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  • 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 ... , though.[/QUOTE]

    Scrolling one character at a time is usually ... , and writing your own 1-character vertical scrolling routine. Everybody here will ...
    bobs bobs 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…

    ... background scrolling in the same direction - that might be 1 character space ... have said though, doing it character at a time first will ...
    AndyC AndyC February 2008 Development
  • Games Programming Plagiarism - Did It Happen?I know there is at least one notable case were someone has passed off someone else's games as their own - usually by changing the graphics. (Can't re…

    ... using the stack for your scrolling routines. That must have taken ... benefitted from using such a fast scrolling method or at least if ...
    zxspecticle zxspecticle 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…

    ... cycles per byte. This means scrolling a full size display would ... to a list of how fast the instructions in mc are ...
    bigjon bigjon 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=…

    ... ), but if you wish a fast program you need it.
    character composer is more useful for ... the result is great. A character designer, that translate result to ...
    radastan radastan 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=…

    ... ), but if you wish a fast program you need it.
    character composer is more useful for ... the result is great. A character designer, that translate result to ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2008 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... another pixel row but one character up. The scroll will work ... things go as fast as possible (or acceptably fast) and things should ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2008 Development
  • Your favourite Elder Scrolls game?What is the best Elder Scrolls game in your opinion? Personally I can't answer this, as I've never properly played any of them. So why am I asking? W…

    ... add some real atmosphere or character to it, instead relying on ... add the occasional puzzle or character with a unique personality in ... skills increase at a ridiculously fast rate and then you suddenly ...
    Collie Collie March 2008 Chit chat
  • Toshiba t6600c - 1993 laptop[url=www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/t6600c/index.shtm]T6600C literature.[/url] My neighbours has been given one for their son t…

    ... it. It has far more "character" (for want of a better ... there, and the machine was fast enough for most DOS emulators ... Spectrum, that contained hundreds of fast loading games (since they all ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2008 Chit chat
  • Dead Pixels.I wandered into Comet today to look at their laptops. Not my favourite shop, but it beats next/boots/mothercare on Silverlink. Last time I was in …

    ... is benefit to 100Hz. Watching fast moving TV pictures like sport ... keep the picture sharp, with scrolling text (end credits etc) the ...
    Refrenz Refrenz March 2008 Chit chat
  • Dead Pixels.I wandered into Comet today to look at their laptops. Not my favourite shop, but it beats next/boots/mothercare on Silverlink. Last time I was in …

    ... is benefit to 100Hz. Watching fast moving TV pictures like sport ... keep the picture sharp, with scrolling text (end credits etc) the ...
    guesser guesser March 2008 Chit chat
  • CPU question about various emulators for and on various machinesRight, you know how nowadays the latest CPUs seem to be dual (or more) core 2.4GHz (or whatever speed) as opposed to, say, single core 5.8GHz? Now I …

    ... certainly feels at least as fast as on a 2x1GHz PPC ... fear away for good. Smooth scrolling was thought impossible, but Lunar ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2008 Emulators
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=bigjon;256767]I started to think about doing a lightforce-style scroller[/QUOTE]

    Looks promising!

    Notice that instead of this:

    [CODE]
    s-(IN 64510
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2008 Development
  • 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…

    ... BASIC and it's reasonably fast.[/quote] It certainly is! Is ... ) Use SCREEN$ to recognize a character (see Skier);

    c ...
    bigjon bigjon April 2008 Development
  • Spectrum run and guns gamesMy favourite Spectrum game is probably Midnight Resistance, but i completed it yesterday, and so wanted to know if there are any other stand out game…

    ... all over the place and fast gameplay too!

    Extreme ... large colourful graphics and multi-scrolling fx.

    Didn't ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2008 Games
  • don't want to play it type of gamesive never got on well with flight sims strategy games (rts etc) space games such as elite games such as the sentinel they normally have way too man…

    ... - anything based solely on a character with very limited movement options ... walk in front of a scrolling background beating bunch of thugs ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak April 2008 Games
  • Games with Parallax ScrollingI loved that effect. It gave a false depth to the game.. To me a game with parallax scrolling was a better game. How wrong I was.. anyway, a list of…

    ... make things interesting - of your scrolling area; needless to say, these ... shoot-em-up or other fast games.

