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Spectrum Hacks QuestionI've been playing a game on my NES emulator recently called Mario Adventure, an excellent and original Mario game which is in fact an unrecognisable …
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ZX-style gameLooking at the new Spectrum games, like Vera, I surprised. Two pages of discussion in your forum and twelve in Russian one ! Other new games has the…
Filmation... how does it work?Does anyone know exactly how Ultimate's Filamtion works? There's an explantion of the room layout and graphics at [url]http://retrospec.sgn.net/users…
... them, but how do the sprites move behind other objects? I ...BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... now handle more than 256 sprites in a bank.
Added ...A video interface for the Spectrum, MSX compatibleSo you can use the same code for displaying sprites, tiles, characteres, and so no, on both the Spectrum and the MSX. That is, the Spectrum now has a…
... the same code for displaying sprites, tiles, characteres, and so no ...How would you make Cybernoid a better game.Following on from the Cecco thread, it might actually be quite interesting to hear people?s views on how they would improve the recognised ZX Spectru…
... say things like "50 more sprites each with 100 frames of ...what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... accuracy of collision detection? are sprites better for this sort of ...Game engine design, graphic format?Having never written a game engine before, I'm in need of a little advice on the best way to store the game map. Its 512 x 896 map, 4-way scrolling,…
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Only 3 user defined sprites for the stationary obstacles, and ...ZXSpectrum +3 - New SoftwareHello, This is my first post here on WOS, i'm very glad to be here and be a part of this community. To make this short, i've been programming on the…
... Listing Loader, Graphics Grabber (grabs sprites off screens), Screen Compressor, etc ...Manic Miner CSS[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014526"]Manic Miner comp.sys.sinclair[/URL] by Nigel Fishwick, 2002 It is the first time I h…
... seems to have invented new sprites that are in the true ...Thieves School - New Game from World XXI Soft Inc.After aprox. 2 years of hard work, World XXI Soft Inc. announces the release of [I][B]Thieves School[/B][/I], a platformer multi-level for Spectrum 1…
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Main features are: multicolor sprites, 15 great AY tunes, 60 ...Thieves School - New Game from World XXI Soft Inc.After aprox. 2 years of hard work, World XXI Soft Inc. announces the release of [B][I]Thieves School[/I][/B], a platformer multi-level for Spectrum 1…
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Main features are: coloured sprites, 15 great AY tunes, 60 ...Graphic enhancements in games!(this message was also posted at [url]http://www.retroremakes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12431[/url]) Hello to everyone! A couple of years ago I …
... , there are problems with overlapping sprites, color collisions, etc. But for ... by increasing the number of sprites we can considerably slowdown the ...I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?
The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?New for 2009 - mc onelinersI found the limit of one line and one screen's worth of program really useful in (re-)learning BASIC, so I've decided to carry the format over into m…
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fillscreen
xor a
ld (hl),a ... hl ;save road posn
xor a ;print new road
So you want to make a cardgame......but you haven't got a good deck to display. Well here is a fully relocatable routine that will do the job for you. Place the code anywhere in me…
... AF ; save old lowerscreensize
XOR A
LD (23659),A ...z88dk Help neededI'm starting my tests with z88dk from a very simple example from a tutorial in speccy.org. It works fine but when I make the smallest modification t…
I'm starting my tests with z88dk from a very simple example from a tutorial in speccy.org. It works fine but when I make the smallest modification to the code, it just crashes.
Now it works but note that if I uncomment the final printf, then ...Q on overflow on subtraction of 2 numbers.I came across this bit of code (paraphrased for clarity) that set the overflow flag on subtracting two numbers: result = A - B; overflow = (((A ^ B)…
... ; (A ^ result) & 0x80) != 0); //^ = xor operator
I understand ... the xor operation but I can't ...BasIn 14d Bug.The Drag&Drop of "Sprites" into the Animation Filmstrip does not work correctly. I loaded the Manic Miner spriteset, and scrolled down to the end of …
The Drag&Drop of "Sprites" into the Animation Filmstrip does ...Unoriginal Unimaginative UnplayableOK, never mind all those great games, what were the worst? Keep it to games you (or someone you know) actually paid money for back in the days when 8…
... are drawn up with an XOR, so that two on top ...Dynamite Dan/Rod BowkettI'm surprised no-one's mentioned this before, but in this month's Retro Gamer, there is the interview with Rod Bowkett. I was looking forward to this…
... flicker free, non-slow down, sprites, great ingame tunes, fantastic use ...Sprites, eh?Anyone had the following problem - You spend ages on a sprite, 16x16, fitting it in the frame and getting every pixel and detail just right. And then…
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You spend ages on a sprite, 16x16, fitting it in the frame and getting every pixel and detail just right.
And then you think, 'I know - that could be animated in my game'.
And then you realise that you ...Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
Maze Mania - How did they do it?Hi, I was looking at the game "Maze Mania" by Hewson Consultants, written in 1989. The game can be downloaded from here [URL]http://www.worldofspec…
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2. Drew the sprites in their correct positions
sprites move a few pixels at ... calculating offsets for the blocks/sprites and to draw directly to ...Brand new River Raid remake?one of my friend is trying to make a riverraid remake on flash just to have fun, I checked zx spectrum port of river raid. it is bad, really bad, jer…
... /> As I tried to draw sprites on basin paintbox, I realized ...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…
... if available (links to history, sprites, sound, music, story, books, movies ...Tips on optimizing some newbie assembly routinesI'm starting to learn some assembly language. The best way to learn is to actually code something you are going to use, so I'm creating a very simple…
... simplified SP1, but without the sprites on top. I intend to ...
