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How did we put up with awful loading times.Going back through old games,some members where lucky to have disk drives on their comps whilst most of us had to stick with the tape format,looking …
... being able to play Jetpac, Manic Miner, Ant Attack was enough to ... spend four or five minutes loading the game. [/QUOTE]
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Last screen... maybe Manic Miner? (just attributes, no screen info) -
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... artifact from Mr. Wimpy's screen, helped a bit by Mugsy ... circles. If you download the screen in scr format and clear ... stand by my Manic Miner vote (that, or the fourth screen wasn't ... -
Good Sam Coupe games and demosI've just found out that Sim Coupe (the Sam Coupe emulator, for those who can't see the bleeding obvious :p) has been ported to the PSP. Actually it …
... ://www.worldofsam.org/node/57"]Manic Miner[/url], [url="http://www.worldofsam ... enable the Mouse interface before loading, which is in the Input ... -
Google Pulls Emulators From the Android MarketOver the weekend, Yong Zhang (yongzh), developer of emulators for old gaming systems on Android, [URL="http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/google-pul…
... at once so say in manic miner you CANT jump over things ... how often I clean the screen or my hands, the build ... -
Jet Set Willy Cross Stitchjust wanted to share a scan of this prezzie I got from some good friends a few weeks ago... [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhu…
A couple of years ago someone on foro.speccy.org did the same thing but for the Manic Miner start screen. It is very very cool :-)
[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quenerapu/sets/72157613145351169/[/url] -
Thinking of making a "Wicker Man" text adventureI introduced my friend to the wonderful world of Speccy text adventures the other night, after she reminded me she liked D+D/MMORPGs; so we played an…
... , i.e. if you load Manic Miner and then record a WAV ... tunes and the sound of Miner Willy jumping etc.
SCREEN blocks from physical cassette and ... -
Famous 8 x 8 graphicsHi All, Part of a game I'm writing involves collecting falling 8x8 graphics, one level will be fonts (got this bit sorted) and another will be 8x8 g…
... are so clear...
Miner Willy, BLOB (Starquake), Vic Viper ... it's coming down the screen), KLP-2 (Quazatron).
Manic Miner), Henhouse Harry, Duck/Goose/Ostrich ... -
Improving existing games by hacking?Certain ZX-Spectrum games are already too close to perfection so it seems nothing else could be changed within the hardware limitations to make them …
... was.
Wasn't Manic Miner modified by someone who came ... to that part on the screen, but there was a door ... -
Eugene - Lord of the BathroomI would like to know if everybody noticed a strange bug in the game "Eugene - Lord of the Bathroom", or if it occurs only on my computer. The game wo…
... joystick, it skips the title screen. So, is it possible to ... Kempston joystick flag, and in Manic Miner it's POKE 33881, 0 ... -
K7zx hi speed loadingHi all As stated before i've been using a cassette adapter on my grey +2 to load mp3 tapes. I came across this software for windows which speed load…
... any other games since then. Manic miner is compatible, so it's ... transfer mechanism, instead of turbo loading, I'm using compression to ... shorten the loading time.
[QUOTE=bully ... -
Best Platform GameWhat's the best platform game?
Easy one for me: Manic Miner.
Playable, addictive & full of character. When I think of the spectrum I think of MM. I prefer the single screen linear challenge of MM to that of JSW. -
Best Platform GameWhat's the best platform game?
... of stuff was happening on screen, so I admire the programming ... /> Edit: Even though I think Manic Miner has been surpassed by a ... -
worst spectrum game cheatwhat is the worst cheat you ever found for a game and what was it
... number of lives in [I]Manic Miner[/I], but if you set ... at the bottom of the screen.
I do remember ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... explain why a monitor program screen shows up.
- for ... I press enter at title screen (pretty normal). At this stage ... and I proceed to next screen. From now on, IFF1 is ... are disabled.
- for Manic Miner IFF1 is 0 from start ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... explain why a monitor program screen shows up.
- for ... I press enter at title screen (pretty normal). At this stage ... and I proceed to next screen. From now on, IFF1 is ... are disabled.
- for Manic Miner IFF1 is 0 from start ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... both Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, when the first screen of ... missing from the screen.
In Manic Miner Willy is also ... the "frozen" message in Manic Miner) and two remaining games work ... when a caption from Manic Miner's title screen appears, PC is ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... character" bug appears in both Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. Is ... 's initial position on the screen which I happen to corrupt ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... character" bug appears in both Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. Is ... 's initial position on the screen which I happen to corrupt ... uses interrupts to perform timing/screen updates. That said, I also ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... uses interrupts to perform timing/screen updates. That said, I also ... quoting you but FWIW neither Manic Miner or JSW are interrupt driven ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... , I made another observation (in Manic Miner). I tried to see if ... lower left part of the screen representing a number of lives ... -
Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…
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lets face it , the manic miner gfx are ported pixel for ... can't compare the Robocop screen to the Speccy one because ... -
writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…
... games and text message in Manic Miner is scrolled properly now. This ... exited as soon as title screen vanished which let me ... to crash right after title screen, without pressing anything. What ... a life" or "break when screen display gets distorted". Is there ... -
R-Type: Good or horrible?I know, right? R-Type. The jaw-dropping poster child for Speccy brilliance? How could I even suggest such a thing. Well, here's the thing. It is…
... machines and various other examples (manic miner, golden eye). But one stand ... with it on a big screen!
The speccy version ... -
Bounty bobBounty bob strikes back, great game - but I can't find any joystick option - can one be used ?
press 2 for options screen
[url]ftp://ftp. ... /> it's a good conversion.. manic miner / matty smith owes a lot ... the game pre-bounty bob (miner 2049er) and bill hogue :) -
The Android gaming threadAdmittedly, the app store's a long way behind the Iphone's, however there's still some great gamer out these. I've been addicted to Game Dev Story. …
... manic miner unplayable :(
the controls generally are arrows on the touch screen ... found you cover half the screen when pushing them so cant ... see half the screen??[/QUOTE]
Get yourself ... -
Bounty bobBounty bob strikes back, great game - but I can't find any joystick option - can one be used ?
... ;562707]press 2 for options screen
[url]ftp://ftp ... /> it's a good conversion.. manic miner / matty smith owes a lot ... the game pre-bounty bob (miner 2049er) and bill hogue :)[/QUOTE ... brings me to an options screen, options are for sound, difficulty ... -
Address of monitor to load emulator files into real SpeccyI have a monitor/debugger that can load data over serial port really fast. Now I would like to extend it to load standard emulator files over the ser…
Running the monitor in screen memory will let you load ... of anyone that uses the screen memory for storing data, but ... Flash to memory and uses screen memory for intermediate code storing ... not touch the BASIC area (Manic Miner is the example that come ... -
Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…
... quality of such giants as Manic Miner etc,.) on this machine with ... , you are faced with minutes loading and saving time (not to ... mention the possibility of tape loading errors) which gets old quickly ... -
Where to start?..Hello, First off, sorry if this is in the wrong and sorry if the questions I'm about to ask have been asked and answered numerous time! Little back…
... even to make a nice Manic Miner-like game. You have to ... , you are faced with minutes loading and saving time (not to ... mention the possibility of tape loading errors) which gets old quickly ... ". Making a platform game like Manic Miner for example, is much, much ...
