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Change to Top 100 Games format?Morning folks I was thinking last night that it would be a great idea to maybe revamp the Top 100 Spectrum Games, maybe expand it to 250 like the IM…
... be a great idea to maybe revamp the Top 100 Spectrum Games ... , maybe expand it to 250 like ... -
Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemBelow is my WIP code to do smooth screen wrapping sprites using char positions and offsets, as opposed to writing direct to a line (0-191) and shifti…
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; Only print a 3rd column if moving left or ... Z
; Print 3rd column, checking for wrapping as ... br />
; Print 3rd Column
CALL AChar
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IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
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; Only print a 3rd column if moving left or ... Z
; Print 3rd column, checking for wrapping as ... br />
; Print 3rd Column
CALL AChar
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Game Redux's you'd like to see?I was talking about this with one of my pals at work the other night, about which games you'd like to see redone? Here's a few to start you off. Re…
... which games you'd like to see redone?
to see 3rd Birthday released on something ...
I'd like to see a Nekketsu game redone ... who doesn't want to see that in glorious ... />
Chakan...I want to visit countless other galaxies and ... -
Voted Top 100 ... true list?Yesterday I look on our Top 100 ... top-ten is so-so, but rest... many 'wrong' titles present, Elite, Laser Sq., Lords O.M. too low (positioned)... w…
... I look on our Top 100 ... top-ten is so-so, ... Immediately two easy 'corrections' spring to my mind, 1. award 'popularity ... W., won't make it to top-ten (106 or 136 ... this is just idea, to show how it works, it ... 2. even better system is to avoid 10% worst and best ... -
ebay doing it's best to alienate sellers?does seem that way , what with the death of 99p listing and *35p* per thing.. WTF.. really great for a 99p items also the news about it being hacked…
... recall giving them permission to give out my info to random 3rd parties. -
IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
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; Only print a 3rd column if moving left or ... Z
; Print 3rd column, checking for wrapping as ... br />
; Print 3rd Column
CALL AChar
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IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
... /> RET Z
; Print 3rd column, checking for wrapping as ... C,A
; Print 3rd Column
CALL WriteSpriteChar
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WrapCharVertically:
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Pimp my code...Erm, this is just the result of a mental exercise - I wanted to repeatedly display a UDG but decided against using a ROM routine and UDGs! Any sugges…
... , say, the top 3rd of the screen, and always the top 3rd of the ... /> Stick SP to point at the end of the top 3rd, load the ... -
Finally beat Bruce LeeI know it's sad, but back in the 80's I always thought this was quite difficult. Today, I finally got all the way through it...only to be put back at…
... to the 3rd and expecting the 'monument' in the top right hand corner to ... after being frustrated went back to the 2nd then saw the ... -
err, I like wrote this years ago, and just found it archived.[b]read it, and say it's crap if you want, but do not go on about the technical side, cos it was bullshit, we all know it, and the end makes no sense…
... too long, and got cut to a 3rd of the size, and ... for the course, and got top marks. Along with my text ... -
Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…
... set?
- Are you wanting to render the characters across CHAR ... ? (Suggestion: Stick with the top 3rd then extending to other thirds will be ... :
If you want to scroll the top third of the screen ... , is that because you want to ... -
Character scrollingOk, first I'd like to say that I'm not looking for a complete routine (but that might help) because I am hoping to write it myself and learn a bit mo…
... : Stick with the top 3rd then extending to other thirds will be ... If you want to scroll the top third of the screen ... , is that because you want to ... it will be the top third of the screen ... of 300 x 8 (top third) will have 300bytes ... -
WIP : Flippin' HoraceAnother Horace game anyone? I'm using AGD again. The moving platforms are a bodge job, slightly buggy, but still OK for what is possible in AGD. I…
... ) be able to run across to the 3rd platform in one ... go. You need to ... 3rd platform to avoid the spike. When the platform is near the top ... , that's the time to flip back to the ... problem is the response to the keys. Somehow it ... -
Mighty MagusMighty Magus Anybody out there played this game? I remember it well.
