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mea culpa!I have just sent Digital Prawn another entry for CCG 2008 which might shock a few people! It is a program which emulates a Commodore Vic 20 - yes, yo…
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Myth II - Return to HellHello all. A new game has been released... a sequel to one of the best ZX games ever. It is of russian make (I THINK) but I think you can get around…
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Myth II - Return to HellHello all. A new game has been released... a sequel to one of the best ZX games ever. It is of russian make (I THINK) but I think you can get around…
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ELITE: 7.30pm tonight on FiveBoth Braben and Bell were interviewed, but not at the same time.
There are some interesting tricks to make Elite as big ... today we can practically use double precision floating point numbers in ... -
VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... a tricky achievement to get double digits.
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CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... your readme.txt file and double-checked it, so that is ... added the bit about the ';' character as suggested,
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what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
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Game engine design, graphic format?Having never written a game engine before, I'm in need of a little advice on the best way to store the game map. Its 512 x 896 map, 4-way scrolling,…
... hoping for smoother scrolling than character block. I got the map ... upwards, fairly nippy using the tricks I picked up from the ... end up having to use character block scrolling anyway.
Skool Daze disassemblyWhile developing [url="http://pyskool.wordpress.com/"]Pyskool[/url], I've also been putting together a disassembly of Skool Daze and Back to Skool, m…
... already using all my tricks to get the game ... , the skool was 96 character squares wide, and there ... , the skool was 192 character squares wide, and there ... Skool used two main tricks to allow space for ... black ink for the four character squares that needed it ...Which non spectrum game(s) gobsmacked you the most?Having read this thread - [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=22537[/url] I decided to start a thread about non-spectrum ga…
... /> , and a disc for each character, which can be played back ... on every level with every character on the mercenaries :lol:
Oh Well!
Double dragon (Arcade)
Shame ... 80's :D
Double Dragon Advanced (GBA)
Having trouble with some type-insI'm trying to enter some type-ins into BASin but I get into errors I can't handle. Since both type-ins are coming from the same book, it becomes a li…
... /> Namely , the single quote character in-between double quotes I am unsure ... it should be some other character (between upper and lower case ... alphabetic character codes) e.g the British ...Prince Harry and the word "Paki"Prince Harry is in trouble (yeah, right) for using the word "Paki" to describe a Pakistana colleague, according to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/…
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Well i do dislike double standards. I like Chris Rock ... his 'white stereotype' voice and character he does you could say ...Best / Most iconic Speccy game packaging!Not the artwork or anything, just the boxes used. Nowadays, a system more-or-less sticks to the same type of packaging throughout its life, but the …
... games scene in 1987, so double cassette box for me.
character to me, although the artwork ...Best / Most iconic Speccy game packaging!Not the artwork or anything, just the boxes used. Nowadays, a system more-or-less sticks to the same type of packaging throughout its life, but the …
... games scene in 1987, so double cassette box for me.
character to me, although the artwork ...Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …
... node is 2 bytes so double it
; Then ... points to the first character of the next string ... A
; Read Character into A and exit
character in
; String ... .word 0 ; Address of next character to read
CursorMsk: ...Getting started with asm Speccy codingSomeone on another forum I read has asked for good Speccy coding resources. I thought it would be great to link him to a simple tutorial about how to…
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LD A, 148 ; UDG A character
RST 16 ; Call the ...The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…
... /> [B]Most Iconic Spectrum games character (the one you most associate ... advert in a magazine:[/B] Double-page OutRun.
[B]Best ...Colour clash on the Commode64?Was there any? Every now and again, I see a screen shot like this... [img]http://www.lemon64.com/games/screenshots/full/j/jack_the_nipper_02.gif[/i…
... , there is hardware support for double buffering which the Speccy didn ... hard enough, there are even tricks for very smooth hardware scrolling ...Speccy vs C64: Enduro RacerJust seen a video of the commode version of Enduro Racer, what a pile of cack: [youtube]kZVNLX6OxwU[/youtube] Speccy version: [youtube]ouKg6LeXkD…
... here, the main C64's character is as sharp as the ... ) chose to utilize the extra tricks the Amstrad made available, definitely ... Spectrum sharpness of the main character in the C64 more. If ...'Speccyisms' or 'Sinclairisms' to get into everyday speech.Well, thanks to Your Sinclair, we already have things like 'Wibble', 'Yikes!' and 'You basts', so what others would you like get into everyday Englis…
... exclaimation made popular by a character called 'Finbarr Saunders' in British ... after hearing someone crack a double entendr? for optimal impact.
'Speccyisms' or 'Sinclairisms' to get into everyday speech.Well, thanks to Your Sinclair, we already have things like 'Wibble', 'Yikes!' and 'You basts', so what others would you like get into everyday Englis…
... exclaimation made popular by a character called 'Finbarr Saunders' in British ... after hearing someone crack a double entendr? for optimal impact.
Jonathan Cauldwell writes.I also found this in me old archives, which was actually written by Jonathan Cauldwell. Again, typos and editorial tags included for authenticity ;-)…
... control loop to manipulate the character around the screen. This first ... game's development: if the character moves smoothly and convincingly around ... changes to the way a character moves can make a lot ... as fast as possible, so tricks are employed to speed up ...Martial Arts gamesThe games I know are: The way of the Exploding Fist Fist II Fist + Kung-Fu Bruce Lee International Karate Shao-Lin's Road Yie Ar Kung-Fu 1 & 2 Writ…
... re-introduce some old SF1 character back into the cast. I ... . You have to perform a double HALF circle, not quarter circle ... has actually been an attacking character. He takes damage like a ...Martial Arts gamesThe games I know are: The way of the Exploding Fist Fist II Fist + Kung-Fu Bruce Lee International Karate Shao-Lin's Road Yie Ar Kung-Fu 1 & 2 Writ…
... game, I do remember every character had a certain piece of ... you pummelled them enough. The character deteriation sounds like maybe Eternal ... 't seen Ghouls n' Ghosts, Double Dragon, or that 4 pack ...The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!
... Doctor he plays once the character's recovered properly from the ... , it was a very balanced double-episode I thought. Ties up ...Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... playing the shit out of Double Dragon on MAME (with the ... 'general' sprite size for a character is 64 pixels in height ... Target Renegade and original ZX Double Dragon). This would mean that ...Official CSSCGC 2010 Competition ThreadDear Wossers, As 'loser' of the 2009 competition, I am now obliged to host the 2010 competition. I have created a site which will provide a hub for …
Sorry for the double post, but I thought I' ... routine atprint(), which sends the character codes for AT y,x ...The Making Of Manic Miner"Matthew Smith talks us through every level of his classic platformer Sat at the very desk where it was written, Matthew Smith watches Miner Willy l…
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* Only character cells which ... Lair, etc.)
* Custom character set, could add a variable ... then would need space for character horizontal roll table (or could ...My first platformerHi all! How do you do? Been lurking here for a while, but never had the courage to join the forum. :) The Speccy was my first computer, so I've alw…
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sp1_CreateSpr fixes the character height of the sprite (the ... graphic actually straddles an additional character when drawn. Eg, if ... sprite at an exact horizontal character coordinate (pixel position is ... a column can also double as the blank row ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... Bold Text, underlining, Inverse, double height character etc. amendments to the routine ...
