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Try to remembering arcade beat 'em upHmmm, I wonder if anyone can help me remember the name of an arcade beat 'em up I played while on holiday (on some Spanish island) years ago. Here's…
... of an arcade beat 'em up I played while on holiday ... (like Commando) gang beat 'em up.
[*]You weren’t a ... punch/kick etc and pick up weapons. I remember a baseball ... -
Some questions for us big-brains to ponder...1) In this week's Micro Mart (well, tomorrow it will be last weeks, but I only got around to reading it today) it says that it's untrue that PC compo…
... Paris Hilton? The subject came up today (she was in some ... not have the ability to stack bulk copy/move tasks from ... -
Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …
... FETCHS: equ $2bf1 ;from calculator stack: AEDCB
FPTOBC: equ ... 2dd5 ;from calculator stack: A
;stack function parameters passed ... stack,string_expression,max_length,substr;
;expand string_expression and print up ... -
WANTED - Artist and Designer for Shoot'em-Up...WANTED - Artist and Designer for original Shoot'em-Up game on the 128K ZX Spectrum. Two positions are available, Artist and Designer - although the …
... Designer for original Shoot'em-Up game on the 128K ZX ... -based horizontal scrolling shoot'em-up currently in development.
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
... /> #pragma output STACKPTR=53248 // place stack at $d000 at startup
Cleaning sound up on video clips I've recorded? Lose background noise, keep voice etcAnyone know of any freeware that can do this? Today, for example, I recorded about 20 minutes of bike riding, with an external mic, but an open face…
... like to clean the footage up, remove, or lessen engine and ...Multicolour demo using z88dk + BIFROST* (+source)This is just a demo to show how to show multicolour using z88dk, using the BIFROST* engine (more info [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/sho…
... output STACKPTR=48450 // place stack at 48450 at startup
// Function to Set Up Keyboard as a Joystick
joykeys.up = in_LookupKey('q');
joykeys ...
// Setting up some variables
d=1 ...20KWell here it is the 20000th post, a monumental event indeed, even if 18000 of them are complete drivel :D Should I be proud? Or should I be ashamed…
... Saukas, csmith, AndyC, joefish, Jumping Stack, Shaun. Bebbington, ccowley, Badbeard, festershinetop ... Van Der Heide, for putting up WOS in the first place ... , and for putting up with me for the last ...using the ROM's FP calculatorIs it possible to use the ROM's FP calculator to evaluate any FP expression in a single sequence of commands without breaking out to stack some other…
... commands without breaking out to stack some other element of the ... , but I usually get tangled up and have work out an ... />
stack A : stack B : rst $28 : divide : end_calc
stack C : stack D ...ASCII shoot'em-up. Work-in-progress video #1.I've posted up my first WIP video of the ASCII shoot'em-up game: [URL="http://www.facebook.com/bobs.stuff"]http://www.facebook.com/bobs.stuff[/URL] …
I've posted up my first WIP video of ... the ASCII shoot'em-up game:
[URL="http ...28-character wide multicolour(ish) on 48k SpectrumLong-time lurker here... I've always been interested in rainbow effects on the 48k Spectrum, mainly from a perspective of "Just what [I]would [/I]ha…
... read it! Gasman independently came up with essentially the same approach ... (four PUSHes), then rearranges the stack pointer to point at the ... .
[*]You could set up the exchange registers ahead of ...
