
It's down to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP ... windows 8 lol, you have to install 10 from 8...NOT ... so you cant go changing graphics and adding graphics cards willy nilly :( -
The Silliest ZX Spectrum Games EverClearly there is a fine line between "silly" games and "not silly" games . Well that needs to be defined and the silly games clearly identified . So …
... maybe someone else adding graphics and sound. If you want to compare like ... -with-like then you need to look at the indie scene ... isn't even unusual compared to some of the sillyness out ... -
What game defined the spectrumHello again,im in a posting mood today,lol. Anyway what game for you defined the spectrum? What i mean is for example,if you asked someone to name a …
... example,if you asked someone to name a game for the ... many class games its hard to choose but for me it ... ,it was perfect from sound to graphics to playability,it really showed what ... the speccy was able to do best,so what do ... -
Changes that would have made a bad game goodA posting about technician ted beign far too hard to be playable got me thinking - what changes could have been made to existing games to make them b…
... beign far too hard to be playable got me ... have been made to existing games to make them better, ...
I think adding puzzles to Knight Lore would have made ... potential for puzzles or obstacles to get past - but ... there are no buildings to stop the bomb, your ... -
Wye Valley Compiler (again)Someone's gone to all the trouble of OCRing my scanned instructions and adding them to the archive, but the TAP files of the 16k and 48k versions of …
... OCRing my scanned instructions and adding them to the archive, but the ... year ago.
Starting to feel a bit peeved now :( -
Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …
... /joy input, game logic and graphics rendering.
... call drawsproffscr ;Draw offscreen sprite graphics to screen
call quitcheck ... One idea is perhaps to let the interrupt function ... on the screen - all this to avoid flicker).
Totally totally off-topic javascript questionEvenin' people - can anybody help me here? Internet Explorer will just not work for me with a bit o' script that works fine in Moz/Firefox. This is …
... feel free, nay obliged to laugh at my code :):< ... from a string, testing to see if they're alphabetical ... method of encryption) and adding it to a new string, or ... just plainly routes them to the new string if ... the non-alpha characters to the string correctly. Any ...ADCI'm a little confused about how the Z80 manages the ADC instruction. I'm assuming two ADD instructions are performed (am I wrong?!) I can think of 3 …
... Carry set
Adding Carry to Operand sets Carry but this ... Operand=1
Adding Carry to A sets Carry and makes ... A=0 but then adding ... but using a wordvalue to fix the problem but ... />
Everything appears to work okay but I'm ...What is the best graphics to be seen on a speccyI'd like some opinions on that, out of interest. I except loading screens. Tir Nan Og was a landmark for sure, but what bettered it?
I'd like some opinions on that, out of interest. I except loading screens.
Tir Nan Og was a landmark for sure, but what bettered it?Updated! Download My New Maze Game - WIP DemoTo download a demo of my new game (Bipboi), please click here... [url="http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/bipboi1.tap"]http://www.peargames.co.uk/…
To download a demo of my ... course be given to contributors):
1. Graphics - Each sprite is ... cool FX
3. Cool Graphics to go around the edges (8 ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... but it's quite easy to set up for sprites. No ... BASin, so I'm adding stuff to it as I need it ... now send any binary file to the BASIC as DATA ... escape sequences were expanded due to Delphi's brain-dead ...
And feedback here or to my email address.
New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... but it's quite easy to set up for sprites. No ... BASin, so I'm adding stuff to it as I need it ... now send any binary file to the BASIC as DATA ... escape sequences were expanded due to Delphi's brain-dead ...
And feedback here or to my email address.
