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  • place to download games...does any one know a good site to download old Genesis and SNES games? now that I've got a joypad, there are some games I've always wanted to try... I…

    ... a platform game and horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, complete with ... amazingly violent, considering that the basic idea is in line with ...
    ToxieDogg ToxieDogg October 2008 Chit chat
  • what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…

    ... hardware to handle sprites and scrolling as well as tile graphics ... things you can do in BASIC. I'd guess that the ... , at least at 2D sprite/scrolling games and the very best ...
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... I tried to do a basic version. It was intended for ... and now handles

    scrolling of screen with adding and ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2008 Games
  • A scrolling starfield - help needed!I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but…

    ... , here is a 4-way scrolling version of the program.
    BASIC.

    The stars go ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2008 Development
  • BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…

    ... developing my own scr2udg in Basic, I knew it would be ... Bloodbaz, was to allow screen scrolling (with wrap) vertically and horizontally ...
    zxbruno zxbruno December 2008 Emulators
  • BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…

    ... developing my own scr2udg in Basic, I knew it would be ... Bloodbaz, was to allow screen scrolling (with wrap) vertically and horizontally ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2008 Emulators
  • I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?

    You are asking very basic question, so my answer also ... will be very basic, assuming you don't have ... when the whole background is scrolling) are usually called [B]tiles ...
    Ralf Ralf December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?

    ... ;324132]You are asking very basic question, so my answer also ... will be very basic, assuming you don't have ... when the whole background is scrolling) are usually called [B]tiles ...
    Lockett Lockett December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... to remember how to program BASIC again, and just how slow ... whilst doing BASIC programming to toggle between max speed scrolling through a ... huge BASIC line and normal ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2008 Games
  • Hi-colour gamesDoes anyone remember some of the games that used something called Ho-colour? Like the options page on the Agent X games, and a few others. If memory …

    ... took forever to render in BASIC, but I don't remember ... circles image, and it was scrolling the "Rasterbars" verticaly. Looks amazing ...
    LCD LCD February 2009 Games
  • Successor to the SpeccyBased on the rambling on the other thread it would be interesting to see what people felt was the 'spiritual' successor to the speccy. Amiga here....

    ... had faster and smoother parallax scrolling than ST SotB. My ... code routines did full 320x200 scrolling on two planes, with another ... address of the screen ('synch scrolling'). That's what [I] ... pixel-scrolls vertically (on the basic ST, you could hardware scroll ...
    joefish joefish May 2009 Chit chat
  • Nice Graphics seduce innocent reviewerWas downloading a few more games to have a whirl on today and came across LIGHTFORCE. Remember this getting smashed by Crash and getting pretty much …

    ... thought LF was awful. Jerky scrolling and character moving sprites.
    BASIC games? Tell me. I need ...
    frobush frobush May 2009 Games
  • R-TypeTell ya what, R-Type was an amazing bit of programming. Just re-watched the rzx of it. Stunning.:-o

    Ahem...
    The scrolling might be smooth and the sprites colourful but they move by one charactersquare at time. Is it programmed in basic or what? :lol:
    MinerWilly MinerWilly August 2009 Games
  • R-TypeTell ya what, R-Type was an amazing bit of programming. Just re-watched the rzx of it. Stunning.:-o

    ... =MinerWilly;376501]Ahem...
    The scrolling might be smooth and the ... time. Is it programmed in basic or what? :lol:[/QUOTE]No ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Games
  • La Abadia Del Crimea - The definitive pollOn a scale of 1 to 10, vote on the score you think LADC deserves. Try and be honest at it while you can. ;) EDIT: This poll is effective for 2 week…

    ... , resembling more a bad taste BASIC-coded joke than a commercial ... advanced hardware (the same CPU scrolling routines were used instead of ...
    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 August 2009 Games
  • Colour clash on the Commode64?Was there any? Every now and again, I see a screen shot like this... [img]http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/j/jack_the_nipper_02.gif[/i…

    [QUOTE=AndyC;385689]Still, scrolling was easily the weak point ... didn't they add some basic scroll registers to ULA when ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat September 2009 Chit chat
  • Colour clash on the Commode64?Was there any? Every now and again, I see a screen shot like this... [img]http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/j/jack_the_nipper_02.gif[/i…

