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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…
... joefish's routine consumes almost all the CPU, there's no time ... movement speed. Most of the time, the scenery will be moving ... . This is probably fine since joefish's routine doesn't use ... -
Speed tip - "e" notationHi Folks, Whilst reading my "new" Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC manual I came across "e" notation again. In MRT I have the following line which is use…
... etc. as they had little time to perfect the code and ... the development tools of the time were no doubt rather basic ... set and whatever else. By comparison, the 128K's additional 16K ... -
Angry Birds?If you've never played it, it's basically 'fire a bird from a catapult and try to kill the pigs who are protected by buildings which your bird will d…
Off ya go then Joefish, there's ya next game sorted. Ready by this time next week? Lovely. -
Things to ponderJust some questions that have tugged at my curiosity recently, and since I'm stuck here sorting out a laptop (gorgeous Saturday, tons of things I cou…
... saves processing power or run time or whatever by only having ... detailed game world in real time, but [at the moment] the ... />
[QUOTE=joefish;618425]This is the sort ... -
Optimize this: Distance CalculationBased on a taylor series expansion, suggested by NA_TH_AN, I've got this so far, which is far far faster than SQR(X^2+y^2) Formula is: in a right an…
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I did a comparison test, just to be sure ... second off the length of time it takes to test all ... -
BorderTron 3000A little bit of speccy-related fun for a Friday afternoon... I've knocked together a program for Windows which I've called Bordertron 3000 (a suitabl…
... thanks for the idea there JoeFish, about adjusting the timing without ... "Pause", Ill have to find time to do one with more ... -
Mr Do!, and paging ajmoss and othersIn threads like [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=466099[/url] the possibility of Mr Do! has been discussed, but nothing…
[QUOTE=joefish;619096]There were a few ... the fact that by the time Speccy games programmers were up ... never got a decent [I]Time Pilot[/I] either.[/QUOTE]
time classic, and for it not ... -
Any good Roguelikes on the Speccy?Apart from the obvious one. Is anyone considering making one...?
... different, IIRC they're real time and don't have randomly ... us, Lee [I][Edit - and Joefish!][/I] have just volunteered to ... -
Released programs using Fourspriter?What programs have been released so far, using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0023858"]Fourspriter[/URL]? There's [URL="http…
... too bad at all. In comparison, not a single program has ... ;) Maybe if I found the time *or* a translator to make ... -
How was JetSetWilly made?Dear all, Can any help explain how games like JetSetWilly are put together? In a programming environment (rather than a GameMkier one), how were ro…
[QUOTE=joefish;621578]Because those last two ... and playable games at a time of such utter dross. The ... names were known at the time. His subsequent disappearance made it ... -
Released programs using Fourspriter?What programs have been released so far, using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0023858"]Fourspriter[/URL]? There's [URL="http…
... too bad at all. In comparison, not a single program has ... a game, and even more time to make it playable. I ... 'm working at, at same time (one is finished, but needs ... -
The Spectrum Show (video)Just something I have been messing about with. Had a video project coming up at work and needed to get my video editing refreshed - so I made this li…
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A Galaxian comparison is on the cards (along ... feature.... oh and of course time :-) -
Floods near meWell, we've had a fair bit of rain recently. Here's a couple of pics of the Derwent near Stamford Bridge (the 'proper' one up North :razz:). Nearly l…
[QUOTE=joefish;622719]This is what happens when everyone turns their hosepipes on at the same time, in defiance of the ban.[/QUOTE]
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Floods near meWell, we've had a fair bit of rain recently. Here's a couple of pics of the Derwent near Stamford Bridge (the 'proper' one up North :razz:). Nearly l…
[QUOTE=joefish;622719]This is what happens ... hosepipes on at the same time, in defiance of the ban ... -
UK Sports CentresWhen they made the Britas Emipre, I bleive the writers must have been to a fair few British sports centers. Despite the series being early 90's, many…
[QUOTE=joefish;623231]A lot of these ... go swim the odd time (maybe 1 time a month) , it worked ... -
UK Sports CentresWhen they made the Britas Emipre, I bleive the writers must have been to a fair few British sports centers. Despite the series being early 90's, many…
[QUOTE=joefish;623370]Nope, local council pool. ... to go thats plenty of time. they were open from maybe ... are a lot of the time demand / moan things be open ... -
UK Sports CentresWhen they made the Britas Emipre, I bleive the writers must have been to a fair few British sports centers. Despite the series being early 90's, many…
[QUOTE=joefish;623634]They're a leisure ... unreasonable for shutting at that time *IF* there isn't the ... -
UK Sports CentresWhen they made the Britas Emipre, I bleive the writers must have been to a fair few British sports centers. Despite the series being early 90's, many…
[QUOTE=joefish;623669]Sorry, let me just ... can't remember the last time I saw a public ... they are working there full time OR they are training athletes ... they were doing it full time or long term.
