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  • Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…

    ... there a prefered format for the reviews?

    i.e ... .g. graphics, sound, playability to name the obvious, but things like replay ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…

    ... there a prefered format for the reviews?

    i ... g. graphics, sound, playability to name the obvious, but things like replay ... you the money easily at the end.

    Format for the ... a short piece on the background about the game, what you do ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Retro Gamer Issue 48Here's the cover [img]http://www.retrogamer.net/issues/RG_048.jpg[/img] The Making of Manic Miner Retro Gamer talks exclusively to Matthew Smith abo…

    ... , it's virtually impossible to name the ZX Spectrum's best 25 ... guys insist on constantly bumming the Sega Saturn even in non ... -Saturn features (without the Japanese shmups and Sega Rally ... at least be interviewing the wrong person about the wrong site.
    Vertigo Vertigo February 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... [/B] is the height of the sprite in characters (this includes the last blank ... horizontal pixel displacement of the sprite

    The (x,y) pixel coordinates ... the last column of the sprite. If your sprite graphic is 2 characters wide, the sprite ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2008 Development
  • Fun To LearnA few things about [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009091]Fun To Learn[/url]: [list] [*]It's listed as having all its release…

    ... its releases in 1984, but the Currys rerelease has a 1986 ... it (see the inlay).
    [*]The internals specify the inlay name the company as "Shards ...
    mheide mheide March 2008 Infoseek database
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    [QUOTE=Vertigo;257564]Oh bloody [i]hell[/i], Jonathan![/QUOTE]

    To be fair it's probably that the game runs so fast! I've no doubt that the sprite routines are technically clever. :D
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Games
  • Hacks to improve existing gamesDoes everyone remember those hacked versions of Commando and Action Force II that had AY soundtracks hacked into them? How about hacking some other …

    ... some challenges:

    -Batman the Movie

    Add platform ... ! :(
    I tried to find the pokes for these things myself ... lost trying to debug all the jumps and loops. It's ... , maybe by sacrificing some of the sprite animation, skip a frame or ...
    zxbruno zxbruno April 2008 Games
  • Hacks to improve existing gamesDoes everyone remember those hacked versions of Commando and Action Force II that had AY soundtracks hacked into them? How about hacking some other …

    ... , maybe by sacrificing some of the sprite animation, skip a frame or ... liked his walking speed in the game... Felt quite "realistc", he ... was just as slow in the films.
    GreenCard GreenCard April 2008 Games
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... setting the TYPE of the pick-up (diamond in the demo game) sprite to ... 's supposed to remove the sprite from the list but seems to be ... IMAGE=XX to change a sprite into something else - for example ... enemy or even another player sprite if you wanted. It's ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2008 Development
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... , his sprite is not spawned automatically, it is spawned by the restart ... . I find that this means the sprite is printed and then printed ... cannot remove the sprite from the screen properly before moving to the next screen ...
    mulder mulder April 2008 Development
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... ENDIF


    In sprite init routine

    LET ... if you SPAWN the player sprite, this was causing the troubles I was ... because setting them up in the sprite init didn't work. You ... up just before you SPAWN the sprite instead.

    I' ...
    mulder mulder April 2008 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... drawing the sprite. In this scheme, "base" is the address specified when creating the sprite ... pointer to the state of the sprite because this function will change the sprite state ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2008 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ...
    // which way is the sprite moving?

    if ... is used to move the sprite to its initial location ... the first left-facing frame of the sprite.

    Once the ... sprites are initially placed (only the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2008 Development
  • Advice needed please!Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of this question but I'm programming a simple adventure game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple …

    ... question about that. I wrote the BASin screen designer mostly because ... much feedback at all about the screen designer in BASin, ... with Tommy Gun and find the sprite handing management very useful (although ...
    I've not tried the BASin SCREEN$ designer to be ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Advice needed please!Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of this question but I'm programming a simple adventure game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple …

    ... with Tommy Gun and find the sprite handing management very useful (although ... ).
    I've not tried the BASin SCREEN$ designer to be ... request) some more functionality to the sprite editor. So far, it's ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Advice needed please!Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of this question but I'm programming a simple adventure game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple …

    ... request) some more functionality to the sprite editor. So far, it's ... , #ypixels, #xchars as part of the sprite data and that brings out ... onto the output
    2) If the developer wanted to include sprite meta ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Advice needed please!Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of this question but I'm programming a simple adventure game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple …

    ... much feedback at all about the screen designer in BASin, ... . (oh-er!)

