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Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... Also, couldn't the R-Type redo work like this too ... losing all colour from the picture), which is one of ... the reasons the effect was seen less back in ... the static status panel in Edge Grinder is working ... been interesting to see R-Type done like that, but ... -
Edge Grinder, how would YOU do it?I always meant to post about this and AndyC reminded me in the 'vs' thread in games. [QUOTE=AndyC;808887]The thing I love about threads like this is…
... the same thing as R-Type, just with pixel-positioned ... it's being scrolled in-situ. I'd guess ... all notice how the background is very simple - only one ... could do something letterboxed in either multicolour, or try ... for 50fps but in monochrome. Shame it's ... -
Twenty years of the PlaystationThis month's Retro Gamer celebrates the twentieth birthday of the Playstation, so let's discuss our memories/delights/disappointments of the machine …
... is the number one reason I bought a PlayStation in the first ... series (1-3). I played all versions to death, and the ... Story[/b] better, and in my opinion the best JPRG ... fun with [b]Ridge Racer Type 4[/b], [b]TOCA 2 ... Soul Reaver[/b], and [b]R-Type Delta[/b]. -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... pixels would work better. In any case, using hardware ... can afford to sacrifice one of the 16 colours ... br /> I think it's one of the reasons C64 titles ... Mayhem in Monsterland, for example, the enemies don't all ... to the technique Speccy R-Type uses to give the ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... [i]gameplay[/i] stance, [b]R-Type[/b] on the Amstrad CPC ... essentially the Spectrum code running in a "wrapper" so, if ... important at all, it would be the same experience but one version ... more social than technical" (and, in context, i was talking about ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... ]gameplay[/i] stance, [b]R-Type[/b] on the Amstrad CPC ... at all, it would be the same experience but one ... It's just the first one moves slightly smoother, and ...
So for [I]R-Type[/I] you'd need to ... FPS. The controls run in one loop that make sure that ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... see a shrink about all those repressed violent ... snapshot of machine fandom in general, just that ... focus of Speccy Uridium, R-Type, or Silent Shadow. ... mistake made in film and television narrative all the time ... . As you say, it doesn't prove one ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... =MinerWilly;813739]Another thing those in favour of the spectrum don ... sprite movement. R-Type is regarded by many as one of the best ... ]
That says it all doesn't it. The mentality ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... Swainy;813747]That says it all doesn't it. The mentality ... different issues for all machines, depending on which one you 'support'. ... movement of the main sprite in R-Type is quite jerky compared to ... no big expectation, that's all.
So, when ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... different issues for all machines, depending on which one you 'support'. ... movement of the main sprite in R-Type is quite jerky compared to ... no big expectation, that's all.
So, when ... don't specifically talk about one element, such as scrolling. ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
All these comparisons only make me more appreciative of each machine in ... have they done to R-Type?" For me it ... did. I presume all the programmers developing this ... Spectrum, Aquarius and Oric. All released around the same time ... BBC B, and one from the MSX range ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... don't specifically talk about one element, such as scrolling. When ... entirely possible that R-Type on the Spectrum succeeded in capturing the arcade ... in a discussion where these points have been discussed in regard to all ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... 'indoors' and the baddies are all in three little clumps).[/QUOTE]
All true to be honest, but ... , released version, was programmed in something like 7 weeks, and ... m not saying one's better than the other, R-Type on the ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... be some game if one can look past how ... spectrum r-type hop along gives me a headache in then minutes ... can play the original r-type if i want. I ... R-Type. Now personally I think that the Spectrum version is closer in ... .
If all your eyes see is a ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... R-Type. Now personally I think that the Spectrum version is closer in ... br />
If all your eyes see is a ... you thought was written in basic, the rest of ... don't play c64 r-type either, because there are ... are identical otherwise, except one of them has smoother ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... of Armalyte, because they all took inspiration from it.
in particular the Spectrum conversion. ... genuinely hold a candle to R-Type. It was a ridiculously ... prefer?[/quote]Obviously the smoother one, but honestly how many ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... of Armalyte, because they all took inspiration from it.
in particular the Spectrum conversion. ... genuinely hold a candle to R-Type. It was a ridiculously ... !
