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Piracy gave an audience to otherwise overlooked gamesGiven the limited budgets of schoolboys, did pirated games give some titles exposure they wouldn't have had otherwise? And did this boost sales of l…
... simply couldn't afford to buy many games - probably only 3 or ... were a good way to try out games without risking your precious ... /> But having access to all those copied games is what hooked me ... /> So the access I had to games at the start definitely led ... -
Re. new Spectrum Hardware :What are the advantages and disadvantages of Crowdfunding for WOSSERSIn other words who and how does it help?
... a Speccy... which you need to address ;)[/quote]
... that I am not referring to games even though in fact they ... certainly are 'real world problems' to the programmers. You might be ... this and keeps trying to get me to switch to a Raspberry Pi ... -
Metacritic MadnessI have only recently wondered what Metacritic scores actually are, having seen them mentioned on the net for years. So, I had a look. It seems it i…
... who have different access to games than the regular paying ... be partial because their games are different than the ... example they don't need to pay for them, and ... definitely don't need to pay for any loot ... about the price of the games, an average 60(+ 400+ ... -
Cubic RevealI just though I'd develop this a little further. Written a while ago on a whim! [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/p44y5dda49ucmop/square_reveal_1_1.gi…
... gives a nice finishing touch to games etc.
I'm rather ... just doing a re-write to its less embarassing!
Nasty vertical pattern on a 128K Toast Rack via RGBI managed to fix the busted membrane on my [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55755/got-myself-a-128k-toast-rack-plus-a-simple-a…
... adding simple LC filtering circuit to the luminance signal of the ... RGB-digital monitor available try to make the cable for the ... the dots that are supposed to stay dark (like thin lines) also ... can reduce the overall brightness to attenuate the entire signal, or ...Mighty Final FightGuys, It here - get it!!!! [url="http://zx-dev-conversions.proboards.com/thread/23/mighty-final-fight"]zx-dev-conversions.proboards.com/thread/23…
... , and there are other 19 games over there ;)
http ... and then "felt" quick, compared to games that are talked about but ... saying what they'd like to see. Let me explain in ...3D Game Maker Classic TitlesOn Wos there are a few games made on the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001956"]3D Game Maker[/url]. Most of them are of poo…
... churrera have never been able to do this.
+ new feature ... /infoseekid.cgi?id=0001987"]Gateway to Hell (Dark Castle)[/url]
(c ...The odd parts of the Internet.This thread is devoted to the odd places on the internet. Not the grotesque, or dark web nastiness but weird stuff that pops up in the odd search res…
... , i clicked to come here and instead went to the dark side, its ...Final Fight for 48K spectrum?The original release by US Gold and the Re-release by Erbe state that it's only 128K, but the 2nd re-release by Kixx mentions Spectrum 48K. Was th…
... possible to make minor modifications to games to enable them to work ... on all machines without resorting to ... fixes that I’ve made to games to address these issues.)
Games that actually require more than ...1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …
There is nothing relating to the dark arts involved (except perhaps black ... more bytes off, but need to completely change the data structure ... quick work arounds in order to just get the thing working ... am making a conscious effort to comment my .asm as I ...Summary : Fifty Pascal Programs by SybexI got around getting [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2001037"]this book[/url] and have had a look through it which consists of…
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40 games=3; {number OF Games TO Play}
50 ... 520 addloop, {number OF additional games TO DO}
530 tries, {number ... br /> 660 FOR addloop:=1 TO games DO
670 BEGIN { ...TileMap test releaseI've been playing with a live map emulation idea, which currently supports just Jet Set Willy. You can download an early (Windows only) version of i…
... I have started changing it to determine the map layout from ... ll look at which other games could benefit from similar ... is nothing in comparison to some later games.
