Spectrum Computing

Exact amount of tapes is impossible to tell. It's similar to a question "How many trees make a forest". If I had to give some number however, I would say you become a collector from 50 tapes over ;) I also learned that you could be a collector with only one item in your collection! This ac...

So you mean games which are heavily inspired by some movie, yet they aren't official license of it. Well, speaking of Indiana Jones, we have a game called Lost Caves. Or even Lost Caves and the Tomb of Doom https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2936/ZX-Spectrum/Lost_Caves https://spectrumcomputing.c...

16384 Or 0 if you are using Zx Spectrum +3 ;) In practice, a standard game or other program has usually a short loader in Basic which runs proper machine code later so the first free space for your block of machine code will be around 23900 or 24000, after the Basic code. You can reuse and overwrit...

Let's go, Mr. Driver!

Hey, the heroes in Chase H.Q. weren't a pair of ninjas

Very pretty art.

How do you play it? What's the goal?

Okay, I guess it get it. There are actually 3 languages involved - asm, Forth and some noname ADG-like game design language. And you use tools written in Forth to compile code written in "AGD" language to code in asm :) And you don't need to know Forth for using tools written in it. Yes, t...

Thanks for explanation Ketmar. You are certainly taking a long path to your goal. If you just wanted to make a game, you could do it in 3 months or so, without making any fancy tools. But I guess, you want to make sothing more, an engine - something resuable that other people could use too. In such ...

They seem interesting. Let's hope we'll see them soon.

Any chance that we'll see this engine soon in action?

By the way I didn't understand all this Forth discussion. If this engine is
written in Forth, would it be possible to use it in a game written in assembler?

I don't have personal experience with emulator making but will share some thoughts anyway ;) I suppose there is a long way from your first, rough and buggy but working emulation to correct and precise emulation. Your first attempt could look this way: - ignore the sound, make it silent - ignore load...

There is also such trick as "USR 0 mode" when it comes to 128 kB Spectrums

It wasn't very common in commercial UK games but you'll need it much more in demoscene and
programs from Eastern Europe.

See this thread for example: viewtopic.php?t=4697

Well, relaxation and meditation in some stiff and tight metal armour feels a bit contradictory to me

Think a while - priests, gurus or philosophers in many cultures usually wear loose clothes. It must be not a chance

But it's certainly a nice picture !

Yep, Next may be quite controversial. Just like any clone which imitates Spectrum in some way but alters or extends it in another way.

You have the right to dislike it but in such case just leave it and don't spoil other people's party.

Edited. R-tape.

1. Renegade 2. Robocop 3. Target Renegade Mike Lamb was a wizard. His games were very smooth and playable. And Renegade after 35 years still remains the best beatemup for Spectrum. The worst of them is Top Gun. I tried it several times, played maybe for 3 minutes and it was "meh" for me. D...

A guy, a girl, and some chains...

This guy looks like something between Jesus, Poseidon, Prometheus and Samson

I don't recall a similar Spectrum game.

Well, I would say that's not that hard :) Let's suppose you want to do: IF conditionA AND conditionB AND conditionC THEN MakeActionX ELSE MakeActionY In a mix of assembly and pseudocode it could be: TestConditionA JP NZ, MakeActionY TestConditionB JP NZ, MakeActionY TestConditionC JP NZ, MakeActionY...

You are great with this architecture stuff!

It's on the Pavero map site

It's not the original. Just some remakes.

And I agree that seeing it would be interesting.

I have a quite "specialized" collection of Spectrum software coming from Poland. Some of them are really rare but I have no idea how much they are worth today. After all, something is worth as much as someone is going to pay for it :) About 15 years ago it was actually possible to hunt for...

I dont know about emulator that would show all memory dynamically while running the game. And how should it show it? As numbers, as graphics, as ASCII characters? If you are writing a program and want to know how much memory is left, just use some pseudoinstruction at the end of your code that would...

Wait, do I understand it correctly? Someone took an old, little known version of Tetris and presented it as their own game? :o Why oh why? You aren't going to have any real money with it and any fame you get will be short lived and will turn into infamy as someone will eventually notice the stolen a...

Like others, I discovered World of Spectrum around 2002. And it sucked me in.

I tried out some emulators earlier but didn't spend much time with them.

I've known Phil since the 90s and have seen quite a few "in progress" screen drawings showing them being slowly built up as he works on them pixel by pixel. Well, in that case he has a very rare style of drawing, definitely more similar to a converter (a lot of random noise and irregular ...

Well, it actually looks more some autoconversion, maybe retouched. No matter what the author says.