... seems, everything is fine ('fair' to player) in this game! < ... found on lev.28, 3rd I got on lev.19 ... ), on my way to Dragon I continued to search, but only ... e. when find it convenient to do it (some searches ... no way back to top), so I bild MAGIC to 138 and POWER ... -
ZX Spectrum code examplesThe shortage of sites with decent code examples seems to be few. The links to alot of sites that used to host them are disappearing into the ether. …
... by 5800h (2252 being the top left character and each next ... works because the 2nd and 3rd 2k act exactly the same ... loads to a 3rd of the screen it fills in all the top ... bytes loaded fill in the top pixel row of the ... byte will start on the 3rd pixel row of the ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... the screen address of the top line of the cell ... a back screen buffer to draw to which started at ... /> ; calculate screen coordinate of top of cell
ld hl ... ; hl = screen address of top row of char
ld ... bitmap I am about to draw, 3rd is X coord of ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... the screen address of the top line of the cell ... a back screen buffer to draw to which started at ... /> ; calculate screen coordinate of top of cell
ld hl ... ; hl = screen address of top row of char
ld ... bitmap I am about to draw, 3rd is X coord of ... -
Broken ZX Spectrum + (48k)Hi! I just got a ZX Spectrum + from a friend. He said it was working around 8 years ago when he put it into the cellar. It was in great condition - …
... from bottom to top) and when it comes to
the top it just ... . Also reset doesn't seem to help
for some reason ... -
Crash 20th AnniversaryOn 13th January 1984, Crash magazine was launched on our shelves, and was used as the template for all game magazines for the rest of the decade. Gon…
... &VG, which had drawings to illustrate the graphics, and gone ... first time, percentages to give a final score. To top it off, we ... -
Crash CD'sHello :) I have just recieved the Crash CD's as advertised on this very site and they are truely STUNNING. It took this chap 10 months to scan every…
... took this chap 10 months to scan every page of every ... scan quality is superb and to top it all he has also ... am in no way related to or friends with the chap ... -
Things that make you go D'ohI could probably keep this thread going for eternity on my own, but I'll start with the best... When I was still at school, a friend of mine had a p…
... day, we went to his house to play some speccy ... but my eye kept wandering to this chemistry set.
... br /> It didn't burn to well (although it stank like ... imagine), so I decided to top up the meths. Tilting ... flame thrower and set fire to my mate.
Hangovers 'r' usSeeing as how bad a hangover I have from last nights drinking session, i was wondering, what's your fav way of dealing with it? I've been drinking l…
... had any effect! To top it I seem to have got meself a ...Liverpool - European ChampionsHow the hell did Liverpool win the European cup??? At half time they looked dead and buried, they were half a yard behind the play and completely lac…
... lacking in ideas of how to breach the Milan defence.
to top it all off Jerzy 'Clumsy ... extra time and goes on to save 2 penalties in the ...hey hey 512kI'll take your 8mb Bulldog internet connection & raise you 2mb. Yep - NTL are finally raising their intenet speeds. As well as 10mb download, I am …
... per month.
And to top it off, they are reducing ...Best burger everHere's what you need: 1 George Foreman grill 1 burger bap 2 burgers 2 cheese slices pate mustard margarine Instructions: 1. Slice and butter the ba…
... as follows:
(from bottom to top):
- bottom half of bap ...
- layer of pate
- top half of bap
to salivate over, but it didn ... else got any culinary delights to share?Screen LoaderCouple days ago i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet Kompjutera" from january 1987. Authors of article, calls this …
... loads color atributes from bottom to top.
I never see loader ... main program.
I try to put that routine in one ... , game not start and want to load another block of data ... with JP 36000, than wants to load something more.
I ...World of abusive drunks - share your abusive drunk stories. :)One time when I was getting the bus home from town, two really drunk women got on and started singing really obnoxiously loudly. Then, considering th…
... of their voices, trying to wind people up that ... religon they were - suffice to say they were either Catholic ... br />
I happened to know the guy sitting opposite ... down the bus, trying to find out who had ... hole.
But, to top it all off, the thing ...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…
... ;d=number of characters to move to right
ld ... is set, jump to "setcarry" to save it in b ... /> inc hl ;go to next byte to the right
... ] ;routine for moving up to top of byte again
... endofprogram[/B]
ret ;return to basic
[ ...Why are you still up?- I finished work at midnight (I work shift) - I have a glass of red wine and a 3 litre box of wine to top it up - I do not have to be at work until …
... 3 litre box of wine to top it up
- I do ... not have to be at work until 1pm ... .
Oh the freedom to surf for filth on the ... you stop wanking and come to bed'. :grin:
