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Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…
... make something appear on both screens. And, when you do come ... (maybe swapped over to red and green, for brightness). Then ... each in the viewport, and the surrounding imagery being shared ... other scan-line (by alternating screens / colours every line) as ... -
Some information please :)Hi guys, A friend of mine just bought a 128K bundle with mostly budget games, but some books and a software that I really don't know much about. C…
... + books are an incomplete set, and BASIC programming books in general have ... for the less experienced user and there aren't any now ... , and books with type-in programs ... years late or highly priced and really crap. -
Identify more games ...Hi all, I apologize for using this forum to prop up my memory (I was very, very young when i had my Spectrum), but this is another one of those thin…
... ), sort by year and display in-game screens, and scroll through the screenshots ... -
Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…
... I looked at the board and noticed that one of the ... second the beep momentarily stops and the screen prints a ... installed): Speccy works fine and responds to keypresses and BASIC commands correctly. However ... ll check the voltages again and see if anything has ... -
Poorly Issue One 16k spectrum diagnosis?Hello, everyone. :smile: I was lucky enough to buy an Issue One 16k rubber key the other week; I didn't know it was an Issue One till I opened it up…
... second the beep momentarily stops and the screen prints a single ... installed): Speccy works fine and responds to keypresses and BASIC commands correctly. However ... -
SpellboundOUYA - an official Spellbound remakeWith David actively working on Finders Keepers+, now seems a pretty good time to mention this Spellbound remake, made with his kind permission and cr…
... lowly 48k+) and have been a Speccy user (and BASIC coder) since ... br /> I love simple (and in some cases beautiful) ... Spellbound with the original graphics and the original sounds, grab ...
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Official Basinc thread - Bug reports and other discussionI just released a new BASin fork, basinc. The first official release was V16r2, and today it's r3. it's uploaded to wos archive and alternatively, h…
... is combine ULAplus colors and the standard Spectrum palette ... scan line is drawn and BASIC is too slow to ... ULAplus with this precision and you may get a ... mix standard Spectrum behaviour and ULAplus within the same ... at the same time using BASIC. Having said that, ... -
Official Basinc thread - Bug reports and other discussionI just released a new BASin fork, basinc. The first official release was V16r2, and today it's r3. it's uploaded to wos archive and alternatively, h…
... is combine ULAplus colors and the standard Spectrum palette ... scan line is drawn and BASIC is too slow to ... at the same time using BASIC. Having said that, ... ;-)
Understood and your description of how real ... to be clear, with BASIC it is not possible ... -
Official Basinc thread - Bug reports and other discussionI just released a new BASin fork, basinc. The first official release was V16r2, and today it's r3. it's uploaded to wos archive and alternatively, h…
Help file and Basic Manual aren't working on my PC -Windows XP - Just shows the menu tree. Right hand pane shows Action Cancelled error. -
Official Basinc thread - Bug reports and other discussionI just released a new BASin fork, basinc. The first official release was V16r2, and today it's r3. it's uploaded to wos archive and alternatively, h…
[QUOTE=rune;777215]Help file and Basic Manual aren't working on my PC -Windows XP - Just shows the menu tree. Right hand pane shows Action Cancelled error.[/QUOTE]
Yep that is what I get but using Windows 7 64 bit.
