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Japanese-only or lesser-known games you playedI've noticed by their comments there are a few people on WOS (hi Vertigo, dm_boozefreek etc.) who have played titles which were either never released…
... emulator and this time round I was totally crap at it :D ... scenes, which was very impressive at the time (SD Valis or Syd ... didn't seem too bad at the time), no wonder it never ... />
Wani-Wani World, a quality one screen at a time platform puzzler that should ... -
That game so easy...Do you remember any game so, so easy that you completed in the first, second or third time you played it?
... the penultimate screen and i had saved it at the wrong time accidentally ... my Xbox. Did a big cheating snapshot save at the start of ... . I did it a few levels at a time over a number of days. I ... -
Tiscali now famous around the world......as the ISP that tried to get (private, non-Tiscali customers) website owners to subsidise their company. They say there's no such thing as bad pu…
... of 512k or before that a 56k modem ;)[/quote]
Ah ... hour at a time and the only time I could tie up the telephone line ... on the internet for just a hour a day. Dunno what I ... -
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…
... the left at the bottom of the screen, then ... /> // movement of two pixels at a time ensures the horizontal march takes ... ;
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Looking for an extended BASIC graphics routine from mid- to late-80sHello all, This is my first post here so please go easy. This is basically a cut-and-paste job from comp.sys.sinclair where I've had no luck with an…
... using the latest Spectaculator emulating a stock 48K rubber-key with ... . I'd seen stand-alone fill routines for the Spectrum, but ... />
Unfortunately it's a flood fill (unstable for large areas as ... ram) and it's pixel at a time, making it quite slow. But ... -
8 pixel scrollingJust been playing Gunrunner (always forget how much I love this game, probs cos it's VERY hard) and wondered what other games use 8 pixel scrolling A…
... ://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/j/JailBreak_2 ... breaking their leaders out of a cell that they've been ... the cell apart one brick at a time. You have to shoot all ... /> I played this game* a long time ago, so I know.
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…
... waste so much time trying to find a proper position. Whenever ... has a strong tendency to generate a long "corridor" at the top ... at a time), we could traverse it starting at the center of the screen ... spending more time trying to figure out a faster and short ...Your laptop recommendationsAfternoon. After a good new Win XP Pro laptop capable of doing pretty much everything including playing games. I tend not to play anything 3D but do …
... problems with an Acer Aspire at the moment actually, it' ... touchpad stops responding for a few seconds at a time every couple of minutes ... want to move everything to a laptop for space and ... 'd rather have a proper screen resolution than a tiny little lightweight ...RZX Player interface - Possible?If I have a Mass Storage interface and some media (CF, SD) with a couple RZX files, what would I need to play them on a real Spectrum? If the RZX fil…
You're going to need a physical bit of kit which ... an IN (more than just a keyboard as other INs may ... and tweaks the /INT line at the time specified in the RZX file ... .
Basically, this is a ...RZX Player interface - Possible?If I have a Mass Storage interface and some media (CF, SD) with a couple RZX files, what would I need to play them on a real Spectrum? If the RZX fil…
... and tweaks the /INT line at the time specified in the RZX file ... .
Basically, this is a ... straightforward to count (assuming a working M1 line) and fetching some data ... that stuff would fit inside a CPLD (I suspect the ...Carnevil on MAMEDoes anyone know if Carnevil runs well on MAME or another emulator? I'm quite a fan of the game and my local arcade has just got rid of it's machine …
... tried pressing every key one at a time). Without calibrating the gun, it ... -> Default game options -> Screen (or Video) and change it ... blurry. If you're running a flat panel you also want ... usual system is to use a fire button or the P1 ...Heavy on the Magick loading screen.As per [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=284510&postcount=12"]Rickard's observation[/URL], the TAP file is "illegal" (appare…
... loading, one at a time, rotating.
So I could replace the screen, but ...Vintage game-help please!Hi I hope you can help me. I am trying to remember / find a game that i used to play on my ZX Spectrum about 18 years ago (I know its a long shot!)…
Was it a puzzle game in the sense that you only played on one screen at a time (i.e. finish one screen, then move on to the next, etc)?
Or could you roam around?
Oh, and welcome to wonderful WoS!Vintage game-help please!Hi I hope you can help me. I am trying to remember / find a game that i used to play on my ZX Spectrum about 18 years ago (I know its a long shot!)…
Thanks ZnorXman! You only played one screen at a time. You could only roam around the room you where in on that level.megadrive and mastersystem gamesyo know what to do next, list your faves, and discuss
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Flicky (arcade action at it's best).
screen at a time game, gives Bubble Bobble a run for it ... get it just to laugh at, the Megadrive version is shockingly ... changes the mask to a skull instead of a hockey mask, but ...Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... years old and the screen looked so clear and ... up my bid more for a Vectrex. Really impressive, ... them trickle out one at a time to keep the cost ... last year, along with a couple of vectrexes.
... that one is still available at reasonable prices.
