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  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... same way and all games used sprites and there weren't thousands ... more colours chances is you're thinking of some big commercial ... Spectrum. If not then you're talking about a load of ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2004 Emulators
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... that the initial sprite routine used to take.
    [/quote]
    used sprites and there weren't thousands ... nice lovely GUI to enhance/re-design/patch gfx (to make ... are a few more colorful sprites.

    Thanks for reading
    Arm73 Arm73 January 2004 Emulators
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... to allow the recycling of sprites and there's a lot ... move about 2K (they're not using the entire frame ... because they're for a demo part ... said, it's what you're used to; when i tried to ... comparison. i assume they're only checked every couple of ...
    TMR TMR March 2004 Games
  • Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??

    ... Saboteur's "Lack of multicoloured sprites": assuming what you want from ... annoys me, but after being used to it i would feel ... what it is. what you're used to.

    not enough ...
    Sadako Sadako March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... QUOTE=JamesD]They could have used sprites for forground objects and then ... elements and behind others. Sprites on the c64 can only ... : the c64's monochrome sprites can only display set pixels ... very good. Now if you're talking home computers in general ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... Kathanni]R-Type uses software sprites? Once this is a game ... 're software sprites. Hi-colour mode on the 2068 can be used to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2006 Games
  • Speccy vs C64: Enduro RacerJust seen a video of the commode version of Enduro Racer, what a pile of cack: [youtube]kZVNLX6OxwU[/youtube] Speccy version: [youtube]ouKg6LeXkD…

    ... common on the Spectrum, used for the Spectrum port of ... (depending on what version you're used to, either the C64 version ... are a bit more chunky sprites (although thankfully not expanded - ... now expanded sprites were just plain ugly, just ...
    Fizza Fizza October 2009 Chit chat
  • Spectrum 2-3 times more powerfull than MSX?![url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kI0urN9tI#t=8m18s[/url]

    ... if you want to do sprites... but anything else..."
    It ... machine to program if you're used to the Spectrum, but that ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    ... re-used, and indexed, no doubt - but what gets me is the sprites ... that there are 5 main sprites at this size - and all ... 'm missing - such as expanding sprites into pre-shifted blocks as ... beaten hands down. Many games used things like 2 pixel steps ...
    Gedlion Gedlion June 2010 Development
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... tail following it) four enemy sprites, items dropping down the screen ... previous set of dead enemy sprites, tons of bulletts being fired ... the pictures I made was re-used for the whole game, with ... not like the two colours used for the play area are ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 August 2010 Games
  • BUZZSAW+ Demo No. 3Right, another demo of BUZZSAW+. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap"]Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap[/URL] The default con…

    ... would corrupt the colours of sprites at the top of the ... music to be overwritten and re-used for data once the game ... bug with it trying to re-use that code after it ... [/I] a marker labelled 'reset re-entry point' rather than just ...
    joefish joefish August 2011 Development
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... scripts in another, and the sprites in another. Even allowing a ... well (up/down could be re-used for vertical stairs/ladders). And ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... on a 128K Speccy you're forced to try and work ... 16K and unpack the necessary sprites and buffers there. The actual ... to a big cache of sprites and screen data and it ... ", the same script could be re-used over and over by loads ...
    joefish joefish February 2013 New game ideas
  • Ashes Cricket 2013 game taken off sale[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25137093[/url] The official video game for the Ashes cricket tour has been pulled from sale after gamers …

    I see they re-used the sprites from Bear Bovver again! :D
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek November 2013 Chit chat
  • Trial version of CharAde graphics engine for Sinclair BASICA trial version of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">CharAde</span> graphics engine for Sinclair BASIC is now available. It consists of a block of …

    ... foreground with "(", draw your sprites on it, then flush ... />
    So you're erasing and re-drawing everything on the ... there, unchanged, to be re-used for every loop of ... per character, but you're only given 64 characters ... d also need to re-write the editor to ...
    joefish joefish June 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Arcade Game DesignerTime I posted an update on this, I've been working on the next version - along with another developer who is writing the editors - since July. Wor…

    ... far there's editors for sprites/blocks/objects and screens. Map ... have up to 254 blocks, sprites and objects. Obviously limitations will ... "Library" of event code, blocks, sprites that are culled from any ... bit more memory than you're used to - it's all good ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2015 Development
  • Shadow of the Beast review:New review at Spectrum Paradise, it's turn for the impressive Shadow of the Beast, an excellent game with nice and neat graphics, smooth animations a…

    ... of the tricks you've used would necessarily translate into the ... the main sprite I've used was off someone playing ... version is forever stopping to re-load sprites and scenery, so I ... colour registers for completely independent sprites.

