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Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
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16000 cycles for 32x32 sprites allows around 4 per frame ... update rates. That allows 8 sprites. A large number of non ... -
Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …
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The Perils Of WillySorry if this is a really obvious question, but did anyone ever convert the V20 Perils of Willy to the Speccy?
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Where do you start!I am fairly new to spectrums, and have only been programming for a couple of years starting on bbc basic. where do you start programming a game. Is a…
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Anyone know the address mappings...of the hardware resources on the speccy; From the screen display address range to all the hardware control registers. etc. Where can I get access t…
... superfast sample code that move sprites around the screen and code ... -
Anyone know the address mappings...of the hardware resources on the speccy; From the screen display address range to all the hardware control registers. etc. Where can I get access t…
... contains a routine for doing sprites from unshifted data, that ... more useful for larger sprites where preshifting them would use ... s sprite, with subsequent
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Where do you start!I am fairly new to spectrums, and have only been programming for a couple of years starting on bbc basic. where do you start programming a game. Is a…
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Where do you start!I am fairly new to spectrums, and have only been programming for a couple of years starting on bbc basic. where do you start programming a game. Is a…
... a particular program where drawing sprites in this way, given the ... -
Collision DetectionHi everyone, This is my first post on WOS. Like most people here I owned a Spectrum when a teenager. At that time I was quite heavily into programmin…
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3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
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3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
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Collision DetectionHi everyone, This is my first post on WOS. Like most people here I owned a Spectrum when a teenager. At that time I was quite heavily into programmin…
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sprites following 64010 - 64019, 64020 - 64029 ... and Y.
Each sprites coords are checked against the ... B,MAXSPRITES-1 ;No. of sprites to check against
Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …
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c) Move SpritesChar Based SpritesI've been looking at Rob's assembly example for character-based sprites in the other thread with interest. However, I find I'm not following it very …
It's basically like the sprites in "Advanced Machine Code Programming" ...Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
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Even so, once sprites are applied, the data must ... CPU time for lots of sprites, explosions and the rest. Control ...Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
... and obtain +4 and +6 sprites using block shift instructions RRD ...Instructions Project updateHopefully you're all aware of [url="http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pak21/spectrum/instructions"]the attempt to get instructions for more of the games on W…
... even say take the Ultimate sprites off the titlepage - it would ...Instructions Project updateHopefully you're all aware of [url="http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pak21/spectrum/instructions"]the attempt to get instructions for more of the games on W…
... even say take the Ultimate sprites off the titlepage - it would ...8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... res super-blocky but colourful sprites (presumably usually for scrolling games ...8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... res super-blocky but colourful sprites (presumably usually for scrolling games ...Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... this or that capability ( hardware sprites/scrolling etc. ) although it did ...games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... (who did a program called Sprites Alive on the Amstrad) - and ...Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
I think this topic should be renamed:
"Why is the Spectrum colour system relatively good compared to other 8-bit systems - but the bitmap system awkward for sprites?"games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... 2 AND Spectrum Sprites and found out the Sprites program for ... as the individually released Spectrum Sprites. Wasted money. I'd ... for the Compiler version of Sprites Alive, which explains how ... t know better. Pixel smooth Sprites and scrolling, etc. Really good ...
