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New game - W*H*B - Help wanted!I'm currently writing a version of Cuboid/Bloxorz for the speccy, and was hoping for a little help from the WOS folk, or anybody, in designing levels…
... did only take a couple of days to get everything up & running ... " of the originals, preferring to have a reset key instead. It also ... .
How much memory? I'm a bit of a junkie for ... my back-buffer, pixel-address look-up table, and the like, so it ... -
New game: Nanako Descends to HellJust a bit over two weeks after their first game, The Mojon Twins strikes again with a new game for Spectrum 128k and Amstrad CPC: [url]http://www.m…
... of the IM2 table AND a three-byte JP to ISR() at the ... exposes more details about setting up IM2 mode than the splib2 ... show how to poke a jp instruction at the right address and how to create ... an IM2 table ... -
Aowens posts disapearingUmm is that a system glitch or are they being deleted..I see he is down to 168 posts since 2002.
... got absolutely spot on - take a look at the aims of political ... in the book have shown up in despotic regimes - for ... own children may end up grassing you up to the police for ... how to make a hamburger is something that "likely to be useful to a terrorist or a ... -
Remakes and conversionsWhen I first got into emulation the remakes section contained games that were being converted onto to the speccy, Dune 2 was one of them and of cours…
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Brand new Horace GameWe could think on how should the next Horace Game be, taking in account that the past three are mixtures of old, well established classic arcade game…
... has a feature to take a screenshot, then you can transfer it to a ... PC and convert it to a useful graphics ... make up the status box. Relocate the information in that to ... issue of how to display a 384x160 window on a screen just 256 pixels ... -
Elite 3 Novosybirsk instructions readyI did it. In game translations thread I was asked to translate Russian instructions for modifed Russian version of Elite. [url]http://www.worldofspe…
... ] - better use "The way how to get a copy using 40 tracks double ... you game state to the disk as a 102 byte long file, but ... />
[b]It is forbidden to set up the disk [/b] - "It ... is forbidden to restore the disk"
The amazing Miles Mad Mission thread!Following on from the "Thuderstorms" thread! The JSW I mocked up for a laugh then decided to actually do is under construction. As promised I said …
... was about a new game. :-o
Really look forward to play ... you can pick-up but is in fact impossible to get?[/quote ... piled up everywhere.[/quote]
There's going to be a couple ... can't really work out how to do a screen revolving around Woody ...XgamestationI was flipping through an old edge magazine from 2003 and in the news section there was a story about the iminent release of a diy console kit that y…
... a look on the site, it looks like more of a tool that a ... university would but to teach students how to build ... you would use it to learn how to make a basic console, rather than ... of thing as a job.
have a look on the forum ...An apologyI wish to apologise to those of you who viewed my 'post' yesterday I posted a picture in the 'no more heroes' thread of my hero Evel Knievel unfortu…
... because I make you lot look like shit!
And ... respond at least 27 times to follow up comments on that post ... to leave again at least once.
Does nobody no how to ... do a whiny attention seeking post any ...Manic Miner or Jet Set Willy?I'd like to know your opinion of them and your favourite. They have never been in my top ten list of fave games, though.
... his elusiveness that made him a character of interest. He ... of critical bugs and a lot to do with no save ... regularly - the trick is to look at the YS map and ... and how to run round and round the stacked-up loop of ... to get there. There's always a piece of key up ...Manic Miner or Jet Set Willy?I'd like to know your opinion of them and your favourite. They have never been in my top ten list of fave games, though.
... Atac regularly - the trick is to look at the YS map and ... /north-west passage that has a trap-door down into the ... floor) and how to run round and round the stacked-up loop of ... key to get there. There's always a piece of key up there ...My annoying computer threadAs i have just purchased my first computer i thought id start a thread where i can ask you all anoying and possibly simple questions. first off ive …
... know what you do for a living, but do you need ... :[/QUOTE]
What someone to hold his #### while he holds ...
He must have to wear cast iron underpants when ... that job, he ceartainly knows how to make a girl look tasty.Micro Men - BBC4 Thursday 8th Octobereh... thats it... There was a new add for Micro Men on BBC 4 last night after 'The Cell' ( nice speccy goodness in there, including Jet Set Willy ) …
... human and it was a nice nod to Matty Smith.
a way it was, people learned how to code.
Micro Men - BBC4 Thursday 8th Octobereh... thats it... There was a new add for Micro Men on BBC 4 last night after 'The Cell' ( nice speccy goodness in there, including Jet Set Willy ) …
... included how important Commodore and the C64 were to the industry as a ... /> Sinclair's legacy was a generation that learned how to code.
The ...Micro Men - BBC4 Thursday 8th Octobereh... thats it... There was a new add for Micro Men on BBC 4 last night after 'The Cell' ( nice speccy goodness in there, including Jet Set Willy ) …
... /> Sinclair's legacy was a generation that learned how to code.
