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  • Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …

    ... fine, but insists on using fast loading, even with that option ... 'll try to redo the character set. That way the whole ... several times. I found 2 character sets in 49184 and 52394.
    zxbruno zxbruno August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... think there exists a single character that can be removed without ... the cost of one extra character.

    I've playtested ... . Level 5 will never be fast in any version, it's ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • Movie/TV tie-insI know Ocean used to get a lot of flak for buying licenses and then pumping out generic crap of the worst kind (Transformers, Knight Rider, Highlande…

    ... be eating a pizza as fast as you can before the ... along the lines of your character walks around drilling random tramps ...
    def chris def chris August 2007 Games
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... game! I like the CHARS scrolling method.

    Also adding ... in saving yet one more character position.

    Of course ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... now). There's now 36 character positions remaining in the above ... Speccy doesn't run that fast! The slow speed makes the ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • Spectrum games coming to the WiiJust received this [url]http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11037[/url] earlier this morning from my brother, who knows of my love of old compute…

    ... so that I get smooth scrolling in emulation for C64 and ... run at speeds of a fast 386), but conversely you can ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2007 Games
  • Another newbie and a questionHi guys Just thought id say hi Got myself the spectaculator the other day and have been playing all my old games. At first i thought they would see…

    ... thing was so smooth and fast i loved it but i ... that's not really smooth scrolling.
    Daren Daren September 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... characters and represents each character by a 24-byte ... d_ScrollStart() is called to start scrolling the message and d_ScrollStop() ... address "g_textBuffer". The current character within that string being ... g_scrollPos" to the first character in the message to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 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…

    ... scroller being fast enough to avoid flicker so the scrolling now gets ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Point-and-Click AdventuresI was just rooting around some of my old ZX tapes and I stumbled upon (more like "picked up") a couple of "point-and-click" style adventures. That's …

    ... most actions are selected by scrolling through icons - which gets rather ... , though: I found the fractured character set uncomfortable to read; there ... probably speeds up as your character's strength improves.

    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2007 Games
  • MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]

    ... 3 (press key "1") and scrolling is unstable, ULA is too ... . But DMA transfer to other fast ports (D/A sound - covox ...
    velesoft velesoft October 2007 Hardware
  • Bubble Bobble vs Rainbow IslandsWhat do you think is the better game? I'm not talking specifically Speccy versions (both are fantastic conversions) or any of the others on various p…

    ... the rule book that demans character and storyline and just is ... of the bigger companies were fast losing time for. That surely ...
    WISE OWL WISE OWL October 2007 Games
  • Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…

    ... all contain parts that feature scrolling messages in the border.
    character width (=8 pixels) is painted ... change the colour on a character boundary (unlike the Pentagon, ... can change border colour mid-character). All of this means ...
    gasman gasman November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…

    ... a fast but legible [url="http://obo.homeip.net/fred65_menu1.png"]scrolling ... initials[/url] below the border scrolling message.

    Si
    obo obo November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    OK, I've finished working on "batmaster 2" for tonight, but it is not yet finished. So for now I will post where I am up to for now "batmaster 2 - temporary version":-

    [url]http://www.mediafire.com/?1mgmyyawy1f[/url]


    [QUOTE ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    [QUOTE=Digital Prawn;225158]Thus by the time 'd' is updated we can no longer tell if 'c' had the correct sign or not, because if it did, then it's sign was reversed anyway, losing this information.[/QUOTE]

    You are right! The solution is to use ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas November 2007 Development
  • Decent speccy pacman?Hi all, what's the best pacman game for the speccy? I currently have Muncher by Silversoft, Gobble a ghost by CDS , Gnasher by Mastertronic & Fast fo…

    ... response times for the player character and also the ghost behaviour ... seem to wear out very fast though & the maze seems ... /> As far as variations go, Fast food by codemasters is pretty ...
    Heatsink128 Heatsink128 November 2007 Games
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... is the version with the fast bat reinstated:-
    [url]http ... be erased with the comma character instead of spaces if we ... elsewhere.

    Reinstating the fast bat added more things that ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Development
  • Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…

    The C64 can do isometric... just look at the very atmospheric Nosferatu, the fast-scrolling Red LED or the fun puzzle game Rollaround.

    But in this poll, I voted for Where Time Stood Still. Mainly because we didn't get a C64 version :(
    merman merman November 2007 Games
  • Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…

    ... the very atmospheric Nosferatu, the fast-scrolling Red LED or the fun ... to forget the colourful and fast Inside Outing, Spindizzy and Marble ...
    MinerWilly MinerWilly November 2007 Games
  • Whatever happened to ZX Sonic?[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/anestis/soniczx.htm[/url] Did this ever get finished or has this been stopped or been proved a fake? Anyone have…

    ... "inspired by" Sonic - i.e. fast-scrolling attribute-based platformer?
    bobs bobs December 2007 Development
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    Love vertical shoot em ups, Commando is brilliant on the Speccy but the C64 version isnt bad (and has an ending). Rambo i thought was far better on the C64, could have been alright on the Speccy but crappy scrolling and super fast bullets didnt help
    psj3809 psj3809 January 2008 Games
  • Hardest Speccy character?[url=http://www.peoww.co.uk/features/zfc.html]Here's[/url] my take on it. I'm already regretting not putting in Butch Hard Guy but that game pretty …

    ... Rambo didnt have that dodgy scrolling and the enemies didnt have ... good. Their bullets are so fast but you basically just had ...
    psj3809 psj3809 January 2008 Games
  • Hardest Speccy character?[url=http://www.peoww.co.uk/features/zfc.html]Here's[/url] my take on it. I'm already regretting not putting in Butch Hard Guy but that game pretty …

    ... Rambo didnt have that dodgy scrolling and the enemies didnt have ... good. Their bullets are so fast but you basically just had ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree January 2008 Games
  • Name this 1986 budget game!Name this game! (My first thread of this kind, by the way!) :smile: This was a budget game, released in 1986 or a little earlier. It was some kind …

    ... large colourful full scrolling area, you play a character with a large ...
    ghbearman ghbearman January 2008 Games
  • Name this 1986 budget game!Name this game! (My first thread of this kind, by the way!) :smile: This was a budget game, released in 1986 or a little earlier. It was some kind …

    ... moving characters, medival fantasy and scrolling of the screen!

    character and others to control the ...
    Rickard Rickard January 2008 Games
  • 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…

    ... independent attr_mask for each sprite character -- well it speeds things ... only has access to sprite character data and not overall ... set attr_mask independently for each character square so that you ... or vertically. There's a fast function in SP1 that will ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2008 Development
  • Tour Top 5 Spectrum Programmers.........And What 1 Game Should They Be Remembered For. 1. Costa Panayi - I just loved the evolution of his 3D and/or scrolling ideas you saw in his game…

    ... always did them brilliantly. His fast scrolling routines looked fantastic on a ...
    frobush frobush February 2008 Games
  • help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…

    ... background scrolling in the same direction - that might be 1 character space ...
    bigjon bigjon February 2008 Development
  • help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…

    ... never going to be lightening fast either - that's a lot ... a fixed-screen game? as scrolling games are usually a nightmare ...
    bobs bobs February 2008 Development
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