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  • Simple text scrolling routine...I'm having trouble writing a very simple text scroller, the idea is to use the ROM printer routine to print 32 characters each time the routine is ca…

    ... by the original example. The scrolling is part of a larger ... text by one character, so the text is scrolling in between other ... things going on as well outside the scrolling ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2014 Development
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ... capable games machine. Sound, colour, scrolling, sprites. In every way.
    character not having a pink face ...
    Jim M Jim M October 2014 Games
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ... capable games machine. Sound, colour, scrolling, sprites. In every way.
    character not having a pink face ...
    Jim M Jim M October 2014 Games
  • 2014 Games ListNote: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found somewhere near the end of this thread. [old] Any problems …

    ... ]]
    by Yerzmyey, Hellboy and Gasman.
    release date: ?
    More ... Demo[/B] (a nice parallax scrolling demo) [[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ...
    Timmy Timmy October 2014 Games
  • Screen buffer Tip from Raff CeccoRaff very kindly gave me this tip: "Incidentally, I remembered a trick I used on the Z80 for extra speed: When clearing the screen buffer, it was a…

    ... detailed explanation of how the scrolling engine in [I]Stormlord[/I ... four, allowing for an empty character for it to scroll into ... it renders the full 32 character width of the screen, as ...
    joefish joefish October 2014 Development
  • Action BikerBeen playing Action Biker across the Speccy, C64 and Atari and have done a review at - [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZIbwDBYneY"]https://www…

    ... hardware-specific jobs like the scrolling are bespoke; on the Atari ... hardware coarse scrolling (there's an LMS command on each character line ...
    TMR TMR October 2014 Games
  • 2014 Games ListNote: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found somewhere near the end of this thread. [old] Any problems …

    ... ]]
    by Yerzmyey, Hellboy and Gasman.
    release date: ?
    More ... Demo[/B] (a nice parallax scrolling demo) [[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ...
    Timmy Timmy October 2014 Games
  • Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…

    ... ]Mario[/I] like inertia in scrolling games on the Spectrum is ... then means you need the scrolling routines to move in different ... depending on how fast your character is moving. That's a ...
    joefish joefish October 2014 Development
  • Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…

    ... ]Mario[/I] like inertia in scrolling games on the Spectrum is ... then means you need the scrolling routines to move in different ... depending on how fast your character is moving. That's a ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx October 2014 Development
  • Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…

    ... then means you need the scrolling routines to move in ... depending on how fast your character is moving. [/QUOTE]
    ... that does variable-speed horizontal scrolling is Guardian 2, a Defender ... The Fury" has variable speed scrolling too, but again the backdrop ...
    Muig Muig October 2014 Development
  • Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…

    ... trick of scrolling console games is to let the character move anywhere ... a level, stop scrolling, but allow the character to approach the edge ...
    joefish joefish October 2014 Development
  • 2014 Games ListNote: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found somewhere near the end of this thread. [old] Any problems …

    ... ]]
    by Yerzmyey, Hellboy and Gasman.
    release date: ?
    More ... Demo[/B] (a nice parallax scrolling demo) [[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum ...
    Timmy Timmy October 2014 Games
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... the Error Message and the [scrolling] Message.
    Once those are ... .

    Note, for the scrolling message I've put 12 ... ROM and the user defined character set by pressing EDIT.
    scrolling message that some of the ...
    jp jp November 2014 Announcements
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... countdown timer that spans 1 character cell you can do this ... works for the counter and scrolling message... and the error message ... apart from the counter and scrolling message don't have the ... a box over where the scrolling message and counter should be ...
    jp jp November 2014 Announcements
  • Alkatraz Protection System - "How to" and compo?I'm thinking about writing a "how to" regarding the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020807"]Alkatraz Protection System[/URL].…

    ... and save the box definition, scrolling message and error messages back ... /> We did find a User character set, so yes, let use ...
    jp jp November 2014 Announcements
  • MiniDayzI'm playing this "16-bit" version of Dayz, called "MiniDayz". It captures the essence of Dayz. I link you it here, you are going to play many times! …

    Could work with a TLL/Cyclone style pseudo-3D view and character-sized or half-screen scrolling. You'd need a pretty large landscape; one could be procedurally generated, I don't know if linear features like roads would be a problem.
    Zoffy Zoffy November 2014 New game ideas
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    [QUOTE=maiki;806966]Parallax scrolling without a good number of ... over many of those C64 scrolling "tech-demos" with nearly ... and sound, smoother and faster scrolling, smoother sprite movement but were ... that chunked along at one character square a time!
    < ...
    MinerWilly MinerWilly December 2014 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... ]Enforcer[/I], both in parallax scrolling background patterns and joining sprites ... are easy to draw (as character blocks) but enemy sprites have ... like someone's written one scrolling and sprite routine and everyone ...
    joefish joefish December 2014 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... one of the C64's character modes, but that's just ... 's like saying, the smooth scrolling in those Amstrad games you ...
    Fizza Fizza December 2014 Games
  • Edge Grinder, how would YOU do it?I always meant to post about this and AndyC reminded me in the 'vs' thread in games. [QUOTE=AndyC;808887]The thing I love about threads like this is…

    ... ),HL

    ; calculate the character address
    LD H,0 ... BC

    ; copy the character letter to the screen
    scrolling left
    botstartAG HALT
    MatGubbins MatGubbins December 2014 Development
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... , hardware scrolling and hardware sprites for at least the main character? Hardware ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG December 2014 Games
  • Twenty years of the PlaystationThis month's Retro Gamer celebrates the twentieth birthday of the Playstation, so let's discuss our memories/delights/disappointments of the machine …

    ... to like, it's a scrolling beat em' up, with different ... and bosses depending on which character you pick).

    [B ... on which martial art, and character gender you pick).

    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2014 Chit chat
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... much slower or at one character square at a time. That ... not great colours) and the scrolling is super-smooth, but the ...
    paranoid marvin paranoid marvin January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... much slower or at one character square at a time. That ... 're underestimating the Spectrum's scrolling ability. Take a look at ... Cobra, or the 8-way scrolling in games like Ghosts & ... easily manage Exile. (See the scrolling games referred to earlier).
    Muig Muig January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    [QUOTE=Muig;810874]or the 8-way scrolling in games like Ghosts & Goblins, Ghouls & Ghosts, Soldier of Fortune.[/QUOTE]

    You try to impress me by that slow small-screen jerky character square scrolling in Soldier of Fortune?
    MinerWilly MinerWilly January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... that slow small-screen jerky character square scrolling in Soldier of Fortune ... slow, it isn't using character square scrolling, and almost all C64 ... can do an 8-way scrolling game acceptably. It looks ... better than the push-scrolling used by C64 Exile ...
    Muig Muig January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... slow, it isn't using character square scrolling
    [/QUOTE]

    scrolling game acceptably.[/QUOTE]

    MinerWilly MinerWilly January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... that slow small-screen jerky character square scrolling in Soldier of Fortune ...
    Graz Graz January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... , terrible bitmap layout, the fact scrolling/sprite hardware is pretty much ... gave the c64 games more character.

    Which version of ...
    AndyC AndyC January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... that in Green Beret, the scrolling play area only occupies 1 ... in line with the player character- the rest just run around ...
    Muig Muig January 2015 Games
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