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  • FuseX on the Xbox :releases, testing and feedbackI'm creating a new thread here to continue on from the thread about emulators on the Xbox ([url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php…

    ... skip certain boring parts of games like when it plays a ... "Ant attack" straight vertical and horizontal lines can be seen going ... so slightly less smooth on scrolling.
    is this like this ...
    loony_jetman loony_jetman March 2006 Emulators
  • 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…

    ...

    For horizontal pixel rotation, each "struct sp1_cs ... directly to its left. Horizontal rotation is done by ... games with a limited amount of movement in each frame."
    - Scrolling ... civilization / board game types of scrolling).
    - The engine ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... limits of the Spectrum. Sure, games like R-Type and Zynaps ... than any other horizontal shooter to program... The scrolling isn't fast ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2006 Games
  • Xenon TriOxide (Xeo3)I just wanted you all to know that a new cross platform game has started development (well the +4 version has been around a while, but my colleague f…

    ... b] backbuffer moved by LDI, scrolling by RLD (HL), sprites ... moved by LDI, RL(HL) scrolling, XOR sprites, 28*14 (?)< ... Star[/b] different routines for scrolling by different speed, back buffer ... about 40-50 games which are looking like horizontal shooter but did ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... do hi-res hardware pixel scrolling? [/QUOTE]


    ... easy to do hardware pixel scrolling in multicolour 160x200 or ... offset to one of 8 horizontal positions or 8 vertical ... 3D games and other games that are not reliant on hardware scrolling, ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers 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…

    ... with two colours per 4 horizontal char cells (IIRC), a ... when comparing certain types of games: on the spectrum, for ... games like Green Beret, Operation Wolf, etc are smooth pixel scrolling whereas ... hw sprites in the same horizontal scan line, what is normally ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2006 Games
  • So how much programming experience do you need to create a Spectrum Game?Hi all i was just mucking about with that old program "Game Designer" and i was wondering how difficult it is to write a new Spectrum game?

    ... br />
    The games maker tools that have been ... behave similarly to all games that are made by ... Designer is very good and can produce manic-miner like platform games ... at a couple of recent games by Nathan, eg, ... group of games that don't do any scrolling. It ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2007 Games
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... for reuse, after several games are played, there will ... d_ScrollStart() is called to start scrolling the message and d_ScrollStop() is ... memset(disp, 0, 32); // clear horizontal scanline
    disp += 0x0100; // ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... , and then have vertical or horizontal attribute stripes which span the ... make things interesting - of your scrolling area; needless to say, these ... -em-up or other fast games.

    Of course this ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG May 2008 Games
  • Cecco's arcade gamesThanks to Jesus for stirring up a more passionate debate than some of the flat games chat recently I thought a poll was in order. I have deliberately…

    ... the pretty graphics and smooth scrolling caused a few reviewers not ... problem with single-developer-led games. Cecco was a brilliant programmer ... wasn't a brilliant game designer and whilst [I]Exolon[/I ... [/I] managed to be great games (largely, I think, because ...
    Zagreb Zagreb October 2008 Games
  • 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…

    ... itself to certain areas of games coding/features. Also general ... take it all scrolling effects (vertical and horizontal?) are better on ... few games use this as the officially supported scrolling is ... when looking at games myself, Spectrum games don't seem ...
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... I take it all scrolling effects (vertical and horizontal?) are better on ... when looking at games myself, Spectrum games don't seem ... race for flicker free games introduced backbuffers and backbuffers ... compare Undewurlde against against games of latest 80's.< ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... of writing a crap game designer/generator. Basically, you'd ... up of several existing crap games fairly quickly. It depends ... creators, platform game creators and scrolling shoot em up creators, but ... would generate thousands of crap games rather than just twelve ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2008 Games
  • Best games of 1987A quick and simple thread really. My brain seems to not recall what excited me in '87 on the Speccy. I'm interested more in opinions today rather tha…

    ... end complete with the skimmer designer, 20 varied missions between straight ... a bumper year for strategy games with [I]Vulcan[/I] - probably ... value from the full-priced games of the time.

    scrolling shooter by the name of ...
    Matt_B Matt_B December 2008 Games
  • Successor to the SpeccyBased on the rambling on the other thread it would be interesting to see what people felt was the 'spiritual' successor to the speccy. Amiga here....

    ... code routines did full 320x200 scrolling on two planes, with another ... than that in some Amiga games), but behind that was a ... address of the screen ('synch scrolling'). That's what [I]Enchanted ... stuck with the 16-pixel horizontal step because of the way ...
    joefish joefish May 2009 Chit chat
  • Nice Graphics seduce innocent reviewerWas downloading a few more games to have a whirl on today and came across LIGHTFORCE. Remember this getting smashed by Crash and getting pretty much …

    ... has coloured yet pixel-scrolling backgrounds which the sprites ...
    The majority of Speccy games using colour either opted for ... me of the vertical scrolling sections of [I]Salamander ... a disappointment after the excellent horizontal sections.

    ...
    joefish joefish May 2009 Games
  • Successor to the SpeccyBased on the rambling on the other thread it would be interesting to see what people felt was the 'spiritual' successor to the speccy. Amiga here....