    The conversion functions work well and ... own right. Best feature is the colour-clash when drawing, ... the machines limitations in real-time.

    Look forward to the sprite ...
    Shuggy Shuggy April 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... but I can't get the copy sprite/tile function to work ... which should copy the sprite and then select the frames/sprite I want to ... press K, which should perform the copy. Doesn't appear to ... don't think that's the problem. :D
    Arjun Arjun April 2008 Development
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... which should copy the sprite and then select the frames/sprite I want to ... but in the inti sprite it corrupts my sprite positions. The corruption is ... ve added any code to the sprite init. Second is code ... not all lines from the sprite init code it removes ...
    mulder mulder April 2008 Development
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... the missing code for the sprite copy and paste, and a bug in the sprite ... initialisation event has been fixed, which should cure the problem with the sprite ... position corruption. I can't see anything obviously wrong with the ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2008 Development
  • Manic miner remake....Hi all. I just started a Manic Miner remake using Python + Pygame. The aim is to be as pixel perfect as possible (except perhaps I won't have colour…

    ... /> [/QUOTE]

    Yep. The willy sprite is always 16*16 and ... image, not by actually moving the sprite. Reproducing this will give you ... trying to pixel position the sprite.

    The nasties are done in ...
    AndyC AndyC May 2008 Games
  • Manic miner remake....Hi all. I just started a Manic Miner remake using Python + Pygame. The aim is to be as pixel perfect as possible (except perhaps I won't have colour…

    [QUOTE=AndyC;265676]Yep. The willy sprite is always 16*16 and ... image, not by actually moving the sprite. Reproducing this will give you ... than trying to pixel position the sprite.[/QUOTE]

    I ... you have to draw the main willy sprite - it wasn't ...
    heng-di heng-di May 2008 Games
  • what are you doin?not in an accusation sort of way, but, erm, what are you doin? I'm recovering from a nasty hangover, someone mistakingly gave me a few drinks of the…

    ... 272511]Me fiddling around with the eepc. It feels like ... (terrible, terrible name but I needed something to name the repository) which ... would have been along the same ... suffered a harddrive failure. The only source i could find ...
    sparkes sparkes May 2008 Chit chat
  • myspeccy.org - online gaming which auto-saves scoresIt's a blimmin' miracle - I'm most impressed.

    I'm back as current world champion again, in spite of Starglider's evil eye and his hideous but temporary interegnum. I'm still too embarrassed to name the game though.
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • myspeccy.org - online gaming which auto-saves scoresIt's a blimmin' miracle - I'm most impressed.

    ... 'm still too embarrassed to name the game though.[/QUOTE]

    The Starglider The Starglider May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.

    ... , he asks for people to name the best Speccy shooters, then creates ... stipulations to remove the major part of the best one, I ... can half understand the thinking behind the "no arcade ports" rule ... it's still stupid, but the "no jetpak style games" is ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 May 2008 Games
  • What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.

    ... signature? You mean the fact that the first thread that I ... he asks for people to name the best Speccy shooters, then ... I can half understand the thinking behind the "no arcade ports" ... ]

    Fine. Play the slow, slippery, monochrome Spectrum version ...
    Lockett Lockett May 2008 Games
  • What game contents did you find inconsistent?Having recently re-watched "Aliens", I then remembered the speccy game (Electric Dreams version) and found it odd who the selectable characters were:…

    ... Day - I played the game first having now seen ... the film (some years ... /> The actor in the film looks nothing like the sprite in the game and ... sliding block puzzle in the whole of the movie.

    the movie that goes ...
    thingley thingley June 2008 Games
  • Boiler Room ScamsTonight I was called by boiler room scammers. In case you don't know what these are, they are people who cold call you, tell you of an AMAZING share …

    ... millions" one which gave the scam its name, the "you've won our ... lottery" one (most of the time ... a particularly stupid instance of the third variety earlier this year ... one MSN Live) or phone the "Customer Services" number (which ...
    robert@fm robert@fm June 2008 Chit chat
  • Sir Clive's favourite game?Maybe not, but did Sir Clive Sinclair ever show any preference for any Spectrum game or game genre? Is any game known as Sir Clive's favourite game? …

    ... the original for the game with the first name so for me this is the ... true name! :) The ... title is so much better also! To bad the ... so well.. :)

    The cover is better too, by ...
    Rickard Rickard June 2008 Games
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