Spectrum Computing

Hi ADJB, nice to see you here. Hope that you'll stay for longer! Thanks for clarifying stuff where I was inprecise. It's also good to know that you have a lot of stuff preserved. I understand that speaking about illegal stuff you mean cracks, like the infamous Italian ones. Yes, I agree it doesn't m...

Rotate on the screen. The Zynaps and R-Type scroller. Scroll the blocks on the screen, not the empty space. no need to move a buffer to the screen. Huge time saving and probably the best way to do it, the small downside is that background interaction with sprites sometimes looks a bit odd. Trouble ...

I didn't back it myself but I believe that it has big chance to actually appear and be in decent state, unlike Vega+. These guys seem serious and responsible enough.

It's nice that it will have own software using its exclusive features - new Rex, new Dizzy, a Russian beatemup called No Fate...

In an attempt to make this forum alive ;) I'll be showing here in this thread some my unfinished game projects. There was a time a few years ago when I was coding like crazy, doing several games at once. Now it's unfortunately less time, motivation and stamina but I hope to finish at least some of t...

And now it's working okay. Did you change anything?

Pitfighter was atrocious but then the source material wasn't great either. Maybe I'm pervert but for me Pitfighter for Spectrum isn't that bad ;) The graphics has feel of digitized photos but yet is clear. All persons are immediately recognizable. There is scaling of sprites, they become really big...

Not this one - I started it around May this year, with EG specifically in mind. So I must have been confusing it with some other project, these space shootemups are a bit similar, aren't they? ;) I had the chance of running it now. It's a really good engine. You have a chance to make a second Zynap...

Now I'm at home and may write a longer post. Is this classic era stuff of unknown permission status (wrt Spectrum Computing)? Yes, in my case mostly old programs from 80s and 90s (in case of Russian software). Some collected on internet and a few dumped personally from the cassettes. If I understand...

I have this error too. You can force Firefox to ignore it but it's uncomfortable and may put many people away from entering the forums. It would be really urgent to correct it.

Okay, I have some MIA programs on my computer. What should I do?

Some bad conversions:

- Kung Fu Master
- Double Dragon
- Final Fight
- Eswat
- Mario Bros

Outrun actually isn't the worst. It's a bit slow but has decent graphics.

Great stuff!

I recall seeing it somewhere before, probably some years ago. Is it some long project?

I've heard it was easy to do on hardware level. And that it's described in book about ULA by Chris Smith. Unfortunately I'm crap when it comes to hardware so I won't say you more. You must also remember that Zx Spectrum wasn't designed from the scratch. It was a development of earlier models - Z80 a...

Hi guys, Ralf here. Many of you probably know me from World of Spectrum. If you don't know me than well, I'm from Poland, in early 40s, I love Spectrum and still write games for it, although unfortunately recently I'm less active with it than in previous years. I hope this will be a nice, friendly p...