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  • ZX GameDev tools consolidatedHello WoS! It's been a while, yet with a plenty of decent gamedev tools (including new ones!), is there a [i]single/pivot table[/i] or some datash…

    ... my case, it's mostly scrolling engines. I guess a good ... sprites, there's no separate 'scrolling part' in these to speak ... could design custom map editors, sprite editors and so on geared ...
    Hikaru Hikaru January 2017 Development
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... half of the screen, your sprite looks like a unexpressive moving ... "enhanced" by big onomatopoeic writings scrolling in capital letters, and other ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel January 2017 Games
  • Manic Miner RunHi, For fun I started developing a iOS game based on Manic Miner. It is a left to right runner. I don't even know if it would get through the Appl…

    ... . Ideally you'd want pixel-scrolling at 50fps, although since the ... delete a rectangle around each sprite's old and new positions ... attribute. Or maybe a smart sprite routine that can check character ... OR the bits of the sprite to the screen without setting ...
    joefish joefish January 2017 Development
  • Screen resolutions and the Speccy's limits?What list of screen resolutions/palettes could the ZX Spectrum feasibly produce on a standard PAL TV if RAM, ULA or other space constraints is not a …

    ... games on it, hardware sprite and scrolling assistance pretty much becomes a ...
    AndyC AndyC January 2017 Hardware
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... or, better, limps through the scrolling environment as he's desperately ... ]
    Short story shorter: your sprite is so big that can ... .jpg?382[/img]
    Big Sprite busy tying his spacebootlace.
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel February 2017 Games
  • New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…

    ... =http://cadaver.homeftp.net/rants/sprite.htm]Insertion Y-sorting with ... persistent array[/url]
    - PUSH-scrolling
    Hikaru Hikaru February 2017 Brand new software
  • New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…

    ... http://cadaver.homeftp.net/rants/sprite.htm]Insertion Y-sorting with ... persistent array[/url]
    - PUSH-scrolling[/quote]
    1. All sprites ... .
    2. The copter sprite is pre-shifted. I’m ... 4. Me no understand PUSH-scrolling. Me simple coder. Me like ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore February 2017 Brand new software
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... a bad LSD trip. Your sprite moves in a room filled ... absurd game. Your big-nosed sprite moves among lots of skulls ... the screen following him - no scrolling! So I've found a ... scroll around, and followed my sprite, and attempted again at domesticating ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel February 2017 Games
  • Jet Set Willy 2's original author releases a modded version of the game!Apologies if this has already been posted, but Derrick P. Rowson, the original author of Jet Set Willy 2, has been modding JSW2, and the latest versi…

    ... detection to one of the sprite logics. Sprite can freely move around ... name compression.

    changed sprite data compression. Various flags added ... data shifted.

    changed scrolling message compression

    changed ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2017 Games
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... /> [b]Thuderceptor[/b] - An horizontally scrolling space shoot-em-up with ... nice, colorful and taxing vertical scrolling budget shoot-em-up featuring ... with a different player character sprite as well - this is another ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu May 2017 Games
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... of an excellent left-right scrolling routine (which causes the same ... noticeable are the player character sprite and the big, deadly alien ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu May 2017 Games
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... limited number of gates. Sprite hw does not improve on ... and the parallel logic . Sprite hw is a specialized blitter ... than "DMA for sprite pixels AND sprite info data (unless ... , not the usual limited hardware scrolling done separately.

    ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... (Assuming the Next's sprite implementation is as demoed ... than "DMA for sprite pixels AND sprite info data ( ... not the usual limited hardware scrolling done separately.
    [/ ... replacement for sprite hardware. This includes implementing sprite-equivalent ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • off screen bufferwhen using an offscreen buffer is the memory copied to the screen in a way that makes it easier to draw sprites to the buffer? E.g. Lets say you…

    ... :
    - have small buffers for sprite backgrounds and capture background when ... is scrolling)
    - redraw parts of location but not from sprite buffer ...
    Ralf Ralf June 2017 Development
  • I think maybe I'll try my hand at making a game like Boggle next.Or maybe a sliding puzzle sort of thing? Although its a royal pain working out all those symbolic characters, its kind of rewarding when it works af…

    ... example there's routines for scrolling the screen up and down ... screen. I have written a sprite editor for bi-colour that ... want to make your own sprite sheet for it, then just ...
    andrewvanbeck andrewvanbeck July 2017 BASIC
  • 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…

