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  • Strange layout of Spectrum video memoryHello, does anyone have an idea why the Spectrum's video memory has such a strange layout? I understand that a resolution of 256x192 is an easy mean…

    ... own emulator these days, but hardware is still pretty rare). :)
    scrolling editor using the normal memory ...
    J?rg Pleumann J?rg Pleumann August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... more than two colours per character square makes games like Head ... the same two colour per character limitation, there is no "bright ... really wasn't suited to scrolling. It's nigh on impossible ... few rare examples of colour scrolling are inevitably a bit jerky ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2004 Games
  • 3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…

    ... emulator that`s giving me hardware scrolling, sprites etc etc

    CKay CKay September 2004 Development
  • TZX and the ZX81Evenin All. EightyOne is now is a state where I can support a more descriptive tape format. I know how some people have been calling for tzx suppor…

    ... frame. As for getting shifted character, the key(?) to the problem ... several machines without using the Hardware ID block?

    MikeW
    MikeW MikeW September 2004 Emulators
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... misinformed statement. The CPC's hardware is considerably more flexible than ... colourful sprites (presumably usually for scrolling games, although things like Fast ... Flip screen version of a scrolling game" mode.

    Of ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... , i've seen a few scrolling games that rely on that ... />
    Surely that`d be hardware scrolling wouldn`t it?

    scrolling works, by simply having a ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... `s how the Amiga HW scrolling works, by simply having a ... was written specifically for the hardware and, since a lot of ...
    TMR TMR September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... , yes it does have hardware scrolling. The display address is ... can achieve pixel perfect scrolling by literally moving the ... br />
    Horizontal scrolling can be achieved with similar ... adding additional hardware registers to control pixel scrolling in both ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2004 Games
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... of this or that capability ( hardware sprites/scrolling etc. ) although it did ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... and can do the same hardware scrolling tricks (look at [B]Firetrack ...
    TMR TMR September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... to its SID chip, hardware sprites, scrolling ability and volume of titles ...
    Antiriad Antiriad October 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... to its SID chip, hardware sprites, scrolling ability and volume of titles ...
    MattLamb MattLamb October 2004 Games
  • Basic info about platformers...I have run a search for an answer to this question and haven't found quite what I was looking for so I thought I would pop a post on here... What ar…

    ... , for static screens, and also scrolling, and it has the added ... the value`s around your character... like if mapdata(posx,posy ...
    CKay CKay October 2004 Development
  • New Game Production ChallengeGreetings to all the communiy :) I have been around long enough to see that there are some very good spectrum programmers out here. Now, [start obvi…

    ... somewhat for the Speccy (hardware sprites and scrolling, removes some of the ...
    TMR TMR October 2004 Games
  • The Spectrum is a Piece of ShitHow can you all stand there and defend a computer that was ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH even back in 1982, compared to classics like the Atari 8-Bit, Commodore…

    ... />
    Unfortunately there's no hardware support for this on the ... do I produce a smooth scrolling shed ?
    [/quote]

    jonathan jonathan October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bad conversions from other platformsThe most disappointing of these for me was Loco (Alligata Software). The original on the C64 was a really challenging and cute game. I think the soun…

    I agree about URIDIUM. This game, like Turrican, is very good if you've never seen the C64 version.

    I think with both of these games, it came down to hardware scrolling (or the Speccy's lack of...)
    chaosmongers chaosmongers November 2004 Games
  • Amstrad CPC Emulator?After reading a favourable comment on one of the other threads, I fancy having a look at what the CPC had to offer, since I've never really had the c…

    ... use of the CPC's hardware like T.L.L. then ... />
    This is true for scrolling-oriented games with few sprites ... of the CPC's superior scrolling abilities. But ther is just ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…

    ... and fast as speccy games - hardware scrolling/double buffering or not. I ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • jet set willy 2, the end of the debate (or a new begining?)there are some good reason's why jet set willy 2 is great 1, it is faster than jet set willy 2, it has more levels that jet set willy 3, it has a bet…

    ... wall and stand in one character-column, and almost all the ... /> 5, it has a cool scrolling message!!!!!
    that's my ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad November 2004 Games
  • OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…

    ... because it's using the hardware scrolling. So no it isn't ...
    AndyC AndyC November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…

    ... because it's using the hardware scrolling. So no it isn't ... looking, so you can quote hardware facts all you like - but ... is the fact that the scrolling rate is different both horizontally ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…

    ... looking, so you can quote hardware facts all you like - but ... is the fact that the scrolling rate is different both horizontally ... would always be slower (no scrolling, lots of sprites).

    AndyC AndyC November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Target Renegade Remake DemoHi, I'm in the progress of making a remake of Target Renegade, I am working with Dean Swain (from the Target Renegade:Remix project) to recreate the …

    ... character graphics could be touched up a bit more?

    Scrolling ...
    Arjun Arjun December 2004 Games
  • UnityI know it's not Speccy related, but I've just read on Jeff Minter's forum at [url="http://www.yakyak.org"]www.yakyak.org[/url] that the UNITY project…

    ... Speccies sound and lack of hardware scrolling though, when he'd done ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Non-spectrum Ultimate games?I was just browsing round Rare's site and their chronology: [url="http://www.rareware.com/games/timeline/timeline_content.html"]http://www.rareware.…

    ... to take advantage of the hardware in the target machine if ... way to get the C64 hardware involved were found.

    hardware smooth scrolling could have got involved ...
    TMR TMR December 2004 Games
  • Maps made easyHi don't know if this has been suggested before (didn't find much in a search). I've come up with a nifty method for making maps and removing the unn…

    ... easier to remove the main character sprite directly in the bitmap ... a map for game (without scrolling, unicolour background) with 1000 rooms ... there are some games (with scrolling and multicolored background), where your ...
    Pavero Pavero January 2005 Games
  • MSX to speccy ports?World is full of speccy conversions for MSX, many of them worse than speccy original. (argh) There are MSX games which have converted to other syste…

    ... that required no usage of hardware like the blitter chip etc ... 16 colours, and not using hardware scrolling.

    I figured that ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers March 2005 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... advantage of the Amiga's hardware and still only managed to ... module to provide fast drawing, scrolling, etc. And you'd need ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... caps off

    * Different character sets and UDG sets
    character set when PRINTing, LISTing, etc ... is signified by the last character in the message having bit ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Commodore fan needs guidance.Hi all, first off what an awesome site! As the title says I grew up with Commodore machines so am not really up on Spectrum classics. I recently got…

    ... clear of most of the scrolling shooter's like R-Type ... because they had great scrolling *without* any hardware assistance, in full colour ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2005 Games
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