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Star Wars scroll/crawl/title effectI may have seen this type of scroll on a Speccy game before, but I've never seen it as a type-in or part of a cover tape. Does anyone know how to do …
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New SpecBAS available - v0.710Been a while, but I've just uploaded the latest build of SpecBAS. This one now supports tilemaps (with rotation and scaling) and added OVER mode (XO…
... handling large graphics built from tiles.
Added new optimisations to ... ,y support
Added GRAPHIC SCROLL and GRAPHIC ROLL commands
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
joining lines of BASICDue to overwhelming demand - well, one demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical c…
... together lines of BASIC. The vertical cursor motion code is based ... out of editing mode to scroll up/down through the full ... />
Not being able to scroll through the listing while editing ...Need to scroll one column using m.c.I've used many of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any direction, but I'm not being able to find one that would allow me to scro…
... of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any ... that would allow me to scroll a specified column (1 x ...Deceiving gamesWhat games you had good expectations. Games which yourself hope to have been better the more you played, but simply doesnt evolved. The first which …
... style cover, good and smooth scroll.. reasonably good controls, graphics and ... to be a kind of vertical [I]Defender-cross-SpyHunter[/I ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 1In BIFROST*, it's much easier to just make changes in the tile map and let the engine automatically draw & animate everything in multicolor for you. …
... a set of multicolor tiles in hi-res coordinates ... ]
[*]Erase all moving tiles;
[*]Adjust their coordinates;
* 20 LOAD "TILES"CODE
* 30 LOAD " ... dlin[NUM_TILES]; // hi-res vertical tile movement
int dcol ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 2This second demo shows animated and moving tiles together, and also how to implement collision detection. This knowledge should be enough to implemen…
... /> int dlin; // hi-res vertical tile movement
int px ... /> }
// animate moving tiles
for (f = 0; f ... br /> }
// erase tiles
for (f = 0; f ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 3This new demo demonstrates the BIFROST* built-in sprite support that I mentioned before. In BIFROST*, "sprite tiles" are 2 special tiles that BIFROS…
... In BIFROST*, "sprite tiles" are 2 special tiles that BIFROST* automatically redraws ... />
[*] "Manually" drawing tiles on screen (using drawTile) only ... int dlinEnemy, dlinPlayer; // hi-res vertical sprite movement
int dcolEnemy ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 4In previous posts I demonstrated how to move multicolor tiles up and down smoothly by a single pixel, and sideways by an entire char (8 pixels). Thi…
... int dlin[NUM_TILES]; // hi-res vertical tile movement
int dhrc ... frames);
}
// bounce tiles
for (f = 0; f ... br /> }
// erase tiles
for (f = 0; f ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 5In my [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40437"]previous post[/URL] I demonstrated how to move multicolor images smoothly i…
... int linPlayer; // hi-res vertical tile position
int ... // 4th frame requires 2 tiles
BIFROST_drawTileH(linPlayer, HRC2COL ... // 4th frame requires 2 tiles
BIFROST_drawTileH(linPlayer, ...Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Humans.Ok. This topic is about those vertical shoot'em up's in which you control a human. Why? Because I say so. It's just a nitpicking categorization. And…
... . This topic is about those vertical shoot'em up's in ...Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Ground Vehicles.Ok, the topic says it all. We're talking about tanks, jeeps, cars, pogo sticks and futuristic vehicles (as in Marauder). There's no really substanti…
... in the gameplay from the Vertical Shoot'em Up's with ... is among the finest Vertical (and non-vertical) Shoot'em Up's ...Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Spacecrafts.what's missing? for updated lists look [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/concealedwords/home/zxspectrumgames/vertical-shoot-em-up-s"]here[/URL]. …
... .com/site/concealedwords/home/zxspectrumgames/vertical-shoot-em-up-s"]here ...BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 6The purpose of this demo is somewhat different from previous ones. Instead of teaching a new technique, the main goal here is to demonstrate how much…
... int linPlayer; // hi-res vertical tile position
int ... // 4th frame requires 2 tiles
BIFROST_drawTileH(linPlayer, HRC2COL ... // 4th frame requires 2 tiles
BIFROST_drawTileH(linPlayer, ...multi-scroll m/c subroutine for BASICArising from recent posts, here's a scrolling routine that will manage multiple left/right scrollings for any (sensible) line width or step; (ie. whe…
Arising from recent posts, here's a scrolling routine that will manage multiple left/right scrollings for any (sensible) line width or step; (ie. where width isBIFROST* for graphic artists - part 2: static tilesThis tutorial provides some guidelines for designing multicolor tiles. Before reading this text, it's strongly recommended that you (re-)read [URL="h…
... some guidelines for designing multicolor tiles. Before reading this text ... . For instance, multicolor tiles in Buzzsaw typically leave ... situations where certain multicolor tiles are designed to look ... on designing animated multicolor tiles. In the meantime, ...Another vertical scrolling questionwhile talking about w256 x h128 vertical scrolling, are 128k modes have any advantages over 48k models? has extra ram or swappable screen buffer any…
while talking about w256 x h128 vertical scrolling, are 128k modes have any advantages over 48k models?
