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  • graphics on the speccy...how?I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did arti…

    We used a hacked and modified version of ... (called 'Ocean Draw' - it had a sprite grabber/animator that could save ... 10*10 maths stuff - though a photocopier can come in handy ... Strikes Back' were done using a simple sprite designer - written in BASIC ...
    frobush frobush July 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Garth Marenghi's Dark Place Game.Someone should really make a "Darkplace" Speccy game, as it would tie in perfectly with the show's 80's kitsch appeal.;)

    ... . "Apes Of Wrath" could involve a bike chase, "Skipper The Eye ... Child" could have a bit where you need to ... anyone 'seeing' you i.e. a sprite turning in your direction. its ... a good idea, need someone to ...
    def chris def chris August 2007 Development
  • z80 assembler?HIya, I used to program assember on the trusty c64, but want to have a dabble with z80 on the Zx spectrum, can anyone recomend a good assember, dis…

    Use a cross assembler, rather than ... Once your code works, make a TZX and load it on ... a real Spectrum.

    ... files that can load on a Spectrum. People also rave ... the Spectrum rather well (includes a sprite library).

    [url] ...
    Winston Winston September 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... *joyfunc;

    // player sprite

    uchar state; // ... STATE_* for sprite animation
    struct sp1_ss *sprite;

    a sprite (the player's sprite); we can ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... to sp1_CreateSpr() creates a sprite of specified height in ... /> 1. an "OR" sprite (SP1_DRAW_OR1LB - a sprite whose graphics are ORed to ... call "p->sprite" is a sprite 3 characters tall ... each character composing a sprite. The definition of a "struct sp1_cs ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... sp1 library internally breaks up a sprite into its characters and represents ... /> [/code]

    Before releasing a sprite's allocated memory blocks we ... 0). This is because while a sprite appears on screen its "struct ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Why oh why....... did I have to read the thread about cross-assembling using pasmo and ConTEXT......grrrr. Now I've just wasted hours playing with z80 m/c, lol I…

    ... /> - do you want to display a sprite with attributes or without?
    sprite routine, you create your ... order of bytes requires different sprite routine to display the ... with would be to display a sprite 8X8 pixels (one char) ...
    Ralf Ralf October 2007 Development
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... ).
    It also contains a small BASIC program which loads ... /> Speech:-
    The tapefile contains a few programs. The core speech ... purpose of the program is a "Sprite Table", I can't find ... this program provides support for a 512x192 display mode. These BASIC ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Games
  • Batman ABITH/AFWTD graphicsHow'd you do that then, eh? With the overlaid windows and stuff. I always thought it was dead clever. May have seen it in another game too but can't …

    Interesting, so it would seem to me that this effect is actually probably easier to achieve on a Spectrum than on something like a SNES or Megadrive which works on a sprite layer with 2 or 3 background layers. Correct?
    Vertigo Vertigo October 2007 Games
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... (it also appears to be a similar but different program to ... to demonstrate how to install a user-written machine code ... useful to implement interrupt driven sprite routines.

    The ... routine does not actually draw a sprite, rather it simply flips the ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Games
  • Starting on machine code - BASIC first?Howdy. If I wanted to start learning machine code for the speccy, from scratch, would you recommend I learn BASIC first or is it entirely possible to…

    ... enjoyable to try to write a sprite routine. You start by learning ... once you've got one sprite moving around try two, and ... knowledge you need to write a game.
    bobs bobs November 2007 Development
  • Development IDE collaborationI was wondering if other people making development IDE's (MetalBrain, LCD , Claus Jahn and Carlinski as far as I know) would be interested in combini…

    ... are benefits to having a tightly-coupled GUI designer ... ways that a graphic editor and a Z80 code ... get it running nicely on a Mac :-) )[/QUOTE]
    < ... of passing information back to a previous process.
    ... each other.
    Update a sprite in the code and ...
    Kiwi Kiwi January 2008 Development
  • Development IDE collaborationI was wondering if other people making development IDE's (MetalBrain, LCD , Claus Jahn and Carlinski as far as I know) would be interested in combini…

    ... then select "Screens" followed be a sub-menu of "New..." ? ... would go about creating a screen or a sprite. I think it would ... /> Have you thought about defining a development platform ? I assume you ... can have multiple projects in a single solution with the free ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside January 2008 Development
  • Development IDE collaborationI was wondering if other people making development IDE's (MetalBrain, LCD , Claus Jahn and Carlinski as far as I know) would be interested in combini…

    ... then select "Screens" followed be a sub-menu of "New..." ? ... would go about creating a screen or a sprite. I think it would ... Millside;238275]
    I'm a great believer in writing product ... /> Have you thought about defining a development platform ? I assume you ...
    Kiwi Kiwi January 2008 Development
  • Z88DK fun and gamesHi, I was wondering if anyone here uses Z88DK with TommyGun and knew about how to link the two together (e.g. how do I use a screen, sprite or map e…

    ... to use the screen$ and sprite functions within Z88DK. In particular ... I have a set of .bmp files that ... windows z88dk package there's a sprite editor that can dump to ...
    SnakeOilSteve SnakeOilSteve February 2008 Development
  • Z88DK fun and gamesHi, I was wondering if anyone here uses Z88DK with TommyGun and knew about how to link the two together (e.g. how do I use a screen, sprite or map e…

    ... to use the screen$ and sprite functions within Z88DK. In particular ... windows z88dk package there's a sprite editor that can dump to ... As you saw the monochrome sprite library is for monochrome sprites ... be to plot the monochrome sprite then overlay it with colour ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2008 Development
  • Why hate the C64?Well, why? I've never understood the bitter rivalry between C64 and Spectrum fans - both computers had their strengths and weaknesses. Both had goo…

    ... [/QUOTE]

    I made a sprite with double-wide pixels for ... .

