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  • Jetpac vs Lunar JetmanTo be honest, I've never given Lunar Jetman the chance, so I want others to tell me what they think is the best of the two. Jet Pac is a totally diff…

    ... as Jetpac, but with screen scrolling, with the additional enter/exit ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    I think Cobra is superb, and it was sideways scrolling too, generally considered harder than upwards scrolling a la Commando.
    Spector Spector June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    Smooth horizontal scrolling was easy to obtain on ... , much more than smooth vertical scrolling, due to the peculiar way ... had first class horizontal scrolling, but vertical scrolling was another cup of ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    moon patrol got decent sideways scrolling,even had parallax,daleys decathlon wasnt to bad at scrolling.
    A mention to extreme as well as this did decent up down left and right scrolling without any colour clash...amazing!
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... had great full colour horizontal scrolling and alongwith R-Type I ... two had the best horizontal scrolling on the Speccy.
    ... liked the fast full colour scrolling in Lightforce too. Brilliant!
    scrolling effects in full colour but ...
    Arjun Arjun June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    I reckon Ghosts & Goblins had the smoothest scrolling, 8 directional & 2 speed! Runners up are:

    Stormlord
    Zynaps
    Terra Cresta
    Marauder
    +CotL-DS +CotL-DS June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... :
    Smooth horizontal scrolling was easy to obtain ... first class horizontal scrolling, but vertical scrolling was another cup ... Spectrum, but especially sideways scrolling gave him hell. But ... remember Wheelie having great scrolling and that was sideways ...
    Spector Spector June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... should be for the bit scrolling in. Then you need to ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... one-pixel horizontal scrolling compared to vertical scrolling. However, I ... generally easier to program horizontal scrolling. If you know how ... you any problems. Vertical scrolling however, means you have ... I agree that vertical scrolling is easier to do ...
    Ed Ed June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    Yes. You are quite right. Scrolling a speccy screen is painful ...
    frobush frobush June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    and most dinamic games (AMC1, AMC2, After the war, Navy moves, etc.) use 8 pixel scrolling.
    LinuxHata LinuxHata June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... to write than a vertical scrolling routine, but would be harder ... speed.

    I think scrolling made some games worse - Cybernoid ... it had been done with scrolling it would have had to ... (unless it was character square scrolling) etc.
    Neil^P Neil^P June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... /> I still maintain that vertical scrolling is a lot more straightforward ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • The Good, the Bad & the UglyWhich games, in your opinion, were better on the Commode 64 and Amsad CPC than the Speccy? And vice-versa? I ask because I believe that many Speccy g…

    ... ).
    Full colour, multi-direction scrolling (no flip screen). Somehow lacks ...
    Arjun Arjun June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... wrote earlier:

    ; Screen scrolling routines
    ; for quick use ... my old code) my horizontal scrolling routine must have been crap ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    The best scrolling: Cobra (without doubt)
    the worst: Buggler (with headache problem)

    Bye
    FGuerreri FGuerreri June 2002 Games
  • Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…

    ... in the same league as joffa smith, mike lamb or bob ...
    Mikie Mikie July 2002 Games
  • what was the best selling?...............hi everybody, what was the best selling game for the spectrum 16k,48k etc and which software firm made it? :)

    Wasn't "They Sold A Million" games a cumulative figure of the sales on the Speccy, C64, etc.

    Wow, Joffa Smith posts here!!! Hypersports on the Speccy is still probably my most played Speccy game (17 years on too).
    Vampyre Vampyre July 2002 Games
  • Best Speccy ProgrammersRe-post from the thread "Who is your fav speccy programmer". It was getting rather unwieldy so I thought I'll post a new topic on this. So, after mu…

    ... /> ----------------------------------------
    1. Jonathan Smith (aka Joffa Smifff)
    > Cobra * Firefly ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2002 Games
  • Name of a game (again...)Big hellos to everyone in the [B]Spectrum community[/B]! You guys must be [I]sick[/I] of this type of posts by now, but here's another one. I rememb…

    sounds abit like target renegade, tho this was a side scrolling beat em up.
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr July 2002 Games
  • TZX to TAPIs there an application for the mac which will convert TZX files to TAP? I've searched around but can't find any.

    ... will change to cyan/red scrolling bars. After this, I could ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2002 MIA/STP/SDP
  • FoonI've recently discovered Foon, which is a Speccy emulator that runs on the Gameboy Advance. I have used it with a GBA emulator to try and get a feel…

    So how well does it replicate the BEEPer? Is the AY chip emulated?
    And what about scrolling- is it as smooth as the Speccy's (which wasn't that smmoth, mind you)?
    Spector Spector July 2002 Emulators
  • FoonI've recently discovered Foon, which is a Speccy emulator that runs on the Gameboy Advance. I have used it with a GBA emulator to try and get a feel…

    ...and I've not noticed any scrolling problems. Mind you, I've mostly been trying stuff like Manic Miner, Jet Pac (ahem) and Exolon.

    But I did try that feast of 3D wonder, Micronaut One, and that ran fine. So scrolling should be cool.
    Jazzbeaux Jazzbeaux July 2002 Emulators
  • Li'l help?I'm making a video-sketch-show thing, and I plan on putting some speccy code in somewhere, (as well as a comic strip on the inlay case) but I can onl…

    ... /> There are numerous routines for scrolling.

    If you want ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Li'l help?I'm making a video-sketch-show thing, and I plan on putting some speccy code in somewhere, (as well as a comic strip on the inlay case) but I can onl…

    ... must have a book with scrolling routines
    left/right/up ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Game recommendations please!Hi everybody! I finally decided to invest some quality time with my poor +3... Since I bought it, I only turned on the poor thing to check if it was…

    ... want to try out. Smooth scrolling and good gameplay.

    Lars Lars September 2002 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... , while the C64 had better scrolling and a few more colors ...
    Lars Lars September 2002 Games
  • Game recommendations please!Hi everybody! I finally decided to invest some quality time with my poor +3... Since I bought it, I only turned on the poor thing to check if it was…

    ... want to try out. Smooth scrolling and good gameplay.

    Javier Alca?iz Javier Alca?iz October 2002 Games
  • Which game has best ending screen?Spectrum games lacks ending screens mostly, but there may be some brilliant games with very good ending screens/demos. I'm now searching for them. I…

    I thought that I have metioned it before..

    The scrolling scenery of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS with ravens picking in the martians.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2002 Games
  • unreleased games and beta versionsAre there any alternative beta versions of games, or games that were never released at all in the archive. I dont seem to be able to find any. There …

    ... ([url="http://www.btinternet.com/~joffa.smifff/main.html"]http://www ... .btinternet.com/~joffa.smifff/main.html[/url]) that ... have been made. Ocean employed Joffa Smiff to do it but ... guy for the job! When Joffa was finished the other guy ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan November 2002 Games
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