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Horizontal scrollDoes anyone know how to do a 2 or 4 pixel left or right horizontal scroll of the spectrum screen. I can make a 1 one pixel scroll with: ... rl (hl…
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Best scrolling shooters on speccy?I think one of most popular genres, besides mazes, was scrolling shooter. Can you remember any favorites to recommend, besides r-type
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ZX81 ScrollingI'm tempted to have a go at a bit of ZX81 programming, using MCODER II, though I could really use a fast multi-directional scrolling routine. Does a…
I'm tempted to have a go at a bit of ZX81 programming, using MCODER II, though I could really use a fast multi-directional scrolling routine.
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Best scrolling everHi All - I've been lurking here for a while enjoying reminiscing about my magical 10 years of rubber-keyed fun back in my youth! What game featured …
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1) Full colour scrolling e.g. Lightforce - difficult ...
The full-colour scrolling in Lightforce is smoother than ... and did smooth monochrome scrolling both horizontally in Uridium and ... from the jerky blockwise scrolling. Probably the best was ... -
IM 2 interrupts and smooth scrolling - easy peasy!Okay, been fiddling around with IM 2 and have actually mastered (I think) how to use IM 2! Now I run my game Ragnar Revival in IM2 and use HALT to sy…
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Cobra - scrollingHi everyone, I have been studying some of the code in Ocean' Cobra game using a debugger, in the hope of improving my own scrolling routines. In cas…
... hope of improving my own scrolling routines. In case your not ... IMO some of the best scrolling i've seen in a ... -
Vertically Scrolling Shoot-em-upsHi everyone, I want to put together a list of vertical scrolling shoot-em-ups. I have most of the well known ones (see list) on it already, but i'm …
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Flicker on my scrolling demo, any ideas?I have created a scrolling demo downloadable from [url="http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/scroll.z80"]http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/scroll.…
I have created a scrolling demo downloadable from [url="http:// ... [/url] (.z80) which demonstrates my scrolling engine.
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First game with scrollingMany games are just a bunch of static screens - you have to exit one screen to see another (for example Manic Miner, Saboteur, Bruce Lee). But there …
... go in any direction the scrolling begins (for example RoboCop). I ... the first Spectrum game with scrolling.
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Parallax scrollingIt's about time to start new "games with" topic! So, let's make a list of Spectrum games with parallax scrolling. 3 titles to begin: Cobra Hysteria S…
It's about time to start new "games with" topic! So, let's make a list of Spectrum games with parallax scrolling.
3 titles to begin:
Cobra
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Shoot-em-up Development UpdateHi Folks, I am still working away at my horizontal scroller. Here is a link to let you see progress. I have re-written the scrolling routine to make…
... still working away at my horizontal scroller. Here is a link ... . I have re-written the scrolling routine to make it faster ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... simulations, board games, and non-scrolling arcade games. SP1 *cannot* do ... scrolling well at all. AT ALL ... may add some character-level scrolling at some point to ... column required in splib2 for horizontal pixel placement of sprites is ... -
Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…
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horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…
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Top-down scrolling driving games...What would be the best top-down scrolling-screen driving game for the spectrum - excluding Trans-Am?
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Games with Parallax ScrollingI loved that effect. It gave a false depth to the game.. To me a game with parallax scrolling was a better game. How wrong I was.. anyway, a list of…
... me a game with parallax scrolling was a better game. How ... of some games with parallax scrolling:
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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…
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Good horizontally scrolling platformers?Hi folks, Would anyone care to recommend some good horizontally scrolling platform games on the Speccy. Regards, Shaun.
Hi folks,
Would anyone care to recommend some good horizontally scrolling platform games on the Speccy.
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what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
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A scrolling starfield - help needed!I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but…
I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but . . . how do you create random stars? Some help would be greatly appreciated?
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2D Scrolling tile based editorOk, first of all, I thought TommyGun could do it, but the option to create a 2d scrolling map is greyed out.... All I want to do is create some 8x8p…
Liverton vs EverpoolIt's been a few ages since I last saw a proper football game on TV, it was sometime last century but anywho amazingly enough there's a match going on…
... either horizontal boards which flipped over, or just these large scrolling ones ...Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…
... completed the top third before scrolling it? Also double buffering, would ... great deal of difference when scrolling one third or 2 thirds ... /> Thanks.. I've never done scrolling before so any help is ...Sprites masterclassHi All, You guys are probably tired of explaining sprites but I'd like to clarify a few things if possible. I've sorted the vertical aspect of scro…
... sorted the vertical aspect of scrolling using an address table but ... struggling with the concept of horizontal movement.
If you ...Smooth (vertical) scrolling on ZX SpectrumI was just thinking about this. You know, you have systems like Atari 2600 or Sega SG-1000 that have no hardware scroll, but they have games that sti…
... (probably full 50 fps) vertical scrolling. Games like Monaco GP (SG ... Spectrum games have all jerky scrolling when it is about to ... guy that could do the scrolling smooth - J. Smith but then ...Implementing smooth scrolling in games that don't haveHowdy, How easy/difficult in general is it to hack smooth scrolling into a game that scrolls on boundaries such as Gothik or Saracen? Does it depend …
... is it to hack smooth scrolling into a game that scrolls ... on the engine or are scrolling routines fairly standard? Could I ...Tile based graphics and scrolling thingy...Here's my best attempt so far at a tile based rendering and scrolling routine. It draws in 22 8*8 graphics tiles along the top of the screen (junk i…
... a tile based rendering and scrolling routine.
It draws ...Pixelwise scrolling sideways - how many ways to do it?Not that I need to, but I've been wondering if there's a good way to do this that I haven't considered. Scrolling [B]pixelwise [/B]vertically is "ea…
... haven't considered.
Scrolling [B]pixelwise [/B]vertically is ...SEUD - How to - Part IOK, a few weeks ago, I bought my copy of SEUD to make my first game on the Spectrum after 26 years! :) I'm learning it yet, but I'll show to you my a…
... of the game (vertical or horizontal), you will create the waves ... die. :)
W: Window/Scrolling - here we will define the ...Games with good scrollingI know the Speccy's forte was not scrolling games but their must have been some that not flick screen and maybe even smooth! I remember playing a few…
... Speccy's forte was not scrolling games but their must have ...
