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  • Mr Beep / ipod gameCongrats to Mr Beep who did the music for a new ipod game... Air Supply The game looks very old skool with simple 80's style graphics, plus with th…

    ... next! It's either the vertical scrolling shooter (with all Spectrum graphics ...
    quantumsheep quantumsheep March 2011 Announcements
  • What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …

    ... />
    Good shooter. Nice stars vertical scrolling on the background. The original ...
    JuanF. Ramirez JuanF. Ramirez March 2011 Games
  • A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…

    ... get a rudimentary character-level "vertical scrolling" for free (by using string ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2011 Games
  • A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…

    ... get a rudimentary character-level "vertical scrolling" for free (by using string ...
    R-Tape R-Tape March 2011 Games
  • 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…

    It will probably be a vertical scrolling shooter I work on next, ... 't decide on doing the vertical scrolling backgrounds with just 4x1 coloured ...
    joefish joefish March 2011 Development
  • 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…

    ... both.

    btw, if vertical scrolling is cheaper, we can turn ... so it still looks horizontal scrolling, like arcade cabinets :D
    Arda Arda April 2011 Development
  • enJine: a fast tilemap enginetile engine based on excellent work by Joffa Smifff. here you can download first tech demo. [url=http://ketmar.no-ip.org/tmp/enJine.tap]Get It Now![…

    ... the middle of coding a scrolling engine similar to Cobra but hoping ... working on a dynamic tiling engine at the same time and ...
    kphair kphair May 2011 Development
  • Games you have completed (no cheating)Beach Head. erm....that's it.:-(

    ... a weak arcade game and vertical scrolling shooters like Sonic Boom just ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree June 2011 Games
  • List of existing games that needs a port to zx spectrumPlease post here the games that exist in other platform(s) but does not exist in speccy. Please keep in mind this is not a to-do list, so don't hesti…

    @Rebelstar: Sorry but scrolling in spectrum games is already ... the DMA to speed up vertical scrolling or buffering.
    Atari GEM ...
    LCD LCD July 2011 New game ideas
  • New game! Fundamentally LoathsomeAfter not being able to deliver anything in so long, we have decided to release something we were crafting in late 2008, some kind of experiment rela…

    ... as you can achieve colourful scrolling, no one cares about how ... you the impression that real scrolling is happenning:

    1 ... , which would make a "proper" scrolling engine :D
    na_th_an na_th_an July 2011 Brand new software
  • New game! Fundamentally LoathsomeAfter not being able to deliver anything in so long, we have decided to release something we were crafting in late 2008, some kind of experiment rela…

    ... , which would make a "proper" scrolling engine :D[/QUOTE]Thanks for the ... you only use your own scrolling then there's no point ...
    Timmy Timmy July 2011 Brand new software
  • Casstte 50 compilation emulator game questionHi - Hope this is the right place to put this question? Wasn't sure? But I have just downloaded the 'Cassette 50' compilation from wos but can't w…

    ... sick to death of the vertical scrolling 'racers' which were pretty identical ...
    Morkin Morkin August 2011 Games
  • Tile based graphics and scrolling thingy...Here's my best attempt so far at a tile based rendering and scrolling routine. It draws in 22 8*8 graphics tiles along the top of the screen (junk i…

    ... for simplicity's sake. A vertical scrolling Xevious type game will be ...
    Zoltar Zoltar September 2011 Development
  • Nemesisanyone got an invulnerability poke that works? the one on the tip shop doesn't seem to work with the tap version

    ... (which I like) and widescreen vertical scrolling levels (which I really can ... with great graphics but annoying vertical alternating levels that only really ...
    joefish joefish December 2011 Games
  • Spectrum games that *should* existRight, I'm bored (or "working hard" if any of my bosses walk past) so to kill the time, I've decided to become a games designer. Or post crap about s…

    ... was an earlier ASCII-based vertical-scrolling SEU called Chaos Stream, which ...
    bobs bobs January 2012 New game ideas
  • Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…

    ... could done with character scrolling and colourful graphics, ... uses smooth horizontal scrolling and chunky vertical scrolling. Consider the ... Acorn Electron scrolling... Much chunkier. Shows that downgrading the scrolling ...
    Jmk Jmk March 2012 New game ideas
  • Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…

    ... nothing but a slighter faster scrolling version of [I]Hysteria[/I ... , like that MASK example shows, vertical scrolling is fairly easy - you just ... rows of the screen. Horizontal scrolling, at less than 8 pixels ...
    joefish joefish March 2012 New game ideas
  • 3D Deathchase on the Commodore 643D Deathchase has been ported to the C64, at least according to Micro-Mart. According to this week's MM, the port is called Hell Racer, and here's a …

    ... is actually different for each vertical band.

