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Changes that would have made a bad game goodA posting about technician ted beign far too hard to be playable got me thinking - what changes could have been made to existing games to make them b…
Supersprint. Kicking the programmers in the teeth and telling them ... imaginary walls.
Putting colour in Puzznic (nice game, but dear ... most offensive use of monochrome in Speccy gaming history). -
An MC question (sorry, there's no MC forum to post to!)Ok, still struggling with learning MC - but am getting there. I just can't find anywhere on the web / in books that explains how to do arrays in MC.…
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"Mega-tree (Manic Miner 3)" : development disks to be auctioned on eBayI plan to sell the development disks of "Mega-tree" to coincide with the 20th anniversary; the third game in Matthew Smith's "Manic Miner" / "Jet Set…
... Smith look like a lady in this photos? :confused:
in where he looks very similar ... 's cooking something standing in front of a stove ... alot of energy and colour in his skin and well ... friends now who were in late teens/early adulthood ... -
Print 'n' Plotter SPRITE MACHINEJust got this from an ebay seller this afternoon. I just TZXd it and sent it to the Steve at the vault, yet it might be a while before it gets put up…
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Viking RaidersHi - I have searched high and low for a .sna or .tap version of Viking Raiders by Firebird Software to no avail. Does anyone know where I could get …
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The Speccy Games Programming CompetitionFor those who weren't following the OT thread... We have the CGC and we have the Minigames competitions, but we don't have an actual Spectrum Games …
... diferencies between BASIC and MC games. probably only few ... there are only 2 games in MC compo. on other side ... music written in WHAM! or simply mc routine it ... better game than many games in MC)
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Randomseek A big thank you to Martijn for implementing this, something I wanted and will certainly use. My first random pick came up with 'Tantalus' so I will…
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An intriguing question...Well, intriguing for me anyway. As we all know, when calling a Machine Code function from BASIC, we use the USR (address) function. But for this to …
... the screen by calling #1602 in MC holding A the value for ... -
RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…
... if you find a similar colour in a combination of other colours ... colour it is still the same colour, only it will be different in ... is good since the same colour combination in each pattern can produce ... -
RZXs of games completed - fancy a go?I notice that as Daren and Andy C's RZXing continues, there's a couple of people saying they might want a go at doing some themselves. To this end, …
... ... after the superb graphics and colour in the first game )one of ... ) I found the graphics, and colour clash on RD2 to sickly ... -
If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…
... to handle more than one colour in 8x8 character screen display.
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If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…
If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…
3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
... indeed SAM Coupe) had lived in a commercial way nowadays - then ... about it needing to be in MC... good luck with learning, perhaps ... how slow it actually is in basic... thankfully for things like ... br />
and the truth... MC scares the living bajeezus outa ...3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
... down I want to code in MC more even than I know ... , which i so obviously delight in being.3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
... down I want to code in MC more even than I know ... , which i so obviously delight in being.
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in order to achieve something difficult ...Little Known Classic GamesI've been spending a while downloading some of my fave speccy games lately, and while I probably have most of the well-known great speccy games on my…
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Close...it was Roland In The Caves. Amstrad's software ... hero called Roland and was in several games.
The ... bit was he seemed to change character completely in every game!Wanted: Code to wait until Border has been drawnWhen my IM2 interrupt fires, I want to wait until the ULA is past the first line of display before drawing. I know I need to wait about 14300T after…
... screen (as opposed to the border) is drawn. See the FAQ ... ) + n tstates, then changes the border colour. n can be changed from ...8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
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in enough quantity. From memory ... s greatest asset. Full colour graphics with a decent ... No, there's no colour clash but at the same ... s not a lot of colour in some modes either.
...Zecut0r and ZAFA while ago (about 2 yrs)i took VbSpec and tried to port it to Delphi 6. Althought it was pretty weak, it. Meanwhile DelphiSpec 0.1 appeared and i wa…
... to fix it change the file in SWAP file in the /DATA to ...making games on a real speccy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have recently bought a speccy on ebay and i want to try to make s…
... look like they were written in basic, and compiled... ... smooth as anything written in MC on the Amiga, guarenteed ... but I wrote it in 2 weeks whilst in hospital.
... or `C`, yet were done in AMOS.
... read about it first in Amiga Shopper (starts to ...Best use of colour in a spectrum gameEven though the spectrum couldn't manage individual colours per pixel like the Commodore and Amstrad, some games managed to achieve very effective fu…
Also Axons has very good colour. In fact, I had another go at it today, and it's a better version of Xenon 2 than I remembered. Quite damn good all round really - could do with some proper 128k tunage :)Speccy colours got me confuddled.Ok ... I have zx32 v1.03.97.1213 and ZXSpin v.041 Love them both dearly. Zx32 is handy for mapmaking because it gets rid of the border. Spin c…
... it gets rid of the border.
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... y'know :) Check the border options in the video tab of the ... and HSL:127,255,103 in zx32 but it is ... and HSL:127,255,95 in Spin.
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... wouldn't be running SPIN in a 16bit desktop, would ...Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…
... byte value with the desired border colour, you get a good psychedelic ...Mame issuesI've only recently got hold of the MAME emulator and I thought I'll fire up some old arcade classics and see what the originals were like. Unfortun…
... every game Ive ever played in an arcade, sports center, pub ... arcade game and written (naturally) in MC it suffers LOADSA slowdown, from ...Mame issuesI've only recently got hold of the MAME emulator and I thought I'll fire up some old arcade classics and see what the originals were like. Unfortun…
... actually managing to get the colour in...
Ikari Warriors is ...Mame issuesI've only recently got hold of the MAME emulator and I thought I'll fire up some old arcade classics and see what the originals were like. Unfortun…
... actually managing to get the colour in...
Ikari Warriors is ...
