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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…
... and you'll see obvious cycles or patterns in programs that ... with the coin flip result (50/50 as we saw) and the ... code must complete within 50000 cycles to avoid flicker, which seems ... -
New Spectrum game available - Egghead 5Timed to coincide with Egghead's 18th birthday (although it fits in rather well with WoS's 12th as well), Egghead Round the Med. is now available to …
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Oh look! A soopa smoov 50 frames per second scrolly platform game!
PLER DINK!
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New Spectrum game available - Egghead 5Timed to coincide with Egghead's 18th birthday (although it fits in rather well with WoS's 12th as well), Egghead Round the Med. is now available to …
... ! A soopa smoov 50 frames per second scrolly platform game!
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Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... at double speed and splits cycles between the CPU and video ... instructions to multiples of 4 cycles *all the time* in order ... Spectrum speeding things up almost 50%. For the compiled basics you ... -
splib2 from ROMI'm trying to generate IF2 ROM games for ZX Spectrum 16K using z88dk + splib2. So far I've managed to create a new crt0 file and to generate valid RO…
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I will use SP1 soon, I'm just getting ... their z88dk games to this platform is a good idea in ... -
another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)
... than ZX. It's about 50-60% of ZX power.
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another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)
... rasters (giving 25 rows) with 50 bytes attributes, thus losing just ... be a much better gaming platform[/B] - for the [B]same ... -
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…
... different screen resolutions using cross-platform libraries, I agree this is ... problems. I know with the SP1 engine in z88dk it will ... case of retargetting to another platform on the compile line, but ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... total scroll time of 192/50 = 3.84 seconds from ... about 70000 3.5MHz z80 cycles. So an equivalent way ... routine takes less than 70000 cycles, making it go faster ... ) which gives you 140000 cycles to play with. The ... you at about 112000 cycles with the added bonus ... -
z88dk 1.8 releasedSince I am the most regular of the z88dk peeps to post here I might as well let you all know that v1.8 has been released. [code] A little later than…
... chip is memory mapped, each platform is going to need some ... .
Regarding the cross-platform possibility :- this is something I ... similar problem with porting of sp1 to new targets that have ... -
Really startting to get annoyed with VISTAFirst the keyboardsettings, then the 25 starting issues from MSoffice. State when starting that it is a trialversion, don't just say you may start it…
... that. Maybe try upgrading to SP1?
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Which isn ... won't go faster than 50 km/h and after a ... how many people use over 50% of all the features? -
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…
... in "sp1_MoveSpr*()" functions indicates to SP1 that the same sprite frame ... horizontally by 232/5*2/50 = 1.856 pixels every 2 ... -
Amiga softwareWill PAL Amiga games (originals) work on a NTSC Amiga? I'm looking for Carrier command and Starglider II but they are thin on the ground over here. …
... the PC was a viable platform for games, and although it ... sling it on ebay. Guaranteed 50-75 quid within a week ... -
What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.
... the few (arguably the only) platform where it seriously damaged the ... willing to spend the roughly ?50 - ?75 a year they would ... -
Peter Moore ( Xbox boss ) says Chris and Tim Stamper are rubbish ( apparantly )[url]http://www.mcvuk.com/news/31795/Peter-Moore-Rare-is-not-applicable-in-todays-market[/url] By that he means they didn't follow the heard and do …
... think so, and so do 50% of N64 owners, the argument ... wanted first person shooters and platform games, but today they want ... first person shooters and platform games? Gametypes are the same ... -
Ocarina Of Time - 10 years old!I can't believe that ten years have passed since I first played the greatest game ever published. C&VG have published their original review to celeb…
... top fifty:
Title Platform Company Reviews Avg. Vote Avg ... .asp?itemid=197909&term="]50. Metal Gear Solid[/URL] PS ... -
Thieves School - New Game from World XXI Soft Inc.After aprox. 2 years of hard work, World XXI Soft Inc. announces the release of [B][I]Thieves School[/I][/B], a platformer multi-level for Spectrum 1…
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Windows 7Anyone tried this yet? I've been using it for a while now and I think it's excellent. Runs all software that I've thrown at it and also runs *alot* q…
... good chunk of the beta cycles. Even as Microsoft was starting ... then, I will wait. When SP1 comes out, then I may ... -
Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
... takes about 79,000 T-Cycles, so I reckon with some ... Sprite Code I could get 50/3 = 17 Frames per second ... -
Games that you've realised you would never have the patience or skill to finishBack in the day, there where plenty of games I could never finish, now that I'm not a toddler any more, and that I've spent enough time in WOS and pl…
Just about every maze and platform game ever. Just too much ... . I must have tried about 50 times to beat that level ... -
The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…
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[B]Best Platform game:[/B] Jet Set Willy ... /Menu Music:[/B] Renegade Cheesy 50's style :D
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New to developmentHello there my fellow forum chummies, I have recently been bitten once again to go into software development, its been a while. I have a lot of ski…
... is a very well supported platform. You should check out ... php/library:sprites:sp1[/url]
sp1 (a flicker ... game.
The sp1 documentation is pretty sparse unfortunately ... z88dk/z88dk/libsrc/sprites/software/sp1/spectrum/examples/[/url]
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Speccy vs C64: Enduro RacerJust seen a video of the commode version of Enduro Racer, what a pile of cack: [youtube]kZVNLX6OxwU[/youtube] Speccy version: [youtube]ouKg6LeXkD…
... comparing C64 and Speccy Super Cycles - the C64 version is much ... , the split is close to 50/50. Rainbow Islands on the C64 ... Speccy Commando? Like I said , 50/50. -
Amiga or Atari STWhich system did you like the most ??? My person fave was the Amiga as i had loads of fun on it with games like Star Dust, Supr Frog, Speedball 2 an…
... layer... all in basic at 50 fps or 60 fps... where ... a scrolling game engine at 50 or 60 fps in BASIC ... they aren't running at 50/60 hz and the framerate ... if they're sideways scrolling platform shooeters at 12.25 fpsm ... nothing like a 50/60 fps lock to fuck ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... to be able to run 50% faster and the 16k DRAMs ... to the chip in two cycles -- the first half of an ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... to be able to run 50% faster and the 16k DRAMs ... to the chip in two cycles -- the first half of an ... -
Framerate of Spectrum gamesI was reading a bit about framerates in modern games and it got me wondering about the Speccy. First off I'd hoped to find what framerate my old gam…
... ;396715]On the C64 the 50/60Hz issue is a problem ... units, the former gets less cycles per scanline but more time ... -
Sprites...What is fastest way for drawing masked sprites at any screen position without using preshifted data ? I want to use it for isometric view game... li…
... it's done in the SP1 sprite engine:
[url ... /z88dk/z88dk/libsrc/sprites/software/sp1/spectrum/sprites/draw/SP1_DRAW_MASK2.asm ... mask rotated from left
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While we're on about graphics...I did this for ZXSpin: [img]http://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/CRT.png[/img] Which is a 2x filter, simulating (badly) a CRTdisplay. This is the…
... of T-cycles is untouched ==> speccy would run 50/60x faster ... -
While we're on about graphics...I did this for ZXSpin: [img]http://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/CRT.png[/img] Which is a 2x filter, simulating (badly) a CRTdisplay. This is the…
... of T-cycles is untouched ==> speccy would run 50/60x faster ...
