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  • Total Carnage (Amiga) - New "Sh*t Game Time" videoHi everyone, a new "Sh*t Game Time" video is now live and ready to watch. This edition I Sh*t-Rate Total Carnage on the Amiga and It's been requeste…

    ... - it was a Williams Electronics Double-Joystick job like Robotron and ... the animation of the main character being blown into the air ...
    Grunaki Grunaki January 2017 Chit chat
  • Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …

    ... had double the amount of attributes memory, the two bytes per character ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK January 2017 Hardware
  • Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …

    ... had double the amount of attributes memory, the two bytes per character ...
    Rebelstar Rebelstar January 2017 Hardware
  • Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …

    ... use those 2 bits to double the horizontal resolution in just ... and two are selectable per-character. Or even per-8x1 cell ...
    joefish joefish January 2017 Hardware
  • Recommend: "modern" (1994-2017) games...No, that is not a typo in the thread. *Next* christmas (i.e. 25th December 2017) it will be 30 years to the day I opened a box containing a Spectr…

    ... ] version in the Al's Double Bill package (128K-only).
    character (almost) all of us love ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu April 2017 Games
  • Anybody have an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive on Pre-Order?I have the Vive pre-ordered, but annoyingly by the time I had enough saved and I ordered it I was too late for the April wave of shipments, so it sho…

    ... graphics card powering it was double the price of a the ... /landscape and set the head height too high, people get sick ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk April 2017 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... will work ok if the character is moving, but if not ... , I moved the sprite (2 height x 1 width) only logically ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2017 BASIC
  • 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…

    ... find the exoskeleton you may double your firepower and trample ... 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 ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu May 2017 Games
  • 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); } …

    ... easiest to deal with full character squares so you can just ... look at character coordinates or tile attributes.
    character rectangle on screen that the ... read row,col,width,height to know what character squares the sprite ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • 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…

    ... ; x,y=0,0 width,height=32,24
    [/code]
    height
    [/code]

    is ... ; x,y=2,0 width,height=30,24
    [/code]
    character cell). Removed characters will never ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • SD Card Interfaces for the ZX Spectrum : the complete list OK I admit it : this thread will start life as the incomplete list of SD card interfaces but the aim is to list the lot

    ... an example with an intresting "double decker design" (or is it ... but this depends on the height of the keyboard being used ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio June 2017 Hardware
  • z88dk terminalsto set up a terminal a bunch of numbers are needed: m4_zx_01_output_fzx(_window_1, 0x2330, 0, 0, 1, 14, 1, 19, 0, _ff_ao_Prefect, 14, 0, 14, 8, 1…

    ... ##
    dnl## $8 = window.height ##
    dnl## $9 = scroll ... single, 1 = 1.5, 2 = double) ##
    dnl## $20 = left ... single, 1 = 1.5, 2 = double)[/b]

    Per description ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2017 Development
  • Radio shows/broadcastsThe old 'wireless' get discussed in threads here and there but I thought I'd start a thread up to discuss and recommend good radio shows (both past a…

    ... ] - Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson double-hander. A series of 15 ... .
    [b]John Finnemore's Double Acts[/b] - The Wroxton Box ... a signal box. Nice, gentle character comedy. I love his stuff ...
    Maroc's Other Projection Maroc's Other Projection July 2017 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... not applied to the full height of the screen.

    character, so half as much memory ...
    joefish joefish August 2017 Development
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... a,$0A
    ld (HEIGHT),a ; Height of polygon
    ; ... inc hl ; Move to next character address
    inc a ; ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... a,$0A
    ld (HEIGHT),a ; Height of polygon
    ; ... inc hl ; Move to next character address
    inc a ; ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... a,$18
    ld (HEIGHT),a ; Height of polygon
    ; ... inc hl ; Move to next character address
    inc a ; ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... br /> ; Paint the polygon character by character

    PAINT_POLYGON ld ... />
    ld a,(HEIGHT)
    ld b,a ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • 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…

    ... a rectangle aligned to whole character squares of the screen. It ... optimising it to draw flexible height stacks?
    joefish joefish November 2017 Development
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... 's 'grunts' a lot of character. Listening in to their conversations ... />
    I bought the digital double-pack of that and A ...
    GreenCard GreenCard November 2017 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... in memory for your own character map, then use codes on ... that to your total, then double twice more to get 8 ...
    joefish joefish November 2017 Development
  • Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…

    ... line and occupying a maximum height of 7 bits, with BIT ... identifying the end of the character and that the next vertical ... 768 byte (8 bytes per character) format, which can be printed ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed January 2018 Development
  • Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…

    ... been replaced with opening/closing double quotes (because I detest straight ... . The last byte of each character stores its width, so the ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore January 2018 Development
  • Prportional Ascii text scrollerA couple of years ago I wrote a little scroller that nestles at the top of RAM (FFCA - 65482) and scrolls standard Ascii encoded text from anywhere y…

    ... a table to find each character definition. As you say the ... -byte indexing value that you double and add to the font ...
    joefish joefish August 2018 Development
  • Better keyboard = better sales ?Just a random thought. I want to start this by saying although I did not have a + model new, I was never really a fan of this keyboard as it was n…

    ... , there is a double layer membrane. The double layer membrane is needed ... .

    Due to this double layer membrane, if you don ... key, you get a standard character (e.g. when pressing a ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK August 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Better keyboard = better sales ?Just a random thought. I want to start this by saying although I did not have a + model new, I was never really a fan of this keyboard as it was n…

    [quote]Due to this double layer membrane, if you don' ... key, you get a standard character (e.g. when pressing a ...
    spider spider August 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Reading DEFB for backgroundsHi all I suppose the question is kind of silly but I'm a completely newbie with assembler :-S I'm drawing some side backgrounds with ZX Paintbrus…

    ... ,spritedata
    ld c,8 ; height of sprite in pixels
    inc hl ; next character
    djnz loop1

    FrankT FrankT December 2018 Assembler
  • Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …

    ... of a 6 x 8 character cell and this impacts every ... , with a solid character width single pixel height line of colour that ...
    Antiriad2097 Antiriad2097 December 2018 Hardware
  • Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…

    ... I make them the full character width, which colours worked best ... slows it all down (for double, and triple vertical steps per ...
    patters patters March 2019 Brand new software
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