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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 …

    ... using rather dirty cornering tricks and beheading her character for every my ...
    NRA NRA March 2011 Games
  • 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 …

    ... using rather dirty cornering tricks and beheading her character for every my ...
    JuanF. Ramirez JuanF. Ramirez March 2011 Games
  • RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…

    ... r_on_l[/quote]

    I double checked and the comments are ...
    ld a, b ; restore character

    atchk:
    ... /> ld a, b ; restore character
    cp 24 ; greater than ... /> dec (hl) ; indicates next character is col
    ret
    chev chev March 2011 Development
  • 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…

    ... . Your can't control your character for a while, which in ... is not prolonged by cheap tricks (but it can still take ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak March 2011 Chit chat
  • SE Basic Type-ins^Pete suggested creating a sticky thread for SE Basic discussion. I thought a Type-ins thread might also be useful. Up to the mods if they want to ma…

    ... an external table of 96 double byte integers for each note ... we can store them as character pairs instead. The frequency of ...
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Small Machine Code Routines Which Maybe UsefulAs part of creating Flynn's Adventure in Bombland I created a lot of little routines to do all sorts of things. A lot of these I created based on inp…

    ... ; =======================================================================
    ; _PLOT2CHR - plot double sized character on screen
    ; input - ... correct place in ROM for character graphic
    ; **************************************************
    ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil April 2011 Development
  • Retro-X : RXA format?Hi! I've used Retro-X to convert a short AVI video into a RXA format anim file, using QL lowres mode (mode 8, 256x256). Peeking at the resulting file…

    ... because the size is not Character-based (256x212, 212= 4 pixels ...
    GreyTV Flag, Byte
    Double Bright Flag, Byte

    LCD LCD April 2011 Development
  • This might be something new[img]http://www.711chan.org/test/src/130427925559.png[/img] Have a look at this screenshot of my emulator ZX82. Notice the copyright message? That's…

    ... interpreted by the FPU as double byte op-codes giving you ... with. You could use a double-byte instruction to say OpenGL ... is to create a true character based display which will print ... patching you can enable a character display of up to 256x256 ...
    chev chev May 2011 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... , I did not want to double-post but since this here ... way difficulty scales when the character levels of people who join ... up the game again - main character is a Siren with Firefly ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG May 2011 Chit chat
  • Development choices, help!As a small part-time project I would like to convert my daily programming work (a workflow/bpel engine) to the Spectrum, purely for fun. I would like…

    ... br /> /////////////////////////////

    double atof(const char *nptr); // OWNED ... br /> // 7.20.7 MULTIBYTE CHARACTER CONVERSION FUNCTIONS
    //////////////////////////////////////////////////
    < ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2011 Development
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... bytes by not storing the character address in a variable (since ... save another 3 bytes. Similar tricks can be used for other ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • GTA IV vs Earlier GTA gamesOne of the regular discussions (or arguments, depending on the age of the participants - how I wish no one under twenty could post on the forums :() …

    ... pretty good, really involving, a character who's almost human instead ... the game, and anything involving double crossing them or messing with ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2011 Chit chat
  • Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…

    ... has each distinct graphic character defined in a table ... 29833 specifying offsets into the character definition table. The definitions ... ROM. So there's a double problem: the definitions for ... them because of where the character definition table is located. ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2011 Infoseek database
  • One for the geeksComplete this sentence::: U0c5c1pDQnRlU0F1TGk0dQ== (sorry, posted this to wrong group but can't seem to delete it)

    ... can be seen, the "0" character is the most frequantly used ... a sentence ender... Either the double == is a period, in which ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil July 2011 Chit chat
  • Assembler question about collisions and arranging dataSay you have a game with a playercharacter and some items on the screen - pretty normal for most games, and now you need to check if the player has r…

    ... check the tiles under your character to see if they are ... /> GameBoy Zelda does some clever tricks like this with movable block ...
    joefish joefish July 2011 Development
  • Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…

    ... you can X and Y double them, that'd make em ... chunky .. but there are other tricks like multiplexers to get around ...
    fog fog August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…

    ... you can X and Y double them, that'd make em ... chunky .. but there are other tricks like multiplexers to get around ...
    Hedegaard Hedegaard August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... foreground blocks out the sprites character-by-character?... To prefer it over ... sprites still move in whole character spaces. But being a ... to notice things like the character square movement of the sprites ... true but there is also double the data per pixel (2 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    Are there any tricks to speeding up a 'move a character around screen ... I'm reading the existing character and disallowing movement with anything ... that isn't a " " space character. It's pretty flickery and ...
    Dock Dock September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... there any tricks to speeding up a 'move a character around screen ... I'm reading the existing character and disallowing movement with ...
    You are erasing the character, then performing lots of tasks ... before printing the character again. This is the ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... you're controlling Abobo from Double Dragon. I was convinced for ... that game used a modified Double Dragon engine.

    The ... always stuck with the smae character and the leg drops/elbow ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob September 2011 Chit chat
  • Is Doctor Who the best that it's ever been?I'm surprised that there's been no Doctor Who thread recently, especially given the revelations we've seen recently. I've loved this last series (and…

    ... writing and the only historical character they can think of is ... way through with Jedi mind tricks anyway.[/QUOTE]
    Yeah, but ... agree about the Jedi mind tricks thing. Tom wouldn't have ...
    richl richl October 2011 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... :[/QUOTE]

    A fat character with a light or heavy ... have no doubt I could double perfect you with one hand ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek October 2011 Chit chat
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=dm_boozefreek;573838]A fat character with a light or heavy ... have no doubt I could double perfect you with one hand ...
    Wookiee Wookiee October 2011 Chit chat
  • 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…

    Starting to get a decent character build in Dark Souls now ( ... there so it's a double-edged sword!

    Fabulous ...
    Vampyre Vampyre November 2011 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... ]Starting to get a decent character build in Dark Souls now ... there so it's a double-edged sword!

    Fabulous ...
    Coz Coz November 2011 Chit chat
  • Up/Down Left/Right scrollCan anybody give a newbie some pointer to simple one char scrolling by pixel? I've looked at a lot of resources, but as you can imagine, it's all a …

    ... , you're limited to one character sprite movement which looks a ... 8x8 chars, the spectrum's character set and udgs are designed ... pixels
    add a,a ; double it since there are two ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2011 Development
  • Graphics that impressed youDan Dare 3 Extreme Driller (before I started playing it) Mercenary R-Type

    ... .
    [*]Gyron - Lots of clever tricks here, but it's mainly ... /> [*]Heavy On The Magick - Superb character animation, as also seen in ... jerky despite moving in exact character squares.
    [/LIST]
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2011 Games
  • Graphics that impressed youDan Dare 3 Extreme Driller (before I started playing it) Mercenary R-Type

    ... few object bitmaps, although its character sprites were a bit rough ... [/I], and it did need tricks with the attributes too.
    joefish joefish November 2011 Games
  • Doom 3 is now open source!I'm no fan of Doom 3, but I think it's great news that id Software has released the game's source code* into the public domain, so that the game can …

    ... from one to well into double figures. That's Doom style ... sort, the ones when your character stays staring at an enemy ... if you could control your character at that time you'd ... in perpetual darkness and the character you controlled was so stupid ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2011 Chit chat
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