    Anyway, there was a thread on that over at ...
    Lockett Lockett February 2008 Chit chat
  • Tommy GunHi, Got a few suggestions etc. for Tommy Gun. Well done Kiwi et. al. for a fantastic application. I would like to add the following suggestions: …

    I'm going to have a try at hi-jacking it ... , but is there a chance of getting a sprite output format which is ...
    bobs bobs February 2008 Development
  • Into the screen driving simulator effectI was wondering how the racing games of yore did the into the screen scrolling effect. I'm sure you could do something crude drawing bars on the scre…

    ... scenery is simply the same sprite scaled and positioned appropriately.
    a sprite, but it is distorted in ... horizontally. Bends shift a line of the sprite to one side or ... another. Hills shift a line ...
    JamesW JamesW February 2008 Development
  • 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…

    ... /> The (attr_mask, attr) pair is a sprite character property so one pair ... />
    If you want a sprite to be INK colour only ... in SP1 that will recolour a sprite by blittiing these (attr_mask, ... is still a problem. Here's a snippet of one sprite (attribute ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2008 Development
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…

    ... Renumber doesn't work... is a very important thing.
    ...
    That's not a very useful bug report - it ... BASIC, and BASIN is a BASIC editor.[/QUOTE]
    ... useful? And why should a graphic editor only be ... includes an assembler and a sprite editor but you've ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2008 Emulators
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…

    ... useful? And why should a graphic editor only be ... includes an assembler and a sprite editor but you've ... is no useful, a character composer is more ... /> Make this without a editor is a waste of time, but ... the result is great. A character designer, that translate ...
    radastan radastan February 2008 Emulators
  • Remakes using Spectrum graphics - worth doing?After reading the comments in this [post=251540]post[/post], I was surprised to see some support for the idea of a PC remake (or sequel) of a Speccy …

    ... 253187]except it?s a bit more laborious to code ... with the expectations of a player acquainted with speccy ... if you write a game for a PC then it' ... [QUOTE=cichlasoma;253187]...it?s a matter of taste, whether pc ... add too much colour to a sprite and make it too " ...
    bobs bobs March 2008 Games
  • Collision Detection in SP1Hi, Does anyone have a well-documented example of using collision detection in spritelib. I've search WoS and Z88DK forums but no joy. Something wi…

    ... available.

    After a sprite is moved (a call to any of ... to 1 by default when a sprite is created.

    In ... of sprite
    add a,a ; multiply by 8
    add a,a
    add a,a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2008 Development
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... in the demo game) sprite to 255 do? If I ... supposed to remove the sprite from the list but ... LET IMAGE=XX to change a sprite into something else - for ... enemy or even another player sprite if you wanted. It ... and subtracting generally is a bit of an oversight. ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2008 Development
  • 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…

    ... how SP1 performs sprite animation. SP1 generates a sprite graphic address by ... of this as a fixed base address for a specific sprite.
    ... does not have a mask, then each sprite frame graphic will ... current sprite frame and what type of sprite and a command ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2008 Development
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... /> I was thinking, is there a possibility of some tools for ... do things like remove a blockage from a certain room when used ... useful is you have a variable for each sprite which can hold ... to 255 and only allows a sprite to spawn if it is ...
    mulder mulder April 2008 Development
  • Manic miner remake....Hi all. I just started a Manic Miner remake using Python + Pygame. The aim is to be as pixel perfect as possible (except perhaps I won't have colour…

    ... ]Yep. The willy sprite is always 16*16 and ... not by actually moving the sprite. Reproducing this will give ... trying to pixel position the sprite.[/QUOTE]

    ... to draw the main willy sprite - it wasn't ... the original now (using a sprite). I suppose I'll ...
    heng-di heng-di May 2008 Games
  • Favorite C64 games?It seems that the guys over at [url=http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27077]Lemon[/url] are finally admitting that they like Spectrum game…

    ... version of Commando (even with a sprite the size of my fist ... Impossible Mission on the commode a lot as well although I ...
    sparkes sparkes May 2008 Chit chat
  • The amazing Miles Mad Mission thread!Following on from the "Thuderstorms" thread! The JSW I mocked up for a laugh then decided to actually do is under construction. As promised I said …

    ... is no WoS game without a WoS settee!

    sprite since it was basically ... I did was add a few little details and ... I have is a few basic blocks and a sprite :(

    I've been working on it less than a ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2008 Games
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