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I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?
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I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?
... sprites of course, the programmer could just write to the screen RAM (I assume ... ) as the Speccy/CPC/etc ... be programmed to whatever specification the programmer likes (within the limits of the machine ... -
I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?
... =ewgf;324177]To be fair, the C64 didn't have to use it ... sprites of course, the programmer could just write to the screen RAM (I assume ... ) as the Speccy/CPC/etc ... things happening, and wanted the game to not be a slide ... -
Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…
... will keep jumping back to the .loop label. Since ... must keep printing characters to the screen, until you hit ... to think about what the instruction does to the flags, not just to the ... register it's working on. The ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... ever outputs anything to the screen. A quick glance at the code didn't ... technically a blank screen (displayed during the few miliseconds whilst the program executes ... seems slightly corrupted compared to the photographic screenshots of the ROM in action ... -
Emulator feature I DEMANDI've been using ZXDS just recently and although it's lack of flash loading is a minor quibble it does allow you to have alook at loading screens. So…
... do you folks expect this to be implemented? Any ideas on ... algorithm that can detect a screen being loaded?
... not all games that write to the screen whilst loading are actually loading ... games have a pause after the screen has loaded.
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Emulator feature I DEMANDI've been using ZXDS just recently and although it's lack of flash loading is a minor quibble it does allow you to have alook at loading screens. So…
... not all games that write to the screen whilst loading are actually loading ... games have a pause after the screen has loaded.
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Emulator feature I DEMANDI've been using ZXDS just recently and although it's lack of flash loading is a minor quibble it does allow you to have alook at loading screens. So…
... ;328898]Is it possible to pull the info from the TZX file
to the screen whilst loading are actually loading ... games have a pause after the screen has loaded.
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Console wars - does the least powerful machine usually win?In the console and handheld wars, does the least powerful machine usually win? I mean, for example, in the [I]XBox vs. Playstation 2 vs. Gamecube[/I]…
... bigger screen. Secondly but possibly the most important factor, battery life, the gameboy ... titles, but due to the screen formatting most of the games displayed so tiny ... rooms, because the slighest bit of light on the screen and you can ... -
Zombies Ahead! Run!I love this [url]http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/Road_signs_warn_of_zombies[/url]
... without a pw the whole time ... but they have to keep face ... a post-it note attached to the screen. Because it hardly matters, given ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... screen for [b]Zapmod2[/b].
As stated in the ... to the screen are made. Therefore the screen for this program looks identical to ... b]
to MERGE in the zapmod2 patch.
next save the resultant program to tape e.g.
How does the Speccy deal with the Character Set?Hi All, Can anyone spare a little time to explain to me the basic Assembly method of how the Speccy interprets and retrieves Characters to print on …
... character on the screen (actually, to the specified channel, but this is often the screen. It ... the code in the putchar routine eventually prints it to the screen, it does have to ... go and locate the character in ...How does the Speccy deal with the Character Set?Hi All, Can anyone spare a little time to explain to me the basic Assembly method of how the Speccy interprets and retrieves Characters to print on …
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5 Move the pattern byte to the screen address of the top row of ... a character position
Increase the ... this explains the simple calculating (related to character positions on screen).
