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Star Wars Trilogy DVDAmy got me this online while I was in Venice and it arrived yesterday. I've looked through bits of it, but have mainly watched the Special Features …
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Can Anyone explain sprites in Jet Pac/Atic Atac etcJet Pac was 16k, and yet the sprites were impressively fast. I notice they had a slight flicker at times, but were notmally pretty flicker free. W…
... your drawing routines take multiple frames to complete)
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making games on a real speccy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have recently bought a speccy on ebay and i want to try to make s…
... `t get 50 or 60 frames per second if you`d ... -
Most pointless type-in?I think it was one I saw, probably in Program Pitstop(which mag did that?), to evaluate a string as a full expression, a la the Beeb: spend hours typ…
... -10 hours to draw the frames to actually animate it, and ... -
Most pointless type-in?I think it was one I saw, probably in Program Pitstop(which mag did that?), to evaluate a string as a full expression, a la the Beeb: spend hours typ…
... -10 hours to draw the frames to actually animate it, and ... -
Sprite Graphics TutorialHi everyone, Would like some feedback on the following: I am thinking of writing a Sprite Graphics Tutorial, ie. how to best program and implement …
... routines optimised to draw individual frames.
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More colours (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
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On 2004-10-18 03:11, CKay wrote:
Any more info about what the 3 modes would/could be?
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Exactly the same as the modes available on the Timex machines since 1983. -
More colours (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
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On 2004-10-18 10:04, Philip Kendall wrote:
Exactly the same as the modes available on the Timex machines since 1983.
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In other words it's just Timex video mode emulation? -
More colours (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
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On 2004-10-18 16:14, Arjun wrote:
In other words it's just Timex video mode emulation?
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It's not emulation: it's the real thing. The Spectrum SE is modified Timex hardware after all. -
More colours (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
Well that`d be cool, the high res one would be 512*192 right?
Would make decent applications more feasible, I`ll have to have a look at some Timex stuff... -
More colours (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
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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…
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More colours (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... be nice to have a Timex, as I think they look ... -
new sinclair spectrumarmstrad should bring back sinclair research. does anyone agree? retrogamer* is great (i learnt alot from that magazine).
... , it`s funny how a Timex is given so much `Sinclair ... ` compatibility and then the actual Timex machine of which it `was ... -
What games exploited hardware speccy to the top level?Hello For you....what games exploited hardware speccy to the top level? thanks. greetings from Spain
... both the graphics and anim frames for the different things were ... -
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…
... extra video modes of the Timex models, I have felt ... early Spectrums). But the Timex modes already existed, so ... the Spectrum ULA with a Timex one (or just the ... PAL Timex version)? Or perhaps it ... possible to modify the Timex models to include the ... -
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…
... true, you can have a Timex, and have uit turned into ... percent compatible spectrun 128, with Timex emulated.
Of course ... -
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…
... Spectrum 128, but with the Timex modes bolted on. From machine ... code (on the existing Timex at least), an OUT command ... -
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…
... true, you can have a Timex, and have uit turned into ... percent compatible spectrun 128, with Timex emulated.
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Timex ULA, with the difference that ... -
Announce: EmuZWin 2.5 Release 2.2 Post-FinalEmuZWin Version 2.5 Release 2.2 post-FINAL (16-Oct-2004): [-] A small pause added between TAP blocks while loading tape from .TAP image (otherwise s…
... but totally without flicks (50 frames a second). Later some other ... -
Announce: EmuZWin 2.5 Release 2.2 Post-FinalEmuZWin Version 2.5 Release 2.2 post-FINAL (16-Oct-2004): [-] A small pause added between TAP blocks while loading tape from .TAP image (otherwise s…
... but totally without flicks (50 frames a second). Later some other ... -
NTSC Spectrums?Being in the U.S., I missed the whole ZX Spectrum thing in Europe in the 80's. I've never seen an actual ZX Spectrum. I know that in the states the…
... requires an "emulation cartridge" that Timex put out to achieve "near ... -
NTSC Spectrums?Being in the U.S., I missed the whole ZX Spectrum thing in Europe in the 80's. I've never seen an actual ZX Spectrum. I know that in the states the…
... /English box is printed by Timex Markham, Ontario. The machine is ... -
NTSC Spectrums?Being in the U.S., I missed the whole ZX Spectrum thing in Europe in the 80's. I've never seen an actual ZX Spectrum. I know that in the states the…
Im not talking about the Timex machines, Im sure there was ... in the US before the Timex machines, but Im having trouble ... -
Will Spectrum run @ 60Hz?Sorry to overlap w/ my other recent post, but want to know, if I grab a Spectrum and use it in America with a voltage converter or a different power …
... a second in the USA Timex machines). It is the ULA ... -
OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…
... 's slower it's dropping frames *on purpose*. Is it jerkier ... -
OT: Amstrad CPC GamesCan anyone recommend any platform games or isometric 3D games (such as Head Over Heels, Knightlore etc) on the Amstrad CPC, preferably games that wer…
... 's slower it's dropping frames *on purpose*. Is it jerkier ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... -res colour mode on the Timex I think (one of the ... for its inclusion) - so converting Timex to SAM code shouldn't ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... news that brings the Spectrum/Timex and SAM closer together is ...
