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  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... so that the same 8 vertical pixels in a char map ... bit longer until sprites or scrolling hw is added :D
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2009 Emulators
  • Jonathan Cauldwell writes.I also found this in me old archives, which was actually written by Jonathan Cauldwell. Again, typos and editorial tags included for authenticity ;-)…

    ... properly other bits of the engine are added. Enemy sprites also ... take up valuable processor time. Scrolling routines are another area where ... sense in wasting precious time scrolling empty patches of the ... these have been added the engine itself is pretty much ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington December 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Shooter Racer TypeThingA bit like Spy Hunter flipped on it's side but actually plays a bit more like R-Type on wheels... A mock up screen: [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com…

    ... screen.

    are both vertical / horizontal speeds the same cpu ... also have to use parallax scrolling for the road /pavement.
    fog fog December 2009 New game ideas
  • Games that could've been goodI've just been playing [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009311]Blade Warrior[/url] (it's been deniencededed since I got hold of…

    ... it had the same engine as Commando. The scrolling is dire, the ... good but shame about the scrolling/enemy AI
    psj3809 psj3809 January 2010 Games
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... on the "fighting engine"... The background, the scrolling/flipping is all just ... far he falls, the physics engine, whether the player and enemy ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... on the "fighting engine"... The background, the scrolling/flipping is all just ... far he falls, the physics engine, whether the player and enemy ... opposed to just another side scrolling beat em up. Having it ...
    AndyC AndyC January 2010 Development
  • Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …

    ... .
    split screen ? possible...
    scrolling ? possible....
    full screen color ... with scrolling ? possible with completely redesigned graphics ... going to slowly build an engine which could end as core ...
    Fikee Fikee February 2010 Development
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... me, technically, is a vertically scrolling shooter. I'm developing an ... . And the slog with a vertical shooter is laying out all ... I have are a horizontally scrolling beat-em-up along the ...
    joefish joefish February 2010 Development
  • Converting modern games to speccyThe speccy is like a childhood friend we dont want to die. I can think of tons of modern games id LOVE to see converted, in any way, to the speccy,(r…

    Depends if you want scrolling or not. Drawing a screen ... time requires an entirely different engine.

    Personally I think ... those consoles could do - a scrolling map with overlaid sprites. It ...
    joefish joefish February 2010 New game ideas
  • Moggy Adventure (Mojon Twins, 48K)After travelling across the world to become a gentleball and leave all his vices behind (mainly alcohol and the riverside weeds, but rumours suggest …

    ... the next incarnation of our engine :)

    We are working ... /> Yeah sorry i didnt want scrolling (i know that would be ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2010 Games
  • Gaming Epiphany?!?!?Not sure if this has been asked before, but, here goes. I was wondering which games people had played on what ever system and thought 'WOW now that?…

    ... :lol:

    [b]PC Engine/Turbografx 16[/b]

    Engine for free :evil:).

    scrolling beat em' ups from a ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2010 Chit chat
  • How do you destroy an enemy or object?Hi guys I allways wanted to know this, but how would you go about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do you use a huge ar…

    ... in every 4 vertical pixels to double the vertical colour resolution. If ... perform that swap the game engine would be much more limited ... in place of the four vertical pixel busy wait. So the ... are executed during those 4 vertical pixel waits. Doing things this ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    Another great demo ! Interesting game as we dont get many scrolling ones like this. It seems a bit like 'metro cross' but vertical, eg you go on an arrow to speed up etc.

    Really hope to see more of this in the future, great stuff
    psj3809 psj3809 March 2010 Development
  • 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…

    ... fps and make it a scrolling shooter?[/QUOTE]

    Hejsan ... qualify to be called an "engine", but yes, I was thinking ...
    riv riv March 2010 Development
  • games that got away..maybe it's been done already.. but ant attack.. sinclair research weren't interested in releasing it.. crazy :) [url]http://www.users.globalnet.co…

    ... to love Rambo. But the scrolling is terrible but worse still ... Speccy its okay but the scrolling/ai as mentioned is ... had the Commando type of engine it would be a ... they never used the same engine again. Ikari Warriors was ... despite using the same Ikari engine)
    psj3809 psj3809 March 2010 Games
  • My first platformerHi all! How do you do? Been lurking here for a while, but never had the courage to join the forum. :) The Speccy was my first computer, so I've alw…

    ... definitions and tell the engine the sprite is actually ... This works because the engine will draw the graphic ... -------- ********
    [/code]

    The engine needs to draw a complete ... subtraction introduces a blank vertical pixel into the sprite ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2010 Development
  • Spectrum v Amstrad CPC rangeAmstrad seemed to be a rather late starter in the 8 bit micro computer race. I never really saw one outside a shop, only a few people at school had o…

