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  • best full game exclusive to a magazine covertapewouldn't be surprised if this thread has been done before. can't be bothered to search tbh! just playing this atm [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.o…

    ... ] must have just nicked the sprite! :D[/QUOTE]

    I ... covertape. He told me the sprite routine took up something like 4K ...
    jonathan jonathan December 2012 Games
  • best full game exclusive to a magazine covertapewouldn't be surprised if this thread has been done before. can't be bothered to search tbh! just playing this atm [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.o…

    ... covertape. He told me the sprite routine took up something like 4K ...
    deadpan666 deadpan666 December 2012 Games
  • Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…

    ... is something wrong with the sprite routine or sprite data.

    Sometimes ...
    Ralf Ralf January 2013 New game ideas
  • Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…

    ... is something wrong with the sprite routine or sprite data.

    Sometimes ... blank 8x8 squares above the "sprite".

    here it is ...
    DaRkHoRaCe DaRkHoRaCe January 2013 New game ideas
  • 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…

    ... thinking more of a static animated sprite - but it's not even ...
    SimonLCFC SimonLCFC February 2013 New game ideas
  • New game: Gem ChaserGem Chaser - a frantic 70 level arcade/platform/puzzle game. Collect the gems which are the same colour as you, then change colour to collect more -…

    ... /> but if you put an animated sprite for the player I will ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore March 2013 Brand new software
  • New game: Gem ChaserGem Chaser - a frantic 70 level arcade/platform/puzzle game. Collect the gems which are the same colour as you, then change colour to collect more -…

    ... /> but if you put an animated sprite for the player I will ... 'd wish the player was animated, as GC-2 is a ...
    bobs bobs March 2013 Brand new software
  • 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…

    ... ] works by having a scroll routine with a different list of ... same, but with a neat sprite routine that allows pixel-positioning whilst ... . Then you have an optimised routine to render from that character ... effects if you draw a sprite over a bit of background ...
    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…

    ... ] works by having a scroll routine with a different list of ... same, but with a neat sprite routine that allows pixel-positioning whilst ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx June 2013 Games
  • The complete Knight Tyme (48k) RAM disassemblyHello! Just a quick note to let everyone know that the initial version of my [URL="http://www.dur.ac.uk/philip.anderson/disassemblies/knight-tyme-48…

    ... .

    Likewise, in my sprite routine I would change the bit ... to see how much the sprite bits needed to be shifted ...
    David Jones David Jones September 2013 Announcements
  • Machine code optimisationI'm geting back into z80 coding and wonder what the best way of showing how efficient the code is. I've got Rodney Zaks book and see there are timin…

    ... :-

    My main 16x16 sprite routine shifts the two bytes of ... each sprite line left or right by ... at the start of the sprite routine and then editing the inner ... amount of shifting for that sprite on that occasion.
    David Jones David Jones September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Machine code optimisationI'm geting back into z80 coding and wonder what the best way of showing how efficient the code is. I've got Rodney Zaks book and see there are timin…

    ... .

    My main 16x16 sprite routine shifts the two bytes of ... each sprite line left or right by ... on the right of the sprite.

    The cost is ... pulling out some reusable code (sprite engine[s], whatever) let me ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…

    ... correct bits would make your sprite routines clashfree.

    Clashbasher ... paper as part of the routine to blank out squares.
    sprite routine to not be XOR style ... to see if all the sprite pixels had been set. Shouldn ...
    David Jones David Jones September 2013 Hardware
  • Completely free games?Hi, I would like to know if there are any open source or completely free games for ZX Spectrum. Or at least some other free programs without any lin…

    ... the 18 columns multicolor rendering routine that I have used in ... Fireman uses one of my sprite routine because Mastertronic asked me to ...
    David Jones David Jones October 2013 Games
  • Completely free games?Hi, I would like to know if there are any open source or completely free games for ZX Spectrum. Or at least some other free programs without any lin…

    ... Fireman uses one of my sprite routine because Mastertronic asked me to ...
    leespoons leespoons October 2013 Games
  • filled shape creating codeDevelopment is continuing well on a resurrected project of mine from about 20 years ago. Speed and size optimizations are going well along with displ…

