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Robospec (new project, hopefully useful as a tutorial as well)Starting a new project after my graphics investigations. * It's gonna be a Robotron clone since that's not too ambitious (although I'd like to hav…
... point it to an off screen buffer and copy that to screen if you ... SET TO 1
; DE address of word1
; HL address of ... bullets will take to hit the edge of the screen. Check overlap ... expanded version if you want to give a safe space around ... -
Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…
... good.
Trying to rejink tokenize into gettoken which ... for adventure parsing, need to allow punctuation after the closing ... day did not clear the screen, make the attributes ink ... only code loaded to and executed from the screen address space hmm? -
Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…
... day did not clear the screen, make the attributes ink and ... so they could have up to 6912 bytes of initialisation only ... code loaded to and executed from the screen address space hmm?[/quote ... . Most initialization code you want to keep around because that's ... -
BMP2SCRCan anyone help me with this program? I downloaded it but I can't seem to get it to do anything! The readme file isn't the best in the world! Can any…
... I can't seem to get it to do anything! The readme ... idea of being able to convert bitmaps to screen$ for the Speccy. Does ... -
Maybe I'm just weird......but I love looking thru the old adverts for speccy games with their little order coupons for you to fill in, or a phone number to call with your a…
... order coupons for you to fill in, or a ... phone number to call with your access/barclaycard ... number to order a game direct ... numbers on the coupon just to see what happens (almost ... and send it off to the address, even tho the software ... -
is Z80 by G.A. Lunter still going?I was thinking of registering Z80 v4 but I'm not sure if it is still being developed? Has anybody suceeded in registering recently? There is a websit…
... recently? There is a website address for Chezron Software in the ... could risk sending money to the address listed but that might be ... -
ANN: ZXF Issue 2 publishedIssue two of ZXF (free spectrum magazine - PDF format) has now been uploaded and awaits your inspection. The new URL for the site is [url="http://ww…
... ] - from there you can proceed to
the download page.
* "Bitmap to Screen$": loading screen tutorial
* +3/2A ... - either in reply to this post or
to me directly - are ... -
Help: Title of a gameHi! I played this game a lot, and I can't remember the title: You are a strange robot (with no legs), you can shoot and move fast in a 2D futuristi…
... no scroll: the change from screen to screen is like Sabre Wulf, or ... -
Name the GameI have just remembered about a compilation that my mother bought me, but the only game on it that I remember was like this:- You were a wizard or wa…
... ) and you went from screen to screen (willy like). To pick things up you ... to be on top of them. I also remember the loading screen ... round the edge of the screen. It was a crap game ... -
Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
... . AND + OR from temp buffer to screen.
3. precalc:
to screen.
Variants:
Drawing to screen:
1. Work directly ... -
I need a scanning of ......Hello. I bought FAIRLIGHT II on Ebay, the tape and the cover are perfect but the instructions booklet is missing. If someone has the original one, he…
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Please upload the scanning to this address :
ftp:\\g ... -
I need a scanning of .....Hello. I bought FAIRLIGHT II on Ebay, the tape and the cover are perfect but the instructions booklet is missing. If someone has the original one, …
... />
Please upload the scanning to this address :
ftp:\\g ... -
Can anyone help me with a game please?? Sorry to bring up such an annoying topic, but figuring out the name of this one is really doing my nut. You controlled a robot dog that could fire…
Sorry to bring up such an annoying ... its eyes, and moved from screen to screen dodging enemies and shooting things ... a very colourful game, the screen was black and the exits ... -
Anyone playing Rough Justice?A fine game, like Cybernoid but not so depressingly hard. I've got to screen 20-something so far (the screen with the skull). Top skillz from Jonatha…
A fine game, like Cybernoid but not so depressingly hard. I've got to screen 20-something so far (the screen with the skull). Top skillz from Jonathan Cauldwell for propping up Cronosoft single-handed :) -
Forgotten nameHey folks, I've recently discovered WOS and I hope it will live forever as it's a real piece of history. For a long time I've wanted to remember the …
... sphere), and you had to get as far as ... So you bounced around from screen to screen (side-view). You could ... left, right, and choose to bounce a bit higher than ... often you would have to bounce just so you can ... ceiling. If you wanted to jump lower, you just ... -
Help me find this futuristic race gameI remembered this game when I was playing Zig Zag. In the game you're looking at a some sort of mesh of roads from the top. Many levels have their …
... you move long distance from screen to screen and you control this car ... />
Its VERY VERY similar to the racing in movie Tron ... -
Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
... a platformer, what I want to do.
