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LCD interfacingHas anybody interfaced [url=http://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/LCD]an LCD[/url] to a Spectrum? I'm toying with putting together an interface, a small 32x8 dis…
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[CODE]; Some basic code for driving LCD alphanumeric ...
DB 06h ; set no scroll, cursor shifts right.
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Horace you smooth mover!Just wondered, was Horace the first character to move smoothly around the screen - rather than in a blocky, character space by character space fashio…
Smooth is done by timing the ... both these aspects in machine code.
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Ewgf Banned again - a record?Less than 24hrs after returning from a 2 week ban, Ewgf is banned again. This has to be some sort of record. Can anyone beat this? Extra points for g…
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one poxy scroll routine!
erm, oh ... ASM, yeah, erm, an excellent scroll routine. It's the core ... and it invalidates all my code? I don't know why ... -
New Game: Forest Raider CherryJust a game I've just finished this morning. Consider this as a Christmas present. Help Cherry to find the treasure in the Mysterious Forest. [URL=…
... nosey around your code!!! You've got some super smooth animation with ... -
Official CSSCGC 2010 Competition ThreadDear Wossers, As 'loser' of the 2009 competition, I am now obliged to host the 2010 competition. I have created a site which will provide a hub for …
... of getting a modified JSW code
block saved correctly, or ... it with the other losers. Smooth
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Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... . It had no support for smooth scrolling, you were limited to ... much improved chip, offering vertical scroll, eight multicolour sprites per scanline ... -
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…
... 100% hand-crafted from scratch code targetted at a specific project ... in games, 3) compiled C code occupies 5-7x as much ... memory as hand written code, 4) some libraries (for example ... be possible to extract a smooth scrolling engine out of that ... -
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…
... , but of course raw machine code is going to win out ... be possible to extract a smooth scrolling engine out of that ... -
Sprites masterclassHi All, You guys are probably tired of explaining sprites but I'd like to clarify a few things if possible. I've sorted the vertical aspect of scro…
... 've made a little man scroll right smoothly but with no ... hurt.
The rra code's below if anyone's ... from bug free):
[CODE]org 33000
xor a ...
ret
end
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A video interface for the Spectrum, MSX compatibleSo you can use the same code for displaying sprites, tiles, characteres, and so no, on both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has a…
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[*]V9958 has horizontal hardware scroll, and most importantly: a few ... , to analyze it and find code that should be rewritten to ... ZX Spectrum, and adapt FPGA code and/or hardware where necessary ... -
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…
... relatively easy to achieve a smooth vertical scroll simply by generating each ... SG1000, this only appears to scroll at the character level. It ... exactly what I'd call smooth. If you want to see ... -
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…
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That River-Raid scroll is working by changing the ... as smooth. Scrolling 8 pixels at 50 frames/sec means you scroll ... second.
You can scroll by whole character squares (or ... -space scroll routine for a fast game it might look smooth at ... -
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.
... either jerky character-movement or smooth movement with far less colourful ... single static screens that rapidly scroll in when you get near ... -
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.
... Speccy, if you want to scroll something left or right by ... scenery, and although it's smooth, it's slow.
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48k game to 128 DSK ?Yes exist a good way to convert a 48k game from emulator (z80, .sna, etc), to a dsk format to be used by emulators or the real Spectrum +3 ? thx in…
... . it converts snapshots to standard code block so you can use ... [/url]
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Push/Pop data copyingWe all know that stack pointer cheese and push/pop is faster to move data than LDIR - which in turn is slower than unrolled LDI's anyway. I rewrote …
... I said I had some code running that is redrawing the ... long as you don't scroll sideways. Some limit on how ... -
RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... , a seperate routine used to scroll the paper (window) up on ... or not. Write your own code to get the next string ... -
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…
... cool! I see the code is full of push push ... copied into place in the code each frame and the ... it was a 2 pixel scroll, the 2 pixels on ... 522533]As for joffa's code, very big 6-7 ... attribute scrolling (joefish does not scroll attribute map) is not helping ... -
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…
[QUOTE=Arda;522843]Your code is fine. Sorry.[/QUOTE]
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Flynn's Adventure in Bombland v1I am pleased to announce the initial release of Flynn's Adventure in Bombland. You can grab it here [url=http://tomdalby.com/retro/zxspectrum/FAIBL_v…
... etc. to produce something as smooth & playable as this..?[/QUOTE ... my first ever speccy machine code game, although I've been ... Sinclair's Introducing Spectrum Machine Code was a great starting point ... few games in basic (machine code was a bit out of ... -
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…
... those sprites on screen and smooth 25fps scrolling. It was a ... get my head round his code. It's completely "unorthodox" in ... is that the screen rendering code is self-modifying every update ... -
Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
... posting [thread=30618]"storing machine code in BASIC"[/thread] from last ... writing a short routine to scroll down the whole screen with ... -
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…
... which one bit of code modifies the code that then renders the ... no good at reading others' code myself. I can only ... with self-modifying code. I wrote an ST parallax scroll that copies ... wrap-around buffer. This Speccy scroll copies sequences of PUSH statements ... -
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…
... writing one word into the code for every word of screen ... /> Unless it also inserts some code to shift the stack pointer ... -shifting for a 2-pixel scroll. -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... not an easy task to code a game from scratch, not ... crunching. High quality graphics and smooth animation is essential for Double ... -
Designing a game.Hi all Lets say that i have been impressed with the games being created by guys on WOS and want to have a shot at making a game myself,my ageing know…
... you won't achieve fast smooth arcades with it.
... you are interested in machine code, download some tutorial book ... to look at others code. Today people don't ... protect their code jealously, you can look ... all that full 40kB of code.
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... edge', but this will ruin smooth movement (at the edge).
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... now though so the code is starting to form. ... ', but this will ruin smooth movement (at the edge ... have the non-critical code generating preshifted tilesets as ... .
My code is using a wraparound map ... can switch that bank to code.[/i][/QUOTE]
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