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Random things that your wife/gf says.Okay, so we're just walking into town together and after talking about the usual things, ie: What's on telly and what's for dinner, she goes a bit q…
... You 2 sound so loved up! I never knew I ... and its nothing to do with the how 00's obsession with ... know why the words come up like that, but they do ... asleep mid day then wake up all pissed off and that ... a hippy or a party goer is said to be a peorpie. As in look ... -
Plasma TV which make to buy ?I have decided to get a 42" plasma TV but am unsure which make to go for, does anyone have any tips about specs etc. I saw a fantastic Hitachi 42" 10…
... credability factor or keeping up with the Jones`s, ... VS LCD or LED seem to look a lot nicer and realistic. ... you it will have to be plug and play ... as I am a technophobe............
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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 …
... /> I would just like to have a forum (closed) where you ... but it's quite hard to find useful features among ... http://code.google.com/hosting/]code hosting[/URL] to SourceForge. It feels a lot ... put important stuff, like how to grab a copy from the svn repository ... -
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…
... after that I felt ready to code my program from scratch.
to find how to print highscore text at a specific location on ... 8-bit compiler with a nearly grown up implementation of stdio and ... on smallC... then I gave up.
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Moggy Adventure (Mojon Twins, 48K)After travelling across the world to become a gentleball and leave all his vices behind (mainly alcohol and the riverside weeds, but rumours suggest …
... New Years day.
Look at October. "Oct" = 8, but ... Some name changes happened to devote months to popular gods, as in ... Caesar and introduced July, a month devoted to praise him. And when ... stuff like that. They knew how to have a good time!
OR in a IFHi guys, I have a string that is defined by the user. I want to have an IF that does something like IF string<> a OR b OR c THEN goto 10 Hope that m…
... soundcard to create a WAV or whatever you need to do to get it to ... 's no debugger, not even a TRACE routine. It's slower ... running through treacle after taking a load of barbiturates.
how to code in C. Again, I'd ...How do you destroy an enemy or object?Hi guys I allways wanted to know this, but how would you go about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do you use a huge ar…
... how to code in C++ though... so why not code in C? z88dk has a ... USR calls to call the machine code. I don ... decent libraries of machine code routines though.
... ve only known how to code Z80 machine code since December, ... to pick it up. Once you get used to ...How do you destroy an enemy or object?Hi guys I allways wanted to know this, but how would you go about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do you use a huge ar…
Yeah it looks top banana.
I already know how to code in C so I traught myself Z80 instead. I did borrow a few ideas from your sprite library ;)ZX Demos and the wow factorI remember reading a few comments in the past 3 years regarding demos. Some comments included how boring it was to see this or that effect again, how…
... , as it is for me to code a game in 1k, 2k or ... MiniGameCompo. I can't do a demo like I have seen ... of them I am wondering how they mastered the speed, the ... see my MiniGames and wondering how he compressed 100 levels in ...OutRun Europa - THIEF!Just played the OutRun Europa RZX (shaded graphics really don't work in this sort of game), and saw the end sequence. They lifted the graphics from t…
... other.. different CPU = different source code / coder.
anyway, as ... knew how to code. So if it was to match that, there are only a ... done a good as job.. buggy boy / power drift coders to name ...JSpeccy: New emulatorHi there, Jos? Luis S?nchez (zx81 at ono dot com) has developed a new ZX Spectrum emulator in Java, with a very accurate Z80 emulation. The message …
... to study the audio code as up until now I had no idea how to ... use Spectrum audio inside Java! A few more code comments ... us who have no idea how to write a full emulator :)[/QUOTE]
a pain to write... :DBlackstar by Richy Pitch[youtube]FQLznlyLONI[/youtube] Discuss. Points will be deducted from the first person who asks "can this be done on a real Spectrum?"
... I extracted from the last code block:
[QUOTE]48K ... Bayliffe
Use UP DOWN & ENTER to Select Option[/QUOTE]
how to produce a better .TAP and also how to load the ...My first platformerHi all! How do you do? Been lurking here for a while, but never had the courage to join the forum. :) The Speccy was my first computer, so I've alw…
... blame you entirely :-) C code compiles to about 4-5x hand written ... QUOTE]I understand that C code is much larger than hand ... ;) I'll show you my code after the game is finished ... /> 2) How to do a preshifted sprite. (How to store the data, and how to reclaim the ...My first platformerHi all! How do you do? Been lurking here for a while, but never had the courage to join the forum. :) The Speccy was my first computer, so I've alw…
... write your own custom draw code to draw sprites the way you ... /> 2) How to do a preshifted sprite. (How to store the data, and how to reclaim the ... | PAPER_WHITE, ' ');
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SP1_IFLAG_MAKE_ROTTBL causes the rotation table to be created ...Converting modern games to speccyThe speccy is like a childhood friend we dont want to die. I can think of tons of modern games id LOVE to see converted, in any way, to the speccy,(r…
I would love to see a number of coffee break games ... ported to the Spectrum, Bejeweled 2 would be a great project. Porting ... new games to an old ... also be a great starting point for someone learnig how to code as its ...Video games can never be art[url]http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_never_be_art.html[/url] Discuss. I'll start it out: his thesis is a bit shallow, while…
... the sound / graphics.. the code/engine that binds it all ... has probably never seen a demo either.. as much ... as I chop up drum loops etc.. to get an end ... to dis-assemble a speccy game, unless I want to learn how to code ... yer it's easy to list shock games like ...New Game: Heart StealerMy first platformer is finally released! Having a Speccy since a long time ago, I've really wanted to make a game for it. Since february, I've final…
... areas: gameplay design and implementation (code, art, etc).
