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New Game and HelloHi All, Long, long time lurker and contributor (hardware index, PiMan files etc..) but having been quiet for a few years I thought I might register. …
... 't have all that to scroll past in the type 0 ... maximum co-ords for horizontal / vertical baddies is to set their ... each screen, and likewise for vertical ones. -
New Game :- Ghost CastleA simultaneous release here at WOS and at Retro Rewind (Binman on the scene passing it everywhere ) This only started off as a "I wonder if I can d…
... said before, it's the scroll.
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New Game :- Ghost CastleA simultaneous release here at WOS and at Retro Rewind (Binman on the scene passing it everywhere ) This only started off as a "I wonder if I can d…
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ToadrunnerDid anybody finish this game? I would like to map it, but I would need some concrete tips how to use objects, respective which object can kill druid,…
... path is safe.
two vertical = right path
solid = ... mitten = middle path
two vertical = bottom path
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Mr Do! ?Not exactly a new idea (at least twenty-seven years old now :-o), but how about a port of Mr Do! to the Spectrum? There was never an official one, ev…
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Lightforce - a classic?Was [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/08/spectrum-games-light-force-classic-zx.html"]Lightforce [/URL](reviewed) a classic shmup? I rec…
... 't been a full colour vertical space shoot-em up that ... 've got a great colour scroll and some multi coloured sprite ... -
Lightforce - a classic?Was [URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/08/spectrum-games-light-force-classic-zx.html"]Lightforce [/URL](reviewed) a classic shmup? I rec…
... 't been a full colour vertical space shoot-em up that ... 've got a great colour scroll and some multi coloured sprite ... -
Mr Do! ?Not exactly a new idea (at least twenty-seven years old now :-o), but how about a port of Mr Do! to the Spectrum? There was never an official one, ev…
... screen will still need to scroll vertically. This requires a buffer ... can use TV/monitor in vertical position:
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24x horizontal attributes ... -
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 …
... any one of four horizontal/vertical combinations saving memory.
... on itself... so to scroll the screen, you only ... overcome by setting the vertical blank interrupt to trigger ...
full_scroll
shadow_off
scroll 64,64
screen_on
Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
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(aligned and/ ...Smooth (vertical) scrolling on ZX SpectrumI was just thinking about this. You know, you have systems like Atari 2600 or Sega SG-1000 that have no hardware scroll, but they have games that sti…
... a 128 and halve the vertical resolution you can do it ... . But then a 2-pixel scroll at 50Hz would be far ...Smooth (vertical) scrolling on ZX SpectrumI was just thinking about this. You know, you have systems like Atari 2600 or Sega SG-1000 that have no hardware scroll, but they have games that sti…
... a 128 and halve the vertical resolution you can do it ... . But then a 2-pixel scroll at 50Hz would be far ...Smooth (vertical) scrolling on ZX SpectrumI was just thinking about this. You know, you have systems like Atari 2600 or Sega SG-1000 that have no hardware scroll, but they have games that sti…
... difference between moving pixels in tile based system opposed to Spectrum ... have to re-write the tile map to move whole tiles ... pixels that make up every tile. It'd be like only ... more data to copy to scroll the screen.Flip Screen vs ScrollingWhich do you prefer? I've always liked flip screen games but I had a C64(spit) owning friend who hated them with a passion.
... scrolling. Quite why it didnt scroll smoothly horizontally like it did ... CPU intensive than vertical scrolling.
To scroll 1 pixel vertically ... pixels (32 bytes). To scroll 1 pixel horizontally you need ... the display you want to scroll and OR in 192 ...50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... push of course :)
Nice tile graphics and the attributes are ... it was a 2 pixel scroll, the 2 pixels on the ... attribute scrolling (joefish does not scroll attribute map) is not helping ...Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…
... also include a code for vertical repetition, then remember when you ... best to stick with a tile-based (or slice-based) map ...enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…
... IX and IY for two tile sets, I think it'll ... the sprites are ordered by vertical position and I can draw ... 0
Draw tile row 1
Draw tile row 2
Draw sprites for tile row 0
Draw tile row 3
Draw sprites for tile row 1
etc.
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... images at 45?, so things scroll one character left and one ... that's wrong for a vertical shmup there, like the crappy ...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…
... ways and the routine will scroll up or down depending simply ... for simplicity's sake. A vertical scrolling Xevious type game will ...SP1 library questionsI'm working on my first game. I've not written a game since the late 1980s and that was a text based multiuser dungeon for BBC Micros with econet... …
... (uchar iflag, uchar colour, uchar tile);
iflag = ... way to easily do background tile animations.
Regarding ... can investigate the background tile colour of a particular char ... view=markup"]spectrum.h[/URL]. Scroll down to the "display ...Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…
... of those games involves a tile-mapped background with sprites on ... as static background objects then scroll the background to make it ...Pixelwise scrolling sideways - how many ways to do it?Not that I need to, but I've been wondering if there's a good way to do this that I haven't considered. Scrolling [B]pixelwise [/B]vertically is "ea…
... (for each row of the tile). It's a very fast ... to do an 8-pixel scroll. In [I]Cobra[/I] (the ... fastest scroll routine he wrote), there's ...Pixelwise scrolling sideways - how many ways to do it?Not that I need to, but I've been wondering if there's a good way to do this that I haven't considered. Scrolling [B]pixelwise [/B]vertically is "ea…
... wonder about doing a finer scroll but optimised to a higher ... you can always optimise the scroll around a majority of blank ... if you want a detailed tile map across the whole play ...Willy Meets The BeatlesHere's the almost complete release of Willy Meets The Beatles, which you can download from [URL="http://www.sendspace.com/file/55ps31"]HERE![/URL] T…
... take it it's a vertical and the floors turns white ... or 04 for some reason vertical guards can cut 1 pixel ... just be that the floor tile has no top pixel row ...Pixelwise scrolling sideways - how many ways to do it?Not that I need to, but I've been wondering if there's a good way to do this that I haven't considered. Scrolling [B]pixelwise [/B]vertically is "ea…
... width of the screen would scroll in under a second; 1 ... [I]Hysteria[/I] was to scroll the ground every single frame ... it's a 4-frame tile it scrolls by two pixels ... your game design allows it - Scroll a peripheral portion of the ...A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…
... one-off rendering of a tile image at any position ... area without interference from the tile renderer.[/QUOTE]
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[*] Re-implement the tile rendering routine in a way ... falls, I deactivate rendering, scroll it, then reactivates rendering so ...Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…
... can do the pre-shifted scroll in a spare uncontended bank ... , like that MASK example shows, vertical scrolling is fairly easy - you ...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…
... efficient tricks of the push-scroll in a multicolour routine. [I ... was first talk of a tile engine. You could have multiple ... tile graphics that can share common ... attribute palettes, then have a tile manager that identifies the shared ...50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... /ink) or a repeating background tile that takes up the whole ... ink/paper 0 attribute "skyscrapers" scroll rapidly in front of the ...Scrolling a mapCan someone explain in idiots terms how you scroll a map. I'm not after code as such, just an explanation of how it can be done. I'd like to scroll…
... from to the nearest whole tile.
Then, you render ... precise amount you want to scroll.
Finally, you copy ... , again, based on the precise scroll position. You can do this ... be a hidden coloumn one tile or character wide at the ...
