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Looking for two games (forgot names?)....1. A game where you bounce around as a little ball. It was like a 2d platform game. You have to collect fruit or something. Later on the platforms di…
... have the same problem - great game engine, nice 3d graphics, great sound ... the playability of the original game - i had to download a ... of a single modern PC game that interests me at the ... a modern 3dfx powered pc game that is as much fun ... -
NosferatuOne thing I never worked out: what does the window at the bottom right hand corner of the screen signify? You see the moon rising and setting in it. …
... passing of time in the game - the moon rises and sets ... during the night, the colour of the game area changes and gets ... complete each section of the game, but I don't know ... -
which software firm..................in your opinion which software firm made the best games for the spectrum and why? :) octave
OCEAN was pretty known for its good Arcade conversions... Ultimate wasn't bad but they explored the Knight of Lore game engine too much, or in other words they've failed in originality -
ConversionsHi, I remember how much I liked when a coin-op conversion came out to the market.. I always asked me "did will play like the arcade machine?".. "it w…
GranTurismo would be cool if we get an game engine like ChaseHQ.. then would be even better than on a PS2. =) -
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…
... Zynaps had great full colour horizontal scrolling and alongwith R-Type ... two had the best horizontal scrolling on the Speccy.
... quite liked the fast full colour scrolling in Lightforce too. Brilliant ... , yep good scrolling effects in full colour but I found ... -
what would you?.................hi everybody, what games would you have liked to have done the programming, graphics etc for and why? :)
I love the game engine for Sentinel.
It's such a strange kind of game engine - with games engines like the 3d on in Knight Lore, you could then use it for lots of different games - but with Sentinel, it's a real one-off game engine. -
Game recommendations please!Hi everybody! I finally decided to invest some quality time with my poor +3... Since I bought it, I only turned on the poor thing to check if it was…
hey Akira!!
why dont you try "NorthStar"??? I guess is a very nice platform game. I guess with this game engine it would be able to do a nice spectrum GreatGiannaSisters.. with colorfull graphics. -
Head Over Heels Remake !Hey everyone. For quite some time I am working on a Isometric 3D engine and soon there will be a release of a first game that uses it. It is Head …
It looks excellent. I'm particularly pleased that you've incorporated shadows into the game engine :) -
Dizzy Games - Were they really that good?I know I will get shot down in a hail of swear words, but......and its a big but (so to speak)....Were the Dizzy games really that good, and worth al…
... ever bought the first Dizzy game at the time (but have ... !
Yes, the same game engine was probably used in several ... confines of the same game engine for each game, or did this restriction ... be found humming the first game's catchy title music to ... -
Dizzy Games - Were they really that good?I know I will get shot down in a hail of swear words, but......and its a big but (so to speak)....Were the Dizzy games really that good, and worth al…
... , with companies using the same game engine (e.g Quake 3) over ... -
More "fake" screenshots, please.I don't know about anyone else, but I really like seeing Spectrum screenshots of modern and/or original games - even if there ends up being no game t…
... more "intelligent", like a smart engine that will swap colors depending ... . like a mini collision engine within the game engine. how it would be ... depend on the kind of game and how its designed and ... the graphics alone in this game, in this example i would ... -
Horizontal scrollDoes anyone know how to do a 2 or 4 pixel left or right horizontal scroll of the spectrum screen. I can make a 1 one pixel scroll with: ... rl (hl…
I'm building a game engine to make a shoot'em up like RTYPE.
If you want i can email you a snap of the actual code.
cheers
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Is spectaculator emulating the +2 correctly?i remembera few games that would crash when running in 128K mode, due to a bug in the hardware of the grey +2, hence it being replaced with the +2a. …
... that happening on a sideways scrolling footbal game demo on a magazine ... -
Best scrolling shooters on speccy?I think one of most popular genres, besides mazes, was scrolling shooter. Can you remember any favorites to recommend, besides r-type
... is tops! Large screen, full colour speedy scrolling!
R-type ... though.
In full colour scrolling it would be hard to ... -
SevenuP and fontsIs it possible to use SevenuP to create replacement Spectrum fonts? If not, can anyone suggest a windows-based Speccy font editor? I've got plenty fo…
BMP2SCR Pro has a font editor.
