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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
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Help understanding some z80 asmI'm trying to work out how to represent the structure of a "sprite" in the SAM as "Grabbed" by SmallC. I can see the assembler implementation but I …
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Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?
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Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
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Sam Revival magazine issue 16 now out! [Sam CoupIssue 16 of Sam Revival magazine is now out! This issue features the full Sam game 'Colony' on the coverdisk, which was written by Derek Koselo. Col…
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PAW tests - help and discussion :)Hello my friends :) I have started to make some tests with PAW and I must say I'm very pleased and surprised at the great program. I will be posting…
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Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
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Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... or not? Does a movement routine just check for the attribute ... up. I`m going to sort all the new graphics into ...Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... A simple room check would sort that. If you wanted ... that too, you could sort it by simply checking your ... snap available but without that routine in it? Ta.[/QUOTE ... I know where the routine is i`ve changed it ... as example), and a routine peeks level map data for ...New protection systemsAs a follow-up to [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14311&page=2"]this[/URL] thread regarding relatively new protection sy…
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I wonder if this sort of thing could be set ... (which means emulating the load routine's instruction-by-instruction cycles ...A thought about Top GunI've been playing a bit of Top Gun earlier, and I'm not convinced it should be classed as a vector 3D game, as I'm seeing really nothing that would m…
... Aces which uses some sort of fractical routine to simulate flying above ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... an impact such a small routine can have on execution speed ... inside the double width helper routine loop is run 64 times ... here) and I foresee some sort of "(byte >> (7 ...Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…
... can do as the sprite routine is of the slow shifter ... my head is to the sort of simple actions that a ...68000 programming.Anyone here know anything about this? My question is: how does the programmer know how long hisinstructions are? Do determine the operands to branch …
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INTER is the routine which (eventually) checks if an ... . Or is your cmpi some sort of error check?machine IDs for .z80 snapshotsHi, is there s.o. officially in charge for the .z80 file format? while upgrading zxsp's save_z80 routine i added new machine IDs for the Specci vari…
... ]while upgrading zxsp's save_z80 routine i added new machine IDs ... propose some changes, and we sort out here whether we think ...switchable ROM`sHi all, As I own a few Spectrum and Commodore computers, I am wandering a few years ago on the C64 there was a switchable ROM the normal C64 and a Ji…
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A fast load save routine.
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DEC ... . I don`t mean the sort of basic that you load ...switchable ROM`sHi all, As I own a few Spectrum and Commodore computers, I am wandering a few years ago on the C64 there was a switchable ROM the normal C64 and a Ji…
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A fast load save routine.
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DEC ... . I don`t mean the sort of basic that you load ...Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…
The problem with this sort of game is that having ... RAM as possible my sprite routine is of the shifter variety ...Rom dumping a Mirage MicrodriverI need to dump the rom of my Mirage Microdriver for Zub and don't know what to do...any help?
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Well, the routine at $0066 certainly does quite ... the interface is in a sort of standby state. The Microdriver ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
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I used the same sort of compressed ...New (easier) speccy games testI've created a new speccy games test: [url]http://www.sometests.com/tests/Gaming/ZXSpectrumGamesTest_EasierVersion_.html[/url] Again it's 20 questi…
... but perhaps Ultimate had some sort of debugging hardware. Anyway this ... encouraged a generic keyboard reading routine than a 2d game where ... with a decent keyboard reading routine sometime in its spectrum days ...Cross Platform DevelopmentWhat's the best way to develop cross platform apps? By best, the only limiting criteria would be "at no cost" :)
... (system-on-chip with some sort of operating system) have used ... flashing attributes and a test routine) - with no optimisation, is less ... fear is that the library routine may be implemented in C ...Development IDE collaborationI was wondering if other people making development IDE's (MetalBrain, LCD , Claus Jahn and Carlinski as far as I know) would be interested in combini…
... he wanted to produce some sort of scripted output so that ... point I developed a handy routine that takes the data files ...Development IDE collaborationI was wondering if other people making development IDE's (MetalBrain, LCD , Claus Jahn and Carlinski as far as I know) would be interested in combini…
... he wanted to produce some sort of scripted output so that ... point I developed a handy routine that takes the data files ...Probing the variables in 128K modeHello again! Briefly, I'm writing an m/c routine to read some BASIC variables. So, before I start, I try to get an idea for the structure of how var…
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In 128K mode, the routine instead appears to print the ... the second run of the routine, it really screws up, giving ... era, that type of book sort of dried up! It would ...Fastest loaderWhat was the fastest speed loader developed and could you name a game using it?
... in twice, a sort of LOAD and VERIFY routine in one loader.New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…
... . AGD tries to sort the sprites into some sort of order to ... sort wasn't working. I've fixed a bug in the routine ... .7 you'll undo the sort bug fix, as it will ...Pedro 1 - Quick and dirty translationHi, here is quick and dirty translation of Ultrasoft's Pedro 1. [url=http://www.edisk.cz/stahni/45586/pedro1EN.sna_48.23KB.html]pedro1EN.sna[/url] …
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I maintain that some sort of software and database or ... emulator, so that the translation routine could have a better chance ...2 Spectrums (synched) playing AY tunes?After listening to a few Turbo Sound FM MP3s, I wondered... For those of us who can't build this card, couldn't we synch 2 128Ks and play these tunes…
... you used a custom-made routine, not the one that would ... same, but with a different sort of container. I'd find ... 's because you need that sort of low-level control over ...
