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Go to, gosub or something different?I'm going to write an arcade game in basic. May compile it. In both basic and compiled basic would a goto or gosub be faster? Also if I stored …
... at is things like player movement and fire routines as well ... as enemy movement and collision detection.
In game sound effectsStarting on my game and I have the player movement down well. I want to create a sound when fire is detected. What are my options which wont pause…
Starting on my game and I have the player movement down well.
I want to create a sound when fire is detected. What are my options which wont pause the game?Basin made me sad...Player movement sorted, firining sorted and a single alien to shoot at... Basin has a wobble and takes half my code with in. Would not have minded…
Player movement sorted, firining sorted and a single alien to shoot at...
Basin has a wobble and takes half my code with in. Would not have minded but I did save...
Time to look at something else I suspect...Strange Fault on 128 +2 GreyHi I've got 2 128 +2 Grey Spectrums and I thought they were both in good working order but it seems not but I have no idea what is wrong with one …
... red blocks (rather than the diagonal striped ones) and then the ...Cattivik never dies: stage 1Hi all I am publishing the first stage of my new game based on the cartoon character Cattivik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jizYS01hBik&feature=…
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Keys QAOP (movement) M(jump) 1 (vomit...must ...Bomb Jack issueSo i came here to get my all time favourite... Bomb Jack I got the emulator, i got the file, the game loads fine but and when i try to do that sup…
... uppper left) It seems the diagonal right to left in the ...Other than using attributes what other ways to detect collisions, when using char based movement?So I'm slowly working out the bits and pieces to write a game completely in assembly. I've been using attributes when writing in BASIC to detect whet…
So I'm slowly working out the bits and pieces to write a game completely in assembly. I've been using attributes when writing in BASIC to detect whether and object hits another because this seems like an efficient way of doing it. I only have to check ...ZEsarUX 6.0 stableHi! ZEsarUX 6.0 stable is out! This is a major version, it includes some new machines and a lot of new features and bug fixes :) You can downlo…
... , CPC, Prism, Sam
*menu movement with mouse
*colours are ...ATARI 2600 PORTSThere's a few Atrai 2600 games I've loved and would like to see ported to Speccy - anyone fancy? I know 'Yars Revenge' got a great reboot... The gu…
... way the bullets follow your movement so you can 'steer' them ...Jet Pac 48K (128K?)Jet Pac is a classic, we all know that. But it's a 16K game, so there's plenty of room for more! It could be modified to add new levels: aliens wi…
... new levels: aliens with different movement patterns, maybe with graphics ripped ...Trying to repair my old 48kAbout 30 years ago I had a spectrum 48k, it had some troubles in the end, it was very unstable when it was cold, so I had to warm it up an hour befor…
... , but its VERY sensitive to movement, if I tap the keybaord ...1st steps in animation Having finally resurrected my familiar old graphics programs, chief amongst which is DPaint Animation, I was a little taken aback to reali…
... per move. In real life movement isnt timed, it varies and ...Where's Mr Clowder when I need him?What happened to F-Clowder? I hope he's alright and hasn't had some setback keeping him away from here? He got me wound up to do graphics for a game…
... one side then on the diagonal then head on and around ...Short unattended type-in'sThis follows a similar topic on the BBC/Acorn forum (said topic can be found [url="https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14919"]here[/url…
... try to go to the diagonal 'random but not random' pattern ...New Game: PROSPECTORHello Spectrum game fans, It's been a while, but I've got a new AGDx game uploaded. It's called PROSPECTOR, and it's an action platformer with sho…
... a version without sound for movement, as I'm still not ...Please guide me with this decision!Hello, I have decided I would like to try and create some simple ZX Spectrum games of my own. The problem is that machine code is totally and utter…
... but its not arcade fast movement. it's kind of turn ...Printing text using direct screen addressingHaving some problems printing using the FASE engine which is currently defeating me. Hoping to have someone clear out the bit of fog currently dwell…
... page flipping to accomplish sprite movement.
According to the ...The Malignant GoreOmicron Shadow Facility X... Total biological containment breach... Remote security turrets activated... The outbreak happened so fast there was…
Drawing LinesHas anyone got any experience of coding a Bresenham line drawing algorithm on the Speccy? I've had a go and I find the algorithm has quite a few s…
... like to get those shallow diagonal lines going as fast as ...Shrinking Fireman vs Magic KnightI want to start this topic by saying I'm [b]not[/b] in any way suggesting this is some kind of erm [url="https://faqwiki.zxnet.co.uk/wiki/Harry_S_Pri…
... may be me but the movement of the fireman I first ...Roller Coaster vs TarantulaIn partial reference to this actually > https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/56920/shrinking-fireman-vs-magic-knight/ Now take a look…
... , its scrolly message / charset and movement/sounds
http://www ... scrolls on, as well as movement sounds and control keys. Also ... ' pressing M to speed up movement, the jump and left/right ...Madam Blavskja's Carnival Macabre 48KEighteen years ago to the day, Adban de Corcy (in real life: Fabián Álvarez López) released a beautiful Jet Set Willy game called “Madam Blavskja’s C…
... JSW48 game engine, such as diagonal guardians.
I undertook ...Return Of The Improvers: GALACTIC TROOPERAlert readers will be aware that myself and the super-talented Pgyuri are always on the lookout for historical Speccy wrongs to fix, from the unplaya…
... gameplay by tweaking the bizarro movement into something a lot faster ...Looking for a utility (keyboard and joystick tester)Hello everybody! I'm looking for a utility program of the Spectrum (hope this is the correct place to post it!). It showed the keyboard on screen,…
... receiving anything (key presses, joystick movement, ...) so if you have any ...New release of ZEsarUXFound today by chance on: [url]https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux/releases/tag/10.1-13122021[/url] [quote]ZEsarUX-10.1 Beta1 Pre-release che…
... action to trigger left-right movement on joystick, to play Decathlon ...pixel exact printingis there a way of doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the rom code or using a completely new routine? so that print at x,x works more like…
... like print " " does, for sprite movement
i also got ...Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…
... point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good ...Completed gamesMy housemate and I are currently working our way through Deus Ex at the moment and the thought struck us that today it is actually possible to comple…
... spot the pattern in their movement - they always expose themselves to ...PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …
... cursor key options for piece movement. I only found out about ...Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... into thinking it is watching movement on screen. Games like turrican ... personally hated most 8 pixel movement games and stayed clear of ...
