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  • Q on Gauntlet 3.Hey ... I have a working copy of Gauntlet 3 for Atari ST (STEEM emu) and have been working on a map for the ST version. I DLed all 3 of the Gauntlet…

    ... load as far as the "Flip to side B" and when ... ... it gives me a black screen/reset either right at the ... I almost immediately get black screen/reset.

    I blame ...
    Skarpo Skarpo April 2005 Games
  • Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …

    ... />
    [code]
    Level 1 Screen 1 Boulder Dash
    Level ... Railway Journeys
    Level 2 Screen 2 The Bommerang
    ... Unloading Station
    Level 3 Screen 2 Chuckie Bomb
    ... fall through the hole, the screen should flip, and hopefully land on ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous April 2005 Games
  • Technical ExcellenceI don't know if I'm covering old ground here, forgive me if I am... I'm interested to find out what you all think was technically the best spectrum …

    Lords of Midnight/Doomdarks revenge for me. Fitting that huge world into 48k was an amazing feat.

    The precursor to all those flip screen RPGs.
    beanz beanz July 2005 Games
  • wouldnt it be good if:I know that some guy basicly said he waqs going to do what Im suggesting here but anyway: I was thinking and worring about the future of the spectrum…

    ... 48K model add a flip up colour LCD screen just like on ...
    Specboy Specboy September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…

    ... of code for the 3 screen areas almost instantaneously, though it ... could move almost the entire screen in about a frame (1 ... second). To perform a "flip" of the screen, using a second buffer ... /> Regarding the swapping of the screen areas, it would have to ...
    icabod icabod February 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... draw a sprite to the screen, say the top left hand ... say "Use 49152 for the screen".

    So is this ... to 49152
    Then "Flip" the screen to 49152
    Write to ... 16384
    Then "Flip" the screen back to 16384

    robpearmain robpearmain February 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... 49152, the screen is black when I flip (Is this ... rampage)
    xor 8 ; flip screen bit
    ld (rampage), ... call PageRam ; effects the flipped screen

    ld a ...
    robpearmain robpearmain February 2006 Development
  • Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…

    ... Invaders with bats, and a flip-screen layout. It's called, "Dracula ...
    Graz Graz February 2006 Development
  • name the game, possibly hard.you are a roller skate going round a maze, avoiding holes in the floor.

    ... The Game) - jungle, amulet, caves, flip screen maze, wulf
    Jet Set ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton February 2006 Games
  • Combined remakes!If you wanted to save time and effort by remaking two (or more?) games at once, what would you do? :) My ideas so far are: Jet Set Wheelie -- Ride …

    ... 's a Complete bastard
    (Flip-screen affair where none of the ...
    Graz Graz March 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... I gather it's a flip-screen maze type thing.


    - Screen graphics could be stored as ... the edge of the screen. An entire screen could be called with ... things are going on on-screen.

    - Background tiles ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... play area.
    Or would flip screen still work? I think not ...
    Kiwi Kiwi April 2006 Development
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... :-)

    [QUOTE]Or would flip screen still work? I think not ... of zelda - links awakening) is flip screen, and it plays great. perhaps ... then be worth going for flip screen on the speccy, if it ...
    Lee_dC Lee_dC April 2006 Development
  • Zelda cloneHi all you Zelda fans! This game has been moved from the Wanted: Game Ideas! thread because it seems to have enough people interested in helping wit…

    ... start on a tile based flip-screen engine, such as the SabreWulf ...
    Kiwi Kiwi May 2006 Development
  • Graphics : CPC -> SpectrumOk my CPC game is nowhere near done (the actual coding for the CPC hasn't even begun yet as I'm still preparing enough graphics and animation and doi…

    [QUOTE=Wolverine]Hope that looks ok to you Spectrum people. I better leave this for now and get back onto the CPC version.[/QUOTE]

    Is this flip screen or scrolling?
    Sadako Sadako May 2006 Development
  • Graphics : CPC -> SpectrumOk my CPC game is nowhere near done (the actual coding for the CPC hasn't even begun yet as I'm still preparing enough graphics and animation and doi…

