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Great gaming moments...I was playing through King Kong on the PS2 yesterday, and there's a bit where you walk through this tunnel and the ground starts to quake... As you …
... first time a head crab jumps out at you from around ... -
Good Horror Films...Can anyone recommend any good horror films for me to watch? Just to give an idea of the kind o' thing I like - I like creepy apocalyptic horror such…
... forgot about "House", absolutely fantastic, jumps about a bit though, I ... -
Bipboi Adventure - Tech DemoHere is the first tech demo of my Bipboi game, still in progress (2 Years now :-? ) Anyway, have a download, let me know what you think. This wil…
The jumps feel better to me, :-)
... mean. It might make precise jumps a bit easier to setup ... -
Bipboi Adventure - Tech DemoHere is the first tech demo of my Bipboi game, still in progress (2 Years now :-? ) Anyway, have a download, let me know what you think. This wil…
... I like the pixel perfect jumps required with the short jumping ... -
Russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48kThe classic russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48k [URL="http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spectrum/Leningrad48k/Leningrad48k.htm"]http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spect…
... paging will work as usually (jumps to #3Dxx and to RAM ... -
Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... Pentagon128, the mouse pointer / cursor jumps around the screen uncontrollably. I ... -
Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... Pentagon128, the mouse pointer / cursor jumps around the screen uncontrollably. I ... -
Bipboi Adventure - Tech DemoHere is the first tech demo of my Bipboi game, still in progress (2 Years now :-? ) Anyway, have a download, let me know what you think. This wil…
Is it just me or does it seem like in v21 the character jumps a beat exactly one 8x8block, well, like it's 1 or 2 pixels off but exactly every one attribute or so?
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Wanted: "Complete Spectrum ROM Dissassembly"I'm on the prowl for the book [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000076"]Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly[/URL]. PM me or repl…
Get it off Amazon? [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Spectrum-ROM-Disassembly-Logan/dp/0861611160/ref=sr_1_1/026-2163166-2132434?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179537216&sr=8-1]Two[/url] copies on the uk site atm. -
What's everybody reading at the moment?I'm reading: Jame's Herbert's latest (picked up from Tescos for ?3 odds) The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais Shout at the Devil by Wilbur Smith (part …
[quote=Skarpo;190874]Oooh! hard-core scifi is the best if the author is good ... I recommend James P. Hogan and Greg Bear (in particular Eon).
Skarpo
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I'm reading 'The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly'... ;) -
What's everybody reading at the moment?I'm reading: Jame's Herbert's latest (picked up from Tescos for ?3 odds) The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais Shout at the Devil by Wilbur Smith (part …
... reading 'The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly'... ;)[/quote]
*Grumble, grumble ... -
What book should Hollywood film next?I reckon [i]The Righteous Men[/i] by Sam Bourne -- like Dan Brown's stuff, but accurately researched and unpretentious. Either that, or [i]The Compl…
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Either that, or [I]The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly[/I] might make a good thriller. :D[/quote]
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PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
What book should Hollywood film next?I reckon [i]The Righteous Men[/i] by Sam Bourne -- like Dan Brown's stuff, but accurately researched and unpretentious. Either that, or [i]The Compl…
I still think Hollywood should film [i]The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly[/i], perhaps with the tagline "It's [i]definitely[/i] not Stonkers". ;)What book should Hollywood film next?I reckon [i]The Righteous Men[/i] by Sam Bourne -- like Dan Brown's stuff, but accurately researched and unpretentious. Either that, or [i]The Compl…
[QUOTE=robert@fm;192763]I still think Hollywood should film [i]The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly[/i], perhaps with the tagline "It's [i]definitely[/i] not Stonkers". ;)[/QUOTE]
Or "With a bit of imagination, it could be Atic-Atac".Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... when the program runs it jumps to 100 rather then the ...How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... [B]The Complete Spectrum Rom Disassembly[/B]:
[I ...Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…
... BS, check the Spectrum ROM disassembly to make sure it'll ...Unconventional way of diagnosing a faultHi everyone Some time ago I got a 48k Spectrum (issue 3B board) in a pretty bad condition. I believe the power supply transistor TR4 failed, causing…
... -61 of the Complete Rom Disassembly - "THE EXECUTIVE ROUTINES"How do debuggers guess mnemonicsLet's suppose I have the following numbers in Spectrum memory: Address Byte 30000 1 30001 2 30002 3 30003 4 If I execute in assembler j…
... from there it can follow jumps, calls, and returns as required ...Miss WOS competition.I think we should have an anual Miss WOS competition. The competition could consist of the Ladies of WOS, and the wives or girlfriends of WOS membe…
Ok I keep seeing these myspace links but it always jumps me to the home page. Is that cos I'm not registered? I've never had any interest in myspace...Miss WOS competition.I think we should have an anual Miss WOS competition. The competition could consist of the Ladies of WOS, and the wives or girlfriends of WOS membe…
... myspace links but it always jumps me to the home page ...Alien8 style 3D Tiles - TheoryHello, Are there any articles etc explaining how to do 3d style tiles, i.e. when to redraw those in front etc. I would guess you would need to work…
... as a link to a disassembly.
[url]http://www.icemark ...Daley Thompson's Decathlonhi I've been playing DTD a lot recently and I've managed a long jump of 9m 65 by jumping as soon as the line appears on the right, then holding the …
[QUOTE=andrew_rollings;197646]This was reported back in magazines in the day... I spent ages mastering the skill. :)
Andrew[/QUOTE]
The better one was jumping and landing on the take off board. Jumps of over 100m with thisHave you still got what it takes?Back in the day I could always win the final in Match Point. Now I can't. But also back in the day I was shit at Atic Atac and Gunfright. Now I can c…
... split second timing, pixel perfect jumps etc. I haven't got ...8-bit or 16-bit registers?I'm playing around with writing a Speccy emulator for mobile Java at the moment. I did a quick and dirty port of Qaop, which does run but at less tha…
... doing things. Looking at a disassembly of the bytecode might say ...A challenge thats probably impossiblehere's a challenge for all you coders. Given a snapshot, is it possible to create a program to sniff out the original start address for the game that…
... address, but it requires manual disassembly of the game and looking ...Jungle Trouble: Help!Does anyone know the damn keys to play Jungle Trouble (Durrell)? I cannot move!!:confused:
... the correct points before the jumps as it were.
Its ...Name of the game...In that game hero rides at the one-wheel bicycle, jumps through pits and stones, flying with the bird through big pits. Unfortunately, that's all tha…
... at the one-wheel bicycle, jumps through pits and stones, flying ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... instruction at address 0xd1d1 that jumps to the interrupt service routine ...