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  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... where just great, plus smooth scrolling, exellent sound and 3.5 ... + was a great peace of hardware, maybe similar to the SAM ...
    Arm73 Arm73 February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... needs to be done in hardware, hence you're locked into ... the scrolling back to 25FPS because they were literally hammering the hardware ...
    TMR TMR February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... games I said had superb scrolling and I asked anyone to ... (colour clash and no hardware support for scrolling - two points c64 fans ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... the scrolling back to 25FPS because they were literally hammering the hardware ... significant if you have no hardware to depend on. Even a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... the scrolling back to 25FPS because they were literally hammering the hardware ... the real world and display hardware into consideration anyway... =-)

    TMR TMR March 2004 Games
  • Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??

    ... simple to add to the hardware - they already existed) - i.e ... !

    As for hardware sprites or scrolling? No, I don't ...
    monty.mole monty.mole March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sonic The HedgehogAm I right in thinking that this was released for the speccy? My missus wanted to know how old he is, and i think he is 17. I seem to remember pla…

    ... -hyper-mega-smooth_yet_fast scrolling. Those machines had pretty hardware scrollers, and the ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2004 Games
  • handbook for newbies ?looking at questions what regulary appears on this forum i have an idea. why not to write short book for newbies. if few experienced coders write eac…

    ... above. i think the spectrum hardware manual would also be very ... you should know about the hardware if you're serious.
    scrolling, sound.

    David Webb ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Development
  • Strange layout of Spectrum video memoryHello, does anyone have an idea why the Spectrum's video memory has such a strange layout? I understand that a resolution of 256x192 is an easy mean…

    ... own emulator these days, but hardware is still pretty rare). :)
    scrolling editor using the normal memory ...
    J?rg Pleumann J?rg Pleumann August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... misinformed statement. The CPC's hardware is considerably more flexible than ... colourful sprites (presumably usually for scrolling games, although things like Fast ... Flip screen version of a scrolling game" mode.

    Of ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... `s how the Amiga HW scrolling works, by simply having a ... was written specifically for the hardware and, since a lot of ...
    TMR TMR September 2004 Games
  • 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…

    ... of this or that capability ( hardware sprites/scrolling etc. ) although it did ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... to its SID chip, hardware sprites, scrolling ability and volume of titles ...
    Antiriad Antiriad October 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... to its SID chip, hardware sprites, scrolling ability and volume of titles ...
    MattLamb MattLamb October 2004 Games
  • New Game Production ChallengeGreetings to all the communiy :) I have been around long enough to see that there are some very good spectrum programmers out here. Now, [start obvi…

    ... somewhat for the Speccy (hardware sprites and scrolling, removes some of the ...
    TMR TMR October 2004 Games
  • The Spectrum is a Piece of ShitHow can you all stand there and defend a computer that was ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH even back in 1982, compared to classics like the Atari 8-Bit, Commodore…

    ... />
    Unfortunately there's no hardware support for this on the ... do I produce a smooth scrolling shed ?
    [/quote]

    jonathan jonathan October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…

    ... which does full screen, 50fps scrolling like Mission Genocide. You can ... and mad games full of hardware sprites and a stupid soundchip ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Amstrad CPC Emulator?After reading a favourable comment on one of the other threads, I fancy having a look at what the CPC had to offer, since I've never really had the c…

    ... use of the CPC's hardware like T.L.L. then ... />
    This is true for scrolling-oriented games with few sprites ... of the CPC's superior scrolling abilities. But ther is just ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…

    ... looking, so you can quote hardware facts all you like - but ... is the fact that the scrolling rate is different both horizontally ... would always be slower (no scrolling, lots of sprites).

    AndyC AndyC November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Non-spectrum Ultimate games?I was just browsing round Rare's site and their chronology: [url="http://www.rareware.com/games/timeline/timeline_content.html"]http://www.rareware.…

    ... to take advantage of the hardware in the target machine if ... way to get the C64 hardware involved were found.

    hardware smooth scrolling could have got involved ...
    TMR TMR December 2004 Games
  • Speccy vs C64 loading screen artHi everybody, Don't know if someone post this before, but i never see it and was just nice to appreciate. Check this: [url="http://www.lemon64.com/…

    ... then the commode has hardware assistance for scrolling and sprites). But all ...
    monty.mole monty.mole 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…

    ... advantage of the Amiga's hardware and still only managed to ... module to provide fast drawing, scrolling, etc. And you'd need ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Development
  • Commodore fan needs guidance.Hi all, first off what an awesome site! As the title says I grew up with Commodore machines so am not really up on Spectrum classics. I recently got…

    ... clear of most of the scrolling shooter's like R-Type ... because they had great scrolling *without* any hardware assistance, in full colour ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2005 Games
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... displays of the C64 make scrolling games VERY easy to implement ... is done by the gfx hardware aswell.

    EDIT:
    Fr?hn Fr?hn July 2005 Games
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... bored after 4 minutes of scrolling greetings.

    About the ... a SID chip nor hardware sprites and scrolling just because if the ... speccy would have included the hardware ...
    na_th_an na_th_an July 2005 Games
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... fit, ignored. If the hardware is used well the final ... and 24 hardware sprites along with full screen scrolling refreshed every frame ... could probably be handled with hardware sprites too.

    [ ... it's far more a hardware scroll and sprites action game ...
    TMR TMR July 2005 Games
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... one hell of a pain. Hardware double buffering can help but ... monitors. Simple stuff like vertical scrolling should work through a modulator ... to looking closely at the hardware, but from memory it's ...
    AndyC AndyC July 2005 Games
  • Did Sonic the Hedgehog ever come out on the Speccy?Couldn't find anything in the Archive.

    ... would require substantial research into scrolling routines before you start looking ... . The Master System's sprite hardware is limited (maximum of 128 ... easier to convert a non-scrolling title like Vampire Killer from ...
    Jmk Jmk July 2005 Games
  • commodore 64 site???when I was a kid, I had the old +3 spectrum, most of my friends had the 48k and the +2 (my dad baught the +2 on christmas...got to impatient and swap…

    ... do the game justice. Smooth scrolling, multiplexed hardware sprites, disk drives with ...
    BuzzySounds BuzzySounds September 2005 Emulators
  • commodore 64 site???when I was a kid, I had the old +3 spectrum, most of my friends had the 48k and the +2 (my dad baught the +2 on christmas...got to impatient and swap…

    ... />
    [quote]
    Smooth scrolling, multiplexed hardware sprites, disk drives with decent ... C64 did without any extra hardware...

    [quote]
    Look ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler September 2005 Emulators
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