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  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... JamesD,

    See your point and could be useful. It ... .

    Indexes/keys provide fast random access to data. Linked ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …

    ... , but can create a choke point screwing up a game and ... does force you to think fast, move quickly, and find cover ... keep restarting from a set point, in some game cases, making ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2010 Chit chat
  • Feedback need about a platform gameI've developed a few iPhone games based on 8-bit computer games and am now working on a stealth platformer for the iPad. I believe that 8-bit gamepl…

    ... 't lend itself to a fast paced reflex/reaction time based ... , but there must be other fast paced games around on that ... the above, perhaps try a point and click target system, like ... cannon fodder (you point where you want your player ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil October 2010 Announcements
  • Teodoro no Sabe VolarIt's out! [URL="http://www.retroworks.es/php/game_en.php?id=6"]Go and grab it![/URL] Comment here on in our blog...

    ... 't fire, can't move fast and his jump is hardly ... . :)

    And at some point Teodoro gets a hook which ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx October 2010 Games
  • Kyd Cadet IIWell, it's finally here! Been a bit of a struggle, and thanks to those who gave me pointers. Zip file contains both TZX and TAP versions. Enjoy.... M…

    ... .

    The gameplay is fast and the graphics clear and ... was not sure at some point if I had a "unused ...
    Rickard Rickard October 2010 Development
  • Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…

    ... thing that must have blindingly fast performance. But most of the ... ]
    Maybe I missed the point but if money was saved ...
    Winston Winston November 2010 Development
  • Playing SID music on AY??Hello. Some time ago, with occasion of another thread, I was asking about possibility of making a very certain thing - a SID emulator for Spectrum …

    ... think, there is not much point to make a player for ... frame. For SIDs with very fast player at 50hz the interpreter ...
    Shiru Shiru November 2010 Development
  • emulatorsplease help can we see clearly which emulator emaulates which hardware is there any that has a pc function key for the mulitface nmi button and the +…

    ... 'R' register back to the point just before the 'CALL ZX232 ... machine hooked up to a fast download link to prove technical ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Emulators
  • Oscilloscope Speccy ProgramHi all, I remember very well in the old days when my Speccy was my single computer (around 1992) that I have had an oscilloscope software. This uses…

    Thanks Crisis, for fast response. Disco light is not ... looking for. From a program point of view it is quiet ...
    maskenlos maskenlos November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • UFO Watch tonightthis is probably about the 8th 'UFO out my parents house' thread Ive made on here since I joined, but I thought I'd keep you updated. about 2am some…

    ... am I still talking too fast:p

    Much as ... />
    Anyway this proves my point, rather than disproving it, as ...
    grey key grey key November 2010 Chit chat
  • Oscilloscope Speccy ProgramHi all, I remember very well in the old days when my Speccy was my single computer (around 1992) that I have had an oscilloscope software. This uses…

    ... the window as a reference point.

    The Spectrum is ... of band pass filters or fast fourier transformations (FFT). This area ... rates as 32 BIT floating point multiplication is required.

    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum +3 and Kempston InterfaceFurther to my update here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31812&page=5[/url] I tried a D'Ktronics Kempston compatible …

    ... shelf for show (great talking point at partys!) until I or ... all, the floppy drive is fast enough. If I could convert ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 November 2010 Hardware
  • Nether EarthJust looking at the Top 100 games and this ones pretty high. Anyone like this back then (or now ?). Had a quick go, didnt play it much back in the …

    ... come at you thick and fast while you are still busy ... in 1987. For an opposite point of view, please take a ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu November 2010 Games
  • Ewgf Banned again - a record?Less than 24hrs after returning from a 2 week ban, Ewgf is banned again. This has to be some sort of record. Can anyone beat this? Extra points for g…

    ... . Inevitably one turns nasty so fast no one can moderate it ... . And once you reach that point it's all downhill.
    Winston Winston November 2010 Chit chat
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... .

