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  • Lightforce - a classic?Was [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/08/spectrum-games-light-force-classic-zx.html"]Lightforce [/URL](reviewed) a classic shmup? I rec…

    ... hadn't been a full colour vertical space shoot-em up ... try to introduce too much colour and detail. Commando was sparse ... think that the balance of colour and detail in Light Force ... 've got a great colour scroll and some multi coloured sprite routines but ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN August 2010 Games
  • Lightforce - a classic?Was [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/08/spectrum-games-light-force-classic-zx.html"]Lightforce [/URL](reviewed) a classic shmup? I rec…

    ... hadn't been a full colour vertical space shoot-em up ... try to introduce too much colour and detail. Commando was sparse ... think that the balance of colour and detail in Light Force ... 've got a great colour scroll and some multi coloured sprite routines but ...
    merman merman August 2010 Games
  • 30-column 8x2 multicolor (even in 48K)I don't recall any 8x2 multicolor routine for 30 columns that would work on all Spectrum models (including the Spectrum 48K), so I decided to write i…

    ... a 4x-fat-pixel colour screen, though the multi-colour section there was ... sprite. This is to minimise colour clash.

    The boats ... , and make them appear to scroll. It works OK for a ...
    joefish joefish August 2013 Development
  • What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […

    ... a 2-wide bit of multi-colour within each player's scoreboard ... this point.

    The colour map is a linear buffer ... scenery blocks using attributes, then scroll them up and down just ... also thinking of having two colour maps, one background one with ...
    joefish joefish October 2013 New game ideas
  • Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…

    ... DRAM for both bitmap and colour information, so this must be ... .at/temp/palstuff/]this site (scroll down to AEC Line Glitch ... 4 bits for the character colour, which is necessary because there ... to give the third colour in the multi-colour graphics mode.

    Matt_B Matt_B September 2014 Development
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... -fly with a synchronised multi-colour routine. As we've ... One way to optimise the colour combining is to write ... just AND the PAPER or COLOUR element (+BRIGHT) of ... background detail as you scroll onto a new area, ... on-the-fly with colour changes. You should be ...
    joefish joefish December 2014 Development
  • 64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…

    ... the-fly with a synchronised multi-colour routine. As we've seen ... One way to optimise the colour combining is to write colours ... horizontally. But how can we scroll an odd number of steps ... for odd numbers. To repeatedly scroll single steps sideways, you alternate ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2014 Development
  • ANN: Spectaculator 6.2[NEW]: Spectaculator 6.2 Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emul…

    ... those demos that produce fancy multi-colour effects as
    well as ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle May 2004 Emulators
  • More colours (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
    chev chev October 2004 Emulators
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
    chev chev November 2004 Emulators
  • Graphic issues with SpinOk, I've always meant to get this sorted out but never did for various reasons that I don't remember at the moment. I get choppy framerates with Spi…

    ... if I turn off scanlines, multi-colour effects, smoothing, and enable/disable ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2005 Emulators
  • Rainbow processor effectMost people think that Uridium was the first game to use the 'rainbow processor' effect (so called due to the type in from Dominic Robinson in YS). …

    ... to give the impression of multi-colour attributes.

    This I ...
    Fil Fil December 2005 Games
  • SpecEmu 2.4 releaseSince SpecEmu has been at 2.4 beta for as long as I can remember I think it's about time I made a proper 2.4 release for its users :) Major new feat…

    ... .
    * Improved contention model for multi-colour demos and games

    Woody Woody February 2007 Emulators
  • NIGHT CLUBS? Am I getting old??I went to a night club with the wife last night. Normally I love having a drink and a dance. Last night was the first time in ages I can honestly sa…

    ... />
    [*] Lighting just a few multi colour LEDs waving about, not giving ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2009 Chit chat
  • New feature: titles featuring Multi-colour GraphicsYesterday I added a new feature to accommodate Buzzsaw+: [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Rainbow+Graphics$&phrase&loadpics=1…

    Yesterday I added a new feature to accommodate Buzzsaw+: [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Rainbow+Graphics$&phrase&loadpics=1]Rainbow Graphics[/url].
    Were there other titles that should get this flag?
    mheide mheide October 2011 Infoseek database
  • Spectrum+2A(B) Stuck in Test ModeHello there my fellow WoS'ers, I have recently got yet another +2A(well B) but it only boots to the TEST Mode - multi colour bars with 1986 on them …

