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New bicolour game: El Stompo.Phew! Finally finished my first game using Einar's fantastic Nirvana engine. [B]El Stompo.[/B] [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/davey…
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[QUOTE=joefish;762676]Yes, the level design ... platforms.
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[QUOTE=joefish;762676]To make things better ... [QUOTE=joefish;762676]Modern games use these sorts of tricks to at ... -
HDMI generation by cloning video ram(coming from [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=768257&posted=1#post768257[/url]). A thing I was brainstorming about.. Why …
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Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …
[QUOTE=joefish;772388]Question - if PRINT of ... way of printing a 2x2 UDG sprite:
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UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
[QUOTE=joefish;773162]Can you not just ... got other blocks to save (udg, characters, etc.) you still need ... for new users. After editing udg and making graphics, they just ... tap", then wonder where their udg and screen went.
UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
[QUOTE=joefish;773199]That would be great - ... been careful to use the UDG editor to generate lines of ...Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
[QUOTE=joefish;773979]I tried developing with [ ... zx spectrum basic tools :D UDG's and everything :D And ...UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
[QUOTE=joefish;774324]Well, as said before, ... , whereas only ATTR works for UDG characters (although it's best ...UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
[QUOTE=joefish;774366]I think you missed ... the quickest way of switching UDG banks? Presuming that the banks ... only the hi-byte of UDG needs to be POKEd, and ...BIFROST* ENGINE 1.2 released!Another improved version of the BIFROST* ENGINE is now available! Download it here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027405[/u…
... multicolor game, you better use tricks such as [URL="http://www ... /forums/showthread.php?t=46861"]joefish's routine[/URL], where multicolor ...SpritesYes yes, I know this has been hashed over plenty of times before, but... I have knocked up a quick tiling routine which works with my back buffer co…
[QUOTE=joefish;801422]Whichever direction you want ... .
[QUOTE=joefish;801423]There are other tricks to save memory ...SpritesYes yes, I know this has been hashed over plenty of times before, but... I have knocked up a quick tiling routine which works with my back buffer co…
[QUOTE=joefish;801423]There are other tricks to save memory with sprites. [ ...SpectrumToday - English versionHi all, I'd like to announce that English version of Spectrum Today magazine issue 00 is finished and can be downloaded at [url]http://ellvis.zerote…
... of demo coders explaining their tricks in the tech sections, perhaps ... .It would be cool if joefish or utz could write an ...Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation.Features that are still wanted in Spectrum emulation. 4 USB joystick/gamepad input for real multiplayer games - Yes, Bomb Munchies.... - Sinclair 12…
... , well, there are lots of tricks one could do.
I ...3x64 colorsWhile working on the [url="https://github.com/jarikomppa/img2spec"]image spectrumizer[/url] I googled about different "trick modes" people have done …
[quote="joefish;843673"]I don't know ... ... obvious. I did find oddball tricks like flipping R, G and ...Unreleased modern Speccy games?Information about "classic" never released Speccy games is available in [url="http://www.tzxvault.org/time.htm"]this page[/url], or searching for [ur…
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[quote="joefish;857393"]There's also this UDG graphics engine for ...Spectranet UsersHi! I'm testing Spectranet interface on Fuse and I'm thinking on emulating spectranet on ZEsarUX. Some questions: 1) Are there many active Spec…
... unless you do some dirty tricks you really end up limited ... />
Broadcast :)
[quote="joefish;860120"]You're thinking of ...Shadow of the Beast review:New review at Spectrum Paradise, it's turn for the impressive Shadow of the Beast, an excellent game with nice and neat graphics, smooth animations a…
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As for the ... , though whether some of the tricks you've used would necessarily ...ZX Dandanator! Mini - Cartridge system for SpectrumsHi All, I'd like to present a little HW I've developed during the last three months. It's aimed at providing a console-like usage experience for a…
Hi Joefish,
The current Menu residing ... using Zx7 (some extra magic tricks here ;) ). These compressed chunks go ...Nintendo SwitchSo, £280 with no game. Ouch! That might have just killed any chance it had to succeed. Still the new Zelda game looks good and the new Mario ga…
[quote="joefish;899230"]The things that drive ... 'm slowly picking up more tricks and tips for Zelda now ...endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... the memory size.
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> The biggest ... some terrible short notations and tricks that made code unreadable. And ...i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... to adapt one to scroll UDG backgrounds, perhaps even with colour ... bottom of screen. Id use UDG graphics, but I would not ... tempted to look more at Joefish's work... You mentioned that ...i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... to adapt one to scroll UDG backgrounds, perhaps even with colour ... bottom of screen. Id use UDG graphics, but I would not ... tempted to look more at Joefish's work... You mentioned that ...Will a snapshot (.sna) save my UDG's?If so can anyone recommend a site to put it up at where it can be retrieved or linked to? I spent all bloody day making a pretty crappy tank with mov…
Well Joefish, I started out by trying 3 different UDG generators from the ... use, finally I discovered the UDG tool in BASin for Beginners ... off the coding. Testing the UDG makers took a couple of ...Games with small sprites?Hey everyone, Can you recommend some games with nice 8x8 or 16x16 size sprites? I'm working on an artwork for my kitchen wall, I'm using ZX Spec…
... on ZXGraph has some 8x8 UDG versions I did of famous ... .google.com/site/zxgraph/home/joefish
And Einar's ...im looking for other games like the muncher that use double height and width graphics with colouri havent come across this type of graphics mode on the spectrum before and would like to know if there are any other games that use it.
[quote="joefish;954044"]But mirroring the whole ... . But if you try different tricks, you can get free 1KB ...CSSCGC 2020The return of the famous, the one and only... https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/ More details and an official announcement to follow soon...
... " onwards are overwritten by the UDG section - but it does what ... BASIC, occasionally pull a few tricks with POKEs (see [url=https ...Speccy imageHiya, I'm new here, hope you don't mind me popping round. I was just wondering if anyone knows what the copyright status is over photos and illustr…
... was just wondering...)
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[ This Message was ...Book listingsI used to spend hours typing in programs from books. I had a whole box of them books and typed in hundreds of programs. Some good, some bad and some …
... when it came to programming tricks.
I'm now ...SPIN-Lite (Working Title) test availableHi all, I've been having a break from SPIN, pursuing my original goal of a BASIC interpreter. Well, I took SPIN's main core and hacked it around…
... alpha - but uses some neat tricks to get a SEBasic-a ...
