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WOS drops some games.I made several links to zx games located on this site, but unfortunately those games are gone. What happens? Elite III - World of Spectrum [url]htt…
I think 'hack' refers to modifying the game code, rather than the loader. -
WOS drops some games.I made several links to zx games located on this site, but unfortunately those games are gone. What happens? Elite III - World of Spectrum [url]htt…
[QUOTE=ghbearman;503772]I think 'hack' refers to modifying the game code, rather than the loader.[/QUOTE]
Morally, probably yes. Legally, no. -
Sprites masterclassHi All, You guys are probably tired of explaining sprites but I'd like to clarify a few things if possible. I've sorted the vertical aspect of scro…
... time once you started putting game code in - perhaps only being able ... every two frames. Since the code I've used doesn't ... -
Speedlock - a loader or a virus?Believe it or not, my rubber refuses to load 100% anything Speedlock related. At least the later ones used in 1988-1990 games. I was using the output…
... they are effectively loading the game at high baud rates. Alas ... head fails to load the game...
The later ... was first used on the game 'Ghostbusters'. At the time, ... to decypher the game code before running the main game code). It was very ... -
Speedlock - a loader or a virus?Believe it or not, my rubber refuses to load 100% anything Speedlock related. At least the later ones used in 1988-1990 games. I was using the output…
... to decypher the game code before running the main game code). [/quote]
game code. For example, Ultimate's ... block - ie, the code that initialises and copies Speedlock ... before running it. This code is deliberately designed to be ... -
A thousand core CPU?Maybe this is old news to most people on here, but according to: [url]http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2010/12/25/intel-why-a-1000-core-chi…
... in console firmware, or in game code. The hardware is really complex ... a lot of similar code for every game.
Backward compatibility ... -
A thousand core CPU?Maybe this is old news to most people on here, but according to: [url]http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/emerging-tech/2010/12/25/intel-why-a-1000-core-chi…
... console firmware, or in game code. The hardware is really ... a lot of similar code for every game.[/QUOTE]
game and have the lowest ... different to each game, the game won't run well ... etc, so that each game could have the system ... -
Implementing smooth scrolling in games that don't haveHowdy, How easy/difficult in general is it to hack smooth scrolling into a game that scrolls on boundaries such as Gothik or Saracen? Does it depend …
I suspect that for pretty much every Speccy game that ever involved scrolling, the programmer sat down and wrote the scrolling routines first, then based the entire of the rest of the game code around that. So no, it won't be easily ported. -
PS2 megathreadRight i was searching for ps2 discussions, couldnt even find the one id previously done about retro collection packs so thought id start a new one :)…
... :D).
Torc/Killwheel (unreleased game, and pretty terrible you can ... Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero (this game had so much promise, but ... indication of how good this game is :D).
Streetfighter ... given this and the first game, sure as hell wouldn't ... -
PS1 MegathreadRight thought id start a proper thread for ALL things PS1 instead of it getting lost in my PS2 thread...bastids Anyway heres a list of my PS1 games …
... :D).
Torc/Killwheel (unreleased game, and pretty terrible you can ... Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero (this game had so much promise, but ... indication of how good this game is :D).
Streetfighter ... br /> Road Rash 3D (this game is pretty poo really).
Jet Set Willy and the Speedlock loaderHi everybody, I'm building a Manic Miner/JSW tribute site (yes, another one) and I was missing my original copy of Jet Set Willy. It's buried in my …
... properly though as ate some game code. Not much need for it ...MF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …
... appear to work - the game crashes after the first screen ... M3UNLOCK utilitiy to unlock the game before it will load ... of bytes long the main game code is. Write these down onto ... />
CLEAR XXXXX : LOAD CODE : SAVE "CODE" CODE 12345, 678910
...MF3Z80 without +3e (like M3Unlock)Recently I've had a pop again at putting the copy protected Rainbow Islands onto real +3 disk. Some people may remember I tried to do this some time …
... you need to save the game out using a Multiface 3 ... of bytes long the main game code is. [/QUOTE]
I guess ...New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
... "Bytes:" message, load the compressed game code then run the decompressor. :smile:New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
... "Bytes:" message, load the compressed game code then run the decompressor. :smile ... />
when the choice of game is made poke the address ...St. Bride's SecretsWa-a-a-a-y back in January 2007, during a discussion about St. Bride's games, I mentioned that I had a newspaper article about the ladies post-Speccy…
... saw the entry for the unreleased game Wondergirl.
