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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…
... WOS and want to have a shot at making a game myself,my ageing ... knowledge is limited to BASIC ,writing ... 80`s before moving on to other things.
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Add quite a lot of items to my site and a Make an Offer Button.Hi everyone, I asked for some feedback on my site a month or so ago ([URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33521"]link[/URL]).…
... on how to make a little better. One of them was to add a [B ... have been making a few changes I managed to list a couple of ... hundred speccy items which totals to around ... /> Anyhow please feel free to have a look around and if there ... -
A.G.D. - How Do You...So, I'm trying out [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0020176&loadpics=3"]AGD[/URL] and can't figure out [B]how to make a tile wo…
... 't figure out [B]how to make a tile work like the Conveyor ... -
can anyone assist with ID'ing a game?Hi All I would be very grateful if someone on the board could help me find out the name of a game I used to play back in the 80s. My memory is sketc…
... out the name of a game I used to play back in ... remember it was a text-based adventure game where you sailed ... the bottom), the phrase 'To the North only empty seas ... tried to search google using the elements of the game I ... I'd love to hunt down a copy one day.< ... -
Trying to find a gameI could have sworn it was called Vampire but none of the games listed on WOS look like it Then I found this vid on utube which is the one but most o…
How come 'short' games seem long to me?Just a quick topic regarding 'short' games. Rage has come in for some criticism for it being 'short' but it took my younger brother 4 full evenings t…
... full evenings to complete the game - and he's going to replay it ... into them and I happen to like a game being completable. I bought ... GTA IV and started to get bored ... when I had to take some girl out on a ...Writing an emulator - how to / resourcesI'm looking for a holidays project, and I'm thinking I'd like to write a simple Spectrum emulator. I've googled plenty and read some resources, but …
... thinking I'd like to write a simple Spectrum emulator. ... [/url]
How to write an emulator guide: [url ... information with regards to hardware architecture, reference to how the CPU ... operations actually work internally (rather than from a ...Help with a game errorIm trying to load this game called "O Sole Mio" from this website: [url]http://www.oocities.org/superballena/homemade.htm[/url] but as soon as the …
Im trying to load this game called "O Sole Mio" from ... /> but as soon as the game finishes loading, it gives "nonsense ... tell me whats wrong or how to fix it?
Thanks ...Creating a new game - AssemblySo... finally I?m studying Assembly Z80... after 36 years. :) Well... it?s sooooooooooooo hard to make a game using Assembly? I bought a book (Spectr…
... sooooooooooooo hard to make a game using Assembly?
I bought a book (Spectrum ... , after all the book, to make a new game for our Speccy! :)
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
... I just put a very simple demo to show how easy it actually ... It assumes that you know how to install a z88dk installation with sp1 ... 1
A simple demo program to show how z88dk and sp1 ... can be used to make a game.
MinnaMicroZ80 v0.21 - Z80 Snapshot to Microdrive converterMinnaMicroZ80 v0.21 - The Z80 to Microdrive Snapshot Converter -------------------------------------------------------------- Written by Rob Shepherd…
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Load any game into an ...
Note that restoring a game will corrupt part of the ... the best place to save a game is right at the ... he also showed me how to clear a BASIC program from MC ...What was that game?I used to play a game about 1983/4 about tanks and stuff, strategy thingy. I remember that The idea of the game is to defeat the computer controlle…
I used to play a game about 1983/4 about tanks ... /> The idea of the game is to defeat the computer controlled
time. The game is over when one of ... /> levels, Easy Game and Difficult Game, and these dictate how
stategic the ...How to create .TAP that loads into high memory banks?I want to create a program that uses the extended 128k memory, the banks that can be switched into the 0xc000-0xffff area. For the simple stuff I've…
... was dead simple - assemble a binary and then use bin2tap ... loader command) and voila, a .tap that just runs and ... />
Now I want to fill up the upper banks ... /> Ideally I'd want to create a .tap that load up all ... all is well...
