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  • Pac-Land: can be coloured?All versions of this game are full coloured, but not the Spectrum version. It has large sprites, but maybe the scroll is too fine to make a coloured …

    ... for hack code and attribute buffer

    -on 128 ... more diversity of colour?
    [B]No, due to engine limitations[/B ... logo screen? I feel the game is incomplete without logo and ... very different from the original game. Many people criticised the sprite ...
    Ralf Ralf March 2014 Games
  • ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…

    [QUOTE=Pavero;758418]The engine of this game could be maybe inspirational for ... I noted about this game, to keep the scrolling at a constant ... and uncompress to a map buffer, the compressed map data could ... positions etc and the map buffer could then be used to ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN March 2014 New game ideas
  • New bicolour game: El Stompo.Phew! Finally finished my first game using Einar's fantastic Nirvana engine. [B]El Stompo.[/B] [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/davey…

    ... latest arcade game, which was all about scrolling and masses ... multi-colour effects. I picked an arcade puzzle game I' ... at interleaving a scrolling routine with a multicolour engine, and still ... very best colour-swapping and the PUSH scrolling techniques of ...
    joefish joefish April 2014 Brand new software
  • Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…

    ... a copy held in a buffer) across one pixel, then after ... any time. Why neither game varies the scrolling speed is a choice ... think the [I]Turbo[/I] scrolling engine is fast enough in itself ... up to its regular scrolling speed, the game would be unplayable. And ...
    joefish joefish October 2014 Development
  • r-type in development for the sam coupehttp://cookingcircle.co.uk/ we need z80 coders graphics artists and audio this is the amstrad cpc 6128 version: https://www.youtube.com/watc…

    ... to be redrawn when scrolling, then scrolling on an SAM can ... benefit much from a DMA engine. That said, something like ... game such as Sphera which uses Mode 2 (Timex hi-colour ... s ship. A DMA engine could then permit a ... scroll with the DMA engine in a single frame ...
    zub zub September 2015 Development
  • PUSH scrollers 3[url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-KEeni1WXmoYk9Dek1zVnd6Rk0/view?usp=sharing]CATS - Faith edition (example)[/url] Hello and welcome to the w…

    ... a game using this version, but we'll see. Regarding scrolling step ... The idea is that the engine should keep count of onscreen ... />
    The theoretical maximum scrolling step is 16 pixels with ... here is that your line buffer updates (the PUSHes themselves in ...
    Hikaru Hikaru October 2015 Development
  • Function with push and popIm trying to see if I understand push and pop when it comes to using to pass parameters to functions: [code] LD HL,16384 LD A,5 Push AF Ld A…

    ... pixel placement on screen the engine has to rotate the sprite ... in a char to a buffer at address SP1V_PIXELBUFFER. ix points ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2016 Development
  • 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/…

    ... a kind of horizontally looped buffer so that you only need ... uses something like this for scrolling the attributes. It's faster ... an engine like that of Stormlord or Cobra that allows background scrolling ... it is suitable for this game OTOH depends on how detailed ...
    Hikaru Hikaru June 2016 Development
  • 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/…

    ... an engine like that of Stormlord or Cobra that allows background scrolling ... it is suitable for this game OTOH depends on how ... m trying to make the scrolling and tilling functions independent ... length span detection, or uncontended buffer RAM, to avoid writting ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • Shadow of the Beast review:New review at Spectrum Paradise, it's turn for the impressive Shadow of the Beast, an excellent game with nice and neat graphics, smooth animations a…

    ... cool work though, getting good scrolling on an ST was a ... only has an eighth the colour palette, 4bpp instead of 6bpp ... on each layer and enough colour registers for completely independent sprites ... /> But it's a game-worthy graphics engine. It goes at 25fps ...
    joefish joefish October 2016 Games
  • Project: ZX OpusHello my friends, I have been in need of a push lately so I thought if I post some of the work for this project here you guys (and gals) can help me …

    ... window maintains its own display buffer so that when the ... with clipped sprites running at game speed. However this would ... attributes area corresponds to the colour of one character square). ... what attribute squares the fzx engine was actually touching. FZX ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2017 Software
  • If Joffa made Harrier AttackHarrier attack was interesting when it first came out because it has an interesting premise of going out and coming back to the aircraft carrier. It…

    ... ]FPII[/i] is a good game - more of a [i]Defender ... for that is not a scrolling engine that can do different speeds ... ]Green Beret[/i] maintain a buffer holding the background graphic, so ... -shifted copies of that background buffer then maybe that could work ...
    joefish joefish March 2017 New game ideas
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... effort taking apart an existing game and making new graphics ... a simple static 256x192, 32x192 colour Timex screen created by Jim ... ) AND on-chip line buffer AND yet some extra logic ... , not the usual limited hardware scrolling done separately.
    [/quote]< ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... of ula+ requires writing a game from scratch.

    colour clash (the four palettes ... AND on-chip line buffer AND yet some extra ... resolutions (spectrum, timex hi colour, timex hi res, a ... of a general dma engine that can also send ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... engine). In one of its incarnations it supported the 32x192 hi colour ... everyone who made an AGD game owned ULA+? And in any ... /> The 128k added a double buffer mode :- NOT ALLOWED
    The ... going on in the game it's game over. And it's ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Modern Spectrum Games Advent CalendarSo... it is done. The main reason for my return from the shadows earlier this year was because I knew the greatest Christmas present I ever had was c…

    ... s colour limitations, even if it isn't the oldest game on ... AY soundtrack and the Nirvana engine and it's gone spectacular ... presumably the Game Boy had hardware sprites and scrolling or some such ... the graphics to make extra colour effects obscures the view, but ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone December 2017 Games
  • Raster effects - quick questionHi Guys Just a quick question regards what the ULA is doing as its drawing each scan line. Assuming the beam has finished drawing the border, am I…

    ... with Einar's amazing code engine:
    https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk ... you can chop up your game code to run in precisely ... 32x48, read from a linear buffer.

