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GamestageI've just been over to the gamestae site now i don't want to get into THAT debate but I have this to say, the gamestage site looks very nice, use of …
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more than 2 colours in an 8x8 sqaure?something that came up in the misc. forum - it was something I always wanted to see. In which games was this acheived? Both Black Lamp and Popeye ha…
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Cronosoft gets it's first FATWA issued against it.I've just heard from Andy from the Crap Games Competition, that our crap game 'MANIC MUSLIM' has received a complaint. Here's the complaint... [qu…
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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
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"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
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Best footie gameSo, which one do you think is a better footie game? Pro Evo soccer 4 or Fifa 2005? I have played the latter and I must say it's pretty good (it eve…
... in real-life (their Curling attribute is high).
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PRINT AT in assembler Hello everyone, I am very new to this forums. Like perhaps many others I had a Spectrum as a child and did pretty much simple BASIC programming, bu…
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PRINT AT in assembler Hello everyone, I am very new to this forums. Like perhaps many others I had a Spectrum as a child and did pretty much simple BASIC programming, bu…
... traditionally means hex rather than decimal, so you really mean CALL ... easy way to "convert" a decimal number to little-endian format ... and converted them seperatly to decimal, and then shifted the positions ... -
PRINT AT in assembler Hello everyone, I am very new to this forums. Like perhaps many others I had a Spectrum as a child and did pretty much simple BASIC programming, bu…
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Describe what makes the Spectrum so special and uniqueFor me its very much a nostalgic thing. I havent even seen a spectrum or a spectrum game for real for 13 years, and so when I found this site I was j…
... a 128x192 screen with 8x1 attribute blocks. Of course it takes ... can have 256x192 with 8x1 attribute blocks and no processor overhead ... -
New horizontal scrolling gameI have just been working on this for the last months. Heres a snapshot, let me know what you think. [url="http://www.geocities.com/ruijtunest/rtun…
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BombjackThis has to be one of my favourite games ever. I've seen many Jet Set Willy remakes and some other remakes of great games. How easy / hard would it…
... must remain black (hence the attribute clash) :/
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Best method for sprite collision detectionHi, I have been trying to incorporate collision detection into a sprite routine I writing. The following is what I have come up with so far: POP D…
Retro Gamer dead and buriedJust in case anyone is interested, Live Publishing (who publish Retro Gamer) have gone belly up and were put into administration on Monday. All their…
... don't think you can attribute the collapse of Live Publishing ...Retro Gamer dead and buriedJust in case anyone is interested, Live Publishing (who publish Retro Gamer) have gone belly up and were put into administration on Monday. All their…
... don't think you can attribute the collapse of Live Publishing ...Assembler Interest?Any interest in an assembler supporting ACS's UV? I've built an assembler that: supports UV's syntax. has more correct parsing. Microdrive based…
... nop. operands can only be decimal literals, labels, registers or diplacements ...Bug in EMUZWINIt's quite minor actually and is in the Assembler. Ocassionally when assembling the ASM gives the wrong address to a label. For instance I used the l…
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Debugger - `Search` for in Decimal, and a search for 16bit ... address in decimal , ie 16384
Search ...Bug in EMUZWINIt's quite minor actually and is in the Assembler. Ocassionally when assembling the ASM gives the wrong address to a label. For instance I used the l…
Many thanks for adding the decimal searches and the decimal gfx finder. Saves a whole lotta number converting.
Matz88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
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uchar colour; /* attribute in spectrum mode, threshold in ...MIA: Tony Kendall and ZZKJQuick question directed at Phil Kendall: Is Tony Kendall your relative? And if so what's he up to now? It's just his Arcade Addicts Handbook, which h…
... thought it was binary not decimal.
Thanks for letting ...Latest Registered MemberI notice the latest registered member is JonNorth, is that THE Jon North from YS days?
... be reams and reams of decimal lines (that's how I ...Scart Leads for spectrumHi, I was going through my stuff the other day and found I have all the bits for making spectrum scart leads. I was going to ebay them but thought …
... be able to see the attribute blocks more easily because of ...print at line 22 and 23I have a faint recollection of POKES to allow print at 22,x and 23,x, anyone know what they are? (rather than using the print #0 #1 stuff..)
My way to print at line 23:
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10 POKE 23659,0 : IF Yprint at line 22 and 23I have a faint recollection of POKES to allow print at 22,x and 23,x, anyone know what they are? (rather than using the print #0 #1 stuff..)
... colors. Therefore you select the ATTRibute value with the PEEK and ...Some thoughts about emulationWhile discussing about 'real tape loaders' I just thinked about wat is total emulation (most complete, perfect). Some authors prefer for example loa…
... in same way, with some attribute fading.
Probably will put ...Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …
... and although there is severe attribute/graphic glitches, you *can* continue ...Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... data and sticking it in attribute RAM with some algorithm to ...Draft specs for TZX v1.20Hi all! In the attempt to restart the development of the TZX format, I've put online the first version of the draft document [1]. At the moment ther…
... characters from 32 to 127 decimal (20 to 7F hex), some ... separated by ASCII code 13 decimal (0D hex)".
There ...Atari STSaw one recently at a used scrap dealer, but didnt buy it seeing as it dosent have my particular interrest. I could probably bargain for it for only …
... gives you more colours per attribute block). The ST could manage ... ColourDraw mode also changes the attribute value 8 times in one ...