MobyGames contributors wanted[url]www.mobygames.com[/url] is the largest games database on the net, and the Spectrum side of things needs some beefing up. I've been adding stuff …
... up. I've been adding stuff to it for about 2 years ...Add the numbers?Yesterday morning (about 1am) I was flicking through cable to see what was on, and I turned to ITV and that boring space filler "The Mint" was on. An…
... do the 3x2 before adding it to 4), but someone ... are various other "answers" to the question, that I could ... Stephen Hawking style maths to the question), and I ... everything else that occured to me, along with almost ... ,000, then raised to ?72,000) to anyone, and so ...Will you be my friend (if you have a Wii!)If you have a Wii would you mind awfully adding me to your friends list (and/ or adding your Wii code to this thread)? I've tried it a couple of time…
... mind awfully adding me to your friends list (and/ or adding your Wii ... code to this thread)? I've ... a Wii but nothing seems to be happening, they add me ... out of curiousity really, and to fill my Mii parade up ...SpecDB spectrum database programHi all, Many many moons since I wrote my last message on this forum, I even forgot my password and lost my registered mail account so I had to create…
... mainly because I needed something to catalog my huge collection of ...
Also needed something to compare files to see if they are ... entry if new or adding it to a title entry if ... and delete blocks (adding pictures, removing comments, adding info text with ...Off topic: ST & Amiga development discs preservationAnyone here know anyone who can get some stuff off of ST and Amiga discs? I have found a stash including a 2 disc demo for 'FLOOD II' (which was neve…
... Bullfrog. Bullfrog had shown these graphics to Nintendo who apparently loved them ... but haven't seen the graphics I produced for years!
FLOOD 2 GRAPHICS DISC 1
FLOOD II ... (2 VERSIONS)
RAMBO III GRAPHICS DISC 4
LEMMINGS GRAPHIX ...I have joined the Dark SideGone and bought a PS3 that is. Even after all of the posts I made about not getting one as they were so expensive I succumbed and sold my 360 (and o…
... and was given some hints to interpret the error occurring which ... turned out to be "unknown hardware failure". ... of repairing would be without adding more to Mr Gates coffers. So ... done. Stuff is very easy to get to, but it can be ...Faster Pussycat, yer man (UDG)Right we are almost into a game area. Ive started to play with UDG and by using bins and pokes I can redesign graphics to my hearts content. Now Im…
... br />
Ive started to play with UDG and by ... and pokes I can redesign graphics to my hearts content.
... I should be able to acheive the same thing ... a little routine to poke the screen to fill it with ... says about the address range to use.
...Multiple ROMsI'm mulling over the idea of a bit of hardware with a ROM in it, which has some commands that can be called by BASIC (like the old wafadrive star com…
... Now I presume how adding commands to BASIC works is that ... if not, returns control to the Speccy's internal ... sets the program counter back to 0x0008.
... correct - it seems to me that only one ... just simpler to put programs on disk to call routines ...Lost In TranslationEy up! You may already be aware, but the typically Amiga-based website [url=http://www.exotica.org.uk]ExoticA[/url] has now become a wiki. "What's …
... [/url] (LiT) that attempts to show how arcade games (and ... etc.) survived the conversion process to home computers and consoles, not ... 128k or Starglider 128k to load from cassette and ... uploading Spectrum screenshots and adding them to the relevant pages.
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... a new blank set of graphics to your specification - just use ... tried to open a file which contains more graphics than ... clipboard routines - graphics are no longer restricted to 8x8 pixels, ... in strange behaviour whilst editing graphics. (Woody)
Fixed - ...The best Chess, Tetris, Poker, Monopoly etc games?I was going to create two topics, one asking which was the best Chess game for the Spectrum, and one asking which was the best Tetris game, but then …
... games, so I decided to just make one thread about ... of Poker itself, naked lady graphics are not obligitory, just good ... and you need to be Stephen Hawking to remember the key ... combinations) - relying on the great graphics to sell itself. Psion Scrabble is ...Help with searching directories please!I just made a boo boo! For the last few hours I have been adding music to my collection but after sorting them all I have suddenly realised there is…
... few hours I have been adding music to my collection but after ... files I have just added to my collection are something other ... , what do I type in to show all other than .mp3 ... I type into the box to search?
Thanks for ...Firefox 3.0 Final todayFirefox 3.0 Final will be released today at 6pm (GMT). Mozilla want to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hour. A n…
... (GMT).
Mozilla want to set a Guinness World Record ... add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A ... new star button for easily adding sites to your bookmark list - similar ... new features include the ability to resume downloads midway if the ...
