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  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... is allocated to each sprite animation), but at the ... current temporary map of the screen.

    If ... have doors (on the same or another screen) that only ... be 'are we actually on screen N?' before changing a ... the player has left the screen).

    By ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • 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…

    ... update!

    My "sprite engine" is coming along. It ... a 16x16 spaceship graphic on the shadow screen while the other ... no tearing visible as the sprite is moved. Next job ... :)[/QUOTE]

    Sprite engine? Shadow screen? No tearing? Are you ...
    R-Tape R-Tape February 2013 Games
  • 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…

    ... AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN NOT LOOKING PARTICULARLY MENACING...[/FONT ... up to 12 or so on screen at once!

    That ... [/I] just as a static sprite test at the moment but ... />

    Flying the player sprite around in all eight directions ...
    guesser guesser February 2013 Games
  • 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…

    ... up to 12 or so on screen at once![/QUOTE]

    sprite?

    [QUOTE=guesser;681842 ... [/I] just as a static sprite test at the moment but ...
    R-Tape R-Tape February 2013 Games
  • TommyGun with AGDHi everyone, I have been working with Jonathan to incorporate his excellent Arcade Game Designer utility into TommyGun. Jonathan has created a compi…

    ... :\Program Files\TommyGun.AGD\AGD\AgdCompile.exe 2 Sprite(Type1).agd Sprite(Type1).asm
    AGD\AGD\AgdCompile.exe 3 Sprite(Type2).agd Sprite(Type2).asm
    on my pitiful effort, Kiwi ;) and ...
    Ralf Ralf February 2013 Development
  • TommyGun with AGDHi everyone, I have been working with Jonathan to incorporate his excellent Arcade Game Designer utility into TommyGun. Jonathan has created a compi…

    ... :\Program Files\TommyGun.AGD\AGD\AgdCompile.exe 2 Sprite(Type1).agd Sprite(Type1).asm
    AGD\AGD\AgdCompile.exe 3 Sprite(Type2).agd Sprite(Type2).asm
    on my pitiful effort, Kiwi ;) and ...
    Kiwi Kiwi February 2013 Development
  • TommyGun with AGDHi everyone, I have been working with Jonathan to incorporate his excellent Arcade Game Designer utility into TommyGun. Jonathan has created a compi…

    ... :\Program Files\TommyGun.AGD\AGD\AgdCompile.exe 2 Sprite(Type1).agd Sprite(Type1).asm
    AGD\AGD\AgdCompile.exe 3 Sprite(Type2).agd Sprite(Type2).asm
    on my pitiful effort, Kiwi ;) and ...
    Kiwi Kiwi February 2013 Development
  • TommyGun with AGDHi everyone, I have been working with Jonathan to incorporate his excellent Arcade Game Designer utility into TommyGun. Jonathan has created a compi…

    ... crashes.

    I'm on Win 7 64bit, using XP ... Files (x86)\TommyGun.AGD\AGD\AgdCompile.exe 2 Sprite(Type1).agd Sprite(Type1).asm
    AGD\AGD\AgdCompile.exe 3 Sprite(Type2).agd Sprite(Type2).asm
    mulder mulder February 2013 Development
  • TommyGun with AGDHi everyone, I have been working with Jonathan to incorporate his excellent Arcade Game Designer utility into TommyGun. Jonathan has created a compi…

    ... to place a sprite in a random blank screen in the Diamond ... case, I had put the sprite on screen, it was allowing me to ... before I could select the sprite and then the same thing ...
    mulder mulder February 2013 Development
  • MegaManZXMega Man for ZX Spectrum [center] [IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/2ho90rd.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinypic.com/dzt7bd.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinyp…

    ... /> [quote]But Helmet is flick-screen, and Megaman benefits for sideways ... less stuff happening at once on screen :)[/QUOTE]

    A flip ... Using AGD (or coding it directly) in a flip screen game would ... one color in AGD though (if I know AGD that is) since ...
    Sadako Sadako March 2013 New game ideas
  • BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 1Using multicolor requires 2 very different skills: [I]programming[/I] and [I]graphic design[/I]. I already wrote several tutorials about the former …

    ... at the excellently drawn dinosaur sprite begs the question: could this ... there's a lot happening on screen but movement is very smooth ... allow a lot more stuff on screen. And if you want characters ... must be either single screen or flip-screen). Also characters in ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2013 Development
  • BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 1Using multicolor requires 2 very different skills: [I]programming[/I] and [I]graphic design[/I]. I already wrote several tutorials about the former …

    ... 4-6 sprites on each row of the screen.[/QUOTE]
    < ... br />
    Adding a sprite to the screen would require finding an ... slots first). Removing a sprite would require locating an instruction ... developing a game with restrictions on number of sprites per row ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2013 Development
  • ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…

    ... 'll be keeping an eye on this ;) (oops, just ... aliens use a 2x2 block sprite, with no mask. I ... I can have more aliens on-screen. The walls are made ... adverse effect on gameplay - it just means the sprite will ... getting the routine running on a blank background, so ...
    LuMan LuMan April 2013 New game ideas
  • Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…

    ... data in-memory or on-screen and just fill in ... clever ones do it all on the screen memory.