... important to attend.. the make time for it.. they are open ... -
UK Sports CentresWhen they made the Britas Emipre, I bleive the writers must have been to a fair few British sports centers. Despite the series being early 90's, many…
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time ;-) . If you take the ... .. not really :) . You see things time again thwarted due to regulations ... and enjoy. Not a good comparison.
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25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
[QUOTE=joefish;624010]Andrew - I like the ... are worth more of your time and consideration than a load ... -
25 years with the SpectrumTo paraphrase JFK, ask not what your Spectrum can do for you, but what you can do for your Spectrum. Well I've done quite a bit since I joined the sc…
[QUOTE=joefish;624010]if you think a ... are worth more of your time and consideration than a load ... one came at a bad time. Thanks to everyone for the ... -
Turn UDG to Attrribute blocksI'm trying to enlarge my UDG's to 8 x 8 character blocks per pixel, but struggling, is there any subroutine/program for enlarging UDG's x 8?
... a BASIC version of the joefish & na_th_an ideas, altered to ... attributes, side-by-side for comparison. Although na_th_an's version is ... the array used by the joefish version.
Line 20 is ... the joefish version.
Line 30 is ... -
Turn UDG to Attrribute blocksI'm trying to enlarge my UDG's to 8 x 8 character blocks per pixel, but struggling, is there any subroutine/program for enlarging UDG's x 8?
[QUOTE=joefish;624273]It seems to me a waste of time devising a ... -
Imperica - Horizons - End of Day 1Just got back from the big smoke. We started with a live performance of 'Hey, Hey, 16K' by MJ Hibbett, a history of computing from Crash's Prestel m…
[QUOTE=joefish;624994][B]fog[/B] and [ ... , so I'll spend some time with [url=https://twitter.com ... -
Imperica - Horizons - End of Day 1Just got back from the big smoke. We started with a live performance of 'Hey, Hey, 16K' by MJ Hibbett, a history of computing from Crash's Prestel m…
... , so I'll spend some time with [url=https://twitter.com ... to...
[url]http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/FAQ.html ... -
couldn't give a stuff sales staff... fail to sell me a motorbikeSomeone, who obviously didn't give a stuff about his commission failed to sell me a motorbike today, I'm not a time waster, I have the cash, I want a…
... is normally very cheap in comparison to main dealer, then walk ... less than 2 hours last time and over an hour of ... -
Imperica Horizons - The whole weekend :-)So now it's all over, I'll do a quick writeup... It all started for me at 5.20 am. Getting to London from Devil's Island isn't so easy now that Aer …
... Raspberry Pi for the first time (and play Manic Miner on ... sold out). For the first time I got to take a ... got back to Gatwick on time, but I did get to ... usual suspects from the forum (Joefish, Gasman, csmith, JakeyW, and a ... -
Imperica Horizons - The whole weekend :-)So now it's all over, I'll do a quick writeup... It all started for me at 5.20 am. Getting to London from Devil's Island isn't so easy now that Aer …
... at BFI Southbank just in time for the introduction, and then ... foundation (also the first time I've seen a Pi ... many new ones too including joefish (get your game out on ... was over and it was time to go, so a ... back to Paddington, there was time for a quick bite to ... -
Spectrum30 Show in Cambridge, 08th-09th September 2012Hello Spectrum-fans, after many months of preparation we now proudly present what will be the biggest Spectrum venue of the last 20 years. We manage…
[QUOTE=joefish;625866]You're right, in ... point is that a one-time test will guarantee that on ... -
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... the f***ing head every time she'd waste ammo, grab ... ?
A travesty in comparison to the masterpiece that was ...
