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New GamesJust thought I'd find out what peoples opinions are of the latest games, and see what everyone is into at the moment. For me there seems to be a lack…
... 've EVER changed clubs in a golf game in my life, on any ... , that's my kind of game, why isn't there an ... Crazy Golf world championship 07' game? :-D - with the all the ... every course from every seaside in britain!
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Large spritesQuick question. Most of the documentation refers to creating sprites of a limited size. How would I create a sprite of for instance 32x32 or even la…
... /collision detect etc.
In the book Spectrum Machine Language ... it touches on game design and in the frogger game it generate a ... -
Playing an AVI Video on an XBOX.I have a standard unmoded XBox. I wants to watch a video I have downloaded on the big screen and have no spare blank DVDs to hand but a stack of sta…
... games contained a bug in their SAVE GAME routines, which allow you ... a larger one in, I have a 120GB in mine), and everything ... -
Christmas in the 80'sIn the analogue TV thread I mentioned my old portable telly that's still going strong, together with memories of watching the BBC premiere of Indiana…
... quality time with your in-laws. A game of Trivial Pursuit, maybe ... -
Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... to do hardware pixel scrolling in multicolour 160x200 or hi-res ... positions . This can be done in BASIC.
For example ... hi-res hardware sprites in a 3D game to speed it up ... -
Second LifeDoes anyone here have anything to do with Second Life I was thinking of joining and becoming a bum
... rather than doing it in a video game. Playing second life would ... -
Stamper Brothers leave RareEventually, Microsoft bought the name but the talent has left now... [url]http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=71389[/url]
... and name on a GBA game that they published, so maybe ... , authentic version of Jetpac in their N64 game Donkey Kong 64. It ... -
Stamper Brothers leave RareEventually, Microsoft bought the name but the talent has left now... [url]http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=71389[/url]
... , authentic version of Jetpac in their N64 game Donkey Kong 64. It ... never unlocked the original jetpac in that game
i did manage ... unlock the original donkey kong game mind.
good job ... ive still got the game and machine in the loft still :D ... -
Stamper Brothers leave RareEventually, Microsoft bought the name but the talent has left now... [url]http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=71389[/url]
... , authentic version of Jetpac in their N64 game Donkey Kong 64. It ... -
The Frontier of Warriors DemoBack in 2000, I planned an adventure based on my sci-fi book series The Frontier of Warriors. As the stories were axed only to be restarted years lat…
... timer like the torch in the sample game - once you run out ... -
Stranded 2.5.Following it's appearance in Shed issue 3, the first demo of Stranded 2.5 is now available at... [URL="http://www.bobs-stuff.co.uk/S25_1127.tzx"]htt…
... have room for 40+ in the final game.
Opinions always ... -
funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
Back in the 1980s I wrote a synopsis for an adventure game called ... time, anyway) unique solution in that the game character had to kill ... themself in order to win the game. (The reason being ... -
Early screenshots which differ from the final productI thought it would be interesting to try and list games that looked different in the previews/reviews to the final product. I'll start off with an ea…
Total Recall in it's first incarnation looked ... the early screenshots (and those in the advert) for Barbarian II ... good colour management, but in the final game it looked very ugly. -
Boxes and Boxes of Books!!![URL="http://zxgoldenyears.com/images/books.jpg"]Yaaaay!!! I got books. I got books. I got books.[/URL] Do you got books? Andrew (Sorry... a …
[QUOTE=fogartylee]Got mine too! And I get a mention! woohoo - next step for me has to be big brother![/QUOTE]
Not fair ! You get into everything, this book, own character in a computer game !! Turned into a Speccy celeb ! ;) -
Boxes and Boxes of Books!!![URL="http://zxgoldenyears.com/images/books.jpg"]Yaaaay!!! I got books. I got books. I got books.[/URL] Do you got books? Andrew (Sorry... a …
[quote=psj3809]Not fair ! You get into everything, this book, own character in a computer game !! Turned into a Speccy celeb ! ;)[/quote]
You'll know I've made it when I get interviewed by Retro Gamer. :) -
Boxes and Boxes of Books!!![URL="http://zxgoldenyears.com/images/books.jpg"]Yaaaay!!! I got books. I got books. I got books.[/URL] Do you got books? Andrew (Sorry... a …
