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Had enoughAfter approaching another weekend full of enthusiasm towards WoS and how it's heading, and spending most of it fighting spam and online abuse, I have…
... do you write an OS and BASIC for a computer if the ... -
New loading screen for DRAGON'S LAIRHi, The original screen: [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2616449/spectrum/dragonslair1.png[/img] And my version: [img]https://dl.dro…
... on another thread last week and now here is the improved ... am I? :) You create excellent screens and I get so much enjoyment ... -
Had enoughAfter approaching another weekend full of enthusiasm towards WoS and how it's heading, and spending most of it fighting spam and online abuse, I have…
... ...and just generally being ****.
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Yeah, I find the BASIC group interesting as well (mainly ... because I am terrible at BASIC). As for the Z80 ... be honest, both the Z80 and BASIC groups seem to have a ... -
Fred or Sir Fred?[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001858"]Fred[/url] [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004518"]Sir Fre…
... a bloke he worked with and Fred was on it. I ... is go to about 4 screens and I get stuck. -
1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
... www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/e/Equinox. ... objects you find scattered around - and, of course, shooting or ... 2D arcade/adventure with flip-screens, and nice sound too, one of ... www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/e/gif/Equinox. ... -
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: …
Hi, I would be happy to start saving the loading screens and in game screens for the newer games if that would help. -
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: …
... thread could be copied and pasted into, say, ... with suitable field names and then imported into ZXDB. ... saving the loading screens and in game screens for the newer ... you want to collect screens, that's fine too ... collection is mainly GIFs and not SCRs. Maybe I ... -
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: …
About in-game screens, is there a standard format ... , why not SCR for loading screens, and PNG (or GIF) for in ... -game screens ?
Just another tought ... games having many in-game screens (one per level...) can be ... -
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: …
... ="4throck;878977"]About in-game screens, is there a standard format ... , why not SCR for loading screens, and PNG (or GIF) for in ... -game screens ?[/quote]
See my ... games having many in-game screens (one per level...) can be ... -
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: …
I'd maybe recommend SCR for loading screens and PNG for any in-game screens then. JPG for inlays and stuff only. -
1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
... .worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/b/BumpSetSpike. ... much practiced on Spectrum's screens, and not a very good ... destination, keep fire pressed and move the crosshair where you ... www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/b/gif/BumpSetSpike. ... -
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…
... one line on one field and the other on the other ... read the data from both screens and mix them to get a ... - it reads data from both screens and blends the colours together nicely ... looking like a horrible mess (and no, I didn't take ... -
Javascript online SCR viewer / converterHi all, I've written a Javascript based .SCR viewer. [url="http://www.4throckworld.com/dev/scr_to_canvas/"]http://www.4throckworld.com/dev/scr_t…
... palettes. Let's say black and white. There's no GIF ... could do it computing two screens and adding some JS... -
Compressed Loading ScreensHi everybody From my speccy memories I could swear I could remember games with loading screens that took less than normal time to load. But up until…
... games that have new loading screens, and this utility really does help ... -
Fuse for Mac OS X 1.3.0 ReleasedA new version of Fuse for Mac OS X has been released at the dedicated sourceforge project: [url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-for-macosx/"…
... Fuse for Mac OS X and is untested - feedback from users ... just goes South (quite literally) and BASIC gets a spam of COPY ... -
1986 Best Loading Screen: from D to F.Vote, vote, vote your top five among these delightful loading screens from 1986, this round is from D to F, yes, F again because it occured to me tha…
... horizon is a nice touch, and although it's not particularly ... nicely, but has amateurish spaceships, and [i]Donkey Kong[/i], which ... attempt to use colour too. And [i]Footballer of the Year ... 't the most ambitious of screens and could be better, but it ... -
1986 Best Loading Screen: from M to N.The M to N group kicks off. What are your [b]favourites fives[/b] among these? Remember, the two most voted, [i]at least[/i], will go to the final …
Nightmare Rally
Movie
Nautilus
Molecule Man
Napoleon At War
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Graphics program in AssemblyHi so I think I'm getting the hang of this so I've done this program. It writes directly to the screen. I'm using ZX Spin. [code] LD HL,16384 LD B,…
... ) To start with, the ROM and BASIC interpreter will have put the ... at the top of the BASIC area, where it should have ... of returning to BASIC.
