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  • TommyGun with Debugginghttp://goo.gl/HfSXev?gdriveurl Ok, so this is a pretty big release for me and I have added a lot of stuff into the code editor. Mainly of course …

    ... , so this is a pretty big release for me and I ... little demo project call [i]Big Sprite Demo[/i].
    1. Load ... as Admin
    o Added Big Sprites Demo project
    o ... Basic demo with all the example files
    Also added a ...
    Kiwi Kiwi July 2016 Development
  • what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…

    ... more Speccy games with "big" creatures (such as dragon ... in some ways and big sprites could be problem. ... of sprites (and these big creatures have to be ... BIG sprites. but there are limits too (for example ... the Myth dragon is not a big sprite. body ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…

    ... sprites put together, and each sprite has to be a certain ... too (for example the Myth dragon is not a big sprite. body is ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... the Powerpoint you have the sprite names:
    -exploding ball
    My guess is that the big sprite was to be used perhaps ... face the walking trees for example.
    For the rooms and ... would use the smaller miner sprite.

    For the sake ...
    4throck 4throck October 2014 Development
  • New NIRVANA+ feature: wide tiles!The size of each bicolor tile in [b]NIRVANA+[/b] is 2x2 characters (16x16 pixels), like this: [img]http://i60.tinypic.com/mw358y.png[/img] [i]* M…

    ...

    you have one big sprite "carpet"
    sized 256 bytes ... this big sprite

    here is a little set for example

    and here is a sprite routine for drawing
    [quote ...
    Jerri Jerri September 2015 Brand new software
  • 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 the original 1:1 sprite and background porting, before it ... graphic load, with sprites that big. This is why the Double ... be further decomposed in sub-sprite sections. Example, we don't need ... , finding creative ways to recycle sprite "parts" (eg: legs and ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • 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. …

    [quote="mister_wavey;865767"]that big sprite demo looks very interesting - is ... just learning the basics of sprite programming and would love to ... it as an example on how you can do big sprites; for ... little too advanced for learning sprite basics.
    Kiwi Kiwi July 2016 Development
  • z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …

    ... a tile was either a sprite, or a background thing which ... hours of frustration. Getting the Z88DK example to compile was easy enough ... trying to understand how the example was doing what it was ... was impossible. Playing with the example code just results in crashes ...
    thricenightly thricenightly July 2017 Development
  • Zlincon 2003 - Factor's reminiscences (SID-sound on ZX)Factor6 wrote his reminiscences after zx-meeting called Zlincon. I think the most important think is that time when we hear SID-sound on Speccy is n…

    ... /> it wasn't so big like for example last year, there were ... " Player on Speccy with
    big success. I think it will ...
    Yerz Yerz October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Good or horrible: I-BallIt did rather well out of all three mags with Crash going as far as giving it a 'Renegade 3' (an undeserved Smash). Thing is, I think it's bollocks.…

    ... fact that you play a big sprite in a relatively small area ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree July 2009 Games
  • Most visually stunning Spectrum game?OK, gameplay aside what do you think was the most visually stunning Spectrum game? Personally i would have to give it to 'Starstrike II' for its use …

    ... funny caricatures )

    The big sprite Mortal Kombat game, especially the ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... online Spectrum community start cloning big-sprite adventure games from LucasArts. I ...
    MattLamb MattLamb July 2003 Games
  • Parasol Stars for Spectrum Having played a lot of Bubble Booble and Rainbow Islands on Spectrum, and later on also Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Amiga, I feel like it w…

    ... only allowed a 4x7 chars big sprite. This was cool.

    big, but I recall it was ... only on a smaller moving sprite instead of the whole screen ...
    windenNTW windenNTW July 2003 Games
  • Parasol Stars for Spectrum Having played a lot of Bubble Booble and Rainbow Islands on Spectrum, and later on also Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Amiga, I feel like it w…

    ... only allowed a 4x7 chars big sprite. This was cool.

    big, but I recall it was ... only on a smaller moving sprite instead of the whole screen ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... I need to transfer a sprite for example from 6th bank into ... 48k memory (2nd bank for example) and only then I can ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 August 2003 Games
  • Trapdoor Has anyone here actually completed this game? I keep getting stuck on the "I want some Fried Eggs" mission. Yes i have read the text on this site,…

    ... had to be done - those big sprite graphics are great!

    jil jil August 2003 Games
  • Don PriestlyDoes anyone know how I can get in touch with the genius behind Popeye and Flunky?

