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  • Full-screen 32 columns bicolor engine NIRVANA+I'm glad to announce the release of [b]NIRVANA+ ENGINE[/b], providing support for bicolor graphics (multicolor 8x2) in 32 columns for all standard Sp…

    ... pentagon combined.

    The engine's options are selected in ... it's internal. In wide sprite mode, this function draws a ... sprite as if it's normal ... " versions jump directly into the engine without disabling interrupts.
    < ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2017 Brand new software
  • 128k memory musingI've been pondering on the 128k memory thing a bit, and it's just bloody stupid. The 64k memory space is divided in four chunks. One is always los…

    ... fast enough. I put the sprite code itself in uncontended memory ... in my Zelda type walkabout engine and it gives a much ...
    dave18 dave18 May 2017 Development
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... more flexible than dedicated sprite hardware necessary to display ... implement than "DMA for sprite pixels AND sprite info data (unless ... more complicated than dedicated sprite hw. The sprite hw defines exactly ... part of a general dma engine that can also send ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... data in RAM whereas a sprite system is never having to ... is supposed to do, something sprite hardware knows inherently).[/quote]
    No, it depends on the sprite/blitter implementations and the effect ... graphics doesn't fit the engine restrictions very well.
    Lethargeek Lethargeek May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... than a specialized blitter (like sprite hw). You claimed the reverse ... likely need less variables than sprite hw. Not to mention it ... put a partially useful dma engine in just because it sounds ... whereas adding this kind of sprite hw does.[/quote]
    Well ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Good engine, boring levelsWhich games suffer from this ? Shadow of the beast is example no.1 Most Amiga platformers.

    ... different colours if possible. Also sprite colours, were compromised, if you ... original colour capabilities in the engine, but I'm guessing that ...
    AndyC AndyC June 2017 Games
  • z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …

    ... tile map so the engine is keeping track of ... are the only engines with sprite functions defined. No information ... . So to move a sprite, you have to erase ... that when erasing the sprite. In most cases the ... is no background where the sprite moves.

    ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2017 Development
  • Just watched Paul Jenkinsons's spectrum chanel and now want to write code againPlease assume for the purpose of this thread I know nothing... I want to look to write games on the spectrum but want to develop and test on my wi…

    ... know BASIC; my own graphics engine called CharAde.
    http://www ... it once, then all its sprite, mapping and scrolling functions are ...
    joefish joefish August 2017 Development
  • New game out now: Final Fantasy ZXEver since I played the games on the SNES, I thought that it should be possible to make a strapped-down version for the Speccy. Just minus any super …

    ... be reduced to two, no sprite masks... Very possible. Using Delta ... simply horizontal mirror of single sprite or simply with different palette ... you have suggestion for available engine?

    [quote="LCD;435492 ...
    devyx devyx September 2017 Games
  • Loadsa bullets on screen (silkworm)Did games like silkworm just draw everything to the screen or did they have complicated optimisations? and the types of games where sprites can occu…

    ... to work out if one sprite completely or partially hides another ... other, as in a 3D engine like [i]Knight Lore[/i ... can be skipped if a sprite character or scenery character is ...
    joefish joefish October 2017 Development
  • Chibi Akumas - Spectrum Port Planned!I'm planning to port my CPC game, Chibi Akumas to the ZX Spectrum! I will be targeting the 128k disk based systems - as this will be the best (and mo…

    ... importantly, I have ported my "Sprite Compiler" to the spectrum, which ... the code of the game engine, I'll be breaking it ... early build of my multiplatform sprite editor are available on the ...
    keith56 keith56 October 2017 Development
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    ... ]
    ;Isometric Chess board display engine version 0.83c
    ;(c ... />
    org 0fc00h

    ;sprite data 232 bytes with the ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... had chance to examine this engine, but the manual seems fairly ... far... the point of the engine, as far as i can ... graphics, so in theory, this engine should be ideal for your ... other stuff for keyboard control, sprite movement, enemy patterns and other ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2018 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... had chance to examine this engine, but the manual seems fairly ... far... the point of the engine, as far as i can ... graphics, so in theory, this engine should be ideal for your ... other stuff for keyboard control, sprite movement, enemy patterns and other ...
    digital digital January 2018 Development
  • Editorless AGD Now for Spectrum as well as Next/TimexI've updated the editorless version of AGD to 0.3, fixing the Next/Timex CLS routine and adding a Spectrum engine and compiler. For those not alread…

