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  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... the C64's display was character-based (whatever that meant), ... guess that scrolling could be done by having different character sets in ... moving the pointer from one character set to another (and ... had some form of hardware scrolling.

    But like ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay September 2013 Games
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... the C64's display was character-based (whatever that meant)[/quote ... guess that scrolling could be done by having different character sets in ... moving the pointer from one character set to another (and ... d need eight pre-shifted character sets (which would need ...
    TMR TMR September 2013 Games
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... the pointers to the character map, colour map, character set etc. around ... you prepare a 'hidden-screen' character map alongside the current one ... the screen display, mode, sprites, scrolling, etc.? In memory, or are ...
    joefish joefish September 2013 Games
  • Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…

    ... scrolling which is nice. of course the background attribute for each character ...
    Basher Basher September 2013 Hardware
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... pointers to the character map, colour map, character set etc. around ... what would normally be the character screen (so the 1K ... prepare a 'hidden-screen' character map alongside the current one ... the screen display, mode, sprites, scrolling, etc.? In memory, or ...
    TMR TMR September 2013 Games
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... the screen display, mode, sprites, scrolling, etc.? In memory, or are ... happening.

    [U]x scrolling [/U]
    poke 53270,0 ... that is uses for X scrolling ($d016) and shows you ... />
    what's printed onscreen character wise is $0400 - $07e7.. much ...
    fog fog September 2013 Games
  • Asm routine for AY playback?Hi, is possible to create and "name" an asm routine for playing some ay data? If yes, how? Example: Ok , I've finished a sound tracker song, now I n…

    ... things, good finding )

    gasman:
    I had a look ... begins with a double quote character must end with another ... the file name contains all character between them without any special ... the file name contains all character between them without any ...
    DaRkHoRaCe DaRkHoRaCe September 2013 Development
  • Scrolling TextI've being trying to find a simple basic way of scrolling some text on a single line, My method is ridiculous, I've been using the print statement fo…

    ... the FOR...NEXT allows the scrolling to be done independently; eg ... would be scrolled by one character.

    The only BASIC ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…

    ... (apart from the suddenly jerky scrolling in the mazes - which now ... snippet, I can more understand character based scrolling as a choice!) - is ...
    Gedlion Gedlion September 2013 Development
  • Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…

    ... (apart from the suddenly jerky scrolling in the mazes - which now ... snippet, I can more understand character based scrolling as a choice!) - is ...
    David Jones David Jones September 2013 Development
  • SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…

    ... stored palette
    [*]SCROLL?text scrolling
    [*]SOUND?play the AY ... graphics/UDGs and 8-bit character sets[/list]
    [*]The only ...
    chev chev October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […

    ... the moment it does 24x24 character 8x2 multicolour in the middle ... can do a continuously vertically scrolling map.

    The intention ...
    joefish joefish October 2013 New game ideas
  • SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…

    ... /> add hl, hl ; character
    add hl, hl ... call z, po_scr ; scrolling required?
    pop de ...
    chev chev November 2013 Development
  • SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…

    [code]; THE 'SCROLLING' SUBROUTINE
    cl_sc_all:
    ld ...
    ld d, h ; first character
    ld e, l ; to ...
    chev chev November 2013 Development
  • spectrum pixel experimentsWell, As a spectrum fan, I started recently learning about how to pixel for the speccy, I did pixelart in the past but not speccy style (until now). …

    ... of the codes for each character. Sprites are drawn simply ... the scene is rendered character-by-character by looking up the 8x8 ... of large sprites on a scrolling background.

    In ... designed knowing that entire 8x8 character cells can get over-written ...
    joefish joefish November 2013 Development
  • spectrum pixel experimentsWell, As a spectrum fan, I started recently learning about how to pixel for the speccy, I did pixelart in the past but not speccy style (until now). …

    ... of the codes for each character. Sprites are drawn simply ... the scene is rendered character-by-character by looking up the 8x8 ... of large sprites on a scrolling background.