    ... the 64. The ST games I have played, all ... Did you only ever play horizontal scrollers on the ST ... handles the sprites and scrolling, whilst in the former ... however, the dedicated sprite/scrolling hardware was very much of ... makes those sort of games fly on it, not ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2009 Chit chat
  • Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…

    ... these sprite types:

    horizontal patrols
    vertical patrols
    games), but that would involve giving ... /> The tiles from the linear designer should also be usable in ...
    jonathan jonathan February 2010 Development
  • New game Sea Dragon (beta)Hi. Over at zx.pk.ru there is a lot of talk of a new game for spectrum called Sea Dragon. It is a VERY nice underwater side scroller... technically V…

    ... and tweaking than many other games Iv seen released... Personally, I ... compare this game to a horizontal shooter, but thats really not ... a choice based on the scrolling engine, or some other technical ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil December 2010 Games
  • Machine Code Sprites and Graphics for the ZX SpectrumHi Looking for this book, if anyone can help would be most grateful. [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000229"]http://www.wor…

    ... /~jg27paw4/yr10/yr10_39.zip]Sprite Designer[/url] or Chris Wood's ... .

    One example of scrolling landscapes is Toni Baker's ... .zip]Moving Graphics of the Horizontal Kind[/url] in Your Spectrum ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2011 Wanted
  • Machine Code Sprites and Graphics for the ZX SpectrumHi Looking for this book, if anyone can help would be most grateful. [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000229"]http://www.wor…

    ... /~jg27paw4/yr10/yr10_39.zip]Sprite Designer[/url] or Chris Wood's ... .

    One example of scrolling landscapes is Toni Baker's ... .zip]Moving Graphics of the Horizontal Kind[/url] in Your Spectrum ...
    Spiky16384 Spiky16384 January 2011 Wanted
  • Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…

    ... the sideways scrolling). Also, I used to use the track designer on ... compare it.

    Other games I really like on the ... interesting to compare the card games "Computer Brag/Three card brag ... BBC/Electron also have some games I still play which are ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Spectrum (Spaceship) Mascot?Original spark here...[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=588993#post588993[/url] I'm trying to write this without sounding …

    ... to use [I]IN SPECCY GAMES[/I]; the ship is a ... -colour graphics engines with some scrolling. Though it's a lot ... vertical stuff like that than horizontal.
    joefish joefish January 2012 New game ideas
  • What Spectrum projects (Software/Games/Utility)(Hardware)(Others) are you working on?So, basically that :) You dont have to give names or more clues if you dont want to ;) Also, if you are working on more than one, you can tell all of…

    ... trying to combine highly optimised scrolling with multicolour. This has ... think there are better games to be inspired by.< ... parallax scrolling scenery.

    [B]BadgerZone[/B] - a horizontal shoot ... on bad 'Engrish' from other games.

    [B]The ...
    joefish joefish October 2012 Development
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... ;722149]How does the hardware scrolling work on the C64? - does ... />
    It's only fine scrolling rather than coarse so you ... always "thinking" in the higher horizontal res so it scrolls half ... character-based screen on most games that's not a massive ...
    TMR TMR September 2013 Games
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... good idea. Most Spectrum games don't do it anyway ... br />

    [*] [I]No scrolling.[/I] Limited CPU means trying ... anyway).


    [*] [I]Horizontal distance between objects.[/I] [B ... -saukas/soon"]too many other games[/URL] already. Thus if ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2013 Brand new software
  • New Game:Killer BeesI have ported one of my favourite games for the Phillips G7000 to the ZX Spectrum. Killer Bees, I spent hours playing this as a kid. The original g…

    ... by doing some mucking with horizontal retrace in the time interval ... version includes this) was the scrolling colors. This was done by ... typical. Most (if not all) games of the period moved an ... aware of it. When a Games Magazine writer interviewed me for ...
    BobHarris BobHarris February 2014 Brand new software
  • In what ways your AGD, CGD or La Churrera game was innovative?Well I think it would be very interesting for people using AGD, CGD or La Churrera if anyone that has been using these software would highliht those …

    Well, given that game designer programs of course have a ... An homage to shooter/platform games of the '80s, with differently ... only) also features three mini-games as bonuses - winning them ... with a hidden bonus vertically scrolling shooter made with SEUD as ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu March 2014 Games
  • In what ways your AGD, CGD or La Churrera game was innovative?Well I think it would be very interesting for people using AGD, CGD or La Churrera if anyone that has been using these software would highliht those …

    ... ]Well, given that game designer programs of course have a ... An homage to shooter/platform games of the '80s, with differently ... only) also features three mini-games as bonuses - winning them ... with a hidden bonus vertically scrolling shooter made with SEUD as ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore March 2014 Games
  • C64 for the PiSomeone is writing the C64 natively for the Rasberry Pi and it looks amazing. I hope this will make someone do a ZX Spectrum too. Take a look its a…

    ... , border sprites etc. and special scrolling (as in mayhem in monsterland ... emulate these well to make games play normally. I suppose ... these well, then the games become bad or unplayable.
    horizontal sync frequency' the frequency you ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2014 Chit chat
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