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Spectrum 2.0 (soon to be) updatedI've just pushed out a "beta test" of the next version of [url=http://spectrum20.org/]Spectrum 2.0[/url] to [url=http://staging.spectrum20.org/]stagi…
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The Best Use Of In-Game Physics?I'm sure most of you who play modern games have heard of the "Havok" game engine that models the behaviour of in-game objects / characters that inter…
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The Best Use Of In-Game Physics?I'm sure most of you who play modern games have heard of the "Havok" game engine that models the behaviour of in-game objects / characters that inter…
[QUOTE=murtceps;346994]cyberun uses enertia and physics when it bounces off the cavern walls.[/QUOTE]
Yep, it's an extremely realistic simulation of flying through treacle. :) -
Biggest single-load game?How many screens is the biggest single-load game? I'm not thinking of levels that randomly generate, but ones with difined screens. 16k, 48k and 128k…
... using some sort of repeatable algorithm, so that each location is ... -
Biggest single-load game?How many screens is the biggest single-load game? I'm not thinking of levels that randomly generate, but ones with difined screens. 16k, 48k and 128k…
... using some sort of repeatable algorithm, so that each location is ... -
Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …
... . You could also change the algorithm to use m-bits 'nibbles ... -
Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …
... . You could also change the algorithm to use m-bits 'nibbles ... -
Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …
... other.
i guess if algorithm will choose words instead relying ... -
What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.
... Hawk
Canyon Warrior
Cavern Fighter
chronos
CobraForce ... -
Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…
... to implement a new drawing algorithm. You can poke a stream ... -
Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…
... intensive lossy vectorizing image compression algorithm written in Java, unfortunately its ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... most of the game (Clankers Cavern. I don't even remember ... -
Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... & CIRCLE uses Bresenham's algorithm. The take no more of ... -
Desperately need help with .TAP file bug (probably a wrong value error)I'm trying to create a .tap file with Java and have been following the specification at [url]http://www.zxmodules.de/fileformats/tapformat.html[/url…
... someone may have a simple algorithm or mapping tables, but I ... -
Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... an implementation of Bresenham's algorithm, which is faster and uses ... -
Desperately need help with .TAP file bug (probably a wrong value error)I'm trying to create a .tap file with Java and have been following the specification at [url]http://www.zxmodules.de/fileformats/tapformat.html[/url…
... someone may have a simple algorithm or mapping tables, but I ... -
Finally Playing Manic Miner...any tips for Eugenes Lair???
... fact it was the only cavern in which the oxygen limit ... -
Biniax 2, new game from The Mojon TwinsJust a few days away from the Amstrad CPC version of Nanako in Classic Japanese Monster Castle, The Mojon Twins have released a new puzzle game for o…
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Games which require a "Bruce Lee" level of ability to complete.I'm not very good at completing games, but I've managed to complete Bruce Lee. What other Speccy games would someone who has a "Bruce Lee completion…
I am crap at most games. Took me about 5 years to get out of the Central Cavern. Dizzy games were quite easy. -
Games which require a "Bruce Lee" level of ability to complete.I'm not very good at completing games, but I've managed to complete Bruce Lee. What other Speccy games would someone who has a "Bruce Lee completion…
[QUOTE=Bethan;358777]I am crap at most games. Took me about 5 years to get out of the Central Cavern.[/QUOTE]
Haha! :p :lol:
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games you love, but you're crap at themGunfighter [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002177[/url] it's such a great game, loads of rooms, loads of characters to shoot,…
... got past about the 10th cavern. And Chuckie Egg - about 6 ... -
games you love, but you're crap at themGunfighter [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002177[/url] it's such a great game, loads of rooms, loads of characters to shoot,…
... got past about the 10th cavern[/QUOTE]
likewise, but recently ... in about 2hrs. the last cavern is the easiest if I ... remember (or maybe the penultimate cavern). anyway one of them is ... -
games you love, but you're crap at themGunfighter [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002177[/url] it's such a great game, loads of rooms, loads of characters to shoot,…
... in about 2hrs. the last cavern is the easiest if I ... remember (or maybe the penultimate cavern). anyway one of them is ... got past about the 10th cavern. And Chuckie Egg - about 6 ... -
games you love, but you're crap at themGunfighter [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002177[/url] it's such a great game, loads of rooms, loads of characters to shoot,…
... got past about the 10th cavern. And Chuckie Egg - about 6 ... -
Nominate your top 5 16k games128k? pfff 48k? don't be silly 16k? Yep , that'll do! When 128k was still a glint in Clive's eye,there were plenty of games that ran quite happily u…
Remember that Cavern Fighter, the brilliant Scramble clone, is in fact a 16K game despite being advertised otherwise.
My favourites are
Deathchase
Jet Pac
Cavern Fighter
Ed-On
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Post your best SCRs - Image to ZX Spec 1.0.1 and beyondI've been playing around with Image to ZX Spec's encoding algorithms and I've achieved a "half colour" floyd steinberg mode, that it, the image is pa…
... good results for a straightforward algorithm.[/i][/QUOTE]
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Back to Skool disassemblyAs mentioned in [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22841"]this thread[/url], I've been working on a disassembly of Back to …
... /> TAR is not a compression algorithm, it's an archive format ... LZMA (Lempel-Ziv Markov-chain Algorithm) by default.
As ... . It uses a proprietary compression algorithm, and therefore should be avoided ... -
Bit of geometry doing my head inI have a 2D rectangle of known dimensions, its sides are parallel to the X and Y axes. I'm trying to find an algorithm which will take the rectangle…
... 'm trying to find an algorithm which will take the rectangle ... I can get is an algorithm which returns a perfect circle ...