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1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.
... ://www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/f/FizzyWizzy ... played gem but I got to screen two and the layout was ... decor was the same as screen one, and I just didn ... -
Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…
... (changing bits of blue to black is barely noticeable).
Stick to lighter paper colours (cyan, yellow, white) to colour the scenery ... as the main character has to carry them. I guess ... and dim yellow paper when stationary; you'd have to stop drawing ... -
Porting Blues Brothers CPC->ZX...just an ideaI've just watched a video of the CPC version of the Blues Brothers games by Titus [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DOj-Ta3Ek4...Based[/url] on th…
... (changing bits of blue to black is barely noticeable).
Stick to lighter paper colours (cyan, yellow, white) to colour the scenery ... and dim yellow paper when stationary; you'd have to stop ... crates would have to be aligned to char boundaries which is ... -
Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
... The code can be difficult to follow, unfortunately, because there ... . The renderer could draw to anything, including the display ... pipeline would be a clip to screen boundary followed by render ... which draws directly to screen.
If that ... -
Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …
... a lot +1000 of words to change.[/QUOTE]
... . Then when you come to print the filenames to screen, or launch the ... assume you're going to want to print out a screenful of ... element (n) corresponds to the numbers on the screen.
Something ... -
Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …
... when you come to print the filenames to screen, or launch the ... are too many filenames to fit in an array ... assume you're going to want to print out a ... and get the user to enter a number or ... element (n) corresponds to the numbers on the screen.
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Why are rotozoomers on C=64 so fast ?Hi, I noticed rotozoomers on C64 are really fast. I'm not the best coder on Speccy but I know my pet I never succeed to do rotozoomer (or rotating ch…
... a repeating pattern of chars to screen and then during the zoom ... chars. This gets the hw to update the entire display on ... -
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What if Sinclair had released a 16 bit Spectrum?Had Sir Clive not wasted his companies money on the white elephant that was the C5 and instead focused on competing with his rival computer manufactu…
... could itself be upgraded to 64k and it's ... />
with regard to c64 sprites, it's "sorta ... or the other trick is to overlay the chunky multi ... because of how you write to screen on star strike, it ... 's obviously suited to a spectrum
Why no PLOT, etc. on bottom two lines?I was pondering if there was any way to get PLOT, etc. to address the full screen from BASIC without having to write a few lines of assembler to bypa…
I'd imagine it was to maintain consistency with the ability to only print to the top 22 lines of the screen.
Presumably it was just forgotten to add the same restriction to SCREEN$.
BWhy no PLOT, etc. on bottom two lines?I was pondering if there was any way to get PLOT, etc. to address the full screen from BASIC without having to write a few lines of assembler to bypa…
... was just forgotten to add the same restriction to SCREEN$.
B ... [/QUOTE]
Normal BASIC use of SCREEN ... $ is also treated to the bottom lines being ...Double Buffer UtilityHi Folks, I've been experimenting with double buffering on a 48k Speccy for a small project I'm working on. After reading lots of good advice here…
... dont copy the whole buffer to the screen it's a waste ... it dead easy to bring them onto the screen gradually rather than ... /> [code]
#Class to implement printBehaviour by printing to screen
class ScreenPrintBehaviour ...Frames Per SecondHow many frames per second did the ZX Spectrum run at? I've found games that are 12.5fps but Ive recently been informed some games were at 25fps ...…
... graphic memory representing whole screen and sprite is just ... also draw sprites directly to screen memory or to another part of ... buffer. When you draw directly to screen you must hurry and synchronize ... it with screen refresh. So yes, you ...Frames Per SecondHow many frames per second did the ZX Spectrum run at? I've found games that are 12.5fps but Ive recently been informed some games were at 25fps ...…
