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  • Collision Detection in SP1Hi, Does anyone have a well-documented example of using collision detection in spritelib. I've search WoS and Z88DK forums but no joy. Something wi…

    ... of you for taking a look.

    [QUOTE= ... working, I will take a look at other methods!
    ... still trying to move the sprites in your main loop after ... 've just taken a look at the source code on ... ends just before moving the sprites. I will try moving ...
    szeliga szeliga November 2013 Development
  • Small demo to show my sprite engine for ZX Spectrum 48KThis demo shows 13 sprites moving at 50fps totally flicker free: 12 enemies bouncing in edges and the main character, controllable with OPSA (note S …

    ... we must paint the sprites. The key in this engine is a ... routine that prints pre-shifted sprites in only 2000 cycles each.
    sprites in a bigger screen area. I ... could, more or less reliably, look for that line instead of ...
    Hikaru Hikaru December 2013 Development
  • Pseudo-3D map renderingHave been mulling this over for a while, until that isometric thread prompted me to ask. I'm not sure if this is officially classed as 2D, 2.5D, or 3…

    ... won't fit many sprites in if trying to beat ... STRADDLES HAS A PLACE IN A JUMP TABLE, the ... top border (if drawing in top border that is).< ... />
    *The routines in my[URL="https://docs.google ... s single char sprites, if interested tho look at the ' ...
    R-Tape R-Tape January 2014 Development
  • Pac-Land: can be coloured?All versions of this game are full coloured, but not the Spectrum version. It has large sprites, but maybe the scroll is too fine to make a coloured …

    ... send this game back in time to Grandslam be ... the arcade?
    2. In the arcade, the lives and ... it might look great in other places, like in the building ... I were to redraw the sprites (and you liked them), ... that there are 4 walking sprites and 3 dying? That ...
    Lee Bee Lee Bee March 2014 Games
  • Pac-Land: can be coloured?All versions of this game are full coloured, but not the Spectrum version. It has large sprites, but maybe the scroll is too fine to make a coloured …

    ... it might look great in other places, like in the building ... ugly hack but would look terrible on hills etc ... I were to redraw the sprites (and you liked them), ... that there are 4 walking sprites and 3 dying? That ... is possible to alter sprites but it would be ...
    Ralf Ralf March 2014 Games
  • ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…

    ... had a look at BiNMaN's sprites, and they look great. I ... :

    Sprites:
    In order to allow a decent ... map, instead of coming in from off the map ... are pre-shifted horizontally in 2-pixel steps. There ... -shift up/down facing sprites.
    Obviously, this ...
    LuMan LuMan March 2014 New game ideas
  • ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…

    BiNMaN's sprites actually started off as solid ... reckon the alien's would look better in solid black, rather than ... same colour, or have coloured sprites and do away with the ...
    MykeP MykeP March 2014 New game ideas
  • ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…

    ... using your sprites for the testing. But if they look OK in action ...
    LuMan LuMan March 2014 New game ideas
  • ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…

    ... using your sprites for the testing. But if they look OK in action ... jump start on getting the look and feel together at least ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN March 2014 New game ideas
  • Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…

    ... look fine now, but right now, they haven't got any sprites in ... front of them. For the sprites to ... a stretch blue) INK in every character cell. And ... the only other colour in that cell is blue ... or cyan & green, in a character space, either the ...
    joefish joefish June 2014 New game ideas
  • improvements to gameshello while i playing a few spectrum games,i thought how better some games would be better with an improvement:- automania-128k tune,less grating t…

    The main sprites in Rock 'n' Wrestle are a mess which is a shame as it's quite an enjoyable game. If it had been developed to look more like the arcade game Exciting Hour then it may have been less of an eyesore.
    Nick Nick September 2014 Games
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ... , insufficient amount of HW sprites pixel count per scanline, ... />

    Insufficient HW sprites? Insufficient compared to 16 bits ... games machine. Sound, colour, scrolling, sprites. In every way.

    ... over to Lemon and look at the top C64 games ...
    weesam weesam September 2014 Games
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ...

    Insufficient HW sprites? Insufficient compared to 16 bits ... machine. Sound, colour, scrolling, sprites. In every way.

    ... over to Lemon and look at the top C64 ... ve just had a look at IK on C64 ... find no fault in it. In respect of colour ...
    Jim M Jim M October 2014 Games
  • What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…

    ...

    Insufficient HW sprites? Insufficient compared to 16 bits ... machine. Sound, colour, scrolling, sprites. In every way.

