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  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... ops (clearing the screen, scrolling, drawing a simple opaque sprite, calling useful ...
    GOC GOC January 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... ops (clearing the screen, scrolling, drawing a simple opaque sprite, calling useful ... about how to access the screen in the second chapter.
    screen layout doesn't mean he ... all the information about the screen and other I/O devices ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2004 Development
  • Another name of the gamePlease, help me find this game! It was side-view, you controlled a girl (big white-color sprite), you can throw fireballs in undead creatures flying …

    ... 's not them. The girl sprite in game I'm looking ... mantion, the sprite height is about 1/3 of screen. The girl ... flying from both sides of screen. It was not a scrolling ... game, it was screen-based game. You could travel ...
    kmatveev kmatveev January 2004 Games
  • C64 & Spectrum loadingscreens!I was bored today, so I decided to compare some stuff. :) [url="http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/"]http://www.lemon64.com/loadingscreens/[/ur…

    ... colours if it's a sprite and you want transparency, one ... to fit the 256*192 screen area and the "pixel" are ...
    Sadako Sadako February 2004 Games
  • Spectrum 128 Graphics - A missed opportunity?The Spectrum 128 is my favourite model of the Spectrum - the pinnacle of the Sinclair miracle before it was hijacked by Amstrad. But I can't help thi…

    ... like "Midget" that uses the screen area 16384-23295, but if ... marketing, but as for cutting edge innovation?

    *What if ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ...
    The sprite engine part will become "Sprite Pack lib #1 ... character squares that change between screen updates. The second uses ... SPGetKey

    ; move sprite 3 pixels right and
    sprite
    ; against the full screen

    ld ix,sprite ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
  • Platform vs BackgroundForgive my ignorance if this is a 'stoopid' question, but although I've written games for many platforms over the years I'm only now making my first …

    ... color attribute, taken from screen coordinates by ATTR() function. ... on screen size. Wall will not allow player sprite to ... move to some coordinates on screen, background ... means that you should draw player sprite ...
    kmatveev kmatveev February 2004 Development
  • Chuckie EggHi peeps, a long time ago I wrote the original version of chuckie egg on the speccy. I've just heard about this board and was told I should say hello…

    ... /> In an old copy of Edge Retro, it covers the making ... was based on a single screen game called Eggy Kong or ...
    Gilby Gilby February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... time to do otherwise; the sprite system is sorting the co ... for each update of the screen so something has to give ... focussed on the central player sprite and will perceptually blur the ...
    TMR TMR March 2004 Games
  • Some new files from the TZX Vault don't work!I am having severe problems with a couple of files I downloaded from the Vault after the last update. The 128K version of [I]Three Weeks in Paradise[…

    ... emulators. In addition Fastloading and Edge Mode have problems.

    screen in some emulators is because ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker March 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …

    ... on the third screen, position yourself at the right edge, press UP ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu March 2004 Games
  • Where you jealous of Commodore 64 owners?I most definitely WAS! A sad admission, I know. I knew they had me beaten when I went round to a mate's house and saw 'The Way of the Exploding Fist'…

    ... can have a hi res screen (320x200, two colors) and hi ... can be different from the screen colors). You can also mix ... and match any screen modewith any type of sprites ... definitely gives the 64 the edge over the Speccy in the ...
    Bacon Bacon March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Where you jealous of Commodore 64 owners?I most definitely WAS! A sad admission, I know. I knew they had me beaten when I went round to a mate's house and saw 'The Way of the Exploding Fist'…

    ... can have a hi res screen (320x200, two colors) and hi ... can be different from the screen colors). You can also mix ... and match any screen modewith any type of sprites ... definitely gives the 64 the edge over the Speccy in the ...
    bjohnnybravo bjohnnybravo March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Artist / Artists Required For 3 Brand-New Spectrum Game ProjectsHi all, I am currently looking for high quality sprite and background tile artists for 3 forthcoming Spectrum games I have on the go at the moment. …

    ... ... just make "Y buffer": split screen in 4-8 areas and ... , mask Y coord and place sprite number into one of these ... top buffer and draw every sprite placed in, then draw every ... sprite fom second one and etc.. ...
    Fikee Fikee March 2004 Development
  • 1 colour per pixel without interlace flickering on +3No, no, it is just April's Fool day. ;)

