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  • Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…

    ... completed the top third before scrolling it? Also double buffering, would ... great deal of difference when scrolling one third or 2 thirds ... /> Thanks.. I've never done scrolling before so any help is ...
    polomint polomint February 2010 Development
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... just wouldn't be as fast on the C64. Perhaps the ... ship is fully armed, 32 character bullets (if memory serves) and ... sprites along with full screen scrolling refreshed every frame and, before ... ] since they both use very fast character-based pseudo 3D. A lot ...
    TMR TMR July 2005 Games
  • Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…

    ... 's all about 8-ways scrolling + a lot of explosions and ... I'm watching Youtube, BBC scrolling is far from perfect but ... fast.

    On the second thought it could done with character scrolling ...
    Ralf Ralf March 2012 New game ideas
  • Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…

    ... watching Youtube, BBC scrolling is far from perfect ... fast.

    On the second thought it could done with character scrolling ... smooth horizontal scrolling and chunky vertical scrolling. Consider the ... Shows that downgrading the scrolling wouldn't be too ...
    Jmk Jmk March 2012 New game ideas
  • Paradroid for C-64, why not in the Spectrum?Reading the special 30th anniversary Retro Gamer, I came across this game which was considered to be the best game for the C-64, and it does not look…

    When I think of fast, smooth scrolling on the Speccy, Batman the Movie always comes to mind. When the character walks it's slow, but when jumping or hanging it's impressively fast (imo).
    zxbruno zxbruno October 2012 Games
  • MegaManZXMega Man for ZX Spectrum [center] [IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/2ho90rd.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinypic.com/dzt7bd.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinyp…

    ... =na_th_an;686812]If you want scrolling, a game like this would ... would render the map and character based sprites to a tile ... graphical engine to be fast enough for a fast-paced game. My ... is made from a single character, scrolling is totally possible.
    Metalbrain Metalbrain March 2013 New game ideas
  • 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…

    ... .

    With horizontal scrolling there are basically two main ... screens, but the really fast and clever ones do it ... way it only scrolls the character cells that contain scenery. ... in turn.

    With character scrolling you might want to think ...
    joefish joefish June 2013 Games
  • Buffer to screen - how much?[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am starting to build a new game and am researching different ways to accomplish what I need to do. My question is, is it poss…

    ... in whole characters using the character map.

    ... the sprites with per-character occlusion so that they ... for one pixel scrolling. For two pixel scrolling, you really need ... />
    The really fast horizontal scrolling comes from pre-loading 16 ...
    joefish joefish September 2014 Development
  • Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…

    ... neither game varies the scrolling speed is a choice ... I]Turbo[/I] scrolling engine is fast enough in itself ... got it going as fast as they could and ... up to its regular scrolling speed, the game ... If you're just using character scrolling, you could easily write ...
    joefish joefish October 2014 Development
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... far. And yes, it uses character scrolling, since that was the point ... , to see if a decent scrolling shmup could be done in ... an Oric, is it really character scrolling - I'd have expected that ... lot more jerky or too fast? Interesting idea anyway.

    AndyC AndyC December 2014 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... far. And yes, it uses character scrolling, since that was the point ... also, of it in play. Character scrolling on the Oric would be ... would actually be 6 pixel scrolling.

    CVG gave ... found it just slighty too fast. The spectrum version was slightly ...
    dmsmith dmsmith December 2014 Games
  • How would you approach parallax?So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then s…

    ... , do the foreground with a character map, and when you render ... a 0 in the character map. Trouble is, character scrolling can look a ... bit rough unless it's fast.
    joefish joefish November 2016 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... in BASIC with a 1 character scrolling ground and maybe ceiling effect ... only, it would still be fast enough to resemble something playable ... bottom layer scroll half as fast as the one above for ... the tasks of things like scrolling, and graphics, so in theory ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2018 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... in BASIC with a 1 character scrolling ground and maybe ceiling effect ... only, it would still be fast enough to resemble something playable ... bottom layer scroll half as fast as the one above for ... the tasks of things like scrolling, and graphics, so in theory ...
    digital digital January 2018 Development
  • Sonic The Hedgehog At 30.I stumbled across this on the BBC earlier :- [url="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57566746"]https://bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57566746[/url] …

    ... at some monocrome scrolling years ago to see how fast it could ... - might be better done with character scrolling and more colour.
    dmsmith dmsmith June 2021 Chit chat
  • Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…

    ... current layout is optimized for fast character display, as you can ... = address of first byte of character pattern
    ;DE = ...
    Besides, after displaying one character with the first routine, the ... of the next character (within the same character row), so ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2014 Development
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    fast vertical scrolling:

    di
    ld ( ...
    Fikee Fikee July 2003 Games
  • Monochrome Speccy gamesOkay, we all know the Speccy was (allegedly) crap at colour and lots of games just had to be in monochrome (honest). But lots of programmers just us…

    ... only because it has one-character scrolling? [I]Karnov[/I] has 9 ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2003 Games
  • Just for a bit of fun...If you could walk into a charity shop, car boot sale, or whatever tommorow, and find a copy of Willy Meets the Taxman (or whatever it would have been…

    ... on platforms that support fast & easy scrolling (like the C**). I ...
    GOC GOC January 2004 Games
  • URIDIUMDoes anyone actually like the Spectrum version of this game? Or was it some sinister plot to make the Spectrum look silly trying to compete with the…

    ... i guess the ridiculously fast hardware scrolling may have had something to ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers May 2004 Games
  • good examples of gameswhat are the best games to show off how good the speccy is. I helped my mate download all the gubbins to run realspectrum. Now, What are the best gam…

    ... games with intricate, or perhaps fast moving 3D graphics, where the ... games that heavily depend on fast smooth scrolling out that can be ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers January 2005 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... , a graphics module to provide fast drawing, scrolling, etc. And you'd ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... , a graphics module to provide fast drawing, scrolling, etc. And you'd ... that a game requires smooth, fast sprites, scrolling and music. Why?
    Rael Rael March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... that a game requires smooth, fast sprites, scrolling and music. Why?
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Development
  • Did Sonic the Hedgehog ever come out on the Speccy?Couldn't find anything in the Archive.

    ... to create an entirely new fast paced scrolling platformer though, if they ...
    Collie Collie July 2005 Games
  • Parallax scrollingIt's about time to start new "games with" topic! So, let's make a list of Spectrum games with parallax scrolling. 3 titles to begin: Cobra Hysteria S…

    NARC has some pretty fast parallax scrolling.

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    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob October 2005 Games
  • Atari STSaw one recently at a used scrap dealer, but didnt buy it seeing as it dosent have my particular interrest. I could probably bargain for it for only …

    ... badly with anything that required fast smooth scrolling due to the lack ... improved colour palette, no hardware scrolling, etc.

    Some early ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers November 2005 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... to get a line of character scrolling across the screen. These routines ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside November 2007 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…

    ... nice clunky keyboard. For fast sideways scrolling shooters it was rather good ...
    Graz Graz February 2008 Chit chat
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... morning. I like the relatively fast horizontal scrolling in this game. Well ... , it is fast for BASIC. :D
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn May 2008 Development
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