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  • Help! Need to prove the Speccy's worthA friend of mine who used to own a C64 (well, alright, not a friend, an aquaintance ;) ) was saying how good Dropzone was, and how it proves that the…

    ... of processing power, rather than hardware scrolling). Then when he's down ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers April 2007 Games
  • What WAS going to be bundled with Bandersnatch?Just saw a documentary about the death of Imagine ( [url]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1012096952890708986[/url] ) and apparently they wer…

    ... and 3D acceleration

    + hardware scrolling

    + masking?

    NickH NickH May 2007 Games
  • A question for Dunny (re: Spin)After reading post 25 in the thread: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15503[/URL] I downloaded the RZX file, to see ho…

    ... , but aside from the character-wide scrolling colourful backgrounds and the main ... character, there's not a lot ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2007 Emulators
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... changing the location of the character set. On returning to ... message across the screen (the scrolling will be accomplished using memop ... the display address right one character. Then we store the ... 8 vertical pixels in a character.

    After exiting ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... a simple 32 column character scroller in C as ... . With another non-space character added to the end the ... scrolls up to that character and stops as it ... " ...............This is a very simple scrolling message in c by Mulder ...
    mulder mulder June 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... a simple 32 column character scroller in C as ... . With another non-space character added to the end the ... scrolls up to that character and stops as it ... " ...............This is a very simple scrolling message in c by Mulder ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... ...............This is a very simple scrolling message in c by Mulder ... by declaring it as a character array:

    ... ...............This is a very simple scrolling message in c by Mulder ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... = "Smooth 1 pixel continual scrolling message printed double-width but ... br /> ///////////////////// Install Next Character //////////////////////////
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    ...
    wokani wokani July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... /> I have noticed that the scrolling message works a lot better ... is a hickup in the scrolling message but very steady as ... blit() functions when a new character is installed. This way the ... installing the new double-width character-half.

    Any other ...
    wokani wokani July 2007 Development
  • External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…

    ... the languages use the same character set. Russian uses cyrillic, so ... problem won't be the hardware, it'll be the TCP ... . So, if I get the hardware working, I may call for ... course with offers of free hardware!)
    Winston Winston July 2007 Hardware
  • non-speccy super-gemsdo you prefer any non-speccy game to anything on speccy? (i've to admit, i do the both Shuttles [url]http://www.mirumu.com/jordan/?page_id=5[/url] )

    ... (Saturn)? One of the best scrolling beat em' ups ever made ... . You can play as any character you unlock through the entire ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2007 Chit chat
  • Why did Gargoyle Games go downhill?Why plan to do a trilogy? Marsport, Fornax then Gath but then get no further than the first installment and instead bring out stuff like Scooby Doo, …

    ... that point, pretty much all scrolling shooters on the Spectrum had ... to mostly fill out exact character squares, which is why there ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2007 Games
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... coordinates given. p_GetPlotScreenCoord() returns the character coordinate on screen where the ... the map for text and scrolling messages. I tentatively decided to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2007 Development
  • Sprite Tutorial: Section on Masked Sprites addedLatest installment of my Sprite Graphics Tutorial: [url="http://members.aol.com/derekmsmith1/Spectrum/TUTORIAL.RTF"]http://members.aol.com/derekmsmi…

    ... 's for each 2 character rows of scrolling and the tiles are ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... game! I like the CHARS scrolling method.

    Also adding ... in saving yet one more character position.

    Of course ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... characters and represents each character by a 24-byte ... d_ScrollStart() is called to start scrolling the message and d_ScrollStop() ... address "g_textBuffer". The current character within that string being ... g_scrollPos" to the first character in the message to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Point-and-Click AdventuresI was just rooting around some of my old ZX tapes and I stumbled upon (more like "picked up") a couple of "point-and-click" style adventures. That's …

    ... most actions are selected by scrolling through icons - which gets rather ... , though: I found the fractured character set uncomfortable to read; there ... probably speeds up as your character's strength improves.

    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2007 Games
  • What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…

    ... appear. Dedicated chips to do hardware scrolling and move areas of memory ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2007 Hardware
  • What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…

    ... , with the right support hardware thrown in (sprites, hardware scrolling, DMA...) anything's ...
    gasman gasman November 2007 Hardware
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... author. Both crash on every hardware config I have tried. (I ... wonder if they need some hardware specific to HAM radio). Possibly ... fonts (but not normal 8x8 character sets). I can't find ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Games
  • Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…

    ... all contain parts that feature scrolling messages in the border.
    character width (=8 pixels) is painted ... change the colour on a character boundary (unlike the Pentagon, ... can change border colour mid-character). All of this means ...
    gasman gasman November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…

    ... ://obo.homeip.net/fred65_menu1.png"]scrolling message[/url].

    Even ... , a quirk in the display hardware can be used to create ... initials[/url] below the border scrolling message.

    Si
    obo obo November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…

    ... meant that the C64's hardware sprites weren't a perfectly ... the background so that the character can pass behind scenery. But ...
    gasman gasman November 2007 Games
  • splib2 from ROMI'm trying to generate IF2 ROM games for ZX Spectrum 16K using z88dk + splib2. So far I've managed to create a new crt0 file and to generate valid RO…

    ... selected by
    ; the Timex hardware.
    ;
    ; enter: a = border ... background graphic and sprite character in each character on the screen.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2007 Development
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... hardware differences. Games that need [b]smooth[/b] full-screen background scrolling ...
    TVzombie TVzombie December 2007 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... ), plus the C64's forte, scrolling shooters, never appealed to me ... nonsense. Yes, it had better hardware for many gametypes. Yes it ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2007 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... certainly wins), the best horizontally scrolling shmup etc etc.. There's ... and nothing to do with hardware limitations, from which the only ...
    Fizza Fizza January 2008 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... do as far as vertical scrolling games went...

    [QUOTE ... i don't really "get" hardware design... =-)

    [QUOTE=TVzombie ...
    TMR TMR January 2008 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... do as far as vertical scrolling games went...[/QUOTE]
    It ... 's good for v-scrolling (even not so good on ... thought, considering we have no hardware sprites), and actually worse for ... i don't really "get" hardware design... =-)[/QUOTE]
    Having ...
    TVzombie TVzombie January 2008 Games
  • Name this 1986 budget game!Name this game! (My first thread of this kind, by the way!) :smile: This was a budget game, released in 1986 or a little earlier. It was some kind …

    ... large colourful full scrolling area, you play a character with a large ...
    ghbearman ghbearman January 2008 Games
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