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Most popular new features? I know some people like a spectrum to be emulated as authentically as possible, while others like myself like features which improve the gfx, sound,…
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Most popular new features? I know some people like a spectrum to be emulated as authentically as possible, while others like myself like features which improve the gfx, sound,…
... why I probably said so in the first place
2 ... . More dodgy than remaking them in the first place. Legally I ... know how to code it in MC, and especially not from Basic ... ]
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Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... POKEs you can apply to change the loading striped on some ... remember the source. It was in one of the magazines.
change one colour? e.g. POKE a ... the loader
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Best Emulator??Hiya Searching for a good emulator that will happily run all the games Ive got at the mo. The ones Ive downloaded so far do not either work at all o…
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Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…
... , a PC had to be in the mix somewhere........so where ... /mid nineties games being hacked out on a speccy but not ... any basic compiler (in comparison to hand tooled mc), using a compiler ... for the Speccy are written in mc from scratch. -
Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…
... mid nineties games being hacked out on a speccy but not ... any basic compiler (in comparison to hand tooled mc), using a compiler ... for the Speccy are written in mc from scratch.
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Speccy vs C64 loading screen artHi everybody, Don't know if someone post this before, but i never see it and was just nice to appreciate. Check this: [url="http://www.lemon64.com/…
... is more important than colour, from an artistic point ... C64's multi-colour efforts. Check out Dan Dare for ... at the great games in terms of atmosphere, most ... that atmosphere is created in the design and detail ... dealing with primitive 16 colour pallettes) tends to go ... -
Does ScanLine[0] have a left border?My emulator couldn't handle Cobra or ShortCircuit so I added some rough port FF values. I now want to make it a bit more accurate. The FAQ gives me a…
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1) If in 64 lines times the CRT ... be outputting the current border colour from just after the ... first pixel of the screen in the next frame. What ... any TV will be in vertical retrace at the point ... point" for the timings in the FAQ is taken to ... -
New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... of mixed BASIC and MC to be sorted out? How do we ... handle this case? Put the program in MC ... or BASIC depending on how much it leverages on MC ... -
TZX formatQuick question: What is the current pulse level at the start of a TZX file? Difficult question: Why does the format say that the final pulse shoul…
I think the reason is to make a clean finish to the preceding data pulse. In reality the signal fades to 0 instead of being 1ms as the TZX format says.
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TZX formatQuick question: What is the current pulse level at the start of a TZX file? Difficult question: Why does the format say that the final pulse shoul…
... be caused by reseting the border colour.
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The ... the process to restore the border colour and it writes a zero ... pause after the last block in the file, to let the ... (i.e. negative/positive voltages in the analogue waveform). But that ... -
Vector GraphicsMy thing, back in the day, was games that had vector graphics. The Spectrum was generally better at them than other, inferior machines and there were…
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The Muncher - good or horrible?After seeing a review of this on The Rubber Beermat I thought I'd give it a go. It seemed to do okay in the reviews (Dunc from YS loved it) but it s…
... game was originally completed in 1988 and was called ... a fan of Rampage in the arcades I wanted ... until finally it came out in the autumn of 1989. ... out from it though is the incredible amount of colour in ... the game: it defies the laws of colour clash ... -
Challenge II: Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans on the speccyThis should be challenging!
that's right!! get the important stuff out of the way first.
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Challenge II: Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans on the speccyThis should be challenging!
... right!! get the important stuff out of the way first.
I've got some good border colour combinations for the loader!
charcter you most wanted to hurt in a spectrum game?mine would proberly be the wolf in saberwulf. everytime i got down to that area he made me lose a life.
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I'd love to have that giant foot land on her head for a change.
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You should check out Maria Vs Some Bastards in the Archive.Games Club - Week 26The winning vote this week is for Paperboy 2 - [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Paperboy+2$&pub=^Mindscape+International+Inc…
... the chance to check it out as I always avoided it ... 's nice to see some colour in an isometric game it doesnt ...z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... to know your lib in & out. I'm saving this ... others in development too: the first is a 64x48 full colour ... Every pixel can be any colour. This will be added ... you'll get 4 colours out of every character cell - ... 2nd still isn't fleshed out, but its aim is ...z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... is a 64x48 full colour zx81 mode with sprites ... . Every pixel can be any colour.
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out of every character cell - ... music and sound effects in game. That might be ... to know this library in and out and that's great ...American Series - any good ?I found someone in the US who like many others on ebay , theyre taping some american programs and selling them on dvd. I dont mind buying them as i …
... br /> Tools|Options|Connections in Azureus. In the 'Icoming TCP port' ... 41952.
In kerio, the application you need ... java runtime app, which in my case is located ... the app. to go out for both TCP and ... would be to change the port in Azureus, and then ...128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…
... (via an IN instruction) you'd get either 255, border or screen ... got it to return the border colour. Must've been some cool ...128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…
... (via an IN instruction) you'd get either 255, border or screen ... got it to return the border colour. Must've been some cool ...ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... , it's the cool border effects in games like Starion and aquaplane ... .
Had it come out with a decent screen size ...Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... stripey border effect by multiple OUT statements followed by a pause in a ... loop.
10 OUT ... 254, 0
20 OUT ... 254, 1
30 OUT 254, 2
Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... stripey border effect by multiple OUT statements followed by a pause in a ... loop.
10 OUT ... 254, 0
20 OUT ... 254, 1
30 OUT 254, 2
Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... can consider a game "written in BASIC" if the main portions ... of it are written in BASIC, i.e., the ... simple tasks (play a tune in the title screen, decompress a ... on screen, do a nasty border effect or draw a chunk ... why, I just love Xadom in and out.Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... screen, do a nasty border effect or draw a ... why, I just love Xadom in and out.
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... actually written in BASIC; compare with, say, Mined Out which ... critical stuff like working out what screen you've ... you could just strip out a few machine code ...Bounce, Bounce, Bounce Goes The Bouncing BallFor some reason, 1986 saw a lot of bouncing ball games being released. The most well known ones were Trailblazer, Bounder and Action Reflex. Why was …
... it, but i never worked out if you could play a ... edit your own rooms, change what was in each room and then ... on before and to work out how to get to some ...Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... shows , or give free prizes (out of my own pocket not ... people who might be interested in what we are doing with ... as above , it will not change the outcome in the real world.Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... don't go running out of the studio in tears if they ... never made a single penny out of retro gaming. But like ... community than dishing out a few cheap Tombola prizes in exchange for ... above , it will not change the outcome in the real world.[/QUOTE ...
