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  • PaperBoy remake?PaperBoy was an amazing game and still one of my top 10 classic games but the Speccy version was awful! Im interested to know how many people would b…

    ... co. had perfected coding techniques and little tricks for squeezing miracles out ... co. had perfected coding techniques and little tricks for squeezing miracles out ...
    Sokurah Sokurah April 2010 New game ideas
  • PaperBoy remake?PaperBoy was an amazing game and still one of my top 10 classic games but the Speccy version was awful! Im interested to know how many people would b…

    ... co. had perfected coding techniques and little tricks for squeezing miracles out ...
    andrew_rollings andrew_rollings April 2010 New game ideas
  • PaperBoy remake?PaperBoy was an amazing game and still one of my top 10 classic games but the Speccy version was awful! Im interested to know how many people would b…

    ... co. had perfected coding techniques and little tricks for squeezing miracles out ...
    psj3809 psj3809 April 2010 New game ideas
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... , etc... etc...

    Even tricks in evaluating a formula are ... to realise the power of coding this way. Mind you, it ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... /> Many Spectrum game loaders use tricks and complex methods to prevent ... =Arda;491333]Anyway, I'm coding my tool right now :)[/QUOTE ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ... by how many of these tricks I already use. It's ... that's without the additional coding that the sword would require ...
    Timmy Timmy December 2010 Development
  • Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…

    ... little ways - either new coding or graphics tricks (e.g. splATR) or ...
    Danforth Danforth January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... , I had imagined some nifty tricks were possible. Thanks for trying ... too wrapped up in C coding at the moment).

    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Student looks for material stuff to do with 80s gameplayHi everyone, Thanks to everyone for their help in advance by the way! I'll be posting this message or something like it on other retro gaming forums …

    ... , I wrote down e.g.: Tricks for "Journeys End" like how ... in vienna.

    Bedroom coding:
    If you know of ...
    LCD LCD July 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • List of existing games that needs a port to zx spectrumPlease post here the games that exist in other platform(s) but does not exist in speccy. Please keep in mind this is not a to-do list, so don't hesti…

    ... a result of rushed/poor coding? Could you ultilise/get more ... the existing hardware with better coding/new tricks or is it simply ...
    Rebelstar Rebelstar July 2011 New game ideas
  • List of existing games that needs a port to zx spectrumPlease post here the games that exist in other platform(s) but does not exist in speccy. Please keep in mind this is not a to-do list, so don't hesti…

    ... the existing hardware with better coding/new tricks or is it simply ...
    Fikee Fikee July 2011 New game ideas
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... before I posted in the tricks section. There were a couple ... I got them from others :-)) tricks in one place. I would ... rather than INKEY$ - faster
    * Coding conditions on LET statements
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... a 64 coder. We discussed coding. he said z80 sorted out ... mean they know all the tricks for speed gains for say ... .

    there are bugs / tricks that are exploited with all ...
    fog fog August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New game: BozxleHere is a new game called BOZXLE which has been written within a week. The screenshots are of the game running on a 48K. This runs also on the 128 …

    ... ZXodus engine, simply using clever tricks and a few extra tiles ... 16 extra tiles) and the coding changes shouldn't be too ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2011 Announcements
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... like to pass on the coding if someone else is available ... one person to complete the coding and sounds like the project ... easy to share code anyway - coding is an art form, and ... their own particular methods and tricks. It might work if the ...
    bobs bobs December 2011 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... easy to share code anyway - coding is an art form, and ... their own particular methods and tricks. It might work if the ... difficult but I'm sure coding alone is worse on a ...
    Rebelstar Rebelstar December 2011 Development
  • Burn The Lighter #1 disk/tape magazine - English version[img]http://speccy-live.untergrund.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Burn-The-Lighter-1-ENG-Splash.gif[/img][img]http://speccy-live.untergrund.net/wp-co…

    ... =Turrican;593795]Could some code tricks and tips be added on ... Russian Speccy diskmags, and the coding articles have probably been in ...
    Crash Nicker Crash Nicker January 2012 Brand new software
  • space optimisation algorithm neededScenario: * An adventure game consists of a series of locations, each of which may or may not have some text and/or graphics associated with it. * A…

    ... , you can use some simple tricks without understanding and implementing all ... /> In my games I'm coding these characters with single byte ...
    Ralf Ralf February 2012 Development
  • What if there was no memory or space limitation?What if there was no memory or space limitation? We've had topics about the limitations of the Speccy's hardware, topics where we discussed how good …

    ... I thought some of the coding might prove useful to others ... it contains a lot of tricks from the folks on WOS ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Game! Phantomas in the museumToday May 18th, 2012 we celebrate the [b]International Museum Day 2012[/b] ([url=http://icom.museum/press-releases/press-release/article/launch-of-in…

    ... appears to be the same coding(?) and techniques and therefore some ... to find loop holes and tricks with them to make all ...
    jammajup jammajup May 2012 Brand new software
  • How much memory on sprites, maps etc.I've been tinkering with shifting & pre-shifting sprites recently, but as I haven't had that much experience with Z80 assembly I sometimes find it ha…

    ... much with memory usage. Start coding and you'll see how ... with this approach + some more tricks a location usually took me ...
    Ralf Ralf September 2012 Development
  • Self modifying code ??I made a game in C that was mostly accessing arrays and using FOR NEXT loops, I ran out of memory, so I was thinking would it be possible to use sel…

    ... ;739023]You can't do tricks like that with modern CPUs ... (from a space perspective) unless coding for the
    u6c87 u6c87 December 2013 Development
  • Clearing 22 lines of the screenHow do I go about clearing the top 22 lines of the screen and leave the bottom #0 area untouched? I have a routine to reset the attributes, but cant…

    ... this Z80 coding it still shocks me on how many tricks and ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins January 2014 Development
  • Clearing 22 lines of the screenHow do I go about clearing the top 22 lines of the screen and leave the bottom #0 area untouched? I have a routine to reset the attributes, but cant…

    ... this Z80 coding it still shocks me on how many tricks and ...
    Hikaru Hikaru January 2014 Development
  • Spectrum Assembly Language Course (Honeyfold)Another MIA found. [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007969"]Spectrum Assembly Language Course[/URL] [URL="http://www.mediafi…

    ... , but as I'd been coding on the c64 already.. it ... :)

    specialist things like tricks or compression etc might be ...
    fog fog January 2014 MIA/STP/SDP
  • How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…

    ... know how all these clever tricks were done, and I learnt ... think for me coding was a lot like magic tricks, I wanted ... did do a lot of coding on the BBC Micro in ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay March 2014 Development
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... I'm not used to coding in pure assembly. Will check ... buffer, so this kind of "tricks" is out of the question ...
    na_th_an na_th_an December 2014 Development
  • Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…

    ... - I am still learning new tricks with Z80 code.
    Some ... of the rut and continued coding because I wanted to see ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins January 2015 Development
  • Hungarian notation for asm - Yes or No ?There is thing called hungarian notation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation Basically it is all about using prefixed indetifier to i…

    ... pointed back at you while coding. But you certainly also need ... the aid of all these tricks.

    For example, I ... 't have such issues with coding in Java for money.[/quote ... more on designs than on coding. And that means better quality ...
    Timmy Timmy July 2015 Development
  • Bubble Bobble remake!After playing Pietro Brothers and marvelling at the colors with the Nirvana+, I think the prime candidate to be remade to me Bubble Bobble. While ver…

    ... doors and the extra food tricks present in arcade and other ... 'm a bit of a coding noob and time poor guess ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 December 2016 New game ideas
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