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New Game (2016 revival): A Yankee in Iraq (1992)Hello everyone, Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot-em-up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I…
... -up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game ... was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I ... com/zx/"]Twenty-Four Years in the Making[/url]
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New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…
... new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot ... from all the limitations inherent in BASIC.
To ... it from the ground up in assembly. For the technically ... zx/25_years_in_the_making.html"][i]A Yankee in Iraq (2017)[/i][/url] -
HACK PACK - A YANKEE IN IRAQ24 minutes in the making, 60 seconds to hack. I'm not really sure this counts as a hack. 34892,x lives 34946,x bombs
24 minutes in the making, 60 seconds to hack. I'm not really sure this counts as a hack.
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An odd floating point error. Avoid!While working on the revival of my old game ([url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992…
... /new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]here[/url]), I stumbled ... /> etc.
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HACK PACK - YANKEE IN IRAQ 2017Got bored, too much single malt! 40005,0 infinite lives 35350,x x=lives 36594,0 infinite bombs 35351,x x=bombs 36990,201 immunity to missiles …
Got bored, too much single malt!
40005,0 infinite lives
35350,x x=lives
36594,0 infinite bombs
35351,x x=bombs
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A sped up pixel-shift routine for 1-byte–wide spritesHere’s an optimized (for speed) real-time sprite shifting routine for sprites that are one byte wide. It uses no memory variables for storage of inte…
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I use it in [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org ... /54152/new-game-a-yankee-in-iraq-2017-a-shoot-em- ... needs to be aligned in memory with something like< ... de,hl ;save screen address in DE
... a ;and put it back in L
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Need help from people with CRT TVs (50 Hz)I’m wrapping up the development of my [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54152/new-game-a-yankee-in-iraq-2017-a-shoot-em-up"]gam…
... /discussion/54152/new-game-a-yankee-in-iraq-2017-a-shoot-em-up ... copter moves up and down. In Retro Virtual Machine, with Interlaced ... Speccy.
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Need help from people with a 48K/128K/+2 (not +2A/+3)Scared ya, didn’t I? Well, this one is very simple and not as involved as [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55142/need-help-fro…
... [/b][/url] of [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] and play it for ... ground level. Post your experience in this thread.
There ... are two versions included in the archive. Do test them ... 128K/+2 users:[/b] test in both modes, i.e. 48K ... -
A Yankee in IraqI'm testing the game on the zx next and it currently hangs right after the game starts no matter what timing regimen and contention pattern is chosen…
I'm testing the game on the zx next and it currently hangs right after the game starts no matter what timing regimen and contention pattern is chosen (48k, 128k, +3). What is it doing right after the player helicopter is drawn?
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Requesting permissions from authors!!![url="http://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/"]Spectrum Computing[/url] is currently hosting ZXDB, however it has chosen to only distribute files after obtai…
... BASIC version of [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] on Spectrum Computing, but ... -
New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…
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How to improve my program using oversized numbersI'd like my dice program to print out the number four times bigger than normal if possible. Anyone know how to do this? Or I could write a sub rou…
... vertically stretched letters. Only works in the 48K mode, though, as ... BASIC version of [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] and then recreated the ... -
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What is the maximum fps the spectrum can achieve?I have been doing some reading and from what I understand the Spectrum outputs a PAL signal, but that means it will display @50fps or @25fps? If t…
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Yes, absolutely! In fact, I usually add "wait ... for vsync"s in my games to make the ... too!
Very important in games, for them to slow ... , is Ast_A_Moore's [i]a Yankee in Iraq[/i] actually running at 50fps ...What is the maximum fps the spectrum can achieve?I have been doing some reading and from what I understand the Spectrum outputs a PAL signal, but that means it will display @50fps or @25fps? If t…
... , is Ast_A_Moore's [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] actually running at 50fps ... the latest version, too; link in my signature.)Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... experimental version of [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] that uses the floating ... area (won’t be featured in the final release).
Complete blunder: the game freezes (in 128K mode, that is).
Yankee in Iraq 1.0.2 Beta[/i ...Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... .0.2b_inf_lives.zip"][i]A Yankee in Iraq 1.0.2 Beta 2 ...Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... what you think it is. In Cobra, it actually runs during ... an interesting topic overall, but in terms of your use case ... I see much more benefits in e.g. researching sprite Y ... on top of which. In [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] all sprites are ...Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... on top of which. In [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] all sprites are ... get drawn first, then those in the middle of the screen ... finally those at the bottom. In this way, you're basically ... really make all the difference in the world while still letting ...Need help from people with a +2A/+3Started a topic [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55141/need-help-from-people-with-a-2a-3"]here[/url] to get a broader reach, b…
... possible to exploit it in software (much like it ... on the previous Spectrums in games such as [i ... almost done implementing this behavior in SpecEmu.
... it, and [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] will be the first ... the four T states in between reading the two ...New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…
... /zx/25_years_in_the_making.html"][i]A Yankee in Iraq (2017)[/i][/url]New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…
... /zx/25_years_in_the_making.html"][i]A Yankee in Iraq (2017)[/i][/url]im looking for a double size, height and width character programi want to be able to stretch and scale up udg's
Vertical stretching is trivial (in [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] I stretch characters vertically ...
add hl,bc ;bitmap in ROM - $100 (chr code*8 ...im looking for a double size, height and width character programi want to be able to stretch and scale up udg's
... "]Vertical stretching is trivial (in [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] I stretch characters ...
add hl,bc ;bitmap in ROM - $100 (chr code*8 ...Detecting +3 / +2AWhat's a simple but reliable way to detect if code is running on a +2A/+3? My first though was to try switching to ROM2 and then checking for the …
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ld a,(2899) ;+2A/+3 ROMs return 126
cp 126
jr z,its_a_plus
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That’s how I did it in [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i] to handle the floating bus sync differently on these machines.New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…
... menu animation
—Cool fade in/out effects
—Missiles are ... more interesting
—Text reflection in the MISSION FAILED screen is ... .com/zx/25_years_in_the_making.html"]A Yankee in Iraq (2017)[/url][/i]New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…
... /zx/25_years_in_the_making.html"][i]A Yankee in Iraq (2017)[/i][/url]
Space Invaders Emulator for the Spectrum 128/+2/+2A/+2B/+3My Space Invaders Emulator for the Spectrum 128/+2/+2A/+2B/+3 is now available for download from: [url="https://c.gmx.com/sizx@gmx.com/DVQXAXrLRl2d…
... the case with your A Yankee In Iraq game too? Does it only ...
