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Accelerated GamesPlaying Driller the other day on Spectaculator, I wondered what sort of improvement could be made by increasing the emulation speed to 10x. That way,…
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do i need a joystick to play games?hi, right now i have games working, but, can i use the keyboard to play them (if so what are the common buttons) or do i need a joystick (if so wher…
and of course keys 5,6,7,8 and 0 to fire
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Redefinable joystick keysEr... difficult to describe in a subject line, but you'll see what I mean. :) Just about all Spectrum emulators allow you to map one of the joystick…
question was another: how to redirect QAOPspace (e.g.) to joystick. For real joystick(s) it is possible now to tell to emulator that it should redefine its moves to cursor or some certain kind of joystick (Kempston, Interface II...). -
Redefinable joystick keysEr... difficult to describe in a subject line, but you'll see what I mean. :) Just about all Spectrum emulators allow you to map one of the joystick…
... talking about EMULATED joysticks.... Kempston, Cursor, Sinclair... yes?
Take ... not onto the PC's cursor pad.
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Redefinable joystick keysEr... difficult to describe in a subject line, but you'll see what I mean. :) Just about all Spectrum emulators allow you to map one of the joystick…
Er... of course (puts thinking cap back on) your method would work fine for joysticks which were based on keyboard keys, like cursor, sinclair, etc. Silly me. :) -
Porting game to SpectrumHello, I'm trying to port a few of my homemade adventure games on over to the ZX Spectrum (16 or 48K). My games are available below: [url="http://…
Porting game to SpectrumHello, I'm trying to port a few of my homemade adventure games on over to the ZX Spectrum (16 or 48K). My games are available below: [url="http://…
... color dark blue, and the cursor color (text color) white?[/quote ...Collision DetectionHi everyone, This is my first post on WOS. Like most people here I owned a Spectrum when a teenager. At that time I was quite heavily into programmin…
... Java though and I used coordinates there too - this, combined with ...SAGA 1 Emperor KeyboardI have a SAGA Emperor replacement keyboard gathering dust in the attic, and was thinking of auctioning it on Ebay, but don't know what it's worth. Sh…
... you can see it features cursor keys, numeric keypad, A LOT ...Collision DetectionHi everyone, This is my first post on WOS. Like most people here I owned a Spectrum when a teenager. At that time I was quite heavily into programmin…
... the screen
2. sprite coordinates are 8-bits (if these ... are char coordinates, most of this area is ... off-screen)
3. sprite coordinates wrap: if the left side ...Joystick JockeyWho needed to have an interface then to play their favourite games? I always prefered the more responsive method of the keyboard and still do to thi…
... always used to pick the cursor key set up 5,6 ...need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
... the need to store and retrieve the screen address each line ...need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
Help accessing menu on 128k +2Hi, I recently dusted my old 128k +2 speccy off, and got it up and running. I am having one problem though - I can't access the menu! When I turn i…
... break while holding the up cursor. This [I]might[/I] get ...need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …
... POP BC ;Using stack to retrieve sprite graphics
LD L ...Great escape...Hi my friends, I download Spectaculator ver 6.25 and then grab the Great escape, but I had problems in playing the game... I just use the keyboard …
... disappear partially and appears K cursor... [/quote]
Can I ...Remapping spectrum keys to the arrow keysIs it actual possible to remap spectrum keys to the arrow keys on a PC keyboard in Spin or Spectaculator?
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Doesn't appear to work (with Hall of the Things at any rate). No movement when cursor keys used.Great escape...Hi my friends, I download Spectaculator ver 6.25 and then grab the Great escape, but I had problems in playing the game... I just use the keyboard …
LN2 - i guess 1234 is joystick selected. i remember playing with 6789 and 0 to fire, which is the other sinclair joystick. if im not mistaken i think cursor can be used, and i faintly remember using qaopm also, but i could be wrong it's been so long.Great escape...Hi my friends, I download Spectaculator ver 6.25 and then grab the Great escape, but I had problems in playing the game... I just use the keyboard …
... im not mistaken i think cursor can be used, and i ...RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…
Remapping spectrum keys to the arrow keysIs it actual possible to remap spectrum keys to the arrow keys on a PC keyboard in Spin or Spectaculator?
... remap spectrum keys to the cursor keys. So if a game ...Remapping spectrum keys to the arrow keysIs it actual possible to remap spectrum keys to the arrow keys on a PC keyboard in Spin or Spectaculator?
... PC joysticks and the PC cursor keys; each of them can ...What does SPIN have?I have been asking this question since somebody answered another I had made that RealSpectrum was a brilliant emulator. It is in fact. But... I see e…
... : if you manually move the cursor to look 'up' and 'down ...3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
... know, adding further 3D objects, coordinates and a map would not ... to stop working out 3D coordinates and drawing castle/key and ... of power only when their coordinates were deemed by your engine ...3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
... know, adding further 3D objects, coordinates and a map would not ... to stop working out 3D coordinates and drawing castle/key and ... of power only when their coordinates were deemed by your engine ...Spindizzy: good or horrible?Spindizzy is definately a much-loved old speccy game but is it actually any good? I played it a load back in the day, but i played every game i had …
... easily enough. Poke the required coordinates at #CA3D and #CA3E, exit ...Amstrad and the SpectrumWhy has Amstrad made so little of their rights to the ZX Spectrum? In the last few years we have seen various retro products celebrating the Coleco, …
... , Sinclair Interface 2, Protek and Cursor. There's also a special ...Most pointless type-in?I think it was one I saw, probably in Program Pitstop(which mag did that?), to evaluate a string as a full expression, a la the Beeb: spend hours typ…
... ago. Unfortunately, I can't retrieve the program from the damn ...