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  • ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…

    ... attributes) and then the player sprite with their attributes. It seems ... background. :wink:
    Because of how the Speccy screen works, each ... texture that can be added to the sprite data. If this works ... so, then I will check how they look with floor textures ...
    LuMan LuMan March 2014 New game ideas
  • FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…

    ... , a second is blank printing (erase pixels instead of ORing them ... Gedlion;760290][...]FZX only seems to be good on virgin territory ... compressed graphics and putting them to the screen as is[...][/QUOTE ... I was busy working out how to work around the display code ...
    Timmy Timmy March 2014 Brand new software
  • Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…

    ... at least, I know how to do something about![/QUOTE]
    sprite engines :smile:

    to this, I'm convinced ... just assemble a message to send, and call the ... is horrifying to a game coder how much time ...
    guesser guesser April 2014 Hardware
  • Titanfall: 360 vs XB OneI have just watched the graphics comparison on IGN and surprisingly I would not be able to tell them apart! Another reason for not jumping on the new…

    ... Microsoft, who are always happy to put business practices ahead of ... One is a clear attempt to erase the original XBox from the ... the game was actually released. How often does that happen? Normally ... were well founded. Which leads to the question of will Microsoft ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2014 Chit chat
  • Opening my new game projectHi I am working to a new game (tentatively called "Donkey Kong Reloaded Done Better"...i was not happy with the graphics of Donkey Kong Reloaded) whi…

    ... not figure out how to jump from a sprite (these blocks are ... which makes the brick sprite to go up so you ... up that can show how it works in screen ... ! Are you looking for people to submit levels?

    Is it possible to jump off the white placement ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore April 2014 Announcements
  • Pacman monster helpso I am trying to write a pacman game in Specbas [youtube]0R4XmkzBfHs[/youtube] got it working ok so far.... now the tricky bit the monsters in p…

    ... how to jump two tiles in front of pacman and I have (sprite ... red x and sprite red y) , (sprite blue x and sprite blue ... y) and (sprite pacman ... x and sprite pacman ...
    ASH-II ASH-II May 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Pacman monster helpso I am trying to write a pacman game in Specbas [youtube]0R4XmkzBfHs[/youtube] got it working ok so far.... now the tricky bit the monsters in p…

    ... how to jump two tiles in front of pacman and I have (sprite ... red x and sprite red y) , (sprite blue x and sprite blue ... y) and (sprite pacman ... x and sprite pacman ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    ... in size is due approximately to using fzx and the two ... and XORing the last char to erase it. I also think in ... for rom. It's easy to do and almost automatic. I ... had a chance to see on real programs how much difference it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2014 Development
  • displaying all memory activity in a screenDunno why I keep thinking about this, but here goes Is it easy enough to add a screen to an emulator that shows every memory address' activity.... …

    You'll need to erase it at periodic intervals to avoid the changed area ... shaded.

    If you erase it once a frame then ... effect, depending on how the code is reading/writing to RAM.
    balford balford June 2014 Emulators
  • Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…

    ... colours per 8x8 pixel grid to see what came out.< ... that determined what would happen to the sprite background ink:
    - ... over blue or red, simply change it to ... or green, change it to white and / or erase the background (kind ...
    4throck 4throck June 2014 New game ideas
  • Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…

    ... when we want to change a tile or a sprite we just ... change a PNG and rebuild, and we need to ... quite often.

    First, how to detect Spectrum colours

    to worry about them getting inverted ...
    na_th_an na_th_an June 2014 New game ideas
  • Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…

    ... we want to change a tile or a sprite we ... just change a PNG and rebuild, and we need to ... .

    First, how to detect Spectrum colours

    to worry about them getting ... br /> I've always wondered how to best do this, ty, : ...
    polomint polomint June 2014 New game ideas
  • Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…

    ... would be modyfying that tool to use a subset of ... be a faster development with sprite importer, scene editor, no ... of code in html5 on how to make pixel manipulations like [URL ... /> Another opensource pixel editor and sprite animator is piskelapp.com
    hikoki hikoki June 2014 New game ideas
  • SpecBAS / SpecOS documentationHi, I just find out about SpecBAS and I was so impressed by the new functions while retaining compatibility with ZX Basic that I've been playing wit…

    ... /> Ok, that did the trick, sprite kk now keeps moving until ... , I just don't know how to set it, so this problem ...
    AE.Vasconcelos AE.Vasconcelos June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Test screens for ZX PrismNot sure that this is *really* the right section for this request, but it's relating to new hardware I'm developing so let's start it off here - a mo…

    ... colour clash when a sprite walks over scenery.
    to implement a tile/sprite mode.
    ... scenery and one for sprite graphics. The problem ... tile/sprite mode; the exact nature of how this ... /manipulated; I considered how to make the tiles scroll ...
    JeffB JeffB July 2014 Hardware
  • Donkey kong Jr II (...sort of)Well as my other games, this is another OPEN-AGD game not in its final form (I am not completely happy about the gfx) and there is a bug which mak…

    ... so you can decide to which extent each one ... or less ladder blocks to define its path; however ... put the codes corresponding to each sprite in the "codes ... unfortunatlery you cannot access the sprite codes in the latest ... still don't know how to do that in AGD... ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore July 2014 Brand new software
  • Donkey kong Jr II (...sort of)Well as my other games, this is another OPEN-AGD game not in its final form (I am not completely happy about the gfx) and there is a bug which mak…

