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Year 2024 A.D. The 'spectrum community' still hates 128K

Grongy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:33 am

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Yes, some of them are. Not on the level of some of the posters ITT mind you, but still. /thread? /thread.

There was another game rather like this, but with a ball. It was called "Rebound" or "Revolution" or something...? I thought it was by Infogrames but I can't find it. (I don't mean "Helter Skelter", or "Turbulence", or any of 1000 other ball-based games! This...

Great thread! Let's be honest, it's been a clown fiesta from roughly the fall of WoS to this day, run by absolutely disgusting hypocrites/egotards from both sides. I'm glad to be no longer actively involved with all this circus xd And I've heard plenty of people who refuse to believe that any Spectr...

Glad it helped!

Ah yes, the baby years syndrome where it was just assumed that every game should be completely different from anything that came before it

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Well, 5 buttons didn't get old for a while, but then it kinda did, and there you goo

>asdasd 8 button interfaces no-one is using cuz muh 80's

Yes, you're practically Hitler. Yw

^ Do you mean archive.org? Those guys host all sorts of stuff without some sort of made-up distinction cancer.

There's no 'archive' to speak of here, this site leeches most (if not all) of its downloads off archive.org.

A stonker is, naturally, someone dabbling in the stonks. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.GTzodghRx3QRgsTpmqk3KQHaFj%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=056a0efe3d7e605954992fa0b230c8ccdd8bba7a958058bf88254e380daf68a5&ipo=images https://externa...

Scrolling is just a way of showing a bigger map in a small window. Chances are you don't even need that for your game idea. If you don't, that's a big plus on such a platform. Otherwise just use Unity/Godot really. Only downside is it's not Spectrum anymore, everything else is a plus, you aren't in ...

It's nice to see how spoiled and picky we've become, these days... Considering the state of a 'sinclair user' around these parts, it's impressive (not) they are sometimes aware new games are still coming out :roll: 'they use DITHERING in it and and and ... if this was out bAcK iN 1983' https://zxar...

The first and only Javascript game I made was a Sokoban where the footstep sound panned left to right as the character moved by altering the volume, and as mentioned above it worked better to go from 80/20 to 20/80 than having the sound totally in one ear. It was quite atmospheric. I think it would...

As for this thread being kind of a stupid and ridiculous: Yeah, this entire community is kind of stupid and ridiculous. One thing, I like me my stupid and ridiculous, please don't mix it up with stagnating and pointless - tyvm. :) Check out communities like NES, Genesis, Amiga, C64 of all things, t...

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 5:20 pm

You can convert any modern image to a 256x192 ZX Spectrum SCREEN$ by using imagetozxspec, easily imported into a Speccy via .tzx/.tap/whatever.

With quality similar to your avatar? Yeah, not really what I mean.

Perhaps a better approach could be to train it to convert existing pictures to Spectrum limitations. At least on the paper, it sounds like a simpler goal to me. There are some really good ZX artists out there that excel at this sort of task. Make a set of pairs like 'original image / Spectrum conver...

Is there such a thing as jumping the shark in terms of thread ideas..? Because it does seem like you guys are getting there. )) A good number of these games are perfectly fine on their own, and are much better than Ultimate's output anyway (better gameplay, balance, content etc). In terms of similar...

One thing I haven't seen yet on ZX is a game with real stereo panning, i.e.taking objects positions into account. Use both left/right channels to play back the fx with simulated panning (different volumes), central channel for 'system' and/or player fx that need to be centered. Idk if this would mak...

Official models don't have that OOTB, but for unofficial ones this is pretty much the norm, and still is I think. Most popular schemes are ABC and ACB, sometimes BAC but very rare. It was considered good practice BITD to provide a setting to switch between some of these (ABC/ACB/BAC) in ezines/new g...

Fairly sure they more or less boil down to the same games as in the other 16357245298310397519837516 threads on this topic

XoRRoX wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 7:56 pm I vaguely remember a player that looked for the least busy channel and played the fx on that. Sorry for not remembering the exact name.

Not a good method - plenty of machines have the AY output as stereo, and it's gonna be a mess in that case.

I don't think that's the sort of PWM you want though. That'll give you a list of intervals between switching from high to low and back, that then gives you a stream of rapid pulses, then those pulses get smoothed by an RC circuit into a waveform. However, I don't think you'll be able to process the...

I'd go with UnrealSpeccy that supports scaling in a normal, sane way with ANY screen resolution. The picture should take the entire available screen space period , without stupid black borders where there clearly should be none. Variable border/screen ratio you can set freely, and of course the debu...