    In ... designed knowing that entire 8x8 character cells can get over-written ...
    zx_kel zx_kel November 2013 Development
  • spectrum pixel experimentsWell, As a spectrum fan, I started recently learning about how to pixel for the speccy, I did pixelart in the past but not speccy style (until now). …

    ... just one byte per character square. You can quickly ... memory by re-using character squares for things that ... large, well-animated main character, you may not be ... I], which had enormous character sprites and just swapped their ... ahead in a scrolling action game.
    joefish joefish November 2013 Development
  • spectrum pixel experimentsWell, As a spectrum fan, I started recently learning about how to pixel for the speccy, I did pixelart in the past but not speccy style (until now). …

    ... is just one byte per character square. You can quickly add ... save memory by re-using character squares for things that don ... Sceptre[/I], which had enormous character sprites and just swapped their ... far enough ahead in a scrolling action game.[/QUOTE]

    zx_kel zx_kel November 2013 Development
  • 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…

    ... ! One bite and you're character is dead, forcing you to ... big fan of the side scrolling Mario games, especially the recent ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob November 2013 Chit chat
  • Worst examples of "Attribute Clash" (Colour Clash) in a gameHi all, you all know the spectrum's attribute clash / colour clash issues (I personally liked it, and thought it was interesting). I'm just wondering…

    ... -scrolling backgrounds, with black blockiness disguising the jumping attributes. But the character ... same trick but with horizontal scrolling scenery, though the sprites are ...
    joefish joefish November 2013 Games
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... .


    [*] [I]No scrolling.[/I] Limited CPU means trying ... of both occupy the same character square. It's better to ... will never occupy the same character square when the entire alien ... will never occupy the same character square of a brick, even ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2013 Brand new software
  • is this a forum for new games ideas as in really new gamesWhat I mean is Nebulous was a new game concept, [cylindrical scrolling?] and I am having difficulty coming up with new concepts. Seems my brain just …

    ... a game with a sonic character, but not Sonic with loop ... the work of writing the scrolling already!

    [URL]http ...
    dmsmith dmsmith December 2013 New game ideas
  • Pseudo-3D map renderingHave been mulling this over for a while, until that isometric thread prompted me to ask. I'm not sure if this is officially classed as 2D, 2.5D, or 3…

    ... sprites, normally used for parallax scrolling. But it can easily be ... map, so long as your character's footprint stays within the ... pathways. The top of your character can be drawn over anything ...
    joefish joefish January 2014 Development
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... say, the format for the character would be both pixel data ... be flip-screen instead of scrolling, thus more like [URL="http ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas January 2014 Brand new software
  • ULA snow effectIt's wintertime, you know. [quote="http://ramsoft.bbk.org.omegahg.com/floatingbus.html"]when the I register falls in the range 0x40-0x7F then the UL…

    ... is making the scrolling image be offset by a character cell for ...
    Basher Basher January 2014 Development
  • ULA snow effectIt's wintertime, you know. [quote="http://ramsoft.bbk.org.omegahg.com/floatingbus.html"]when the I register falls in the range 0x40-0x7F then the UL…

    ... is making the scrolling image be offset by a character cell for ... string:

    1. All character lines except every 3rd : R ... manifests as part of the scrolling columns being offset vertically by ... pixels.
    2. Every 3rd character line : R loops back to ...
    Hikaru Hikaru January 2014 Development
  • Pac-Land: can be coloured?All versions of this game are full coloured, but not the Spectrum version. It has large sprites, but maybe the scroll is too fine to make a coloured …

    ... you try to get it scrolling? You mentioned earlier in the ... like they had considered a scrolling approach but is the code ... 'm guessing it would be character block scrolling from what you said ...
    manonfire manonfire January 2014 Games
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... a 2x2 UDG aligned to character boundaries / thirds of the screen ... 'm trying to develop pixel-scrolling versions of the attribute-based ...
    bigjon bigjon February 2014 Development
  • The Wizard of Hotspot HillockI've just re-discovered this unfinished game which I haven't done any work on for a couple of years. As it can be played through to the end as it is …

    ... series of files ending with "Character array: wofm c3". If you ... browser to select the relevant character array "wofm1"-"wofm9" from AGES ... displays the current location description. Scrolling through the other numbers in ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2014 Development
  • Best or most unusual high score tableReading the recent post about jet pac and the initials in the high score table got me wondering about the best or most unusual effect used to display…

    ... one once where the main character winched it onto the screen ... unusually helpful gremlin cranking a scrolling roll of honour, tapping his ...
    Muig Muig April 2014 Games
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