Note ...'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back, videos & photos'Ocean Re-united', Byte-Back Longton, Stoke On Trent, 7th March 2009 "One of the most famous software houses of the 80s and early 90s was Manchester…
... I have time for at the moment, lol, I'm in ... the middle of doing a full ... off the net, and converted to a speccy image, then LDIR'd to the screen :)ZXSpin for Spectrum DevelopmentI found this handy guide to setting up a cross-platform development environment for the Spectrum: [URL="http://zxspectrumdev.blogspot.com/2009/01/set…
... then move it off to the screen on the left, the window minimise/expand/close ... if I move them to a screen to the right of my main ... is providing negative values for screen X co-ordinates, which ... on something to the left of the desktop origin? The menus and ...ZXSpin for Spectrum DevelopmentI found this handy guide to setting up a cross-platform development environment for the Spectrum: [URL="http://zxspectrumdev.blogspot.com/2009/01/set…
... then move it off to the screen on the left, the window minimise/expand/close ... if I move them to a screen to the right of my main ... is providing negative values for screen X co-ordinates, which ... on something to the left of the desktop origin? The menus and ...Detecting Spectrum modelsIs there any sure-fire way a program can detect the model of machine it's running on (48K, +, 128, +2, +2A, +3, clones) even when running in the 48K …
... I'm using the delay loop to copy data to the screen memory - then you ... run into the memory contention ... issues, which means the ...Earthworm Jim - SNES or Megadrive version?I used to love Earthworm Jim on my mate's SNES, fifteen or so years ago, and I thought I'd try to play it all the way through. Anyway, I have the ROM…
... - hence the screen sitting at 00)......the noise drew our attention back to the screen(what ... a great sound) and the ... in almost all subjects thanks to the UK curriculum.
Come ...Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... of the triangle going from the top, left to right, down to the bottom ... object previously rendered to the screen buffer.
The Texture Processor simply ... Lastly the screen processor was responsible for writing the pixel out to screen memory.
Problem Wrapping SpritesHi, I am having an issue wrapping my sprites around the screen, Basically, I have a back buffer which is 24 chars (192 Pixels) by 28 chars (224 P…
... copy the middle 20x24 characters of the backbuffer to the physical screen.
This means that sprites can wrap off the ... pixels) is then copied to the screen.
... my sprites and copy the backbuffer.
Problem Wrapping SpritesHi, I am having an issue wrapping my sprites around the screen, Basically, I have a back buffer which is 24 chars (192 Pixels) by 28 chars (224 P…
... copy the middle 20x24 characters of the backbuffer to the physical screen.
This means that sprites can wrap off the ... pixels) is then copied to the screen.
... is very slow compared to the others, but they ...The Best Use Of In-Game Physics?I'm sure most of you who play modern games have heard of the "Havok" game engine that models the behaviour of in-game objects / characters that inter…
... Snooker.
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the only 'official' game I ever managed to hack into ... it, simply by getting to the screen where all the code comes up, ... when you start a game, the table mysteriously turns yellow, ...Anti-VirusI think I've asked this before, but I can't find the post... what anti-virus do you guys use? can anyone recomend me one that is not AVG?
... good detection rate when compared to the other free anti-virus ... there were too many reminders to buy the paid version, register, ... the best features and the best detection rate, but if you push it to the ... are meant to be installed before, not when the system is ...Anti-VirusI think I've asked this before, but I can't find the post... what anti-virus do you guys use? can anyone recomend me one that is not AVG?
... zxbruno;349297].......You can have the best anti-virus program with ... the best features and the best detection rate, but if you push it to the ... you 100%. It reduces the chances of getting an infection ... something is going to climb in.
Seems the same for PCs ...DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…
... the CHARS sysvar to a new set as you reach the end of the ... you really want to do, however, is to load your screen high up ... a machine code stub to copy it to the screen quickly.
D ...Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
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the scrolled terrain is then copied to the screen (area 24x16 ... screen (floating bus check). when it is finished the ... drawing sprites directly into screen (probably much more if ... is put the sprite to the backbuffer and copy backbuffer to screen then ...Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
... pixel-scrolls the scenery in place in the screen memory, but ... to a black strip down the right-hand side, then scrolled onto the screen ... bytes onto the screen - if they change the scenery, the changes will ... but are only copied to the screen where there isn't ...Fastest Block Drawing Code?Following on from my scrolling thread [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=351304#post351304"](http://www.worldofspectrum.org…
... " and "inc h" to navigate a screen buffer :-P The Spectrum display file ... char" address routine to find the screen address for the next character line. You ... be accomplished by adding $f920 to the screen address.
So instead ...Program Counter question - please readSorry if this is in the wrong forum, but please read it through anyway - see on the FUSE PSP emulator I asked the author if he'd add an option to pri…
... the precise time the value of PC is taken, to be written to the screen, it ... 's at the ... same point every time in the ...