How do I go about this?How to load games to ZX from a PC with LinuxThis worked for me and this howto can probably be improved upon. In [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39151"]this thread[…
... =39151"]this thread[/URL] a personal hardware issue was resolved ... challenge was to get a suitable file and transfer it to the ZX ... converter was probably written for a different Linux flavour. The following ... the first two lines seems to cover the bases:
< ...Retro Fusion Issue 3 - Jonathan Cauldwell writing us a game!Jonathan Cauldwell is writing an exclusive ZX Spectrum game for Retro Fusion Issue 3. The game is coming along nicely and I am pleased to present a n…
... game is coming along nicely and I am pleased to present a number ... of screens from the game, called 'Encyclopaedia Galactica. The game ... will also be a 'novella' story behind the game in the magazine ...Help Identifying A GameJust a game that I vaguely remember playing back in the day but I can't remember the name. It involved a hangman style puzzle to begin with. Then th…
... puzzle to begin with. Then the next stage was a memory type game ... where you had to uncover the ... symbols on a grid and ... went back to the Hangman. The next stage was a game which involved ...How to align head in +3 drive?Hello! I am still struggling to make my +3 drive format disks. After a short email discussion with Steve from DataServe Retro i am ready to admit th…
... /> I am still struggling to make my +3 drive format ... disks. After a short email discussion with ... sure it is enough to execute re-alignment.
to start and how to do it.
... but maybe my google skills a feeble.
...How to transfer tape to +3EHi, I have a Divide installed on a +2a running 3e roms and have set up my compact flash using the +3e commands, I have been loading tapes in but dont…
Hi, I have a Divide installed on a +2a running 3e roms and ... tapes in but dont know how to freeze them and transfer them ... to snapshots so I can load ... compact flash. Does anybody know how to do this? My divide has ...How to use RIP - Real Information PackerI am investigating the use of data compression utilities apart from Einar's excellent ZX7. I am particularly interested in those which can run on a S…
... those which can run on a Spectrum or clone thereof; ... there was a suggestion about renaming the compressed file to the ...
Does someone exactly know how to decompress the files compressed with ... and have them working on a canonical Spectrum model? Apart from ...how much for a decent spectrum set upRight, say I thought "oh, wish I'd kept my speccy stuff" and decided that I'd like to get a Spectrum 48k, printer, tape deck, interfaces, microdrive(…
... decided that I'd like to get a Spectrum 48k, printer, tape ... , interfaces, microdrive(s) etc and a decent selection of games that ... good nick (boxes not imortant) how much cash would it cost?Game port to USB convertersHi, Anyone purchased a converter to take a game port device for use in a USB port that works. I'd like to throw my game port card in the bin but st…
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Anyone purchased a converter to take a game port device for use ... in a USB port that works ... />
I'd like to throw my game port card in the ... bin but still be able to ...Commissioning a new game - Crowdfunding? Ideas...Hi all I'd love to commission a game to celebrate the birth of my twins. I want to see a mascot game with Horace, Willy, Monty..... Are there any a…
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I'd love to commission a game to celebrate the birth of my ... twins.
I want to ... see a mascot game with Horace, Willy, Monty ... love mascot games and want to see one for the Spectrum ...Can't remember the name of a gameHi everybody! It just crossed my mind some vague remembrances of an old game I played couple times in an "alternate" sourced tape if I mean, but can…
... vague remembrances of an old game I played couple times in ... />
The object was to fly a spaceship and destroy anything you ...Everyone's A Wally - Full disassemblyHi everyone, I've recently been playing with [url=http://pyskool.ca/?page_id=177]SkoolKit[/url], and decided to pull a game to pieces to see how it …
... url], and decided to pull a game to pieces to see how it works. ... For no reason other than nobody else appears to ... have done it, I went with Everyone's a ... [/url]. It's still a work in progress, but ... logic extracted. Next thing to work on is the ...Searching for a game...Hi all! I've been a lurker long enough on WOS and decided it was high time I registered. :) Every now and again, in between juggling real life and p…
... s just that I had to attend a Hearing Unit instead of ... thought) but likely to had changed colour according to location. Layered ... think you had to move across the game "grid" to exits which may ... thinking it may had been a game by an educational software company ...A ZZ Spectrum related questionI'm trying to use [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000234"]Arcade Creator[/URL] to make a game for the SYS Sinclair C*** games…
... "]Arcade Creator[/URL] to make a game for the SYS Sinclair ... it asks me to press break to get to the main menu ... on the keyboard seem to correspond to the break key! :-( ... I need to use? (On a septate note, how can I ... save a TZX, TAP, ...Issue 3 board... How to resurrect?Dear Everyone, Now I have a working 48k Issue 3, a sort of working Speccy+ (still having problems with the keyboard, more of that in another post) a…
... I've started turning to getting my expanding collection ... key, but was upgraded to a 48k+ in 1984, and ... When the spectrum is connected to a TV, I get colour ... a picture, but haven't yet worked out how to ... am reasonably happy to give most things a try...
...How to test Z80 Code?Hi All, Is there a way to test a block of z80 code (nothing speccy specific in it) with many different inputs? The reason I ask is that I'm writing…
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Is there a way to test a block of z80 code ... that I'm writing a dice game and want to check my code ...
