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Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
Monty on the Run is a good example of a C64 game ... Dizzy is also very good on the C64. The same nice hi-res graphics ... Oh, and check out Heartland on the C64 - the main sprite is made up ... example - check out the Druid 2 and Hawkeye loading screens on the C64!) -
Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... meaing: It's _easier_ on the 64? The 64 can do hi-res ... pixel shifts to the left, and then on the eighth one, the screen reverts ... position, so you quickly shift the whole screen display by 1 ... alone can be pitifully slow on the C64 (Turbo Esprit being a prime ... -
Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... ]Oh, and check out Heartland on the C64 - the main sprite is made up ... -res sprites and you get the nice Speccy-style backdrops:
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Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... CPU.
The c64's cpu belongs to the 6502 familly of ... know (or should ;)) the Z80 on the spectrum runs at 3.54 ... speed.
Every instruction on the 6502 only takes 1 clock ... over Heels on both (many thought this would never materialize on the C64...)
Was this a real game or did i imagine it?The other day i was playing chuckie egg and it got me thinking,did A`n`F ever release a game called Gumshoe.I seem to remember somewhere in my hazy m…
[QUOTE=Ragged_Sapper]The other day i was playing ... lo and behold i check the data base and its not ... 'F, and it came out on the C64.
I believe it ...New feature in Infoseek - help neededWe often see questions about what happened to the various companies. While the magazines are a great source of information, this is limited in time. …
... lists it as being on the C64 in 1984, surely it ... else notice on the Dave Perry page the Ikari Warriors ... advertisement for this in the mags that looked ... a lot different from the released product?
< ... after all, at the bottom of the Starquake link is ...What are your favorite Spectrum games?[FONT="System"][/FONT] If anybody has asked this question before, please forgive me as I'm new to the WorldofSpectrum forums, but what are your favo…
... played Commando on the Speccy back then, its one of my C64 (cough ... ) favorites though, mainly due to the music.[/QUOTE ... for me, Commando was superior on the Speccy (it is one of ... -bit conversions ever) but Rambo on the C64 had great music and was ...ZX Game Book UpdateHi all... For various unrelated reasons the time I have for editing has been limited to weekends, but I'm still plugging away. I have created 'fi…
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The one game I saw on the C64 that immediately grabbed ... and II are better on the C64 due to the smoother scrolling (sacrilege, ...Battle of Games IIGreetings to all in the forum. :) This is the second of my battle of games series, which I decided to continue after such a nice first one. Today, t…
... an already great game (Paradroid on the C64) and literally added another ... my favourite isometric 3D game on the Spectrum.
As ... fun as in Quazatron and the Gauntlet-style of game ... more elegant but the smaller playing areas and the, again, inferior ...Which games would sell were it not for the Movie Tie-in?I was watching TV, whistfully, one evening when an advert came on for a game based on that god-awful film 'Eragon'. It had massive blocky sprites (P…
... game of some kind but the name escapes me.
As for the topic, what about The Great Escape? Not sure ... released as Blood & guts on the C64, or is that a different ...Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... far more atmospheric than the c64 one. Prefer the clean well defined graphics ... of the speccy version over the blocky but more colourful gfx on the c64 version ... impossible to play it on the speccy with the keyboard layout. This is ...Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... I prefer the PC and the Speccy version. I've got the c64 version ... I much prefer on the C64, Lightforce is much better on the C64 and so is ...Are there any Speccy mysteries left?In the past we've had the "Where is Matthew Smith?" mystery which has now obviously been solved as Matthew is back on the scene. More recently the B…
What happened to the Speccy version of Rimrunner?
I'm sure it only eventually popped up on the C64 (and it wasn't very good).Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... is the subject of this thread! ;) ) Uridium on C64 was ... Up'n'Down on the C64 than the arcade, although the arcade version ... on the Spectrum or C64 is a matter of personal taste, I prefer the C64 ... version because of the smoother gameplay ( ...Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... on the Spectrum amongst 8-bits. Most of the best scrolling shooters on the ... usually takes 5 or 6 on the Amstrad which just doesn' ... it.
On the other hand, the Amstrad does have a ... scroll as smoothly as anything on the C64. Alas, there just aren' ...Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... ) scrolling experience. Falcon Patrol II on the C64 is a great game, but ... resolution) graphics, then the supposed chunkiness of the C64 version must be dismissed ... to the arcade game. The C64 version feels more like the arcade but the Spectrum ...Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... all of them :) Especially the swearing one lol. Uridium ... a bit more clearly on the C64 version so I'm ... swearing at myself than the computer in that ... I think the point raised about the differing scrolling speeds ... go about the game unless you're on a level ...Colossus XI think that Colossus Chess and Colossus Bridge need renaming in Infoseek... It makes more sense for them to be called Colossus Chess 4 and Colossus …
I'm afraid the author himself insists on having the '4' in the middle (I ... a series. He placed the number in the middle after version '2 ... '.