    Checked out Nirvana ... /> Also checked out the multi-colour aspect of Color-48, which ...
    Dax Trajero Dax Trajero August 2019 Development
  • Looking for a game.I'm looking for a game and I don't know its title. I played it years ago and I still have a casette with it, but I haven't got right player and caset…

    I'm looking for a game and I don't know ... anyone help me?
    Game description: arcade game. You fly a plane ... on one screen without any scrolling. Fourth level was yellow island ...
    MaxEd MaxEd January 2002 Games
  • HELP ! What was the game ?Hi I'm new to the spec emulator and loving the return of retro . Iv'e managed to identify and retrieve a number of games I once had but one I cannot …

    ... publisher of was a budget game which was similar to ant ... game was please let me know....erm...It had a yello colour ...
    hiab-x hiab-x November 2001 Games
  • another nameless game...I've looked at 3 or 4 other requests for names of games and the response seems to be really good so here's hoping... i had this game where you were …

    ... ...

    i had this game where you were a fly ... were marked as a diff. colour) and you could replenish energy ... whole time i had that game, and i had it for ...
    hugh mann hugh mann November 2001 Games
  • Quiz IV (Oh God not another one!!!)Yup, another chance to prove your knowledge of Speccy games. Some questions are cryptic, some aren't! One point per corecct answer. Post your answ…

    ... is the name of the engine behind Driller, Darkside, Total ... apparently))

    12. What game featured a comic book as ... that although a classic puzzle game was never released commercially.

    18. Name the scrolling shooter by Mikro-Gen where ...
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2002 Games
  • Quiz V - the revenge of D`n`C Ok, 50 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. Ther…

    ... others are description of the game.
    There are ... Name the game.
    (1 point)


    5: Scrolling, rolling ... Ohhh... nice colour effects Mr Robinson.
    Name the game.
    ( ... Frankie Howerd.
    Name the game.
    (1 point)
    ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins May 2002 Games
  • Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…

    ... order)
    plus the top game(s) by them
    ----------------------------------------
    colour large sprites and fast scrolling)

    7 ... ?If so, wots the best game?)

    37. Philip Mitchell ...
    Arjun Arjun June 2002 Games
  • 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…

    ... topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have ... Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particularly bad effort was ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • Name the Game (TM)Hi Everyone, The game I'm looking for is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up. Possibly in black and white that had nice graphical touches like shimmer…

    Hi Everyone,

    The game I'm looking for is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up. Possibly in black and white that had nice graphical touches like shimmering lightbulbs and a Mona Lisa (?) to fly over. Any ideas please ??
    dave_beer_uk dave_beer_uk July 2002 Games
  • ID this game pleaseIt was a snooker game from 1986/1987 and released on some budget label (I think) The balls were small and to help those with green screen (Amstrad C…

    It was a snooker game from 1986/1987 and released ... also think there was a scrolling message on the top of ... can help me identify this game, I will be greatful. Thanks ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 August 2002 Games
  • New Spectrum Game Released - Egghead 3Just to announce that I have finally completed the third outing for the little fellow, Egghead In Space. Anyone wishing to download a 48k version of…

    ... a 48k version of this game for their Spectrum emulator may ... 's no 128k music or scrolling message this time as those ...
    jonathan jonathan December 2002 Games
  • Newer name of the gameI can't find out the name of my old favourite game. This was a Boulder Dash style game, but no scrolling screen. I think you had to collect ?beer? or…

    I can't find out the name of my old favourite game. This was a Boulder Dash style game, but no scrolling screen. I think you had to collect ?beer? or something else.
    Pls help!
    Speccyking Speccyking January 2003 Games
  • The Colour of Magic (discworld)I am after, in very good condition and complete, The Colour of Magic (a discworld game) and also any other Discworld titles which may have been relea…

    I am after, in very good condition and complete, The Colour of Magic (a discworld game) and also any other Discworld titles which may have been released for the Spectrum
    thx1138 thx1138 March 2003 Wanted
  • NEW CRONOSOFT RELEASE... DEAD OR ALIVEI'm pleased to announce the second Cronosoft release... The excellent "DEAD OR ALIVE" game, for the Spectrum. It's a vertically scrolling arcade sho…

    ... " game, for the Spectrum.

    It's a vertically scrolling arcade ... shoot-em-up, and bears a resemblence to the game ... this is a previously unreleased game, and is priced at just ... , and comes with a full colour gloss inlay.

    I ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers March 2003 Games
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