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z88dk SP1 breakoutHi everyone, I have completed the z88dk SP1 breakout example. You can find it here: https://github.com/antoniocmateus/z88dk_sp1_breakout Nothin…
... /> I have completed the z88dk SP1 breakout example. You can find ... understand more or less how SP1 works.
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Foreground blocks in z88dk SP1 with sp1_csHi there, There are 3 ways in wich we can create foreground tiles with SP1: By validating squares before rendering (see example ex5b from z88dk) …
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z88dk sp1 Scene EditorHi, I've been developing for the last couple of weeks a scene editor (tile editor + scene tile placement+ export to c sp1 compatible) to aid me in…
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Computer Space and Beyond - 50 years of video gaming.A nice article by the BBC on 50 years of video gaming: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58281812
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Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... single Spectrum game that had 50 Hz full screen scrolling or ... better at shootemups and scrolling platform romps.
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My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... action (and Cascade's "Cassette 50" is a good example) so ... instruction would take in machine cycles so that complex colour routines ... -
I just bought the Amstrad e mailer with ZX Spectrum emulator built ini am i Its not a bad phone, i am posting this meesage with it. I wanted the phone anyway, the games centre was an extra bonus. Mind you , i think the games…
... /> you can get them for 50 quid now;
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Spectrum vs Vic 20 - cast your vote (please!)As I mentioned earlier this week, the Spectrum goes head to head with the Commodore Vic 20 in this week's round of the Micro Mart 'computer world cup…
... criteria, then the best gaming platform of all time is the ... skull. On launch day about 50% of buyers were in hospital ... -
Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …
... TIE 50 Verb
LAMP 50 Noun
LANTE 50 ... Noun
FASTE 50 ... wrought balustrades. This platform is sometimes used for ... weights 1
Object 50: weights 0
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Games Requiring Left, Right and JumpJust downloaded PocketClive and I must say it's very impressive on my Compaq PocketPC. Only problem is it's not the best of input devices for games …
... /> On 2003-05-16 13:50, choccy48K wrote:
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Game developers getting tiredHi, After finally managing to get through stage 3 in Tapper (level Easy) after literally dozens of tries during a period of over two years (tells mu…
... dropped Sid Spider at level 50, he got burnt. and now ... the last 50 are on me, though since ... just designing scenery fro a platform game or something.
Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…
... a stable 50.xxxx Hz rate. The Z80 takes 17 cycles to ... ULA's interrupt. 17 cycles is from memory as I ... from 4 to 25+ cycles in length so your ISR ... will be called at 50.xx Hz rate with ... than the interrupt, requiring counting cycles in your program, you will ...grrrrrrrrrrr I hate all this!okay here's another one... When my father bought my spectrum +2 back in 1986, might have been 87... anyway, with it came 100 Spectrum Games (90 of …
... land on the platform himself. The platform cycles round to the ... bottom again; jump off when the rising platform ... the goods onto the dropping platform.
Wait ... into oblivion. As the platform cycles round back to the top ...in-game soundhas anybody an experience in writting beeper routines? i tried to code some sound fx but it sounds really horrible...
... /> i just switch port 10-50 times and waiting for interrupt ... and put out 5-10 cycles of a note before doing ...InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
... when combined with the 3.50 MHz speed of the processor ... divides every opcode into M-cycles; each M-cycle is one ... INC (HL) has three M-cycles:
* M1: 4 ... data bus, it takes 12 cycles to get to 'n':< ... data bus, it takes 19 cycles:
* M1: 6 ...Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
... /> On 2004-08-26 11:50, AndyC wrote:
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16000 cycles for 32x32 sprites allows around ...The old magicFirst post since registering - although did post occasionally, long ago... At the risk of getting philosophical... what has happened to the days whe…
... ideas for a well established platform...
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GBA games.. one in 50 is good.. but only cos ... 3D... and that 1 in 50 thing... I`m actually complementing ...8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... CPC as a practically nonexistent platform, I just lessened it's ... overlooked, it was a notable platform of the time along with ... on 2004-10-03 19:50 ]making games on a real speccy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have recently bought a speccy on ebay and i want to try to make s…
... lamers, who couldn`t get 50 or 60 frames per second ... you`ll see a scrolling platform game as smooth as anything ... Polygons (few) on top of 50/60 fps scrolling and premilinary ...Will Spectrum run @ 60Hz?Sorry to overlap w/ my other recent post, but want to know, if I grab a Spectrum and use it in America with a voltage converter or a different power …
... provides the INT signal at 50 beats a second (and 60 ... the TV
(there are 50 frames per second in Europe ... mains frequencies of 60 Hz (cycles per second),
these programs ... must replace 50 by 60 where appropriate.[/quote ...Will Spectrum run @ 60Hz?Sorry to overlap w/ my other recent post, but want to know, if I grab a Spectrum and use it in America with a voltage converter or a different power …
... generate the cpu clock and 50/60Hz vertical blanking interrupt.< ... mains frequencies of 60 Hz (cycles per second),
these ... programs must replace 50 by 60 where appropriate.[/quote ... original wall wart designed for 50 Hz.
[ ...Non-spectrum Ultimate games?I was just browsing round Rare's site and their chronology: [url="http://www.rareware.com/games/timeline/timeline_content.html"]http://www.rareware.…
... /> On 2004-12-16 09:50, Rainbird Rich wrote:
[quote ... the original to a different platform.
I think the ...Help needed to speed up functionCan anyone help me to re-factor this code snippet. The "MAP" section holds information about which tiles go where on the screen (handled by another f…
... faster, but haven't counted cycles (yet)
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COLOUR DEFB 20,30,40,50
MAP DEFB 0,1 ...Who the fcuk is Paul McKenna??Disappointing development: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.cgi?permit=houses/McKennaPaul.pmt"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showwrap.…
... the games for the mobile platform. Fair enough I guess.
50 ]Q on Area 51 (the game)Oi! After "Faked Moonlanding" I started at "Statement Lost" which was the first level when I started the game ... does it loop (no end?) ... or are …
... /> On 2005-05-05 17:50, JayTeeEss wrote:
It seems ... game again because it just cycles those two levels I mentioned ...Polyphonic music with the speakerAnyone knows how to make music with more than one voice with the 48k speaker?
... /> When you output varying duty cycles to generate the volumes, you ... 0s. Eg, volume 3 has 50% ones so could be output ...Robocop in Retro Gamer this month.Quote: "Overall, this version provides mixed results. Flawless presentation (including lots of speech) and Jonathan Dunn's well known 128K title mus…
... two halves. The huge sprawling platform sections are excellent, and one ... sequence which take up about 50% of the game in total ... good. Still, the two main platform sections make this another solid ...NVidia Display drivers - fuk!n up my system - need help!Hello. Im having problems with video card drivers. My graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 64MB. I downloaded the latest (or tried the older) dri…
... HDs both run at over 50 degrees C and the limit ... + running Win XP Pro with SP1.
Also, our comp has ...Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…
... T-States or so (clock cycles basically). You get around 60 ... every frame, and you get 50 frames every second.