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Test screens for ZX PrismNot sure that this is *really* the right section for this request, but it's relating to new hardware I'm developing so let's start it off here - a mo…
Do you mean that your "hardware gigascreen" is going to display one line on one field and the other on the other? If so that'll be a flickery mess :o
I assumed you would read the data from both screens and mix them to get a higher bittedness -
Donkey kong Jr II (...sort of)Well as my other games, this is another OPEN-AGD game not in its final form (I am not completely happy about the gfx) and there is a bug which mak…
so i changed the layout of those two buggy screens and things seem to work ...better now* check it out (version 80 in the DB folder)
* the bug is still there but at least if you need to restart, you will find yourself in a better position -
Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... a point and click game with static screens and puzzles inbetween. ... When she got it home and ... driving the right and left speakers and choice of spectrum ... boards out there and continue the software and firmware development ... -
The end of the SpectrumWhat year is generally considered to be the last year commercial software was sold nationally in shops and stores? I think I abandoned my Speccy in …
... the British home entertainment market and a further five years of ... of the Spectrum was forseen and 'prepared for' with software ... sensational (at the time) SNES and the release of the Playstation ... of sins behind BEEP music and BASIC programming - if it didn't ... -
Your Spectrum RegretsSpeccy things that you have done (or haven't done) and have regretted them since. Here's mine... (in no particular order). 1) Sold my Spectrum 128K…
... total non-existence of all and any of the precious ... child prodigies by impressed friends and family! (Hah - Toby's ... graphics, (crap) tunes, (crap) loading screens and (crap) crap that us average ... Joes once so carefully made, and then so carelessly lost, ... -
Your Spectrum RegretsSpeccy things that you have done (or haven't done) and have regretted them since. Here's mine... (in no particular order). 1) Sold my Spectrum 128K…
... total non-existence of all and any of the precious ... child prodigies by impressed friends and family! (Hah - Toby's ... graphics, (crap) tunes, (crap) loading screens and (crap) crap that us average ... Joes once so carefully made, and then so carelessly lost, ... -
Wii U game recommendationsJust treated myself to a Wii U with Mario Cart 8 (?199 new, couldn't resist) and I will be getting a small number of games for it. Zelda is a given …
... U Pro Controller - which looks and feels a lot like an ... play is compatible with it, and it can get a bit ... to incorporate stuff like status screens and reading the map to come ... up on the pad screen and (as far as I've ... -
improvements to gameshello while i playing a few spectrum games,i thought how better some games would be better with an improvement:- automania-128k tune,less grating t…
I'd love to see a re-imagining of Saboteur 2, ditching the girl and having the original ninja back. The sequel didn't feel as smooth, even on empty screens and some of the graphics and fighting looked crap.
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Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…
... it is an old thread and I'm digging things up ... time to time on harder screens and I was wandering quite a ... -
1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.
... adventure elements, and lots of bizarre screens and dangers, drawn with ... peculiar big and blocky ... and it's necessary to cross safely or more easily certain screens ... specific perils in specific screens - which one is ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…
... icon "8" (at the top) and tried to select a few ... fairly frequent operation when editing screens and attributes, so there should be ... 4 pixels instead of 8) and I could not find any ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…
... 8" (at the top) and tried to select a few ... frequent operation when editing screens and attributes, so there should ... pixels instead of 8) and I could not find ... way that raster steps and selectors >1 pixels ... selector 8x8, 16x16, 256x192 and, what's new - the ... -
Jet Set Willy Walkthrough with commentaryHi All My latest walkthrough is on your tube: [URL="http://youtu.be/tpTz70VawVo"]http://youtu.be/tpTz70VawVo[/URL] This time it is Jet Set Willy, w…
... the C64 was fairly awful (and inexplicably so) but it was ... 't even get past simple screens like The Hall due to ... thumbs up to the conversion and describe it as "good". Words ... me. They play a few screens and clearly aren't familiar with ... -
games that you liked then but not nowE.g. Action Biker As a 10 year old it felt cool to ride around a town and go in the houses. But now it wouldn't be enjoyable.
... from the sides of the screens and the different levels had different ... -
Game of Life.Last year (I think) or maybe the year before, I entered a Game of Life simulator into the CSS CGC compo but for the Sinclair ZX81. I decided to port…
... be extending the number of screens vertically instead of horizontally, ... across the 9 screens was identified as type 0; and any new ... an opposite edge, and was thus "outside" the 9 screens, was identified ... b] across the same 9 screens and thus need no extra space ... -
Megatree DevelopmentHi All, I have been messing around with developing a concept for the unwritten game Megatree. Here is a video of what I have so far written on a 48…
... Megatree interview web site. Scrolling screens and so forth. -
Robot SantaAlien Ferox has grown beyond what could be accomplished on a humble Speccy - i've run out of memory AND ideas so that's indefinitely halted. BUT In…
... but this one feels natural, and I like the way you ... what was a solid platform and what wasn't, but I ... after traversing a couple of screens and it seemed very logical after ... can start a bit quickly and it only takes a millisecond ... -
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…
... blog. Really like the comparison screens and sprite sheets.
Constructive ... -
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…
... blog. Really like the comparison screens and sprite sheets.
... /> Thanks 4throck for the comment, and all the constructive criticism is ... the blog about a month and a half ago, when ... colour is a bit distracting, and frankly, makes too much work ... -
New Game: Escape from Colony 8[I]I can't really tell what happened, when they first attacked our base or where they came from, but Colony 8 is lost. My only chance is to get to ha…
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A bit too short and easy.
I hardly needed ... enemies on the screen 48k and twelve on 128k.
I ... . I was aiming at 24 screens and I could only fit 16 ... enemy, the map is "open" and not level based (not good ...
