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My first program - a vertical scrollerHi all, I'm new here. Nice to meet you all! A couple of weeks ago I decided to learn Z80 assembly language. I spent many hours in front of the Spec…
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SAM Games that never wereIn another thread on Multiloads there's been a bit of chat about US Gold's infamous statement about porting Strider to the SAM (which tbh if they had…
... much apart from Sphera (a vertical scroller), an early SAM game which ... RAM for extra animations and code. I wouldn't mind someone ... -
How to safely maximise available memoryHi All, I'm toying with an idea that will require I have as much memory available as possible. I'm a little embarrassed I have to ask this tbh. As…
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Pac-Land: can be coloured?All versions of this game are full coloured, but not the Spectrum version. It has large sprites, but maybe the scroll is too fine to make a coloured …
... out of it with some code that could support a 50fps ... would like to take the scroller code and make a game of ... screen flipping to double the vertical attribute resolution. So Pac-Man ... -
Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…
Well, my solution doesn't involve any machine code at all - you're just changing the BASIC code on the fly.
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OT - image editorsOK, it's like this: I Am doing a game in VC++ - a vertical scroller - as a sort of directX self-training project. Now, I'm lousy with graphics. So …
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Game I've forgottenRight, so in a question from another forum : "Which type of space shooter do you like?", which allows the answer overhead or side-view scrollers. I b…
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What was the name of a poor driving game, with product placement?I'm trying to remember the name of a driving game. It was a vertical scroller, top down view. It got a very sarcastic review in a magazine, the titl…
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Colission detection problems.G'ah...it's always the same (I've asked before too) - I'm always struggling when it comes to doing box colission checks, so I'm basically hoping you …
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[CODE] ld a,l ; player' ... nc,cc02 ; not within vertical range.
; now ... cc02 ; not within vertical range.
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Xcel - how to win this gameHi. I have been exploiting lockdown to do ridiculous numbers of RZX longplays (mostly boring text adventures that you hate, because everyone did the …
... game "Xcel": this is a vertical scrolling shooter, you know, a ... like a lot of these vertical scroller shooters, dodging the walls is ...ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…
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For vertical scroller's I have to agree ...Best scrolling shooters on speccy?I think one of most popular genres, besides mazes, was scrolling shooter. Can you remember any favorites to recommend, besides r-type
... air, ground and "marine" targets, vertical scroller, AWESOME graphics. That was great ...Vertical ScrollersI like finding classic Speccy games which i've never really heard of or played before. I like vertical scrollers, any gems i might have missed from …
... first post, yes, Lightforce, a vertical scroller! :p
Let's ...Vertical ScrollersI like finding classic Speccy games which i've never really heard of or played before. I like vertical scrollers, any gems i might have missed from …
the best vertical scroller ever is of course Rainbow motherfuckin' islands (the gangsta! version? lol)Best scrolling everHi All - I've been lurking here for a while enjoying reminiscing about my magical 10 years of rubber-keyed fun back in my youth! What game featured …
... storm was a fantastically smooth vertical scroller as well as Commando.What games ave u played in last 7days?OK ok, I've been looking at the best games postings and well ok. Many say Manic Miner is the best blah blah (dont get me wrong....it is a classic) bu…
Humbug, also try 'LightForce'
Great vertical scroller, shows that the Speccy can do great games without colour clash. Very good game that is.
Also Zynaps is a great horizontal shooterCommodore fan needs guidance.Hi all, first off what an awesome site! As the title says I grew up with Commodore machines so am not really up on Spectrum classics. I recently got…
... Lightforce which is a great vertical scroller, proves that the Speccy can ...N64 shooters?I loved my N64 buti did not have many shooters for it. Was their any shooters on it? Any that we did not get but came out in Japan? Thank for the …
... . Star Soldier comes to mind (vertical scroller just like all the other ...There is a better original game for every conversion?[QUOTE=Matt_B]My contention would be that for any good conversion, I could name a better original Spectrum game in a similar format. As such, there a…
... decent non-arcade on-foot vertical scrollers can compete with Commando ... is the best on-foot-vertical-scroller, but that just puts it ...Speccy Tour 2006 candidate gamesAs an organizer of this tournament, I'd like to know what people think about games we propose this year as candidates to be part of this tournament's…
... /> Shoot'em ups - 'Vertical scroller' Flying Shark vs 'Horiz. scroller' Silk Worm vs ... , an '3D isometric' candidate, 'Multi scroller', 'Top-down',...
Tapper ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... . We will be needing the scroller code within the week as the ... next batch of code to be written will be ... events in the game. Any code contributions will get a byline ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... be needing the [U]scroller code[/U] within the week ... the next batch of code to be written will ... in the game. Any code contributions will get a ... this is the revised scroller that draws directly to ... also interested in contibuting code to other sections of ...Gauntlet type gamesI was playing 'Into the Eagles nest' quite heavily yesterday, I'd played it on the Amiga but never the Speccy and found it quite enjoyable and a nice…
UCM (although that was more of a top down vertical scroller really).What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.
... for some reason, whenever a vertical scroller got ported to Speccy, the ...Games featuring ancient mythologiesHaving just been to Greece (you probably noticed I was away), it got me wondering which games and text adventures were based on ancient mythologies. …
... lines. Basically a sort of vertical-scroller shoot 'em up set in ...Games featuring ancient mythologiesHaving just been to Greece (you probably noticed I was away), it got me wondering which games and text adventures were based on ancient mythologies. …
... lines. Basically a sort of vertical-scroller shoot 'em up set in ...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... a fast full screen vertical scroll:
[CODE] ld hl, ... : dw 16384, 16440, ...
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To customize this ... arbitrary window:
[CODE] ld a, (height)
...Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…
... a fast full screen vertical scroll:
[CODE] ld hl, ... lines: dw 16384, 16440, ...
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:) Also we can ... arbitrary window:
[CODE] ld a, (height)
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Looks ...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 …
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The game is a vertical scroller. On screen are jumpingplatforms which ...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 …
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The game is a vertical scroller. On screen are jumpingplatforms which ...
