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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…
... 32x24 squares and the engine keeps track of ... 8/9 byte back buffer which is then ... flicker.
Scrolling programs will need to draw ... />
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Name That Game (Again)Ok this is my first "Name That Game" but its been bugging me for a while and I can't find it anywhere. Very early game, I first played in at my mate…
... my first "Name That Game" but its been bugging ... .
Very early game, I first played in at ... You were in a spaceship, scrolling from left to right (a ... />
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Xenon-II like game on SpeccyHi! There is a shootemup on the Speccy that looks EXACTLY like Xenon-II (from Amiga, etc.) made by some East-European guys (I THINK). I downloaded i…
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First game with scrollingMany games are just a bunch of static screens - you have to exit one screen to see another (for example Manic Miner, Saboteur, Bruce Lee). But there …
... go in any direction the scrolling begins (for example RoboCop). I ... what was the first Spectrum game with scrolling.
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ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... by z88dk. Write your game for the Spectrum, but ... a flicker-free software sprite engine based on a differential ... simulations, board games, and non-scrolling arcade games. SP1 *cannot* do ... sprites are now created transparent colour. Colouring can be done ... -
Game On exhibition at Science Museum, LondonJust come back from the exhibition today with my mother! Had a really great time there. Lots of fantastic games and machines to play on. And you can…
... And you can listen to game music too (including many great ... (playstation)
- Street Fighter (PC Engine)
- Elite (NES)
- ... /> - One on one (basketball game for C64)
- 3D Deathchase ... concept drawing and a full colour cell were there), but ... -
Game with Most Eye Popping colour scheme?Which game had the hardest-to-look-at colour scheme? I'd vote for Howzat... white on pale green.
Which game had the hardest-to-look-at colour scheme?
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... /> The game is written in C and uses the SP1 engine for ... for that development)
* player colour showing ownership
* real production ... the screen or to a buffer in memory. The scroller reads ... -width text bitmap from the buffer and scrolls that on the ... -
New game idea, "sneak-em-up".A while ago, I was going to try my hand at a game on the speccy, but nothing ever came of it. Basically, I had an idea to do a "Thief" style game. N…
... try my hand at a game on the speccy, but nothing ... to do a "Thief" style game. Not 3D, obviously, but an ... fully lit areas being full colour and unlit areas being dark ... thing that might aid the engine speed would be turn based ... -
New game out now: Final Fantasy ZXEver since I played the games on the SNES, I thought that it should be possible to make a strapped-down version for the Speccy. Just minus any super …
... super fancy effects and smooth scrolling. I also played the NES ... ones, getting rid of the colour in the process - but not ... issues.
Since the game is still fairly big, I ... from posting spoilers, as the game is fairly short and you ... -
Colour or Monochrome?The release of the game [B]Cheril Perils [/B]at: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30403[/URL] made me voice my preferenc…
... in a game's graphics? Total monochrome, and hence no colour clash ... colourful Spectrum games have noticable colour clash effects, but I think ... suffers from it especially during scrolling, and even games like Starglider ... -
Opinion on new 128K only gamesHello, Being new to the WOS community, I am unclear on the attitude towards 128K only software, that is; Is there a strong need to support the 48K m…
... have a PC/Gameboy game that I shelved years ... it is not a progressive game that uses levels - ... br />
The game world bitmap is 5120 x ... scrolling arcade aventure/shoot 'em up similar to The Chaos Engine ... allow full use of colour. The game works like Zelda ... -
Implementing smooth scrolling in games that don't haveHowdy, How easy/difficult in general is it to hack smooth scrolling into a game that scrolls on boundaries such as Gothik or Saracen? Does it depend …
... it to hack smooth scrolling into a game that scrolls on boundaries ... depend entirely on the engine or are scrolling routines fairly standard? Could ... one out of a different game and wedge the routine in ... -
enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…
tile engine based on excellent work ... of the game one can have 25-fps smooth scrolling with almost ... full frame free for sprites and game ... i finish my top-secret game based on this code.< ... to use enJine for your game right now, don't ... -
Please help name this game!I'm currently trying to find the name of an old Spectrum game from my hazy memory, so I can play it once more. All I can remember is: [INDENT]Side …
... name of an old Spectrum game from my hazy memory, so ... is:
[INDENT]Side scrolling action/adventure, possibly platformer
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New recoloured game -Curro JimenezAs promised, here's my new project that brings colour to a monochrome game Apart from adding colour I retouched graphics a little (check tents and c…
... brings colour to a monochrome game
