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  • Surf the net via Spectrum(ZX Box)I found this project om sourceforge. [url="http://zxbox.sourceforge.net/"]http://zxbox.sourceforge.net/[/url] You can download a early version fro…

    ... 's (emulator) communication features)
    hardware:
    a simple interface (a ...
    -margin bell
    -smooth scrolling mode
    -self tests
    Mikie Mikie November 2005 Emulators
  • Would you buy speccy games if they were made/sold today?Say for some crazy instant that ZX Spectrum came back on the scene bigtime and they started making selling ZX Spectrum versions of the latest games, …

    ... imagine that the PC's hardware spec is affected with a ... cannot be modified to display scrolling colour graphics, or if there ...
    Ashley Pomeroy Ashley Pomeroy January 2006 Games
  • What does Sir Clive do nowadays ?I have searched the net a lot, but can't find much about Sir Clive's present whereabouts. The Sincair Research-pages still offer the same products a…

    ... a joystick port, specific hardware for sprites and scrolling, and a half ... Sinclair marketing strategy) sprite and scrolling hardware that was difficult to program ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Unknown UTPG game?well, maybe you know about it, but as I&#180;ve read about the [B]Ultimate Play the Game[/B] titles, never seen this one... surely this wasn&#180;t m…

    ... would've meant the C64 hardware could come to play and ... would have suited the C64 hardware better.[/QUOTE]

    [b ... do the scrolling and player ship and still have six hardware sprites ...
    TMR TMR May 2006 Games
  • What is it exactly about that Spectrum that you like so much?I'm sure that most people here will agree that there's something very special about the Speccy, thats why we visit WOS afterall... But what why has i…

    ... their video hardware to do things like sprites and scrolling which tended ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2006 Games
  • Missing NemesisI was reading one of the threads the other day about over rated spectrum games and came across the suggestion that Nemesis (the space shooter known a…

    ... .[/QUOTE]


    The hardware is pretty much irrelevant. NEMESIS ... horizontal shooter to program... The scrolling isn't fast, and it ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2006 Games
  • Missing NemesisI was reading one of the threads the other day about over rated spectrum games and came across the suggestion that Nemesis (the space shooter known a…

    ... horizontal shooter to program... The scrolling isn't fast, and it ... both have hardware sprites and can do pixel-level scrolling with next ... makes them superb machines for scrolling shoot-em-ups. The MSX ... bit harder to get the scrolling.

    Given that ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2006 Games
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... refined some of SPIN's hardware emulation to more accurately match ... code to do some screen scrolling or perhaps some other screen ...
    Woody Woody July 2006 Emulators
  • The best ever side scroller on the Speccy.We've seen a lot of threads on this so why not a poll! :) Zynaps by far is the best imo! It's got the colours, the quality and polish, the smooth sc…

    ... the C64's best hardware tricks of scrolling and sprites that it ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Games
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... could claim that all the scrolling shooters for the Spectrum that ... , what possible use are hardware sprites and scrolling when you can do ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... 'd personally rather have a hardware blitter than sprites. It's ... that certainly had blitting and scrolling but not sprites. Anyway, they ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Is the new "Retro Gamer" any good?The only place that would carry it (a Barnes & Noble built on the site of an abandoned golf course) no longer did after Live Publishing folded. I hea…

    ... later shelved for the horizontally scrolling game we all love today ... game called Mayday using Defender hardware.

    Bugs in the ...
    Gilby Gilby October 2006 Chit chat
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... as a character display and hardware sprites, which means sprites can ... vs the msx. For instance, scrolling games on the Spectrum tend ... and Operation Wolf, eg). The hardware sprites, on the other hand ... , since the msx has hardware sprites which can be moved ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
  • Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…

    ... 64 can do hi-res hardware pixel scrolling? Are there any examples ...
    AndyC AndyC November 2006 Games
  • Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…

    ... , and all modes have full hardware screen scrolling.

