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  • Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…

    ... completed the top third before scrolling it? Also double buffering, would ... great deal of difference when scrolling one third or 2 thirds ... /> Thanks.. I've never done scrolling before so any help is ...
    polomint polomint February 2010 Development
  • Monochrome Speccy gamesOkay, we all know the Speccy was (allegedly) crap at colour and lots of games just had to be in monochrome (honest). But lots of programmers just us…

    ... only because it has one-character scrolling? [I]Karnov[/I] has 9 ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2003 Games
  • Starting on machine code - BASIC first?Howdy. If I wanted to start learning machine code for the speccy, from scratch, would you recommend I learn BASIC first or is it entirely possible to…

    ... to get a line of character scrolling across the screen. These routines ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside November 2007 Development
  • artist neededany volunteer here on WOS ?

    ... planning to use pixel or character scrolling?[/QUOTE]

    How can ...
    dansauk dansauk December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • artist neededany volunteer here on WOS ?

    ... planning to use pixel or character scrolling?[/QUOTE]

    i'm ...
    Fikee Fikee December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • artist neededany volunteer here on WOS ?

    ... restricting if you do character scrolling rather than pixel scrolling. I know it ... background and so. i refused scrolling as it consumes too much ...
    Fikee Fikee December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Colour clash on the Commode64?Was there any? Every now and again, I see a screen shot like this... [img]http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/j/jack_the_nipper_02.gif[/i…

    ... the strange colour palette, jerky character scrolling and enforced rationing of colours ...
    joefish joefish September 2009 Chit chat
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... also usually mean more jerky scrolling - usually character scrolling by 8 pixels. In ... monochrome you can have smooth scrolling, but ...
    Ralf Ralf January 2010 Development
  • Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…

    Oh.
    Just read the subject title again.
    Do you really mean character scrolling?

    Doesn't matter, the approach I describe is equally valid for character or pixel scrolling.

    What others have people tried and tested?
    csmith csmith February 2010 Development
  • Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…

    I did mean character scrolling, but to be honest pixel scrolling would be good to learn too. I just thought that character scrolling would be easier to do first, :)
    polomint polomint February 2010 Development
  • Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…

    For character scrolling, you could just store one byte per character space, then that ... have a second byte per character in your buffer screen.
    joefish joefish February 2010 Development
  • Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…

    [QUOTE=joefish;424731]For character scrolling, you could just store one ... byte per character space, then that refers to ... have a second byte per character in your buffer screen.[/QUOTE ... . Great way to move large character based areas about.
    csmith csmith February 2010 Development
  • Spectrum 2-3 times more powerfull than MSX?![url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kI0urN9tI#t=8m18s[/url]

    ... downside they reverted to blocky character scrolling, and the coloured bit of ...
    joefish joefish March 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Game engine design, graphic format?Having never written a game engine before, I'm in need of a little advice on the best way to store the game map. Its 512 x 896 map, 4-way scrolling,…

    ... shows, 25fps at the moment. Character scrolling. Stored the map 64x112 = 7168 ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2010 Development
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... colour cells, either by using character scrolling (as in R-Type) or ...
    chev chev July 2010 Games
  • ISR's in lower ram, a.k.a. the snow effect - did any game or demo ever use this?Hi all I've been curious to see what the 'snow effect' looked like in real life for a while now so today I wrote a quick IM 2 ISR in lower ram to wi…

    ... can use it for hardware character scrolling as one of the tests ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2012 Games
  • ISR's in lower ram, a.k.a. the snow effect - did any game or demo ever use this?Hi all I've been curious to see what the 'snow effect' looked like in real life for a while now so today I wrote a quick IM 2 ISR in lower ram to wi…

    ... can use it for hardware character scrolling as one of the tests ...
    Arda Arda January 2012 Games
  • New projectHello, you can see my new project for Spectrum in this link. I think that I finish it in few weeks. I hope you like it [URL="http://www.youtube.co…

    ... have great colourful graphics and character scrolling. Maybe you'll find some ...
    Ralf Ralf March 2012 Development
  • New projectHello, you can see my new project for Spectrum in this link. I think that I finish it in few weeks. I hope you like it [URL="http://www.youtube.co…

    ... have great colourful graphics and character scrolling. Maybe you'll find some ...
    climacus climacus March 2012 Development
  • Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…

    ... 's all about 8-ways scrolling + a lot of explosions and ... I'm watching Youtube, BBC scrolling is far from perfect but ... thought it could done with character scrolling and colourful graphics, something similar ...
    Ralf Ralf March 2012 New game ideas
  • Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…

    ... thought it could done with character scrolling and colourful graphics, something similar ... version uses smooth horizontal scrolling and chunky vertical scrolling. Consider the Acorn ... chunkier. Shows that downgrading the scrolling wouldn't be too much ...
    Jmk Jmk March 2012 New game ideas
  • Tech Demo of my Latest Game (FADV)Posted in development as technically not a new release just a tech demo of a new game I'm working on. Ok here a tech demo of my latest full game, i…

    ... with this, playability wise, is character-scrolling works fine for you walking ... is move them a whole character, but leave a flag to ...
    joefish joefish April 2012 Development
  • Simon Matthews - Multi-Coloured Scrolling Platform game?Yo, do You guyz know it already? [url]http://youtu.be/-K7M2L2CoQk[/url] Seems to be on da Net for quite a while now. Looks really great(to say at…

    Yes, multicolour scrolling sounds very proud ;) Here we have an ordinary character scrolling, quite jerky if you ask me.

    Still I'd like to give it a go.
    Ralf Ralf April 2012 Games
  • Scrolling a mapCan someone explain in idiots terms how you scroll a map. I'm not after code as such, just an explanation of how it can be done. I'd like to scroll…

    ... smoothest'. This will do you character scrolling:

    Define a chunk ... any time.

    Pixel scrolling horizontally is more tricky. This ... hidden coloumn one tile or character wide at the edge of ...
    joefish joefish May 2012 Development
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... from larger tiles. And with character scrolling you may just be better ... I did 4-pixel horizontal scrolling by having four buffers, each ...
    joefish joefish May 2012 Development
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... harm in trying.

    Character sprites, if based on say ... tiles - convenient to keep the character size equal to the screen ... too.

    P.S. Character-scrolling could also be done with ... can nick from Nintendo is scrolling rooms, where you don't ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... the data formats. Scrolling would take longer, though character-scrolling would be fairly ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... even 8x2 multicolour)
    (b) character-scrolling screens with colourful scenery but ... ) 2- or 4-pixel smooth scrolling screens with very basic use ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... even 8x2 multicolour)
    (b) character-scrolling screens with colourful scenery but ... ) 2- or 4-pixel smooth scrolling screens with very basic use ...
    SimonLCFC SimonLCFC January 2013 New game ideas
  • New Picture QuizFeast your eyes on this lot. You know what to do! [IMG]http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g346/marocsphotos/picquiz2_zps91fd553c.jpg[/IMG]

    Is 3 from that recent character-scrolling chunky Robocop-type platform shooter with a parallax cityscape background that I don't know if it was ever properly finished?
    joefish joefish February 2013 Games
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