    ... was because of the compiler/engine mismatch; the block colours are ... engine and READ/DATA/RESTORE locally for each event or individual sprite ...
    jonathan jonathan February 2018 Brand new software
  • 3D Game Maker Classic TitlesOn Wos there are a few games made on the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001956"]3D Game Maker[/url]. Most of them are of poo…

    ... wish, by binding the sprite to a variable and inserting ... a script in the Initialise Sprite event, so that, if ... a certain value and that sprite is not spawned again. ... s not so much the engine that is "able" to ... used the MT Churrera engine once but I remember ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2018 Games
  • New release: Windows AGDOkay, so it's not quite a full suite of editors but it's a start. For now you can play with the window size and edit blocks, sprites, objects and th…

    ... phenomenal progress with the Atom engine and compiler.

    I ... DATA being local to each sprite you'll figure that out ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2018 Brand new software
  • Drawing LinesHas anyone got any experience of coding a Bresenham line drawing algorithm on the Speccy? I've had a go and I find the algorithm has quite a few s…

    ... in other character-cell or sprite-based games).

    If ... planned is a generic vector engine. Once the clipping is worked ...
    joefish joefish March 2019 Development
  • Great Game Inlay's, Game Not So GoodEver get hyped up over a game inlay back in the day only to find either the game wasn't what you thought it would be or was just plain crap?! Years …

    ... uses roughly the same game engine as One Man And His ... />
    Talking of which, the sprite you control is nothing like ...
    Nick Nick June 2019 Games
  • yet another map editor :)I (too) have decided to make a map editor to make me making games a bit easier. Mappy and Tiled look great but in the end I wanted something that doe…

    ... with the smooth sprite action and flip screen engine that you have ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil March 2021 Development
  • yet another map editor :)I (too) have decided to make a map editor to make me making games a bit easier. Mappy and Tiled look great but in the end I wanted something that doe…

    ... with the smooth sprite action and flip screen engine that you have ...
    Timmy Timmy March 2021 Development
  • How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…

    ... basic with its so simple sprite instructions i did good versions ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr January 2002 Games
  • Bug in Nemesis the WarlockI've noticed a bug in Nemesis the Warlock that prevents the game from being completed. On level 7, both on the 48K and 128K versions, the sprite repr…

    ... 48K and 128K versions, the sprite representing Nemesis will become all ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2001 Games
  • Problems with MySQLHi all, The creation of the new 'Sales' forum this morning somehow corrupted the MySQL database that the forum engine uses. A repair was needed, but…

    ... MySQL database that the forum engine uses.
    A repair was ...
    Martijn van der Heide Martijn van der Heide December 2000 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Quiz IV (Oh God not another one!!!)Yup, another chance to prove your knowledge of Speccy games. Some questions are cryptic, some aren't! One point per corecct answer. Post your answ…

    ... is the name of the engine behind Driller, Darkside, Total Eclipse ...
    Vampyre Vampyre May 2002 Games
  • Quiz 14(ish)- Giddy up horsey.. whooo! Ok, 10 quick fire questions.. Some cryptic - you`ll have to unravel the clues to get the game name, Some are description of the game. Others are in…

    ... points)


    2: Sprite Machine, Art-o-Matic, Paint ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins July 2002 Games
  • Quiz - Something still alive..Hi there.. I made a quiz, just 10 questions.. one point per questions. Wins who reach 15 points =} If not then who get more points. AH!! send me th…

    ... game which uses the same engine that IkariWarriors.

    4 ...
    Javier Alca?iz Javier Alca?iz July 2002 Games
  • The Quiz to end all quizzesHere it is - The Quiz To End All Quizzes. You will have a whole [B]month[/b) to answer the questions presented here. 1. All answers give 1 point un…

    ... different title and main character sprite. Which were the two different ... with a different main character sprite: the first version came from ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2002 Games
  • Yet Another Speccy Quiz (not too hard)OK! I thought I'd chance my arm at one of these things. I must say I've found the recent quizzes WAY too difficult, so I've pitched this one at simpl…

    ... Google-ing; (or other search engine-ing)

    - NO posting ...
    Ed Ed August 2002 Games
  • Misleading blurbI've been looking thru some of the scans of adverts and inlay cards lately, and apart from the nostalgia, it's very entertaining to see some of the r…

    ... claimed that the Filmation game engine gave you the freedom to ...
    Anonymous Anonymous August 2002 Games
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