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in-game soundhas anybody an experience in writting beeper routines? i tried to code some sound fx but it sounds really horrible...
... games from Proxima ) or sound routine by C.Tillson (used in ... try?ng to write sound routine for beeper - one channel+digitized drums ... -
Z80 core testing ?OK, my z80 core is almost finished (apart from RRD, RLD, and block instructions except LDI,LDIR,LDD,LDDR). I run the 48K rom and hurray, it resets co…
The IX/IY regs seem to be fine - the system wouldn't boot at all without them, and it's not the interrupt routine that crashes, I've checked that. -
need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
... table for each of the sprites. Then call your sprite drawing routine ... /> If you want the sprite routine to be versatile and cope ... /> In my own sprite routine, which is for 16x16 sprites I only ... on. Have a separate drawing routine for each line and jump to ... -
Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
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Where do you start!I am fairly new to spectrums, and have only been programming for a couple of years starting on bbc basic. where do you start programming a game. Is a…
... someone with a highly optimised routine for a specific use of a ... should be able to reason for yourself once you have learnt ... -
What *Should* Have Been the Last Game to Be PublishedHi All, Inspired by the the thread about the last public/official/etc. Spectrum game, in your opinion, what would have been the ultimate (no hint in…
... Mad Guys etc demo`s for music, was no longer good ... it`s what I want for a good 50 % of ... ...
Metal Slug, for emulators where thousands of people ... can have the computer FOR FREE, running at 7Mhz, ... GS Sound, Disk, and for a budget price of 4 ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... mistaken ???
if anything for as long as I could ... grafix
and as for music from what I understand the ... SID chip was the best music chip on all formats....
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... given only by its graphics. For instance, "Batman - The Movie" has ... />
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and as for music from what I understand the ... SID chip was the best music chip on all formats....
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
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[quote]and as for music from what I understand the ... SID chip was the best music chip on all formats....[/quote ...New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…
... Turbo Imploder these days - search for it on WOS. If you ... 32768 there is the 'decompress' routine for the main game, which effectively ... copy of the ROM loader routine which has been 'fiddled around ...new sinclair spectrumarmstrad should bring back sinclair research. does anyone agree? retrogamer* is great (i learnt alot from that magazine).
... still my fave soundchip for music, even beating for me the Amiga`s ...BitTorrent - some questionsOk, I've heard quite a bit about BitTorrent now and have read up some stuff on it, but I still need some answers on this one. Since many specchums se…
... BitTornado. It does work well for me. Alot of people like ... and see what works best for you. You may have seen ... . So if you are looking for something in particular which was ... than Torrents, and probably emule, for Music mp3s and "maybe" some of ...OT: RIP Fred DibnahCompletely off topic, but this news really upset me because Fred was such an enthusiast for his engineering, especially Victorian engineering. [url=…
... :27, mister_benn wrote:
Thanks for that. Bad news but I ... a nasal DJ and nothing for a man who blew up ... chimneys for a living?! I don't ... ! Uncle peely has done more for music in the past 40 years ...Does ScanLine[0] have a left border?My emulator couldn't handle Cobra or ShortCircuit so I added some rough port FF values. I now want to make it a bit more accurate. The FAQ gives me a…
... , remember that the "base point" for the timings in the FAQ ... be the start of the interrupt just for convenience; there's nothing ...Speccy games with better graphics than 16 bit versionsRecently been checking out the Atari ST, and was pretty shocked at a few games that have attrocious graphics compared to the spectrum versions... I`…
... away.
Still impressive for the Speccy but once you ... the ST-Amiga serial link for multi-player fun, but there's ... you could say the same for Out Run - very very slow ...Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... whatever address you desire. Useful for reading in two-byte values ... ...
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If you have a routine for say the movement of an ...Worse on a colour tellyOnly with the power of emulation have i bothered to try out some old games which i only ever played on a black and white portable. It's amazing how …
Pah! I spent years using a spectrum for music with NO TV. Heavily reliant on the keyboard click...Pixel LimitIF Y3<192 THEN : LET x2=INT (128+X*A*SIN A): LET y2=INT (Y3): DRAW INK
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The ROM routine for POINT still tests with the ...Worse on a colour tellyOnly with the power of emulation have i bothered to try out some old games which i only ever played on a black and white portable. It's amazing how …
... spent years using a spectrum for music with NO TV. Heavily reliant ...Pixel LimitIF Y3<192 THEN : LET x2=INT (128+X*A*SIN A): LET y2=INT (Y3): DRAW INK
... 0,0.
The ROM routine for POINT still tests with the ... pokes I saw being used for program protection.Matchday 2, 10-0 on highest levelJust been sent this RZX, beating the speccy 10-0 on the highest level, 5 mins per half. [url="http://www.rzxarchive.co.uk"]www.rzxarchive.co.uk[/url…
... to run past an opposing player is impossible with the ball ... corner and crossing it in for your player to head. If you ... it top right, then my player is facing 'south' and it ... rebound along to your other player half the time. Great gamemore than 2 colours in an 8x8 sqaure?something that came up in the misc. forum - it was something I always wanted to see. In which games was this acheived? Both Black Lamp and Popeye ha…
... starts, where it says "Prepare for combat Player 1".
[Edit ...WANTED: tape noiseAs [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=7709&forum=3"]previously noted[/url], I'm developing (on and off) a new TZX encode…
... (I love sampling things - usually for music but any sampling exercise would ...Legal P2P music downloads ??????I have a collection of about 1000 vinyl albums and singles and a while ago i started converting them to digital and cleaning each one using legally b…
I only use Kazaa for music and can honestly say that ... /> Kazaa is not very good for obscure alternaive bands. I have ... been looking for tracks by Bastards who were ...Ghost & GoblinsIn one afternoon which you want to throw the +3 by the window, because the assembler or a inconsistent bug in the code, i take a break and lost the …
... uses a clever scrolling routine that allows for a smooth, large area ... the horizontal scrolling routine to be the key routine for the entire game ...New horizontal scrolling gameI have just been working on this for the last months. Heres a snapshot, let me know what you think. [url="http://www.geocities.com/ruijtunest/rtun…
Okay, is this any good for a player ship and bullet...?
[url="http://www.cosine.demon.co.uk/rtunes_2.gif"]http://www.cosine.demon.co.uk/rtunes_2.gif[/url]New horizontal scrolling gameI have just been working on this for the last months. Heres a snapshot, let me know what you think. [url="http://www.geocities.com/ruijtunest/rtun…
... , is this any good for a player ship and bullet...?
for the graphics IMO (proportion and ...