Edit: the earlier versions only appeared on the C64.A grave threat to speccydom...Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great regret that I announce that my evil twin has commenced to allow pre-orders on the C64 book... I would sugges…
... zx128k;169339]Looking at the picture of the '[URL="http://www.c64goldenyears ... commenced to allow pre-orders on the C64 book...[/quote]
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Good to ... book coming out, but the C64 was of no interest to ...Boxes and Boxes of Books!!![URL="http://zxgoldenyears.com/images/books.jpg"]Yaaaay!!! I got books. I got books. I got books.[/URL] Do you got books? Andrew (Sorry... a …
... about the merits of both machines and the games that worked on one ... but not the other...[/QUOTE ... on the Spectrum. I couldn't even get them to start loading on the C64 ...A grave threat to speccydom...Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great regret that I announce that my evil twin has commenced to allow pre-orders on the C64 book... I would sugges…
... commenced to allow pre-orders on the C64 book...
Andrew[/QUOTE ... 't order a copy of the ZX book... but I want ... are happy enough with how the Speecy book went , to want ... to carry on into other formats. Nice one :)FLI mode on c64Never heard of this FLI mode on the c64 before. You can actually put 16 colours in one charactersquare! [url]http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=…
... heard of this FLI mode on the c64 before. You can actually put ... charactersquare! [URL]http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=44355 ... but with the C64 I prefer the ILF, rather than the FLI mode ... nice colours as the rotting corpses of the C64 fiends feed lots ...If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…
Yeh I'm with you on the C64 graphics front, they often did ... on for one thing and everything was detailed instead of the C64 ... fast running games on the Speccy than it was with the C64 with its ... folk from actually getting anywhere on the speccy. What was left ...FLI mode on c64Never heard of this FLI mode on the c64 before. You can actually put 16 colours in one charactersquare! [url]http://noname.c64.org/csdb/release/?id=…
... to get more out of the C64 display...
[url]http ... what things they can do on the c64 that shouldn?t be possible ...I Bought It cos the C64 version was greatHeresy I know but after this post I made in the Spy vs Spy thread do you have any sins to confess my sons. [quote]This one one of a series of games …
Booty and Ghostbusters - both better on the C64 too.I Bought It cos the C64 version was greatHeresy I know but after this post I made in the Spy vs Spy thread do you have any sins to confess my sons. [quote]This one one of a series of games …
... if a game looked good on the C64, the Spectrum version would be awful ... frequently applied for anything going the other way too.
... said, I thought the Spectrum conversions of The Bard's Tale, ... Impossible Mission, and Way Of The Exploding Fist all came out ...I Bought It cos the C64 version was greatHeresy I know but after this post I made in the Spy vs Spy thread do you have any sins to confess my sons. [quote]This one one of a series of games …
... if a game looked good on the C64, the Spectrum version would be awful ... frequently applied for anything going the other way too.
... said, I thought the Spectrum conversions of The Bard's Tale, ... Impossible Mission, and Way Of The Exploding Fist all came out ...I Bought It cos the C64 version was greatHeresy I know but after this post I made in the Spy vs Spy thread do you have any sins to confess my sons. [quote]This one one of a series of games …
... something for me compared to the c64 version.
the c64 one was better.
... lee and Zorro - enjoyable on the c64, spectrum versions i never liked ... mission - not bad on the spectrum, but the c64 one reigns here.< ...I Bought It cos the C64 version was greatHeresy I know but after this post I made in the Spy vs Spy thread do you have any sins to confess my sons. [quote]This one one of a series of games …
... . My friend had this on the C64 and we used to play ... loads (I subsequently bought the speccy version and thought it ... poor version). We reached the stage where we got to ... The screenshots on the back of the c64 case would suggest there was something up on the ...I Bought It cos the C64 version was greatHeresy I know but after this post I made in the Spy vs Spy thread do you have any sins to confess my sons. [quote]This one one of a series of games …
... My friend had this on the C64 and we used to play ... The screenshots on the back of the c64 case would suggest there was something up on the ... cross the streams much like the film, I think the SEGA ... every other system peddled. The Megadrive version still was not ...