ld bc,1122H ; Load up some attribute data
ld ...Mine Alert from MH, already typed up by Namco and missing from WoS (Neil Parsons??!)I was reading the thread where the game "Sir Gawain" was typed up and uploaded to the archive and noticed that the same person did type up also anoth…
... game "Sir Gawain" was typed up and uploaded to the archive ... the same person did type up also another game from Microhobby ...My Amstrad 6128 System up for saleI just dont use it, its set up there all the time but I never feel the need to turn it on, just doesnt do it for me for some reason Anyway, [URL="htt…
... dont use it, its set up there all the time but ...Matching calls and returnsHi all, A pretty fundamental question here that I probably should have sorted by now. I've noticed how much the stack has built out in my current g…
... 've noticed how much the stack has built out in my ... you lose a life the stack builds by a word, (and ... , or are happy to clean up the stack as they go?QL Fondler up for $1.3 million prizeEl Reg report that Linux developer Linus Torvalds is up for a Finnish Academy prize [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/20/linux_founder_linus…
El Reg report that Linux developer Linus Torvalds is up for a Finnish Academy prize
[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/20/linux_founder_linus_torvalds_tech_prize/[/url]
It also reveals his first computer was a Vic-20simplest method to pass a string to m/code?The statement "RANDOMIZE numvar+USR mc" is a simple way of passing a single numeric parameter to a m/c routine, as mc can retrieve numvar from the to…
... the top of the calculator stack. I've been trying to ... code to adjust the machine stack and then a call to ... string details onto the calculator stack before they can be taken ... some prefatory code to set up a location for the name ...Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …
... is drawn from the bottom up,
starting with the ... save all registers and the stack pointer
push bc< ... $ + 9 ; set return location (no stack available)
ld (endcall), hl ...
ld sp, (sp_cache) ; resotre stack pointer and all registers
St Dragon - Its possible to speed up dragon??I remember years ago Bad Beard, at psj3809 comment on makes an slower version of Slap Fight to make it more playable. The version they released were…
... , you can collect an speed-up pill. I dont remember if ...Ebay Sales just upHello all again at last. Have finally got round to start listing the 2nd big box of my old speccy games here..... [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/mun…
... , my copy of RODLAND is up and a few nice bundles ...Stealth AllRAM SpectrumHaving just received a couple of new keyboard membranes to fix a couple of machines with, the thought crossed me that I should do a special project w…
... hell does it ever boot up? The intention for this ... fact it keeps a private stack too and doesn't even ... wick and try to soak up as much solder as ... . Basically, I want to end up with this:
... "dead cockroach" modification, wire up the write pin of the ...Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Humans.Ok. This topic is about those vertical shoot'em up's in which you control a human. Why? Because I say so. It's just a nitpicking categorization. And…
... about those vertical shoot'em up's in which you control ... a magical/fantasy shoot'em up.
Any game to ...Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Ground Vehicles.Ok, the topic says it all. We're talking about tanks, jeeps, cars, pogo sticks and futuristic vehicles (as in Marauder). There's no really substanti…
... from the Vertical Shoot'em Up's with Humans: in fact ... the case in Shoot'em Up's with aircrafts, but arbitrary ... (and non-vertical) Shoot'em Up's.
Observations? Additions ...Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Spacecrafts.what's missing? for updated lists look [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/concealedwords/home/zxspectrumgames/vertical-shoot-em-up-s"]here[/URL]. …
Interesting tip to speed up user experience...Hi Folks, I suspect many of you will already know this but it only dawned on me a couple of weeks ago. Whilst trying to improve the speed on my XIN…
... REPDEL & REPPER to speed up keyboard response
1010 POKE ...Any ideas on speeding up this assembler segment?It copies a pixel column of a rectangle which may be anywhere in the display file to a pixel column in d$. The source column may start at any bit pos…
... not shown here repeats for up to eight pixcols left-> ...Ideas for speeding up this BASIC routine?This loop can take up to 2 minutes to run, depending upon the content of the screen being scanned, about 70% of that time being taken up by lines 105…
This loop can take up to 2 minutes to run, ... % of that time being taken up by lines 1055 (50 secs ... suggestions on how to speed up those two parts (other than ... calls, they don't take up much time; it's just ...need a new method for m/c parameter assignmentI've been using a variable length function of the form: "FN a$(a$,a[,b...,z])=STR$ USR md" to search a data table and return a string result. By putt…
... " on the calculator stack and manipulating the machine stack before the RET ... .
I could speed up things by using "PRINT USR ... the parameters off the calculator stack with SCANNING but then I ...
