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Shadow of the Beast review:New review at Spectrum Paradise, it's turn for the impressive Shadow of the Beast, an excellent game with nice and neat graphics, smooth animations a…
... it mindlessly without trying to play game himself and ... was certainly slightly more playable with more than 1 button for actions, ... bosses range from inventive to simply terrible. A beautiful ... /> *Review in quotes credited to Retrogamer Magazine Load: 156...
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... their deathly fear of using more than 1 fire button. I still ... sticks or controllers that had more than 1 functional button on them, and ... a single fire button. Trying to convince people they needed a ... came along the need for more buttons on controllers seemed ...Games that never werehttp://www.tzxvault.org/time.htm
... their deathly fear of using more than 1 fire button.[/quote]
I ... wasn't released though - the 1 button limitation can't possibly ... /> Were the coders not up to the task (the game has ...Games that never werehttp://www.tzxvault.org/time.htm
... sticks or controllers that had more than 1 functional button on them, ... ended up infinitely more playable due to having 3 buttons, ... by it actually. Trying to map vertical shooting, and ... possibility of trying to use controllers with more than one button wasn ...How would you approach parallax?So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then s…
... store a nibble to be introduced to the screen on the ... more. Because you need to store more then 1 bit to carry. So you need to ...
;; the mask to introduce to rightmost screen 2px
;; hl is ... hl),a ; and write back to screen
dec l ; next ...What game gobsmacked you the most?And where were you when you saw it for the first time? Mine has to be, an obvious choice, Knightlore & Underwurlde. We'd all seen the adverts at s…
... more than a screen or two before getting killed, I really need to ... make keyboard overlays to help me locate ... /> I've been trying to locate a really old Atari ... fun because you had to move springs and ... and stuff to get the wossname to go where ...30 years later - Your personal favorite games of 1987Happy New Year everyone :) Looking back to 1987, which games would you choose as your top picks today? There was a lot of good stuff published tha…
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It was simple enough to be played by actual children ... also complicated enough for anyone to enjoy.[/quote]
I ... still don't know how to play it. I loved Quazatron ... I wouldn't have paid more than £1.99 for it.
[/quote ...Cooperative Games.Are there any Cooperative games for the ZX Spectrum?
... harriusherbartio;895532"]Just a bit more on "Hard Definitions"
... Some Speccy games may provide more than 1 gameplay option, so you can ... of cooperation" is needed to "make the cut"?[/quote]
to each player (although the ...Cooperative Games.Are there any Cooperative games for the ZX Spectrum?
... is a game intended to be played by more than 1 player.
... game could be played by more players. In R-Type, ... and ask a friend to control FIRE and DETACH. ... could ask a friend to take over whenever you ... games were intended to be played by 2 or more players.Silkworm vs Swiv (Amiga) - Which is the best shooter?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed Final Fight (arcade) and Streets Of Rage 2 (megadrive)…
... , but I like games with more than just fast scrolling.
... , but I like games with more than just fast scrolling.
... if not better to play due to having more than 1 action button.
than the versions that came ...Silkworm vs Swiv (Amiga) - Which is the best shooter?Hi everyone and welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Which Is Best? Last month I placed Final Fight (arcade) and Streets Of Rage 2 (megadrive)…
... , but I like games with more than just fast scrolling.
... , but I like games with more than just fast scrolling.
... if not better to play due to having more than 1 action button.
than the humble Speccy's version ...XeldaI've decided to take on the Zelda tribute game and take over the Xelda title (because it's a great title name). Working with the MK2 Mojon twins gam…
... . This is nothing more than a test to see how many screens ... effects rather than a smaller game with more special effects.< ... game is to have 200-250 screens (memory dependent), to have 4 ... dungeons & 4 bosses). I would want to ...Your latest gaming purchase.Okay, so we've got an, "I am currently playing......" thread, but what I wanna know is what you've just gone and bought y'self. If you're like me, y…
... thing is can't have more than 1 pad plugged in and use ... per player. I think having more than 1 pad plugged in at a ... a Duelshock PS pad, but to have one per machine would ...Dizzy VII - Crystal Kingdom Dizzy (2017)It's an official 30 years anniversary of Dizzy games! We are glad to present a new long-awaited remake of Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, being developed duri…
... , actually. We will try to somehow achieve it, but can ... but you did it! Congratulations to all authors!
... The project indeed took more than 3 years to complete, and it's ... art knowledge development, 128k of memory, limitless budget and indefinite ...DEMO - board tactical rpgHello guys, i´ve been working (slowly) in the sequel to zxnights,for now i have a board type combat game ala heroes of might magic :),but have been t…
... opinion guys,it really needs to be simplified and have instructions ... got a clue of how to play that´s always a ... for ranged abilities only affect more than 1 tile away :)
Thinking about ...Problem with SPINAt YouTube theres a bloke called Darryl Sloan who is starting a tutorial series on machine code. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHlMpO8gqw I'm…
... rules to live by:
1. If you have to pay ... on protection to keep you safe rather than just using ... viruses moving from computer to computer by either infected ... firewall and defender) are more than adequate. Add to this some sensible practices ...Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …
... will release the results ready to merge with ZXDB.
