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Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…
... can be used in response to any event.
... varying the time limit from screen to screen, but I'll probably implement ... assign a "decrease status" action to a regular event in the ... rate of decline from one screen to another. By doing it this ... -
New Egghead. It's official!JC's site mentions that a new Egghead game is in the works!!! Does this guy ever take a rest from pleasing his Speccy playing fans? I've only just …
... an ideal opportunity for my character to make a come-back. I ... was planning to take over the world too ... . what better place to start than the med?
character accordingly. -
New Egghead. It's official!JC's site mentions that a new Egghead game is in the works!!! Does this guy ever take a rest from pleasing his Speccy playing fans? I've only just …
... an ideal opportunity for my character to make a come-back. I ... was planning to take over the world too ... . what better place to start than the med?
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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…
... 1st and 2nd pixels output to screen, second display byte fetched ... 3rd and 4th pixels output to screen
14343 Memory contention ... 5th and 6th pixels output to screen
14344 IO contention ... 11th and 12th pixels output to screen
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Getting Lifeguard to workI'm struggling with this Muliface utility to find infinite lives cheats. I can get the program to load up, and when I load a game and press the red b…
I did a quick bit of hacking around and the lives counter is at $95EB. It stores the ASCII value of the number of lives so poke it with $33 to set 3 lives. However it will still display 9 lives when you start the game unless you also poke $8B02 to $33. -
Getting Lifeguard to workI'm struggling with this Muliface utility to find infinite lives cheats. I can get the program to load up, and when I load a game and press the red b…
... number of lives so poke it with $33 to set 3 lives ... the game unless you also poke $8B02 to $33.[/QUOTE]
to know because I'd like ... to be able to do the same thing ... -
My thousandth post - and a request for help...[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=Red]1[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Lime]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Cyan]0[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Well, seeing as this i…
... the character to the left, but below the character to the ... to the top of Exolon bloke's head, and make every character ... in between be just tall enough to ... he was walking to the right, to fit in ... the simplistic Horace to the far more detailed ... -
MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]
... those block copies would have to be a minimum size ... Would you say that full screen multicolor can be done ... DMA driver that moves data to screen in [B]32 bytes ... and you can move full screen in less than 1/ ... only a very specialized benefit to having such a z80 ... -
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…
... width printer to be able to print to the screen AND to a block ... double width printer only prints to screen. There is no problem ... gets applied directly to screen rather than doing it to a buffer ... and then copying the buffer to screen. -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... change the BORDER color to black at the end ... game. Here's a way to do it:
It would be simpler to assign the end game condition ... ), or an equivalent solution to print them side-by-side ... now change the first POKE value to 7, and eliminate the ... -
How good is this deal?MS India is launching a Xbox bundle that seems to be appealing on the surface: XBox core + 2 free games (Forza + Viva Pinata) + Panasonic 30 inch LCD…
i thought lcd tv's shouldn't be used to play games due to screen staining, or was that a problem they fixed? -
How good is this deal?MS India is launching a Xbox bundle that seems to be appealing on the surface: XBox core + 2 free games (Forza + Viva Pinata) + Panasonic 30 inch LCD…
... shouldn't be used to play games due to screen staining, or was ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
I have another space won when the IF .. THEN is replaced by the POKE.
Due to the LET Q=Z above this alteration will work now where it first failed. -
Mission to MarsGiven that the Chinese have just launched a probe on a mission to the moon as part of their plans for a manned mission, and Nasa, the Ruskies, and Ja…
... the female lead - the Nicole character. A strong-willed, clever, ... black woman who has to carry her own amongst better ... root and converts the Nicole character to a white woman (we' ...
