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  • im looking for a horizontal scroll routinehi, im looking for a horizontal scroll routine. i read somewhere that you can do it with at 'to' statement, somewhere in a print routine. althoug…

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    2. To do two scrolling lines just duplicate the code ... right to left in one character steps).

    (see: http ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • I am soo glad I owned a SpeccyJust passing the time here, and decided (after seeing some CPC screenshots of Shadow Of The Beast in a YS scan) to compare a few CPC games with their…

    No sprites and only "character" based scrolling (i.e. 8 pixels increments ... to give the appearance of scrolling in finer increments. Some CPC ... models do get full hardware scrolling support, hardware sprites and automatic ...
    AndyC AndyC June 2017 Games
  • Guess the game from magazine illustration 3Yes, it's here again. Another pack of drawings from old Polish magazines. Are you strong enough to guess them? 1. [IMG]http://i68.tinypic.com/693…

    ... with horizontal scrolling.
    Game 4: first game with famous character, I ...
    PopoCop PopoCop June 2017 Games
  • I think maybe I'll try my hand at making a game like Boggle next.Or maybe a sliding puzzle sort of thing? Although its a royal pain working out all those symbolic characters, its kind of rewarding when it works af…

    ... for scrolling the screen up and down, routines for handling 64 character ... an apple on an 8x8 character block, traditionally we'd only ...
    andrewvanbeck andrewvanbeck July 2017 BASIC
  • How to improve my program using oversized numbersI'd like my dice program to print out the number four times bigger than normal if possible. Anyone know how to do this? Or I could write a sub rou…

    ... the same row into the character.

    8 ATTR rows ... screen = 8 bytes in the character.

    (Change CHR$ c ... there you got some serious scrolling there and it's very ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 July 2017 BASIC
  • z88dk terminalsto set up a terminal a bunch of numbers are needed: m4_zx_01_output_fzx(_window_1, 0x2330, 0, 0, 1, 14, 1, 19, 0, _ff_ao_Prefect, 14, 0, 14, 8, 1…

    ... Scroll the window upward 'C' character rows.
    [/code]
    scrolling. Your function would ... character rows instead. The terminal drivers are always going to be scrolling ... by character amounts anyway.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2017 Development
  • z88dk terminalsto set up a terminal a bunch of numbers are needed: m4_zx_01_output_fzx(_window_1, 0x2330, 0, 0, 1, 14, 1, 19, 0, _ff_ao_Prefect, 14, 0, 14, 8, 1…

    ... bits in the instantiation control scrolling behaviour.

    [code]
    [/code]

    For a scrolling terminal that pauses, bit 6 ... , IOCTL_OTERM_SCROLL, 5); // scroll up five character rows
    ioctl(1, IOCTL_OTERM_SIGNAL ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2017 Development
  • Just watched Paul Jenkinsons's spectrum chanel and now want to write code againPlease assume for the purpose of this thread I know nothing... I want to look to write games on the spectrum but want to develop and test on my wi…

    ... , but it comes with a character-graphics editor that produces a ... all its sprite, mapping and scrolling functions are operated through the ...
    joefish joefish August 2017 Development
  • Rabbit maze name the gameIn this game you were a skinny character, with ears, I believe (possibly an antropomorphic rabbit thing) and you had to run through a maze while bein…

    Not Bimbo. The character is seen from the side and looks antropomorphic. Also I should mention that the entire maze fits on the screen, there is no scrolling.
    Chip Chip August 2017 Games
  • Replaying games from Crash Issue 1Only a small conceit in the general scheme of things, but since Issue 1 of Crash was the first Spectrum mag I bought, and I remember wondering at the…

    ... %) - ugh. Horrible jerky scrolling, terrible isometry, single character graphics again. How this ...
    Tan Coul Tan Coul September 2017 Games
  • Speeding up PRINT code in ROMHi Folks, I seem to recall that someone stated the PRINT command is rather slow because it has to handle screen and printer printing - is this cor…

    ... the issue the the ROM character output code does a lot ... paper, you can crunch the character printing code down significantly, and ... simplest - no control characters, no scrolling, fixed colours - you can get ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston October 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • 1988-2018..OK This feels a little odd since it's always WhenIWasCruel who does these threads, but I've had the proxy approval from the man himself to go ahead a…

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    Sideways scrolling beat-em-up which involves your character, Underwear Man ...
    Nick Nick February 2018 Games
  • Which game(s) had the worst colour clash?I remember colour clash was the bane of the spectrum, but are there any cases where it was particularly bad/good? I remember that R-Type seemed ve…

