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Interview with skeleton #2 from Curse Of SherwoodGood evening and welcome to my interview with an unsung hero, or should I say, villain from the ZX Spectrum scene. Speccy owners on a pocket money bu…
... skeletal colleagues on the next screen?
Skeleton #2: [ ... those pretty birds in the screen below. We were stuck to ... gallivanted about the forest, from screen to screen. No, we didn't ... ]
What were the low points?
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Manic Miner loading screen adjustmentHad half an hour spare earlier and wanted to try a few things. Always like to learn anyways even now. [URL="http://www.yellowspider.co.uk/speccy/Man…
... .tap"]Manic Miner New Loading Screen$[/URL] , .tap file so right ... the top third of the screen.
The most annoying ... to fix it in the screen$. -
Why don't some games take advantage of the full screen?Putting the game play into a smaller box does it improve the speed of the game? I noticed a lot of games especially arcade conversions that a lot of…
... that a lot of the screen was used as the scoreboard ... used a third of the screen as the actual gamescreen. But ... of nearly all of the screen and the speed seemed to ... -
PENTAGRAM loading screenHello again, here is my attempt at an alternative loading screen for Pentagram. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/PENTAGRAM%201.bm…
Developing "Push n Chase" into a good gameI was wondering if anyone would like to help developing my CGD "Push n Chase" into a good game. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZ5XYbterc[/u…
... are crates scattered around the screen, if you go over them ... kill you). object of each screen is to kill all the ... are supposed to dig to clear the path leading to the ... supposed to push blocks to clear the way (you can however ...Pentac does not have loading screenThis game: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003655[/url] does not use loading screen, the one now in the entry is just the sc…
This game:
[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0003655[/url]
does not use loading screen, the one now in the entry is just the screen after the game has loaded.Shadow Warriors loading screenThe original screen was OK, but I tried something different here, by converting the artwork from Ninja Gaiden: [IMG]http://110.imagebam.com/download…
The original screen was OK, but I tried ... /> I like this sort of screen with no text or labels ...Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
... ,31. Using the ZX Spectrum screen resolution, bytes 256 to 263 ... POKE program to show the screen organization in the Spectrum...
low byte:
[code];HL ... the routine to calculate the screen address from the X,Y ...Sinclair's Cancelled ProjectsDoes anybody have anymore info on any of these projects or are there any old Sinclair engineers on the Spectrum scene that could shed a little more l…
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LC3
Standing for "Low Cost Colour Computer", the LC3 ... computer with an integral flat-screen CRT display. Initially to be ... were necessary to magnify the screen image to a usable size ...Buffer to screen - how much?[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am starting to build a new game and am researching different ways to accomplish what I need to do. My question is, is it poss…
... top two sections of the screen without the refresh causing tearing ...'Ocean Draw' instructionsHere are the instructions for the screen and sprite editor used in-house at Ocean Software, possibly typed up by Joffa Smifff (as the 2 of the sprite…
... INSTRUCTIONS
MDRAW (SCREEN) OPTIONS
ENTER -SET (P ... PAPER COLOUR
CPS R -CLEAR SCREEN MENU
EDIT -SPRITE / ... /> H -ATTR MODE
AS SCREEN MODE
2 -STORE SPRITE FROM SCREEN AT
CURSER POSITION
Arcade conversions, automatically convertedHi! My first post, be gentle with me :smile: I was creating for a hobby project of mine (a completely non-speccy-related, unfortunately) a postproce…
... in real-time converts any screen to a zx spectrum-like ... way too slow on my low-end graphics card...
Boomshine in SpecBASHere's a little game called "Boomshine": [url]http://www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine/[/url] It's a really nice, relaxing puzzle game about exploding b…
AGENT X loading screenHello again, Agent X was another loading screen I always thought could do with an alternative version! [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61…
... /> Agent X was another loading screen I always thought could do ...Windows touch screen keyboardAnyone know how to use the touch screen keyboard on any spectrum emulators in windows pc.
Anyone know how to use the touch screen keyboard on any spectrum emulators in windows pc.48K Not booting properlyBought another faulty spectrum from Ebay. This one, when you turn it on, it looks like it's going to boot OK, but when it gets to the point where it…
... the middle of the screen and a low constant beep from the ...Werewolves of LondonBeen looking at Werewolves Of London across the Speccy, CPC and C64 for ChinnyVision at [URL="www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYLIsfqabk"]www.youtube.com/wa…
... has such a low number of sprites on the screen? Is it ... have 4 sprites on the screen at once.Strange keyboard port reads on 48+Hi all, I don't know whether it was already discussed (I also searched forum, but there are too much of results searching "48k keyboard" so I didn't…
... is then printed to the screen by basic program and test ... : BORDER 0: CLS
20 CLEAR 32767
30 LOAD ""CODE ...Cybernoid loading screenHere is a new loading screen for Hewson's Cybernoid, done by [B]PheeL[/B]: [IMG]http://hype.retroscene.org/uploads/images/00/00/03/2015/01/20/722e11…
Here is a new loading screen for Hewson's Cybernoid, done ...Best Side Screen/Screen-Surrounds?I've been researching side-art/screen-surrounds for my own game, so at the risk of asking a question that has probably been asked in the last 20-odd …
... 've been researching side-art/screen-surrounds for my own game ... for the part of the screen that holds the score, lives ... side/top/bottom of the screen. I quite like Turbo Girl ...GameBaddie's Art project...Hi Guys, I've recently revived my old 48k for a (just-for-fun) art project. I have about 4 weeks of spare time to accomplish my goal, and the plan i…
... due to the speccy's low resolution.
Also, I don ... way to extend the usable screen-space into the border, using ...CamcordersLooking for a bit of advice here folks. I'm after a new camcorder but despite some serious looking almost everything I find has some serious flaw wh…
... with so it needs good low light performance, decent sound, good ... they have put the monitor screen on the side.
SpecBAS 0.830 Released!Hi guys - A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. The full changelog is below, but for now here's the download: [url]https://sites.goo…
... it in tight loops!
CLEAR [array()[,value/value$]] will ... COPY to override behaviour
SCREEN$ - as from Sinclair BASIC, ... recall
SPRITE COLLIDE CLEAR now takes an optional sprite ... ID to only clear the collision flag of ...New[ish] loading screen for Dan DareI spent a little bit of time at [URL="http://zxart.ee/eng/mainpage/"]zxart.ee[/URL] over the weekend, and found a really interesting Dan Dare [URL="h…
... /ian-mathias/dan-dare/"]loading screen credited to Ian Mathias and ... ://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/d/gif/DanDare ... LOAD[/URL] TZX with that screen:
[youtube]e0-t ...Fantasy World Dizzy Speedrun (17m21s)Sorry for the potato quality of the video below, but I hereby claim a record time of 17 minutes and 21 seconds for completing Fantasy World Dizzy. […
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As far as screen recording goes, I've tried ... had a look at Total Screen Recorder (which is old and ... the fps is a bit low, but it's the only ...Cauldron II Perfect game - Spell bookSo I've been trying to get a "perfect" run of Cauldron 2 and it seems that you need to sacrifice one life in order to get the Spell book. I've tried …
... up and fall down a screen below, after dying, your position ... 's no tight corners nor low ceilings to get that shift ...Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…
... claimed to be scrolling the screen.
Obviously vertically its ... Apple II, and despite being low res an using Chars it ...SpecBAS Screen wipeAn old effect, but a good one - you'll need this file: [url]https://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/moon.png[/url] to run this program. [code] 10 REM…
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[code]
10 REM Screen Wipe
20 GRAPHIC NEW ...
