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Friday the 13th...was it poked at all?I put Friday the 13th on my mate's website to play online, the original plan being to program a specific game for a specific date, eg Friday the 13th…
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Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …
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Fun with games!Does anyone have nonstandard ways of playing any games? On Heathrow ATC, I found the first two exercises a bit easy, and the third just about imposs…
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The ZX80 lives againI have often wondered if there was ever *any* commercially released software for the ZX80. I have never seen any, or even seen any info about it. Bu…
... become available!
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Speccy games on AMIGA/STI can't play Amiga or ST games til the emulators era. And now, i need to know what old speccy games conversions on this computers are better or impro…
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Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
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Can Anyone explain sprites in Jet Pac/Atic Atac etcJet Pac was 16k, and yet the sprites were impressively fast. I notice they had a slight flicker at times, but were notmally pretty flicker free. W…
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I.E 6Can someone please help me! I know this is going to sound stupid but my I.E 6 has changed! It used to be that when I clicked on a file to download i…
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Turbo Outrun Wheels of Fire tapeHi all.. While hunting in the attic for an old playpen for my younger daughter, I dug out a tape of Turbo Outrun from the Wheels of Fire compilation…
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Dingo - by Ashby computers and graphics ltd (1983)Just flicking through mame and stumbled across the above game by acg , ashby computers and graphics , it plays like an early ultimate game would (sor…
Just flicking through mame and stumbled across the above game by acg , ashby computers and graphics , it plays like an early ultimate game would (sort of cookie / sabre wulf mixture) , have a look , and has anyone any more info ? -
PacmaniaCan anyone help, I am looking for a game called pacmania but it's not the pacmania everyone will think. I was only little but my dad downloaded it w…
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Announce: EmuZWin 2.5 Release 2.2 Post-FinalEmuZWin Version 2.5 Release 2.2 post-FINAL (16-Oct-2004): [-] A small pause added between TAP blocks while loading tape from .TAP image (otherwise s…
... .ZX and .SP snapshots.
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Trying to track down Speccy game authors for RGHi, I hope some of you read and enjoyed my Konix feature (and video) in Retro Gamer issue 8! For my next few articles, I'm looking at featuring abs…
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Got about over 1500 Tapes for Sale :) Pick and Mix :)[url="http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cornishdavey&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=200&rdir=0"]http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/w…
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... with a smile on my faceHere's the first part of that line. I bought Retrogamer 9 today and I left the shop ... The supplement was a bit on the small side, but it was reall…
... crap (in a funky skillo sort of way) and excellent all ... -
ANN: Tipshop updated Monday, 25 October 2004Monday 25 October 2004 A busy old month - LOADS of POKEs, new tips, maps, and some Spanish solutions! * Found a cracked title in Tipshop - Sub is n…
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Idea for site - High Score ChallengeHi all An idea for the site.. CPC Zone (cpczone.emuunlim.com) has run a sucessful High Score Challenge for the past 12 weeks.. The organiser choo…
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Sprites flickeringI am trying to write a Spectrum game in machine code. I am still a beginner in programming, however I did much progress recently, i believe. Now I am…
... I am trying to make sprite movement routine. Actually I ... did it, however my sprite
flickers terribly while ... background
2. Draw sprite into background
3. Delay ... Draw stored background into sprite
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Permits - call for helpIt's time for the sort-of-annual ritual where I ask for help on the permissions project (and you all ignore it ;) ) If you hold any Speccy copyright…
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Dark SceptreThis game was popular then and (looking at the Top 100) is popular now but I still don't understand what the hell I should be doing or what sort of s…
... should be doing or what sort of strategies to use.
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Motorcycle Game ID?It featured a sort of isometric heightfield - you'd basically have to make it to the bottom of the track. It might have featured a "stunt" theme, I r…
It featured a sort of isometric heightfield - you'd basically have to make it to the bottom of the track. It might have featured a "stunt" theme, I really can't remember.
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Windows Compile of PlayTZXHad to re-do it as I couldn't find it, but here it is: [url="http://slitscan.spymac.net/Playtzx.zip"]http://slitscan.spymac.net/Playtzx.zip[/url] I…
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F.A.O SharopolisI sold you a Super Famicom, and some other items, last month. The Royal Mail have returned the package to me, as it wasn't collected from the sorti…
How will be the (real) new Speccy "thing"?I read about hundreds of cool and wacky ideas to get Speccy bring to new life. I know (and I adore) this new era of the speccy - new magazines, new g…
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In a sort of minimized device, not in ...Is the IY register used by the spectrum rom?Hi I've been writing a sprite routine and have noticed that the sprite data gets corrupted at some points. I have no idea why and can only guess tha…
... /> I've been writing a sprite routine and have noticed that ... the sprite data gets corrupted at some ...Another guess the game...Hi Just wondering if anyone knows the name of this one - I'd love to play it again. It was a time travelling game with the time machine being a case…
... . I think you were some sort of dog. It sounds far ...Idea for a new feature to compliment a debugger in an emulatorI had an idea for an emulator feature yesterday. Don't recall having seen this idea before, but I'm sure you'll correct me if it has. :) In that cas…
... , you could call up some sort of graphical representation of memory ... the program is executing some sort of graphical routine or something ...Combining NostalgyHi, Perhaps a childish idea, but in the name of nostalgy... Most if not all of you know and remember the cards that were about cars, planes, motorc…
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3) Main character sprite size (not of course in ...Scariest things ever.As a follow on from another post, here's several things that I used to find very scary or un-nerving. Anyone remember any of these? 1. The keyb…
... had death in it. A sort of faceless grim reaper geezer ...