has extra ram or swappable screen buffer any use on scrolling?can somebody give me a little help with tiles please?I am trying to come with with some nice tiles for a new AGD game...nothing good came out insofar...(trying something bio-mech kind of r-typish thing …
... come with with some nice tiles for a new AGD game ... be made of a few tiles)
If you feel ...Scrolling Bi-Colour Engine for 4-Player GamesJust putting this code up for people to have a look at. Far from finished. Should simply compile and run a bit of a demo. Only good for 128K and +…
... -around attribute map to allow vertical attribute-based scrolling.
;Use ...
ld a,(multicolour_A_offset) ;'HW' scroll factor
ld l,a ...ScrollsHello. Ive been working in scroll routines and I want to show you them. First, one vertical 2 pixels scroll routine with 13 sprites [youtube]D-T3…
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First, one vertical 2 pixels scroll routine with 13 sprites ... is a multidirectional 2 pixels scroll. I think that I ... /> And a multidirectional 4x4 pixel scroll routine. Perhaps this can be ...FZX ScrollI wrote a routine to scroll message in ZX Spectrum screen, using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44088"]FZX[/URL] fonts.…
I wrote a routine to scroll message in ZX Spectrum screen, ... . Feel free to use FZX Scroll.
The [URL="http ...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…
... stayed locked horizontally, with only vertical movement by character square there ... you can tolerate. It could scroll quite smoothly as along as ...Vertical XOR filler.. anyone?Hi, I was just wondering whether a vertical filler using XOR has ever been used on Speccy demos/games and if yes when for the first time? Just tryin…
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I was just wondering whether a vertical filler using XOR has ever been used on Speccy demos/games and if yes when for the first time? Just trying to find some references..New game released: EXPLORER<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Courier New';">- EXPLORER -</span></div><div><span style="font-si…
... I've seen an alternate vertical-scrolling version in a TV ... Spectrum POKE 23692,0 to scroll vertically the whole screen. I ... , including an Assembly routine to scroll a screen window, in order ... weak attempt to play a vertical clone of my favourite arcade ...New NIRVANA+ feature: wide tiles!The size of each bicolor tile in [b]NIRVANA+[/b] is 2x2 characters (16x16 pixels), like this: [img]http://i60.tinypic.com/mw358y.png[/img] [i]* M…
... have to create pre-shifted tiles for all intermediate positions, like ... provides support for [b]wide tiles[/b] (24x16 pixels) also!
tiles[/b], I suggest downloading [b ... routine to draw regular bicolor tiles is now a little faster ...ZX Spectrum Sprite chipHi everyone. As I said some time ago, I wanted to make a 'virtual' Sprite chip for the ZX spectrum, on my ZEsarUX emulator. The idea is to make so…
... can be mirrored horizontal or vertical
Every Sprite is ... display.
-you can scroll the main video memory on ...Variable sized tiles /tile routineHow would you do a variable sized tile routine where the tiles have position variables too? Thanks would be interested to learn :)
How would you do a variable sized tile routine where the tiles have position variables too?
Thanks would be interested to learn :)Vertical Lines Spectrum +3Hi, My Spectrum +3 boots up and shows the following: Grey border with vertical black lines: http://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&p=19…
... following:
Grey border with vertical black lines:
http://www ...How would you approach parallax?So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then s…
... that you will horizontally scroll top two thirds of ... -- what would the smooth ongoing scroll step be? 2? 4? ... a bit more nasty to scroll (3 shifts per byte ... your screen is 32 tiles x 16 tiles (top two thirds ... you have 512 tiles. If you scroll 8 pixels left then ...
