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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…
... it reliant on learning the tricks, up again with World Cup ... -
Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... advanced coders can use better tricks and memory saving methods, or ... -
Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... advanced coders can use better tricks and memory saving methods, or ... -
Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... by how many of these tricks I already use. It's ... -
A clever method of using a single 8-bit register to be used for two things at a timeI don't know if this is the way the SAVE routine in the Spectrum works. Anyway, this is what I've learned today. I've been commented the disassembly…
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Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... by how many of these tricks I already use. It's ... -
Amiga 1200 death (1996-2011)I'm off work this week so i thought i'd dig out my old Amiga 1200 and play some old games. My Amiga is in a cupboard next to the front door, to my …
... was never finished!). Memory playing tricks on me again.
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Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…
... - either new coding or graphics tricks (e.g. splATR) or the ... -
Speccy 128 Shadow screen.How much is the shadow screen used in 128k commercial software? I ask because I am looking at putting 128k of memory in the 48k setup I have been bu…
... the +3 generation have other tricks too, like being able to ... -
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…
... ). That's why cool demo tricks have little use in the ... -
Games with Plus3/Disk enhancementsFor about 95% of games of +3 disk, it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being reduced loading times. However, there were a few excep…
... could do better with loading tricks of course. I had a ... -
Saving space...Hi Folks, Looking for ways to save some memory in a program I am writing. In a number of places I have the following code: [CODE]xxxx PAUSE 1: …
... PI. You can see these tricks in many tape loaders, they ... -
Saving space...Hi Folks, Looking for ways to save some memory in a program I am writing. In a number of places I have the following code: [CODE]xxxx PAUSE 1: …
... PI. You can see these tricks in many tape loaders, they ... -
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…
... . But you could do little tricks like rolling around the 8 ... -
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…
... investigating how to do the tricks within ULA display time.[/QUOTE ... /> Here's the secret....ULA tricks don't really matter when ... -
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…
... ]But you could do little tricks like rolling around the 8 ... -
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…
... ]Here's the secret....ULA tricks don't really matter when ... -
the league of greeda term a few of my mates used to use when gaming.. that basically ended up with the other player getting stiched up some of the time with all this t…
... still doing a chain of tricks, and as long as you ... -
forumsok i know this may not be the ideal place to ask in here but is there any good Amstrad CPC forums about on the net as i cant seem to find any on goog…
I like the machine. It's a yummy box o' tricks indeed. It's the Speccy's more colourful, but slightly-dimmer cousin.
Durrrrr.
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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…
... they used one of those tricks. Personally, given the choice, I ... -
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.
[QUOTE=joefish;515917]Umm. [I]Highway Encounter[/I] [U]was[/U] a flip-screen game.[/QUOTE]
Thats me told +1 Joefish.
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Specific memories attached to certain gamesThought it might be interesting to share a few memories attached to certain games. For me a few spring to mind... [B]Agent X[/B] One morning I had …
... Barbarian using rather dirty cornering tricks and beheading her character for ... -
Specific memories attached to certain gamesThought it might be interesting to share a few memories attached to certain games. For me a few spring to mind... [B]Agent X[/B] One morning I had …
... Barbarian using rather dirty cornering tricks and beheading her character for ... -
tommy coopershow on BBC2 at the moment.. errm just thought it might interest others.. ( something to make ebay listing not so boring in my case :) )
... /> He was known for making tricks go wrong which made the ... -
A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…
... 's playground for esoteric coding tricks, I know many entrants have ... -
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…
... is not prolonged by cheap tricks (but it can still take ... -
SAVEing without waiting for keypresshello, here's question for y'all. is there a way in BASIC to bypass the "Start tape, then press any key" prompt when SAVEing an array? sorry if it'…
... (so the usual 1bit synthesis tricks are not an option i ... -
Push/Pop data copyingWe all know that stack pointer cheese and push/pop is faster to move data than LDIR - which in turn is slower than unrolled LDI's anyway. I rewrote …
... I can do some other tricks too. I'm using the ... -
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…
... is not prolonged by cheap tricks (but it can still take ... -
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…
Wow! It looks great, insane but great :). I guess the biggest limitation to turn this into a full game will be convincing the artist to use that limited set of tiles, but that's all.
I'll have a look at the disassembly to learn a few tricks.
