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New Spectrum (Spaceship) Mascot?Original spark here...[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=588993#post588993[/url] I'm trying to write this without sounding …
... seen this) due to the vertical scroller nature of the game, but ... -
New Spectrum (Spaceship) Mascot?Original spark here...[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=588993#post588993[/url] I'm trying to write this without sounding …
... seen this) due to the vertical scroller nature of the game, but ... ' player ship for a sideways scroller like nemesis/r-type unless ... -
Arcade Game nameHello all Was chatting to an old college friend yesterday and he asked me if I could remember the name of an arcade game we used to play in the late…
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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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Paradroid for C-64, why not in the Spectrum?Reading the special 30th anniversary Retro Gamer, I came across this game which was considered to be the best game for the C-64, and it does not look…
the most bizarre of all.. I prefer Speccy Ranarama over C64 Paradroid.
and I dont like Paradroid'90 at all.. being simply vertical scroller were Atari Stish deception. ( moreover having a flamboyant Amiga ) -
can not remember a title of a great game :/hi :) im wondering if anybody can help me remember a game :) when i was a kid i loved this game and for the life of me i just cant remember what i…
Could be River Raid except that it's a vertical scroller.
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Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…
[QUOTE=joefish;704168]*checks thread title*
*says nothing* :p :p[/QUOTE]
Heh... I could always do a vertical scroller and make everyone rotate their monitor/telly 90 degrees to play it. It would make life a lot easier! ;) -
Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …
... an idea for doing a vertical scroller using an interlaced background with ... . That way you get smooth vertical scrolling and horizontal sprite movement ... -
ULA snow effectIt's wintertime, you know. [quote="http://ramsoft.bbk.org.omegahg.com/floatingbus.html"]when the I register falls in the range 0x40-0x7F then the UL…
The Snow effect can affect all columns, both odd and even from Woody's experiments which I was a witness to - we had a fullscreen attribute-level vertical scroller at one point, which was entirely unintended but looked lovely :)
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ULA snow effectIt's wintertime, you know. [quote="http://ramsoft.bbk.org.omegahg.com/floatingbus.html"]when the I register falls in the range 0x40-0x7F then the UL…
... had a fullscreen attribute-level vertical scroller at one point, which was ... -
Games similar to TurricanAre there games on the Spectrum similar to Turrican (other than Turrican and its sequel obviously). I am making up a wee list of alternative games t…
... -scrolling aspect so a sideways vertical scroller that has a look similar ... -
Edge Grinder, how would YOU do it?I always meant to post about this and AndyC reminded me in the 'vs' thread in games. [QUOTE=AndyC;808887]The thing I love about threads like this is…
... . Shame it's not a vertical scroller.
Best trick might ... screen flipping to get double vertical attribute resolution. I was trying ... -
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…
... for multicolour would be a vertical scroller, since the attributes could scroll ... -
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…
... 't understand what "Landscape oriented vertical scroller?" is here.
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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…
... mean that all the best vertical-scrolling shooters in the arcade ... make the longer aspect the vertical...[/quote]Thanks I understand now ... was working on was a vertical scroller something like Moon Strike but ... -
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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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…
[quote="Dunny;910325"]Would you be averse to POKEing the scroll counter so you can make a BASIC infinite vertical scroller? [/quote]
Hmm. Not sure. It’s probably still kosher. I’ll have to consult the High Council. :)] -
How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
What happens with the typical vertical scroller? Or when there are many things PRINTed at random moments? Sample: https://yadi.sk/d/uJP_-2Vc3USKPR -
How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
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How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
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Modern Speccy games with good scrollingOne of the things I like the most on the Spectrum is also one of the hardest to pull off - a good scroll in an arcade type game. Uridium is one of my…
... call [i]Yankee[/i] a scroller. Rather, I just cheat and ... come, but it’s a vertical scroller. It’s a little easier ... -
Scroller exampleThis is just a silly scroller I made today. I'm really proud. :) [url="http://www.basslab.net/ScrollerSnap.SNA"]http://www.basslab.net/ScrollerSnap.…
This is just a silly scroller I made
today. I' ... .SNA[/url]
the source is available for critisism as ... -
Doom 3 is now open source!I'm no fan of Doom 3, but I think it's great news that id Software has released the game's source code* into the public domain, so that the game can …
... have already released the source code for their earlier ... the ability to jump, vertical aiming, non-standard enviromental architecture ... other developers would offer their source code for download, but ... john-carmack-releases-doom-3-source-code.html[/url]
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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…
... ago, but this time the source is included, with some comments ... pixels
uchar dy; // signed vertical speed in pixels
};
GZX emulator source code publishedHi, GZX is the name of my own personal ZX Spectrum emulator that I wrote and have been using for my needs. I just wanted to let you know that I publ…
... there are many good open-source emulators so it will ... be enabled by editing the source code. Consider this a ... I am just publishing the source repository. There is no ... /> - Experimental support or Spec256, double-vertical-res
- Emulate built-in ...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…
... t find one with published source code (obvious because of the ... should be able to publish source code without losing any money ... for most emulators to publish source code and try to promote ... /> OK! More GPL licensed open source Spectrum emulators!
...Z80 Emulator Source?Found a link to this on comp.sys.amstrad.8bit. i havent been with the discussion long but supposedly this is the source for a Z80 emulator. Forgive m…
... but supposedly this is the source for a Z80 emulator. Forgive ...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 …
... or played before. I like vertical scrollers, any gems i might ... Cresta
Any classic vertical shoot em ups please post ...Open vs Closed Source Emulators.[quote] On 2004-09-02 01:51, cyborg wrote: [quote]Additionally, an emulator author may not have access to a recent Microsoft compiler and/or the appr…
... is better?
Open source can lead to faster progress ... team" coding.
Closed source can lead to a greater ... ) have tended to be closed source. (No names mentioned. :) )
Ocean Software goes Open SourceHello! I found this. [url="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/frank.gasking/Ocean.htm"]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/frank.gasking/Ocean.htm[/url] It see…
... are goin to release some Source code for free.
