Spectrum Computing

Lol that would be cool to see the code on the screen actually... even if it's just dots.

It would be funny to change the colour of the byte when it is being executed.

That's cool, the attributes take about three seconds to load so it must load so quickly

The 0's might have to push themselves down the wires

So the a.i. only compares one move. Considering you have about 42,000 bytes left you could implement min max algorithm :) to make it really hard - lol Out of interest how long does it take to load 350 bytes from tape? I suppose you could put code in the screen memory as most of the screen is unused,...

Bruce Lee had flashing lanterns?

The lawn mowing and coffee machines added a bit of mystery and fun

I would've thought that there would be a slight reduction in code for sixteen bit games due to there being more instructions that can do more. For example it's probably easier to use a sixteen bit number to represent a sprites X co-ordinate on a sixteen bit computer. Due to there being a need for su...

Interesting if there's really much difference between snes and nes Mario except graphics, level data, and the snes version had lots of text . The code governing Mario's movement and collision detection is probably very similar and all you do is run to the right. Super Mario Sunshine is probably very...

Ah I understand it now, great effect

Any chance of a .gif or YouTube video showing the scrolling?

It looks very good. Are other shapes available like oblongs, can spheres occupy the same space to create new shapes like egg shapes?

Why didn't they use dithered red and white pixels for skin tone?

I don't fancy opening them but the bad one has pink rainbow capacitors and the good one has black capacitors. Maybe the black ones are modern? I don't know. Other than that they look identical when looking into that expansion hole. I think both circuit boards are green on the back and yellow on the ...

How about the a.i. for Lords of chaos? (Just kidding guys) It seems like advances are being made. Wouldn't mind knowing how the a.i. makes decisions. But I think the consensus was it was custom code per scenario and pretty dumb . I.e. the dalek thing that you see down the corridor to the right when ...

zx64 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:15 pm Are they both same issue?

How do I check?

That's weird cos it could be true. Maybe he heard word of mouth about the printers,then made up the rest.

Yes it works, and has 48k

Once,at school, a fellow pupil told me he altered the code in double dragon so that the heroes had spikes on their knees and the game was hacked so that their knee was a fatal move and blood(!) Came out of the injured enemies. I borrowed the tape which this game was on....it was blank. He just refus...

Different ULAs do affect loading. The state of the Ear socket contacts also has an effect (how clean they are and if they have enough springiness to make good contact). If the electrolyic capacitors are in a poor condition, the increased noise on the internal DC supplies will also have an effect. M...

I bought two rubber keyed spectrums. One loads games 80% of the time with old games bought off Facebook marketplace. The other about 10% of the time. I'm just wondering why this might be? I'm using quite a modern tape recorder with no tone settings, just volume. The volume has to be quite low to loa...

With all that free space you could implement a decent minimax algorithm. It would be difficult to implement in assembly of course

This reminds me of the time I got in trouble in primary school. I was ALWAYS the good kid, but when the teacher asked "what were the causes of the Great Fire of London" my hand shot up & I couldn't resist the urge to say "it was because there was too much arson about" got a ...

Thanks, wondered if that was a false memory or not.

As a child I fast forwarded past those bits because they were slow.

Did elite nick it from 2001?

Thought I saw it in that film as well

It got great reviews and had two sequels but I remember them being bad games. Well programmed, but it was just negotiating a maze while jumping over most enemies. The environment was almost totally empty,no sense of progression,no upgrades. The combat for example. You have a side view so you can't m...

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