    ... the largest frame of each sprite, then before the game starts ... switch black/white, change the sprite routine to invert them within the ... routine on the ST that used two interleaved versions of a sprite ...
    joefish joefish October 2013 Development
  • 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…

    ... would probably write 2 custom sprite routines - one that draws the ... , and one that draws the sprite one character column at a ... it with 0s. So, the sprite routine fetches the line address from ... to attribute 0, so the sprite vanishes from view before it ...
    joefish joefish October 2013 Development
  • What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […

    ... need to re-write the sprite routine I have though.
    At ...
    joefish joefish November 2013 New game ideas
  • Documentation for SP1 for Z88DK?(I was going to post in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11729"]the other thread[/URL], so if a mod thinks this should go…

    ... state machine for each animated sprite and have it select ... directly without going through the sprite move functions.

    sprite structure begins with a ... [/code]

    The sprite's character coordinates are updated ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Development
  • Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…

    ... .0 of the new 8x8 sprite routine is complete. Those of you ... />
    I've written a sprite downsizer to take 16x16 sprites ... having a mini-Magic Knight sprite set.

    Feel free ...
    David Jones David Jones December 2013 Development
  • [New game] BrunildaHi! We at RetroWorks just published "Brunilda", a new Speccy little_game ;-) . It only works with 128k models. In the begining it was planned as te…

    Just finished the game after snapshotting my way past the mazes.

    It's very nice. Thanks for making it.

    It's made me think that I'll have to pick up my sprite routine and get back to work and produce something that's worthwhile.
    Jmk Jmk December 2013 Games
  • Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…

    ... use for my new 8x8 sprite routine. Moving platforms :). I won't ...
    David Jones David Jones December 2013 Development
  • DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…

    ... pretty nifty), write a primitive sprite routine and do loads of game ...
    David Jones David Jones January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Pseudo-3D map renderingHave been mulling this over for a while, until that isometric thread prompted me to ask. I'm not sure if this is officially classed as 2D, 2.5D, or 3…

    ... the bottom half of the sprite for collision detection. As ... out how to stop the sprite going through obscured, but ... indicate whether to print the sprite in that square, and ... solid (i.e. the sprite's feet can't ... you could see the sprite behind the branches), but ...
    Timmy Timmy January 2014 Development
  • Reaxxion and Joe Gunn, what happened to these?These 2 games which were coming from the C-64 were announced in development or almost finished some time ago, but we never got any other update in th…

    ... 'm working on a prototype sprite routine (inbetween other things, when I ...
    Jmk Jmk January 2014 Development
  • New Game looking for artistsHey ya'll I've started on my second game, an Aztec themed shooter. I'm new-ish to the Z80 coding scene, but as you know you can only really learn th…

    ... animations will be needed, what sprite sizes, etc, etc. Will the ... to start with a 24x16 animated sprite of the condor flapping its ... so that even when the sprite is not being moved left ...
    Atari_Jetman Atari_Jetman February 2014 Development
  • New Game looking for artistsHey ya'll I've started on my second game, an Aztec themed shooter. I'm new-ish to the Z80 coding scene, but as you know you can only really learn th…

    ... to start with a 24x16 animated sprite of the condor flapping its ...
    Sokurah Sokurah February 2014 Development
  • New Game looking for artistsHey ya'll I've started on my second game, an Aztec themed shooter. I'm new-ish to the Z80 coding scene, but as you know you can only really learn th…

    ... />
    ... start with a 24x16 animated sprite of the condor flapping its ... so that even when the sprite is not being moved left ... some studies for the main sprite. My favourite is the middle ...
    4throck 4throck February 2014 Development
  • Using the stack to blit bufferI was using a ldir to blit my back buffer to the screen RAM, and it was working pretty well if not rather slow. After reading about using the stack …

    ... , you either talked about a "sprite routine", or "copying a shadow screen ...
    Timmy Timmy February 2014 Development
  • Using the stack to blit bufferI was using a ldir to blit my back buffer to the screen RAM, and it was working pretty well if not rather slow. After reading about using the stack …

    ... :-)[/QUOTE]
    Yep, the Bonkers sprite route was way simpler. I ... .

    In fact 'sprite' routine was probably overstating it. It ... routines, a 16x16 print routine that was limited to character ... shift and a 16x16 print routine without pixel shift that ...
    David Jones David Jones February 2014 Development
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