Obviously the smoother one, but honestly how many examples ... -
PSP game recommendationsGot hold of a second (or possibly even third) hand PSP a while back, thought it would be a nice addition to bus/train journeys. Unfortunately I'm …
... do fancy dipping your toes in there, then Wipeout Pure is ... you hanker for. Except for one of the Taito Space Invaders ... br /> Killzone: Liberation (not at all like the FPS console games ... /> The Godfather: Mob Wars
R-Type Command
Warhammer 40,000 ... -
Favourite Speccy Game baddiesJust wondering what game villains (major or minor) are your favourites. Mine would include: The "hooded" guys from "Soldier of Fortune" The wee hel…
[b]Octopuses in Scuba Dive[/b] (getting past the first one was one of ... caverns)
[b]Big Ship in R-Type[/b] (iconic enemy and incredible ... to the speccy at all)
[b]Aliens in Pyjamara[/b] (loved ... -
The Emperor's New GamesAre there any Spectrum games where you just don't get what the fuss is about? I mean games that are almost universally praised, but which strike you…
... Doesn't grab me at all. It's a fairly empty ... it's so pronounced in Lightforce, since R-Type does the same thing ... is entirely one note. Throw a few power-ups in and it ... want a strategy game without all the faff! I never used ... amp;2 and Samurai were all decent. -
Not bored with the Boards.Going through some old tapes stored rather badly I came across an unlikely item that that I must have stored away quickly with other low grade items …
... used for the game board . All in all though , they have done very ... well rationalizing all that down to fit in this type of plastic ...
3) A.T.R.A.M in a large "old style ... wrapper going all round a polystyrene inner packing block . This one is ... -
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/…
... [quote]
As an aside, one of my engines uses something ... only moves one attr left, and skips one.
In POW, ... With some care, probably probably all could be worked around, if ... are notable exceptions such as R-Type or Green Beret but they ... -
There's a games cafe in Glasgow got an R-Type cab.Just saw someone tweet a photo of it, tweeted back to ask what the hi-score is, still just the factory setting hi-scores on it, so I'm going to pop i…
... player Turtles cab in a comic shop in Glasgow (Geekaboo on ... level 4 before I lost all/both my lives.[/quote]< ... and had a go on R-Type. Also commented to my ... bustling towards us and announced in a rather rude and ... money there. That's one arcade I shall not visit ... -
30 years later - Your personal favorite games of 1987Happy New Year everyone :) Looking back to 1987, which games would you choose as your top picks today? There was a lot of good stuff published tha…
... memories of this, along with one of the schoolfriends years later ... 's like to drive an All Terrain Vehicle, what with the ... weeks with it, loitering around in the first three levels., The ... ' [b]Transmuter[/b], a Netto R-Type.
Incredibly simple, [b ... -
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…
... be fair you only lost one power level out of 4 ... were in a random order. Music, sound, graphics, playability are all top ... graphics elevate it way above R-Type for me. -
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…
... favourite Speccy shooters, Zynaps and R-Type.
Zynaps isn' ... same score as Octan FFS! All of its good points raise ... only did the one-shot harm its playability in itself, but when ... Zynaps isn't better than R-Type, despite the technical achievement ... -
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…
... scenery and opponent cars are all there. The sheer amount ... - Great conversion and great game in its own right. I thoroughly ... />
[b]Zynaps[/b] - One of the best horizontally scrolling ... :-) A well-deserved classic, although R-Type is still the best game ... -
2 scrolling linesHow would you draw, delete and scroll a 2 line landscape? [img]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/scramblines_zpsw0r2joew.png…
... is still probably that used in [i]R-Type[/i], where the single ... know you only have one pixel in each column. Even then ... different slopes, pre-shift them in all the most likely pair combinations ... would draw before jumping across one whole character would be an ... -
Loading on a 128k speccyOffhand I'll confess I didn't do a lot of research on this beforehand, but here's my question; How do you load a large program off tape on a 128k…
... to loading each level, one at a time, every time ... completes the previous level (like in R-Type).
My ... anyway: one for BASIC loader), one for screen, one for data, one for ... first read all blocks, then decompress each block in-place before ... -
Loadsa bullets on screen (silkworm)Did games like silkworm just draw everything to the screen or did they have complicated optimisations? and the types of games where sprites can occu…
... to work out if one sprite completely or partially ... want them to pass in front or behind each ... shortcut is something like [i]R-Type[/i], where sprites are ... just plot character codes in a big screen-sized ... [i]Exolon[/i], where all the sprites are drawn, but ...