My problem ... print them using a loop to screen, but that's far too ... routine in assembly to put the tiles on screen? Is this easily ... . Is this the best way to store them?
Thanks ... -
"TommyGun" gets a complete MAKEOVER for next release ...From the author, Tony Thompson ... """""""""""""""""""""""""" [B][I] I hadn't worked on the TommyGun editor for while. But when I got sick (about …
... one that I was going to use to replace the one at ... plugin type that allows you to support different machine graphics ... if say you wanted to export sprite data to WhiteLightning format. ( ... SabreMan and he runs from screen to screen. I will be putting monsters ... -
Another game I am looking for. and YOU can help me find it.Ok, I remembered this game I played 10 years ago. It was on same casette as Quazatron. It is a 2d platform shooter. You control some kind of soldier/…
... gun obviously. You go from screen to screen left to right. There are of ... -
FAO Sharopolis - you have a virus.I sent you an e-mail to the address in your profile about a possible trade a couple of days ago. I got a "reply" just now from that address with an …
... sent you an e-mail to the address in your profile about ... "reply" just now from that address with an attachment.
to McCaffee -
Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …
... that HALT can be used to time screen drawing.
to screen
call quitcheck ; ... One idea is perhaps to let the interrupt function ... eventually painted on the screen - all this to avoid flicker).
Recording AVI`s of Speccy stuff Does anyone know of a good program for XP that will record AVI or Mpeg movies from the output of Spectrum emulators? I know at least one emulator h…
... think it needed codecs to be in a ... /> and also, I want to use a seperate program as ... speccy emulators that I wish to record from.
I remember trying to use FRAPS a few months ... in which different progs write to screen memory..
...New tzxvault team accounts setupAfter the long drawn out discussion re. the "official WOS DVD's" etc and ways to fund purchases of tapes/disks for dumping, I've created accounts for…
... plan is for team members to continue to purchase tapes for their ... made, no matter how small to [email="tzxvault@hotmail.com"] ... updates will be regularly issued to John to keep the CD up ... anyone would like to contribute, send a donation to the address above.
Help finding a game please - "Joil" (?)Hi, Been visiting the site for a few years now but only just made it to the forum. Hello everyone! :) Anyway, I had a game on me speccy once called…
... but only just made it to the forum. Hello everyone! :)
to fly around from screen to screen picking up worms to go back ...Universal disk drive controller project - information needed! Hello Speccy world! I am a hardware developer from Russia and old Speccy fan. Currently i am starting a project aimed at joining Western and Easter…
... it from hard to impossible to adapt this software to foreign systems ... memory mapper (in order to change ROM entrypoints) and ... ROMs when the CPU goes to #0066 address (NMI). How many ... be handled differently in order to provide compatibility with these ...Universal disk drive controller project - information needed! Hello Speccy world! I am a hardware developer from Russia and old Speccy fan. Currently i am starting a project aimed at joining Western and Eastern…
... it from hard to impossible to adapt this software to foreign systems ... memory mapper (in order to change ROM entrypoints) and ... ROMs when the CPU goes to #0066 address (NMI). How many ... be handled differently in order to provide compatibility with these ...Compiling BASIC programs using Hi-Soft CompilerThis might get me nowhere, but it's worth a try... I'm writing a game in Spectrum BASIC - hopefully, for Simon's CD compilation, if he'll have it - …
... I save the compiled code to tape, as instructed, reset ... load it in to the address I was told to load it ... />
and I get to see about a second of ... is probably not enough information to go on, but does ... any ideas as to what I could investigate to get around ...Help, my Sprite Code wont workI have zipped it all up here: [url="http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/galagorf.zip"]http://www.peargames.co.uk/downloads/galagorf.zip[/url] If y…
... I have tried to implement Derek Smiths code to preshift all bytes ... /> Use Q,A,O,P to move the ball
to a backbuffer then copy to screen
cheers ...Dragon's Lair 2Does anyone out there have proper instructions for Dragon's Lair 2? I have used the ones featured on the WoS site, but they don't seem to give enough…
... information. I have made it to screen 3 (the throne room) but ...