... that game to that tosec file.
6. If more than 1 game with ... ; attach game to tosec file.
7. If more than one game with ... publisher found --> attach game to tosec file.
I ...How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…
... thought if I wrote more than a screen full it would simply ... without getting bogged down having to learn yet another program especially ... 3 months enough to embellish the story a bit more...but at ... have been doing my best to assimilate all this programming info ...The point of IX+1 IX+2 ?the numbers that you can add-on to IX and IY seem hardcoded, so I dont see the use of that feature? any examples of the use of IX and IY plus number…
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There is more than one way to do it. The method ... behaviour at runtime rather than having it compiled in ... two more bytes to be added to the struct to hold ... call IX then call IX+1
or if that ... /> JP IX then JP IX+1[/quote]
...A Neat Redefine Keys RoutinePreviously, I’ve only shared this routine with a couple of people via PM, but I’ve now decided to make it public. I optimized it for size, so it uses…
... 923901"]with additional bytes to hold things like proportional ... nothing even beginning to resemble modern-day memory protection, which would ...
Well, there’s more than one way to skin a cat. My ... again, it’s great to be able to borrow (read: shamelessly ...ZX Spectrum 48k PSU Vs ZX Spectrum 128k PSUHi Guys, A very straightforward and simple question :-). I am buying next days a ZX Spectrum 128k without PSU. I own already a ZX Spectrum 48k and I…
... with the 48K PSU rated 1.4A. However any additional load ... like an interface attached to the edge connector can overload ... not drain from the PSU more than 1.0A. As a permanent solution ... PSU for 128k (not easy to find) or go for a ...Other than using attributes what other ways to detect collisions, when using char based movement?So I'm slowly working out the bits and pieces to write a game completely in assembly. I've been using attributes when writing in BASIC to detect whet…
... set aside 768 bytes of memory somewhere? It's the 768 ... memory that stores a particular code for what is on the screen ... your table can be larger than the screen to allow for checking for ... edges of the screen, instead of constantly having to check your numbers ...1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... Treasure 100 points! Eat Food to Gain Health! Shots now hurt ... touted as a pseudo-sequel to Commando. Glad it wasn' ... 1987 that cost a lot more than £1.99, that weren't ... title that surpasses the £1.99 mark. I'd ... with that is also pointing to the right from the ...ZXombies : Dead FleshHi there, announcing my new speccy game for the latest ZxDev compo: [url="http://drive.google.com/open?id=1ausdZ4owVvkGJqMuyYecINUw_xMDjKBY"]drive…
works in spin and on ZxDs - it's a great game - and seems simple - yet I'm damned if I can survive long enough to save more than one person !What's everyone drinking?Since it's the weekend, i assume a lot of Wossers will be enjoying a drink or two. I'm enjoying a nice bottle of Miller. What's everyone drinking t…
[quote="zx1;933071"]A nice cold bottle of Coors Light.[/quote]
Don't have more than 1 of those unless you want a stinking headache, and that's before you even go to sleep ;)EmulatorsWe have the new emulators section working. The old link now sends you to the new list. [url="http://live.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek/emulators"]l…
Some of the links issue is a db bug, I'll get Lee to fix it. The Unreal Speccy Portable link does work. It looks like any entry which has more than 1 link has the links merged together but separated by ; so they get screwed upHow to download games to micro sd card to play on Sinclair zx spectrum vegaHello Could anyone tell me how to download games from a website to a micro sd card to play on a Sinclair zx spectrum vega , I mean do I use a emulat…
... UP;DOWN;LEFT;RIGHT;HOLD;1;S;2;A;B; ... to press to start the game. Some games have more than one button to press to ... S 1 here tells the unit to send keypresses S & 1 to ... s the other buttons - F, 1, 2, S - here we ... have set H, 1, 2, s
Finally ...MB03 UltimateDear ZX friends, you may have heard of MB-02+, probably the best disk interface for ZX Spectrum, originated back in the 90's. Although not much sp…
... (it is almost impossible to connect such an amount of ... - three memory card slots (every serious hardware should have more than one drive ... br /> - Wi-Fi (more than a connection to the big NET I ... of the MB03+ Ultimate to improve some documentation, please ...Finding a good (UK) external switch mode power supply for the basic 48k and 128k ZX SpectrumsThis idea has probably "done the rounds" by now . I think I have heard about it a bit late . This thread with look at replacing the original "heavy l…
... this:-
1) Because it is interesting to see how technology ... all are AC to DC !). There is more than one way to tackle it ... may be a bit more controversial than I at first realized ... course ( but are some better than others?)! In practice , users ...Looking for Chaos remake "Chaos Groove"The best Chaos remake is Chaos Groove but the homepage for it has become defunct. The version I had on my old hd before it became corrupted included …
... good may knock move down to 1 tile)
MAGIC RESISTANCE ... combat has to come down to 2. Mentally comparing it to a ... increases over movement. +1 move is worth WAY more than +1 combat or defense ... just get no TIME to defend yourself, to use all your available ...
