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The Infeasible GameMy new game will be available early next year. One or two little bits to sort and then I need to play test all the levels. For now, here is a short v…
... and 51 floor tiles. No back buffer is used so all the ... -
A vehicle for wireframe engineHi, I'm playing with wireframe graphics right now. I'm open for ideas for (simple) game that would use wireframe engine. So if you have an idea, plea…
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A vehicle for wireframe engineHi, I'm playing with wireframe graphics right now. I'm open for ideas for (simple) game that would use wireframe engine. So if you have an idea, plea…
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Could ELITE's wireframe graphics be improvedWas watching this video last night comparing the BBC and Spectrum version of Elite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov4OAteeGWs It seems that the…
... VBLANK and Speccy Elite uses back buffer for rendering game that is ... up probably means disable this back buffer on speccy.
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Subtract 4 from an addressThis is a novice Z80 question really: I'm trying to vertical scroll my back buffer, but I'm not sure of the quickest way to apply an offset and mo…
... says, don't scroll the back buffer. Just copy it to the ... when you run out of buffer, jump back to the top again ... on each line of your buffer, you have a few ... line to copy from the buffer. That way you can ... any line in the buffer, and the buffer will wrap-around ... -
Faster Manic MinerHey, dudes. I've been fiddling around trying to wring more speed out of this game recently. I've replaced the LDIR buffer copying routines with s…
... the LDIR transfers from the back buffer every frame. Over 96000 ticks ... that it copies from a buffer located in contended RAM [i ... -
P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…
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P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…
... of using an intermediate buffer, for composing a screen ... horizontal, just increases the back buffer by the extra amount, ... tiles (one byte wide), min buffer required is (SCREEN_WIDTH + ( ... tiles (two bytes wide), min buffer required is (SCREEN_WIDTH + ( ... -
TommyGun's getting a Debuggerhttp://youtu.be/B_kZVRvYV98 I have always wanted to debug the programs I write in TommyGun using TommyGun instead of the debuggers in emulators. …
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Fast way to clear the screen ?So I was wondering fastest way to clear the screen. I've tried this and this works but is it better than CLS ? LD HL,16384 LD BC, 6144 Loop…
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ZX GameDev tools consolidatedHello WoS! It's been a while, yet with a plenty of decent gamedev tools (including new ones!), is there a [i]single/pivot table[/i] or some datash…
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Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
... or horizontally. They use a back buffer and copy it to the ...
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Loadsa bullets on screen (silkworm)Did games like silkworm just draw everything to the screen or did they have complicated optimisations? and the types of games where sprites can occu…
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What happened to [insert nick here]?I've been reading the old threads and I wonder why some people stopped posting. I'm going to post a few nicks, and maybe this thread could be used to…
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Starwars IV opening crawl demo---------------------_______________________--------------------------- Starwars IV opening crawl demo on 128K :) [url=https://mega.nz/#!37BV…
... the horizontal squeezing on a back-buffer, with no vertical compression, then ... with a copy from the back-buffer to the screen. -
Starwars IV opening crawl demo---------------------_______________________--------------------------- Starwars IV opening crawl demo on 128K :) [url=https://mega.nz/#!37BV…
... the horizontal squeezing on a back-buffer, with no vertical compression, then ... with a copy from the back-buffer to the screen.[/quote]
Spectrum games that are both 48k and 128k but where the 128k version is infinitely superior The only one I can think of is "Rock Star Ate My Hamster" but there must be others . So where are the games where the 128 version is great but wher…
... data being copied from the back buffer (see build the screen somewhere ...Space Invaders Emulator for the Spectrum 128/+2/+2A/+2B/+3My Space Invaders Emulator for the Spectrum 128/+2/+2A/+2B/+3 is now available for download from: [url="https://c.gmx.com/sizx@gmx.com/DVQXAXrLRl2d…
... the display to a separate back-buffer, and copy it to a ...50+ FPS GAMESHi guys) Which was the first Speccy game with 50/60 frames per second? And what was the main reason? Thank you
... all games bothered with a back buffer and instead just updated the ...Smallest playfield game?What is the game with the smallest playfield? I'm not referring to map size, but where the action takes place. Some examples: - Jet Pac: The acti…
... figuring out how to do back buffering, so I set my ... quick to use. The actual back buffer was a bit bigger IIRC ... main one being that a back buffer doesn't need to be ... character columns arrangement for the back buffer and re-mapped that with ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
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; blank a cell in back buffer
; hl: offset from beginning ... of buffer to cell data
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
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; blank a cell in back buffer
; hl: offset from beginning ... of buffer to cell data
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... to screen instead of a back buffer
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ORG ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... because I had a "dirty buffer" which set a bit if ... only copied cells from the back buffer if they needed redrawing. That ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... where I drew to a back buffer and copied that to screen ... , had to update the dirty buffer when something moved to tell ...MakeTZX DMA Buffer Overrun ?Okay folks, Does anyone know why I get DMA Buffer Overruns when using MakeTZX. Could it be anything to do with my SB Enironment string or anything …
... know why I get DMA Buffer Overruns when using MakeTZX. Could ... now the problem just crops back up.
I've ... it possible to change the buffer at all ?
Just ...Double-Buffer ScreenFor my Alien Breed Speccy re-write I decided to use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw all the game action onto, before shuffling the whol…
... use a Double Buffer (DB) or 'Back Screen' to draw ... ),a ;And store it back again
jr nz ... /> jr nz,loop1 ;Back to Loop1 for this Field ... cfield),a ;And store it back
ld a,72 ... it
jr mloop ;Back to mloop again
< ...SUPER INPUTA couple days ago I searched for an "INPUT string" routine that I could use in Assembly programs and supported multiple lines, but I found none. Thus…
[QUOTE=Einar Saukas;632452]A couple days ... ]
I posted one back in February - "editing strings with ... editor but allows the input buffer to be pre-loaded with ...RCS (Reverse Computer Screen)[B]RCS[/B] ("Reverse Computer Screen", or simply SCR written backwards) is a small utility I'm about to release, that reorders bytes from the ZX-Spec…
[QUOTE=Einar Saukas;675689]Actually it would ... " routine[/URL] to copy back from buffer to screen while converting it ... an only stage without auxiliar buffer (see the "just for curiosity ... a decompressor+RCS inverted (without buffer). The only params that we ...