    [QUOTE=fog ... (it's had issues with vertical scrolling for ages that i don ...
    TMR TMR April 2012 Games
  • Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …

    ... LDI for a 20 column vertical scrolling routine*. Though in data terms ...
    R-Tape R-Tape April 2012 Development
  • Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …

    ... LDI for a 20 column vertical scrolling routine*. Though in data terms ...
    zxbruno zxbruno April 2012 Development
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... moves up into to give scrolling effect):

    [B]AAAA ... buffer each time to give scrolling effect, until we reach the ... . NB this is not a scrolling engine yet.

    [CODE]org ...
    R-Tape R-Tape May 2012 Development
  • Sonic Game PossibleIs a sonic game possible on the ZX Spectrum 48k? I read somewhere that someone tried to create a sonic game for the ZX Spectrum, but the only [url=ht…

    ... have been an 8 way scrolling affair, I asked if Turbo ... made quite a lot of scrolling platformers - Hong Kong Phooey, Potsworth ... have been reusing the same scrolling engine, which was actually quite good ...
    Ralf Ralf May 2012 Development
  • Sonic Game PossibleIs a sonic game possible on the ZX Spectrum 48k? I read somewhere that someone tried to create a sonic game for the ZX Spectrum, but the only [url=ht…

    ... have been reusing the same scrolling engine, which was actually quite good ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN May 2012 Development
  • 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…

    Fast scrolling is possible on Spectrum although ... as on Commode. No hardware scrolling or other cheating just pure ... /> Another Spectrum game with impressive scrolling engine in not so well known ...
    Ralf Ralf October 2012 Games
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=Ralf;655865]Fast scrolling is possible on Spectrum although ... as on Commode. No hardware scrolling or other cheating just pure ... /> Another Spectrum game with impressive scrolling engine in not so well known ...
    apenao apenao October 2012 Games
  • What Spectrum projects (Software/Games/Utility)(Hardware)(Others) are you working on?So, basically that :) You dont have to give names or more clues if you dont want to ;) Also, if you are working on more than one, you can tell all of…

    ... random-generated levels and smooth scrolling. maybe it's too much ... in the same frame. The scrolling engine only allowed 1 type of ...
    R-Tape R-Tape October 2012 Development
  • Monster TrucksI wouldn't mind playing a good 'bouncy' monster truck game on the speccy. I tried drawing a sprite just now, looks more suitable for Mr Bean Goes Mo…

    and both games were made by very decent dev teams. graftgold / software creations..

    i was thinking about up n down on speccy, but the vertical scrolling might be the issue I guess maybe.
    fog fog December 2012 New game ideas
  • Multimatograf 9 / oldsc00l zone / 53c-competition slideshow[IMG]http://nyuk.retropc.ru/files/mf9/mf9-2s.png[/IMG] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DywU2qNWfqA"]youtube[/URL] [URL="http://nyuk.retropc.ru/…

    Thank you, I concerned how stable vertical scrolling works on 48.
    Do we need to translate a name of the pictures?
    And what format is preferrable - .SCL or .TAP?
    g0blinish g0blinish May 2013 Announcements
  • Multimatograf 9 / oldsc00l zone / 53c-competition slideshow[IMG]http://nyuk.retropc.ru/files/mf9/mf9-2s.png[/IMG] [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DywU2qNWfqA"]youtube[/URL] [URL="http://nyuk.retropc.ru/…

    ... at work).
    Also the vertical scrolling of the pictures looks very ...
    Yerzmyey Yerzmyey May 2013 Announcements
  • 5th QuadrantAnyone ever mapped or completed it? Theres a game in there somewhere im sure of it but I cant make head nor tail of it!

    ... which needs a bit of vertical scrolling). I'm actually more pleased ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2013 Games
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