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  • Ultimate earlier gamesI mean those Ultimate's games before [I]Atic Atac[/I]. Which is your vavourite? My fave, Jetpac. Very addictive, great gameplay.

    ... perhaps with a nice flicker free masked sprite engine.

    Re ...
    zxspecticle zxspecticle April 2008 Games
  • Head over Heels on the C64Dunno if this' a good place to bring this up :D I've been comparing Head over Heels versions and the C64 version is way inferior, everytime there's…

    ... last question, would the sprites flicker about? I've noticed this ... to allow for the hardware sprite priorities, there's never a ...
    TMR TMR June 2008 Games
  • Pussy - on sale againNo, it is nothing sick, it is just: european users can now buy "Pussy-the Titanic love story" on my homepage [url]http://lcd-one.da.ru[/url] again (p…

    ... the bad sense of, say, sprite flicker) 2 states of graphics to ...
    redballoon redballoon October 2008 Announcements
  • Pussy - on sale againNo, it is nothing sick, it is just: european users can now buy "Pussy-the Titanic love story" on my homepage [url]http://lcd-one.da.ru[/url] again (p…

    ... the bad sense of, say, sprite flicker) 2 states of graphics to ...
    LCD LCD October 2008 Announcements
  • 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…

    ... C64 by using it's sprite capabilities to lessen the ... to get much/any flicker when compared to C64/ ... control by the developers. Flicker is bad for business as ... , up to around 1984, flicker quite badly though. I'd ... the later C64 games flicker that much either.
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... dragon is not a big sprite. body is static and only ... seem to get much/any flicker when compared to C64/NES ... think that the race for flicker free games introduced backbuffers and ... 's.
    on 128 speccy flicker is a sign of progemmers ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... put together, and each sprite has to be a ... control by the developers. Flicker is bad for business ... the later C64 games flicker that much either.[/QUOTE ... ]NES games constantly flicker, and they're the ... is not a big sprite. body is static and ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... 666;314817]NES games constantly flicker, and they're the games ... them on a single scanline, flicker is the result as the ... .

    On the Spectrum flicker can be avoided by backbuffering ... isn't really possible on sprite machines, short of using the ...
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... bottom. Basically. It is called "sprite multiplexing".
    Of course you ... /> [QUOTE]
    NES games constantly flicker, and they're the games ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Atic Atac speed.Dear all, Excuse the noob question, but does anyone know how fast Atic Atac runs at? What I mean is, frames per second, or the amount of pixels the…

    ... running" - your graphics are gunna flicker - you rub out the old ... flicker. However, if you rub out byte sections of the old sprite ...
    frobush frobush January 2009 Games
  • Atic Atac speed.Dear all, Excuse the noob question, but does anyone know how fast Atic Atac runs at? What I mean is, frames per second, or the amount of pixels the…

    ... running" - your graphics are gunna flicker - you rub out the old ... flicker. However, if you rub out byte sections of the old sprite ... sprite at the time.

    They do indeed suffer from flicker ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2009 Games
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... was updated. :)

    The sprite code has been rewritten to ... deleted. The result is that flicker has been entirely eliminated.
    sprite jump (any sprite - it doesn't have ...
    jonathan jonathan February 2009 Development
  • New Spectrum game - Banger ManagementThe game I produced for the Byte Back event is now available for download: [url]http://www.byte-back.info/hbchallenge.html[/url] Now, does anybody …

    ... . On the other hand, the sprite routine was written specifically for ... handled so many sprites without flicker.

    I'll upload ...
    jonathan jonathan March 2009 Games
  • Ah DiddumsOk I have just loaded this game from Imagine in an emulator. My teddy has an annoying twitch he/she keeps jerking left/up in my emulator is that nor…

    ... was a lot of flicker on the main sprite - no kempston interface ...
    jdanddiet jdanddiet April 2009 Games
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    As promised, I've updated AGD now, and the new version, ... for download from my website. AGD now incorporates objects, which don ... object n at the current sprite position
    IF GOT n ... of any object the current sprite is touching, or 255 if ...
    jonathan jonathan May 2009 Development
  • New to developmentHello there my fellow forum chummies, I have recently been bitten once again to go into software development, its been a while. I have a lot of ski…

    ... ]

    sp1 (a flicker free sprite engine) has been used for ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2009 Development
  • Where's the border line between a Spectrum and something else?I mean: there are purists out there that consider that anything that is not a true Sinclair Spectrum, with a true Z80 and a true ULA, and at most, 48…

    ... , without a spurious flicker or without an occasional sprite jerk.

