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  • 2016 Games ListHi, this is the thread I use for the 2016 Games List. Note: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found some…

    ... "]Link[/url]]

    [b]Double Bubble[/b]
    [i](Maze ... Missing Swan[/b]
    [i](Text Adventure, Illustrated Graphics, Noir)[/i ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2016 Games
  • Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…

    ... ] previously, I just replaced the text.

    Few other minor ... are actually 7 pixels in height, not 8 :) Although initially this ... to the fact that full-height characters didn't look good ...
    Hikaru Hikaru October 2016 Development
  • Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…

    ... ] previously, I just replaced the text.

    Few other ... are actually 7 pixels in height, not 8 :) Although initially ... to the fact that full-height characters didn't look ... should pay off, unless your text is all supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA October 2016 Development
  • Welcome to the Matrix!Ok here's something I been playing with while I'm at work and on public transport. I'm thinking I want to be able to move the large letters around th…

    ... cool if the type was double sized and maybe I'll ... and also between the following text and after the last word ... the mouth open/close and text fairly 'synched' not really but ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch October 2016 BASIC
  • THE LIGHTBULB EFFECT You know what that is? Like how cartoonists depict a bright idea by drawing a lightbulb over the head? When I was trying to work out the lengt…

    ... right, you measure distances twice (double check) but use Pythagoras to ... 29,029 feet, the actual height including the snow cap is ...
    weesam weesam November 2016 Chit chat
  • ZX GameDev tools consolidatedHello WoS! It's been a while, yet with a plenty of decent gamedev tools (including new ones!), is there a [i]single/pivot table[/i] or some datash…

    ... 's all just one huge text file and they have [i ... Spectrum (but isn't that double the work, in a sense ...
    Hikaru Hikaru January 2017 Development
  • ZX GameDev tools consolidatedHello WoS! It's been a while, yet with a plenty of decent gamedev tools (including new ones!), is there a [i]single/pivot table[/i] or some datash…

    ... 16x16 or 5 sprites with double width and your game logic ... 's all just one huge text file and they have [i ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2017 Development
  • The doubleHi Im looking for hints cheaps tips on soectrobs THE DOUBlE. Notably about the percentage credibility and consistancy of winning games

    I thought the same last night when I saw this gibberish. But nah, apparently, karingal helped him out with some of his text.

    I'm still not sure what game is being talked about. I can't find The Double nor The Doubie in the WoS archive.
    F_Clowder F_Clowder January 2017 Games
  • Cooperative Games.Are there any Cooperative games for the ZX Spectrum?

    ... -operate in the ZXSR reviews text and reading the review.
    Were any of the Speccy Double Dragons co-op? How about ...
    Vampyre Vampyre February 2017 Games
  • Disable IF1 with switchOk probably silly question time but if you don't ask you'll never know, I have the JS128 which is great and has a jumper on the board to disable the …

    ... make it switchable, use a double pole switch ;-)[/quote]
    Sorry ... that. I have corrected the text in the above quote.
    1024MAK 1024MAK March 2017 Hardware
  • 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
  • Fuse for macOS 1.3.5 ReleasedA new version of Fuse for macOS has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-for-macosx/ Note …

    ... compiling machine code from Sublime Text, and then feeding the resulting ... RZX files out compressed.
    --double-screen Write screenshots out as ... double size.
    --issue2 Emulate an ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan May 2017 Emulators
  • Import new WoS data from ZXDB?This thread is intended to discuss [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/comment/883669/#Comment_883669"]my[/url] [url="https://www…

    ... ?cat=96&id=30389"]Double Dragon Redux[/url]. Moreover, graphics ... queries (aprox. 120Mb of SQL text) including comments. It was a ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2017 Feature Requests
  • 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…

    ... ;
    uint8_t width;
    uint8_t height;
    };

    so the ... old string to erase the text that was there and then ... second print prints the new text. I'm relying on the ...
    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
  • Can't Get My Simple Code To RunHello again, I'm trying to run the following simple code: [code] org 32768 main ld b, 21 ; x coordinate is …

    ... ; set x/y position of text
    ld de, string ; string ... br /> call drawText ; draw the text
    gameLoop
    jp gameLoop ... far so good, now i double-click my tap to auto ...
    Scorpion_Realities Scorpion_Realities October 2017 Development
  • Can't Get My Simple Code To RunHello again, I'm trying to run the following simple code: [code] org 32768 main ld b, 21 ; x coordinate is …