    Of course ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG May 2008 Games
  • Flabbergasted with the Atari 800! How did it stack up against the Spectrum?I've been watching a few videos of Atari games, and I must say, that as a Spectrum fan, I feel humbled... [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXX_ot…

    ... be so absolutely brilliant and fast? I know, I know, it ... a great deal but the scrolling in that racing game is ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games with Parallax ScrollingI loved that effect. It gave a false depth to the game.. To me a game with parallax scrolling was a better game. How wrong I was.. anyway, a list of…

    ... me a game with parallax scrolling was a better game. How ... games with parallax scrolling:


    -Cobra. Fast and smooth as ... yes, it did have parallax scrolling.
    ToxieDogg ToxieDogg May 2008 Games
  • New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…

    You guys really need to get over this nonsense of moving things a character block at a time. The game looks fantastic and should be brilliant but the jerky overly-fast movement of eveything drags it down.
    Zagreb Zagreb May 2008 Games
  • New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…

    ... nonsense of moving things a character block at a time. The ... brilliant but the jerky overly-fast movement of eveything drags it ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman May 2008 Games
  • New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…

    ... any slower even with sub-character movement. The Amstrad version appears ... based on character attributes, and the maze drawing is fast enough too ...
    bobs bobs May 2008 Games
  • My Missus Loves GTA!!!!! :(I brought Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS3 a while back (on the day it came out), I played it a few times thought it was superb, but with having a pc (surf…

    ... round the fact that EVERY character has full speech), but it ... up my old copy of Fast Food for the first time ... marvel because it actually SAID 'Fast Food' and also 'Game Over ...
    ToxieDogg ToxieDogg May 2008 Chit chat
  • XeO3 update...I've been busy creating a demo level of XeO3, not a level that will be in the game, but simply something to test difficulty and progression. I want t…

    ... of sprites moving over a scrolling background. I think theres piccys ... are it'll never run fast enough!

    I should ...
    indi indi May 2008 Games
  • BattlecarsI don't think this was ever a very popular game. But I really liked it back in the day. The only problem with it is that you have to do a lot of re…

    ... /> I do have a fast multi-pixel scrolling routine that would suit ...
    bobs bobs June 2008 Games
  • BattlecarsI don't think this was ever a very popular game. But I really liked it back in the day. The only problem with it is that you have to do a lot of re…

    ... ]I do have a fast multi-pixel scrolling routine that would suit ...
    psj3809 psj3809 June 2008 Games
  • Head over Heels on the C64Dunno if this' a good place to bring this up :D I've been comparing Head over Heels versions and the C64 version is way inferior, everytime there's…

    ... to make that a very fast operation.

    It's ... when you use the hardware scrolling... ;)
    AndyC AndyC June 2008 Games
  • Name your top five shoot em upsMine: 1 - SWIV 2 - NARC 3 - Silkworm 4- R-Type 5- Lightforce Yes, this IS a blatant attempt to find more good shoot em ups to play on my Nintendo D…

    ... , but the scrolling and shooting action is smooth and relatively fast, two ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 June 2008 Games
  • Who is still an active gamer?Does anyone play contemporary games? I'm a big fan of Battlefield 2142, Enemy Territory Quake Wars and the delightful Urban Terror.

    ... potions/poisons.

    My character is a wood elf, so ... /> To build up your Alchemy fast, buy ingredients from the innkeepers ... point it at the sleeping character.

    Swimming will raise ...
    Vampyre Vampyre July 2008 Chit chat
  • multiplayer games you had to play by yourself....cos you smell and you have no freinds. not on about the game with two player options but you could easily play on your own. but did you ever plug…

    ... particularly nasty boss with stationery character[/quote]

    I've ... that too, with a few scrolling beat 'em ups. It's ...
    ToxieDogg ToxieDogg July 2008 Chit chat
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