... is really difficult to teach in details how to design a nice game. You ... that David Perry started a book a while ago. I should ... the best place to search good gameplay designers (a lot of ...New Game: Heart StealerMy first platformer is finally released! Having a Speccy since a long time ago, I've really wanted to make a game for it. Since february, I've final…
... 'm glad you bring this up.
Let me ... uber-optimised, self-modifying assmbler code, designing clever double-buffered ... young 'best coders' (well, up to 18 ) won't make such ... planning to write a tutorial about how to make a game with z88dk, but to be ...game inlaysjust curious if people keep them...I have loads of tapes without the inlays or compilation tapes.. with 1 tape missing etc.. I should list em, just…
I've got a few spare inlay ... address:
Cosmic Pirate (Byte Back)
Daley Thompson's ... />
I also have a couple of odd compilation tapes ... Frost Byte
Ghostbusters
Ground Force Zero
How to be a Hero ... hand games - too many to list here.'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…
... your pick....
a) Some software houses would expressly ... using them
in a commercial release would be ...
c) It's a cop-out and no decent ... /> someone else's code in a commercial game. It reeks ... don't want to learn how to code for yourself.Arrays in asm ?Just following the idea to make the menu entirely in asm, how can i handle arrays in asm to store the each game loader to be loaded ? thx in advance
... a look-up table, which would reference both your name table, and filename table.< ... NAMETABLE_ITEM3, FILETABLE_ITEM3
defw 0[/CODE]
With this ... you can get to any file by calculating *4 ... and the second two point to the location of the ...Do a load "file" with ASMFollowing the idea to build a menu with asm, now i need to know how to do a load "file". I can use the Rom routine but i am not sure if the rom rout…
... , now i need to know how to do a load "file". I ... /> Also probably someone know how to do the same but without ... to use the Rom routine ... routine reads a number of bytes at a certain address ... then you can load the code after the header, otherwise ...Beepola v1.01A new version of Beepoa, v1.01, is now available for download from:- [URL]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/Beepola_v1.01.00.zip[/URL] (650KiB) …
... format. I'd suggest you to forget about the TRD, though ... bytes are SINCLAIR
1 byte is number of files inside ... the files (sizes are 256 byte aligned)
4 byte checksum (all the previous ... /> 1 byte lenght of the data in sectors (sector is 256 bytes)Budget Game World Cup qualifier thread!In anticipation of the cup final I thought of an idea that may be a little awkward to set up but could be quite fun, and may decide the definitive bu…
... ;457097]sweet, what about 'how to be a complete b******d' was that ... a budget game? if so can you add that to the ... />
Stop being lazy and look it up ! ;)
[url]http ... />
Originally a full price game and then went to budget later ...How do you....?I remember reading this on a thread on here, but I can not find it. Would anyone be kind enough to tell me how to post youtube links with the time p…
If you arent sure how to post a youtube clip or write a spoiler in the forum i just find a post which has that and quote it. Then you see the 'code' to use.
The spoilers (and youtube links) are great to use hereGaming annoyancesWhat are everyone's gaming annoyances? Mine are respawning enemies, time limits and games that change styles on each level. I hate buying a side scro…
... [I]ages[/I] to learn how to beat (if ever) ... /> Games that take forever to load, even if you die ... spending ages learning how to beat a game, just to see "well ... /> Games that turn out to look nothing like the screen shots ... back of the box. how many times have we ...Games hacked to be played with Sinclair Joystick #1 (67890)I have mentioned a few of these in other threads, but I think they kinda deserve their own... I have been hacking a few of my favorite games which ha…
... sort of a guide how do you generally do that? "How to make a speccy ... game utilize Interface 2" :-)[/QUOTE]
I will look ... find them, just change them to check for keys 67890, which ... means change the LD A,$DF to LD,$EF and then change ...Z80 RRCA instruction...Hi Folks, Well my exploration of Z80 MCODE continues apace! I am struggling to understand how the RRCA instruction works. The official Zilog manua…
This is how to repeat a block of code 16 times in the Spin assembler.
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REPT 16
rl c
rla
adc hl, hl
sbc hl, de
jr nc, $+3
add hl, de
ENDR
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