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Sprite DesignerDoes anybody know of a good sprite-designer package? The game I'm currently working on is requireing a lot of sprites, and coding them all as binary…
... I really need is to be able to design a 16x16 sprite, with or ... , with or without a mask, and then pick how the information is ... ]
Yeah, Seven-uP. How it interleaves mask, graphic and ... -
Sprite DesignerDoes anybody know of a good sprite-designer package? The game I'm currently working on is requireing a lot of sprites, and coding them all as binary…
... I really need is to be able to design a 16x16 sprite, with or ... without colour, with or without a ... mask, and then pick how the information is ... -
Is Sabre Wulf a good game?Because i've never played it but i have the original cassette so is it worth booting up, or is it one of those games that's almost impossible to fini…
... victim of very poor game design.[/quote]
Um, ... liked that design. It meant that certain screens had to be ... . This is extremely poor game design.
When you ... can get through a vertical path, indeed - how to navigate a screen-high vertical ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... our universities teach students how to code but not how to design or think. From ... in a haphazard random way with little thought given to the design process ... found it much harder to teach freshers how to design than how to code even though ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... our universities teach students how to code but not how to design or think. From ... in a haphazard random way with little thought given to the design process ... around that beyond forcing students to take a year out in industry. -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... in a haphazard random way with little thought given to the design process ... found it much harder to teach freshers how to design than how to code even though ... />
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Speccy Soft Time Travel - a theoryYou know, sometimes I have a few weird thoughts (not uncommon on this forum, it seems)... I?ve been thinking about this a couple of times - as we al…
... time. Only a year later, but graphically and design-wise they were ... was an example of how to convert a game to the best of the ... like if Ultimate had decided to release Knight Lore when it ... can think of without resorting to superior platform comparison!
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Writing TR-Dos discs on a PCProlly not a best first post ... but then again who has? Anyways, great forums you guys have here! Short question ... maybe a short answer. I'm plan…
... a modified version of my demo source code, showing other programmers how ... I didn't originally plan to release it, but it wasn ... 't much work to tidy it up and ... be more than happy to add a gui for you programs ... knowledge is way too basic to design a gui :/ -
DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... some words and notes to the design of divIDE:
... it cannot be unmapped due to this blocking. please note ... that's the way how all firmwares are done ... mapped - but still, how to do a 128k-spapshot using NMI ... , the best would be to keep the original idea. ... -
Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
... . Nobody needs to learn about how to write a linked list any ... systems" are not equivalent to a basic Turing machine, I' ... to understand these tradeoffs and make intelligent decisions in software design ... /architecture is what a good grounding ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... /> For examples of how to do a basic editor have a look at
how he's done it, perhaps ... when you design a screen it will be similar in length to the ... to do a write up to show everybody how to do it and maybe include a ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... examples of how to do a basic editor have a look at ... you design a screen it will be similar in length to ... more scary. No idea how any higher language works. ... to do a write up to show everybody how to do it and maybe include a ... ]We'll have to see how crap it is.< ... -
What was the best speccy model?What was your favourite speccy model (non-clone)? A close one for me between the 48k rubber keys and the Sinclair 128k machines. Rubber face just w…
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We all heard about how advanced technology was _small_. The ... too). No one discussed how to make a portable Commodore in the ... all had ideas on how to make a portable rubber key Spectrum ... the compact case design deserves some respect for a simple, clean ... -
What was the best speccy model?What was your favourite speccy model (non-clone)? A close one for me between the 48k rubber keys and the Sinclair 128k machines. Rubber face just w…
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We all heard about how advanced technology was _small_. The ... too). No one discussed how to make a portable Commodore in the ... all had ideas on how to make a portable rubber key Spectrum ... the compact case design deserves some respect for a simple, clean ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... Stormlord. Been trying to make a good looking glass ... and gameplay. Not sure how to design the levels yet, as ... to have a pushable tile that falls? We'd be able to add a ... puzzle element to the game. ... :