The story is there to create another serialised cinematic masterpiece ... -
Mission to MarsGiven that the Chinese have just launched a probe on a mission to the moon as part of their plans for a manned mission, and Nasa, the Ruskies, and Ja…
... the female lead - the Nicole character. A strong-willed, clever, athletic ... black woman who has to carry her own amongst better ... males. It's difficult to think of someone who fits ... root and converts the Nicole character to a white woman (we've ... -
Problem with replacing all upper memory with 4164 chipsGuys, i have a problem with the high memory of a 4B issue. At first the board had OKI chips for high memory and one of them was faulty. Since its ea…
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May I refer you to my previous comments regarding data ... archive. It loads the title screen in at somewhere around 31000 ... based machine code routine to relocate it to screen RAM. Because it initially ... the first part of the screen is in contended RAM and ... -
** Vu-meter competition **Apologies if this is in the wrong section. At the moment, the official number of entries is [COLOR="Red"]0[/COLOR]. :p [B][U]Why?[/U][/B] I was tr…
... sampler is very "leggy" compared to the video sample provided by ... sampler that dumps the EAR to screen to see how different sounds affect ... [/url]
Press "c" to watch continuous sampling of the ... EAR port. Any other key to stop. Press "r" for a ... -
another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)
... and refreshing the entire screen space above the status ... silly transfer from memory buffer to screen must be done by ... needs to unroll some routines, pre-rotate graphics, store multiple screen ... buffers and use whatever CPU tricks - in order to ... -
improvements to gameshello while i playing a few spectrum games,i thought how better some games would be better with an improvement:- automania-128k tune,less grating t…
... Better orientation! Some compass to show which way you are ... br /> [*]To be able to see the character move when using ... the auto-movement, instead of having to switch to ... another character.
[*]To be able to see ... -
User contributed game reviewsOne often requested feature which isn't going to be implemented on WoS is the ability to add user comments/reviews to games. With some spare time ye…
... nice to be able to grab data from WOS without resorting to screen-scraping ... data-mining aspect: being able to identify associations has a lot ... -
What is this one (1 billion +1)Hi there, Newbie here, had a speccy when they first came out, some of my best memories me and my dad going to the game shop to try out new games... …
... to the game shop to try out new games... Got to ... and as you moved from screen to screen..there was a chance of ... would appear on the screen all you saw was ... monster) and you had to shoot it between the eyes ... racking my noggin trying to think of this.[/QUOTE]< ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... useful. If you're going to develop that tool for Basic ... I see no reason to complete scr2udg. The character-to-Print-Lines sounds ... out there who still prefer to work with udgs, me included ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... through. The main window flicks to the front, obscuring the paintbox ... , I don't actually need to do anything!
Sorry ... /> Ok, if you send it to screen memory then you can easily ... - and it is literally impossible to anticipate when that will happen ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... will require a few tricks to make it work. The problem ... else, and we would need to execute again RESTORE every time ... />
Here's the way to do it. Replace this:
POKE statements to jump back to the RESTORE (the first POKE doesn't need to ... -
Your favourite Elder Scrolls game?What is the best Elder Scrolls game in your opinion? Personally I can't answer this, as I've never properly played any of them. So why am I asking? W…
... missed an opportunity to add some real atmosphere or character to it, instead ... have hurt them to add the occasional puzzle or character with a ... down. You expect games to be easy then become more ... difficult because to improve skills you have to be able to use ... -
Probing the variables in 128K modeHello again! Briefly, I'm writing an m/c routine to read some BASIC variables. So, before I start, I try to get an idea for the structure of how var…
... a routine to print the variable t$ on the screen but "paginated ... "RST $10" print routine to print to screen works correctly in 128K mode ... the words appearing on the screen a lot slower than they ... in size, this was beginning to take an unfeasably long amount ... -
TRD file support in ZX-ModulesDear readers, this is not an announcement for new program releases, but I want to tell you that I'm ready programming the full TRD file support with…
... visible files are stored back to the image. The "compressing" is ... himself by changing the first character to a CHR$ 1 using the ... would be a good idea to get a popup that asks ... -
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…
Cheers Jonathan, looking forward to an update :)
I did notice that if I add a new screen and don't go back to screen 0 before exiting the screen layout bit, then I start on the screen I added or left the layout editor on. -
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…
... it to count the number of diamonds on each screen ... a new screen and don't go back to screen 0 ... before exiting the screen layout bit, ... you, just put LET SCREEN = 0 in your initialisation ... start on the first screen. Come to think of it, ... -
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…
... to the left at the bottom of the screen ... , the scores are printed to screen.
... br />
// clear screen
sp1_ClearRectInv(& ... and the screen is cleared to white ink ... players appear to his right, off screen and separated ...
