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  • Artist RequiredAs some of you may be aware, at the homebrew coding weekend back in July I volunteered to write a Spectrum game to be shown at this year's Replay exh…

    ... onto a conveyor at the bottom of the screen which transports ... the food to the queuing customers at the bottom left and ... of the conveyor, and somewhere to top up his sausage/beefburger ammunition ... the player would have to regularly top up on ketchup and ...
    Saboteur Saboteur September 2011 Development
  • Up/Down Left/Right scrollCan anybody give a newbie some pointer to simple one char scrolling by pixel? I've looked at a lot of resources, but as you can imagine, it's all a …

    ... memory representing the sprite (0 shift, the top data in the ... display memory the top left corner of the sprite is located. ... shifted version of the sprite image to write to the display.
    ... ; hl = screen address for top left corner of sprite
    ; b = y ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • Super Stick ManBeen thinking about doing a weird platformer for a while now, but since I have zero programming knowledge, and a modicum of drawing skills, I thought…

    ... />

    You will have to keep the up or down ...
    IF A=1 ::: FLOAT TO TOP OF LIFT
    IF LADDERABOVE ...
    IF A=2 ::: FLOAT TO BOTTOM OF LIFT
    IF LADDERBELOW ... depends how you want it to work.
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause November 2011 New game ideas
  • Super Stick ManBeen thinking about doing a weird platformer for a while now, but since I have zero programming knowledge, and a modicum of drawing skills, I thought…

    ... cause;579202]You will have to keep the up or down ...
    IF A=1 ::: FLOAT TO TOP OF LIFT
    IF LADDERABOVE ... br /> IF A=2 ::: FLOAT TO BOTTOM OF LIFT
    IF LADDERBELOW ... depends how you want it to work.[/QUOTE]

    ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi November 2011 New game ideas
  • Who wore this? Film related.I'm trying to work out the answer to the question (with image) which is: "Where does the person who wore this watch live?" [img]http://www.larrybig…

    ... thought you only wanted to know where the owner ... 5480, Arnie is supposed to have worn one in Commando ... but (according to others) shots of the ... doctored to show the digital face at the top of ... the screen rather than the bottom to give ...
    Turkwel Turkwel December 2011 Chit chat
  • Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…

    ... ]: Just press "W" to move the area to top-left & resize the ... screen to maximum via keys ... screen layout, and press "C" to see the level structure -- all ... ? that could be a single sprite reused rather than several objects
    BiNMaN BiNMaN January 2012 Development
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... drawing the sprite. Another one to calculate off-screen the current sprite to be ... drawn (that is, to rotate the sprite according to the ... putting your playfield at the bottom of the screen, leaving the ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix January 2012 Development
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... drawing the sprite. Another one to calculate off-screen the current sprite to be ... drawn (that is, to rotate the sprite according to the ... putting your playfield at the bottom of the screen, leaving the ...
    Spiky16384 Spiky16384 January 2012 Development
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... drawing the sprite. Another one to calculate off-screen the current sprite to be ... drawn (that is, to rotate the sprite according to the ... putting your playfield at the bottom of the screen, leaving the ...
    climacus climacus January 2012 Development
  • Annoying colour issues with UDGsMe again... Flush with the success of finding the latest version of BASin to play with I tried to buff the graphics of the various screen items All…

    ... & PAPER. So if the bottom right creature is cyan INK ... squares being traversed will switch to green or black PAPER ... effectively minimised by machine code sprite routines to control the movement and ... colours are. The colours need to be changed (as mentioned ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Games you so wanted but just sucked atI so wanted Strike Force Cobra when it came out, it sounded brilliant. But after playing it a few times I just didn't get it. Any games you so wante…

    ... the real spectrum and found to my dismay that the ... careful of hitting anything
    To shoot : press fire, duh
    top/bottom
    To refuel : face you under ... being at the start. Managed to lose four transformers before getting ...
    Rebelstar Rules Rebelstar Rules February 2012 Games
  • Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…

    ... engine does not have to shift the sprite horizontally. Pixel precision vertically ... by nathan that sits on top of splib2's PRINTAT subroutine ... it just directly loads the sprite bytes to screen without background mixing ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2012 New game ideas
  • Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…

    ... engine does not have to shift the sprite horizontally. Pixel precision vertically ... by nathan that sits on top of splib2's PRINTAT subroutine ... it just directly loads the sprite bytes to screen without background mixing ...
    DaRkHoRaCe DaRkHoRaCe May 2012 New game ideas
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... copying from the top of your buffer to the top of the screen ... line lower in your buffer to the top of the screen, the ... and you've taped the bottom to the top to make a loop. And ... copying from the top. It's slightly harder to conceptualise than the ...
    joefish joefish May 2012 Development
  • Replacing Upper RAM in 48KHi Folks Well, my fun continues :) After sorting the display issues with this machine I found I couldn't load software meant for 48K machines. Havin…

    ... t know how it compares to the external circuit above. ... for example solder that on top of the ROM. Just ... before doing so, and connected to other signals. This is ... ROM makes it difficult to exchange the ROM even ... a square out of the bottom to make room, but I ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie July 2012 Hardware
  • ZX-Paintbrush 2.2.9.5Dear ZX-Paintbrush friends, I want to present you some preview pictures of my latest progresses. Well, there are some bug-fixes to do, but it's work…