    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 August 2009 Development
  • Where's the border line between a Spectrum and something else?I mean: there are purists out there that consider that anything that is not a true Sinclair Spectrum, with a true Z80 and a true ULA, and at most, 48…

    ... the slightest frame drop, sprite jerk, occasional flicker, etc. on your system ...
    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 August 2009 Development
  • Where's the border line between a Spectrum and something else?I mean: there are purists out there that consider that anything that is not a true Sinclair Spectrum, with a true Z80 and a true ULA, and at most, 48…

    ... the slightest frame drop, sprite jerk, occasional flicker, etc. on your system ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall August 2009 Development
  • Where's the border line between a Spectrum and something else?I mean: there are purists out there that consider that anything that is not a true Sinclair Spectrum, with a true Z80 and a true ULA, and at most, 48…

    ... miss, occasional sync glitch, occasional sprite flicker.

    Also, I've ...
    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 August 2009 Development
  • Where's the border line between a Spectrum and something else?I mean: there are purists out there that consider that anything that is not a true Sinclair Spectrum, with a true Z80 and a true ULA, and at most, 48…

    ... the slightest frame drop, sprite jerk, occasional flicker, etc. on your system ... make it happen
    2) sprite jerk, the ratio between display ... different periods)
    3) occasional flicker, don't know - I've ...
    Fred Fred August 2009 Development
  • Where's the border line between a Spectrum and something else?I mean: there are purists out there that consider that anything that is not a true Sinclair Spectrum, with a true Z80 and a true ULA, and at most, 48…

    ... miss, occasional sync glitch, occasional sprite flicker.[/quote]

    Did you ...
    Fred Fred August 2009 Development
  • The Ultimate QuestIsometric game, point-and-click or Where-time-stood-still-style. The game could have just one map and several areas like in "The Great Escape" or a d…

    ... been working on an isometric sprite engine off-and-on for ... a frame before you get flicker... blitting from a workscreen gets ...
    csmith csmith August 2009 New game ideas
  • 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…

    ... ]http://rapidshare.com/files/281887815/AGD.zip[/url]

    New ... resize window bug which removed sprite from first screen
    - Return ... we want to seriously expand AGD would be to remove the ... return to the main menu AGD does a full compile, which ...
    jonathan jonathan September 2009 Development
  • 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…

    ... are very expensive in AGD and that each sprite is preshifted. Each ... frame of each sprite is repeated 4 times preshifted ... so a sprite with 4 frames of animation ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN September 2009 Development
  • I just picked up a free Atari 520stJust got a free 520ST, (no cables or leads) and a small box load of games. :? dunno what to do with it, but it was being thrown out, so I grabbed it…

    ... MIDI success.
    [*]Support for flicker-free hi-res monitor. The ... and genlocking, but lacked a flicker-free hi-res mode viewable ... compete with character-oriented/multi-sprite cheap arcade-like hardware.
    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 September 2009 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... ]http://rapidshare.com/files/288253200/AGD.zip[/url]

    ... just collided, the newly-spawned sprite, and the original one ... command to animate a sprite in the reverse direction.< ... br />
    The Sprite Initialisation event is now called ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2009 Development
  • Speccy vs C64: Enduro RacerJust seen a video of the commode version of Enduro Racer, what a pile of cack: [youtube]kZVNLX6OxwU[/youtube] Speccy version: [youtube]ouKg6LeXkD…

    ... used it, but that main sprite is just so nice and ... was more of the same sprite layer trickery rather than full ... the performance. Plus things like sprite flicker & colour clash would have ...
    Fizza Fizza October 2009 Chit chat
  • Framerate of Spectrum gamesI was reading a bit about framerates in modern games and it got me wondering about the Speccy. First off I'd hoped to find what framerate my old gam…

    ... back buffer too, to avoid flicker.

    In, say, Green ... Hysteria's case) or the sprite is cleared if it is ...
    frobush frobush November 2009 Games
  • Ulysses31I would love to see someone take Ulysses31 and make it into a game. It was one of the best cartoons of the 80's along with the mysterious cities of g…

    ... 25 frames per second without flicker, and you can define your ... ]http://rapidshare.com/files/288253200/AGD.zip[/url]
    jonathan jonathan November 2009 New game ideas
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