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- Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: Showcasing my graphics
- Replies: 444
- Views: 40038
Re: Showcasing my graphics
https://zxart.ee/zxscreen/border:0/mode:mix/pal:alone/type:standard/zoom:1/id:497174/ I love how this thread is full of images I never thought I'd see on a Spectrum, yet feel natural and unforced in their own context - a complete artistic expression. I've been noticing (perhaps incorrectly?) that a...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: Other Retro Stuff
- Topic: Trying to recall an arcade game…
- Replies: 5
- Views: 728
Re: Trying to recall an arcade game…
Is this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4nTXbBg2Fo&t=100s In 1988 there was what looks like it might possibly cause someone to allege has the possibly interpretable appearance of something perhaps mistakenly similar to an unauthorised Spectrum version: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/alt/53...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Brand new software!
- Topic: Super Minimal Bro' - Fast scrolling 48k platformer
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1370
Re: Super Minimal Bro' - Fast scrolling 48k platformer
Oh that is so nice and smooth, and the parallax works so well! Great presentation, and a fun game
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Management games
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4519
Re: Management games
Some notables, not yet mentioned : Software Star is software company manager, by Kevin 'Football Manager' Toms. Not as good as Software House, as I recall. Millionaire is about a software house as well. Write what you know, I suppose. Millionaire is a perfect rainy-day game. My sister and i would p...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:07 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Laser squad a.i.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2507
Re: Laser squad a.i.
https://i.postimg.cc/XpT4qHqj/Rebelstar-Spectrum-Analyser.png It is slow going but I'm trying to get a better understanding of how the chance to hit and damage mechanics worked. There are a lot of data tables for weapons, units and map elements that aren't formatted anywhere currently but I'll try ...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games Exposed
- Replies: 148
- Views: 7473
Re: Games Exposed
I'm not really sure what you're asking here, so I won't attempt an answer, but I have to ask: Are you assigning labels to instructions that aren't jumped to or called from anywhere else in the code? If so, why? No - these are labels already present in the control file that i'm renaming for consiste...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Games Exposed
- Replies: 148
- Views: 7473
Re: Games Exposed
I'm running into a couple of issues with how to best handle labels for subroutines: Subroutines with no external entry points given labels indistinguishable from common routines An attempt to fully-qualify the label leads to less ambiguity but also makes the html disassembly slightly more unsightly ...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: ZXDB Discussion
- Topic: How to detect MCoder II games?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2362
Re: How to detect MCoder II games?
The Colt is a new BASIC compiler from HiSoft, previously well-known for their Spectrum Pascal package. Colt is a fourth generation program, descended from ZX-GT, Mcoder 1, and Mcoder 2, reviewed last issue. Rather confusingly, Mcoder 3 (which we look at later) is an entirely new program. https://ww...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Learning machine code
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2147
Re: Learning machine code
Obviously by:
using NMI's over your basic Interface Too(Much Information)?
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The 'skool' game core
- Replies: 16
- Views: 997
Re: The 'skool' game core
I've not studied the code obviously Consider it homework ;) After almost 40 years, Skooldaze is still a assigning stealth-homework to kids :twisted: It did have great potential for other games. But from interviews in Retrogamer, Skool Daze was written simply because the author wanted a game which a...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: Showcasing my graphics
- Replies: 444
- Views: 40038
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The 'skool' game core
- Replies: 16
- Views: 997
Re: The 'skool' game core
I think you may be overestimating the amount of "source control management" done in those days ;) Really? She had to organise and manage and keep track of how many (hundreds? thousands?) of bits of paper all with different versions of routines, and the same routines with different dates/b...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The 'skool' game core
- Replies: 16
- Views: 997
Re: The 'skool' game core
Always thought that there should have been a third game called “Work Daze” with Eric working in a factory or something. I want this game. Find a way to get promoted to head office, then file TPS reports on time and stay late, or hide from mangers, smash printers without getting caught, etc. Well th...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The 'skool' game core
- Replies: 16
- Views: 997
Re: The 'skool' game core
The way the 'skool' engine handles the player sprites is distinct from most other games i'm aware of - e.g. how sitting at a desk melds your sprite into the background layer seamlessly and you literally become a part of the school - a subtlety but one which boosts my sense of immersion considerably....
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
Re: Guess the screen$
Yay - you got it
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:42 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: ZX Spectrum game mash-ups that don't currently exist.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1493
Re: ZX Spectrum game mash-ups that don't currently exist.
Contact Sam Cruise Through the Monkey Island Trap Door
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
Re: Guess the screen$
Thanks - glad you liked it
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
Re: Guess the screen$
Does anyone else want to go next, or should i go again?
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:02 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
Re: Guess the screen$
That's the one!
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
Re: Guess the screen$
It was published in the UK in 1986
It's none of those, but all of those do have something in common that forms part of the correct answer.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
Re: Guess the screen$
Sorry! Here's more - i hope i didn't pick something too obscure.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 3:25 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
Re: Guess the screen$
Sorry, that's not it.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
Re: Guess the screen$
Sorry, no cos good guess! Here's more:
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Guess the screen$
- Replies: 7955
- Views: 252082
Re: Guess the screen$
It's a doorning on me that my previous hint was inshipicient