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Sierra AGII've been thinking recently about starting a project to port Sierra's AGI engine to the ZX Spectrum 128. I've been reading the AGI specs and to me i…
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Paying for a new Spectrum Game?I was reading the list of "best 2013 Spetrum Game" and this came to my mind: Am I willing to pay for a new spectrum game? I don't think I've bought …
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russian and spanish people who dont ... times, and Mad Mix Game more than 16.000
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Land of Mire Mare[Quote]This game has to be considered as a tribute. It's inspired by the unreleased Mire Mare game & characters created by Ultimate Play The Game in …
... had to get used to, more than something that was y'know ... tenuous link to the Ultimate games (although they had moved away ... once they started making 48K games.
Oh, and one ... 've run it on 48k, 128k+, +2 and +2a hardware
Retro Game Comparison Blog.So, here's a shameless plug for my blog, which should interest some of you. Then again, it's not biased towards any particular system, so it might no…
... several goes, it. '80s games were extremely limited in comparison ... stir the pot a little more than usual, which is why I ... as generous with the Spectrum games as I currently am. ... comments --
@Ivanzx: Again, needing practice is appliable to any ...Retro Game Comparison Blog.So, here's a shameless plug for my blog, which should interest some of you. Then again, it's not biased towards any particular system, so it might no…
... towards the Sinclair community. Much more than you could expect to find ... .. well, I did buy a 128k +2 a few years ago ... and foremost, playing games that were made more than 15 years ago. I ... learned early on that the games ...Craziness!It is really unbelievable the amount of games being produced for the Spectrum...I lately have the feeling that it is out of my hands and that I need …
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I ... variation in gameplay. With my games, I tried to explore ... that means releasing no more than a couple of games per year. I ... The new offerings from the Russian contest look interesting but so ...the worlds longest game tape ?just curious if there is a known title... as I was looking at multimixx 4 and that has gauntlet 1 / 2 and deeper dungeons and it reminds me of an ata…
... some games actually loaded way more data than needed. There are some games that ... loaded slightly more data than ... weeks in Paradise 128k overran the ROM space loading more than 19k of ...128k Screen Flipping - Sample Code PleaseI know this has been covered before, but I cannot find out code to do the following: On a 128k Spectrum tell the speccy to display from address 4915…
... at that to revise on 128k paging, but it was a ... . Mind you it's been more than 8 years since it was ... ://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/games/s/SuperCrapInvaders.tzx.zip"]Here ...Why are rotozoomers on C=64 so fast ?Hi, I noticed rotozoomers on C64 are really fast. I'm not the best coder on Speccy but I know my pet I never succeed to do rotozoomer (or rotating ch…
... wish when the Spectrum 128K had come out, it ... look at CPC games that have more than two colours, they ... video) hardware, more colours equals more hard work. Four ... Commodore 128 was much more advanced than the C64, whereas ... are making a 128k specific game.Are any of these worth holding onto for rarety/value reasonsIve Made The Pics Public A friend of mine was throwing away a small collection of games along with a +2 grey and a +128 toast rack and i just wondere…
All those games look in very good condition ... ones are worth a "bit" more than most of the others, but ... might want to keep the 128k toastrack to play it on ...'The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels' kickstarterHere it is, now live (with a loading screen by me!) [url]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47744432/the-story-of-the-zx-spectrum-in-pixels[/url]
... know as I'd be more than happy to contribute. Though ... section about best Eastern games (mainly Russian) in the 1990's ... ]), another about best engine-based games (produced using AGD, Churrera, ... etc), another about best multicolor games (such as [URL="http:// ...Dark SceptreThis game was popular then and (looking at the Top 100) is popular now but I still don't understand what the hell I should be doing or what sort of s…
... amount would be to allow more than one fight to happen at ... being one of the best games ever made for the machine ... into a new "Dark Spectre 128K" version? There would be enough ...What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... bit consoles delivered consistently better games than the Amiga; [/QUOTE]
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games on consoles were 'different', ... would be a more appropriate name for a 128k, 68008 QL with ...Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64I found an old oldish, but very informed and interesting article on the ole Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 argument. The article explains the technical d…
... compatibility with existing games, and getting new games to take ... 128K Spectrum bucked that trend and there's certainly more than a ... smattering of 128K-only games that could ... Command in colour rather than stippled fills, and Where ...Command and Conquer type game?Hey all One of my all time favourite games although not spectrum based, is the Command and Conquer series. I'm sure many of you are famailiar with…
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There are hardly any games on speccy that use A ... used in Julian Gollop's games.