    ... pressing J followed by two double quotes and hit ENTER. The ... blank grey screen with no text on the bottom this time ... and then autoloaded it by double-clicking on the .tap file ...
    Scorpion_Realities Scorpion_Realities October 2017 Development
  • Can't Get My Simple Code To RunHello again, I'm trying to run the following simple code: [code] org 32768 main ld b, 21 ; x coordinate is …

    ... and then autoloaded it by double-clicking on the .tap file ... of the screen. Since your text begins at position 1,1 ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore October 2017 Development
  • The spelling of Dave Nicholls' surnameThe author of 'April Showers', the (then) new room in 'Jet Set Willy', published as a type-in in 'Your Spectrum' magazine in April 1985, is apparentl…

    ... surname is spelled with a double 'l' [url="http://www.retro8bitcomputers ... it, too, including in the text files which accompany [url="http ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler February 2018 Infoseek database
  • Printing text, part MMXIIXI'm pretty sure there's been a zillion threads about this already, and I don't think it's the first one by myself either, but here goes. Proportiona…

    ... you could easily store a height for each one, then you ... saving. Where to store this height data? Well.. if you're ... changing the state of some text from ON to OFF - you ... for width, three bits for height, one bit for "this glyph ...
    evilpaul evilpaul December 2018 Development
  • 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 …

    ... /> There are two graphic modes, text mode and hires.

    In text mode, you can change the ... solid character width single pixel height line of colour that can ...
    Antiriad2097 Antiriad2097 December 2018 Hardware
  • im looking for other games like the muncher that use double height and width graphics with colouri havent come across this type of graphics mode on the spectrum before and would like to know if there are any other games that use it.

    ... remain thin. Lower part with text console of course is untouched ... game mechanics, upper part is double buffered, where sprites are immediately ... stretched horizontally, and later, when double buffer is drawn on screen ...
    Bedazzle Bedazzle July 2019 Games
  • Funny stories from arcadesIt happened in Poland , in the city of Łódź (Lodz) , in the spring of 1986 . There was a small arcade in which I played pinballs and Invaders . This…

    ... pesetas (called "duro") coin, but double the width, and with different ... : they changed the upper display height, so the clock was shown ...
    Zup Zup August 2019 Chit chat
  • Dunny - help!I fired up SpecBAS, it automatically loaded the last program which was ASH2's background for the lander program. I pressed RUN and it ran fine then …

    ... h are the width and height of the main screen respectively ... SIZE 0,400,240 for double size pixels :)
    Dunny Dunny August 2019 BASIC
  • Spectrum games that are both 48k and 128k but where the 128k version is infinitely superior The only one I can think of is "Rock Star Ate My Hamster" but there must be others . So where are the games where the 128 version is great but wher…

    ... really terrible 48K downgrade, see Double Dragon 2. E-SWAT is ... , whereas on 48K it was text only)

    Gladiator (more ...
    MartynC MartynC January 2020 Games
  • Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...

    ... . I never understand why a text adventure, whose only user input ... the emulation speed to say double or perhaps changing it to ...
    spider spider May 2020 Games
  • Outlook driving my (older) customers crazyI usually figure out things by myself or Google is my friend. This time my Google-fu has failed me, and asking about this on WOS doesn't sound like a…

    ... Registry hack. Create a simple text document on the desktop called ... , open it up in a text editor and paste the following ... user has to do is double click the html file, which ...
    Vampyre Vampyre July 2020 Chit chat
  • Dynamite Dan II - Island 6 - HELP!Hi all, can someone possibly create a snapshot of Island 6 (car park island) on Dynamite Dan II for me please? I'm trying to work out why half the…

    ... file. Open TAP with ZXBlockEditor, double click Program Data, in window ... lines
    ld hl,text ; Point to PRINT text
    print2: ld ... /> printat: equ 22

    text: db inverse,1
    db ...
    FrankT FrankT December 2020 Games
  • CSSCGC 2021: 25th edition extravaganza![img]https://csscgc2021.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/yellow_programmer_960x600.png[/img] [url=https://www.rickdangerous.co.uk/csscgc2021/][b][size=…

    ... crash*[/i] And these have double-length reviews, or at least ... double-length articles describing each one ... you are an aficionado of text adventures, give it a determined ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone December 2021 Games
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