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Scrolling string variablesCan anyone help me with this for a program I'm writing on the spectrum. There was a command in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variab…
... basic that would let you scroll a string variable left or right ... it?
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LET A$="ABCDEFG"
followed by this ... command would leave A$ then containing "GABCDEF" or " ... command might have been LET A$=A$+some expression, or something like ... -
Name the game, please :-)Hi! This is for a friend: he's 90% sure it was a Speccy game, but it could be for MSX. he says it's Gauntlet style, multiplayer. he played as an ar…
... 90% sure it was a Speccy game, but it ... from up. It was a sideview, like Ghosts'n ... br /> he remembers a stage with a castle wall at the background, ... the character walking a path, and a ... wrong and it isn't a Speccy game.
New Spectrum Game by CEZ!!--Ragnablock--We are happy to announce the release of a new Spectrum Game!! The game is titled "Ragnablock", it's a brick-breaker with several interesting new feat…
... is titled "Ragnablock", it's a brick-breaker with several interesting new ...How can this work?You know how in realistic science-fiction (realistic as in obeying the accepted laws of physics), books and films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, spac…
... films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, space stations ... if you put, say, a brick into a carrier bag and swing ... it around in a circle, then the brick is pulled "outwards ... is due to the brick first pressing to the ... the bag around, and the brick is [B]never[/B] ...Caught By The Hot Fuzz ** Spoilers **I just came back from seeing Hot Fuzz an hour ago and it's brilliant - just what you'd expect from Simon Pegg, really. :) There are loads of really g…
... gory scenes including a really bloody scene where a reporter's head ... gets impaled by part of a church wall. Timothy Dalton is brilliant ...Second LifeHad to install second life in computer labs at work today although I'd never played it before in my life. Inevitably I started playing it myself - i…
... previously annonced it on WoS a while back).
I ... instead of being stuck on a museum wall. Maybe it's because ...Potteries Arf MarathonWell it's the potteries arf(half) marathon today, gave up smoking 5 weeks ago and started training for it. I must admit I'm shitting a brick for some…
... must admit I'm shitting a brick for some reason even though ... and I'm hoping at a steady pace I can do ...border graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…
... in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower ... the last 2 char lines a different colour when I change ... , just curious because obv. the "scroll" seems to be in the ...RetroEuskal 2010 ReportWell, RE'10 is now over, and I'm bloody knackered :-) However, there's enough time before my brain shuts down to write a quick event report... Retro…
... did at least have a glass wall so anyone who may ... anniversary. This takes place on a magnetic board. Visitors to ... video game project, a clone of "Spacewar!" was a commercial failure. ...
Alfonso Azpiri also did a book signing session, in conjunction ...New Game: Climbing ManA few years ago I created a solo boardgame that simulated in a way, climbing a rock wall. It was roughly based on the rock climbing sections of the c…
... that simulated in a way, climbing a rock wall. It was ... Chamonix Challenge), a game I loved as a kid which btw ... system and is available as a free download (see [ ... vacation I've created a ZX Spectrum version of ... . My first one was a dice game conversion, Space ...Modern Warfare - Spooky GunshipI'd love to see a version of this on the speccy - u know the one, your in the aircraft circling above a unit of men u have to protect using only the …
I'd love to see a version of this on the ... in the aircraft circling above a unit of men u have ... I could figure how to scroll a map smoothly I might have ...Question about wiring up ethernet at homeWell, since WoS is the best forum I know for technical folk, I wondered if I could get a sanity check on my wiring plan for laying some ethernet cabl…
... ethernet has always been a bit of a mystery to me ... to wall mounted network sockets, so it's a very ... is how to have a halfway permanent and ... the short temporary cables with a more permanent solution.
