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  • Knight Lore disassemblyHi, Not quite sure if this belongs here or in "Games" but figured it's more likely that developers would be interested. I've just released the …

    ... it to the TRS-80 Color Computer 3. I've done ... 6502). I also found that background sprites have masks equal to ...
    tcdev tcdev February 2016 Development
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... .jpg?374[/img]
    by [color=green]Dinky Productions (David McGee ... , Neil Jones, Robin Hall) [/color]

    Whoever you are ... Memphis[/b] documentary in the background. It was a poor final ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel February 2016 Games
  • Competition time - design a WoS logoHello, all.. As part of the redesign, we would like to have new logos for use in Social Media/links and also in the forum/site headers. The spe…

    ... less contrast, but using lighter color all around. It allows to ... with some common color that might be present in background. But a ...
    RMartins RMartins April 2016 Announcements
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... gif[/img]
    by [color=green]Creative Reality (Jason Austin ... Dew, Mark A. Jones) [/color]
    It's characterized by ... tell the sprites from the background, and the enemies being ... , Ste Pickford, David Whittaker)[/color]
    Annoying big yellow ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel May 2016 Games
  • Competition time - design a WoS logoHello, all.. As part of the redesign, we would like to have new logos for use in Social Media/links and also in the forum/site headers. The spe…

    ... a white and a black background version in a PNG file ... with transparent background, so it's easy to ... lettering.

    The inner color thing appeals to me, because ...
    RMartins RMartins May 2016 Announcements
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... br /> by [color=green]Syrox (Dominic Wood)[/color]
    I always ... when there's almost no background.
    Anyway, it's ... N. Curtis, James Wilson[/color]
    Reviewed last November ... , Steve Parys, Barry Leitch[/color]
    Reviewed last December ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel June 2016 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/…

    ... original 1:1 sprite and background porting, before it was decided ... occasional spot effects in the background, finding creative ways to recycle ... time.
    - It will use color on level
    - It will ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • 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/…

    ... next char, with black background, to prevent color clash being obvious ?

    That only works when background ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…

    ... of sprites, "p" changes the background, "" adds the border timer and ... />
    // Memory to define the background.

    unsigned char levelb ... );
    }

    // Fill the background with some arbitrary patterns, and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2016 Development
  • 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/…

    ... superimposing/merging GUI on level background, like the original, is not ... if we want to use color on GUI.

    So ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • 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/…

    ... 'd need to restrict horizontal color changes to once per 2 ... Stormlord or Cobra that allows background scrolling in less than 8 ... in order to avoid the color clash (although there are notable ...
    Hikaru Hikaru June 2016 Development
  • 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/…

    ... 'd need to restrict horizontal color changes to once per 2 ... (side by side), can change color.
    The electrical plug control ... Stormlord or Cobra that allows background scrolling in less than 8 ... in order to avoid the color clash (although there are notable ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • IKARI WARRIORS loading screenHello again, here is my attempt at an alternative loading screen for IKARI WARRIORS. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61658082/IW%201.j…

    ... , and good composition.
    Marvelous color mixing to define explosion, and ... in height, without problems with color clash.

    5 - Left ... those black pixels on white background, should be really easy.
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Games
  • Character Based SpritesHi, I'm working through Jonathan's excellent guide to writing games, and have mastered the animation of single UDGs. Before or move onto Pixel…

    ... Top left, in BRIGHT WHITE background, is the conceptual definition of ... order.
    Low Bright Blue background chars is what is left ... past frame paper color is represented in ZX color order, from 0 ...
    RMartins RMartins July 2016 Development
  • I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…

    ... some more background work, like for example make sure Border color is ...
    RMartins RMartins July 2016 Development
  • Chaos Constructions 2016: Realtime composThe biggest Russian demoparty Chaos Constructions will take place 27-28 august at Saint Petersburg, a big part of which will be dedicated to our belo…