    ... am aware of the disappearing sprite bug
    (i actually mentioned ... "N" to look for the screen with the BANANA sprite on it ... in the DB folder to show you how to use the bananas)

    I would like to implement ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore July 2014 Brand new software
  • Creating a new game - AssemblySo... finally I?m studying Assembly Z80... after 36 years. :) Well... it?s sooooooooooooo hard to make a game using Assembly? I bought a book (Spectr…

    ... around with, which can lead to some horrendous crashes, particularly if ... like [I]Dingo[/I]'s sprite routine, where it's actually ... running almost simultaneously. One to erase the old sprite line-by-line, and ... one to draw the new ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2014 Development
  • Marmite game poll: GhostbustersLet's settle this with a poll! :-D

    ... /> [quote]Capturing the ghosts...seems to be mostly luck, I only ... reaction test.

    [quote]How would you improve the driving ... more varied obstacles, an incentive to get there a bit faster ... David Crane wanted to show off how big a sprite he could get ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2014 Games
  • Marmite game poll: GhostbustersLet's settle this with a poll! :-D

    ... David Crane wanted to show off how big a sprite he could get ... character-based software sprite, using the horizontal fine scroll to move it ...
    TMR TMR September 2014 Games
  • Why on earth did I buy...Couldn't see a topic for this, so apologies if it does exist. Aside from games, what did you buy, and put away in a draw the next (or same!) day - …

    ... sound. See how the player 'sprite' sort of jumps wildly to the left ... him to be, when changing from horizontal to vertical swimming; trying to navigate ... rubbish (though 'simulators' turned out to be a genre that I ...
    MarkTheMorose MarkTheMorose September 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Buffer to screen - how much?[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am starting to build a new game and am researching different ways to accomplish what I need to do. My question is, is it poss…

    ... the first thing your sprite routine should do is ... the buffer to the screen. And now erase the sprites ... these rectangles is going to be quicker than ... to be sure to erase them in reverse order, as one sprite ... contain part of another sprite already drawn. Another ...
    joefish joefish September 2014 Development
  • clear a windowed area of the screenHi everyone! Ain't been on here for donkeys, but have recently started messing around with a little game. I'm looking for ideas/opinions on the bes…

    ... , which is also exactly how many lines fit into a ... br /> 20 FOR r=0 TO 23: PRINT "@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@": NEXT r< ... /> ld bc,32 ; dist to next pixel line or attrib ... />
    Or if you want to erase bitmap pixels only, change the ...
    Atari_Jetman Atari_Jetman October 2014 Development
  • Robot SantaAlien Ferox has grown beyond what could be accomplished on a humble Speccy - i've run out of memory AND ideas so that's indefinitely halted. BUT In…

    ... I need to be able to completely remove the player sprite.
    ... 5" error and returns AGD to BASIC. So, with memory ... I can't work out how to call it - all thats ... , and doesn't allow play to start...

    ... ve just a loading screen to create, bung them all ...
    SimonLCFC SimonLCFC October 2014 Brand new software
  • Robot SantaAlien Ferox has grown beyond what could be accomplished on a humble Speccy - i've run out of memory AND ideas so that's indefinitely halted. BUT In…

    ... (for example if your player sprite toches a certain object) where ... (i like to have one that reproduces the player sprite)
    in ... I need to be able to completely remove the player sprite.
    Having ... I can't work out how to call it - all thats required ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore November 2014 Brand new software
  • Two, count them, two games from DazmanHi everybody!!! (try reading that without Dr Nick Riviera's voice). We've got two new AGD games by Dazman... [IMG]https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.n…

    ... there is a few thing to change.[/QUOTE]
    mmm ... drawing skills or now how to use zx paint yet.< ...
    Would someone like to take a look at my ... temporary immunity changing the sprite colour to purple ? it could ... serve as an incentive to pick up items that ...
    hikoki hikoki November 2014 Brand new software
  • What was that bizarre music video?Some time ago, and I'm sure it was posted on here, there was a bleeding bizarre foreign jazz music video with a girl in a red leotard dancing. It was…

    [QUOTE=mel the bell;801157]lmao greeny how the smeg did you know of that? Oo[/QUOTE]

    As Starglider said, someone posted it here a while back. Haven't been able to erase the video from my mind since. :grin:
    GreenCard GreenCard November 2014 Chit chat
  • SpritesYes yes, I know this has been hashed over plenty of times before, but... I have knocked up a quick tiling routine which works with my back buffer co…

    ... closely confined maze, is to only let the player move ... directions (no diagonals), and to make up any partial movement ... only ever have to redraw two tiles to erase the sprite, rather than the ... four you may have to deal ...
    joefish joefish November 2014 Development
  • Update: Dark TricksI have read the comments and made some changes to Dark Tricks. Changes listed below, Enjoy. Dark Tricks. 1 Less pumpkins than first release. 2 Chan…

    ... but in this version the sprite appears too ahead from the ... their authors could tell you how to solve it. Thinking about it ... />
    Since the fun is to beat a hiscore, don't ...
    hikoki hikoki November 2014 Brand new software
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... difference in how much processing time you have to get stuff ... developers were inevitably used to writing sprite routines (they had no ... more skilled in writing complex sprite multiplexers) and so had ... although I'm not sure how much it's colour limitations ...
    AndyC AndyC December 2014 Games
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