(3) CALLs and interrupts actually put ... POP.
(5) PUSH and POP are actually quicker than ... -
Anyone played all games at WOS?Are there anyone who has download ALL games at WOS and played them all ? The best of course if there was any who has done this crazy thing, if they h…
... /. I bought v2 in PDF and also v3 divided in three ... books in the Deluxe Edition, and is a really great written ... ones, with screenshots, mini reviews and basic information for each game.
and he answered me that it ... -
Anyone played all games at WOS?Are there anyone who has download ALL games at WOS and played them all ? The best of course if there was any who has done this crazy thing, if they h…
... /. I bought v2 in PDF and also v3 divided in three ... books in the Deluxe Edition, and is a really great written ... ones, with screenshots, mini reviews and basic information for each game.
and he answered me that it ... -
Manic Miner RunHi, For fun I started developing a iOS game based on Manic Miner. It is a left to right runner. I don't even know if it would get through the Appl…
... was still flick screen, and it was done with ... effect using invalid arrows, and then when I realized that ... 'd added to the screens a few 8x8 blocks ... but that used too many screens and way too many sprites, ... ditched the fancy stuff, and took the easy way ... -
The flash feature (graphics attr)Flash feature on speccy is not an artist-friendly thing. But sometimes it is useable... Do you know any good use of flash in games? For example I re…
... Taisho. Also used pretty literally (and liberally) in Buggy Blast, although ... is sometimes used in loading screens and the like to shape the ... -
Updating a WoS Entry...Hi all, ltns... As many of you know, my previous ID on here was TechnicianSi; under that ID I uploaded a couple of JSW clones, one of which was fe…
... have folders full of unfinished and knackered versions of JSW that ... Show, watched the JSW section and the chap who does it ... a copy, fired up JSWED and found it was a bloody ... lol, then went through the screens and found 2 more; all game ... -
New Game: "Willy Games: The First 30 Years Quiz"I am pleased to announce the release of a brand-new game for the ZX Spectrum 128: "[b]Willy Games: The First 30 Years Quiz[/b]". It is a multiple…
... would've done certain screens from their games with ... with clever ideas for screens and write them down incase ... originally released the Down and Out Trilogy. I started ... from back then, and even the newer guys ... so many patch vectors, and changes to your engines ... -
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: …
... of work ending up, and how do you see ... keen on adopting it, and if he doesn't change ... problem in this forum and have them manually fixed ... support for loading screens and in-game screens of every Spectrum ... for each Spectrum game (and later use the API promised ... -
JSW vs Manic Minerpoll time, which one do you prefer? its weird, nearly every time Id choose 'complete-the-level, time limit, arcadey platform' style games over adv…
MM had more defined screens and challenges, but the linear approach makes it easier for me to get bored quickly.
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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…
... with what look like displays, screens
and such, each with its ... in the next glasses and bottles, and you just move a hand ... to scroll around, and followed my sprite, and attempted again at ... fantastic features of the original and push'em even further: ... -
c compiler benchmarkingI am going to have access to a number of commercial z80 compilers for a time for benchmarking, namely Hitech C v750 MSDOS (abandoned when Hitech was …
... that copying memory about and shifting/rotating values would ... by the way, and stuff like sprites, screens and input is quick ... movement logic (for monsters), and collision detection (for the player ... both require array manipulation, and logic manipulation. What I ... -
What's the Speccy's equivalent of Atari's E.T.?E.T. has long been associated as one of the worst games - if not the worst game for the Atari 2600. I wondered, is there an equivalent for the Specc…
... gave it a fair shake and it was actually quite good ... that it was written in BASIC was the biggest letdown, as ... was trying to do animation and battles and BASIC just couldn't handle ... with the speed jacked up and that evens it out quite ...