    ... by whole characters of the scrolling scenery, and that scenery being ... behind the scenery. The whole-character occlusion is more obvious behind ... PAPER colours in the pixel-scrolling background. But that only looks ...
    joefish joefish October 2018 Games
  • 1988-2018..OK This feels a little odd since it's always WhenIWasCruel who does these threads, but I've had the proxy approval from the man himself to go ahead a…

    ... a static screen, instead of scrolling, and make them really stereotypical ... code from for the main character. Make the characters you're ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek October 2018 Games
  • 1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…

    ... get on with the character-square movement and scrolling. Just made it ... -Type, which also mostly used character movement, worked fine and I ...
    Gwyn Gwyn April 2019 Games
  • 1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…

    I think having the smooth scrolling backgrounds and scenery in R-Type helped to reduce the visual jerkiness, compared to games where the whole screen scrolled in character squares.
    Pobbit Pobbit April 2019 Games
  • 1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…

    Strangely it doesn't bother me at all. Maybe that's how I normally see the world. With character-square movement and scrolling.
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel April 2019 Games
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... ever seen a BASIC program scrolling the screen that fast!
    character' and 'next line' control codes ...
    joefish joefish April 2019 Brand new software
  • Super Mario Bros 64An 1:1 conversion of Super Mario Bros is now released for the c64 (and it's fantastic!). Things are looking good for the old breadbin what with Knigh…

    ... you can double-buffer the character part of the display to ... explains why so many C64 scrolling shooters always seemed to have ...
    AndyC AndyC April 2019 Chit chat
  • Drift!, Valley of Rains and Just a Gal at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019We presented 3 new games at Yandex Retro Games Battle 2019 competition! Side-scrolling action "Valley of Rains", sports simulator "Drift!" and racing…

    ... animation constrained to character squares - this has parallax scrolling at the pixel ... still technically contained within those character blocks but it really helps ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2019 Brand new software
  • What to write / programme?I've been trying to get back some motivation to write something in machine code for the Spectrum. I don't feel I am organised enough to write somethi…

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    With regard to scrolling. If we are talking about ... horizontal scrolling my favored method of ... usually settle for 2 pixel scrolling (2 pixel precision). This ... we don't cross any character boundaries.


    [ ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2020 Development
  • Zynaps scrolling - anyone ever reverse enginnered this?Zynaps has IMO some impressive scrolling - it utilises 18 character rows of the display file, so quite a large active play area, and scrolls 2 pixels…

    ... you didn't know that scrolling is a (semi) big deal ... sprites are first broken into character-line wide strips in a ... checks the status of each character-sized square according to its ... ' sprite/bg data. If a character already contains another 'new' sprite ...
    Hikaru Hikaru July 2020 Games
  • Zynaps scrolling - anyone ever reverse enginnered this?Zynaps has IMO some impressive scrolling - it utilises 18 character rows of the display file, so quite a large active play area, and scrolls 2 pixels…

    ... a reason no other side-scrolling shoot-em-up looked so ... good with its character-based sprites and less colourful scrolling backgrounds.
    scrolling shoot-em-up!
    Gwyn Gwyn July 2020 Games
  • How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…

    ... horizontal scrolling in BASIC, but really not much more than a character ...
    dmsmith dmsmith September 2020 Development
  • How to write a simple C+asm horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial, z88dk)[b]How to write a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b] [b]Note:[/b] This tutorial has multiple parts... I am still writing but this first pa…

    ... print the score right after scrolling the screen.
    And we ... C ends with a \0 character.



    [b ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2020 Development
  • Technically terrible games you likeHighrise Harry by Blaby is technically awful. It's got tiny UDG graphics, no animation, rubbish jump mechanism, dodgy collision detection, poor keybo…

    ... can break into program). The scrolling is not smooth enough. But ... a nice game, it's character cell based and ugly scrolled ...
    TheShich TheShich September 2020 Games
  • Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...

    ... Runner[/url]. Is a terrible character moving arcade game with an ... "]River Rescue[/url], a side scrolling boat ride with guns. Try ... boat. Again reasonable arcade with character movement.

    [url="https ...
    Luny Luny March 2021 Games
  • [VIDEO] The Best Games in 1990 for the ZX SpectrumThis is just some of my personal favourite games for the ZX Spectrum made in 1990. What's yours? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke0T3hj8cM4

    Yikes, Turrican looks horrible! Character square scrolling ond movement of sprites, as ...
    MinerWilly MinerWilly March 2021 Games
  • [VIDEO] The Best Games in 1990 for the ZX SpectrumThis is just some of my personal favourite games for the ZX Spectrum made in 1990. What's yours? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke0T3hj8cM4

    ... when the jerk-o-rama scrolling and sprite movement gets going ... horrible to play.

    Character movement can work well, like ...
    Gwyn Gwyn April 2021 Games
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