    ... that didn't require scrolling could look really good.
    scrolling using offsets but this ... trickery, including the afforementioned hardware scrolling. It was also possible ... I remember Arkanoid had a vertical sort of screen layout.
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG April 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…

    ... SUPER SMOOTH scrolling now :) That is one hellua rendering engine you have ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat April 2010 Emulators
  • Sinclairean A3[B]Sinclairean[/B], a new ZX Spectrum emulator written in machine code for x86-compatible, OpenGL-capable computers. Features: [LIST] [*]Fast machin…

    ... SUPER SMOOTH scrolling now :) That is one hellua rendering engine you have ...
    Madonna Mk 2 Madonna Mk 2 April 2010 Emulators
  • Rambo: A good arcade shooter?Was Rambo any good? I've just reviewed it ([URL="http://zxspectrumgames.blogspot.com/2010/05/spectrum-games-rambo-classic-zx.html"]ZX Spectrum Rambo[…

    ... different weapons are great, the scrolling however is dire and like ... Rambo used the 'Commando' style engine it would be superb but ... just too clunky as the scrolling is shocking. Shame

    psj3809 psj3809 May 2010 Games
  • Similar GamesI was just wondering with there being thousands of games if theres a lot of games that are similar to The Great escape and Where Time Stood Still sin…

    ... on c64 used the same engine for driving games I guess ... most ? platform.. puzzle .. driving ... sideway / vertical shoot em up... isometric... football ...
    fog fog June 2010 Games
  • LDIR timings in contended RAM?The 48K Spectrum technical reference page ([URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/faq/reference/48kreference.htm"]here[/URL]) describes the detailed ti…

    ... buffer.

    For a vertical scroll, move the point you ... redraw.

    For horizontal scrolling, write out a series of ... as described above for a vertical scroll.
    joefish joefish June 2010 Development
  • Invasion of the Zombie Monsters - What do you think of it?In case you missed it, RELEVO Videogames have just released their excellent Invasion of the Zombie Monsters game for free... (See [url]http://www.wo…

    ... scroll routine in the game engine.. it's char by char ... was scrolling.. maybe due to the inertia being put into the engine ... be attributed to the game engine.

    I will try ...
    fog fog July 2010 Games
  • New Mojon Twins Release: Cheril Perils.[I]Cheril, thanks to her strenght and intelligence, was able to say goodbye to her homeland, the jungle of Badajoz, travel accross the dusty paths fu…

    ... able to kill monsters. Mojon engine is getting more and more ... that it will be a scrolling game. So my question: why ...
    Ralf Ralf July 2010 Games
  • Colour or Monochrome?The release of the game [B]Cheril Perils [/B]at: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30403[/URL] made me voice my preferenc…

    ... legends of his ilk. the engine / design of turbo esprit REALLY ... job.. e.g. the game engine of buggy boy by bob ... data also? comparing static and scrolling games you can't. it ... example. but the scrolling part of any game engine , I've noticed ...
    fog fog July 2010 Games
  • The death of the SpectrumI was reflecting the other day about life and the significance of those interests that we develop during childhood. For many, its football or physic…

    ... to reduce the colour clash. Scrolling was often choppy and the ... extraordinarily well. Commando has smooth scrolling, good use of colour (but ... . The Spectrum will be an engine to play a game that ...
    takapa takapa July 2010 Chit chat
  • Your thoughts on TurricanI've always considered the Turrican games ugly and unappealing - am I missing anything?

    ... .. well it's full colour scrolling... big game maps and it ... the marks from the game engine angle as well

    fog fog July 2010 Games
  • New Mojon Twins Release: Zombie Calavera PrologueFor years, Santos Gimenez, who used to work as a guard in the graveyard near Ataualtepec, a small village located in Mexico, next to the north border…

    ... getting to finishing the Mojon engine, or if it will ever ... character based scrolling, but am I imagining that the engine has a ... full-screen character based scrolling mode? Or ...
    chev chev July 2010 Games
  • New Mojon Twins Release: Zombie Calavera PrologueFor years, Santos Gimenez, who used to work as a guard in the graveyard near Ataualtepec, a small village located in Mexico, next to the north border…

    The current engine uses splib2 which is designed ... another engine on the works which allows for character based scrolling, but ... right now. The Pretujao Collection engine will be finished soon, there ...
    na_th_an na_th_an July 2010 Games
  • New Mojon Twins Release: Zombie Calavera PrologueFor years, Santos Gimenez, who used to work as a guard in the graveyard near Ataualtepec, a small village located in Mexico, next to the north border…

    ... that the engine has a full-screen character based scrolling mode? Or ...
    Shiru Shiru July 2010 Games
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