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always hated the wall-hugging weapon in R-Type, not even because of its movement pattern seemingly covering less space but because it being so weak in comparison to any other

BiNMaN wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:31 am not seen that one...would like to try it

check the remix section @ vtrd site

if you have a DivMMC try R-Type GT on a real speccy ,it's a SCL file but can be converted to TRD. The 128k music and effects really do the business. https://youtu.be/La-lQ5MGgr8?si=2ILZ8g0Dr3QeY_EY unfortunately since one AY channel is used for sfx the music sounds too shallow there's a fresh 2024 ...

shame on me, how could i forget this guy

Xela wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:43 pm Next challenge, after you'll beat game

FAKE TITLE HE DID SHOOT THE POD FAKE FAKE

a bit faster method than unrolled ldis - for the each line, prepare a code like: start: ld (hl),N: inc l: ld (hl),N ... ld (hl),N: inc l:jp start somewhere in the middle there is a ret, you just need to shift it the each frame and replace one N value and the entry point on the stack table for vertic...

8BitAG wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:03 pm We have discussed many of these entries in past threads, such as this one...
viewtopic.php?p=26260

yet another proof that something needs to be done now, not "eventually"
or the drowned corpse will resurface over and over again

Nobody's bringing any-random-peecee-game into the database. These items came from Martijn's WoS, that obtained the magazine references from SPOT/SPEX. So what? These items are still random non-spectrum games with random non-spectrum references. The idea here is to recheck each of these titles. My i...

Not sure if it belongs here as it is a true story (but you're free to not believe me) ;) Some day over 30 years ago i sit at home playing R-Type demo with a friend. Then a power surge occured (quite frequent thing back then in the 90s). Normally it would be fatal for the gameplay, but not this time....

public beta 31
- proper interrupted INxR/OTxR flags emulation
- dux format additions (simpler block copy syntax)
- many debugger fixes

Cursed Castle and Orbol Voon (multicolour sprites) added in the game pack
(make sure you're running the latest emuL version for these)

I see Ultima7, Ultima Underworld and Wizardry5 appearing at the bottom of the score page (maybe there are more like these with higher scores, who knows). I didn't even suspect there were entries like these. What are they doing in the ZX DB? These are not just "never released" but almost 10...

The snapshots page is broken but the snapshots that the embedded emulator uses can be found here: "Minimal features and look" (269 byte version?): https://borialabs.free.nf/chesskelet/snapshots/chesskelet%201.006s.sna "Full features and look" (352 byte version?): https://boriala...

Honestly, I don't see a problem with an odd number of frames until the checkerboard pattern aligns - and in my case, the pattern aligns with every next frame except when it's an edge, or a thin perpendicular strip, or just too many differences between adjacent tiles (as i tried to replace the gfx w...

My initial goal was simply to create a proof of concept that a gigascreen platformer at 16.666 fps is possible on a classic 128k machine. But the problem here is having an odd number (and especially such a low number) of display frames per each different game engine frame is a bad thing. The result...

so are we going to get "Mickey Mouse: Blood and Cheese" or not?

andydansby wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:01 pm The site can be found at
http://borialabs.free.nf/chesskelet/?i=1

3 of 5 links (including source and snapshots) are 404

Orbol Voon ; spr2buf 1023EF 0131 0113 0 0 1023F3 1023EF 1A ; sprite 1022F5 C007 ; shifted 1022F8 0130 1022FA 0140 0 0 0 0 0340 0 0 0 0 0 0150 0 0 0 0 0350 0 0551 0 0 0354 0115 0 0 0 0 0 0 102317 1022FA C5 1023DC C888 ; normal 10241E 0160 0 0 0130 0531 0336 0113 0 0 102427 10241E 3D 102464 C888 this...

Cursed Castle

From a programmers point of view, you can almost always replace FLASH with software effects and get a better result. Loading screens might be the only exception, because then the CPU is busy elsewhere and so CPU time is more limited. Sword of Ianna uses animation for water surface and flash for wat...

Would doing a circular buffer help, I don't think a game looking like Zaxxon even needs an actual scrolling. Eg Commando has no real scrolling nor a buffer, but lots of unrolled separate subroutines for almost every type (even a typesize) of bg object, and lots of specialized subroutines for the sa...

No. Commando and Critical Mass were released in November 1985 and were, with the exception of Nigel Alderton's work on Street Hawk, the developers only releases of the year. In contrast, Platinum Productions released eight titles in 1985 from Zaxxon in January to any-direction scrolling Rambo in No...

It's easy to say from the safe and cozy vantage point of 2023, with nearly 4 decades of hindsight under the belt. But could it really? It's a somewhat unfair assertion, since the realities of game development were really much different back then, and also the situation and skills of various coders/...

If they had wanted to compete in the computer gaming market they would have produced a different computer. That's obvious. well, then they failed in whatever market they aimed, that's obvious :) Another design choice which reflects their interest in text applications is the way the screen pixels ar...

At the end of the day, it is. There's no two ways about this. The original programmer had absolutely no way of expressing their intent and so any hardware is guessing. Even if you code specific rules for every single individual game, this is still guesswork about what the original programmer would ...

Better for what? for overall user experience This computer wasn't made for games although that's what it ended being most used for. It was the best and the cheapest for the task Sinclair had in mind. you can't be sure what exactly Sinclair had in his mind And let's not forget it was a success. and ...