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The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in Pixels - Book Review[IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mYciLoMYyuI/VMd_Z4t09CI/AAAAAAAAR_k/kcODLPHGOWA/s1600/main.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]There was something the ZX Spectrum had o…
... the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in pixels'.[/QUOTE]
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Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…
... machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen.
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Ninjaman 8-way scrolling 50Hz multicolour demo :-)Here's a demo I've been working on for a while. The goal was to make the best scrolling routine possible on a humble 48K ZX Spectrum. I was origin…
... was to make the best scrolling routine possible on a humble ... /> - 50Hz redraw
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[BOOKS] The Story Of The Sinclair ZX Spectrum in Pixels + 2 othersI'm having a clear out and have 3 speccy-related books for sale: The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in Pixels by Chris Wilkins (RRP £19.99) S…
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Various retro gaming books (Spectrum in Pixels, Commpendium books, others)For sale on Amibay: http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?79730-The-Story-of-the-ZX-Spectrum-in-Pixels-Volumes-1-2-and-3 http://www.amibay.com/s…
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Pixels, the Spectrum and the Meaning of Life!Imagine a computer running a program that systematically changes 1 pixel at a time and runs until it's shown every possible combination of pixels. If…
... shown every possible combination of pixels. If you watched the whole ... Spectrum and black-and-white pixels only, would this mean that ... of 176 different configurations of pixels? That's quite a big ... -
How would you approach parallax?So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then s…
... tiles. If you scroll 8 pixels left then you move every ... original value to skip 8 pixels. So it sounds like tiles ... -
ZX Spectrum book wanted - The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Volume 1 by Chris WilkinsHi everyone, has anyone got a copy of the book The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Volume 1 by Chris Wilkins that they'd be willing to sell to me…
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"Henry's Hoard" - completable at last![[i]Please scroll down if you just want the links where the bug-fixed files can be grabbed![/i]] "Henry's Hoard" is a game released by Martyn Brow…
... year 1987 mentioned in the scrolling message on the title screen ... they do not have any pixels. They are defined at #A4DE ... instruction. This causes the initial scrolling message to display repeatedly, instead ... -
Steel Eagle anyone?[img]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/s/SteelEagle.gif[/img] [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=000…
... , player moves in too many pixels, erratic enemies, enemy bullets travel ... has smooth, fast, colourful (PUSH) scrolling, good graphics, decent AY interludes ... -
Modern Speccy games with good scrollingOne of the things I like the most on the Spectrum is also one of the hardest to pull off - a good scroll in an arcade type game. Uridium is one of my…
... a game with really good scrolling on it. Pilot Attack scrolls ... -
ZEsarUX 8.0 stableHi! I've uploaded a new FINAL stable ZEsarUX version, 8.0 :) You can download it, as always, from the url: https://github.com/chernandezba/z…
... "reveal" setting to view which pixels are used by a layer ... /> Fixed bug on CPC vertical scrolling
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How to write a simple C+asm horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial, z88dk)[b]How to write a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b] [b]Note:[/b] This tutorial has multiple parts... I am still writing but this first pa…
... a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b]
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[b]A) Drawing a scrolling screen[/b]
We ... /> Well, this is only the scrolling part of the game. It ... using it to add out scrolling function in here, in assembly ... -
The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Paperback - Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (AS NEW). (£44.99 UK ONLY)The Story of the ZX Spectrum in Pixels Paperback - Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Full set of volumes 1, 2, and 3, in excellent (essentially new) condition. …
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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'…
... pros from using 8 pixel scrolling whatsoever, apart from ease of ... smooth games with 8 pixel scrolling since there really werent any ... playable game that was scrolling at 8 pixels a time at 50 ... pace. However, using 8 pixel scrolling really doesn't make the ... -
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'…
... absolutely better for scrolling games.. but his wider pixels are just horrible ... -
ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... ? Well ach group of 8 pixels horizontally is stored in a ... should be for the bit scrolling in. Then you need to ... -
ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
Yes. You are quite right. Scrolling a speccy screen is painful ... scroll 'buffer' is onlt 64 pixels high - any feature above this ... -
ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
... wrote earlier:
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; for quick use ... when the bitmap moves four pixels out of
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Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... /sokoban etc. or a non scrolling adventure/platform game ( Eghead/Dizzy ... to yet ) at 2*1 pixels, the most thats been done ... -
Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
... a look at the fast scrolling section on the bottom of ... ; push de" will draw 32 pixels in 22 T-states if ... -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... for when there is vertical scrolling.
also if you ... paper doesnt scroll along with pixels and when a 8 pixel ... overlaps the background and its pixels do NOt - OVER, or Overlap ... clashing, but replaces it the pixels in the background as long ... -
C64 & Spectrum loadingscreens!I was bored today, so I decided to compare some stuff. :) [url="http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/"]http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/[/ur…
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I was just scrolling down to see if anyone ... very slow and with awful scrolling. Everyone says how the Amstrad ... though, but at least the pixels were square. -
whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... scroll, say, 1 or 2 pixels at a lower frame rate ... ] series for example drop the scrolling back to 25FPS because they ... -
Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
... and 4 attributes, getting 16x16 pixels tiles. Is this the best ... you're not making a scrolling platformer then the time to ... -
My first attempt at Gigascreen interlacingWonderful. Did some research on the port which controls memory paging and wrote a short BASIC programme to switch pages 5 and 7 in and out of the scr…
... if you do a vertical scrolling at the same time. Without ... like higher resolution, but the pixels melt together and have equal ... -
URIDIUMDoes anyone actually like the Spectrum version of this game? Or was it some sinister plot to make the Spectrum look silly trying to compete with the…
... C64 one, ofcourse, uses hardware scrolling - also the reason why Uridium ... moves a distance of 8 pixels and everything after that is ... -
Best scrolling everHi All - I've been lurking here for a while enjoying reminiscing about my magical 10 years of rubber-keyed fun back in my youth! What game featured …
... here :). I like very much scrolling in Commando Tracer - very smooth ... the same scrolling way as Savage, part 1 - 8 pixels at time ... /> Green Beret has also fine scrolling. Titanic by Topo soft - clever ... -
What sort of new games would you like to see on the Speccy?With the amount of coders we have around, I'm surprised that we don't see more new Speccy games. _________________ [url="http://www.gamestyle.net"]h…
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Smooth Screen ScrollingHi Everyone, Any suggestions on what is the best way to do horizontal scrolling ie. in Zynaps fashion. I am working on a routine at the moment, whi…
... a back screen of 256x128 pixels to scroll. That's ... /> dec hl ; next 8 pixels to the left.
dec ... br /> dec hl ; next 8 pixels.
Plus the ... game you can tell the scrolling routine to simply skip it ...