Anyway, ... you for giving some attention to games other than the original, and ...128k sound should be mono or stereo?So I keep reading arguments 'for' and 'against' but I never seem able to make up my mind. On one side it's a fact that no 128k model ever had ster…
... a more arcade feel to games. I use to use an amplified speaker ... . Always took the UK ages to catch up with new technology ... when the screen format changed to 16.9. We kept the ... early 80's, and even to this day with have a ...128k sound should be mono or stereo?So I keep reading arguments 'for' and 'against' but I never seem able to make up my mind. On one side it's a fact that no 128k model ever had ster…
... a more arcade feel to games. I use to use an amplified speaker ...128k sound should be mono or stereo?So I keep reading arguments 'for' and 'against' but I never seem able to make up my mind. On one side it's a fact that no 128k model ever had ster…
... a more arcade feel to games. I use to use an amplified speaker ...128k sound should be mono or stereo?So I keep reading arguments 'for' and 'against' but I never seem able to make up my mind. On one side it's a fact that no 128k model ever had ster…
... a more arcade feel to games. I use to use an amplified speaker ...New Game: NIGHT STALKER ZX[b]Night Stalker ZX[/b] is a port of Night Stalker, a maze shooter released in 1982 for the Intellivision game console. Face murderous robots and ven…
... I believe you still need to finish??) it's very faithful ... honest, I'll keep returning to games like this - for the hiscore ... really can't be bothered to spend time on the platform ...3D Models of Spectrum Game SpritesHas anyone here had a go at created any sprites from Spectrum games as 3D models? I would hazard a guess that there's a wealth of talent here, but i…
... a game. I was hoping to create a 3D FPS game ... -up, included as many references to games as possible.'The computer game' vs 'The Videogame'This may sound absurd I know, but for me the two things didn't always mean the same (...but do they?) :P Maybe I am being a bit biased (I started …
... t called Videospiele (spiele = games) like they are indeed called ... , because you connected them to your [b]tele[/b] ... to make a conscious effort to refer to games as Telespiele, especially whilst talking to ... people at work about the latest games they' ...Book: Giant Book of Spectrum Arcade Games by Tim HartnellDarn it, I just missed out on getting this on eBay :( I'm looking for a hard copy or PDF. This book has games written in BASIC with machine code ro…
After a determined effort to get stuck into assembly ... how this knowledge is applied to games so I can see ... Arcade Games - most game programming books I've seen look to ... /c can be applied to gaming is Jonathan Cauldwell' ... that, I'm willing to pay for costs for a ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... a mint game - definitely going to be trying out the others ... .
Gone back to Switch Dark Souls - hardly touched it since ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... of it! It's got to be better than that Lords ... the Fallen which desperately tried to be Dark Souls but failed miserably ... other than the impressive graphics. Tempted to ...1989-2019Ok Ok maybe this is going a bit far now, but here's another year to look back on the games from 30 years ago and tear into them, or give occasional p…
I think having the smooth scrolling backgrounds and scenery in R-Type helped to reduce the visual jerkiness, compared to games where the whole screen scrolled in character squares.Which 128k games actually used 128kA lot of 128k games were 48k games with decent AY music, or used screen flipping features, What games actually used 128k, e.g. all banks for game …
Maybe he refers also to games where are notable differences between 48k and 128k versions (i.e.: Jet Set Willy added some rooms, Hostages had a level not present in 48k editions).Which 128k games actually used 128kA lot of 128k games were 48k games with decent AY music, or used screen flipping features, What games actually used 128k, e.g. all banks for game …
... ;951955"]Maybe he refers also to games where are notable differences between ... engine and compression, not to going from 48K to 128K.
There are a lot of JSW games ... They are all 128K games. The extent to which they use the ...I'm such a messPeople may notice i haven't been posting lately, the reason is i'm not very good at the moment. I'm an emotional mess. I've been best friends with …
At zx1, phew, for a moment I thought you had gone to the dark side (well brown C64 direction...).
I hope things are improving for you...
[b][i]Mark[/i][/b]I'm such a messPeople may notice i haven't been posting lately, the reason is i'm not very good at the moment. I'm an emotional mess. I've been best friends with …
... I thought you had gone to the dark side (well brown C64 ...What % of WOSSERS use "old school" tape loading when playing their Speccy games.My guess is .000000001% ( but I might be slightly out on this! ) Do people still enjoy doing it "the old way"?
These mono tape players dedicated to games had interesting features . A new thread is needed !Subject Areas That the Spectrum did not "get into" Yup, the Speccy covered a lot of ground but regrettably it did not "get into" these areas :- Psycholinguistics , Philology , and Sociometry . Any…
... a lot of "harking back" to the "great days" of the ... . So I have an opportunity to parody Winston Churchill , along the ... the focus shifted almost entirely to GAMESSubject Areas That the Spectrum did not "get into" Yup, the Speccy covered a lot of ground but regrettably it did not "get into" these areas :- Psycholinguistics , Philology , and Sociometry . Any…
... really will have to broaden it out a lot to include the ... division" with games at the top ; this was to some extent at ... ) considered after that to be a serious rival to games ever again. My ... were too high for it to be repeated .
My ...