Apart from adding colour I ... may be scrolling however. If the game has smooth pixel scrolling the attributes ... smooth vertical scrolling. I did what I could to minimise colour clash ... -
Interview with Clive Townsend (Saboteur)Here you have at [URL="http://www.elmundodelspectrum.com"]www.elmundodelspectrum.com[/URL] this exclusive interview with Clive Townsend. Don?t forget…
... As it was their first colour computer, it was soon renamed ... ... It was a size-scrolling platformer but I couldn't ... Did you find console game development (Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis) very ... a scrolling version, then a side-view platformer with a 3D engine ... -
Arcade Game Designer 4Just released over at the AGD forums. New this time: Sprites can now be individually coloured using the SPRITEINK command. If 16x16 sprites aren't…
... specialise the engine for a particular type of game. There are ... 3 alternatives: firstly, there's a particle engine ... effects engine which enables scrolling text messages (either in-game or ... no need to hack the engine for these things any more ... -
What is this Nirvana engine?Ive been trying to look for a thread on this but cant seem to locate one. I downloaded a spanish game called El Stompo that uses this engine which ha…
... a spanish game called El Stompo that uses this engine which has ... to diminish pretty much all colour clash in some intellegent way ... games that suffered bad with Colour clash or do the characters ... -
Ninjaman 8-way scrolling 50Hz multicolour demo :-)Here's a demo I've been working on for a while. The goal was to make the best scrolling routine possible on a humble 48K ZX Spectrum. I was origin…
... was to make the best scrolling routine possible on a humble ... make this into a full game, but I don't have ... I can't make a game out of it, I should ... /> - 8-way scrolling
- Multicolour backgrounds
- No colour clash
- 8 ... -
SpecBAS 0.900 ReleasedAgainst my better judgement, here's 0.900. It's got lots and lots new, but mostly the new shiny is the editor. You can indent your code, you can e…
... keyclicks.
Added colour capability to POLYLINE/POLYGON ... parameter
Added particle engine - PARTICLE array() FRICTION ... Fixed poor performance of horizontal scrolling in GL builds
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Multi-Platform Arcade Game DesignerFirst of all, I should say Hello, having left the Spectrum scene around a year ago. I'm not planning to make a return but figured that I have some n…
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Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer has now progressed to ... user particle added to the engine so you can write your ... and the Timex TC2048 8x1 colour mode. Editors are included for ... .itch.io/multi-platform-arcade-game-designer"]here[/url].
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How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…
... write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b]
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How to write a simple C+asm horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial, z88dk)[b]How to write a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b] [b]Note:[/b] This tutorial has multiple parts... I am still writing but this first pa…
... a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b]
[b]II) Writing our game.[/b]
From ... game in tut2.c.
[b]A) Drawing a scrolling ... is only the scrolling part of the game. It's ... it to add out scrolling function in here, ... -
ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... wrote earlier:
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; for quick use ... a cheap way of getting colour
; for an educational machine ... being scrolled in from a buffer
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GAMES I'D LOVE TO SEE ON THE SPECTRUM.....What more modern games from other formats would you love to see on the Speccy...? I'm talking games that could be converted, and would be possible t…
... an example of a contemporary game (say in the last ... br />
Just because a game is contemporary, doesn't mean ... with limited colour palette, that wouldn't require hardware scrolling/scaling, ... /> Columns
The Chaos Engine
Mystical Ninja (Goemon)
z88dk+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…
... . Every pixel can be any colour.
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... music and sound effects in game. That might be interesting :)< ... native support for pixel*pixel scrolling?
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That ... everything drawn in a back buffer and are copying or if ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... immediately followed by the printer buffer and the system variables ... the CPU, and hardware scrolling would definately have benefitted the ... And since this meant either colour clash or monochrome graphics in ... 's gameplay that makes a game. And the Spectrum (and ...Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... s such a common 2d game requirement.
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game in order to ... order in a back buffer. And keep in mind ... scrolling) and several moving sprites there is no way the game ... attempted a full fledged scrolling engine as your propose yet ...Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... fast as possible. The back buffer was cleared with the stack ... extract enough of the whole engine to design my own shapes ... apart. Superb game too, with perfect use of colour and sound, and ... using the stack so in-game Multiface snapshots could easily corrupt ...