    I take your point about playing too many games ... I was completeing it too fast)
    Vanquish (Played it once ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob December 2010 Chit chat
  • Infoseek: captcha?Once again I've got automatically banned from Infoseek while searching for loading screens and authors :) Since it's very frustrating to be recognize…

    ... next 10. That's the point where I got banned :D ... +click, which makes it really fast) triggered the ban.
    moroz1999 moroz1999 December 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Carmageddon port crashes and burns?Why did no one post on here that the DOS classic Carmageddon was being remaded to run on Windows (well, a coder was writing his own version of the ga…

    ... to run DosBOX in a fast mode for it to be ... people (non-gamers) missed the point and only focussed on the ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2010 Chit chat
  • 3D Racers...what's your favourite?I'm talking along the lines of outrun and super hang-on A personal fave is Nightmare Rally (more for the loading screen), I really wanted to like lo…

    ... . It's a Speccy strong-point. Speccy's has a much ... effects.
    C64 version is fast and very playable even better ...
    Pegaz Pegaz December 2010 Games
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... is partly determined by how fast an unrolled set of ... . Unless the CPU is fast enough you can do it ... speed until you reach the point you can paint the whole ... in and out of RAM fast and waste as little ... the interrupt response is very fast too) and it's pipelined ...
    Winston Winston December 2010 Hardware
  • Dodgy Ebay auctionHi all, just come across these: [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sinclair-Spectrum-Allstars-v1-Emulator-PC-Brand-New-/200555510968?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&h…

    ... />
    There is a good point here.

    While WoS ... a matter of greed and fast money.
    mheide mheide December 2010 Games
  • Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …

    ... screens :)

    Your first point is pretty obvious so I ... use a very fast build script and a fast computer, so I ... masked sprites on screen, and fast. Even if there was no ...
    Timmy Timmy December 2010 Development
  • Can a ZX81 be upgraded to a Spectrum?No, I don't want to do this, and I agree that to do so (even if I could) would be a waste of time. The question is, is it possible though? The upgrad…

    ... course one could use a fast processor or gate array to ... as usual (IMHO): From commercial point of view it is not ...
    roko roko December 2010 Hardware
  • What is the sickest film you have seen?Ive always thought that these films were sick - [URL="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078935/"]Cannibal Holocaust[/URL] [URL="http://www.imdb.com/titl…

    ... just seems to be no point in them.
    [/QUOTE]
    fast and the other 2 I ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob January 2011 Chit chat
  • Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …

    ... ?

    3. Can you fast-forward the emulator (by holding ... the same, but the earliest point increments at the same pace ... as the point you are playing).

    point FUSE to however many diectories ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2011 Emulators
  • yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…

    ... 32 bit arithmetics and floating point),

    the integer ... three options: small, fast and medium. fast tries to reduce multiplier ... asm 32-bit floating point implementation in z88dk now ... the assembler/linker (with fast mass storage device attached) ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Development
  • Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…

    ... updates. In Sabre Wulf the fast moving sprites can skip a ... on the player. Getting a fast movement without looking like the ... data structures. There is a point where more time is consumed ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • My first program - a vertical scrollerHi all, I'm new here. Nice to meet you all! A couple of weeks ago I decided to learn Z80 assembly language. I spent many hours in front of the Spec…

    ... once I'm at a point where the core of a ... free then I get bored fast.
    Mousey Mousey January 2011 Development
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... />
    You probably could, by point-in-rect calculations and the ... in SpecBAS - just using the POINT function would likely be quite ... is why SpecBAS is so fast.

    [quote]
    I ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin Problems etc.Hi Folks, Paul has asked me to open this thread to document any outstanding issues that we find within BASin. No guarantees that Paul can/will fix …

    ... generates an Invalid [B]floating point operation error[/B]
    [*]If ... slow even if using [B]FAST[/B] mode
    [*]Program execution ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Recursive 4-way floodfillHi guys) Shortly, I wanna find out whether there's a way to some object. Perhaps some of you have already encountered such an issue which is relativ…

    ... written to be much more fast.

    The key is ... pixels: one at the starting point, and another one at the ... ending point.

    So I've ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix January 2011 Sinclair Basic
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