    But it ...
    joefish joefish October 2016 Games
  • New Game WIP; SAVAGE PRINCESS.Been working on a game for the last year or so that started life as a straight copy of Ghosts n Goblins' level 1 in AGD before it took on a life of i…

    ... I had to shrink the sprites and screens. But most of ... from this version will be re-used in Savage Princess. The first ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie March 2018 Development
  • How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…

    ... that is pretty much it. Sprites are given commands and then ... , multi-tasking... Nope. You're aiming way higher than anything ... in line with what you're used to.

    SpecBAS ... graphics with advanced features like sprites (which Sinclair BASIC doesn't ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2018 BASIC
  • Poll : How do you rate Rambo?What did you make of Rambo by Ocean from 1985? An interesting, stealthy shooter thats fun to explore and even has something like the plot of the film…

    ... , but that's something we're used to with a Speccy, but ... see more what you're doing as the sprites are bigger. also ...
    paranoid marvin paranoid marvin September 2018 Games
  • Cover for "Supernova" re-used on obscure games compilationI was in one of those "Game" shops in Glasgow today, and noticed what I recognised as the cover for the old Speccy game "Supernova" on one of the box…

    I was in one of those "Game" shops in Glasgow today, and noticed what I recognised as the cover for the old Speccy game "Supernova" on one of the boxes in the "budget" PC section.

    [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/s ...
    Zagreb Zagreb February 2003 Games
  • Do you use version control software?Hi, I wonder what, if any, version control people use in their development. I use PVCS 8 at work but get a little disgruntled at the cost, the RAM …

    ... compared to PVCS because we're used to working in a particular ... keep entire builds that you're working on away from the ... a build label while you're working on a copy. In ... to PVCS (that could be used in a similar way to ...
    xenomorph xenomorph June 2006 Development
  • New: Freeware/PD title informationAnother important change has been made to the Infoseek engine: listing all games that were published as Freeware or Public Domain (PD). Update: a thi…

    ... : a third type, GPL, was used by some people as well ... additional detail, this is directly used for the STP project (no ... appear as snappy as you're used to...
    mheide mheide January 2007 Infoseek database
  • Question about ZX Spectrum AY interfacesI got this information from Mike, author of EigthyOne: [QUOTE]128k spectrum 1.7734 MHz Timex 1.764 MHz ZON-X 1.625 MHz Fuller 1.625 MHz QuickSilva 0…

    ... 128K music just like we're used to?

    There's ...
    zxbruno zxbruno July 2009 Hardware
  • Some Beeper TunesAfter doing a verion of [URL="http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/vbspec/popcorn.szx"]popcorn[/URL] a few weeks back, I got a bit carried away with doing a f…

    ... 't mind how/if they're used by anyone.

    Now ... />
    The last one was used as the theme tune for ...
    ccowley ccowley March 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • TV report of the morning at RetroMa?OK, so it's in Spanish, but the pictures really say it all. Antena 3, a national TV broadcaster in Spain, this morning visited Retroma??a, which is …

    ... quite different from what we're used to: during the day various ...
    Winston Winston November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy boxes with no RAM markingHi people, I noticed the other day that my Issue 1's box is different to the others. All the other boxes have "16K RAM" or "48K RAM" printed on them…

    ... issue 1 is because they re-used a motherboard - presumably something failed ...
    Spirantho Spirantho April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Homebrew Coding Weekend @ In Da 80s, July 16-17, ManchesterHi, This is a bit late notice, but we're trying to reach out to 8-bit homebrew developers who might be at a loose end this weekend! We're trying to…

    ... late notice, but we're trying to reach out to ... weekend!

    We're trying to gather the best ... will be around, we're also hoping people will bring ... - work which might be re-used on other platforms, if we ... homebrew devs. If you're able to stay over there ...
    Arcadian Arcadian July 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • An easy way to run Deus Ex, Unreal Tournament, etc, on modern systems[B]Deus Ex[/B] and [B]Unreal Tournament[/B], and other PC games built upon the first Unreal Engine, are fairly troublesome to get working with modern…

    ... , or even difficult (if you're used to getting stubborn games to ...
    ewgf ewgf July 2011 Chit chat
  • Spectranet hard disk moduleI figure it's about time for a public announcement now that people are starting to get their hands on spectranets. Some of you will be aware that fo…

    ... the filesystem drivers can be re-used.
    guesser guesser September 2012 Announcements
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