    ... best scrollers like Gryzor into flip-screens on CPC :((([/QUOTE]
    flip screen on the spectrum he could ...
    Sadako Sadako May 2006 Development
  • Speccy 128k Double Buffering.If I understand this right, you display either of the screens, and draw to the one that is not being displayed. Am i right in thinking that the Non …

    ... how useful a second viewable screen is for this, given that ... somewhere else before you flip from one screen to the next. It ... position while manipulating the secondary screen, so you won't show ... a half-processed screen just because the drawing routine ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain May 2006 Development
  • ZX Game Book UpdateHi all... For various unrelated reasons the time I have for editing has been limited to weekends, but I'm still plugging away. I have created 'fi…

    ... of mine - but Rex's screen layouts and graphics are just ... left with an awesome tactical flip-screen shooter, which still amazes me ...
    48K 48K August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What effect would you most like to seeJust wondering, what with the fact that it seems to be 1983 all over again and more and more new games coming out, what feature, thing or special eff…

    ... and converted it into a flip screen then it would have looked ... might have played wrong in flip screen.

    H-Horace, yeah ...
    CKay CKay September 2006 Games
  • Speccy Tour 2006 candidate gamesAs an organizer of this tournament, I'd like to know what people think about games we propose this year as candidates to be part of this tournament's…

    ... , look at them - we have 'flip-screen'-er Saboteur, then there is ... 'single screen' Snowman, '3D isometric' (platform in ... forward 3D' Eliminator vs 'single screen' Cabal vs 'save-em up ...
    Alex_Lux Alex_Lux September 2006 Games
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... a lot more colours on screen with no clash.

    flip-screen to cope, as opposed to ... sprites you can have on screen -- most spec games, eg, don ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Unknown gemsBeen a few similar-ish threads in the past but the forum seems quiet, can people post some of their favourite 'not so famous' games ? Thanks to WO…

    ... really good (but very difficult) flip-screen arcade game which isn't ...
    Malc74 Malc74 October 2006 Games
  • Nintendo Game and WatchDoes anybody remember the Nintendo Game and Watch games? [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_&_Watch[/url] I used to have this little beauty her…

    I used to have Donkey Kong and Mario Bombs Away on those colour flip screen versions.

    They go for quite a bit on e-bay.
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2006 Chit chat
  • 128k Page FlippingOver on adverts, AOwen wrote the following: [quote=aowen]The trick, as I understand it, is to redraw the whole screen each time at #c000, but point…

    ... />
    So, simple test to flip between 4000h and C000h
    ; Set bank to 7 and screen to 0
    ld a ...
    robpearmain robpearmain December 2006 Development
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... .g. no floor graphics, flip screen instead of scroll screen ). If I can ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong December 2006 Development
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... .g. no floor graphics, flip screen instead of scroll screen)[/QUOTE]

    Quazar Quazar December 2006 Development
  • Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …

    ... to flip the two pages into memory to write to a screen ... page 31) is default as screen 1 on startup.
    < ... really set 28 for a screen as DOS sits in ... trying to copy from one screen to another ... the only ... someone wanted to use a screen they have to call a ...
    Quazar Quazar January 2007 Development
  • Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …

    ... bit of memory above the screen memory ( yes, I reference count ... have a foremost screen, and a back buffer, which flip when I ... VMPR register to change which screen is being displayed.
    Quazar Quazar January 2007 Development
  • Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …

    ... passed.

    ( note: the screen that is paged in to ... of the sprite page
    - - Flip to the sprite page and ... as needed
    - VSYNC - active screen is now back buffer, previous ... active screen will be back buffer
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong January 2007 Development
  • Book on Spectrum game graphicsWhat Spectrum games graphics would you like to see in a book? I've got some of the obvious ones (Head Over Heels, Batman games, Ultimate games, Wally…

    ... /> Gyron

    [U][B]Flip-Screen:[/B][/U]
    Exolon
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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