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Happy Birthday ChasmongersApi Burfdee!
Happy birthday! Have a nice relaxing bath in blank cassettes. 8) -
Speccy Full-Price World Cup: Semi Final 1Winner of Quarter Final 1 vs Winner of Quarter Final 2. Winning game goes through to Final. Voting lasts for 2 days.
Both brilliant early classics, but I saved up and bought MM. Never bothered with AA.
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Has anything ever been discovered since companies officially stopped making games?Ive rarely posted on here but I know there have been a lot of games made since a lot of companies stopped making games for the speccy in the early 90…
... making games for the speccy in the early 90s.
in paradise I think it was called ... with a Speccy that companies in the height of the computer ... didn't know about in the 80s?
Also ... -
designing a computerHi everyone! I am designing a 4 bit computer and i need some advice, is this a good instruction set? [CODE] BINARY OPCODE DESCRIPTION 00000 nop…
You might be interested in the PDP-8. It's a twelve bit computer but apart from that it has many similarities with what you want to do. -
zx spectrum ULAis the ULA in the 16K the same as in the 48K could you take the 16K ULA and place it in a 48K I ask this because i have a speccy thats dogy with th…
... the RAM chips come in multiples of 8, because each chip supplies ... -
Medal of Honor, new low in unoriginalityJust tried out the new Medal of Honor for xbox360 and guess what? It's one of those run-on-a-track-and-shoot-people kind of games. I remember this w…
... something in an earlier level would sometimes affect something in a later level ( ... if you help a certain person escape in one level ... to help you fight in a later level, for example. As ... you start the next level in the corresponding part of the ... -
.POK collection?Greetings, everyone! I enjoy pokes for Spectrum games, but sometimes before playing a game I need to couple through the-tipshop.co.uk to find the pok…
... The Express
Three Weeks In Paradise
Uridium
Who Dares ... -
Feedback need about a platform gameI've developed a few iPhone games based on 8-bit computer games and am now working on a stealth platformer for the iPad. I believe that 8-bit gamepl…
... isn't much going on in that level, just teaching the gamer ... -
Mushroom ManNice to see that Mushroom Man has been such a popular new release coming in at [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html"]the top of the ch…
... /> Level 7: 00740 Level 57: 05743 Level 107: 10734 Level 157: 15734
Level 8: 00840 Level ... 58: 05840 Level 108: 10843 Level 158: 15834
Level 9: 00943 Level ... -
Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…
... know the score with high level languages - development time ... have their backcatalog invested in high level libraries and as we ... to translate high level to low level. It cannot look ... Winston[/B] specifically but high level programmers in general.
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A display of Speccy AwesomenessIf you were to make a 5 minute video to show how awesome games could look on the Spectrum, what would you include? You have 30 seconds for each clip,…
We could include some loading screens to show the power of colours and graphics in a limited 8-bit machine. Some F. David Thorpe screens like Raid Over Moscow, Blue Max, Nightmare Rally, Batman, Decathlon, Royal Birkdale, Street Hawk, ... -
Anyone wanna put together a Speccy package for a noob?Hey all, Bought a couple ZX Spectrum tape games off eBay a while back. My whole collection soon went into storage and I hadn't unpacked it until rec…
... 48k had a built-in speaker. My 8-bit computing experience stretches ... -
How to Extract a Font from a Game?I remember it was possible to load/save your own fonts in ArtStudio on my Speccy. I also remember it was possible to loop the loaded block of a game …
... characters (provided they were in a standard 8 byes = 1 character format ... -
How to Extract a Font from a Game?I remember it was possible to load/save your own fonts in ArtStudio on my Speccy. I also remember it was possible to loop the loaded block of a game …
... characters (provided they were in a standard 8 byes = 1 character ... does not look to be 8 pixels high although it ... package to store the font in a format you can ... use.
In fact, you could probably just ... need or ones that were in the way so I ... -
How do you do it?What's your favoured method of games creation? Basic programming? Assembler? Basic Compiler? AGD? Etc etc. I currently have a management game written…
... hours of TV/DVD in the last 8 weeks... My friends ... live away or are stuck in ... a relationship just got in the way and I ... be creative until the task in hand is completed...