Goldeneye (N64) can still surprise!After eleven years, I thought I'd seen and done everything Goldeneye on the N64 has to offer, but I've found this video: [url]http://uk.youtube.com/…
... still play it for hours at a time (despite having two PCs, ... having only a quarter of the screen (or half, in a two player ... />
Granted full screen play (one player per screen, as in networked ... where you are by looking at your screen area. It also stops ...Goldeneye (N64) can still surprise!After eleven years, I thought I'd seen and done everything Goldeneye on the N64 has to offer, but I've found this video: [url]http://uk.youtube.com/…
... still play it for hours at a time (despite having two PCs, ... having only a quarter of the screen (or half, in a two player ... />
Granted full screen play (one player per screen, as in networked ... where you are by looking at your screen area. It also stops ...Forum Improvements[quote=Dunny;307892]Yebbut, I'm not interested in reporting any threads that are off topic, so long as they stay in the off topic area. What I would …
... do have Aspergers but that line has been used many ... , but I'd say at least 75% of official ... have known me for a long time can attest although I ... frequently go AWOL for months at a time and come back like ... Lot's of us where at fault and pretty much everybody ...Post your computer stupiditiesI used to check this site out quite a lot [url]http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/[/url] but it doesnt get updated much. So i was wondering what stu…
... never saw him write a single line of code) put us ... forward for a massive warehouse ... like "Just in time" or something in a meeting so they ... only pick up one item at a time even if the job ... was hilarious how every time they said something I ...Programming Books for Kids - Whats happened to programming?What has happened to Programming in the 00's :( I remember at the tender age of 9 exitedly going to my library to get one of them colourfull program…
... set up in such a way that line numbers are generated automatically ... it easier so spot what line the Java compiler is complaining ... the instructions are executed one at a time in the order they appear ... what to do.
Line numbers in someway help convey ...The Dizzy (spit spit) gamesI [B][U][COLOR=red]HATE[/COLOR][/U][/B] Dizzy. The shallow, one dimensional character and his stupid, annoying, repetitive games. If it was up to me,…
... I? He appeared in a few budget graphic adventures that ... tried the first one ). At the time it didn't matter ... the spectrum mags struggled to fill their pages.
... successfully marketing a mediocre character franchise at a time when there was a lack ...Gears Of War 2Is anybody playing this? I've almost finished it now as I'm on chapter 5. I must say that I've really enjoyed it. It is rather linea though, but the …
... 314836]I watched a video of it from a magazine disc ... push up, and invents to fill, and stories to experience. ... take on 5 enemies at a time rather than a horde. and ammo ... isn't that hot, a bit hit and miss, ... but you get a slowed down system than lets ...Game engine design, graphic format?Having never written a game engine before, I'm in need of a little advice on the best way to store the game map. Its 512 x 896 map, 4-way scrolling,…
... and moving 2 pixel lines at a time upwards, fairly nippy using the ... picked up from the 'fast screen writes' thread. Though I soon ... 'd need to rewrite it a different way due to colour ...Skool Daze disassemblyWhile developing [url="http://pyskool.wordpress.com/"]Pyskool[/url], I've also been putting together a disassembly of Skool Daze and Back to Skool, m…
I've had a look at the sprites used ... sprites you could do a reasonable job by looking ... transparent inner bits), and a couple of the teachers ... tile at a time). There is also what I call a "screen refresh ... square on-screen that needs updating after a pass through ...BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... complicated to convert part of a screen to UDGs if the selection ... could have more than one screen at a time? Users may want to have ... one screen with sprites, sketches, and a second one where ... they want to convert to a Spectrum screen. Let's call it ...BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... complicated to convert part of a screen to UDGs if the selection ... could have more than one screen at a time? Users may want to have ... you? File...New will create a new screen - you can open as ... they want to convert to a Spectrum screen. Let's call it ...Jetpac questionHi all, I just bought a copy of Jetpac off of Ebay and I'm having problems. To start, I'm trying to play it on an issue 2 Speccy with Interface 1, 2 …
... program relocates the stack onto screen memory at a 32-byte area adjacent ... display in real time in a certain part of the screen as this ... the name for a stack being shown on the screen like this ... or less trustworthy than the screen RAM that the program itself ...the S.P.I.T. awardsthat is the Spectrum Programs Incineration Thank you AWARDS your top five WORST games ever ever ever first!!! no order SUPER SOCCER (much promi…
... preferred it to Hungry Horace at the time.
Schizoids was overhyped ... rave reviews, but isn't at all bad.
... quite interesting at the time.
I think that a lot of ... a couple of years down the line at a higher price was nothing but a ...Why were most spectrum games on Monochrome?OK, I know about the whole "Attribute clash" that you get on the spectrum. And I've spoken to someone who claims to have been an Ocean programmer, wh…
... smoothness itself is down to a host of design decisions... ... that moved all over the screen seem to move logically. ... Dare 3 and Extreme a bit of a mess - controls and ... is fantastic!). There's a .tap file that loads ... mode, or one level at a time in 48K mode. I ...
