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vade retro - transporter bug[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027878"]vade retro[/URL] The loading screen clearly indicates that the name of the game is i…
... br /> I got to a screen where the transporter kicks in from ... entered the transporter over there to be moved back to this ... have to restart the game. Don't have the energy to complete the map, ... at least not right now. Will leave it up to ... -
Al's Double Bill - Official release[IMG]http://www.alessandrogrussu.it/img/ADB.png[/IMG] [I]Al's Double Bill, [/I]the combined and enhanced, 128K-only version of my first two Spectrum…
... to the player (instead of 7);
[*]4 new levels, from the 16th to the ... been modified in order to make the map more coherent;
... br /> [*]5 lives available to the player (instead of 3);< ... 1 ‘bonus’ game unlocked by the alternative ending.
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Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
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To the software, the routine to display a character, given the same input as the original ... C64 arrangement makes the routine to calculate the screen address from the X,Y coordinates ... -
I think maybe I'll try my hand at making a game like Boggle next.Or maybe a sliding puzzle sort of thing? Although its a royal pain working out all those symbolic characters, its kind of rewarding when it works af…
... a drag to have to live with, time to haul out the graph paper ... and use a cursor move routine to position the tile - if doing a ... spree, so I hope to go to the nearest town with art supplies ... -
Something like Robot Wants Kitty, Metroidvania style explorable platformerHow about a [url="http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/genre-explorable-platformer-metroidvania"]Metroidvania style[/url] explorable platformer game? …
... all parts of the map at the beginning. You have to collect abilities and ... weapons to access certain parts of the map. The player has to ... explore the map non-linearly to collect all ... -
Screen$ +3 disk to tape helpHi, I have several full screen pictures of my +3 disks (Screen$). How can I transfer these pictures onto tape without losing the last to lines beca…
To do this from Basic use an adaptation of the following routine
to preserve the
screen image, use three POKES to restore the status ... a short
machine code routine to save the complete screen.
what games did you never complete?What games for the spectrum did you never manage to complete and why.
transylvanian tower...it took to long to draw the map and move to a new floor ... text adventures tho i trying to do them now...secret of ... of them,i am determined to do this game without using ...Brand new topic? Who used to map games?IS this a BRAND NEW topic? :) I doubt it. But what the hey? Who here used to MAP games? I hadn't heard the expression 'walkthroughs' back then but I…
... Winter Tail", and drew the solution for the adventure game "Kobyashi Naru ... />
I did manage to find the map for Batman II - part one ... that the Portuguese newspaper "A ... Friday issues, and finished the game easily.Nodes of YesodYes! Having compiled a screen-shot map of Nodes of Yesod, I have finally completed the damn game at LAST! This particular feat has eluded me ever s…
... ages - I was going to try to map out the location of each "master ... 't have the patience! I was just glad to get the map finished.
the ones I did for Jasper ...Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... is required this should be the prefered method. If anything you ... a custom call variable in the IM1 mode (ie as part ... a call is made to a RAM routine) to remove the need for IM2 ...Spectrum problemHi I've just been trying to resurrect my 48k spectrum. I'm having some problems loading some of my games, but if it does completely load, it crashe…
Thanks very much for that GP. Could you please explain to me how to set up a routine to find the fault - I don't know much about how it all works, but I'm quite keen to learn!
Thnaks again.
ClareAnyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
... so now we need a routine to decrease the number of lives:-
to game over routine
LD (40000), ... writing this similar routine but this should give you the drift. So ... if we had found the lives routine whilst hacking as follows:-
Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
... the code comes into view so set the PC to 5C00 and return to the ... game. LOL the game starts ... 's look for where the program jumps to 5C00H.