    ... , was the fact that some color information was lost in the ... sleep wave.
    All blue background colors are the same in ...
    RMartins RMartins August 2016 Announcements
  • Remove colour clash from Everyones a WallyWonder what the game would be like if the main sprite attributes were 8 hence avoiding the awful colour clash. Surely a handful of pokes would remed…

    I wonder if it's possible to poke it so the characters retain their original colour when against a black background do you think? Or would this be too difficult?
    xyzzy xyzzy September 2016 Games
  • Remove colour clash from Everyones a WallyWonder what the game would be like if the main sprite attributes were 8 hence avoiding the awful colour clash. Surely a handful of pokes would remed…

    ... if it's possible to poke it so the characters ... colour when against a black background do you think? Or ... need to set the empty background attribute to some colour ... b]
    If it is background attribute -> overpaint it ... than entering a single poke.
    Ralf Ralf September 2016 Games
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... -CosmoPolice.gif[/img]
    by [color=green]John Gibson, Karen Davies ... [/color]

    [b]Galivan[/b] ... spheres wait on a cyan background. You punch some bad humanoid ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel September 2016 Games
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... gif[/img]
    by [color=green]Antony R. Lill, Gary ... gif[/img]
    by [color=green]Canvas (Roy Gibson, Simon ... color]
    Horribly blocky sprites, non existent sound, almost empty background ... gif[/img]
    by [color=green]Canvas (James Cornelius Bowman ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel September 2016 Games
  • ZX Spectrum video waveformsAll work for this post was done on a ZX Spectrum issue 1 board (16k bytes of RAM only). This was what the Spectrum displayed on the TV screen: [i…

    ... is encoded assuming a sRGB color space.
    So that's ... color resolution.
    Try a single blue pixel on a red background ...
    4throck 4throck September 2016 Hardware
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... /FrostByte.gif[/img]
    by [color=green]Chris Hinsley, Nick Jones ... [/color]

    This is a ... time less evident because the background is mostly black. Cute beeping ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel September 2016 Games
  • Wanted Scriptable Emulator for sending inputs and OptionsI have a dream ;-) ... I would like to have a scriptable Emulator for automatically doing repeated works for me ... E.g. Fuse features massive o…

    ... and poke finder, map builder and support for 256 color games.
    Poke at start.
    Pegaz Pegaz September 2016 Emulators
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    Can I ask how you guys enter the listings like that?
    Ie the yellow background stuff. Here's my little routine.

    10 LET s=RND*16
    20 FOR x=16384 TO 23296 STEP s
    30 POKE x, BIN 10101010
    40 NEXT x
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... that?
    Ie the yellow background stuff. Here's my little ... 23296 STEP s
    30 POKE x, BIN 10101010
    40 ... 23296 STEP s
    30 POKE x,170
    40 NEXT ...
    GReW GReW October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • 1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.

    ... /AsterixAndTheMagicCauldron.gif[/img]
    by [color=green]William Tang, Andrew Pierson ... , Frank Oldham [/color]

    You control Asterix ... Obelix is particularly avid. The background graphics are simply beautiful, in ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel October 2016 Games
  • Help with Snake type game...any ideas ?Hi all I've attached me trying to write a snake type game. My first concern is me not writing over the System variables area. I'm pretty happy what i…

    ... segment is the same color as the background and is used as ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 November 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • how to load machine codeI'm reading Jon Caldwell's how to write Spectrum games but can't enter the code! Here's an example:_ LD BC, (score) Call 6683 I tried putting…

    ... a for/next loop incrementing POKE's from the lowest to ... **** happens when you alter the POKE's. At one setting i ... make an interesting fill or background such as a star field ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch December 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How would you approach parallax?So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then s…

    ... full screen scrolling with complicated background and masked sprites going everywhere ... scrolling of platforms and eliminated color clash. It was some crazy ...
    Sol_HSA Sol_HSA December 2016 Development
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... the Aidoru singing in the background, which was probably the best ... reason, maybe for the psychedelic color combinations of the levels, I ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2017 Games
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