    ... over to Lemon and look at the top C64 ... ve just had a look at IK on C64 ... find no fault in it. In respect of colour ...
    Jim M Jim M October 2014 Games
  • Why do you love the Spectrum?I saw a similar question posed on a Spectrum FB group and it got me thinking. At first, I struggled to answer what should be a simple question. So af…

    ... />
    I remember seeing game sprites, simple things like keys, locks ... and come up with great sprites in minutes. My other cousin had ... and feeling enthusiastic about sitting in front of my Spectrum and ... /> I don't think we look at the Spectrum and everything ...
    zxbruno zxbruno October 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... the C64 can reproduce the look of Speccy games "if ... up all 8 of its sprites in hi-res mode:
    ... simple games with small sprites and not a lot ... in lo-res mode (200x160), the sprites don't seem so small in ... about one of these sprites from the Speccy version ...
    Muig Muig December 2014 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... the C64 can reproduce the look of Speccy games "if it ... up all 8 of its sprites in hi-res mode:

    sprites must make the Spectrum version ... res Dan.
    The other sprites are likely to be software ...
    urbanupstart urbanupstart December 2014 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... ]

    Well, taking a look at Karnov obviously they lazily ... area, hardware scrolling and hardware sprites for at least the main ... have proven difficult as the sprites in this game were fairly large ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG December 2014 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... but rather the way sprites in Bubble Bobble aren't ... is obvious when you look at static screenshots where ... reduces the possibility of sprites merging together into a ... and the design of sprites means it's not ... really that noticeable in the heat of the ...
    AndyC AndyC January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... both software and hardware sprites in play, the hardware sprites don't need ... things to at least [i]look like[/i] it was managing ... screen scroll and eight hardware sprites at 50FPS helps too...< ... times. If you look closely at Mayhem in Monsterland, for example ...
    TMR TMR January 2015 Games
  • Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …

    ... Type[/I][/QUOTE]

    In the context of the thread ... scrolling and sprites doesn't automatically mean it will look like the ... of the Z80 should help in many situations. The smooth movement ... have just stuck some hardware sprites in to bump the graphics up ...
    Fizza Fizza January 2015 Games
  • Which games would you remake? Or like to see a mockup of?We all have a list of titles that we know or felt was not good enough or simply rushed to market without thought or effort. So which titles would you…

    ... would much better in monochrome and with larger sprites, otherwise its a ... and Aliens would also be in line for a remake. Aliens ... /> Great artwork that would look great in a newly revamped version -
    Rebelstar Rebelstar July 2015 New game ideas
  • New Game ~ Zombo![img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aKUeQ1ePvIs/VauzoRJPNVI/AAAAAAAAA0I/QuG8vW_pqNY/s1600/Zombo%2Bloading%2Bscreen.bmp[/img] From my brother's blog....…

    ... program. Text is fantastically expensive in memory terms and sometimes overruns ... the end of RAM in big games. AGD tries to ... 16x24 sprites in a finished article. Love the loading screen and the look ...
    jonathan jonathan July 2015 Brand new software
  • Games with tiny and detailed graphicsThere are games with tiny & simple gfx and there are games with tiny & detailed gfx. I'm looking for the latter. My suggestions: Rex [img]http://ww…

    The sprites in [i]King's Valley[/i] look great, having a cartoony look in such ... [/i], on their own, the sprites look like masterpieces. But they do ... of 'negative space' for their look. So fill a screen with ...
    joefish joefish August 2015 Games
  • 1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.

    ... .worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/s/Specventure.gif[/img ... basically are your typical enemy sprites in a game like this. If ... onto the next level. You look like a robot, and considering ... still quite playable doesn't look too bad, is quite tricky ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek August 2015 Games
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... some cool sprites. I just have to make them look good in monochrome ... base foot in the same place, which makes character look like it ... easy match between walking sprites.

    In other words, character always ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • The influence of school.I was having a think about school this morning and realised what an influence it was on me with regards to computers. I was never a big fan of school…

    I remember getting in trouble in the last year of primary ... some BASIC listings in one of the books in my office. ... all sit and type it in.

    I asked ... we didn't like the sprites in the listing and he went ... was trying to make him look a bit of an arse ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2016 Chit chat
  • Recycled GraphicsI've just noticed a distinct similarity between this face in Freddy Hardest:- [url]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/wosfiles/loader/FreddyHardest.gif[/url] …

    Gargoyle reused the ghost in Heavy On The Magick for Scooby Doo. Some other sprites in Scooby look quite Lewis Carroll-esque, like the Jack-In-The-Box, wonder if they reused those from their unreleased Carroll game.
    Insert Coin Insert Coin October 2016 Games
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... standard data added in a length specified in the counters byte ... />
    I could change the sprites in all sorts of ways, but ... to the sprites as-is. Though changes have happened, they look pretty ... still yield savings in size and not change the look too much ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed March 2017 Development
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... to offer You a retrospective look from the future into ... legal way to add "hardware sprites" in the architecture of the ZX ... Clive Sinclair that he starred in a commercial, jumping across ... much more useful than hardware sprites, 256 colours mode, accelerator ...
    Black_Cat Black_Cat May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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