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How do you work with fonts on speccy?just curious really.. I know c64 workings, and obv. the spec you draw direct to screen.. on 64 , you'd make what would be equivalent to UDG.. and sa…
yep it's 8x8 pixels... thats in MONO mode. (thats ... should have a look at scrolling I guess :) -
Assembly Programming for IDIOTSOk are there any websites guides for what opcodes do in a z80 or books... but for really really thick people like me :-) Something along the lines …
... sprites don't flicker and scrolling is smooth and so on ... -draw the spaceship a few pixels over to the left. If ... -
Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…
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Control (0 ... /> If the world is a scrolling environment then you will need ... X position in pixels
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X velocity ... dimensions of 65536 x 65536 pixels. Many WOS programmers will ... -
Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... like games that move 8 pixels at a time when it ... this game is better off scrolling smoothly, so, it's best ... -
Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…
... to do with how many pixels the sprites move between updates ... can skip a number of pixels and this is obscured by ... like the baddies skip more pixels than the player which works ... specialized for different requirements (eg scrolling or not).
The ... -
Smooth (vertical) scrolling on ZX SpectrumI was just thinking about this. You know, you have systems like Atari 2600 or Sega SG-1000 that have no hardware scroll, but they have games that sti…
... with the whole attributes not pixels - looks like that... this might ... move 2, 4 or 8 pixels at 50 frames a second ... , but not as smooth. Scrolling 8 pixels at 50 frames/sec means ... -
Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.
... with the screen smoothly scrolling vertically , whilst horizontal ... once after every 8 pixels of scrolling - although this ... makes the visible play area 16 pixels ... narrower).
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Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.
... by anything less than 8 pixels, you have to fetch ... can do all that precision scrolling before the game starts - ... like the block smoothly scrolling to the side. Once ... 8 (or maybe 16) pixels, you then copy to ... ]' is that the parallax scrolling (on 8-bit machines) ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... will probably be a vertical scrolling shooter I work on next ... doing the vertical scrolling backgrounds with just 4x1 coloured pixels, allowing full ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... graphics and the attributes are scrolling too. Good 2d engine.[/QUOTE ... artfully arranged to make those pixels count for something in the ... 2 pixel scroll, the 2 pixels on the end could be ... nice game ai and attribute scrolling (joefish does not scroll attribute ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... to me as fast at scrolling as your demo so how ... times a second, or two pixels at a time 25 times ... to do full 8 way scrolling (in 25fps), and knock out ... makes you think 8-way scrolling would slow it down that ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... times a second, or two pixels at a time 25 times ... makes you think 8-way scrolling would slow it down that ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... game, running slower or scrolling a smaller part of the ... cyan pillar is 10 pixels wide and it's currently ... rendered with 4 empty pixels on the left side ... and 3 empty pixels on the right side, ... exactly 8 pixels wide, with 8 empty pixels on each ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... on using PUSH to do scrolling. It's annoying when someone ... data, and how Joffa's scrolling was so fast. It's ... 16 times to finish the pixels for the blocks, and twice ... along by a whole 16 pixels. -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... tiles are pre-shifted for scrolling, how can you use them ... writing to over by 8 pixels into the black edges. That ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... [/I] trick of being 10 pixels wide, so you can fit ... and pre-scroll them 2 pixels at a time.
pixels of a girder just scrolling into it. So ... writes to over by 8 pixels sometimes, and thus writing into ... -
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... Spectrum's R-Type's scrolling isn't pixel perfect[/QUOTE ... you'll see that the scrolling is pixel perfect - in the ... sense that it's scrolling one pixel per game-frame ... moving at 1 character (8 pixels) per game-frame that isn ... -
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... you'll see that the scrolling is pixel perfect - in the ... sense that it's scrolling one pixel per game-frame ... moving at 1 character (8 pixels) per game-frame that isn ... lot of other very impressive scrolling shooters. But I couldn't ... -
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... 16-colour mode with 4x1 pixels that looks awful when it ... would let you set different scrolling or screen modes on each ... colours for on and off pixels. You set one screen colour ... -
Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…
... powerful computer, armed with hardware scrolling, hardware sprites and SID music ... to the way the pixel-scrolling foreground blocks out the sprites ... in medium res, with wider pixels, a pixel scroll only has ... size. If you want jerky scrolling, take a look at the ... -
Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…
... to the way the pixel-scrolling foreground blocks out the sprites ... in medium res, with wider pixels, a pixel scroll only has ... size. If you want jerky scrolling, take a look at the ... looks.
Half the pixels is also true but there ... -
Horace the TraitorWTF! Horace on the 64! I want my money back Horace you bast! [URL="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Commodore-64-128-Game-Hungry-Horace-/290598258744?pt=…
... bloody identical, and huge rectangular pixels so big that you can ... Horace exited the screen (no scrolling here, it's a Speccy ... -
Amstrad anyone ?I grew with C64 and Speccy, and still use both, but I`m curious about the Amstrad CPC464. So, comparing it to the spectrum only, what is it like ? …
... could manage some crude hardware scrolling.
Even then, graphics ... to lo-res brick-shaped pixels. These are picked from a ... , hardware sprites and enhanced hardware scrolling (lifted from the failed GX4000 ... -
Amstrad anyone ?I grew with C64 and Speccy, and still use both, but I`m curious about the Amstrad CPC464. So, comparing it to the spectrum only, what is it like ? …
... could manage some crude hardware scrolling.
Even then, graphics ... to lo-res brick-shaped pixels. These are picked from a ... , hardware sprites and enhanced hardware scrolling (lifted from the failed GX4000 ... -
CSS has been Rogeredcomp.sys.sinclair has just been rogered. I make do with a summary when anything happens and activity shot up on Friday. Turns out to be the usual qu…
... faded white fuzz following white pixels around if they are moved ... /> has anyone seen the hardware scrolling the orgininal cpc had(not ... -
CSS has been Rogeredcomp.sys.sinclair has just been rogered. I make do with a summary when anything happens and activity shot up on Friday. Turns out to be the usual qu…
... faded white fuzz following white pixels around if they are moved ... /> has anyone seen the hardware scrolling the orgininal cpc had(not ... -
CSS has been Rogeredcomp.sys.sinclair has just been rogered. I make do with a summary when anything happens and activity shot up on Friday. Turns out to be the usual qu…
... faded white fuzz following white pixels around if they are moved ... /> has anyone seen the hardware scrolling the orgininal cpc had(not ... -
AGD 2.6 WoesThis was originally in the New Game Ideas section but thought this would be the best place to post this: I'm no programmer, hence i'm using the exce…
... are all 16 x 16 pixels.
4. AGD uses ... can't do anything with scrolling. It's just a case ... -
Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
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To get scrolling text in the border you ... left and right by 8 pixels. -
Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
... quicker.
To get scrolling text in the border you ... left and right by 8 pixels.[/QUOTE]
this suggests ... the Denton Designs copyright text scrolling is [B]even more[/B ...
