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Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…
... The Hobbit & Dragonsbane to see how it's ... with two 6x6 characters next to each other.
to 7x8. That way the ... grid, I'd have to redefine the character set, ... mentioned that it converted the screen to 43 columns (though, where ... -
HighSPEC (brand new RADICAL High resolution emulator) Hi there, This is an announcement to all spectrum lovers of a brand new (and radical) spectrum emulator called HighSPEC! It is the work of Tom Walk…
heh heh, I really like that:) Such a pity it needs such a high-res screen to work effectively.
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Scariest Speccy Games EVER!!!!Were there any speccy games that truly made you smudge your shreddies? When Wolfman and Dracula were released with an 18 Certificate was that just b…
GO TO HELL
Starting from the loading screen to all these neck-cutting and head-smashing machines -
+3 questions, easiest way of playing games?Yes my old 128K spectrum didnt seem to come alive, so I bought a second hand Spectrum +3 on an auction site, it wasnt cheap! but wtf nothing beats th…
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You'd either have to hack the programs so they ... write a small loader to load each page of ... have the benefit of shadow RAM to do it in. Depends ... software you'd be trying to convert.
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Jet Set Willy (the 61st Room)Does anyone know where the 61st room is located in Jet Set Willy.
... the Your Spectrum guys to add another room to the game called ... "April Showers". The code to add this game was publised ... . The program relocated the 61st screen to above the Beach, where you ... had to collect flashing "YS" symbols...
Dizzy questionLately I have been playing Dizzy again. Being absolute crap at it back in the days I was surprised how easy the puzzles actually are. I completed th…
You need the Bottle Of Dry Ice for that. You can find it on the way up to the Gleaming Emerald. The Dry Ice is on a screen with 2 birds and is one screen to the right of the crowbar.Dizzy questionLately I have been playing Dizzy again. Being absolute crap at it back in the days I was surprised how easy the puzzles actually are. I completed th…
... the below the graveyard (one screen to the right of the cave ... used to get to the blue lift below a white line (the screen ... platform over the water (one screen to the left of the blue ... (from the same screen as the Troll Brew) to get the Sharp ...Tape Noise (Poll)Hi Everyone :) Just wondering how many of u enable tape noise personally i do, i just think u cant obtain the trully retro feeling without those plea…
... , but I've never tried to load it into a Spectrum ... /> Someone should set a loading screen to a beat - their regular structure ...question about EmuZWin 2.2can anyone please tell me how to load the games after the first 1 on a cover/complimation tape. i'm using emuZwin 2.2 i know the old way is [load"gam…
... really don't have time to unzip them all, but I ... when you switch from full screen to windowed, but why don't ... to have the scanlines in windowed mode like other emulators? The screen ... looks much nicer and closer to the original TV ...Amstrad CPC Emulator?After reading a favourable comment on one of the other threads, I fancy having a look at what the CPC had to offer, since I've never really had the c…
... for Tapes
Go to the top and insert a ... again, then go to the top of the screen to the tape drop ...Absolutely mega fab-tastic !!!To all those who still haven't been enlightened by the russian game 'Fire and Ice'... DOWNLOAD AND PLAY IT NOW !!!!! - Mega fab-tastic addictive ac…
Ahh, the version I had didn't have the first option. I downloaded it again and it works fine.
However, for my next question, how do you exit a screen to retry it if you mess it up?T.I.M. - A New Interlace - Demo for DOWNLOADHere's something that's been in the works for quite a while ( mostly in my head ) and recently I've aquired assistance to help it come to fruition. …
... it is possible to get a nearly full screen static image ... pixels in order to expand the display to full screen. This sort ... frames as a trick to get full screen resolution yet requiring ... ability. (Double buffering allows one screen to have blank odd rows and ...Spectrum emulator for XBox?Some weeks ago JMC mentioned that he was writing a Speccy emulator for the XBox (which already has emulators for other "computers" [ahem], such as th…
... -BACKSPACE (I think) to unlock the screen move mode. Now you ... and use the cursors to move/stretch the screen to your liking. Once ... done, lock the screen mode ... very bottom of the config to automatically launch Z80 when ...Announce: MM/JSW box-set _Party Willy_Today I release Part 1 of my new Jet Set Willy game, [I]Party Willy[/I] - so called because it's in several parts, most notably two 48K JSW parts (Pa…
... I bollox!!!! Screen 1 I can just manage to get over the ... (ooo-er) :lol:. On the screen to the left I can get ...Management type gamesWhat is everyones top 5 management style games, this isnt just soccer management, this can be anything such as the interesting Software house from cu…
Memory Available for 16k and 48kAm I right in thinking that if I am writing a 16k Game, I have 8k available for the machine code prog 6000h to 8000h, and for a 48k game I have 40K a…
... Basic you can place up to 256 bytes of machine code ... . My advice would be to stick to addresses above RAMTOP until it ... all comes back to you.