    So the ...
    netraider netraider November 2006 Games
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... Wolf, etc are smooth pixel scrolling whereas on the MSX1 they ... four in one scan line. Hardware sprites take little software overhead ... even from basic using these hardware sprites on an MSX1 ... do them from basic. Also, hardware sprites do not interact with ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2006 Games
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... next superbitmap... whichever that is.... Scrolling is achieved by writing to ... (like with all my other hardware) that the Mayhem Accelerator is ... all depends on what extra hardware is fitted. The Mayhem Accelerator ...
    Quazar Quazar December 2006 Development
  • ZX-Poly platform (a mutiprocessor Spectrum)Hello All May be it would be interestingly for you In the New Year 2007 vacation I wrote the emulator of my platform ZX-Poly (idea since 1994) whic…

    ... .

    Any of you hardware bod's know if it ... like the ULA and no hardware sprites and scrolling ??

    cheers
    Saboteur Saboteur January 2007 Hardware
  • ZX-Poly platform (a mutiprocessor Spectrum)Hello All May be it would be interestingly for you In the New Year 2007 vacation I wrote the emulator of my platform ZX-Poly (idea since 1994) whic…

    ... .
    Any of you hardware bod's know if it ... the ULA and no hardware sprites and scrolling ??

    cheers[/ ... architecture can be build in hardware (because it developed to be ... />
    There is not any hardware graphic accelerator in the architecture ...
    Raydac Raydac January 2007 Hardware
  • Battle of Games 6: Shoot em Ups 1Greetings to all :D Welcome to the first battle of games dedicated to Shoot Em Ups. First because I'm pretty sure everybody will speak of some game I…

    ... of 3D games or non scrolling shooters.

    It's ... for game based around C64 hardware tricks.
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Games
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... the C64 with its hardware assisted sprites and scrolling. That raised the ...
    Womble Womble February 2007 Development
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... the C64 with its hardware assisted sprites and scrolling. That raised the ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong February 2007 Development
  • Fixing Attribute Clash via emulationI'm sorry if this has been posted already, but is there a possibility to fix attribute clash via emulation? I'm not talking about RealSpec or any of …

    ... been to redesign the video hardware and the write new programs ... the load. Even then, its scrolling games were most often character ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Emulators
  • Anything good on the Sam Coupe?I've just tried a Sam Coupe and seen two of its headline games/conversions in action - Lemmings and Prince of Persia. Both are excellent. This comput…

    ... using MODE2 for the main scrolling levels)

    1991: Manic ... great game)


    Hardware Highlights
    -------------------

    1989 ...
    Quazar Quazar April 2007 Games
  • Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…

    ... a lot of active scrolling projects in the Spectrum scene ... Spectrum has pretty much zero hardware support for anything and ... ) updates (because of the scrolling) and several moving sprites there ... />
    However, many nice scrolling Spectrum games were for the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2007 Development
  • Can you write in the border?Is it at all technically possible in any way to get stuff into the border, apart from changing the border colour? I believe the C64 used the border a…

    ... ://obo.homeip.net/fred65_menu1.png"]scrolling message[/url].

    Even ... , a quirk in the display hardware can be used to create ... initials[/url] below the border scrolling message.

    Si
    obo obo November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... hardware differences. Games that need [b]smooth[/b] full-screen background scrolling ...
    TVzombie TVzombie December 2007 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... ), plus the C64's forte, scrolling shooters, never appealed to me ... nonsense. Yes, it had better hardware for many gametypes. Yes it ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2007 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... certainly wins), the best horizontally scrolling shmup etc etc.. There's ... and nothing to do with hardware limitations, from which the only ...
    Fizza Fizza January 2008 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... do as far as vertical scrolling games went...

    [QUOTE ... i don't really "get" hardware design... =-)

    [QUOTE=TVzombie ...
    TMR TMR January 2008 Games
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