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some new games ?is anybody working on a game for speccy?
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Spectrum booksOK, this is a question posed not out of curiosity, but because I have to construct the 'bibliography' section of some paper I'm making. Unfortunately…
I don't have a one-track mind and you will find much on Atari (Kathleen O'Brian) and BBC B (Sophie Wilson) and Commodore stuff on the Web. For the Spectrum I would recommend
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Platform vs BackgroundForgive my ignorance if this is a 'stoopid' question, but although I've written games for many platforms over the years I'm only now making my first …
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Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
... 4 attributes, getting 16x16 pixels tiles. Is this the best way ... then the time to draw tiles shouldn't be an issue ... -
Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
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Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
... reads a table of different tiles? I don't really understand ... "AT" code? Note that my tiles are designed to be 2x2 ... -
basil the great mouse detectivehello i have a small problem with this game.when i have completed level 1,spectaculator 6.0 tries to find level 2.it find it,but it does not load it…
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1 colour per pixel without interlace flickering on +3No, no, it is just April's Fool day. ;)
... is possible to manually drag tiles, place sprites in position, select ... -
1 colour per pixel without interlace flickering on +3No, no, it is just April's Fool day. ;)
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An MC question (sorry, there's no MC forum to post to!)Ok, still struggling with learning MC - but am getting there. I just can't find anywhere on the web / in books that explains how to do arrays in MC.…
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1 colour per pixel without interlace flickering on +3No, no, it is just April's Fool day. ;)
... the aspects of creating Sprites, Tiles, Map Building, etc., incorporating it ... -
Platform vs BackgroundForgive my ignorance if this is a 'stoopid' question, but although I've written games for many platforms over the years I'm only now making my first …
... both drawing the screen from tiles and also knowing where the ... memory of course, and with `tiles`/character 8*8, 32*24 ... -
The problem with early arcade adventuresWhether it was a programming reason or not, you find that a lot of the early arcade adventures on the Spectrum (1984-85) had 256 screens. I think "P…
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TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…
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Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
... you no longer need preshifted tiles.
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Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
... ). Which soon mounts up: 32 tiles - 10K.
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games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... Softek were countersued by Nine Tiles for royalties because they used ... Nine Tiles' ROM? :)
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Non-spectrum Ultimate games?I was just browsing round Rare's site and their chronology: [url="http://www.rareware.com/games/timeline/timeline_content.html"]http://www.rareware.…
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Combining NostalgyHi, Perhaps a childish idea, but in the name of nostalgy... Most if not all of you know and remember the cards that were about cars, planes, motorc…
... points for using all your tiles = 267 Points.
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Announce Pasmo 0.5.1Hello. New release 0.5.1 of Pasmo, multiplatform Z80 cross-assmbler. The main news are related to macros: the MACRO parameters now are expanded ins…
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Announce Pasmo 0.5.1Hello. New release 0.5.1 of Pasmo, multiplatform Z80 cross-assmbler. The main news are related to macros: the MACRO parameters now are expanded ins…
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Them! (project future modelled game) hello! i was hoping someone could answer a problem i am having completing this game.i have recorded the game for RZX viewing yet,i cannot complete i…
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"Back-Up" TapesI've about 40 "Back-Up" Tapes containing loadds of games from the eighties. I havn't got the time to look through them all as most have no covers. A…
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Help needed to speed up functionCan anyone help me to re-factor this code snippet. The "MAP" section holds information about which tiles go where on the screen (handled by another f…
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Help needed to speed up functionCan anyone help me to re-factor this code snippet. The "MAP" section holds information about which tiles go where on the screen (handled by another f…
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Help needed to speed up functionCan anyone help me to re-factor this code snippet. The "MAP" section holds information about which tiles go where on the screen (handled by another f…
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Anyone help re-factoring a tile functionI had some excellent feedback for re-factoring my function that displays the colour for my screen tiles. Can anyone offer some help to improve the fu…
... the colour for my screen tiles. Can anyone offer some help ... the function that draws the tiles ? As before when a screen ... -
Anyone help re-factoring a tile functionI had some excellent feedback for re-factoring my function that displays the colour for my screen tiles. Can anyone offer some help to improve the fu…
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I think that your tiles are always fixed and starting at 16384 or 16386 and further horizontal and 16384 or 16448 and further verically. If so then the test for carry on E is unnecessary and E can be uphighed by SET 5,E -
Map to screen address problemCan anyone help me out with what I guess is a screen address calculation problem. I need to calculate the screen address of a tile based on a number…
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CronosoftI ordered a few Cronosoft games a short while ago and they arrived today. Although I've only played the games in question (Egghead III and Rough Just…
I'm still hungry for more information on the PGD, I mean like how many rooms can you make, can you make animated tiles etc? A feature list would be mighty interesting.
Either way I am poised to buy it as soon as it comes out.