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*you must get to the enter code screen before you ...Was spectrum the most advanced thing when you got it?When you got your first spectrum games, were they the most advanced games at the moment? When my dad bought it for me I was crazy excited, it was ama…
... at the same thing. Wrote the program in four lines (compare to 120 ... /> 10 (UDG routine to make the chessboard figure seen on the ZX81)
20 ... (CIRCLE and DRAW commands to draw the wheel in blue)
Was spectrum the most advanced thing when you got it?When you got your first spectrum games, were they the most advanced games at the moment? When my dad bought it for me I was crazy excited, it was ama…
... /> 10 (UDG routine to make the chessboard figure seen on the ZX81)
... (CIRCLE and DRAW commands to draw the wheel in blue)
... to set up the screen, 20 was the for-loop, 30 was to draw the ... green lines and contained the NEXT to end the for-loop. line ...Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…
... need is a routine to redefine the column width from 8 to 6, so ... - if it needs to be the columns on the right, a simple switch ... to POKE n,4*c will do the trick. Plus, I need to ... be able to use statements ...WTSS Mapso has everyone seen this then yet? [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-maps/w/WhereTimeStoodStill_4.png"]ftp://ftp.worldofspectr…
... the cave you are trying to escape to. This is also apparantly due to the ... , and that they had plans to extend the map even further! But I ... (far right of the game map, between the perimeter fences with the dogs) - you ...New MapsCapitan Trueno 1 [url="http://zx-maps.wz.cz/map.php?id=CapitanTrueno1"]http://zx-maps.wz.cz/map.php?id=CapitanTrueno1[/url] Jungle Warrior [url="htt…
... really that impossible to make a map, even if the game uses warped ... to figure out how to bodge the screens together to form a map.
The ... hinder you, when you try to make the map of TT: Megamix yourself ...Manic Miner 3DI have now uploaded a playable demo of my [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/temp/manicminer3d.html"]Manic Miner 3D[/url] game (which is almost co…
The "screenshots" didn't take all that long to do actually, although ... I had to leave my old Mac rendering the ... worked out a little routine to do the job fairly quickly using ... could potentially make Willy and the monster, etc, less like ...the happiest days of your life-pt2hello,again i have come up with 2 solutions to the problem of solving this game:- 1.the more people that try to solve this game (by combining diffe…
... to the rooms we not been like the Secret passage we going to need the map to ... show the where it ... this game you CAN pickup the map no problem Ladderman says
the happiest days of your life-pt2hello,again i have come up with 2 solutions to the problem of solving this game:- 1.the more people that try to solve this game (by combining diffe…
... to the rooms we not been like the Secret passage we going to need the map to ... show the ... need to be carrying the map and the passage key to enter the Secret ... least have had to picked up the map...[quote]in ...help with sprites from SevenUpHas anybody got source for a short m/c rountine that can send sprites designed in SevenUp to the screen or to a dummy screen? A long time ago, I wor…
... optimised version of the code for finding the vertical start address ... deals with finding the start address from the vertical and horizontal ... won't understand the text, but the routines may be ... may need is a routine to calculate the next scanline, such as ...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 …
... you where saving to IXh instead of using the stack, why ... br /> you would have to repeat the BEG, MID and END ... point, instead of calling the routine to calculate the new line address, put ... Combined these optimisations should give the routine a fair old boost.
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 …
... you where saving to IXh instead of using the stack, why ... br /> you would have to repeat the BEG, MID and END ... point, instead of calling the routine to calculate the new line address, put ... ve already done countless optimizations to the whole procedure, but couldn ...128k sound effectsCan anyone supply a short routine for producing 128k sound effects. All I am looking for is a laser sound and an explosion. Thanks Derek
Writing to the registers is simplicty itself. Use an IM2 vector to update the sounds ... of your choosing to affect the registers. As to producing the desired sound that ... don't use an IM2 routine to update the AY.
[ This ...the happiest days of your life-pt2hello,again i have come up with 2 solutions to the problem of solving this game:- 1.the more people that try to solve this game (by combining diffe…
Feelin' a bit bored so havin' a root thro' the archive. Nice work chaps.
The game doesn't crash at the end so keep going! I just ran it and it works fine.
To get the MAP you need to be carrying the MORTAR BOARD and 100 LINES.Speccy Maps: Just what the hell is going on here then?Some time ago, a chap going by the name of Pavero built a few maps of Speccy games. Though they weren't brilliant, but they sufficed. He decided th…
... with the map maker and a third party has no rights to reproduce ... the orginal copyright holder to reproduce the map, so it shouldn't be available to the ... public at all, whether that be with the permission of the map ...The Spectrum is a Piece of ShitHow can you all stand there and defend a computer that was ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH even back in 1982, compared to classics like the Atari 8-Bit, Commodore…
... sheds!
Anyway... back to the matter at hand!
the rain held off. The paint's got a special 'wax' content to let the ... nice padlock too. Still got to paint the inside yet, though....
The Spectrum is a Piece of ShitHow can you all stand there and defend a computer that was ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH even back in 1982, compared to classics like the Atari 8-Bit, Commodore…
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Anyway... back to the matter at hand!
the rain held off. The paint's got a special 'wax' content to let the ... nice padlock too. Still got to paint the inside yet, though....
... recarpeted we used the old stuff in the shed. Now ...