    ... once, then all its sprite, mapping and scrolling functions are operated through ...
    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 …

    ... to two, no sprite masks... Very possible. Using Delta scrolling (scrolls only ... single sprite or simply with different palette). As for delta scrolling - do ...
    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…

    ... not preshifted. Instead copy of sprite is put to shift buffer ... to speed up things). Shifted sprite is then drawn to screen ... screen buffer to screen. The scrolling belt at bottom aka ground ...
    catmeows catmeows October 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…

    ... lend itself well to side scrolling, but is better for ... BASIC with a 1 character scrolling ground and maybe ceiling effect ... the tasks of things like scrolling, and graphics, so in ... 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…

    ... lend itself well to side scrolling, but is better for ... BASIC with a 1 character scrolling ground and maybe ceiling effect ... the tasks of things like scrolling, and graphics, so in ... other stuff for keyboard control, sprite movement, enemy patterns and other ...
    digital digital January 2018 Development
  • Any SEUD Tutorials?I know there's a rather splendid (if not yet finished) AGD tutorial here... [url]http://randomkak.blogspot.com/p/agd-tutorial.html[/url] , but I can'…

    ... be quite tedious. However sprite movement and scrolling are smooth and pleasing.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu March 2018 Development
  • 1988-2018..OK This feels a little odd since it's always WhenIWasCruel who does these threads, but I've had the proxy approval from the man himself to go ahead a…

    ... bit bad, with your main sprite suffering from one of the ... of Ikari Warriors/Commando, vertical scrolling (with a bit of flip ...
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel March 2018 Games
  • 1988-2018..OK This feels a little odd since it's always WhenIWasCruel who does these threads, but I've had the proxy approval from the man himself to go ahead a…

    ... bit bad, with your main sprite suffering from one of the ... of Ikari Warriors/Commando, vertical scrolling (with a bit of flip ...
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause March 2018 Games
  • 1988-2018..OK This feels a little odd since it's always WhenIWasCruel who does these threads, but I've had the proxy approval from the man himself to go ahead a…

    ... bit bad, with your main sprite suffering from one of the ... of Ikari Warriors/Commando, vertical scrolling (with a bit of flip ...
    zx1 zx1 March 2018 Games
  • Am I too late?I bought a Spectrum recently and got my Spectrum 'vibe' back from watching The Spectrum Show and all that wonderful nostalgia came flowing back. C…

    ... the play area, type of scrolling and change aspects of the ... and DATA (local to each sprite or event), user programmed particle ...
    jonathan jonathan August 2018 Development
  • SpecIde: Interlaced modes.Hi! Try this: SpecIde --plus2 --flashtap --fullscreen --average mescaline_zx_128_plus2.tap (Source code and binaries in https://github.com/Mart…

    ... interlace effect (--average?) butchers sprite and scrolling on RetroForce128, but works nicely ... rock solid image movement (eg: scrolling without fuzz) at full stretch ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil August 2018 Emulators
  • Better graphic in new ZX gamesLCD TV (ideally full hd) used with ZX Spectrum enable using new graphic modes with 2x higher vertical resolution, more colors and without attribute c…

    ... .[/quote]
    What means no scrolling less than 8 pixels, no ... a pattern in the same sprite colours) background for Cybernoid, etc ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek October 2018 New game ideas
  • Better graphic in new ZX gamesLCD TV (ideally full hd) used with ZX Spectrum enable using new graphic modes with 2x higher vertical resolution, more colors and without attribute c…

    ... .[/quote]
    What means no scrolling less than 8 pixels, no ... a pattern in the same sprite colours) background for Cybernoid, etc ...
    velesoft velesoft October 2018 New game ideas
  • Better graphic in new ZX gamesLCD TV (ideally full hd) used with ZX Spectrum enable using new graphic modes with 2x higher vertical resolution, more colors and without attribute c…

    ... practical for games with big scrolling areas. Interlaced mode is better ... , only first animation example. Masked sprite is best use if background ... use same 4 colors as sprite. If sprite use different colors than ...
    velesoft velesoft October 2018 New game ideas
  • Modern Speccy games with good scrollingOne of the things I like the most on the Spectrum is also one of the hardest to pull off - a good scroll in an arcade type game. Uridium is one of my…

    ... , but that’s still not scrolling, strictly speaking.) But boy does ... buffering the area under each sprite—you redraw the entire scene ... anyway.

    With horizontal scrolling—as Jason explained—it’s ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore November 2018 Games
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