The ... 't contribute [I]anything[/I] to the current WinTel hegemony.Animation.Your all a clever creative lot on here, so if i wanted to have a bash at a bit of animation 2d stuff only how would i go about it. What software art …
... how to use a for-loop and generate a command to run (any language), then look ... /> Once you've figured out how to cut an arbitrary rectangle from ... is only if you want to go down the road where ... individual frames in order to join them up later to form one big ...More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
Mainly to see how hard it would ... be, I've written couple of files to ... support a 256-colour ULA under ... PALETTE 2 63) to actual colours, and a utility (PAL256) ... with Timex 512x192 mode than 256 colours. Or both :) )
You know what really grinds my gears?[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JP3e36ESX1c/Snucg0nS4aI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/xU79M473tZc/S1600-R/what-really-grinds-my-gears.png[/img] People who aren't ready…
... , just do a *sigh* and say something like 'learn how to code before asking ... for help, noob'.
i looked on a ... special cos they know how to make a computer to do something. yeah well ...Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... learned first how to code on c64 with a monitor, then a full blown assembler ... thats the way to go as you learn about how things step ... was 11 etc.. I thought, how to put that into the machine ... to learn ASM.. but the BBC micro.. I liked you could code ...Tatung Einstein for developmentI know some developers used a [URL="http://old-school-micro.blogspot.com/2009/11/retro-computers-tatung-einstein-retro.html"]Tatung Einstein[/URL] to…
... on Denton Designs and seem to remember them using some super ... duper thing they built in a shed to do all their development ... (s), not just how to code, but actual hardware, to the point that they ... could cobble together additional hardware to develop on. It's got ...Dynamite Dan 2 - Who's completed this?This game has annoyed me since I was a kid. On the 8th Island there are objects that i've no idea what they are for. One looks like a time bomb? I've…
... =zxbruno;186938]If I knew how to code, I would add an ending ... 's may also be a case of how much memory is actually ... gaming on the speccy for a number of reasonsZ80 assemblerIf I do this [code] LD BC, 0002h [/code] is B=0 and C=2, or the other way around? does it disassemble to 01 00 02 does it disassemble to 01 02 00
... CHIT CHAT! Not the WoS 'code for geeks' section!
I wrote a load of stuff using 6502 ... IS / was :) besides it was a closed shop, maybe that was ... gave you loads of demo code?!?! or "standard" ways how to code things...Z80 assemblerIf I do this [code] LD BC, 0002h [/code] is B=0 and C=2, or the other way around? does it disassemble to 01 00 02 does it disassemble to 01 02 00
... IS / was :) besides it was a closed shop, maybe that was ... you loads of demo code?!?! or "standard" ways how to code things...[/QUOTE]
a nightmare.
I have never used 'demo code' and ...This Is Your (Gaming) LifeHi there spec-chums. I'm in an inquisitive mood, and feel like doing a bit of writing, so I was wondering if you folks would like to share the story …
... and well learned to code a bit.
had a amiga.. hated ... s recently (but need to sort out IDE or ... speccy +'s.. and a +2 and a original rubber key.. I ... well.. was REALLY tempted to buy a QL but didn't ... upping demands. I try to forget how much I spend on ...How do I know where my C compiler is putting my variable?Let me show you my code. I am writing a Z80 emulator (z80.c) which sets up a bit of shared memory for communication with another process. Well, I got…
... So perhaps a struct is the way to go
[CODE]struct ... br /> char valu; } blinkenlights;[/CODE]
Then I could blinkenlights ... />
obo explained how to use a pointer to shared memory instead of ... is it posible to point to a struct? Or how else can ...ZX81 more powerful than the Speccy?I have been reading ?The ZX Spectrum Book 1982 - 199x? by Andrew Rollings (thanks again, Andrew - it?s a great read!). There are some comments in the…
... owners had to wait until 2006 to get a good Mr ...
Yep. Look at what talented, determined programmers ... superior graphically and sonically to most dedicated arcade machines ... if they could learn how to push a certain graphics card beyond ...zx81 + commodore 1541 drive?[url]http://8bit.yarek.pl/interface/zx81.zx1541/index.html[/url] did anyone build it ?!?! just curious :)
you can make UDG's or redefine chars on a zx81? so maybe thats how possible :) don't know how to code zx, but redefining chars on the go with a c 64 is handy for many thingsGames Notorious for F*cking UpThis is a thread dedicated to games notorious for f*cking up or crashing mid-game (48K and 128K games). :) Music demos are also welcome. My experien…
... I have a bunch of other game projects to complete and I ... how to code efficiently (let's face the truth, Double Dragon would be a ... and it would be great to write one myself.
to do it I would take ...Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... and then it pop's up in my head.
... of Double Dragon got a lot of things wrong ... drop.
However, a talented programmer might see the ... about it. It's a huge project to take on. Maybe ... their is no need to apologize. Just learn how to code :)Avatar - MUST SEEwatched this last night down at Bondi Junction in 3d...... amazing film, 3 hours long and engrossing, didn't feel that long still awestruck at the v…
... really: you're not supposed to look at the parts that are ... out of focus. Look at what's sharp and ... you'll be okay.
...how hard can it be? :p ... pay that much to see a film, I will look at any bit ... is like buying a book and being told to only read the ...