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Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…
... how to solve the different voltage problem.[/QUOTE]
You have to design a ... switch-mode PSU that runs on a single battery ... and then use regulators to obtain the lower voltage needed ... the battery-voltage starts to decrease a bit. -
A HTML Related QuestionI am having trouble with a quirk that seems to happen in my HTML page. Quite simply I contain my content in a Table with a percentage of 75% the…
... QUOTE=fogartylee;182315]Ummm.... Its a long month... Haven't we ... s here to stay and anyone looking at web design would ... be wise to learn it.[/QUOTE ... about Object Oriented Programs. How to make a good design Sloooooooow if you ask ... -
must be in a FAQ somewherePlease don't abuse me for this question. I will probably get round to learning MC at some point when I have time, but in the meantime I might want t…
... help you figure out how to arrange things for a game visually, i ... .e. designing a "level" in 3D ... also help you with learning how to design or how to apply your own designs ... will help you with making a game verbally, i.e. you ... -
another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)
... did not have enough experience to design a color computer
[/quote]< ... utter BS. The ULA design was actually a marvel in Keep It ... the Spectrum so beautiful is how Sinclair did so much with ... 8x8 colour cells were a design tradeoff and a masterful one at that ... -
Olympics - blimey...Computer-generated fireworks, pre-recorded fireworks, little girls miming to songs because the original singer wasn't pretty enough, and now pre-trai…
... 2012 symbol that cost a small fortune to design "A far more appropriate ... Olympic 2012 symbol would be a ... Why not give it to a brave child suffering from cancer ... what to make of his pro british speach afterwards about how ... -
Worst ever console? And the just plain bad or not very good ones.We've discussed the popular consoles at length on here, but what about the unpopular, or at least badly selling ones, or the ones that never got many…
... ever there were a set-piece illustrating how not to design a game, Manic Miner ... rev_manicminer.htm[/url]
to see more of Minter's ... owners] had a poor Z80 busting a gut just to shovel stuff around ... -
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 …
How many to go?
This isn't going to be like Duke Nukem Forever is it?
BTW...someone who can draw needs to design a cassette inlay...so it can be printed out, saved to tape and take pride of place in any Wossers collection. -
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 …
... ]How many to go?
This isn't going to ... someone who can draw needs to design a cassette inlay...so it ... I was gonna do a cassette cover to go with it, but ... ! just adding more work to it. Of course like ... />
We'll see how it goes.
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Tips on (dis-)assembling Z80 instructionsedit: Naturally I managed to post this in the wrong forum. I'd much appreciate it if any moderator would move it to the development section. For the…
... title states I'd like to get some recommendations on reasonably ... ]
simple way how to compile assembly code is to design a finite state machine ... think it would be better to focus on compactness of source ... -
Tips on (dis-)assembling Z80 instructionsedit: Naturally I managed to post this in the wrong forum. I'd much appreciate it if any moderator would move it to the development section. For the…
... 361315]simple way how to compile assembly code is to design a finite state machine ... sort I presume.
Just how *do* you go about compressing ... tables anyway. I seem to recall my compiler textbook spending ... think it would be better to focus on compactness of ... -
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 tool that a university would but to teach students how to build consoles (design ... would use it to learn how to make a basic console, rather ... than use it to make a ... it sounds like a great little project to get stuck into, ... -
New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…
... I've figured out how to splice my own TAP ... /> I've been trying to design a few more sprites for the ... attributes constrain the design. Look at how all the creatures ... either have their eyes off to ... I also took it to Zwolle in the Netherlands ... -
New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…
... I've figured out how to splice my own TAP ... /> I've been trying to design a few more sprites for the ... attributes constrain the design. Look at how all the creatures ... either have their eyes off to ... I also took it to Zwolle in the Netherlands ... -
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…
... wasteful mind you, just a result of several design choices. If 48k ... is the target you will need to ... /> 2) How to do a preshifted sprite. (How to store the data, and how to reclaim the ... -
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 …
... sent an email to you concerning ideas about how to do the sprites ... , and may yet be willing to do ... the email to Swainy, to propose an idea about sprite design, and ask ... reuse the map viewer code to design a system that draws 3 maps ...
