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Manic Scroller!You're the king of Manic Miner around these parts? Finished it a thousand and one times with one arm tied behind your back? Looking for a new challen…
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It is called "Manic Scroller" (inspired by the title of ... area occupied by the source code remnants at #9400 - #9CFF. ... PM message) to use his code!
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Found my old Manic Miner scrolling hackI don't remember if I put this old hack here on WoS so [URL="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/e.tinney/manic.szx"]here's a snapshot[/URL]. Be impressed w…
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It is called "Manic Scroller" (inspired by the title of ... area occupied by the source code remnants at #9400 - #9CFF. Furthermore ... PM message) to use his code!
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Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…
... arrows would be cool for vertical coordinates outside the screen limits ... you can see the Basic code in the description.
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Drawing LinesHas anyone got any experience of coding a Bresenham line drawing algorithm on the Speccy? I've had a go and I find the algorithm has quite a few s…
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Drawing LinesHas anyone got any experience of coding a Bresenham line drawing algorithm on the Speccy? I've had a go and I find the algorithm has quite a few s…
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;here, the primary direction is vertical, and the ... back to the beginning
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Drawing LinesHas anyone got any experience of coding a Bresenham line drawing algorithm on the Speccy? I've had a go and I find the algorithm has quite a few s…
... to work. Ive done the vertical and horizontal edge-clipping too ... the compiler will repeat the code for me. Five repetitions seems ... -
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…
... interesting if you don’t code for the Next. They’re ... helpers, a hardware scroll single vertical pixel block copy, that kind ... -
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.
... than regular 256 bytes table + code
And if ... 4 lower bits).
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Donkey Kong And The Wrong ColoursI vaguely remember asking this question many years ago, but it seems worthwhile in the context of the frankly amazing hack/mods I've just discovered …
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this code wont give me a random starfieldim using a peice of code that ive copied from a book, ignore most of it as it is redundant. for some reason i get a strange random starfield instead …
... call random
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Zynaps scrolling - anyone ever reverse enginnered this?Zynaps has IMO some impressive scrolling - it utilises 18 character rows of the display file, so quite a large active play area, and scrolls 2 pixels…
... the platform in terms of code. Dynamic tile recombination, ring buffers ... running. It also supports horizontal/vertical mirroring for these tile strips ... -
this code wont give me a random starfieldim using a peice of code that ive copied from a book, ignore most of it as it is redundant. for some reason i get a strange random starfield instead …
... call random
and 255[/code]
Clearly, your ... .
Firstly, [code]AND 175[/code] won't be filtering ... with an even distribution of vertical positions (subject to how ... br />
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Dynamite Dan II - Island 6 - HELP!Hi all, can someone possibly create a snapshot of Island 6 (car park island) on Dynamite Dan II for me please? I'm trying to work out why half the…
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Disassembly's I'd love to seeThis is not meant as some kind of request thread, as that would be grossly cheeky to ask for (however muchI wanted it) but I somehow felt a need to p…
... self-modifying code at the end which draws the horizontal/vertical lines ... a silly result. The whole code itself isn't seems compiled ... I've never investigate compiled code on the Spectrum, so I ... -
Were the full Sinclair Loki specs ever actually known?I was just curious. A lot was leaked to the media, but the exact specs seem different depending on source. Some say it could support up to 512x256 an…
... complexity just as it increases code complexity, especially if any mathematics ... GAL chip... Another covers the vertical lines, and with a 3 ... -
Robospec (new project, hopefully useful as a tutorial as well)Starting a new project after my graphics investigations. * It's gonna be a Robotron clone since that's not too ambitious (although I'd like to hav…
... firing code which will start with drawing a line (horizontal, vertical or ... moving right
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Hardware Reference Manual for ZX SpectrumHi, I want to write games for ZX Spectrum in assembly language. I have lot of books in PDF format from SpectrumComputing. Still missing a book lik…
... for Z80 inside Visual Studio Code and some other tools like ... to the description of the Vertical Blank interrupt. Synchronization thanks to ... -
Hardware Reference Manual for ZX SpectrumHi, I want to write games for ZX Spectrum in assembly language. I have lot of books in PDF format from SpectrumComputing. Still missing a book lik…
... to the description of the Vertical Blank interrupt.
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AY PlayerI'm working on a frontend DB and would like to include an option that plays Speccy music/fx via AY Player. Does any1 know if there is a .dll that I…
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Idea about improving EmulatorHi, I got a bright idea today how to improve such excellent emulators a bit more. Okay, disassemblers are available in nearly every one new released …
... and power to optimize the code for speed or memory usage ... , so the compiled code should be better than if ... . The problem: I can not code very well on PC... So ... -
Why so few open source Spectrum emulators?A couple of days ago I started to look into converting an existing Spectrum emulator to Pocket PC (mainly the iPaq) and ran into problems directly. T…
... find one with published source code (obvious because of the similarities ... emulators does not publish source code. Why is that the case ... be able to publish source code without losing any money at ... most emulators to publish source code and try to promote the ... -
Name this game!Okay, details are sketchy at the best: 2-d scroller, blocky graphics. U have to go around shooting pipes (actually certain gates in the pipe) so tha…
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EliteCan any of you good people tell me how to use the LENSLOC that is supplied with Elite.I have the game loaded at the ENTER CODE screen but cannot work…
Can any of you good people tell me how to use the LENSLOC that is supplied with Elite.I have the game loaded at the ENTER CODE screen but cannot work out the code.
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How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
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Night GunnerThis is similar to the problem I had earlier with that Turtles game- maybe you can solve this one too. I load the game up, and I am asked to give a c…
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Bug in Nemesis the WarlockI've noticed a bug in Nemesis the Warlock that prevents the game from being completed. On level 7, both on the 48K and 128K versions, the sprite repr…
... via Multiface to alter the code in order to ensure proper ...