... draw sprites directly to screen memory or to another part of ... . When you draw directly to screen you must hurry and synchronize ... only draw completed graphics to screen and you save time ... never draws intermediate graphics to screen, there is never any ...9 yr old girl shoots gun instructor dead with uzi[url]http://news.sky.com/story/1325316/girl-accidentally-kills-gun-instructor-with-uzi[/url] saw this earlier.... wtf. all the USA 'gun rights' iss…
... relied on artificial dyes due to popular pressure, until they could ... calls for E110 'Sunset Yellow FCF' to be banned as it can ... not sure you'd want to, as they no longer have ...Help with Assembly - DEFB, etc.Dear all, I'm going through Jnathan Cauldwell's tutorial and find myself scratching my head at part I can't find a decent explanation of anywhere! E…
... code isn't drawn to screen and data aren't ... CODE] ld a,2 ; upper screen
call 5633 ; open ... ,4 ; length of string to print
call 8252 ... apparently didn't want to count text length each ...ZX-Assembler file handling concept[QUOTE=clausjahn;777075]Dear readers, At this time, it's a good time to ask you, the future users, how to implement the file usage. Let's suggest so…
... snippet for writing masked sprites to screen that is fifty lines ... draws intermediate results on screen. To accomplish this it must ... only draw portions of the screen that change, at character ... to speed things up by only drawing changing areas of the screen ...Buffer to screen - how much?[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am starting to build a new game and am researching different ways to accomplish what I need to do. My question is, is it poss…
Better solution is not to copy entire buffer to screen, only the parts that changed from previous frame. Just use a table which determine which charecter cells were changed.
Drawback: on scrolling if less than 8 pixels this will not work very good.Simple text scrolling routine...I'm having trouble writing a very simple text scroller, the idea is to use the ROM printer routine to print 32 characters each time the routine is ca…
...
screen_adr equ #401f;screen adress for output
scroll ... stores in buffer and outputs to screen
like here:
[url ...1st boss on R-TypeI've been enjoying playing this a lot recently, but am a bit puzzled by the level 1 boss ([I]though have reached level 6 without cheats yay!).[/I] […
... boss is still scrolling on to screen?)
when you do ...Microdrive usageAnyone here know about microdrive files? Had a few carts in, all have stuff on, heres an example cat 1 with the error message i get for every single …
Yep, I get the same when moving it to screen;
Microdriver (c) 1985 M.B.DaniellsCharlie Chaplin authorsNow I have info about this game. Developer - Canvas Software. Code - David Fishe (surname incorrect ?) Graphics - Dave Worton.
... choice of hilarious slapstick scripts to choose
from. Each ...
balance. Press FIRE to return to the script.
screen will revert back to the script, only ... edited, the phrase 'KEY S TO SCREEN
FILM' will be displayed ...64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
... /> [LIST][*] Copying from buffer to screen will be much easier and ... just need to copy 32 bytes from buffer to screen, without ...
[*] Scrolling entire screen up/down will be 2x ... />
[*] Even scrolling entire screen left/right will be slightly ...64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
... /> [LIST][*] Copying from buffer to screen will be much easier and ... just need to copy 32 bytes from buffer to screen, without ...
[*] Scrolling entire screen up/down will be 2x ... />
[*] Even scrolling entire screen left/right will be slightly ...64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
... ; copy 48 lines from buffer to screen
REPT 2 ; copy 2 ... " (16 bytes each) from buffer to screen
ld sp,nn ; start ... />
Therefore copying entire buffer to screen will be about 87,000 ...64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
... 000 T-states to copy from buffer to screen. If you change ... it to "merge" 1 ... B]POP / PUSH[/B] to replicate each line 3 times ... thus reducing this routine to about 137,000 T- ... 48=3072 chunks on the screen, this is the overhead ...64x48 monochrome big pixels display ideaHi. I was playing with this idea of having a simple 64x48 bytes buffer, 1 byte per pixel, then a renderer which would take that buffer and render it…
... , my routine to copy pixels from linear buffer to screen took 50,142 ... -states. Therefore copying entire buffer to screen will be 49,698 T ... every frame, corresponding to more than 55% of screen. This probably makes ...Announcing Renegade mod - my gift for Renegade fansYou know that I'm playing a bit with existing games code, adding colour here and there, changing this or that :) This time I'd like to announce my m…
... you just posted seems to send me to screen regarding movie downloads, not ...