a network wall socket as a coupler without messing ...Weird 'semi-crash' I used to be able to make the 48k speccy do.I've always wondered about this (but I seem unable to recreate it at the moment). I used to be able to get the Speccy to display some weird screen o…
... screen of junk by pressing a combination of keys. It went ... pressed enter it would display a screen of garbage that started ... some other junk. It would scroll a couple of times and then ... : Nonsense in BASIC', you pressed a key and it was gone ...JSWED 2.2 probs,gutted!With an head full of game ideas i have been working away with my first one `Pip The Pipistrelle` about a young bat blown from a roost from the top of…
... from the top of a brick tower who has to climb ... death..but i have encountered a problem. I have converted ... the toilet (JSW) is a place where pip hangs upside ... using JSWED 2.2,with a jsw file converted and ... so anyway has anybody had a similar problem with the ...Russian point and click game?Does anyone know what happened to that Russian point and click adventure game that was ported over from the PC? I cant remember the name but there wa…
Does anyone know what happened to that Russian point and click adventure game that was ported over from the PC? I cant remember the name but there was an animated gif of a collection of screens and one of them had a talking wall inside a house! :)car crash scammersthis infuriated me on the news just now [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21473080[/url] 10 years for someone's life for fraud ? I'd…
... /> I used to speak with a friend of my sister who ... 's built like a brick out house..and seems a tough guy.. but ...Games with reflections in (i.e. with working mirrors)On another forum, the question arose of why modern games mostly don't have reflective mirrors, when they have almost every other visual effect you co…
... the ray intersects with with a wall, it traces the distance the ... Build Engine, is just a wall flagged as a mirror, which sends incoming ... back in a new direction and thereby hitting a new wall. The total ... plus length from mirror-to-wall) is calculated and the ...BIFROST* for graphic artists - part 2: static tilesThis tutorial provides some guidelines for designing multicolor tiles. Before reading this text, it's strongly recommended that you (re-)read [URL="h…
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Fortunately there's a trick to minimize background restrictions ... fine in this game, since wall tiles are almost only used ... area (giving the impression of a continuous wall), and boxes are not ... a problem since there's usually ...Pseudo-3D map renderingHave been mulling this over for a while, until that isometric thread prompted me to ask. I'm not sure if this is officially classed as 2D, 2.5D, or 3…
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Can anyone suggest a way of (a) storing tiles and (b ... is currently obscured behind a low wall. If the sprite in ... he is he'd hit a wall, but moving up slightly ... or one in the back wall), or it could be ... solid wall, for example.
...MORE TREASURE FOUND !Yes you Spectrumites out there -this should make your Weekend ...... FOR SALE:- * ZX SPEC 128K +3 (w/the floppydisc drive)and multiface3 adaptor at…
... sinclair +3 powerpack ( size of a brick ! )
* joystick
offers ...Best DS model for ZXDS?I'm toying with the idea of selling bits of my retro collection... which, despite being trimmed down a few years back to just Spectrum and Vectrex st…
... , despite being trimmed down a few years back to just ... use of. I had a brick DS a few years back, but ... br />
Will probably purchase a second-hand unit, and as ... exchange (there's a Saturn with a few famous titles...) ... to cough up for a 3DS only to find ...New game released: EXPLORER<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Courier New';">- EXPLORER -</span></div><div><span style="font-si…
... POKE 23692,0 to scroll vertically the whole screen. ... including an Assembly routine to scroll a screen window, in order ... has been accomplished, a flag denoting a completed mission is ... Default controls are compatible with a cursor-joystick:LEFT = 5 ...Dandy - Hacking lvl 6 needed, please.So, I've always wondered what's in the top right corner of level 6 of Dandy. I don't recall there being a fake wall or a door. But I wonder if som…
... t recall there being a fake wall or a door. But I ... wonder if someone here with a ... that you have acquired over a very long career, skills ... that make you a nightmare for level edits like ... wonder if you could take a look see and let ...2 scrolling linesHow would you draw, delete and scroll a 2 line landscape? [img]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/scramblines_zpsw0r2joew.png…
... would you draw, delete and scroll a 2 line landscape?
a lower overhead than a regular, full screen ... Penetrator is a bad example screenshot, as it does scroll the whole ... screen, but I think others must use a ...Question about the Lords of Midnight map.I seem to remember that the game was advertised as having a massive map with 32768 views. Well, that corresponds with a map of (about) 64x64 cells, …
... game was advertised as having a massive map with 32768 views ... .
Well, that corresponds with a map of (about) 64x64 cells ... map? Is there a big wall, an impassable forrest, a river, does it ...Millipede invasion.It feels like an early 80s video game come true, the back of my home is teeming with millipedes. I found 17 millipedes in my finished basement, I wen…
... the corner there is a long wall under by deck that is ...Most precious thing you own.Sentimental journey. What thing you own is most precious to you. It could be a faded brown memento mori from a long gone Victoriana maiden. A let…
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It could be a faded brown memento mori from ... a long gone Victoriana maiden. A letter from a lovely love ... dunno! A stuffed parakeet. A witches promise. A lock of hair. A brick you found ... br />
Do you have a a special precious?Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... true that the Spectrum had a faster processor it isn't ... sprites and could also scroll a screen in a way that wasn't ... possible on a Spectrum. I don't recall ... seeing a single Spectrum game that had ...Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... itself requires more information on a Spectrum when compared to the ... against Spectrum's ability to scroll a screen, even if it does ... affect performance quite a bit.
My main ... wasted whenever you want to scroll a screen.
/LarsYour favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... hard to calculate where a sprite should be drawn ... br /> I found that popping a lookuptable from the stack was ... whether you use a good or a bad solution to ... If you wanted to scroll a screen at the same ... real possibilities of making a playable game that was ...