I assume ... every time you clear the screen to blue but that uses #5b00 ...Remember the Hi-Score competitions?You know, the ones run in Crash/Sinclair User. Am I the only one who "cheated" by getting to a certain stage of a game, leave something heavy on the …
... platform fire off the screen to the right..)went to a party came ... that we tried very hard to get a legit score for ...Games that are easier due to bugsThis is a similar type thread, how many games are made easier due to bugs? I remember being able to bounce past the guardians in Underwurlde without…
... rather than running around trying to find stone for it.
to stand next to on the screen to the left of ...EmuZWin 2.5.0.1Version 2.5 Release 1.0 (10-Jun-2004): a lot of changes and fixes in ??? Map Builder ??? GFX Editor ??? Loading & Saving ??? Sound & Video ?? Speed…
... [-] Problem with no responding to mouse/keyboard when 100% of ... just can not switch to thread handling mouse/keyboard ... Quality Magnification + Direct-X full screen + desktop resolution = True ... emulator crashed switching from full screen to a window. Fixed.
Game loop design?Having some thoughts on how to design the game loop and could do with some hints and tips from folks who have done it before! It's all about how to …
... aiming to draw your screen fast enough in order to avoid ... a buffer than to decide what to draw to the screen and do ... enter IM2 routine
new screen to draw - draw it
update ... /> exit IM2
--back to screen drawing function
finished drawing ...Spindizzy: good or horrible?Spindizzy is definately a much-loved old speccy game but is it actually any good? I played it a load back in the day, but i played every game i had …
... pokes of interest to warp you around the current screen...
screen at breakneck speed right ... are in the second screen to the right of the ... are in the second screen to the right and then ... are in the third screen to the right and then ...Moblie phone gamingWhich of the new mobile phones are good for emulating Spectrum games, if indeed any are good at all? I heard a while back about a good C64 emulator c…
... and found the vertically squashed screen to be a big annoyance. The ... Megadrive emu, Picodrive has a screen rotation feature and looks amazing ... joypad contols are not rotated to compensate).
So, ... would anyone care to do a run-down of ...Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... a dos command line program to put screen$ together so I could ... you also need to understand how to build each screen to get the right ... colours, etc. This is what i try to ... using 1/3 of the screen approximately to have anything playable.
Game ProtectionHowdy. New kid alert. Looking through the archive, I've been downloading 'perfect' versions. However some of these have protection systems I've be…
... a special lens on the screen to unscramble the code.
Tomahawk ... about it. There's supposed to be a lenslock utility (for ... Windows) in the archive to help you out.
Otherwise ...Sprites flickeringI am trying to write a Spectrum game in machine code. I am still a beginner in programming, however I did much progress recently, i believe. Now I am…
... sprites you will be able to do in 40000 tstates is ... sprite routine should be able to manage at least 8 16x16 ... top 2 thirds of the screen to be used. One way you ... gain more time, would be to prioritise the drawing of the ...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…
... harddisk and loaded the next screen to get it animated.
< ... br /> We compressed the first screen with an RLE-method and ... changes from the first screen to get the next screen.
... By this we made it possible to load ...Spectrum monitor display questionsLike most people, I never played the Spectrum with anything other than a standard TV with rf connection to get my picture. For other computers of the…
... interference on the screen which isn't kind to the eyes. You ... lesser extent on the loading screen to Fairlight where a couple of ...Spectrum monitor display questionsLike most people, I never played the Spectrum with anything other than a standard TV with rf connection to get my picture. For other computers of the…
... interference on the screen which isn't kind to the eyes. You ... lesser extent on the loading screen to Fairlight where a couple of ...Sid Spider on WOS.Can we take it that the inclusion of Sid Spider on WOS is official confirmation that it is no longer being developed? :( :( :(
... the graphics, made a loading screen and did some more levels ... />
- Make an end game screen with probably some text and ... thinking of making another loading screen to replace the first one I ... David to put the new levels into the game, an end screen ...