I read ... seems to imply that the game would actually have been called ...St. Bride's SecretsWa-a-a-a-y back in January 2007, during a discussion about St. Bride's games, I mentioned that I had a newspaper article about the ladies post-Speccy…
... saw the entry for the unreleased game Wondergirl.
I read ... seems to imply that the game would actually have been called ...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…
... for the rest of the game code...
just my thought ...Maglaxians in the java emulatorWhen I try to play Maglaxians in the archive using the online Java emulator, I can't get the game to start, when I press ENTER. Does anyone else exp…
... 've been looking at the game's dissassembly and it's ... the usual problem, the game is reading the port $fe ... are four places in the game code where the port is read ... keyboard reading routines in this game are a bit unorthodox. A ...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…
... redefinable keys in the game:
[CODE]
; =================================================================================================
... with:
[CODE]
; show the ... pressed:
[CODE]
ld hl,MEM_KEYS ...Best way to organise a multi screen game?Hi All, Does anybody know ay good ways to organise large multi screen game? Or any links to useful texts on the matter? In my previous single scr…
... a flip-screen game, over a single-screen game.
... without looking at any other game source code, but I happened to ... designated as 't' in the game code). Also the guardian initial positions ... .
The in-game objects which can change are ...Your Views on... GhostbustersI dusted off the Master System version of this and inspired me to try out the Speccy version. It's a good game with it's strong and weak points. I …
... once the game has restarted)
The following code modifies the ... original 48K game to use a ... /> [CODE] ORG $FE00
NOP ;this bytes gets overwritten during game
game[/CODE]Your Views on... GhostbustersI dusted off the Master System version of this and inspired me to try out the Speccy version. It's a good game with it's strong and weak points. I …
... need to use slightly different code (notice the addresses are ... jumps to $8300 to start game
[/CODE]
If you have ... the non-speedlock version of the game ... could modify the game by including the modification code and then ...Your Views on... GhostbustersI dusted off the Master System version of this and inspired me to try out the Speccy version. It's a good game with it's strong and weak points. I …
... once the game has restarted)
The following code modifies the ... original 48K game to use a ... jumps to $8300 to start game[/CODE][/QUOTE]
Very, very ...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…
... the game impossible to win; it places some of the code ... it only sometimes made the game unwinnable; not always."[/INDENT]< ... the Speedlock loader destroy the game code! :p
For ... this particular game the Speedlock loader really is ...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…
... breakpoint at $5b00 before the game times out and watch the ... the Speedlock loader destroy the game code! :p
For this ... particular game the Speedlock loader really is ...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…
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[*]Play the game,
[*]Don't collect any ... the Speedlock loader destroy the game code! :p
For ... this particular game the Speedlock loader really is ... br />
It's the game code that causes that (a jump ...Jet Set WillyIs the J. D. Foord Software version completeable without having to add pokes to clear the attic bug?
... /> 50 RANDOMIZE USR 33792
[/code]
For the J ... 25000
20 LOAD "" CODE
30 LOAD "" CODE
40 *** YOUR ... ***
50 RANDOMIZE USR 33792[/code]
Play tape ... ) then it will load the game code.
Note, both of ...Renegade (the hit squad)Hi fellow spectrum peeps,nice to meet you all!,and what a great site you have here!. I have been given a spectrum +2 which didn't load tapes,until i…
... page on top of the game code, causing it to crash. As ... , and that's what machine code games will always do. (If ...Retro Gamer issue 91 - 'Lost' Spectrum games featureJust a quick heads up that the latest issue of Retro Gamer goes on sale in the UK today and it includes an eight page article on the most famous unre…
... got/seen screenshots (of the unreleased Spectrum version, not the TR ... ]
Everything(?) about that unreleased game has been here for a ...
