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1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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The main character runs or, better, limps through ... fact one of the main sprites looks like Sabreman after bein ... -
Project: ZX OpusHello my friends, I have been in need of a push lately so I thought if I post some of the work for this project here you guys (and gals) can help me …
... character oriented, that would have had overlapping windows with clipped sprites ... file address inside a character square, increasing SSS ... "asm_zx_cyx2aaddr.asm" means "character Y,X to attribute address ... "asm_zx_cyx2saddr.asm" means "character Y,X to screen ... -
2x difficult name the game with illustrations ;-)Hi, I know you guys are really good at this so here are two games that I vaguely remember, but couldn't google out.. (1) Sideways Racing game I…
... the car and most other sprites were black. Yes, the graphics ... recall whether movement of the sprites was confined to muliples of ... (which might point to using character routines for display). While I ... -
Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…
... . If it's a single character object you can re-draw ... . 2x2, or moving in sub-character steps, then the best you ... actually do that with their sprites (although they can do it ... -
Jump AlgorithmAfternoon all, trying my hand at a liitle basic coding ( it's a quiet work day :) ) and wondered if anyone has coded a platformer type jumping routin…
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A videoaventure in 16K - Cartridge for IF2Hello all, After an intermitent work I am near of reléase my new game: a videoaventure (exploration game) in 16K ROM carttridge. Your objetive is…
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The movement is character to character, there is no other option ... 16K or space for preshifted sprites, sorry. But movement is very ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... such tend to hide the sprites and the bullets. Nonetheless, overall ... fire and speed up your character. Cherry on top, even the ... -
New game - GenBlast!Nothing to get too excited about, I wanted to see what [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001970"]Games Designer[/url] could do …
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2 scrolling linesHow would you draw, delete and scroll a 2 line landscape? [img]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/scramblines_zpsw0r2joew.png…
... trick would be redrawing your sprites before the raster passes again ... moved over, such that drawing sprites with transparent PAPER makes them ... the dominant colour in each character square. -
2 scrolling linesHow would you draw, delete and scroll a 2 line landscape? [img]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/scramblines_zpsw0r2joew.png…
... sprites would be right out, without some sort of intelligent character-by-character ... sprites are to bunch up.
You could revert to character ... -placed sprites with no masking, except perhaps ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... is a bland, featureless sprites and the backdrops are mostly ... time where the player character must collect puzzle pieces ... b] - As the eponymous character, you need to assemble a ... particularly noticeable are the player character sprite and the big, deadly ... -
ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... where they do have hardware sprites. My personal experiences with ... go back to software sprites; software sprites are much more ... big sprites out of small ones, and put character squares ... of the background into the sprite layer so some sprites ... -
ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... things happening clipped to whole character squares.
[quote ... important retro systems with hardware sprites (if you wanna try ... yourself to doing just sprites when a flexible blitter ...
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1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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Beautifully coloured graphics, the sprites too, and pratically without colour ... lower the shield makes you character look grotesque or one of ... -
Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …
... you can just look at character coordinates or tile attributes.< ... width,height to know what character squares the sprite is ... also:
The examples in sprites/software/sp1 dont seem to ... /z88dk/z88dk/tree/master/libsrc/sprites/software/sp1/spectrum
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z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…
... record of background tiles and sprites in its own data ... rectangle you're using for sprites:
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Then sprites will not draw into the ... update struct that describes a character cell). Removed characters will ... -
How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…
Thinking further, I guess many games print out their text in the same manner as sprites, rather than the machine code equivalent of 'print at 10,10;"morph".' Is that right? What would be the advantage of this, other than breaking out of character spacing? -
How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…
... in the same manner as sprites, rather than the machine code ... , other than breaking out of character spacing?[/quote]
If ... the scale of what generic sprites typically need. Regular 8x8 print ... -
I am soo glad I owned a SpeccyJust passing the time here, and decided (after seeing some CPC screenshots of Shadow Of The Beast in a YS scan) to compare a few CPC games with their…
No sprites and only "character" based scrolling (i.e. 8 ... full hardware scrolling support, hardware sprites and automatic screen splitting, but ... -
Good engine, boring levelsWhich games suffer from this ? Shadow of the beast is example no.1 Most Amiga platformers.
... space with none of the character of the original rooms.[/quote ... , if you notice the enemy sprites in JSWII are only 1 ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... elements, but the way your character moves and jumps, the way ... the backgrounds and of the sprites are the same - although luckily ... -
Just watched Paul Jenkinsons's spectrum chanel and now want to write code againPlease assume for the purpose of this thread I know nothing... I want to look to write games on the spectrum but want to develop and test on my wi…
... plug-in libraries for handling sprites.
Actually programming BASIC ... , but it comes with a character-graphics editor that produces a ... -
Gandalf - A ZX Spectrum platformer that looks rather nice indeed![img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BuVmuvmRXfg/WYhRw0z0lMI/AAAAAAAAisA/LFKD4SipiSkm3x0FsCNjJCRsCnHgE6W6gCLcBGAs/s640/GandalfZX.jpg[/img] [quote]As ma…
... 's four more bytes per character, so half as much memory ... number of scenic blocks or sprites that have already been queued ... a small number of sprites. And if the sprites can move in ... -
SQIJ - the worst Spectrum game gets a new version.Well, I wasn't going to say anything until it was finished, but a remake of SQIJ was suggested (for fun) today over at the Next forums, so I had to m…
[quote="Sokurah;55110"]If someone wants to give a hand with the sprites and those tiles that aren't blue[/quote]
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SQIJ - the worst Spectrum game gets a new version.Well, I wasn't going to say anything until it was finished, but a remake of SQIJ was suggested (for fun) today over at the Next forums, so I had to m…
... a hand with the sprites and those tiles that ... mean enemies, goodies and main character, or what?[/quote]
... to just do the main character, but he hasn't ... so I just meant enemy sprites & pickups ... but if ... ]and [/i]the main character, than I'd happily ... -
How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…
... any way of finding the character sets other than the old ... % probability, then you hit a character set. As long as the ... enables you to quickly import sprites and fonts snatched from google ... 'll be able to snatch sprites like this by simple drag ... -
Loadsa bullets on screen (silkworm)Did games like silkworm just draw everything to the screen or did they have complicated optimisations? and the types of games where sprites can occu…
... [/i], where sprites are drawn character-by-character, so then a character can be ... skipped if a sprite character or scenery character is already there. Alternatively ... all the sprites are drawn, but again whole character cells can be ... -
GameHammer Classic Gaming ReviewsHey everyone, I've been pushing out a lot more game reviews lately so I thought I'd mention my channel here 'cause some of you may like it. The Sp…
... better than the jerky, tiny-character version that it got for ... of redefined characters instead of sprites isn't helping that. -
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... arrow graphic under the player character.
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Isometric enginesWhilst taking a breather from Chess development I've been playing around with a little isometric 'room' building idea. Just wondering what sort of…
... can pass behind are other sprites. That makes it a lot ... a rectangle aligned to whole character squares of the screen. It ... to worry about clipping your sprites. Then you copy the inner ...
