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Improved emulator page?I've noticed that the emulator page hasn't changed since I first visited a few years ago. Of course, it works fine but I was wondering if there was a…
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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…
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Batman ABITH/AFWTD graphicsHow'd you do that then, eh? With the overlaid windows and stuff. I always thought it was dead clever. May have seen it in another game too but can't …
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Batman ABITH/AFWTD graphicsHow'd you do that then, eh? With the overlaid windows and stuff. I always thought it was dead clever. May have seen it in another game too but can't …
Interesting, so it would seem to me that this effect is actually probably easier to achieve on a Spectrum than on something like a SNES or Megadrive which works on a sprite layer with 2 or 3 background layers. Correct? -
speccy plus keyboard helppicked up a really clean boxed speccy + with a ton of games for ?4 from the local recycle centre yesterday, woohoo :) Anyhow on testing it powers up …
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Duel Of The Games #8 : HoraceMore poll madness... :) Which is your favourite Horace game then? I'm voting for Hungry Horace. Skiing is probably equally as good but I played the …
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Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
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Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…
... even program a decent main sprite... by Dragonskulle it had gotten ... C64 'exclusive' product stone dead after Staff Of Karnath, which was ... for C64 circa' '84, but after that there was simply no ... -
Cross Platform DevelopmentWhat's the best way to develop cross platform apps? By best, the only limiting criteria would be "at no cost" :)
... ), graphics routines (line, circle, etc), sprite routines, etc in addition to ... correct using C and then replacing bits with z80 to do ... -
splib2 from ROMI'm trying to generate IF2 ROM games for ZX Spectrum 16K using z88dk + splib2. So far I've managed to create a new crt0 file and to generate valid RO…
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splib2 from ROMI'm trying to generate IF2 ROM games for ZX Spectrum 16K using z88dk + splib2. So far I've managed to create a new crt0 file and to generate valid RO…
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Slapfight - slower versionI really like vertical shoot em ups and Slapfight 'on paper' looks to be very good but the bullets are just sooooo damn quick and it totally ruins it…
... notice thinner bullets sometimes as after 3 double shifts only bits ... and are erased by the background getting updated before being drawn ... stuff are already 'in' the background when it redraws.
Arti've decided to paint pictures and flog them to art cafes, and also online, mostly on ebay. i only did basic art at school, i can't really draw and …
... those "pictures" of a white background, and a large red square ... my lost post (actually, years after my death, maybe people will ...Ten quid mobile broadbandI saw adverts in the Sunday papers for this [url]http://www.three.co.uk/personal/products_services_/mobile_broadband_/index.omp[/url] It was delive…
... . All it takes is one background process on your laptop which ... where you can keep talking after your credit has run out ...Double Dragon RemakesHas anyone ever seen or played this game? Was it ever finished? Anybody know anything about it? [youtube]RX7YV9PQr5s[/youtube] I notice it says t…
... Extreme, gonna play that later after I've slept some.[/quote ... by need to fix Kunio sprite. Hope this does finally arrive ...Spectrum Dead On Arrival StatsDr. Rupe, who worked at Sinclair Research at the time, sees parallels with Microsoft and the XBox saga [url]http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000…
... luckily it booted up again after being left alone and switched ... breaks I will not bother replacing it and will consider getting ...Tommy GunHi, Got a few suggestions etc. for Tommy Gun. Well done Kiwi et. al. for a fantastic application. I would like to add the following suggestions: …
... the mask on each row? After each sprite? After animation? Where / How do ... commandline tool to read the sprite data from your saved XML ...Tommy GunHi, Got a few suggestions etc. for Tommy Gun. Well done Kiwi et. al. for a fantastic application. I would like to add the following suggestions: …
... the mask on each row? After each sprite? After animation? Where / How do ... commandline tool to read the sprite data from your saved XML ...Into the screen driving simulator effectI was wondering how the racing games of yore did the into the screen scrolling effect. I'm sure you could do something crude drawing bars on the scre…
The background scenery is pretty obvious: ... scenery is simply the same sprite scaled and positioned appropriately. ... I believe it is a sprite, but it is distorted ... go up the screen, the sprite is scaled down horizontally. ... a line of the sprite to one side or ...One game which made you change computersWas there any game (or games) that made you think 'thats it, the times up with the Speccy, time to move on' and get an Amiga or ST back in the late 8…
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After it died I paid 3 ... bother replacing it, as I was moving to the states soon after ...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…
... we want to keep the background colour. The most general ... only (ie the sprite does not affect the background's PAPER, FLASH ... when the sprite is drawn will not affect the background PAPER, ... an independent attr_mask for each sprite character -- well it speeds ...Blue Ray vs. HD DVDBlue Ray vs. HD DVD Which is better, and why? And which will survive the other? Personally, I don't much care at the moment, as my TV is not high…
... suffer from background retinopathy (don't look it up just after eating ...DivIDE+ and 128K HeatsinkI got my DivIDE+ yesterday and i tried it on a 48K+ at first, it worked marvelously on it, no problems at all. Today i desided to try it on my 128 H…
... 't work with Divide evan after replacing the CPU. I found that ... from its input to ground. After that the Divide worked with ...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…
... ]OK, I'm back again after my father's funeral on ... if you use a black background, you can use a trick ...DivIDE+ and 128K HeatsinkI got my DivIDE+ yesterday and i tried it on a 48K+ at first, it worked marvelously on it, no problems at all. Today i desided to try it on my 128 H…
... the DivIDE (+ or simple) and after replacing with an also working Z80 ...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…
... positions without sacrificing something, probably replacing this:
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after a little while, then I ...My 2003 XP Comp VS new quad core Vista compMy 2003 built Win XP computer pissed all over our universities very latest Win Vista Quad Core computers. I had a photoshop file containing a 205 La…
... out of memory, after shutting down a few background processes and trying ...Dangerous Z80 Assembly CommandHave been reading Toni Bakers' "Mastering MC On Ya Speccy" book and came across the list of Z80 commands in the dictionary section. Page 102 "[b]IM…
... need to return to BASIC after setting the interrupt handler up ... whilst still running in the background.
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Returning to BASIC after setting up the IM2 interrupt ... a fraction of a second after I exit to BASIC. There ...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…
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;252537]This one works.[/QUOTE]
Agreed! We can save 2 positions replacing this:
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POKE n,4+15*(qproblem using FRAMES to generate 'random' numbersI realise the pros use bytes from ROM to get their random numbers, presumably because they want to use FRAMES to synchronise the printing and avoid s…
... magazine to draw a starfield background, replacing a really slow BASIC routine ...
