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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 ... -
Comedy quiz challengeA few days back, I entered into a battle of wits with Sard, and I came a very respectable second (I should have challenged him to a game of "Put a bi…
... kill time at work by writing a quiz on comedy programs ... , including questions about theme tunes, character's last names, who did ... -
Copying Files in +3e BASIC (not using COPY command)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Yet again I find myself in need of guidance, I am sooo close to getting my prototype up. I am writing my own byte cop…
... up.
I am writing my own byte copy routine ... THEN PRINT #5, 254 // EOF CHARACTER
1040 IF c = 254 ... /> 1090 GOT0 1020 // GET NEXT CHARACTER
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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 ... -
Presentation - writing emulators in JavascriptA couple of weeks back, I gave a 4-minute talk at the [url=http://www.dotjs.eu/]DotJS[/url] Javascript conference, entitled "Why 'eval' makes Javascr…
... language in the world (for writing ZX Spectrum emulators)". It's ... too...
For emulator-writing veterans, the main point of ... -
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…
... for games where the main character or enemy (but can be ... -
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 ... -
Most Excellent Song LyricsSome of the finest writing I've heard has to be from [I]Carter USM[/I]. For example, in [I]Suppose You Gave A Funeral And Nobody Came[/I] (a critiqu…
Some of the finest writing I've heard has ... URL="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000393/quotes"]Clifton James[/URL ... / [URL="http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0013860/quotes"]Jackie Gleason[/URL ... /> And the exquisite piece of writing:
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"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…
... is not really twice as fast. With the fixed scroller the ... -
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:
1. Fast Z80 on the mainboard. Plusses ... than second option.
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SE Basic IV 4.1 Buffy previewSE Basic IV 4.0 Anya was released back in December 2012. You can read about it here: [url]http://cheveron.github.io/sebasic4/[/url] But here's some …
... to enter almost any character directly. META sets bit ... 7 of the next character entered. This is particularly ... when using 8-bit character sets in 80-column ... value of the next character. This has the effect ... complete as I'm writing the comments from scratch ... -
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 ... -
Writing to MIC portSo I had a new crazy idea: How about a stereo beeper engine? Since we can set bit 3 on port $fe to output to MIC, writing such an engine should be ra…
... $fe to output to MIC, writing such an engine should be ... -
Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... back to basic..
*Fast forwards.
Hmmm well ... be..)
Mmmm imagine writing a full program like this ... -
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 …
... direction. i felt like a character in imagine's movie. so ... /as a spectrum game's character in real life? -
What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […
... ]Cyber-Sled[/I] (like a fast [I]Battlezone[/I] arena with ... to have a go at writing a game engine to do ... -
Collision detection for interlocking shapes[SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]I?m looking for some advice as I?m not sure how to resolve the following problem. I have an in memory structure that holds info…
... rectangles to do some basic "fast" collision detection and then looking ... type of game I am writing, both speed and memory size ... -
that "listing variables during runtime" thingWell, I did eventually finish this, but with my meds playing up I don't have much time each day that I can spend at the computer, so it's taken rathe…
... intended. Anyhoo ... rather than writing a separate IM2 interrupt routine ... it was too much hassle writing it in assembler when ... block graphics have their own character set, rather than calling $ ... the parameters for the three character sets.
Part ... -
What good gaming forums/blogs/sites/e-magazines/etc are there?I've just received this months Retro Gamer, and it has articles about games like Knightlore, Strider, and Ballblazer. As always, they concentrate on …
... name and the same main character as a retro game.
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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 ... -
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 ...For Sales: Crash Tech Tape, SuperCopier & Fast SaveThree utility tapes for Sinclair Spectrum, includes: 1) Crash Tech Tape (not currently in WoS archive). [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek…
Creating a linked list in Z80[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am using a circular buffer to store tiles to be displayed on the screen. Tiles only appear for a set period of time, so when …
... but no larger. Everything runs fast but something in the back ... in it. If I was writing this in Delphi or C ...Bug-Eyed Blob Things[URL="http://www.speccyjam.com/games/bug-eyed-blob-things/"]Bug-Eyed Blob Things[/URL] is a great game, that won the [URL="http://www.speccyjam.com/"…
... z88dk+sp1 can handle in "fast" mode (i.e. occluding sprites ... monster animation requires too many character updates at once, you can ...