If you have ... that being said there are Russian RTS games made for speccy. I ... or even if they are more than tech demos because I haven ...Command and Conquer type game?Hey all One of my all time favourite games although not spectrum based, is the Command and Conquer series. I'm sure many of you are famailiar with…
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There are hardly any games on speccy that use A ... that being said there are Russian RTS games made for speccy. I ... or even if they are more than tech demos because I haven ... /> Also, there are enough Spectrum games that use complex pathfinding, for ...ZX-Art graphics updatesWe are gathering a large collection of in-game graphics on ZX-Art at the moment. The ultimate purpose would be to make an easily browsable online arc…
... and create new authors/parties/games in database as well, this ... not so known, specially some Russian screens, which are really impresive ... br /> Thanks!
99% of games on ZX-Art already have ... that when WoS will have more than 1 screenshot abiltiy, then all ...What if Amstrad never bought Sinclair ResearchApologies if this has been previously discussed, but I was thinking about this subject the other day. How do you think the whole Spectrum scene woul…
... more user-friendly.
Imho Clive never intended to make games ... would have stayed smaller (than it did after the release ... that 128k machine didn't offer THAT much more than the 48k ... machine, and there were still lots of great games ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... (even with the 128k model), there are more games that are still playable ... playability (even today) of Speccy games evens that out.
games were crap in comparison to ... machine you saw it was more than capable of beating both it ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... then though C64 games looked blockier than Speccy games, but slightly ... moments with some games more suitable to monochrome than colour (eg ... why I think that the games had more playability.
128k music chip. SID made even average games sound ...64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
... program decides to individually update more than 3,000 pixels on screen ... one every frame (corresponding to more than 97.65% of entire ... low-res colored games would look much better than low-res ... colored big pixels for Spectrum 128K only, using shadow screen. ...New Game(s): Sir Ababol 2 and Sir Ababol DXHere is our own Christmas Present from Mojonia! We weren't going to release these games (at least, by the moment) but we decided just yesterday to fi…
... choosing the controls for our games, needing two separate action keys. One ... cannot play the game for more than a couple of minutes
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... ST didn't offer much more than a Spectrum. Why would I ... games sounded the same as my Speccy 128k, the graphics obviously had more ... colour but didn't move much better than what ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... introduction to computer role-playing-games) then it was the ... straight conversions of Speccy games that didn't take ... I love doing Speccy gfx, more than any other machine, even if ... .
The famous Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, said once ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
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The famous Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, said once ... that were always far better than the Spectrum, but i' ... previous two system, are better than the PS2/PSOne? Unless ... use of, but how many 128k only games were released?[/QUOTE]
ZX Adventures.Is there still a fan base for ZX text adventures out there.
... game. Unfortunately not many Spectrum games have them.[/QUOTE]
more than enough. I don't know ... text only. The other was 128k and featured a few pics ...A vehicle for wireframe engineHi, I'm playing with wireframe graphics right now. I'm open for ideas for (simple) game that would use wireframe engine. So if you have an idea, plea…
... the engine, although some simple games might be possible.
more than modest complexity, you'd be ... the shadow screen on the 128K machines to do much the ... what most of the better games tend to do.
My partial disenchantmente with PS4I've had a PS4 since christmas... My wife gave it to me. I loved the PS3, felt the machine still had a few good games to put out (contrary to PS2, t…
... after having only played Android games since that time, the gfx ... got much time to play games (2 hours/week if I ... far GTA V has been more than enough entertainment, and absolutely amazing ... day. How long was the 128K or +3 in the limelight ...Game development guidesHello all, I want to get into game development for the ZX Spectrum and would like to know where I can find some helpful guides. I've looked around t…
... it was aimed at people needing a small push to get ... the video frame to get more than one attribute per character cell ... deflections. Sound effects are more brief spurts sent to the ... loop.
The 128k spectrum adds more memory in a limited ...The best ZX Spectrum emulatorsIt's been suggested we add a sticky thread where people can recommend their favourite emulators. A couple of rules. 1. Don't just nomina…
... s debugger can do far more than just single-step, although ... a crash on a real 128K). You can set breakpoints ... debugger is actually far more featureful than [i]some[/i] ... s far larger feature set than is often perceived.
... to handle this without needing MinGW.