BMP2SCR Exp will have a font converter/editor later in the developement, but at moment the project is frozen because I?m working on a PC hentai game engine for a publisher. -
SevenuP and fontsIs it possible to use SevenuP to create replacement Spectrum fonts? If not, can anyone suggest a windows-based Speccy font editor? I've got plenty fo…
... working on a PC hentai game engine for a publisher.
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Help identifying a gameHello, I've come here looking for help identifying an old game which I have memories of, but I don't know the name. I wonder if anyone here can iden…
Was there any predominant colour in the game ? -
Security codes for Operation Berlin and Operation Stallion kindly requestedHas anyone the security codes for these adventures? It is impossible to start playing without the codes, since the player is requested to input them …
... the security code uses the game engine as if you type 'north ... -
Things wrong with gaming today: No. 437One thing that irritates me about games in the modren era: I played "Midtown Madness 3" on the Xbox recently and also had a quick go on "The Italian…
... of them use the same game engine and just change the graphics ... based on the half life engine for example.
I ... that there is a basic engine for racing games as well ... -
Things wrong with gaming today: No. 437One thing that irritates me about games in the modren era: I played "Midtown Madness 3" on the Xbox recently and also had a quick go on "The Italian…
... that there is a basic engine for racing games as well ... that a standard arcade racing game engine is relatively simple to do ... -
Things wrong with gaming today: No. 437One thing that irritates me about games in the modren era: I played "Midtown Madness 3" on the Xbox recently and also had a quick go on "The Italian…
Just because a game has a standard format of ... real future classic, though the game engine is a well used one ... gone on when making the game and the attention to detail ... case) atmosphere which makes the game. -
Head Over Heels remake RELEASED !Hey all ! The Retrospec remake of Head Over Heels has JUST been released. The URL with everything important, including a 15Mb download is : [url="h…
... the overall use of colour in the game.
I can ... -
Games that looked good from the screenshots but....Nothing was more disappointing than shelling out a load of pocket money on a game that looked really good from the screenshot, but turned out to be a…
... different, a bit of a scrolling type game.
If you ... -
Finding yourself rubbish at gamesDoes anyone else like myself find themselves being useless at the old classics that they once were gods at. Yesterday i thought i would give Jetpac …
... but neglected others. Therefore, a game we were rubbish at may ... to play, and our favourite game may now seem rock-hard ... therefore conclude my 2D horizontal-scrolling driving game skills have remained constant ... -
Elite - %@$(*!$!*(%! dockingAllright, all you die-hard Elite veterans out there, a neophyte needs your help ! I know the age-old 'trick' for docking is to run up near the stati…
... . The texturing is amateurish, the engine is bug-ridden, and it ... that were planned for the game.
Redesign ship models ... version in the revised XElite game engine, but feature was not in ... the game code.
Ship Yard: This ... -
Manic Miner Or Jet Set Willy?Hi folks, im a newbie to the world of speecy emulators and the like, and its been YEARS since i played a speecy. Recently downloaded both Manic Mine…
... Bastards_, which features an enhanced game-engine!
Bluce_Ree wrote ... by far the most difficult game of all time.
game! :->
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Ant Attack & Zombie ZombieAnother question for you Spectrum experts:) Was Zombie Zombie an "official" sequel to Ant Attack or not? They are from the same authors and publishe…
... author(s) using the same game engine and style maybe, but a ... different game. If the zombies were ants ... -
Which is better? Knightlore or Alien 8ok mates, by the years i tend to say the best games in zx history was knightlore but i've been playin' alien 8 a lot and i'm divided Is knightlore be…
I'm in the Alien 8 camp, too. Knight Lore came first, but Alien 8 improves on the whole game engine with a good few additional features. It's also a bit easier with the robot not changing into something else every couple of minutes ;) -
BTW I am kinda new hereI've made a few JSW games, that's about the only thing I've done in the Speccy world, but it's good to have contributed something ;)
... release a new JSW game based on the game-engine from Erix1's ...
