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Hello from a new forum user!Hi folks. This is just a post of introduction -- to say a little about me and my interest in the (World of) Spectrum. I've recently acknowledged to…
... , hopefully, will be) the obligatory sprite library, plus, perhaps more unexpectedly ... -
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 ;-)…
... determined. If, for example, a sprite is to move two pixels ... pixels per frame, or the sprite will appear to be slipping ... the arms or making a sprite dip one pixel in height ... -
About wireframe 3d animationAre there any demos or games that have very long 3d animation sequences? Some games have short, repeating animations and I only know of a demo (somet…
... routine? I'm thinking of Sprite designers and animation tools but ... -
Question on copying screen bufferHi, Al my prevoius games were copying graphics directly to screen memory starting at 16384. Now I'm experimenting with screen buffer where I could d…
... seems to "flicker" at the sprite edges.
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Have you seen this man?I was digging around in the sprite graphic data of Contact Sam Cruise when I came across this sprite: [IMG]http://pyskool.ca/images/csc-as064.png[/I…
... was digging around in the sprite graphic data of Contact Sam ... when I came across this sprite:
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shifting spriteshi. have anyone experience with shifting sprites by table ? some neat tricks ? i don't want to see complete code (really don't want, it trashes thr…
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rr e ;for sprite width 3 bytes
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Steve Day, artist on ZX ArmalyteI've been speaking to a [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Steve+Day$"]Steve Day[/URL] recently about graphics on 8bit syst…
... offer to post up his sprite sheet for Speccy Armalyte. Is ... -
Platform Game Designer 2Right, with Telly Heroes out of the way, I've decided to have a second attempt at this. I've ditched the old PGD2 source, and started again with the…
... /> Anyway, I'm looking at sprite behaviour this weekend, and have ... patrols, plus another type of sprite that can wander around platforms ... -
Feelin' kinda proud of myselfOkay, it has bugs. But I kludged it together about 10 mins after getting the sprite thing to actually work. [url]http://britlion.googlepages.com/Spr…
... 10 mins after getting the sprite thing to actually work.
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Game MusicI'm looking at revamping the original version of football manager - I still prefer it by far to any later ones. I've done a few snazzy bits of graph…
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New Game: Heart StealerMy first platformer is finally released! Having a Speccy since a long time ago, I've really wanted to make a game for it. Since february, I've final…
... created using z88dk and sp1 sprite library.
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Games that made your jaw dropThere were some games that really 'wowed' you the first time you ever played them - those games that made your jaw drop in disbelief. It might have b…
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Thanatos - that 'Dragon' sprite was amazing - and the multi ... -
ZX BASIC (Boriel's Compiler) - LibrariesWell, we have a nascent option on a sprite library coming together, thanks to na_th_an's fourspriter being retooled for the job. It's not general pur…
... a nascent option on a sprite library coming together, thanks to ... -
Spectrum game Sprite SheetsDear all, Forgive the noobiness of this question, but is there a single resource of speccy sprites that exists anywhere? I notice the subject was t…
Dear all,
Forgive the noobiness of this question, but is there a single resource of speccy sprites that exists anywhere?
I notice the subject was touched on by Fogarty back in '07, but nothing since then.
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KING OF PONG: Pong revisitedHello everybody. I'm proud to announce you that my last personal project for the ZX Spectrum, "KING OF PONG" is available to download here at WOS si…
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Obfuscated code ideaThe instructions [b]SUB A[/b] and [b]XOR A[/b] both have the effect of setting the accumulator to zero. The only difference between them is that [b]…
... ]SUB A[/b] and [b]XOR A[/b] both have the ... the N flag, while [b]XOR A[/b] resets it.
XOR A
PUSH AF
A tidy loader for minigamesThe minigame competition doesn't permit the use of separate loaders like [code]10 LOAD "": RAND USR 32768[/code] The loader must be included in the b…
The minigame competition doesn't permit the use of separate loaders like
[code]10 LOAD "": RAND USR 32768[/code]
The loader must be included in the byte count.
In an attempt to save as many bytes as possible, people have written ...platformerssprite + ability to jump + places to jump to = platformer. but what are they called if anything? for example in dizzy you perform a jump and it is …
sprite + ability to jump + places to jump to = platformer.
but what are they called if anything?
for example in dizzy you perform a jump and it is a fixed arc, but in other games you can control your character in mid flight.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…
... move fast enough. The main sprite is responsive. The sound effects ...Die RollerOkay, technically it's in machine code - but it's all compiled in a basic compiler. (you know, the one that people keep telling us is impossible to …
... something better in an hour. Sprite routine, graphics and all, this ...Assembler Shortcuts Reference?Can someone please refer me to a page of assembler shortcuts; ie. concise ways of doing things in a few bytes which might not be immediately obvious?…
... ? Two very simple examples are XOR A to reset the A ...Gameboy Color Development (Slightly offtopic)So I cut my teeth on developing for old systems and memory maps with the ZX Spectrum and Image to ZX Spec. I've recently picked up a Gameboy Color wi…
... on screen (32 actually non sprite - 4 colours per 8x8 pixels ...spectrum Green Beret sprite sheets?are there any such things? has anyone ever hacked them out, or did Joffa ever upload any? regards, Steve
are there any such things?
has anyone ever hacked them out, or did Joffa ever upload any?
regards,
SteveJust for funJust for fun, imagine the Spectrum had a graphics mode where there were two attribute bytes per 8x8 block and each block had 2 bits per pixel choosin…
... not as colourful as tile/sprite based engines).
With ...SAM programmingHi Can anyone provide any example hello world or graphics/sprite printing style machine code routines for the SAM? I can't seem to find anything rem…
... example hello world or graphics/sprite printing style machine code routines ...New Isometric Game MK2A while back (October 2009) I started writing a new isometric game. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=27123[/url] Well, I…
... , as well as making the sprite engine wrapable.
The ...