    ... boots to the TEST Mode - multi colour bars with 1986 on them ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 November 2011 Hardware
  • Updated version of Chaos?One game I've never managed to 'click' with is Chaos, the legendary strategy game for the 48K Speccy. Actually, I've never liked any strategy game, b…

    ... else, plus even if the multi-colour routines do slow down the ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2012 New game ideas
  • Suggested corrections in Timex Reference pageThe [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/tmxreference.htm"]Timex Reference[/URL] defines the screen modes as follows: [I]"Bits 0-2: Sc…

    ... screen 1, 010=hi-colour, 110=hi-res"[/I]< ... /> [I]"The [B]hi-colour[/B] screen uses the data ... mode instead of "hi-colour". There's also a ...
    [I]"The [B]multi-colour[/B] screen uses the data ...
    Although calling it "multi-colour" is correct, IMHO it's ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2012 Support files
  • Most technically impressive Speccy game?I think I posted this question years ago, but, wondered if it'd still be the same games that people think are technically impressive? I think some o…

    ... think some of the modern multi-colour games are amazing and would ...
    stupidget stupidget February 2016 Games
  • Spectrum Computing Update ThreadThis thread has been created for us to provide updates for the Spectrum Computing Website. As well as providing updates, this thread is ideal if you …

    ... to convert the SCR and multi-colour screens.

    View RZX ...
    jonesypeter jonesypeter February 2017 Announcements
  • Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…

    ... that exploited clever timing of colour changes within the raster ... not released. It has a multi-colour menu like LED Storm, ... And the colours in the multi-colour area cycle around in that ... an Ultimate Long List of Multi-Colour Games which might disprove this ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone January 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • HELP...what was this gameThere was a game i loved, i think it was by the same group who did the adventure about being a sea captain and another one about climbing everest. It…

    ... designs) a finance utility called Multi-Function Cash Controller.

    multi-colour Richard Shepherd Software logo.
    Derek Glen Derek Glen January 2002 Games
  • Most nice Loader ScreenHi, What is the better loader screen from speccy games?? or simply which is the screen you more remember.. I remember a lot the screen$ from Roboc…

    Heavy on the Magick!, Rambo 3, NOMAD (fabulous artwork!), Bombjack (simply b'cos it was the first multi-colour loader I saw).

    I can't seem to recall some of the other ones, though.....
    Arjun Arjun March 2002 Games
  • ZX Spin 0.4 available for Download.Standard Cut-n-Paste from the CSS post: If all goes well, I'll upload it to WOS on monday. ----------------------------------------- Okay, it's th…

    ... problem to games that do multi-colour special effects.

    As ...
    Fraser Fraser December 2002 Emulators
  • Demo effectsRight, erm, first of all, since this post is about demos, it's possibly not right to post it in the Games forum, but it didn't seem right posting it …

    ... u referring to the neat colour scroll in the Zynaps logo in ...
    Arjun Arjun December 2002 Games
  • Professional PiracyI was just wondering... Back in the early nineties I tripped into my local John Menzies (Dunfermline) to buy a few Speccy games. Having picked up a …

    ... /> The labels also had a multi-colour band down the spine and ...
    Derek Glen Derek Glen March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Those posh-looking Spanish gamesOn the "any programmers" thread, someone posted this link to an old Crash article: [url="http://www.crashonline.org.uk/98/euro.htm"]http://www.crash…

    ... guess is pretty nice, have colour, scroll and many sprites in movement.
    judasEZT judasEZT July 2003 Games
  • C64 & Spectrum loadingscreens!I was bored today, so I decided to compare some stuff. :) [url="http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/"]http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/[/ur…

    ... blocky when using it's multi-colour mode (160x200) (Also, the extra ... the fact that the Spectrum colour palette is far more vibrant ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers January 2004 Games
  • Is Spectaculator Worth Registering?I normally use RealSpectrum and was thing of trying another emulator. What are the pro and ons of Spectacultor? Does it support disk image files?

    ... can't even use the 'multi-colour rendering argument' these days :)
    Jon Needle Jon Needle April 2004 Emulators
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