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S.O.P. Save Old ProgramsHi ! Does anybody have any idea how can I save my old collection for the future ? I've lots of tapes full of programs. I use Z80 emulator (ver 3.50)…
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Certain Games Wanted - Very Good Prices PaidHi I have been after a few games now for ages and have turned to this forum as the last resort, can you help? I will pay ?5.00 for each of the follo…
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Chess - Psion
Hungry Horace - Melbourne House
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2 AM and still playing?I remember one night when I was intently playing BATMAN (Jon & Bernie version) when I suddenly heard mom asking me, "What on earth are you doing on t…
... , because i used to play horace & the spiders and the ... -
Average age of a Spectrum fanHi! I'm wondering what's the average age of us, readers of this forum. I'm 29 and started playing and programming on the Spectrum when I was 13 (infl…
... . games). I know I loved Horace Goes Skiing, Hangman, and the ... -
Games overrated by MagazinesI know this is a little ambigious (LMLWD) as your worst game could be someone else's best, but sometimes didn't a games review seem a little overboar…
... 't attempt to scale the sprites. Nice digitised animation at the ... -
Games overrated by MagazinesI know this is a little ambigious (LMLWD) as your worst game could be someone else's best, but sometimes didn't a games review seem a little overboar…
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Games overrated by MagazinesI know this is a little ambigious (LMLWD) as your worst game could be someone else's best, but sometimes didn't a games review seem a little overboar…
... of my all time favourite sprites. =)
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speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... had superior graphics and hardware sprites but a slower processor.
speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
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On 2002-04-25 13:35, Anonymous wrote:
The C64 had superior graphics and hardware sprites
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So, LEGO blocks are superior graphics. Great.Favourite 16K gameThe Spectrum had many classics, but few talk about the early 16K ones- they had a simplicity that the later 48K games traded off for technical depth,…
space raiders and horace and the spiders are some of my fave 16k games.3d death chase was 16k according to an advert in crash,this also one of my fave games ever on any system.speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... the C64 had bias towards SPRITES and most games weren't ...speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... have a certain amount of sprites. Okay most games do, but ...Quiz II - Son of QuizA small quiz that covers mostly Spectrum stuff, with the odd C64 question - extend your knowledge. Copy/paste into a reply - add your answers in the…
... evil Zark and his horrible sprites have taken over a world ...Quiz II - Son of QuizA small quiz that covers mostly Spectrum stuff, with the odd C64 question - extend your knowledge. Copy/paste into a reply - add your answers in the…
... evil Zark and his horrible sprites have taken over a world ...speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... have a certain amount of sprites. Okay most games do, but ...Quiz III - Further adventures of... Ok, 20 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. There …
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The Pyramid
Horace Goes Skiing
Gilligans Gold ...speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... old in concept: platform, 2D, sprites, low-res. Only, because there ...Why people are addicted to bad graphic, silly gameplay games?and also, making remakes of them? why there are tons of remakes of boulder dash, jet set willy, manic miner, jetpac, monty mole and so on? why ther…
... than Doom. Maybe, if solid sprites were used (like in Ocean ...Whos Your Favourite Game Programmer ? Mine's Keith Burkhill, Mike Lamb. Its the people behind Commando, Arkanoid. There are others cant remember their names, I'll continue later [img]/_…
girls and speccy gamesit seems that most if not all of us on here are boys (ok so some are men) and i can only recall 1 girl ever posting on here and if your not a girl Sm…
My wife was a speccy user, she tells me she had fond memories of playing Horace goes skiing, and our friend Carol loved manic miner and can hum the tune perfectly
I also new a few at school who were a dab hand at playing gamesScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
Isn't the fastest way having the sprites pre-rotated in memory before shoving them on screen as quick as possible?
Uses loads of memory but there shouldn't be much speed difference vertically or horizontally this way?ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... level on Green Beret are 'sprites'. The scroll 'buffer' is onlt ...Best font in a gameMy faves would have to be: 1. Hobbit 2. Starquake 3. Nodes of Yesod 4. Frankie Goes To Hollywood 5. Knightlore 2 to 5 are stocking fillers compared…
... 's simple: fonts, like the sprites, are part of the code ...ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... - you don't get hardware sprites on a spectrum.ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
Batman-the movie had a great multidirectional scroll,.. dont you think..
moreover it had a lot of sprites and the bat-rope routine (ala bioniccommando)
this game has nice code from mike lambScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... machine, not be convenient for sprites of odd size (odd being ...Arcade and Speccy games.I used to play arcade and Speccy games when I was a kid, but back then I thought the conversions were good. Nowadays I think some were crap. So what …
I remember telling my friends at school that OperationWolf were like the coin op but in black&white and without gun.
actually, I wonder that speccy version has even more sprites at time on screen.. =)Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…
new speccy game here!!You may remember a while ago I posted a demo of a game I was making on this forum, and I asked at the time whether or not anyone knew of any software…
... separate bits to quickly input sprites, and the title screen and ...
