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  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... wrote:

    1) The attribute colour problem
    2) The ... disappointment.

    1) The attribute problems... But what about the ... the horrible problems that you get with certain colour combinations on ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2004 Games
  • Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …

    ... /> EI

    ; Get GFX for char and add ... SCREEN ADDRESS TO AN ATTRIBUTE ADDRESS
    ; ...
    LD A,(DE) ; Get Mask
    AND (HL) ... /> LD A,(DE) ; Get Graphic
    OR (HL) ...
    robpearmain robpearmain September 2004 Development
  • Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …

    ...


    ; Get GFX for char and add ... SCREEN ADDRESS TO AN ATTRIBUTE ADDRESS
    ; ...
    LD A,(DE) ; Get Mask
    AND (HL) ... /> LD A,(DE) ; Get Graphic
    OR (HL) ...
    robpearmain robpearmain September 2004 Development
  • Spindizzy: good or horrible?Spindizzy is definately a much-loved old speccy game but is it actually any good? I played it a load back in the day, but i played every game i had …

    ... easily enough. Poke the required coordinates at #CA3D and #CA3E, exit ... those hard as nails to get diamonds :)

    Example 1 ...
    BadBeard BadBeard September 2004 Games
  • Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …

    ... A SCREEN ADDRESS TO AN ATTRIBUTE ADDRESS
    ; ... br /> LD A,(DE) ; Get Graphic
    OR (HL) ... br /> LD A,(DE) ; Get Graphic
    OR (HL) ... br /> LD A,(DE) ; Get Graphic
    OR (HL) ...
    robpearmain robpearmain September 2004 Development
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... trade-off to get more colours into one attribute area, the pixels ...
    TMR TMR September 2004 Games
  • Can Anyone explain sprites in Jet Pac/Atic Atac etcJet Pac was 16k, and yet the sprites were impressively fast. I notice they had a slight flicker at times, but were notmally pretty flicker free. W…

    ... screen address to an attribute address
    ; on ... /> ld c,(hl) ; get last screen address and store ... /> ld e,(hl) ; get new graphic address
    inc ... /> ld c,(hl) ; get last graphic address and store ... br /> ld a,(hl) ; get sprite height + store
    ...
    robpearmain robpearmain October 2004 Development
  • More colours (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... /> [...] but is it possible to get an interlaced 512*384?[/quote ... has nothing to do with attribute interlacing that can give unusual ...
    secarica secarica October 2004 Emulators
  • Them! (project future modelled game) hello! i was hoping someone could answer a problem i am having completing this game.i have recorded the game for RZX viewing yet,i cannot complete i…

    ... to stand without updating the coordinates. I had to warp myself ... into the wall to get it to work.

    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous January 2005 Games
  • Head Over Heels - 256 ColoursAfter two weeks of painstaking work I've finally completed my 256 Colour version of the classic Head Over Heels, for use in Vladimir Khladov's excell…

    ... screen, etc. You could probably get around this partially by colouring ... with the normal Spectrum ink attribute, but that won't look ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2005 Games
  • Head Over Heels - 256 ColoursAfter two weeks of painstaking work I've finally completed my 256 Colour version of the classic Head Over Heels, for use in Vladimir Khladov's excell…

    ... wrote:
    You could probably get around this partially by colouring ... with the normal Spectrum ink attribute, but that won't look ... be the only way to get around the problem though. I ... knows of any trick to get around this too?
    Arjun Arjun February 2005 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... the keyboard. So if you get into difficulties, press both Shift ... then the same again to get back to normal L/C ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…

    ... real change for me to get into this little endian archiecture ... is mapping x,y screen coordinates onto the spectrum's video ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Retro Gamer dead and buriedJust in case anyone is interested, Live Publishing (who publish Retro Gamer) have gone belly up and were put into administration on Monday. All their…

    ... don't think you can attribute the collapse of Live Publishing ... you seem to possess and get on with what you're ...
    RetroDrivel RetroDrivel August 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Retro Gamer dead and buriedJust in case anyone is interested, Live Publishing (who publish Retro Gamer) have gone belly up and were put into administration on Monday. All their…

    ... don't think you can attribute the collapse of Live Publishing ... you seem to possess and get on with what you're ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler August 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Scart Leads for spectrumHi, I was going through my stuff the other day and found I have all the bits for making spectrum scart leads. I was going to ebay them but thought …

    ... be able to see the attribute blocks more easily because of ... Batman and Rambo. Sometimes you get too much detail.

    Spector Spector October 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …

    ... and although there is severe attribute/graphic glitches, you *can* continue ... ,so for now we'll get the program to ignore it ... />
    To free it and get yourself moving again you can ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous November 2005 Games
  • The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …

    ... up when it can't get the data from memory.
    get more than one colour attribute per 8 pixel ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2005 Hardware
  • The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …

    ... 's 8 pixels and an attribute byte. An easy extension is ... the addressing of the attribute fetched to get the Timex hi-colour ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2005 Hardware
  • The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …

    ... 's 8 pixels and an attribute byte. An easy extension is ... the addressing of the attribute fetched to get the Timex hi-colour ... of 8x8 pixels, the same attribute byte is read by the ...
    monty.mole monty.mole November 2005 Hardware
  • Creating a loading screen in 80'sToday painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loa…

    ... 's strange, but when you get used to certain software, it ... was great for getting around attribute problems.

    DeluxePaint IV ... how easy it is to get it to do what you ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers February 2006 Games
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... the target, check its absolute coordinates and increment-decrement (say 1 ... make sure the target will get hit sooner or later (since ...
    TrueVideo TrueVideo March 2006 Development
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... is that the missile's coordinates, and the values you are ... -point counterparts; you'll also get rid of the FP-Calc ...
    GOC GOC March 2006 Development
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... with areas rather than single coordinates to detect collisions. In the ... 've posted the missile would get a sure hit if area ...
    TrueVideo TrueVideo March 2006 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... very tasty if I could get at z88dk's map file ... is supposed to help with attribute clash. The idea is to ... direction :smile:

    About attribute masks: these came about for ... to careful colour selection and attribute masking. This is also something ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... buffer and a single byte attribute buffer, which is then copied ... marked so that they never get added to the draw list ... of screen that need drawing get redrawn
    - No erasing of ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... the fastest code you will get on the 8-bitters without ... fifth as fast, and could get worse if the C is ... placed. The only way to get performance approaching hand coded asm ... and a 32x192 pixel + 32x192 attribute mode. These work on the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Getting attribute location from a screen coordinates (x,y)I am having trouble figuring out how to convert an x,y coordinate pair (pointing to a specific pixel) to the location of the attribute for the block …

    ... /> [B]3. 8-bit Character Coordinates[/B]

    X ... br /> [B]4. 16-bit Attribute Address[/B]

    ...

    ; Computes the attribute address corresponding to a screen ... ; exit : hl = address of attribute square
    ; uses : af, ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... the pointer? You can probably get rid of the slight flicker ... a delta to the mouse coordinates. Then you can do two ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
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