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  • 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…

    ... have a copy of a background screen in memory (at #8000 ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 August 2003 Games
  • Games you actually completedThis may have come up before but I am new to this forum so... Which Spectrum games did you actually complete? They were extremely hard by todays sta…

    ... past the fist boring no-background levels, it was a joy ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie August 2003 Games
  • I still cant find this labyrinth game, please assistI have asked for help to find this game about 2 months ago on this forum but we were unsuccessful. Game is a labyrinth type like Hamte Damte or Nod…

    ... colorful letters and I think background may have been black. I ...
    Vortexrider Vortexrider August 2003 Games
  • Maria vs. Some BastardsTheres a Willy based game that some may know of but not the majority. Personally I don't go for edited or hacked Miner games AT ALL, they never inter…

    ... of maria changing to the background pixel color it would be ... better to have the background changed to marias colour, because ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Making TZX files from tapesThought I should address this problem in a seperate thread. In a nutshell, I've been trying to convert my programs on tape to TZX files. So far no s…

    ... I have usually is DMA Buffer Overruns, but they seem to ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Should WoS get a facelift?I think everyone would agree that "The World of Spectrum" has the most comprehensive collection of Speccy related stuff, and is essential resource fo…

    ... range of Spectrums in the background by adding the 48K+ (it ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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

    ... the TR-DOS version. The background music and effects make it ...
    stupidget stupidget August 2003 Games
  • Can Care (a remake)Hi All I've just released my remake of an old speccy game which I've called Can Care (guess which one) and seeing as this is the place to be for all…

    ... some (~15) stars in the background (Yeah, I know this means ...
    GOC GOC August 2003 Games
  • 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

    ... the TR-DOS version. The background music and effects make it ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Recommend a decent games database manager pls!Seeing how many games are piled up on my disk, and that I seldom get to see the screenshots or inlay scans for a particular game, I was thinking of u…

    Ronald Raaijen has such a project.

    A database where SCREEN$ appear after selecting your program.

    Need to check his e-mail adress 'cause he isn't quite active in the scene, just on the background due to LACK OF TIME.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... . pretty cool! easy to scroll background and have an independent foreground ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Imagining speccy versionsIm just fantasying a little bit.. occurs that Im playing like a mad to GhoulsNGhosts and well,. I think this game engine is cool and I think that wo…

    Hi there, I decided to resucitate this thread.

    I will purpose use HoppingMad gameengine (and some background graphics) to make Wonderboy.. well, original Wonderboy on speccy sucks.

    have you some more idea?
    judasEZT judasEZT August 2003 Games
  • .tzx vault team meetingThere was a get together last weekend of myself, Andy Barker, Paul Hurd and Tony Barnett... A picture of the four of us can be viewed here:- [url="ht…

    ... those Playstation games in the background have been preserved.
    John H John H August 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • YSRnRY TV Prog - Update and Haylp!Heya! I've just produced an animation for the TV prog you guys might like - you can get it from: [url="http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/"]http://w…

    ... script for each layer. The background layer is a sequence of ...
    NickH NickH September 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • need help in codingI have an address in HL, which I must save in memory buffer (for example at address buff1) with shift (for example taken from memory address shft1). …

    ... I must save in memory buffer (for example at address buff1 ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... changing the direction of the background, which is exactly what ur ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a September 2003 Games
  • Problems with Spin 0.41Whenever I run it, I get an error message saying: Access violation at address 0047CA59 in module 'ZXSPIN.EXE'. Read of address 015F907C. I click on…

    ... it through MakeTZX.... no DMA Buffer Overruns now (yey !!)..

    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker September 2003 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... bland dance tune in the background? I'd like to see ...
    John H John H September 2003 Games
  • 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 dance track in the background can only be roughly classed ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2003 Games
  • Worst Colour Clash ever?As Malcolm Hope's posted a request for the most boring looking monochrome cop-outs, how about this... Which games have the most appaling colour clas…

    Yes - the Wally games were indeed clash-mongous.

    If my memory serves me correctly, on 3 WEEKS IN PARADISE, you could choose whether Wally clashed with the background, or the background clashed with Wally :)
    chaosmongers chaosmongers October 2003 Games
  • Machine CodeI would like to learn how to use it. Where do I start? Thanks.

    ... in there for animated sprites, background udgs, printing strings, reading joysticks ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • New SpeccyDo you think someone should go about creating a new spectrum computer? I'm talking about a spectrum compatible (not an emulator) with the capabiliti…

    ... increases the audibility of the background carrier buzz (v. bad), increases ... carrier frequency is raised, the background buzz goes away, the sound ... to 4kHz. This makes the background buzz very audible. The programmable ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anybody got any news on the Double Dragon remake?????

    ... : logical part writes into one buffer a queue of sprites needed ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 October 2003 Games
  • Anybody got any news on the Double Dragon remake?????

    it looks very clean and nice =) now really has aspect of a speccy game. good work.

    that background correspond to DoubleDragon2,
    judasEZT judasEZT October 2003 Games
  • What was this game called?There was this game i used to love playing on the speccy it was a side scrolling game and you was this bloke and every time you jumped up and down yo…

    ... colour, what the main character/background looked like, etc.?
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2003 Games
  • Zub - Lightfarce - Will the hidden game unlock on a PC?I've tried to use the keys to make Lightfarce work on my emu [Spectaculator] but ot just won't happen! I know it works I used to have the classic on …

    ... vegetation, on a dark blue background. Certainly it felt more of ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2003 Games
  • emulation Vs real speccy-which is better?i got thinking about the above topic subject and i came up reasons FOR emulation:- 1.when the monitor displays some spectrum graphics,there is no bl…

    ... better, and the light-grey background has a glow to it ...
    Spector Spector October 2003 Games
  • Conversions better than the originalRenegade was way better than the arcade version. Better sound, better graphics and better playability. Just load up Renegade in Mame. Any other conve…

    I love bombjack on the Spectrum. The only critiscism I have of it really, is that on some of the screens, the black bombs are over a dark &/or blue background, and I struggle to see where the fizzing bombs are.
    thx1138 thx1138 November 2003 Games
  • Another Name the GameOK this one is driving me nuts. All I can remember is that you controled a stick type man, and went around digging holes in the road. I think it was …

    Well, it's not the road yo're digging, but sticky man on white background and trasures/yellow cakes and -20 years, that's the year 1983 and "Maziacs" game
    LCD LCD November 2003 Games
  • Speccy logo - HELP!! :(Hi there! In March we - AY RIDERS - will play a concert (playing on Spectrums :) :) ), in capital-city of Poland. Organizers want to show on big-s…

    I think, the Spectrum logo are these nice coloured stripes (Spectrum) on the black background.
    LCD LCD November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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