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  • Missing NemesisI was reading one of the threads the other day about over rated spectrum games and came across the suggestion that Nemesis (the space shooter known a…

    ... .[/QUOTE]


    The hardware is pretty much irrelevant. NEMESIS ... horizontal shooter to program... The scrolling isn't fast, and it ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2006 Games
  • Missing NemesisI was reading one of the threads the other day about over rated spectrum games and came across the suggestion that Nemesis (the space shooter known a…

    ... horizontal shooter to program... The scrolling isn't fast, and it ... both have hardware sprites and can do pixel-level scrolling with next ... makes them superb machines for scrolling shoot-em-ups. The MSX ... bit harder to get the scrolling.

    Given that ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Games
  • Missing NemesisI was reading one of the threads the other day about over rated spectrum games and came across the suggestion that Nemesis (the space shooter known a…

    ... technically poor one as well. Scrolling of background elements is either ... smooth-scrolled the background and character-moved the sprites (and did ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2006 Games
  • Missing NemesisI was reading one of the threads the other day about over rated spectrum games and came across the suggestion that Nemesis (the space shooter known a…

    ... have hardware sprites and can do pixel-level scrolling with ... makes them superb machines for scrolling shoot-em-ups. The ... bit harder to get the scrolling.

    Given ... many more prove that hardware sprites/hardware scrolling are not always necessary ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2006 Games
  • Missing NemesisI was reading one of the threads the other day about over rated spectrum games and came across the suggestion that Nemesis (the space shooter known a…

    ... many more prove that hardware sprites/hardware scrolling are not always necessary ... less than other better scrolling shooters.) Whilst I can ... [i]need[/i] hardware sprites and scrolling to do a good ...
    The very best scrolling shooters on the Spectrum, for ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Games
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... refined some of SPIN's hardware emulation to more accurately match ... code to do some screen scrolling or perhaps some other screen ...
    Woody Woody July 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... />
    But yes, it's hardware scrolling. No writing to the screen ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... />
    But yes, it's hardware scrolling. No writing to the screen ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... />
    But yes, it's hardware scrolling. No writing to the screen ...
    piters piters July 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... 'd expect, anyhoo. Not exactly "hardware scrolling", but more "image displacement"?
    icabod icabod July 2006 Emulators
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... image displacements gives a nice scrolling effect though, and it ain ... ) being done in software. So hardware scrolling sounds much better :)

    Woody Woody July 2006 Emulators
  • Games club wc 15/07/06Sorry its late folks - voting will still end staurday..

    ... at the bottom? And character-block scrolling in a two-colour display ...
    Zagreb Zagreb July 2006 Games
  • The best ever side scroller on the Speccy.We've seen a lot of threads on this so why not a poll! :) Zynaps by far is the best imo! It's got the colours, the quality and polish, the smooth sc…

    ... the C64's best hardware tricks of scrolling and sprites that it ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Games
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... benefit from the C64's hardware scrolling and sprites) usually (always, from ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... benefit from the C64's hardware scrolling and sprites) usually (always, from ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... benefit from the C64's hardware scrolling and sprites) usually (always, from ... the instruction set directly in hardware.
    The ZWorld Rabbit Z80 ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... could claim that all the scrolling shooters for the Spectrum that ... , what possible use are hardware sprites and scrolling when you can do ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... in Basic if you have hardware sprites. You don't ... for all machines with sprite hardware.[/QUOTE]

    ...
    On the whole, whilst hardware sprites are a nice feature ... graphics accelleration features in hardware, scrolling and blitting seem far ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... /> [quote]On the whole, whilst hardware sprites are a nice feature ... 'd personally rather have a hardware blitter than sprites. It's ... implement graphics accelleration features in hardware, scrolling and blitting seem far more ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... 'd personally rather have a hardware blitter than sprites. It's ... that certainly had blitting and scrolling but not sprites. Anyway, they ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... memory. That probably rules out scrolling shooters unless you somehow fix ... mode...I wonder how many scrolling shooters it had at that ... forgotten that the CPC had hardware scrolling as well.
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... forgotten that the CPC had hardware scrolling as well.[/QUOTE]


    The hardware scroll is less an advantage ... since the c64 also has hardware sprites that are not affected ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... , but real ones driven by hardware with a small buffer and ... port but again driven by hardware with a small buffer. Polled ... would have looked at hardware scrolling for sure, maybe hardware sprites (since the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... 'd have looked first at hardware scrolling and sprites. Next on the ...
    AndyC AndyC October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... spell it out.
    Hardware drivers were a lot more ... port but again driven by hardware with a small buffer. Polled ... would have looked at hardware scrolling for sure, maybe hardware sprites (since the ... flexible, can be used for scrolling and once a blit is ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... easy to do.

    Hardware scrolling I may have added as ... the z80 which spells more hardware and more $. It's something ... afterward despite coasting on old hardware. I think a real upgrade ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    [QUOTE=Alcoholics Anonymous]Hardware scrolling I may have added as ... on what you mean by hardware scrolling but a blitter can also ... the z80 which spells more hardware and more $. It's ... afterward despite coasting on old hardware. I think a real upgrade ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Is the new "Retro Gamer" any good?The only place that would carry it (a Barnes & Noble built on the site of an abandoned golf course) no longer did after Live Publishing folded. I hea…

    ... later shelved for the horizontally scrolling game we all love today ... game called Mayday using Defender hardware.

    Bugs in the ...
    Gilby Gilby October 2006 Chit chat
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... on what you mean by hardware scrolling but a blitter can also ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Print routine for BASIC (or BASin)For anyone interested there's a crappy binary here to print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import the binary at 60000, USR 60000 to initia…

    ... than there is in just scrolling the existing screen contents by ... /c routine that scrolls a character line line by one pixel ... , and just printing the new character every 8 frames.
    gasman gasman October 2006 Sinclair Basic
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