    ... didn't they add some basic scroll registers to ULA when ... per machine to add hardware scrolling to the SAM Coupe was ... -bit machine desperate for hardware scrolling, that was certainly it.
    AndyC AndyC September 2009 Chit chat
  • Amiga or Atari STWhich system did you like the most ??? My person fave was the Amiga as i had loads of fun on it with games like Star Dust, Supr Frog, Speedball 2 an…

    ... most versions of Basic, when you download scrolling games don't ... a scrolling game engine at 50 or 60 fps in BASIC ... did Amiga type scrolling etc without hardware scrolling or hardware sprites ... a speccy lover that hardware scrolling and sprites does not ...
    CKay CKay October 2009 Chit chat
  • Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…

    ... the MSX fairly crap at scrolling, an operation involving a full ... from the fact that the BASIC system reads the keyboard in ... routine doesn't run and BASIC will not see any key ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2009 Development
  • ZX81 more powerful than the Speccy?I have been reading ?The ZX Spectrum Book 1982 - 199x? by Andrew Rollings (thanks again, Andrew - it?s a great read!). There are some comments in the…

    ... language on the Speccy and BASIC was a high level language ... vector games, isometric games or scrolling games at all! The Speccy ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2010 Games
  • More questions to ponder/argue/ignore as you wish...Just copying some stuff to a memory stick, and I found some old questions I'd intended to post on these forums to provoke debate, that I'd never got …

    ... have to wait for the scrolling text message in R-Type ... , the A.I. was very basic, you could go inside almost ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2010 Chit chat
  • Spectrum v Amstrad CPC rangeAmstrad seemed to be a rather late starter in the 8 bit micro computer race. I never really saw one outside a shop, only a few people at school had o…

    ... for the basic FLI.

    Anyway, with hardware scrolling taking away ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG April 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New game out now: Final Fantasy ZXEver since I played the games on the SNES, I thought that it should be possible to make a strapped-down version for the Speccy. Just minus any super …

    ... 128k if it stays as basic as FF1 was, especially if ... it looks as basic as on my mock-up ... masks... Very possible. Using Delta scrolling (scrolls only updated sprites) will ...
    LCD LCD April 2010 Games
  • Which two games show the progress made over the lifetime of the SpectrumJust voted for Batty on the free cover-tape poll. It made me think of the massive leap from thru the wall in 1982 to Batty in 1987. Which game fro…

    ... moves from single screen to scrolling map, BASIC to machine code, and ...
    Matt_B Matt_B April 2010 Games
  • Crap games that you fondly rememberCant remember if this ones been done before tbh, but we always have classic games threads so heres one slightly different :P what crapper games do yo…

    ... spoiled since by Joffa's scrolling.

    Not sure if ... with it nowadays. Still, the basic play mechanic of getting into ...
    joefish joefish June 2010 Games
  • TIMEX 2048: anybody can convert GIGASCREEN?Hi. Timex 2048 has stable GigaScreen (no flickering at all). I know there are several big TC2048 fans on the Forum. Could anybody write a viewe…

    ... the screen or have background scrolling this would be an issue ... entry HunchBack '08 written in BASIC at [url]http://reptonix.awardspace ...
    Fred Fred August 2010 Development
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... how you can improve ZX BASIC to support the better hardware ... Basic 4 extensions as these include :
    [LIST]
    [*]Screen shifting/scrolling ... Would some of the SAM BASIC enhancements be useful to use ... hard pressed to beat BBC BASIC VI. However I believe ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... to ensure that whatever BASIC your planning, likewise allows ... that would give speccy BASIC programmers a starting point ... ,
    Full screen Hardware scrolling commands.
    Bob and ... way... Perhaps some included BASIC commands for generating similar menu ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games that stood out because of playabilityThey might have had horrendous blinking graphics and non existent sound but some games just [B]oozed [/B]gameplay. I would like to nominate a few ga…

    ... .

    It was pretty basic stuff but i liked it ... 't it written in BASIC with machine code scrolling?), but it had ...
    Vampyre Vampyre August 2010 Games
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... raw bitmaps when printing or scrolling large bits of text. This ... an editor or when running BASIC applications that focus mainly ... .

    Finally, Sinclair BASIC and every aspect of the ... Compare and contrast with Locomotive BASIC on the Amstrad CPC for ...
    AndyC AndyC August 2010 Games
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