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Please help me NAME THAT GAMEThe very 1st spectrum game I ever played. I have been looking through the archive for this for years, ok here goes. Something to do with bears, you …
... standard (but no less valid) proportional dimensions" ?? (to put it in ... -
Please help me NAME THAT GAMEThe very 1st spectrum game I ever played. I have been looking through the archive for this for years, ok here goes. Something to do with bears, you …
... standard (but no less valid) proportional dimensions" ?? (to put it in ... -
Games overrated by MagazinesI know this is a little ambigious (LMLWD) as your worst game could be someone else's best, but sometimes didn't a games review seem a little overboar…
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Games Club Week2 The second games club game is the Shoot-em up Uridium you can download the game and instructions here [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.…
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Games Club Week 4Hi everybody, this weeks game is Bravestarr and can be downloaded here [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^BraveStarr$&pub=^G…
Commodore fan needs guidance.Hi all, first off what an awesome site! As the title says I grew up with Commodore machines so am not really up on Spectrum classics. I recently got…
... which is a great vertical scroller, proves that the Speccy can ...What do other nationalitieswho live abroad think of UKI would be interested to know what others think about UK, are we in US pockets is Tony Blair good or bad leader etc _________________ As featured i…
We should have Proportional Representation in General Elections, I ...Cronosoft Speccy gamesAfter being encouraged by excellent reviews, the demo of More Tea, Vicar? and Jonathan Cauldwell's Lunaris game he made at the ORSAM 2004 show, I've …
... /> 6/10 Top down western scroller, with
well defined graphics ...What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
... the ZX Spectrum"), a side-scroller (which was my first attemp ...Was anyone else this stupid?After reading the Crash review for Saboteur I went and bought it and played it constantly on all skill levels wondering when I would get to the bit w…
... think it was a side scroller in the style of Uridium ...What game?Can't remember the name of this game and have only a few memories left of it: Top down view. Icons (collectables): keys, lightning(?), food(?). Do…
Wow that was quick but it's not that game. Each screen was completely filled and I think it was a scroller. Each map was maybe 5 x 5 screens total though I might be mistaken.
M.S.First game with scrollingMany games are just a bunch of static screens - you have to exit one screen to see another (for example Manic Miner, Saboteur, Bruce Lee). But there …
... say the most impressive game scroller on the speccy is still ...128 ramdisk loaderanyone got a program which will save the contents of ramdisk to tape in one go, rather than saving each file seperately then loading them and save!in…
Keep in mind that the probability of an R Tape Loading Error is proportional to the block size.128 ramdisk loaderanyone got a program which will save the contents of ramdisk to tape in one go, rather than saving each file seperately then loading them and save!in…
Game I've forgottenRight, so in a question from another forum : "Which type of space shooter do you like?", which allows the answer overhead or side-view scrollers. I b…
The only game I can remember that was a shoot-em-up with two points of view is Sanxion, but that's a horizontal scroller, not vertical.FrameSyncIt was many many years ago since i programmed assembly on the spectrum but I just picked it up again for fun. Now this is one thing I can't remember…
... you wanted to have your scroller running at the same time ...FrameSyncIt was many many years ago since i programmed assembly on the spectrum but I just picked it up again for fun. Now this is one thing I can't remember…
Thanks alot!!
I'll convert my scroller to IRQ-based execution!N64 shooters?I loved my N64 buti did not have many shooters for it. Was their any shooters on it? Any that we did not get but came out in Japan? Thank for the …
... Soldier comes to mind (vertical scroller just like all the other ...Game enginesHow many Spectrum games were based on the same "game engine"? The most obvious examples are Ultimate 3d games (Knight Lore, Alien 8 etc.). Also "Cobr…
According to the scroller, [I]Thunderbirds[/I] (Firebird Super Silver -- title screen) re-used the water routine from [I]Booty[/I]...Ripping Text from ZX games running on EmulatorsHello one and all - All hail Retro! I'd like to know how to rip all the .txt from ZX games running on a windoze emulator (I'm a writer and like do…
... for example, take the RICOCHET scroller message.
Compare in ... exact copy of the ricochet scroller text, say, then I'd ...Jinxter/The Pawn/Guild of TheivesI'm not sure it's been entirely heatlthy but these magnetic scrolls games had a massive affect on me as a kid. Does anybody know what 'font' they us…
Jinxter's using its own proportional printing routine and character set. ... .uk/~jg27paw4/yr20/propsys.zip"]Proportional Printing[/url] (Tony Samuels, Your ... /type-ins/yoursinc/ys8805pp.zip"]Proportional Printing[/url] (David McCandless, Your ...another name that game i'm afraid...... hello! hopefully you can shed some light on this game that's bugged me for many months.all i can remember is you fly a helicopter and have a time li…
er...sas operation thunderflash? No heli but you had to save people and it was damn hard :lol:
Was it a side scroller, 3d jobby or overhead game?
[ This Message was edited by: The Hobgoblin on 2006-02-07 06:33 ]Anyone know the name of this music demo?Back in the day I remember playing through the various games and programs on a magazine covertape and being amazed at a music demo. It began with …
... the third part with the scroller that makes my eyes go ...Any examples of Proportional Font (Dark Star)Dark star had a cool proportionally spaced way of displaying text. Does anyone know of any code to do this? Cheers
Writing code to draw a proportional font is easy (I've used the above idea successfully before), but drawing one that looks substantially better than the usual 8x8 font is much harder :DAny examples of Proportional Font (Dark Star)Dark star had a cool proportionally spaced way of displaying text. Does anyone know of any code to do this? Cheers
Was that a part of some kinda poetry generator or something? I seem to recall a poetry program on a covertape that used a proportional font.
Maybe.
Or maybe not.Any examples of Proportional Font (Dark Star)Dark star had a cool proportionally spaced way of displaying text. Does anyone know of any code to do this? Cheers
... AlchNews has a very nice proportional font.Any examples of Proportional Font (Dark Star)Dark star had a cool proportionally spaced way of displaying text. Does anyone know of any code to do this? Cheers
I'm sure there were a couple in the PD library at one time. I thought AlchNews was just a 40 column non-proportional font.Any examples of Proportional Font (Dark Star)Dark star had a cool proportionally spaced way of displaying text. Does anyone know of any code to do this? Cheers
... the Spectrum unmodified) that supported proportional fonts, windows, portholes (circular windows ...
