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NEW GAME - Farmer Jack - Treasure TroveEvening all, Jack is back! Download his latest adventure, Treasure Trove, from my site at the link below. This time it's loosely based on Pac-Man,…
... , but colour with normal sized sprites is the most amazing thing ... -res games which work on character-blocks to spend too much ... -
what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... accuracy of collision detection? are sprites better for this sort of ... thing?[/QUOTE]
Sprites, at least on the C64 ... scrolling is only to the character level.
The ... to the lack of hardware sprites. Without the fixed sizes they ... -
what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
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Interlaced sprites probably. They showed half of ... how to double number of sprites.
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Skool Daze disassemblyWhile developing [url="http://pyskool.wordpress.com/"]Pyskool[/url], I've also been putting together a disassembly of Skool Daze and Back to Skool, m…
... Skool, the skool was 192 character squares wide, and there were ... graphic data for sprites facing right separately from sprites facing left. ... left, the left-facing sprites are simply flipped in memory ... to obtain the right-facing sprites. The second trick was to ... -
Skool Daze disassemblyWhile developing [url="http://pyskool.wordpress.com/"]Pyskool[/url], I've also been putting together a disassembly of Skool Daze and Back to Skool, m…
... had a look at the sprites used in Back to Skool ... calculate the masks. For most sprites you could do a reasonable ... uses one bit for each character square on-screen that needs ... -
Skool Daze disassemblyWhile developing [url="http://pyskool.wordpress.com/"]Pyskool[/url], I've also been putting together a disassembly of Skool Daze and Back to Skool, m…
... uses one bit for each character square on-screen that needs ... a way to fit my sprites and tiles into page 2 ... -
Playstation vs. N64 vs. SaturnIn another thread ( [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20482&highlight=xbox+360[/URL] ) we discussed the virtues and quali…
... (The generic Ax Battler type character) fire tornado do and always ... was cut. Utter Bollocks, the sprites colours may have been a ... -
artist neededany volunteer here on WOS ?
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artist neededany volunteer here on WOS ?
... not restricting if you do character scrolling rather than pixel scrolling ... surface, fourteen 16x16 masked sprites and sixteen 4x4 sprites (bullets). it runs ... -
BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... . My window selection routine was character-based, but it allowed me ... to have one screen with sprites, sketches, and a second one ... .GIF to a sequnce of Sprites or UDGs (since your UDG ... -
BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... . My window selection routine was character-based, but it allowed me ... to have one screen with sprites, sketches, and a second one ... .GIF to a sequnce of Sprites or UDGs (since your UDG ... -
Questions about possible pseudo-3D gamingSince the Spectrum is too slow for solid-3D gaming and 100% wire-3D doesn't always look good, shouldn't there be a way to do something that at le…
... a very long tunnel. The character would only rotate (to switch ... require interaction would be regular sprites, but part of the map ... -
Questions about possible pseudo-3D gamingSince the Spectrum is too slow for solid-3D gaming and 100% wire-3D doesn't always look good, shouldn't there be a way to do something that at le…
... of detail) and allow the character to move in all 8 ... pseudo FPS using just scaling sprites, like you'd have to ... -
Why were most spectrum games on Monochrome?OK, I know about the whole "Attribute clash" that you get on the spectrum. And I've spoken to someone who claims to have been an Ocean programmer, wh…
... limited to two colours per character square (or attribute) which ... by restricting movement to exact character squares; they're more ... and many single-coloured sprites. The sprites can't interfere with ... amount of clash between the sprites. Still, that's nowhere ... -
Why were most spectrum games on Monochrome?OK, I know about the whole "Attribute clash" that you get on the spectrum. And I've spoken to someone who claims to have been an Ocean programmer, wh…
... 't notice the character square movement of the sprites; the ship has ... -
Why were most spectrum games on Monochrome?OK, I know about the whole "Attribute clash" that you get on the spectrum. And I've spoken to someone who claims to have been an Ocean programmer, wh…
... 't notice the character square movement of the sprites; the ship has ... -
Your views on...Saboteur![url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004293]Saboteur![/url] Now this was a good game. Mind you, only played it a few times, but en…
... the sprites. The graphics were well drawn too, (although the main character ... -
New game: Nanako Descends to HellJust a bit over two weeks after their first game, The Mojon Twins strikes again with a new game for Spectrum 128k and Amstrad CPC: [url]http://www.m…
... stop shifting things around a character block at a time. I ... MarsPort has pixel movement, not character movement (and masked sprites), for example. -
Nice Graphics seduce innocent reviewerWas downloading a few more games to have a whirl on today and came across LIGHTFORCE. Remember this getting smashed by Crash and getting pretty much …
... was awful. Jerky scrolling and character moving sprites.
EVERYTHING I ... blocky jerky colours? The character moving sprites that people do in BASIC ... -
Nice Graphics seduce innocent reviewerWas downloading a few more games to have a whirl on today and came across LIGHTFORCE. Remember this getting smashed by Crash and getting pretty much …
... blocky jerky colours? The character moving sprites that people do in BASIC ... -
Nice Graphics seduce innocent reviewerWas downloading a few more games to have a whirl on today and came across LIGHTFORCE. Remember this getting smashed by Crash and getting pretty much …
... pixel-scrolling backgrounds which the sprites actually pass over. Most shooters ... have coloured paper on the sprites, too. But they looked ... Type had everything moving in character squares but was still playable ... inks to make the sprites stand out more. -
Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
... redraw the entire screen from character blocks. And given that it ... redraw the background, copy the sprites onto it, then copy the ... -
Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
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Brand new River Raid remake?one of my friend is trying to make a riverraid remake on flash just to have fun, I checked zx spectrum port of river raid. it is bad, really bad, jer…
... draw a fixed number of sprites each cycle even if they ... enough time to draw enough sprites to make a game worth ... from having a few ordinary character rows at the bottom of ... -
River Raid Tech DemoJust a little something to look at. Enjoy. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_River_Raid_Tech_Demo_01.tap"]Joefish_River_Raid_Tech_Demo_…
... isn't quite the 16-character wide strip some demos achieve ... much harder to draw detailed sprites, as the pixels have to ... -
Tips on optimizing some newbie assembly routinesI'm starting to learn some assembly language. The best way to learn is to actually code something you are going to use, so I'm creating a very simple…
... set of routines to draw character-based "sprites" (with transparency and clipping ... -
Great leaps forward... Timeline thoughtsHi guys What would you say were the great leaps forward in the life of the speccie. I was only in the scene for a few years (from 82-85) but in tha…
... technically amazing. All those colourful sprites, continuous music, and so many ... happening on screen, such convincing character A.I., and such freedom ... -
alien breed controlsi'm making a game that's like alien breed, birds eye view, 2d. so what do you reckon the best controls would be these days? tank controls (rotate …
... (at least with sprites) is animating the character so it looks like ... is lock the direction the character's facing whilst you hold ... -
alien breed controlsi'm making a game that's like alien breed, birds eye view, 2d. so what do you reckon the best controls would be these days? tank controls (rotate …
... (at least with sprites) is animating the character so it looks like ... is lock the direction the character's facing whilst you hold ... an effect on where the character is facing, you'd just ... -
Renegade or Target Renegade?It's been a while since I posted a thread on WOS, so I thought I'd have a go at a poll. I've deliberately not included Renegade III, and I'm sure we …
... the game - changing all the sprites and story to a more ... the game took the original character and put him in a ...
