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Character movementI have always liked manic miner and so want to try an write my own version. My first attempt is just focusing on the character movement, left right a…
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Fast LogsAnyone know of a fast ln function I can steal? The ROM function seems to be hideously slow. I wrote a look-up table dirty and less accurate sin func…
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Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…
... horror at the ZX Spectrum character set in the screenshot*...yeah ... that use the ZX Spectrum character set.
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enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…
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Z80 DOS Sorry this computer is too fast!I?ve tried the free Z80 Emulator v4.00 (DOS Version) downloaded from Gerton Lunters Homepage on my Intel Core2 Quad Q60 running at 2,40 GHz an it ju…
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fav spectrum charactermy fav spectrum character is called dizzy
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Fast Lane - Never released game from AnacondaAccording to "The games that time forgot", there was a game in early stages (Mock screens) recovered from the Anaconda development disks, called Fast…
... the Anaconda development disks, called Fast Lane.
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28-character wide multicolour(ish) on 48k SpectrumLong-time lurker here... I've always been interested in rainbow effects on the 48k Spectrum, mainly from a perspective of "Just what [I]would [/I]ha…
... a way of doing 18-character wide multicolour on a 48k ... />
Looking at the 18-character wide 8x1 multicolour code, it ... , the code below does 28-character wide multicolour, for eight attribute ... the PUSHes deal with two character columns each. One way in ... -
Games with time travel mechanics?What games involve time travel or time control in their gameplay mechanics? I don't mean games where time travel is just part of the story (i.e. it's…
... ]), or where your one player character performs one set of actions ... time (either directly or by fast-forwarding/rewinding through the game ... -
Multi-sized character screen driverFollowing on from the thread on [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24618&page=14]character output routines[/url], I've dug o…
... ?t=24618&page=14]character output routines[/url], I've ... a mixture of five different character sizes:
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Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…
... if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :)
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Fast n Furious and Interceptor in-game screenshotsare not consistent with the ones displayed in their own entries (not the compilations). As far as I can see, the screenshots displayed in the compil…
... .worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Fast+%27n%27+Furious+%2b+Thunderceptor ... -
Interview with Steve Wetherill (Odin)Hi you all!!! Here is the interview done to STEVE WETHERILL (Nodes of Yesod, Robin of The Wood, Arc of Yesod, Heartland... ?Odin!) and published at […
... was the story of the character creation as far as you ... get the game to run fast enough on the CPC and ... that the update rate was fast enough. I also spent a ... -
Game character on the WoS homepageHi, I would like to know the name of the game with the detective-looking character in raincoat and hat on the main WoS page standing at the bottom-l…
Hi,
I would like to know the name of the game with the detective-looking character in raincoat and hat on the main WoS page standing at the bottom-left corner of the Spectrum.
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Multicolor/RGB3/3color fast low flicker software available?After giving myself a near migraine looking at 3 colour image (3 frames, red, green blue) anim gifs in a test version of image to zx spec I'd like to…
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Character shiftI'm looking for games where we can use more than one character at every moment of the game. I'm [U]not[/U] referring of those games where you must …
... can use more than one character at every moment of the ... where you must choose a character in the starting menu and ... [/B], you can choose other character during the game. Any genre ... -
Interview with Clive Townsend (Saboteur)Here you have at [URL="http://www.elmundodelspectrum.com"]www.elmundodelspectrum.com[/URL] this exclusive interview with Clive Townsend. Don?t forget…
... get the backgrouds to scroll fast enough. Rob White suggested I ... decided to change the lead character to a female ? a risky ... -
The game character with torch or lampHi all, I am looking for games where the main character or enemy (but can be any moving sprite at all) hold the torch or lamp or any other source of…
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Fastest redraw of screen from UDGsHere's a question for everyone, to generate a bit of code to be used in games: On a standard 48K Spectrum, what's the fastest way to redraw the scre…
... with a character-mapped screen and render that as fast as possible ... the attributes as a separate character map. If they're ... UDGs, their attributes and any character maps start on word boundaries ... UDG, allowing for multiple character sets to be combined on ... -
"Chronos": how fast should it really be?I was reading [URL="http://timfollin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Archive.htm"]Tim Follin's webpage[/URL] the other day and came across a curious remark abou…
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Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…
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Fast Z80Todays Spectrums are fast as hell and few software utilises this. Z80 in ReVerSE runs at 42 MHz, in Speccy2010 at 28 MHz, in Pentagon 2.666 and in N…
Todays Spectrums are fast as hell and few software ... />
Two options:
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20-column multicolour: a half-baked ideaI was writing an email reply to one Mr Jowett about multicolour routines, and in that way that explaining something to someone else makes you think "…
... the last scanline of the character row above, we're busy ... only need to change each character row SEVEN times, not eight ... - churning through the PUSHes as fast as possible, without checking where ... -
Interview with Bob Wakelin. elmundodelspectrum.comHere you have the interview with Bob Wakelin from [URL="http://www.elmundodelspectrum.com"]elmundodelspectrum.com[/URL] in its original format. Enjoy…
... ?ve ever seen with this character. Didn?t you receive any ... so I had to move fast, and some of them, like ... -
acting like a spectrum game character in real life.an hour ago i was in my uncle's flat and he apparently hadn't much to say. i was suddenly aware that i was roaming around the room restlessly, hands …
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Under development: COUSIN HORACE - with playable demoHi fellow Spec-chums, for the first time ever, I am publicly disclosing some details about a game I am currently working on. It is an epic adventure…
... versions of Horace games. The character portrayed on them bears very ... /> I then imagined that such character is not the British Horace ... /> [*]Comes in TZX (Biturbo-II fast loader), TAP and TRD/SCL ... -
Name the Character for my new StoryI know this is utterly stupid, but I feel as if I have no choice. Let me explain: I am currently writing a second novel (after the positive receptio…
... to name the only female character in an otherwise all-male ... determines the nationality of the character, each number/choice corresponding to ... -
Why are rotozoomers on C=64 so fast ?Hi, I noticed rotozoomers on C64 are really fast. I'm not the best coder on Speccy but I know my pet I never succeed to do rotozoomer (or rotating ch…
... rotozoomers on C64 are really fast. I'm not the best ... which is even simpler) so fast in similar resolution.
ZX Spectrum games represented in Good Pub GuideI've only just managed to track down these entries from past Good Pub Guides... [INDENT] [B]The pub, 180[/B] Well stocked with spirits, yet has only …
... pump. The barmaid has lightning-fast skills in sliding full pints ... to be a well-feared character. I was taken to A ...Slow/fast games - change speedSome ZX games are too slow or too fast. Problem with speed is aslo in russian ZX games or thanks to different memory layout on zx128 and +2a models. …
... are too slow or too fast. Problem with speed is aslo ...