    ... the genre, etc). The other "big sprite" games were also in a ... them again. But Priestley's "big sprite" games were fun to play ...
    jil jil June 2004 Games
  • Best Boss?Alright then Spec chums: which was the bestest, bossyiest Boss you ever faced? The massive green ship from stage 3 of Rtype? Big Bertha from stage …

    There are some lovely, big-sprite bosses in [I]Rodland[/I]. I like the big whale.
    MattLamb MattLamb March 2005 Games
  • Everyone's a Wally Everyone's a Wally is perhaps my favourite game, but can anyone suggest similar ones by which I mean semi platform games where large charater sprit…

    I suppose most of Don Priestley's "big sprite" games could just about fall into this category too, my personal favourite game ever is Popeye. :)
    jil jil July 2005 Games
  • 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…

    ... want to move your sprite and first delete it ... If you move the sprite (for example one pixel to the right ... the left edge on the sprite, and then draw the ... the player seeing the sprite with the left edge ... question from Blood Baz's example:

    [CODE] ...
    Rickard Rickard May 2007 Development
  • The Spectrum game you always come back toIs there a Spectrum game that you still come back to playing after all these years? For me, after all this time there still isn't a game to match Ba…

    ... 'm a fan of those big sprite type games)
    Bomb Jack ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2007 Games
  • Speccy users around the globeHi all, I thought it could be fun to set up a map at frappr: [b]<EDIT By Mod 2019> This website is a now a spurious link that is not not to be tru…

    ... all, to get the "big picture". For example I was going to ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Thieving gits !Serves me right for buying tons of things on the internet. Last two weeks someones had access to my card and has been trying to buy things, thankful…

    ... credit cards - running up a big bill, and promptly getting caught ... the shorts. Quite often, big style - for example, when Castro buys himself ...
    Winston Winston October 2007 Chit chat
  • Batman ABITH/AFWTD graphicsHow'd you do that then, eh? With the overlaid windows and stuff. I always thought it was dead clever. May have seen it in another game too but can't …

    ... parts of the Batman sprite, for example, on the sprite layer? Or does ...
    Vertigo Vertigo October 2007 Games
  • OutRun Online ArcadeDownloaded it for my PS3 last night (it's also on Xbox Marketplace). It's really good, obviously not as good as the original (it's more Coast to Coa…

    ... games used to have occasional big sprite objects that would appear on ... a fun park with a big roller coaster over the road ...
    joefish joefish April 2009 Chit chat
  • Good or horrible: I-BallIt did rather well out of all three mags with Crash going as far as giving it a 'Renegade 3' (an undeserved Smash). Thing is, I think it's bollocks.…

    ... fact that you play a big sprite in a relatively small area ...
    Rainbird Rich Rainbird Rich July 2009 Games
  • Best commercial game of the 2000 - 2009 decade?What computer or console game do you consider to be the best of the decade 2000 to 2009? I mean commercial game, so Spectrum games don't count (not e…

    ... , Uncharted 2, and Little Big Planet, for example).



    ewgf ewgf December 2009 Chit chat
  • Soldier of fortune reviewHere's my latest review, soldier of fortune. A really good platform, shoot'em up in the vein of ghosts 'n' goblins and so. Enjoy! Try it! [url]http…

    ... [/I] and other [B][I]big sprite[/I][/B] stuff done mostly ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup June 2010 Games
  • The best ANIMATION?Hi pplz) I like so-called 'Spanish' graphics style and when my nephew and I made a couple of screenshots to see how animation phases were done he sa…

    ... talking about smooth (and preferably big) sprite animation, not just game animation ...
    NRA NRA January 2011 Games
  • Big un-attr'd spritesHi all, I'm trying to find or come up with a generic sprite routine that can handle large (128x64) sprites. I've looked at DrwSprNC in the Sabrewulf…

    ... />
    That's not one big sprite, it's 32 16x16 sprites ... give the illusion of a big sprite.
    The advantage is you ... don't need any specialist sprite routine, any bog-standard 16x16 ...
    Turkwel Turkwel March 2011 Development
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