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How to Write ZX Spectrum Games As some of you may know, it has long been my intention to produce a document which explains pretty much everything I have learned - and am still lea…
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Chapter One - Simple Text and Graphics
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The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …
... using a more modern text editor and cross compiler?< ... it as my perfered text editor for assembler ever ... frame sync'd so scrolling/paging up/down has ... I have with reading the text. As the cursor movment ... comment/decomment blocks of text and also toggle/set/ ... -
Feedback need about a platform gameI've developed a few iPhone games based on 8-bit computer games and am now working on a stealth platformer for the iPad. I believe that 8-bit gamepl…
... an action button. Put some text on it. Tell the user ... to negotiate obsticles with fixed scrolling. You could have some chase ... Metal gear was not side-scrolling, it was a 2D grid ... -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
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Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
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... all other hackers in the scrolling text.
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Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
... , C/PM stuff, and perhaps text adventures.
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Was the +3 a missed opportunity?I just wanted to gauge WOS opinion on this. Do people think that the +3 was a bit of disappointment that didn't really advance the hardware as much a…
... , CP/M stuff, and perhaps text adventures.
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yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…
... , output to screen, cursor handling, scrolling, timer, vector table, possibility of ... :56 cet 2011
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Spectrum: The Definitive Top 10A bit of fun. Ok, so it's 100 years from now, and the Spectrum is taking it's place in a home computer hall of fame. You have to choose 10 games th…
... it had a few decent scrolling-brawlers. This is the most ... here. This one represents the text adventures, and although I never ... -
Print TextHow do i print text on the bottom left row(memory location in attribute 23295) of the screen in assembly? I understand the parts better on paper and …
... each score each time, then scrolling up and out, you need ... de,string ; start of score text string
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The thread of belly laughsGo on folkes I could do with a laugh. Post up the some of the funnyest (or down right silliest) things you know, be it jokes, stories, images, youtub…
... the primitive screen struggles with scrolling and all the can manage ... how to scroll the big text, so do something very much ... -
In this day and age!PS3`s, Xbox`s etc.. Just received my Pandora.. and my most played games on there are Kokotoni Wilf and Match Point! Wilf: Game I`ve always started …
... point and click adventure? Or text adventure?
I'm ... used to have swathes of, scrolling shooters, isometric 3d games etc ... -
Tile based graphics and scrolling thingy...Here's my best attempt so far at a tile based rendering and scrolling routine. It draws in 22 8*8 graphics tiles along the top of the screen (junk i…
... earlier, it just scrolls the text out the top of the ... simplicity's sake. A vertical scrolling Xevious type game will be ... -
Tile based graphics and scrolling thingy...Here's my best attempt so far at a tile based rendering and scrolling routine. It draws in 22 8*8 graphics tiles along the top of the screen (junk i…
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Did you have a favourite/hated game genre?Tried a quick forum search but couldn't see anything specific on this. Thinking of the YS top 100 thread, it struck me that growing up with the spec…
... the scrolling type), shoot-em-ups, arcade adventures, puzzle games, even text ... -
whoo hooI bought an Atari 520STFM on ebay from a guy i know for ?26 this week is going to be awesome. Its just a pitty that this week my electric is being cu…
... , original fonts for the large scrolling messages, interesting in-wars between ... onto disc and add a text menu (though that in itself ... -
ZXOOM, does it work?Another game now on the run, but I got some trouble. I've tried to make it run with Spectaculator as well with ZX Spin but it clashes once loaded and…
... title screen, then SPACE on scrolling text.
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ZXOOM, does it work?Another game now on the run, but I got some trouble. I've tried to make it run with Spectaculator as well with ZX Spin but it clashes once loaded and…
... title screen, then SPACE on scrolling text.
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Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
how easy is it to get scrolling text in the border?
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Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
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BezerkI don't think that Bezerk was ever converted to the Speccy and I've always found it a playable little arcade shooter... And Android One doesnt count!…
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New MM ProjectHaving finished VHW, thought i'd have a crack at doing a Manic Miner game before getting on with AGD. Been on it for a couple of hours so well under…
[QUOTE=Alarm;586567]The scrolling message plays when the title ... a case of changing the text just go to the message ... -
House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …
... screen free for the narrative text & graphics, so it would ... on the presentation; eg. having scrolling windows instead of static boxes ... the style of graphics and text with the style of the ... -
House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …
... screen free for the narrative text & graphics, so it would ... on the presentation; eg. having scrolling windows instead of static boxes ... the style of graphics and text with the style of the ... -
Measuring the Roger Jowett problemPlease vote if you've received unsolicited mail from Roger Jowett during this year, be it binaries you didn't ask for, or unwanted invitations to soc…
... ported to cpc+
hardware scrolling
dunno how it helps ... are likely to come? lynx text only browser sif serial port ... -
How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…
... ) hidden in the lower 8 text lines and also a standalone ... print to a 42 column scrolling display.
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House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …
... plain test version with minimal text & graphics, just to demonstrate ... />
I'm presently using scrolling menus for selection, but that ... for combat - possibly some others. Scrolling through the exits gives a ... -
Scrimpy screensHere's a question - how small a window can you get away with as a playing area for an arcade/action game before anyone notices? From the very earlie…
... of [I]Egghead[/I] is text, not play area.
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House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …
... and option descriptions activated by scrolling down the list. The depth ... the location window once the text had been read. The second ... impinges into the viewable text zones. (The text windows can present more ... text than fits in the window, ...
