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While we're on about graphics...I did this for ZXSpin: [img]http://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/CRT.png[/img] Which is a 2x filter, simulating (badly) a CRTdisplay. This is the…
... consists of 3x3 pixels - 3 vertical strips of red, green and ... -
Adjusting your code for screen refreshingOk, I'm aware that I should know it already after writing 5 Spectrum games in machine code but interrupts and screen refreshes were always my weaker …
... plenty of time before the vertical retrace. You could write your ... -
Adjusting your code for screen refreshingOk, I'm aware that I should know it already after writing 5 Spectrum games in machine code but interrupts and screen refreshes were always my weaker …
... time between D and A ("vertical retrace") when the ULA doesn ... -
make up some stupid game names?Just for a joke really, since certain people on an auction site can't be ars... errm bothered to list their games.. I thought I'd ask if they had..h…
Cup (Saucer II)
Clockwork Tabernacle
Mr. Minge Muncher
Cluster Buster (original name for Saucer on the SNES, but dropped because the Japanese had problems saying it)
Gonads (vertical shooter)
Worry My Wife -
Your Speccy Games CollectionJust updated my Spectrum games list today after having a load of tapes lying around for months, managed to sort them out and I now have 1441 original…
... perhaps. flat.. = 6 vs 1 vertical .. so flat is better I ... -
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…
... . not only horizontal but also vertical ... AND be able to revisit ... -
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 ... -
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…
... know if one of horizontal/vertical scroll was fundamentally easier on ... -
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…
... know if one of horizontal/vertical scroll was fundamentally easier on ... scrolling 8 pixels per frame, vertical scrolling is easier. Sometimes it ... -
The amazing Miles Mad Mission thread!Following on from the "Thuderstorms" thread! The JSW I mocked up for a laugh then decided to actually do is under construction. As promised I said …
... easily also be used as vertical beasties). There is an old ... -
Really neat pictures you have taken.For Christmas this year I got from a wife a Lumix Z28 camera. It's a SLR style (note not an SLR) camera with a 18x optical zoom and wide angle lens a…
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What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.
(I have to remind the world, I find Penetrator to be the only classic Speccy shmup.
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What are the keys for Penetrator?Q - Up, A- Down, O-Left P- Right Space - Bomb. So what's fire? When I press the P button, it fires bullets, but that's the 'right' key. Surely they…
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Have you ever looked back and gone 'Why on EARTH did I.....buy that game??' I look back now at some of the games I bought in my youth. When I worked 8 hours a week at the Co-Op and got paid just ?10. Out o…
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ZX81 more powerful than the Speccy?I have been reading ?The ZX Spectrum Book 1982 - 199x? by Andrew Rollings (thanks again, Andrew - it?s a great read!). There are some comments in the…
... is very little - just the vertical blanking period - which amounts to ... -
Got a PS3 For Christmas!and more that brag about it, I just wanted to share that I'm just giving my first steps on it! so far I got PES 2010, Batman Arkham Asilum and Assas…
... difficulty curve that was basically vertical and that it only showed ... -
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…
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as for vertical shoot em up's.. look ... -
XBox 360 problems (again)...I hope I'm wrong, but I think my 360 is on its way out again... :sad: As I mentioned in the "currently playing" thread, I've been having problems wi…
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The XB360 can stand vertical or sit horizontal. Interesting point ... -
VVVVVV - A retro-styled collect-em-upNot sure if this has already been posted, I did a search. [url]http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-vvvvvv/17-1878/[/url] Could be fun, could be cra…
Looks quite fun, but I'd rather see it running on an 8bit machine. I like the vertical scrolling bit. Reminds me of Splat! -
VVVVVV - A retro-styled collect-em-upNot sure if this has already been posted, I did a search. [url]http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-vvvvvv/17-1878/[/url] Could be fun, could be cra…
[QUOTE=Graz;415904]Looks quite fun, but I'd rather see it running on an 8bit machine. I like the vertical scrolling bit. Reminds me of Splat![/QUOTE]Hop to it then ;) -
Print at 128,87? :)The advanced search function didn't help me find the answer to this, and I don't remember seeing anything similar in magazines or books... so please …
Mike Leaman's YS MegaBASIC SPRINT command supports pixel coordinates.
David McCandless' Proportional Printing routine in YS supports horizontal pixel positioning but not vertical. -
Print at 128,87? :)The advanced search function didn't help me find the answer to this, and I don't remember seeing anything similar in magazines or books... so please …
... , and the second as the vertical. If not I would like ... -
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 …
... would have to be some vertical movement too and, obviously, the ... -
Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…
... character the pellet will go vertical (PELLETV) if the character is ... -
ULA Plus and Interlace.May be a bit late to suggest this, but here goes. Did the original Speccy ULA actually output a proper PAL interlaced image, with timing pulses on a…
... "jitters" due to the slight vertical offset of frame 2, so ... you're thinking, doubling the vertical resolution? It might be possible ... -
ULA Plus and Interlace.May be a bit late to suggest this, but here goes. Did the original Speccy ULA actually output a proper PAL interlaced image, with timing pulses on a…
... "jitters" due to the slight vertical offset of frame 2, so ... frame to generate a higher vertical resolution for MODE 7 (teletext ... -
ULA Plus and Interlace.May be a bit late to suggest this, but here goes. Did the original Speccy ULA actually output a proper PAL interlaced image, with timing pulses on a…
... you're thinking, doubling the vertical resolution? It might be possible ...