    ... /> [INDENT]lpWindowName
    [in] Pointer to a null-terminated string that ... Module application, I would need to know the exact spelling of ... for future versions.
    But to implement that, I must find ... \right-r\left : h=r\bottom-r\top
    t$="abcdef"
    g0blinish g0blinish November 2012 Emulators
  • ZX-Paintbrush 2.2.9.5Dear ZX-Paintbrush friends, I want to present you some preview pictures of my latest progresses. Well, there are some bug-fixes to do, but it's work…

    ... \right-r\left : h=r\bottom-r\top
    t$="abcdef"
    so, probably, enumerating will help to find window.[/QUOTE]

    to do than enumerating the windows ...
    clausjahn clausjahn November 2012 Emulators
  • Adding IDE to your Spectrum +2 A/B (or +3)Hello my fellow [B]WoS'ers[/B] [B]This is a shared thread with [url]www.amibay.com[/url] which you can [URL="http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=…

    ... the bottom (red).
    [/LIST]
    A point to ... you are limited to 128GB due to CHS limitations - ... all four in the bottom or top left corner.
    ... the FDD mounting chassis (to avoid shorts / grounding), ... UIDE adaptor connected to the IDE to CF Adaptor.... ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 February 2013 Hardware
  • pathfindingworking on pathfinding in the game. here is Russian description of Lee's algorithm: [url]http://algolist.manual.ru/games/wavealg.php[/url] "if-then"…

    ... put $ff at the bottom to mark the end of each ... = 0
    add DESTINATION to top of STACK[0]
    repeat ...
    remove POSX from top of STACK[0]
    ... + n
    add POSY to top of STACK[n]
    rotate ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2013 Development
  • Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…

    ... and then colors from the bottom to the top of the screen.
    Pegaz Pegaz September 2013 Development
  • display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…

    ... The obvious way to move a sprite is to delete it from ... a moment when the sprite is not anywhere on ... that exact moment, the sprite vanishes and re-appears ... example) still rendering the top border, then you get ... , then drawing sprites on top of it, running code ...
    joefish joefish October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …

    ... . MSCRIPT (word processor) comes to mind.

    ... write splib2 (a sprite library) to support both video ... flies" down at the bottom and run the 2068 ... together to see if the sprite engine was going to ... be fast enough. You have to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Lime Rick, like Snake but with gravity[B]Lime Rick[/B] by [url=http://www.kissmaj7.com/games/]Kissmaj7[/url] is an elaborated version of "I Left Myself Behind". It's a puzzle game with an…

    Further to my post above, you could ... now; light source from (bottom) right to (top) left on image shadows behind ... snake. This would keep clash to a min for the apple ...
    redballoon redballoon November 2013 New game ideas
  • Documentation for SP1 for Z88DK?(I was going to post in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11729"]the other thread[/URL], so if a mod thinks this should go…

    ... on top of the background. When your program creates a sprite, it ... the sprite. They indicate to the engine there is no sprite graphic to the ... sprite. An occluding sprite covers everything underneath it. Indicating to the engine a sprite ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Development
  • What is the best Final Fantasy?I've recently found a new love for RPG's (mostly with Phantasy Star), so I guess the next step is to try Final Fantasy. They are all available at th…

    ... crap. The best in VIII to me was the off shor ... of the Weapons at the bottom to get a summon. Loved that ... took about 6 hours to get from top to bottom with no save points ... NOT start with XIII. Compared to the rest it's crap ...
    VincentAC VincentAC January 2014 Chit chat
  • Pseudo-3D map renderingHave been mulling this over for a while, until that isometric thread prompted me to ask. I'm not sure if this is officially classed as 2D, 2.5D, or 3…

    ... AND z-order for each sprite could do the trick? In ... is max y of your sprite and goes from 0 - 192 ... -order first and gradually progressing to the sprite with highest z-order ... like to add elevation (i.e. have a sprite walking on top of ...
    tstih tstih January 2014 Development
  • Pseudo-3D map renderingHave been mulling this over for a while, until that isometric thread prompted me to ask. I'm not sure if this is officially classed as 2D, 2.5D, or 3…

    ... attributes have been set up to deal with the collision ... bottom half of the sprite off, basically the head should be able to ... 2 bits to indicate whether to print that part of the sprite in ... lower half of the sprite) and the sprite seems to walk (well, lurch ...
    Morkin Morkin January 2014 Development
  • Why are multicolour engines only able to be made now?Now I'm no programmer, but, how come multicolour engines are only being created/designed now? I know there were Rainbow Graphics used in games in the…

    ... pixels, then 56 lines of bottom border (64+192+56=312 ... its beam back from the bottom to the top of the screen.

    The colour routine has to synch ... during the top border; whatever you do you need to know its ...
    joefish joefish January 2014 Brand new software
  • Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …

    ... the collective WoS brain to the challenge of printing ... a 2x2 UDG aligned to character boundaries / thirds of ... possible. I'm trying to develop pixel-scrolling versions of ... printing 4 quadrants, top left, bottom left, top right, then bottom right. I' ...
    bigjon bigjon February 2014 Development
  • LED PCB broken. Can I run a jumper wire?Hi all, This is regarding an Amstrad CPC464 so hope you guys can advise. The little pcb for the LED is broken, the LED that pops up through the upp…

    ... wire to bottom leg of resistor
    Positive wire to top leg to LED anode ...
    Negative wire to LED cathode ... I tell which is the top and bottom leg?
    Speccy_James Speccy_James February 2014 Hardware
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