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  • The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…

    ... by games on much newer hardware, such as Carmageddon, MIdnight Club ... C64 version! Take that, you hardware scrolling, hardware sprite enabled bread box!
    Most Iconic Spectrum games character (the one you most associate ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2009 Games
  • 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
  • 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"…

    ... the CPC didn't have hardware sprites. Even if the ... to some degree by using hardware sprites, but often people doing ... colour cells, either by using character scrolling (as in R-Type) or ... />
    Given the lack of hardware sprites, Bubble Bobble is an ...
    chev chev July 2010 Games
  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... powerful computer, armed with hardware scrolling, hardware sprites and SID music ... pixel-scrolling foreground blocks out the sprites character-by-character? It ... still move in whole character spaces. But being a ... . If you want jerky scrolling, take a look at ...
    joefish joefish August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... you 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…

    ... you can use it for hardware character scrolling as one of the tests ...
    Arda Arda January 2012 Games
  • Tinkering with Nemesis?I thought Nemesis (Gradius) was a poor conversion especially when put next to R-Type. One main problem was the small area and the large size of the s…

    ... had character scrolling backgrounds, but bigger screen area and sprites (probably hardware) smoother ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 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 …

    ... the fastest CPU, it had hardware character scrolling and various CRTC tricks to ... do pixel hardware scrolling, it had a disk drive ...
    AndyC AndyC 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 …

    ... this effect with the hardware character scrolling and some double buffering ... generate very smooth pixel scrolling without having to ... slightly to get smoother vertical scrolling, as per Mission Genocide ... to work with proper hardware scrolling was just too big ...
    AndyC AndyC December 2014 Games
  • 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
  • What does Sir Clive do nowadays ?I have searched the net a lot, but can't find much about Sir Clive's present whereabouts. The Sincair Research-pages still offer the same products a…

    ... a joystick port, specific hardware for sprites and scrolling, and a half ... Sinclair marketing strategy) sprite and scrolling hardware that was difficult to program ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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
  • Successor to the SpeccyBased on the rambling on the other thread it would be interesting to see what people felt was the 'spiritual' successor to the speccy. Amiga here....

    ... ; the hardware in both the latter machines handles the sprites and scrolling ... well; however, the dedicated sprite/scrolling hardware was very much of the ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2009 Chit chat
  • 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
  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... more powerful computer, armed with hardware scrolling, hardware sprites and SID music and ...
    Ralf Ralf August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... more powerful computer, armed with hardware scrolling, hardware sprites and SID music and ... what you mean. The C64 hardware has huge advantages when it ... games that involve sprites and scrolling.
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…

    ... tested), so a ULA++ with hardware scrolling, hardware sprites, 512x192 mode for true ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2011 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 ...
    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
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