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ANN: Tipshop updated Tuesday, 27 February 2007Tuesday 27 February 2007 Some very busy SpecChums makes for a splendid update this month! * Viktor Drozd has apparently been skipping on sleeping a…
... de Pichon , Trivia: The Ultimate Quest ,
Vectron and Vikings, The ... -
horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…
... move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m ... -
The horror!Oh no! Elite has been knocked off the top spot of WOS top 100 games. How could this be? It's been displaced by ... "Hero Quest, Return of the Witch …
Oh no! Elite has been knocked off the top spot of WOS top 100 games. How could this be?
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Inspired games[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/basedon.html[/url] I'm sure there's bound to be far more (especially in the "coin-op" section) than are currentl…
... . Anti-Piracy" Webb
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Competition Pro 5000 Joystic.As promised here is a short(ish) review of the joystick. (I have taken the afternoon off work in the hope that it would be here when I got in and it…
... Miner Willy moves just one pixel along the screen.
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Problem with my speccy 48+My machine boots up but apon booting it freezes and you can see feint grey horizontal 1 pixel lines going down the screen. Is this fixable at all?
My machine boots up but apon booting it freezes and you can see feint grey horizontal 1 pixel lines going down the screen. Is this fixable at all? -
kempston mouse gamesHi velesoft, I've just been on your site trying some of these out. There are certainly some spectrum games that could have benefitted greatly from …
... the mouse to generate new pixel coordinates? I ask because I ... but if it were using pixel coordinates I think the game ... -
Lords of Midnight, Tir Na Nog or ChaosInspired by the games club poll and Mousey's JSW quest I have decided to tackle a Spectrum classic bit by bit through the next few months... These th…
... poll and Mousey's JSW quest I have decided to tackle ... -
New Jet Set WIlly gameTaken from one of the 25th B'day threads "It Has Arrived" I think? [QUOTE=dm_boozefreek;184839]Well here it is I am proud (well maybe not proud) to …
... SHIT!!! A DELIGHTFULLY BLASPHEMOUS MINI QUEST!!!
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"Ball Quest" game on YouTube[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9idep79SdU[/url] This clearly isn't an actual Spectrum game (or at least not one running on a standard 48K or 1…
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9idep79SdU[/url]
This clearly isn't an actual Spectrum game (or at least not one running on a standard 48K or 128K model) but does anyone know what it actually is? -
Death of CRT=Death of Spectrum?I was testing an old PC Engine console on the LCD TV in my house, and couldn't believe how awful the picture was. With giant ugly unblended pixels th…
... I'm playing Jet Set Pixel, 3D Pixelchase and Target Pixelcade ... -
Happy birthday FontsHelvetica which is the secondary font for WOS is fifty years old this year whereas Arial, the primary font at WOS is 25 years old. That's the same a…
... -case font which is one pixel slimmer than the 1979 ZX80 ... -
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…
... character across the screen one pixel at the time. I do ... -
Tommy GunHi, Got a few suggestions etc. for Tommy Gun. Well done Kiwi et. al. for a fantastic application. I would like to add the following suggestions: …
... to suggest that you store pixel data in a [B]HexString ... -
Something completely different (new game tech-demo)Since finishing Stranded 2.5 (available soon from Cronosoft - plug!) I've been playing with the idea of doing an attribute-based, rather than pixel-b…
... an attribute-based, rather than pixel-based, game, and you can ... -
Preferred way of determining Y co-ord in assembly?I know of 2 ways of calculating the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in assembly. One is to calculate the address by ways of shifting and masking…
... the y-cord of a pixel row for the speccy in ... the Y address of each pixel row.
But are ... y co-ord of a pixel row efficiently? It would be ... -
Magnetic Moon & Starship QuestThis is probably not that important but the above games are part of a series. Magnetic Moon is part one. Necros.
This is probably not that important but the above games are part of a series. Magnetic Moon is part one.
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Has the airport scanner killed my laptop??I am now in the USA and am writing this from my Best Western Hotel room. I am basically in the sh1t a little bit. Rather than fork out for a new la…
... vertical stripy, like every other pixel is being coloured bright green ... -
concerning soviet graphicsis there any game using a similar tricky technique how to let colorful objects move fluently with no color clash as soviet? (the colorful tops of bui…
... above do move in 8-pixel steps, but lower floors of ... -
Things that games didn't had, but...you wish they did. Here's my list, and if there's someone out there who knows how to make any of these things possible, please share it with us. :) …
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The actual top ten Spectrum games EVER! : )I had a free moment and collected all the votes from the thread of "Top 10 Spectrum games ever". ([I][url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/show…
... /> [*]Headcoach
[*]Heartland
[*]Hero Quest
[*]how to be a ... -
Contention and floating bus timingHello, I was recently playing a bit with memory contention and floating bus stuff in ZXDS and there is one thing which puzzles me a bit. It is the d…
... gathered. Say the top left pixel is displayed 64*224 (63 ... -
New ZX81 Emulator appletHi! In case anyone's interested, I've added a new Java ZX81 emulator applet to my web site. Each program listed now has a "play" button that loads …
... fantastic EightyOne so has a pixel-perfect display with Hires games ... -
Whats Gone Wrong - Pixels Everywhere!Changed one small piece of code, that doesnt do anything to the screen and the following has happened: [img]http://www.officetrack.com/download/wos/…
... ://www.officetrack.com/download/wos/pixel.jpg[/img]
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Recent Returnee to the spectrum fold needs hardware adviceHi all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. This is my first post to this forum after I stumbled on this site just a few weeks ago, i only reg…
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ANN: Tipshop updated Sunday, 28 October 2007Sunday 28 October 2007 I wasn't expecting to get this update out in time, but BST and insomnia fixed that! * CASA has been updated again, so we now…
... on Time!, Giant Killer and Quest for the Holy Snail (all ... -
YS3's Recent UpdatesFor those of you who've missed it, [URL="http://www.ys3.org/"]YS3[/URL] is the somehow still-running unofficial follow-up to Your Sinclair. While it …
... article comments!
[*]Nathan's quest for the Judge Dredd game ... -
ANNOUNCE: JSW64 Manic Miner: James BondTo celebrate "Two Double-Oh Seven" before it ends, I am delighted to announce the first gamma-release of [i]JSW64 Manic Miner: James Bond[/i] (v1.0),…
... with its own cell-type, pixel-pattern and colour-attribute), and ... and tight manoeuvres, often requiring pixel-perfect jumps, sometimes with perfect ...
