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What were the first games?Is it possible to chronlogolise (!) The first I saw must have been November 82 and it was Gulpman!
... , Bug Byte and Quicksilvia led the way out of the back bedrooms ... .95, In 1982. [/b]Bug Byte spin-off companies such as ... (see 1983). Eventually both Bug Byte and Quicksilvia went on to ... -
FMV on +3eOK, so about 6 months ago i posted here that i got full motion video on +3e, with a bunch of scr files called passion. I added the glider rider music…
... As for timing, one 512 byte sector takes 69 samples to ... the video and then read back all the sectors (at ... player code. The next byte is normally 255, which ... frames
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1 byte value 255 to mark the ... table, it will drop back to basic. If space ... -
Games programmers playing other gamesI've always wondered what it was like for programmers of the Speccy when they played games from other companies/developers. Would they sit and analy…
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Joffa Smiff just used to stare ... 'd not written a single byte.
Games programmers playing other gamesI've always wondered what it was like for programmers of the Speccy when they played games from other companies/developers. Would they sit and analy…
[QUOTE=ewgf;440535]Joffa Smiff just used to stare ... 'd not written a single byte.
Correct flag response to BIT n,(HL) etc.When running the test program suggested by Arjun (thanks again), all intructions are passing the flag tests except the BIT n,(HL), BIT n,(IX+dis) and…
... ones which I will get back to.
My BIT ... are copied from the high byte of MEMPTR after it is ...Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
got to agree with everything everyones already said. Thanks tony for letting us know and hope your back on form soon Joffa :)Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
... soon know if he comes back acting differently, or trying to ... />
Sounds like South Park - "Joffa gets an anal probe". Lets ...Do you still have the same speccie as when you were young!If so - how old is it now - and is it still working? And does it have rubber keys!?
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so yer if joffa smiff had made crap games ... wound him up a while back, that my mum (and many ... paid for his lavish lifestyle back in the 80's, he ...Crap games that you fondly rememberCant remember if this ones been done before tbh, but we always have classic games threads so heres one slightly different :P what crapper games do yo…
... 've been spoiled since by Joffa's scrolling.
Not ... into a level then racing back was obviously good enough for ...Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
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;Rotate the Character Data Byte D times - and Shift the ...
;get the Screen Address back into DE, increment the MSB ... Character Data back and increment it ready for the next byte of ... the Counter value back, decrement it and go back for another write ...Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
Thanks for the update Mr Hat. I hope Joffa bounces back quickly!How to insert special characters in Basic and ASM ?Look the next picture. [IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9479/scode.jpg[/IMG] I dont know how to insert these black and diagonal characters. No…
... 've written a small (56 byte) routine that will print the ... /> ld a,255 ;point UDG back to original value
ld ...'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…
... the screen. The less-significant byte is the number of character ... -90, but let's come back to that later.)
byte boundary.
inc l ...Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
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;Rotate the Character Data Byte D times - and Shift the ...
;get the Screen Address back into DE, increment the MSB ... Character Data back and increment it ready for the next byte of ... the Counter value back, decrement it and go back for another write ...Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
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;transfer Attribute Byte to e for easier use ... the Y and X values back into BC
call print_attribute2 ... - then set the Attribute Address back
ret
[/CODE ...Beepola v1.01A new version of Beepoa, v1.01, is now available for download from:- [URL]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/Beepola_v1.01.00.zip[/URL] (650KiB) …
... reverse engineered from a game back into Beepola format but to ... hand into Beepola a while back: you can download it [URL ... $1B was probably chosen by Joffa (or whoever calculated the frequency ...Spectranet on the BBC!Yay! I'm famous. Or at least my +3 is famous... [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10364135.stm[/url]
... asm or squeezing every last byte out or whatever, it's ... . It's not about "looking back", it IS about looking to ...The future of the Micro Mart 'retro' column... any suggestions?Hi folks, For the first time in a long time it seems that I've had some spontaneous feedback (from issue 1111) on the Micro Mart forums and elsewher…
... did some interviews with TMR, Joffa Smith and Jonathan Cauldwell if ... is always a good fall back - the new miggy or specranet ...Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
... see there's a back buffer, of 10 byte tiles. These seem ... . (I did see that one byte seems to hold how many ... be kept in one 256 byte page. I also have a ...Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
... of screen data and one byte for an attribute.
byte character buffer at SP1V_PIXELBUFFER. Then ... jump to SP1RETSPRDRAW which is back inside SP1DrawUpdateStruct. There the next ...myspeccy.org - online gaming which auto-saves scoresIt's a blimmin' miracle - I'm most impressed.
... there and have a wee Joffa session, but I get a ... Who Dares Wins II score back from PSJ after it was ...Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
... 'm sitting here stunned, RIP Joffa, you made us all smile ... him on there a while back, he even subscribed to my ...Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
I've just got back from work to read this sad news. I think I should write a tribute to Joffa in Micro Mart, so if people don't mind I'll use some of the comments here.
Rest in peace Mr Smiff :(Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
... ;453190]I've just got back from work to read this ... should write a tribute to Joffa in Micro Mart, so if ...Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
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Scuba Dooba by Johnathan "Joffa" Smifff.
I have ... style of it took me back to the late 80's ...Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
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Scuba Dooba by Johnathan "Joffa" Smifff.
I have ... style of it took me back to the late 80's ...Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
not visited WoS in months... and this is the sad today's news I noticed on facebook... RIP Joffa, you made my days back then, when I was a youngster.Rest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
... . and hopefully they can get back to me or mr hat ... met him. I only got back into the spectrum last year ... to post, saying he was back home recovering like the rest ... age..
RIP Jon / Joffa / FroRest in Peace, Jonathan Smith (was: Frobush Absence)You may or may not have noticed the absence of the honourable Frobush aka Jofa Smifff from your forums... The explanation is a little sad but does ha…
... my parents bought for me back in 1986 for my Spectrum ... all about).
Farewell Joffa and all our thoughts go ...Similar GamesI was just wondering with there being thousands of games if theres a lot of games that are similar to The Great escape and Where Time Stood Still sin…
Well been playing lots of Joffa's games.
I loved Cobra back in the 80's (and now), try his other game - Hysteria. Same game engine as Cobra basically, still a good game, underated