... Reading Raffaele Cecco's log in crash is to enough kick ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... We Are Glass
Genesis - In Too Deep
Genesis - ... Imagination - Flashback
Imagination - In And Out Of Love
Level 42 - Lessons In Love
Level 42 - Something About ... br /> Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
Michael ... -
i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…
... /> Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
Phil Collins - One ... Roxanne
Police - Spirits In The Material World
Police ... Between Us
Sade - Paradise
Sade - Smooth ... Babe
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Swing Out Sister ... -
Genesis: dawn of a new day, new game from RetroWorks!It's been a long development, but finally we made it. We proudly present the latest game from RetroWorks, Genesis: dawn of a new day. [img]http://ww…
... trick, it's hardware fix. In interrupt time read CPU from ... vector value. Pull-up resistors in ZX spectrum set value #FF ... in this time, but practicaly this ... M1 and IORQ are both in low level (active) then will CPU ... -
Playing SID music on AY??Hello. Some time ago, with occasion of another thread, I was asking about possibility of making a very certain thing - a SID emulator for Spectrum …
... even on wikipedia pokey stands in the first place as "a ... I/O chip found in the Atari 8-bit family of home ... computers and many arcade games in ... a computer keyboard)" and only in the second place we read ... -
How create boot file for Tr-dos game?How can I create a boot file for a converted Tr-dos game? I use tap2trd from the trdos-utils-2010 but this program makes no boot file. Micky
... - help
2 - change drive in left window
3 (on ... ! if You make no changes in the file's name - the ... /> 7 - change drive in right window
8 - erase/delete file (ONLY ... has even a screensaver, like in NortonCommander. :) -
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 …
... Id be contraversial and throw in some miscellaneous (how do you ... option of unarmed combat (like in Renegade for instance)...?
in a level?... Is that something others ... -
Dumb question but deep answer wantedWhy is the ram on the 48k made up of 8 chips. Both upper 32k and lower 16k (4116) are set up like this. Taking the 4116 as an example this us a singl…
... * 1 bit, so there are 8 of them. Each stores a ... bit of each byte 16k in total[/QUOTE]
Ahhh ... 8 bits make a byte therefore would i be correct in thinking in ... this instance 8 x 16 kilobits ... -
New game coming soon: PhaetonI have thought that I'll announce it now to build some anticipation ;) I'm almost ready with my new Spectrum game called [B]Phaeton[/B]. It is a g…
... Their existence will be explained in game instruction, but it's ... Sometimes the terrain is shaped in such a way that you ... . Number of such changes in limited in each level.
Your ... screenshots from the game (each level is presented):
[ ... -
Gay ShotWell, today I was having a quick browse of 2010 software to see what this year has brought us so far, and I noticed this game 'Gay Shot' [url]http:/…
... , but is the first experience in animation in basic128.
[IMG ... account - the game would fit in the pre-PC gaming production ... tough to beat the score in first level, so I can't ... horrible or it gets better level by level...)
can't ... -
Gay ShotWell, today I was having a quick browse of 2010 software to see what this year has brought us so far, and I noticed this game 'Gay Shot' [url]http:/…
... nation?
Three Weeks in Paradise as it uses offensive stereotype ... of Negro, with a bone in his nose?
Games ... of Inuit?
Games in which you hunt animals?
Games in which a muscled guy rescues ... -
Gay ShotWell, today I was having a quick browse of 2010 software to see what this year has brought us so far, and I noticed this game 'Gay Shot' [url]http:/…
... Russian nation?
Three Weeks in Paradise as it uses offensive stereotype ... of Negro, with a bone in his nose?
Games which ... instead of Inuit?
Games in which you hunt animals?
Games in which a muscled guy rescues ... -
New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…
... . You are completely correct in that writes to the AY ... three different real ZX Spectrums in the past, I currently only ... I decided to squeeze in additional level data into the remaing memory ... decision. But you are correct in that there is nothing technical ... -
New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…
... played the game and completed in my 3rd go, but...I ... must have fired it up in my emulator at some point ... jammajup, That level was the result of a bug in early versions ... actually allow this to happen in a level, although the Sid sprite ... -
New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…
... ) PM that the level design in SS2 is not good ... like maskless "OR-type" sprites in practice)
... memory in SS3 as I've totally restructured the level ... each wall or space in the level map data now ... with only a minimal increase in memory usage.
New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…
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**Spoilers***
Level 5, The Cage: Congratulations, you ... in the entire game (timing is very tight).
Level ... the bottom of the level in the righthand-side of ... time limit comes in handy.
Level 52, Outside broadcast ...
