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Your thoughts on TurricanI've always considered the Turrican games ugly and unappealing - am I missing anything?
... a doubt even with the sprite flicker. It was the best ?10 ... -
Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... used, if the players had priority then all that would change ... blue
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Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... , thats it, and with player priority surely that equals nothing more ... draw one colour for the sprite with hollow sections allowing the ... me when I move the sprite through the platforms? can I ... -
Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... every time your INK Blue Sprite goes through it it ... the same scenario when one sprite just failed the collision detection ... draw one colour for the sprite with hollow sections allowing ... that concepts such as sprite masking and colour priority need your further ... -
Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…
... having the games editors in AGD any more.
... those games into the spectrum AGD.
Though really if ... move the project into TG AGD. (probably!!!)
... being able to define sprite types and place them ... the games from the AGD source code and the ... -
Assembly Programming for IDIOTSOk are there any websites guides for what opcodes do in a z80 or books... but for really really thick people like me :-) Something along the lines …
... so that sprites don't flicker and scrolling is smooth and ... .
The reason sprites flicker if they're not properly ... is this: you draw a sprite (say a spaceship) at one ... />
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Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…
... = pause off screen / 16 = map priority / 32 = is off screen / 64 ... = part of world) etc.
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Manic Miner/chuckie egg style gameI've been playing around with AGD recently and it truly is excellent. Before I start on a game proper, I was wondering does the world need another Ma…
... 've been playing around with AGD recently and it truly is ... Doctors, so that the character sprite changes (regenerates) when he dies ... -
Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…
... area, Keys, Jump table, sprite/object graphics) and each has ... to be merged into the AGD source code.
This ... need to write a AGD compiler that converts your ... game source into AGD code for the game ... the latest version of AGD without the editor code ... -
Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…
... area, Keys, Jump table, sprite/object graphics) and each has ... to be merged into the AGD source code.
This ... need to write a AGD compiler that converts your ... game source into AGD code for the game ... the latest version of AGD without the editor code ... -
Character movementI have always liked manic miner and so want to try an write my own version. My first attempt is just focusing on the character movement, left right a…
... animations, after which the sprite repeats itself 1 character/ ... That means that the sprite moves 2 pixels to ... up with is a sprite that is always 10pixels ... /> So, to draw your sprite from the left hand side ...
To can get flicker-free, action by inserting a ... -
Character movementI have always liked manic miner and so want to try an write my own version. My first attempt is just focusing on the character movement, left right a…
... technique.
Although the sprite can be up to 10 ... , will avoid a lot of flicker.
Jumping anywhere could ... -
Character movementI have always liked manic miner and so want to try an write my own version. My first attempt is just focusing on the character movement, left right a…
... a ManicMiner/JSW type horizontal sprite across 4 frames (2 pixel ... UDGs before and after each sprite and reposition the offset of ... flicker a bit but it only explicitly rubs out the previous sprite ... IF the sprite is moving between two ... -
New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…
... a downside, graphics tend to flicker and that gets a bit ... take any credit for the flicker-free graphics of the Sid ... used the pre-written SP1 sprite library, the developers of the ... own sprite routines in assembler but they did suffer from flicker too ... -
Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…
... though, the idea of having flicker-free sprites without interrupt synchronization ... them. Not knowing the C sprite libraries (or assembler equivalents) would ... -
SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…
... re-position or animate the sprite, then the only other command ... specifically move or change the sprite image, but it'd just ... way to set priority, but basing it on sprite number is fine ... /> Another possible effect - make the sprite clip at the window edge ... -
SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…
... to update and move the sprite themselves (though they could ... way to set priority, but basing it on sprite number is fine ... /> I will likely add SPRITE FRONT and SPRITE BACK commands to alter ... Another possible effect - make the sprite clip at the window edge ... -
Feedback need about a platform gameI've developed a few iPhone games based on 8-bit computer games and am now working on a stealth platformer for the iPad. I believe that 8-bit gamepl…
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Slightly less sprite flicker though. :p
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enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…
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enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…
... start screen drawing, to allow flicker-less sprite output. for 128K i ... around. It would make the sprite routines a hell of a ... -
GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…
... cpc. I don't see flicker so I am not sure ... environment.
The SP1 sprite engine is capable of windowing ... of overlapped windows with proper sprite clipping and background clipping without ... can speed up and simplify sprite rendering code (while at the ... -
Legend of Kyrandia - ZX Spectrum DemoI was browsing the ZX Open Source site [url]http://opensourcezx.untergrund.net/[/url] and I found an interesting tr-dos disk image of a playable demo…
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... /> First of all, when assigning priority "per character" instead of "per ... a fence, his sprite has a higher priority than both INK and ... PAPER pixels will have higher priority and thus hide him ... -
Legend of Kyrandia - ZX Spectrum DemoI was browsing the ZX Open Source site [url]http://opensourcezx.untergrund.net/[/url] and I found an interesting tr-dos disk image of a playable demo…
... simply assume that a player sprite walking at row 17 on ... platform would have a higher priority than the INK and PAPER ... below it, thus the player sprite would be rendered in front ... platform cell, thus the player sprite will be incorrectly rendered on ... -
Super Stick ManBeen thinking about doing a weird platformer for a while now, but since I have zero programming knowledge, and a modicum of drawing skills, I thought…
... short demo?[/QUOTE]
Try AGD/PGD?
Note though ... . (96 bytes for one 16x16 sprite frame is eating memory like ... -
Super Stick ManBeen thinking about doing a weird platformer for a while now, but since I have zero programming knowledge, and a modicum of drawing skills, I thought…
[QUOTE=Timmy;550268]Try AGD/PGD?
Note though, ... . (96 bytes for one 16x16 sprite frame is eating memory like ... -
Collision detection in Arcade Game DesignerI've been playing with Arcade Game Designer recently but I can't get the collision detection work between two sprites of the same type even though I'…
... be better to have 2 sprite types so type 0 can ... that have been made with AGD and use them as a ... -
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... masking sprites of a lower priority than the charset to ... at $e000 onwards). The sprite occlusion he's talking about ... blocky" mode...[/quote]
Sprite to background priorities work in ... would simply make the player sprite disappear behind [i]all ... -
New WIP underway - 'Dingo'.Hi, Prepare for a long post. Perhaps I can even challenge ewgf here. :razz: Anyway, I've been meaning to get into Z80 programming and making a game…
... like a slightly more fancy sprite routine, but I'll ... prevent flicker, and that is to delete the old sprite line ... the registers for the old sprite, then use EXX to ... your registers for the new sprite. Draw a byte or ... worry about where a sprite is because if the ... -
New WIP underway - 'Dingo'.Hi, Prepare for a long post. Perhaps I can even challenge ewgf here. :razz: Anyway, I've been meaning to get into Z80 programming and making a game…
... to prevent flicker, and that is to delete the old sprite line ...
