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Double Buffer UtilityHi Folks, I've been experimenting with double buffering on a 48k Speccy for a small project I'm working on. After reading lots of good advice here…
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Machine Code in 30 minutes - car gameWotcha folks, 30 years on and I'm still struggling with Machine Code. I'm going through the 30-minute tutorial on the Chuntey blog and it's all made…
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Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
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AGD Forground blocks/spritesHi Guys Just wanted to ask if it was possible to have foreground or non transparent blocks in AGD 4.5 so that a character would look like he was wal…
Hi Guys
Just wanted to ask if it was possible to have foreground or non transparent blocks in AGD 4.5 so that a character would look like he was walking behind it?
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What five games that you've not played/briefly played would you want to take?I was thinking the other day about, how every so often on almost every gaming forum, you see a "What are you top ten favourite games?" style thread. …
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Idea for a Horizontal Shoot'em UpI've seen this Taito coin-op. I though would suits perfectly into a Spectrum character based arcade.. in the mould of R-Type, Orion, and others.. the…
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Best way to have multiple characters in AGDHi Guys Can someone please tell me if you can have 2 playable characters in game at anytime that span multiple screen sort of like the way Enigma Fo…
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Trantor - The Last StromtrooperA couple of questions about this game: 1) Do you think Trantor would benefit from a map? (not a thing people would use back then, but that seems a "…
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ZX-Paintbrush 2.5 publishedDear readers, as there were many updates since the last version, I want to bring this to public, so that I hopefully can return back to ZX-Assembler…
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'Ocean Draw' instructionsHere are the instructions for the screen and sprite editor used in-house at Ocean Software, possibly typed up by Joffa Smifff (as the 2 of the sprite…
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Looking for a gameDoes anyone know what the following game is called (I do know it was one of the Spectrum's early games), whereby you had to protect these creatures f…
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Trying to remember a film!Hello folks! Trying to remember the title of a film I saw quite a few (10+) years ago on telly. I don't know why but it's stuck in my mind and I'd l…
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The Elder Scrolls gamesA few days back, I discovered a great new game, called [B]The Elder Scrolls III: Skyrim[/B]. Actually, I discovered it when it first came out, three …
... their first go?), so the character I created probably isn't ... two handed weapons, and my character is fat and balding (but ... the main quest until your character is built up, especially if ... -
MIA: Airline SoftwareAs discussed in another thread, I was recently reunited with a box containing most (not all) of my original cassettes. Thanks to the advice and help …
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Political Incorrectness in gamesRecently Amazon announced that the Tom and Jerry cartoons that are available on its streaming service are to carry warnings about racial prejudice du…
... /> Warning, this game contains a character that depicts Italian Housekeepers as ...uMIA game from Ninian Carter, Blow up BertFrom his permission letter, he states that he wrote a game which he tried to sell but apparently it was too bloody, whose name was "Blow up Bert": "…
... another one using the Bert character, hence The Temple. Obviously
Robot SantaAlien Ferox has grown beyond what could be accomplished on a humble Speccy - i've run out of memory AND ideas so that's indefinitely halted. BUT In…
... 't go down!) You're character has a battery meter that ...New version emulator ZEsarUX-1.3Hi I have uploaded a new version of my ZX80/81/Spectrum emulator at [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/zesarux/[/url] Changes are: Added experim…
... ). Supports automatic detection of print character routines and some other known ...ANN: Tipshop updated Sunday, 02 November 2014Sunday 02 November 2014 The October update is here (You do know the clocks only changed by an hour, right? Ed) * Fixed credits for the POKEs for Be…
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Dark Tricks , Head The Ball , Manic Climber ...I found my software!I stumbled across WOS quite by accident (a link from some other forum, I think), and out of curiousity entered my own name in the Infoseek search, as…
... for the Spectrum, extending the character width of the screen to ...Bug-Eyed Blob Things[URL="http://www.speccyjam.com/games/bug-eyed-blob-things/"]Bug-Eyed Blob Things[/URL] is a great game, that won the [URL="http://www.speccyjam.com/"…
... monster animation requires too many character updates at once, you can ...What do you do for a living?In another thread ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49352[/url]) Karingal said: [QUOTE=karingal;801168]Funnily enough wh…
... , he invented lots of different tricks such as if he saw ..."...Not too hard, not too soft..."Watching IASIP last night ("The Gang Gets Quarantined") put this in my mind; in keeping with the "Too Hard" and "Too Easy" threads, which games got t…
... drop objects, interact with a character, and solve 2 puzzles, one ...Another 'What is the name of the game thread'Hi All, I have recently rediscovered the joys of spectrum emulators after a few years away but really could do with some help finding a favourite gam…
Fast Condition TestingHello my friends, I have been writing some input and string handling routines in BASIC lately - yeah I could write them super fast in C/ASM via z88d…
... ]c$[/B]" contains a restricted character in the first index it ... ( c$ ) = 12[/B]" the end character is removed and the index ...ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday, 29 November 2014Saturday 29 November 2014 2 updates in a month - woohoo! * Andy Ryals sent in POKEs for Archeomania , Dark Tricks, Donkey Kong Reloaded Again, Find…
... in POKEs for Archeomania , Dark Tricks, Donkey Kong Reloaded Again, Find ...PS1 'paint the planet' gameHi all Trying to remember I game I played on the PS1 (only played a cover-CD demo from a mag but I assume it was a commercial release too) where you…
... as possible).
The character you controlled was quite rounded ...Diamond DiggerA collaboration between Dave Pierce 'davepierce07' & Jim Grimwood 'Battle Bunny'. [center][url]http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/dd-…
... /> Digger (1, the player's character)
Spiders(max.3, green ...Uridium possible with more colour??Having seen the MSX version of Uridium mentioned in another thread I wondered if the Spectrum could produce anything similiar, and had a go at a mock…
... , with only vertical movement by character square there would not be ...