[QUOTE=psj3809]Not fair ! You get into everything, this book, own character in a computer game !! Turned into a Speccy celeb ! ;)[/QUOTE]
What game did he get put into? -
Boxes and Boxes of Books!!![URL="http://zxgoldenyears.com/images/books.jpg"]Yaaaay!!! I got books. I got books. I got books.[/URL] Do you got books? Andrew (Sorry... a …
... auction for an appearance in his next game so one of us ... -
Boxes and Boxes of Books!!![URL="http://zxgoldenyears.com/images/books.jpg"]Yaaaay!!! I got books. I got books. I got books.[/URL] Do you got books? Andrew (Sorry... a …
... auction for an appearance in his next game so one of us ... was temptd to put Lee in ym game as the villian but ... -
Boxes and Boxes of Books!!![URL="http://zxgoldenyears.com/images/books.jpg"]Yaaaay!!! I got books. I got books. I got books.[/URL] Do you got books? Andrew (Sorry... a …
... the address sticker has speccy game characters on it - nice touch ... book ready and bask in retro speccyness ... (game distribution denied permitting, of ... -
jet set willy multi playercant believe what ive just seen posted on retro remakes. mersey remakes, smila, scottige and ovine are doing a multi player jet set willy. what a gen…
... screen to get through in the original game. The Belfry is a ... /> Don't the nasties in the original game move at different speeds ... imagination? I know they do in JSW2. You only have to ... at the killer toilet roll in the sewers. :)
Necros ... -
Top 25 PlatformersAt Retro Gamer we love feedback from readers and are constantly looking for ways to integrate your thoughts and opinions into the magazine. Anyway,…
[QUOTE=VanTammen;167988]FlashBack - my game had a bug, so I ... it IMO in how it draws you into the game. Ever increasingly ... hard level design has never been bettered in ... a 2D game even though the Mario ... -
Top 25 PlatformersAt Retro Gamer we love feedback from readers and are constantly looking for ways to integrate your thoughts and opinions into the magazine. Anyway,…
... it IMO in how it draws you into the game. Ever increasingly ... hard level design has never been bettered in ... a 2D game even though the Mario ... in fade to black...but it was a briliant and inovative game ... -
Archon - 2 entries for the same gameI see that WOS has two entries for this game. One is by The Ramjam Corporation, while the other is by Ariolasoft. However, they both appear to be th…
... mention of a year in the game (I had a quick ... scan through the code in ... on the loading screen or in the game).
However, ... one released in 1985; the game was re-converted in 1989 by ... was created, but the game didn't arrive on the ... -
Archon - 2 entries for the same gameI see that WOS has two entries for this game. One is by The Ramjam Corporation, while the other is by Ariolasoft. However, they both appear to be th…
... mention of a year in the game (I had a ... quick scan through the code in ... the loading screen or in the game).[/quote]That's a ... one released in 1985; the game was re-converted in 1989 by ... .
The game from The Ramjam Corporation perhaps ... -
Groundbreaking gamesWhich games really broke new ground? I mean the ones that actually got around the hardware limitations of the Spectrum. For example: Aquaplane - f…
... timing tricks to draw things in the border (well, ... .[/QUOTE]
In some ways, I'm still ... than Starion. Doing stuff in intros and the like ... weren't first done in a "groundbreaking" game, but the code ... reused to make a better game elsewhere. On the other ... -
Fixing Attribute Clash via emulationI'm sorry if this has been posted already, but is there a possibility to fix attribute clash via emulation? I'm not talking about RealSpec or any of …
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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..…
... there. Both will be slow in BASIC.
3/ additional problems ... is implementing this temporarily in a per-game, or even level specific ... reset routine after each level/game - hey why not hijack the ... ? Doesn't this reset each game?
Cracks to allow ... -
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..…
... the turrets are drawn in the original game. Everything else looks good ... matter where these are placed in the screen.
Graphics for ... -
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..…
... either :-(
BB ;-), any interest in finding/altering the relevant code ... the turrets are drawn in the original game. Everything else looks good ... -
Favourite Gaming moment of the last 25 yearsin a continuation of the 25 years thread what's you favourite moment it could be anything a sprite, a soundbite a loading screen anything mime is w…
Clearing the city in Quazatron. Playing Target Renegade for ... I'd never seen in any other game - the comedy cross dressing ... wet... oh, and completing the game with about a dozen spectators ...