    ... this type involves doing each screen/sprite/etc., and then it would ... able to churn out flip screen Dizzy type games, pick up ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • EmuZWin problem!Hello! I'm trying to load Fairlight I into EmuZWin v2.4.004. It don't load at all. I'v tryed several versions of fairlight I and II. Thees files …

    ... custom grid on the editor screen, like resizable sqares of ... and ends, because sometimes many sprite stick togheter ( even with autowidth ... just draw something on the screen without using udg graphics, and ... 3 or four pointers on screen !!
    Another is that ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2004 Emulators
  • EmuZWin problem!Hello! I'm trying to load Fairlight I into EmuZWin v2.4.004. It don't load at all. I'v tryed several versions of fairlight I and II. Thees files …

    ... custom grid on the editor screen, like resizable sqares of let ... and ends, because sometimes many sprite stick togheter ( even with autowidth ... and white dotds on the screen. Do you remember the option ... 3 or four pointers on screen !![/quote]
    But if e ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov April 2004 Emulators
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... had to recolour the main screen using colours from another part ... getting better and better !! The sprite finder is a great idea ... the instruction :) and resize the screen before I try to convert ... several 'dead' mouse pointer on screen at the same time.While ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2004 Emulators
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... row. If you found your sprite and adjusted already to a ... . scrolling to the nearest horizontal edge) it is better to adjust ... scroll further by pages, this sprite (and may be neighbour ones ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov April 2004 Emulators
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... lots of tricks and different sprite formats) and I think it ... final touch for the intro screen of Bruce Lee ! If there ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2004 Emulators
  • 256 colour gamesFollowing on from the thread in the Emulator section... Will people who are working on converting games to 256 colour using Emuzwin please let me kn…

    ... thought ? Can I see some screen shots ?

    Just kidding ... look even better than those screen shots, however I encontered a ... a wile the screen gets corruppted and the sprite overwrite themself with ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2004 Games
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... to clean the sprites from screen, so they are not "recolourable ... ]

    In the title screen the menu is drawed on ... are used to "delete" the sprite and with those absent the ... sprite leaves a "trail" behind.
    < ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2004 Emulators
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... 1.- Look at the garbled screen I meant: [url="http:// ... to clean the sprites from screen, so they are not ... used to "delete" the sprite and with those absent ... the sprite leaves a "trail" behind.
    sprite using those colours they ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2004 Emulators
  • 256 colour gamesFollowing on from the thread in the Emulator section... Will people who are working on converting games to 256 colour using Emuzwin please let me kn…

    ... the GFX editor click on sprite finder .A window wil open ... until some graphics appears on screen.
    This is how I ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2004 Games
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... na_th_an:
    [quote]
    ... garbled screen ...
    This happens with every ... to Scotland kilt. Most of screen should be of the same ... to clean the sprites from screen, so they are not "recolourable ... ? So if I shade a sprite using those colours they get ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov April 2004 Emulators
  • 256 colour gamesFollowing on from the thread in the Emulator section... Will people who are working on converting games to 256 colour using Emuzwin please let me kn…

    ... the GFX editor click on sprite finder .A window wil open ... until some graphics appears on screen.
    This is how I ...
    Refrenz Refrenz April 2004 Games
  • Scariest Speccy Games EVER!!!!Were there any speccy games that truly made you smudge your shreddies? When Wolfman and Dracula were released with an 18 Certificate was that just b…

    ... Jason came on to the screen after you, although he always ... seemed to keep me on edge.
    Sonic Quack Sonic Quack April 2004 Games
  • Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…

    ... the Spider's main title screen).

    Similarly, no ... />
    First, hide the spectrum screen. Tuck it away out of ... our nice large 1024x768, 32bpp screen. When it's done, it ... drawing functions. Trap the Gunsight sprite draw routine. Tell the script ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2004 Games
  • Sound DreamJust daydreaming, don't beat me for this, if any of you assembler guru's (especially emulator developers) ever are in need of new ideas, it would be…

    ... and also the timings and screen layouts are axactly the same ... net with enhanched or changed sprite and graphics ( can't forget ... to recreate the movements and sprite collision and enemies behiveur with ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2004 Games
  • New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…

    ... and also the timings and screen layouts are axactly the same ... net with enhanched or changed sprite and graphics ( can't forget ... to recreate the movements and sprite collision and enemies behiveur with ...
    Arm73 Arm73 April 2004 Emulators
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