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  • need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …

    ... which line of a character square your will be starting on ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2004 Development
  • Spectrums games vs. modern games; very interesting... I've read a number of replies (on Matt's tears thread) regarding spectrum and modern console games. I found it very interesting. I think the games …

    ... built on repetition is the root of videogaming as we know ...
    Spector Spector August 2004 Games
  • How did you make it load?I used to have great difficulty getting games to load on my old Speccy + and found using superstition sometimes helped... apart from turning my tape…

    ... muscle - goodbye game! - back to square 1!

    Ah! those ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 September 2004 Games
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... two colours in an 8x8 square then.
    cyborg cyborg September 2004 Games
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... than two colours per character square makes games like Head over ...
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2004 Games
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... than two colours per character square makes games like Head over ...
    AndyC AndyC September 2004 Games
  • Storing your retro stuffLast Christmas I brought all my speccy stuff in from the garage as it was starting to get damaged. I kinda need to move it back out of my house into…

    Well, I store my stuff in the lounge. :)

    But I have been seriously looking at paid for long term storage too. ?5 a week for a 25 square meter lockable area is the best I have found.
    thx1138 thx1138 September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone here an eBay power seller, or a square trade member?I eBay a fair bit - there is a chance that I might make Power Seller status by December. Minimum ?750 per month turn over, for 3 months I think? Bro…

    ... had an issue with a square trade member last year. I ... , and complained to ebay & square trade.

    Both said ... />
    So, my opinion of square trade - its crap.
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • the happiest days of your life-pt2hello,again i have come up with 2 solutions to the problem of solving this game:- 1.the more people that try to solve this game (by combining diffe…

    Feelin' a bit bored so havin' a root thro' the archive. Nice work chaps.

    The game doesn't crash at the end so keep going! I just ran it and it works fine.

    To get the MAP you need to be carrying the MORTAR BOARD and 100 LINES.
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous September 2004 Games
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... paper, pen, for each character square.

    With a pixel ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Games
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... only 2 colours per character square.

    By halving the ... an extra 2 colours per square.

    It's all ... colours were used per character square, then the memory used could ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2004 Games
  • Help with a type-in programI've been typing in all the programs from "Games for Your ZX Spectrum" by Peter Shaw, & I've hit a snag with the 'Draughts' program. Basically what …

    ... move onto the wrong colour square!

    Mind you, I ...
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games for the Magnum Lightgun and SpinI have downloaded the games for the Magnum Lightgun from this site but they don't work. I load them in Spin and choose the otion "PC Mouse Emulates M…

    Sometimes they make a white square or rectangle which looks a lot better than the full horizontal strips.
    Fraser Fraser October 2004 Emulators
  • Games for the Magnum Lightgun and SpinI have downloaded the games for the Magnum Lightgun from this site but they don't work. I load them in Spin and choose the otion "PC Mouse Emulates M…

    ... /> Sometimes they make a white square or rectangle which looks a ...
    AndyC AndyC October 2004 Emulators
  • Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…

    ... to work with 1 bit square wave forms of course.
    Speculator Speculator October 2004 Development
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... INK/PAPER colours per attribute square. FLASH is crap.

    cyborg cyborg October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…

    ... INK/PAPER colours per attribute square. FLASH is crap.
    [/quote ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy Maps: Just what the hell is going on here then?Some time ago, a chap going by the name of Pavero built a few maps of Speccy games. Though they weren't brilliant, but they sufficed. He decided th…

    ... asked. This is at the root of the argument here, not ...
    monty.mole monty.mole October 2004 Games
  • Speccy Maps: Just what the hell is going on here then?Some time ago, a chap going by the name of Pavero built a few maps of Speccy games. Though they weren't brilliant, but they sufficed. He decided th…

    ... asked. This is at the root of the argument here, not ... /> [/quote]

    Moreso the root of the argument is that ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2004 Games
  • what is the worst game on cassette 50what is the worst games on cassette 50. i think the pacman clone is awful, but the breakout clone is much worst. and am i the only one who's got a co…

    I'd say ALL the ones which have you in control of a coloured square! Which is probably about 80% of the bloody things!



    [ This Message was edited by: Steve B on 2004-10-25 21:08 ]
    Steve B Steve B October 2004 Games
  • gta on the spectrumhas anyone thought about converting the game grand theft auto to the spectrum or mayby making a parody of it.

    ... the past decade. Unlike those Square 'RPGs' it actually plays like ...
    Collie Collie November 2004 Games
  • What game or games coulda/shoulda been better?What game are you dissapointed with, has perhaps the right ingredients but just for some reason... control/ implementaion or summit just seems to blo…

    ... is an obvious one - character square collision detection so you bounce ...
    Malc74 Malc74 November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • HL2 - The wait is nearly over...Well, at work today, we had a first batch of HL2 DVD's turn up. it's soo annoying now, knowing that I had the game in my hand, and I can't play it ye…

    ... "ClientRegistry.blob" from the Steam root folder, and hey presto! A ...
    The Starglider The Starglider November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recommend a 48k music program for me, or teach me how to search for them in infoseek. ThxThe only 48k music tracker I happen to know is Wham! Which ones do you like? Can anybody point me to some old threads on the subject? Thanks, E

    ... to use more or less square-wave pitches for 1-3 ...
    Erlstoned Erlstoned November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recommend a 48k music program for me, or teach me how to search for them in infoseek. ThxThe only 48k music tracker I happen to know is Wham! Which ones do you like? Can anybody point me to some old threads on the subject? Thanks, E

    ... 128k has 3 channels of square-waves ( and a white noise ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recommend a 48k music program for me, or teach me how to search for them in infoseek. ThxThe only 48k music tracker I happen to know is Wham! Which ones do you like? Can anybody point me to some old threads on the subject? Thanks, E

    ... 128k has 3 channels of square-waves ( and a white noise ... much more complex than simple square waves :)

    [quote] Most ...
    Erlstoned Erlstoned November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Recommend a 48k music program for me, or teach me how to search for them in infoseek. ThxThe only 48k music tracker I happen to know is Wham! Which ones do you like? Can anybody point me to some old threads on the subject? Thanks, E

    ... 128k has 3 channels of square-waves ( and a white ... much more complex than simple square waves :)

    [/quote]< ... />
    Nope - it's just Square waves and volume envelopes. On ... - but it's still only square waves.


    ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Pixel LimitIF Y3&lt;192 THEN : LET x2=INT (128+X*A*SIN A): LET y2=INT (Y3): DRAW INK

    ... the 2 colour per character square attribute restriction of the Spectrum ...
    monty.mole monty.mole November 2004 Sinclair Basic
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