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Riddler's Den - Stroke of genius or complete waste of time?[rant] This game is a fun little adventure game / puzzler. But why, oh why, would you throw that many curveballs at the gamer ... it sucks having to…
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Spectrum Circuit ImageActually, this is about the development of a remake but it seemed the best and most techy place to ask. What I'm after is a decent shot of the Speccy…
... that I can produce a pixel-art version of it. It ... -
Today I did something I had not done for 25 years...............I ate a Texan Bar !!! I went into my Local paper shop this morning and there they were. A full box of Texan Bars. I was so excited I bought two, a…
... . A full box of Texan Bars. I was so excited I ... -
Speccy art wanted.Alright, those of you who don't know, I'm working to launch a magazine in November called RETRO:BYTES. And I've been asking about for submissions to …
... done an excellent piece of pixel art, using a paint package ... -
Why nothing will ever beat a real SpeccyI believe that one of the reasons that Speccy games were so good was because you had to wait so long for them to load! I remember sitting in front o…
... alternating flashing red and cyan bars, then the flashing yellow and ... blue bars, along with the unique spectrum ... -
Wanted: Speccy font for WindowsPlease. If anyone's got one, there must be one out there, either private message me or reply in thread and let me know how good it is i.e. if it's pi…
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Spectaculator/Spin audio savingI've tried to make an audio save of Football Director 2 on both these emulators and am having the same problem with both. When I 'put in' a cassette…
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OT: Graphic Card problemAhem. It's me again with a computer problem! Last time I posted with a problem I was pleasantly suprised with some insightful answers that helped fix…
... ? I once read about malfunctioning pixel pipelines and am hoping it ... -
The ULA and ScreenI've asked something similar before but please bear with me. I'm trying to understand the way the screen is controlled. The ULA controls output to …
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Return of Speccy screen buffer formatI recently discovered that the Spectrum screen buffer format that allows only two colours in an 8x8 pixel block has made its return in a slightly dif…
... two colours in an 8x8 pixel block has made its return ... four colors in every 4x4 pixel block.
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ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... shrink the screen in a pixel perfect solution for each game ... -
Anybody been to Berlin?Going to Berlin next month for a few days. Anybody been there already? Know any good bars/clubs/places to go/things to do? Cheers! BigBadMick
Going to Berlin next month for a few days.
Anybody been there already?
Know any good bars/clubs/places to go/things to do?
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Toobin'I just took a look at this game for the first time. It got kind of mixed reviews, and I can see why. Quite a good idea, but a bit too frantic and unp…
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Raf Cecco - misguided genius?Probably one of the greatest Speccy programmers, but were his games any good? From my experience: Exolon - Great game, well designed, good controls,…
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Jet Set Willy Mobile Phone GameHas anyone seen this?: [url="http://www.sports.co.uk/games/260452/Jet_Set_Willy.htm"]http://www.sports.co.uk/games/260452/Jet_Set_Willy.htm[/url] "A…
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Interface1 problem.I just bought one. Problem is, I plug the thingie in one of my argentinian clones and the machine seems not to run a single Z80 cycle. The screen is …
... black & white thick vertical bars (about 3 or 4 chars ... -
Share your freaky storiesShare your weird or freaky stories here! Here's mine: A few years ago me and the girlfriend were on holiday in Spain and we got friendly with the y…
... nail-bombs in different gay bars around London? Well, one of ... the gay bars he blew up was called ... -
Your Computer magazineJust noticed a few issues of 'Your computer' mag have been scanned and placed in the archive.(i'd forgotten it existed) Does anyone out there posses…
... a school cap thrown behind bars! (this served as food for ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... required in splib2 for horizontal pixel placement of sprites is no ... as well as 7 blank pixel rows above each column must ... added. These indicate the minimum pixel rotation in the x and ... -
Getting attribute location from a screen coordinates (x,y)I am having trouble figuring out how to convert an x,y coordinate pair (pointing to a specific pixel) to the location of the attribute for the block …
... pair (pointing to a specific pixel) to the location of the ... the block that contains that pixel.
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Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…
... routine that draws a 8x8 pixel spaceship on the screen based ... upon x,y pixel coordinates, which are altered by ... screen hl coordinates for each pixel row of the sprite separately ... -
How to create pretty screenshot maps[size=+1][b]A. What will I need?[/b][/size] 01. Your favorite [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/emulators.html]Speccy emulator[/url]. 02. An util…
... of a screen about one pixel use Cursor Keys + SHIFT combination ... -
I played DSpec on my DSlite!That's right, TheHiVE sent out a few copys of a pre-release version of DSpec and I was one of the luckiest fellers in the world to get one ! I't ver…
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Name the game (2 years on)Two years ago, I asked a 'name the game' question, but no one was able to help me. 2 years, worth another bash, eh? Okay, it was a cheapie little t…
... with white screen and black pixel-thick lines for the bikes ... -
Goonies helpplease help hooow should I play this game??? there´s CAPS SHIFT used as FIRE-button, which only switches the two characters for controlling...…
... switch the characters on every pixel related to this important area ... -
SimCoupe 1.0 released[size=-2](for those of you that don't read CSS)[/size] SimCoupe, the SAM Coup? emulator, has been updated to version 1.0. This major release adds ma…
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- Added support for border pixel artefacts, as used by Fred65 ... being too dark
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Blur codeHi I remember years back seeing some amazing speccy stuff - I saw some kind of blur effect? I think it was simple sprite movement back and forth 1 p…
... movement back and forth 1 pixel left and right but had ... -
How do I run games/programs from TR-DOS?Hi, the World of Spectrum is a nice and great site. I already looked a bit through it but despite of its hugeness I couldn't find any information reg…
... two colour squares but each pixel got it's own colour ... -
What effect would you most like to seeJust wondering, what with the fact that it seems to be 1983 all over again and more and more new games coming out, what feature, thing or special eff…
... die to see some pixel explosions or other pixel effects, in whatever ... -
joystick queryIn my spectrum playing heyday I never liked using a joystick, for me and my speccy loving pals it was always the keyboard for pixel perfect movement.…
... was always the keyboard for pixel perfect movement. Joysticks for me ...
