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  • How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…

    ... specs have that second display buffer available so that you ... algorithm only updates the back buffer where sprites are moving.< ... is iterated over with the engine completely drawing the graphics for ... are copied from a "back buffer". However tearing becomes much ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Development
  • 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 ...
    wokani wokani June 2007 Games
  • Possible great ideaHello there everybody, I have been toying with the idea of doing a project here with the help of the gurus on the forum. The idea is to start the de…

    ... screen or into a memory buffer (for scrolling).

    [quote]
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... for printed bitmap (screen or buffer)
    // f = uchar *(*f)( ... message across the screen (the scrolling will be accomplished using memop ... . Likewise in our memory buffer we can write one pixel ... row. This keeps the memory buffer contiguous. How do we ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... at a time in the buffer
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    ... /> // Blit the stuff from buffer to screen
    ////////////////////////////////////////
    scrolling message printed double- ...
    wokani wokani July 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... = "Smooth 1 pixel continual scrolling message printed double-width but ... br /> ////////////// Blit the stuff from buffer to screen ////////////////
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    ...
    wokani wokani July 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... I have noticed that the scrolling message works a lot ... br /> ////////////// Blit the stuff from buffer to screen ////////////////
    ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    ...
    wokani wokani July 2007 Development
  • Retro Fighter shoot-em-up development updateHi all, Some of you might recall I was developing a little shoot-em-up with the working title of Retro-Fighter. Well after a long hiatus I managed …

    ... . Although I have written the scrolling to cope with attributes it ... try to write a horiz. scrolling shoot-em-up. Flight-paths ... feel for what the game engine is capable of.
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... to be written will be scrolling messages and [U]doing animations ... screen instead of ussing a buffer?
    I am also interested ...
    wokani wokani August 2007 Development
  • Movie/TV tie-insI know Ocean used to get a lot of flak for buying licenses and then pumping out generic crap of the worst kind (Transformers, Knight Rider, Highlande…

    ... a bus and add a scrolling BEU section to the end ... Prison Break ... = the Great Escape engine with contemporary graphics?

    michaelf michaelf August 2007 Games
  • Spectrum games coming to the WiiJust received this [url]http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11037[/url] earlier this morning from my brother, who knows of my love of old compute…

    ... so that I get smooth scrolling in emulation for C64 and ... />
    I play Spectrum, PC Engine, Mame32, Snes, Megadrive, MegaCD, 32X ...
    HonoredShadow HonoredShadow September 2007 Games
  • Spectrum games coming to the WiiJust received this [url]http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11037[/url] earlier this morning from my brother, who knows of my love of old compute…

    ... so that I get smooth scrolling in emulation for C64 and ... />
    I play Spectrum, PC Engine, Mame32, Snes, Megadrive, MegaCD, 32X ... />
    You mention "Spectrum, PC Engine, [COLOR=red]Mame32[/COLOR] (not ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... () is where the actual scrolling occurs; it is meant to ... d_ScrollStart() is called to start scrolling the message and d_ScrollStop() is ... called to stop scrolling. The message to be ... pointer to start of text buffer
    }
    [/code]
    ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... " that adds 256 and for buffer printing you'd pass a ... to avoid flicker so the scrolling now gets applied directly to ... than doing it to a buffer and then copying the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... br /> d_ScrollStart(); // start scrolling event text message
    ... br /> d_ScrollStart(); // start scrolling event text message
    ... message for scrolling into a text buffer pointed at ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... is built up in a buffer pointed at be "g_textBuffer" indicating ... "g_textBuffer" is scrolled by the scrolling isr we've seen already ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Is there any incompatibility with Hysteria and +2A models?Well, that's basically it :) Thanks in advance

    ... . Great game play, excellent smooth scrolling, great sound and design... In ... be ported with Hysteria's engine, it would be much much ...
    omega omega November 2007 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... . Even silly transfer from memory buffer to screen must be done ... extremely simple on C64 like scrolling with the screen or moving ...
    omega omega December 2007 Games
  • Wanted: DS with ZXDS emulator ready to useThe whole thing about running homebrew confuses me. I've read some tutorials about how to use homebrew, the type of cards, etc and it's still confusi…

    ... the music is playing while scrolling.

    I can at ... increase the size of the buffer used for holding and sorting ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak April 2008 Wanted
  • Wanted: DS with ZXDS emulator ready to useThe whole thing about running homebrew confuses me. I've read some tutorials about how to use homebrew, the type of cards, etc and it's still confusi…

    ... the music is playing while scrolling.

    I can at ... increase the size of the buffer used for holding and sorting ...
    Vertigo Vertigo April 2008 Wanted
  • new speccy gamesDoes anybody know if there is anyone currently publishing new Spectrum games? I'm about half way though writing one at the moment and just wondered. …

    ... fair few revisions of that engine, 17fps, 25fps and seemed a ... really good engine. In fact there was someone ... work on a colour side scrolling s-e-up ?

    CKay CKay May 2008 Games
  • new speccy gamesDoes anybody know if there is anyone currently publishing new Spectrum games? I'm about half way though writing one at the moment and just wondered. …

    ... fair few revisions of that engine, 17fps, 25fps and seemed a ... really good engine. In fact there was someone ... work on a colour side scrolling s-e-up ?[/QUOTE]
    Metalbrain Metalbrain May 2008 Games
  • Saboteur 3I have been playing [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004293"]Saboteur[/URL] and [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseeki…

    ... to a multi-layer-parallax scrolling version. Unfortunately, due to other ... started creating a software 3D engine. After working alone for 18 ... landscape (like Knight Lore but scrolling). I remember that the outdoor ...
    MartynC MartynC June 2008 Games
  • Enduro Racer styled gamesAfter recently replaying the rather impressive Speccy version of Enduro racer, I was wondering if there was anything similar. IE more dirtbikey and n…

    ... use the same style of engine and isnt bad.

    engine, smooth scrolling hills and a great ...
    psj3809 psj3809 June 2008 Games
  • megadrive and mastersystem gamesyo know what to do next, list your faves, and discuss

    ... Rastan with rideable beasts, better scrolling, a girl instead of your ... of Valis 2, which PC-Engine CD owners got the proper ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2008 Chit chat
  • Boulder Dash editor?Is there any editors or tools available to make Boulder Dash games with own levels? Not the ck, you can?t make complete games with it and the two cha…

    ... it uses another (worse) game engine than the original Boulder Dash ... like the two character square scrolling at all!
    MinerWilly MinerWilly August 2008 Games
  • question for MartijnJust exactly how many files are stored on this website

    ... possible that the game engine (including the scrolling, the inertia effects, the ... considering how to implement the scrolling and colour, after all, if ... have prefered the colourful, 8x8 scrolling, myself.
    ewgf ewgf August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The definitive Spectrum project??We know that the Spectrum has been put almost to its limits after all these years of life, but I would like to know which would be the definitive pro…

    ... Tomb Raider. Not the sideways scrolling Gameboy version, but one like ... magic of the original TR engine.
    ZnorXman ZnorXman September 2008 Games
  • Programming Books for Kids - Whats happened to programming?What has happened to Programming in the 00's :( I remember at the tender age of 9 exitedly going to my library to get one of them colourfull program…

    ... , the latest, most efficient petrol engine still uses the same principles ... being stomped over by a buffer overflow, we'd never have ... 4 strokes of a petrol engine are. Yes, they might be ...
    Winston Winston October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…

    ... to be written to a buffer in RAM and copied over ... memory for things like smooth scrolling effects.

    There is ...
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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