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Competition Pro 5000 Joystic.As promised here is a short(ish) review of the joystick. (I have taken the afternoon off work in the hope that it would be here when I got in and it…
... Miner Willy moves just one pixel along the screen.
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Problem with my speccy 48+My machine boots up but apon booting it freezes and you can see feint grey horizontal 1 pixel lines going down the screen. Is this fixable at all?
My machine boots up but apon booting it freezes and you can see feint grey horizontal 1 pixel lines going down the screen. Is this fixable at all? -
kempston mouse gamesHi velesoft, I've just been on your site trying some of these out. There are certainly some spectrum games that could have benefitted greatly from …
... the mouse to generate new pixel coordinates? I ask because I ... but if it were using pixel coordinates I think the game ... -
Death of CRT=Death of Spectrum?I was testing an old PC Engine console on the LCD TV in my house, and couldn't believe how awful the picture was. With giant ugly unblended pixels th…
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Happy birthday FontsHelvetica which is the secondary font for WOS is fifty years old this year whereas Arial, the primary font at WOS is 25 years old. That's the same a…
... -case font which is one pixel slimmer than the 1979 ZX80 ... -
Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…
... character across the screen one pixel at the time. I do ... -
Tommy GunHi, Got a few suggestions etc. for Tommy Gun. Well done Kiwi et. al. for a fantastic application. I would like to add the following suggestions: …
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Something completely different (new game tech-demo)Since finishing Stranded 2.5 (available soon from Cronosoft - plug!) I've been playing with the idea of doing an attribute-based, rather than pixel-b…
... an attribute-based, rather than pixel-based, game, and you can ... -
Preferred way of determining Y co-ord in assembly?I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking…
... the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in ... the Y address of each pixel row.
But are ... y co-ord of a pixel row efficiently? It would be ... -
Has the airport scanner killed my laptop??I am now in the USA and am writing this from my Best Western Hotel room. I am basically in the sh1t a little bit. Rather than fork out for a new la…
... vertical stripy, like every other pixel is being coloured bright green ... -
concerning soviet graphicsis there any game using a similar tricky technique how to let colorful objects move fluently with no color clash as soviet? (the colorful tops of bui…
... above do move in 8-pixel steps, but lower floors of ... -
Things that games didn't had, but...you wish they did. Here's my list, and if there's someone out there who knows how to make any of these things possible, please share it with us. :) …
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Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... gathered. Say the top left pixel is displayed 64*224 (63 ... -
New ZX81 Emulator appletHi! In case anyone's interested, I've added a new Java ZX81 emulator applet to my web site. Each program listed now has a "play" button that loads …
... fantastic EightyOne so has a pixel-perfect display with Hires games ... -
Whats Gone Wrong - Pixels Everywhere!Changed one small piece of code, that doesnt do anything to the screen and the following has happened: [img]http://www.officetrack.com/download/wos/…
... ://www.officetrack.com/download/wos/pixel.jpg[/img]
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Recent Returnee to the spectrum fold needs hardware adviceHi all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. This is my first post to this forum after I stumbled on this site just a few weeks ago, i only reg…
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ANNOUNCE: JSW64 Manic Miner: James BondTo celebrate "Two Double-Oh Seven" before it ends, I am delighted to announce the first gamma-release of [i]JSW64 Manic Miner: James Bond[/i] (v1.0),…
... with its own cell-type, pixel-pattern and colour-attribute), and ... and tight manoeuvres, often requiring pixel-perfect jumps, sometimes with perfect ... -
How to rotate an imageI'm working on an idea for a game and to test it I want to draw some graphics on the screen which are made up of 8x8 pixel squares (single characters…
... are made up of 8x8 pixel squares (single characters in other ... -
problem using FRAMES to generate 'random' numbersI realise the pros use bytes from ROM to get their random numbers, presumably because they want to use FRAMES to synchronise the printing and avoid s…
... Alcoholics Anonymous's 32x ldi pixel-scrolling method) to go left ... -
Problem with Speccy GraphicsI'm creating a couple of background images for the BombJack Editor using Photoshop (I can't seem to get my head around the graphics editor in BASin).…
... "/only two colours per 8 pixel square, and I managed to ... -
Retro-X Alpha availableChanges from WIP 7 (Alpha 3) to Alpha 4 ( 1.5.08 - 14.5.08 ). Requested by and help by - in brackets. Bugfixes: * Viewer: o File list not displaye…
... : ATM Turbo Lowres (Colour per Pixel) Colour and monochrome, ATM Turbo ... /> o ATM Turbo Colour Per Pixel mode included
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Manic miner remake....Hi all. I just started a Manic Miner remake using Python + Pygame. The aim is to be as pixel perfect as possible (except perhaps I won't have colour…
... aim is to be as pixel perfect as possible (except perhaps ... -
jetset blue colourhi the spectrum only had 8 colors in jet set willy the in the room i am sure i have seen this before there is a blue color that is not cyan or the b…
... putting white and blue together pixel by pixel so you can't ... -
Flood Fill ConundrumI have written a flood fill alogirithm. It uses the stack, but only with the y axis. It works quite well, but on large polygons it does take a while …
... can fill.
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FAO: JC + CEZ (and other games coders)For my next game I need a huge amount of 14x15 pixel sprites and thought that, rather than just making my own, I'd shout out to see if I could use so…
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Help with hi-res 40 column fontI have created a 12x8 pixel font for use with Timex hi-res (Mode 6).
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Why would Ricochet do this to an Ultimate game ?When i was testing a rubber key speccy ( prior to ebaying it ) with the ricochet version of Knightlore game i thought the speccy must be damaged beca…
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Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... windows will need to be pixel accurate rather than character square ... not drawing the first/last pixel.[/LIST]
I know ...