    ... rotates it in-place on the screen, such that the spare ... but with a neat sprite routine that allows pixel-positioning ... if you draw a sprite over a bit of ...
    joefish joefish June 2013 Games
  • Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…

    ... data in-memory or on-screen and just fill in ... clever ones do it all on the screen memory.

    on the screen, such that the ... adjusted every time the screen has moved a whole ... but with a neat sprite routine that allows pixel- ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx June 2013 Games
  • Books that you just can't quit.Much as parts of the presentation,writing style infurates me, there is a book I just keep comming back to again and again. Its like the Yang to the …

    ... REM set up screen with yellow strips on the top and bottom ... and place a \` note target on the screen$
    1100 GO SUB ... if nothing has happened keep on looping.
    1120 IF NOT ... /> 1189 REM remove target from screen and update score line.
    wibble wibble August 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... details of what scenery was on-screen. He seems to be saying ... only scroll the corresponding characters on the screen. It was also used ... as a mask to ensure that sprite ... character, to a full back-screen. To render the game, sprites ...
    joefish joefish September 2013 Games
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... the way it reads the screen is limited to seeing 4K ... />
    That said, a full screen or even overscanned smooth scroll ... small amount of processor time on that machine using a character ... /attribute or sprite definition data so [i]everything[/i] on screen at a ...
    TMR TMR September 2013 Games
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... the registers that control the screen display, mode, sprites, ... the locations in relation to sprite pos's etc)
    sprite) e.g. 10100000 turns on sprite 1 and ... the whole X position on screen. so if you turn ... you write direct to screen on speccy. you can ...
    fog fog September 2013 Games
  • ReRun - Speccy OutRun done better[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v661/Swainy_boy/outrundelux_zpsb772e8cd.gif[/IMG] Any takers? Smaller sprites, faster game.

    ... at all, just rely on hack jobs to get ... attempt to see if sprite graphics could be recycled ... threw loads of UDGs on screen for the scenary, so ... for his graphical work on the recolouring of Europa ... thinking concerning how the screen was thrown together by ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil September 2013 New game ideas
  • New game: JanosikI have a pleasure to announce my new game: Janosik In case if you wondered, Janosik (spelled Yanoseek in English) is a mountain folk hero,very popul…

    ... /> didn't think the platform on screen 6 was that bad after ... a few goes... screen after with the dogs is ... can wait at the left screen edge for the proper moment ... dogs.
    Although the same sprite is used later in village ...
    Ralf Ralf September 2013 Brand new software
  • display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…

    ... sprite is being updated on screen, you will see an incomplete or missing sprite on screen ... sprites during the interval between "screen redraws". That's a lot ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Type-in BASIC contest on Reddit.Not sure how WOS-legal it is to mention/link to other forums, but Reddit is having a contest on r/retrobattlestations, asking readers to type a speci…

    ... LETs, there are changes on these lines:
    102 ... addressing the data to the screen is very inefficient.
    200 REM Clear screen and setup variables
    ... REM Load background and draw on screen
    310 GO ... br /> 2000 REM Draw sprite in p$ at X, ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Joffa Smiff RememberedMemories we keep one by one, Things you said, Things you have done, They bring a smile, Often a tear, Always a wish that you were here. Jonathan "Jo…

    ... byte order on alternate rows of the sprite, so your screen addresses INC ... reset or subtract from the screen address. Though that only seems ...
    joefish joefish October 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New game: Tea and SympathyHere's something I knocked up in a few days with AGD, a horizontally-scrolling shooter featuring some very nice sprites Binman drew a while ago which…

    ... the SPRITEINK 69 instruction in sprite event 1; BRIGHT (64) + CYAN ... /> N starfield on/off flag, disabled when lots of sprites are on screen
    jonathan jonathan October 2013 Brand new software
  • Rendering clipped glyphSometimes you need to render a glyph of arbitrary size to the screen. And clip it. For example: drawing a mouse cursor means combining drawing of a…

    ... sprite one character column at a time, checking each column is on-screen ... the screen and just pad it with 0s. So, the sprite routine ... characters of the screen to attribute 0, so the sprite vanishes from ...
    joefish joefish October 2013 Development
  • Push 'n' ChaseIt is my great pleasure and honor to announce the release of PUSH 'n' CHASE a game made with CGD featuring a wonderful loading and intro screen …

    ... with game designing programs like AGD, CGD and (maybe in the ... any case as far as AGD/CGD goes the fun part ... , how to change the sprite depending on the object he was carrying ... were used by greg-anims on this prototype! I saw it ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore November 2013 Brand new software
  • spectrum pixel experimentsWell, As a spectrum fan, I started recently learning about how to pixel for the speccy, I did pixelart in the past but not speccy style (until now). …

    ... time. You build up a screen where there is just one ... you want lots of characters on screen at the same time, then ... other issue is, the main sprite defines the scale of the ...
    joefish joefish November 2013 Development
  • spectrum pixel experimentsWell, As a spectrum fan, I started recently learning about how to pixel for the speccy, I did pixelart in the past but not speccy style (until now). …

    ... want lots of characters on screen at the same time, ... issue is, the main sprite defines the scale of ... 3 enemy sprites + player sprite. that is not a ... sprite when there can't be other big-detailed ones on screen ... be a game with screen-by-screen and slow groups ...
    zx_kel zx_kel November 2013 Development
  • 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…

    ... bytes replaced as the sprite moves over the background ... could directly modify the bitmaps on screen (without attributes), then use ... Even when you move a sprite somewhere else, its previous ... need to change the corresponding sprite position, and manually erase ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas November 2013 Brand new software
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