Spectrum Computing

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/k/KingsValley.scr&border=0 King's Valley ? Far from a perfect hit, but I do recall a poke to remove the background. Well, when you say " Far from a perfect hit " I say " That's precisely it " :) Thanks Buddy :)

I also posted this on WoS earlier today, but that hasn't given me the right answer yet, so I'll try here too. I've been meaning to play this platform game again, but I can't seem to remember its damn name. I can't remember much, but here's what I think I remember. Usually when I see a picture of it,...

redballoon wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 12:27 pm A Spectrum version of Advance Wars had been on my list of projects to work on at some point for well over a decade now ...

Hah, me too. I love Advance Wars on the GBA.

I've always loved Dingo, released for the arcades by Ultimate ( before the Spectrum years, IIRC). Converted by Tardis Remakes: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/27162/ZX-Spectrum/Dingo https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/SCRtoImage.php?SCR=/conv_scr/d/Dingo.scr&border=0 Thank you, I'm happy, th...

I began learning Z80 in the mid 80's by hacking and cracking games. Slowly and slowly I learned more, but for a really long time I really only used that knowledge to code tools to help me hack and crack other games. It wasn't until 2011 I really started coding in assembler (Dingo).

TymoDEV wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:00 am VIDEO Buffer size: 49152

jorgegv wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:42 am VIDEO Buffer size: 6912

Well, more precisely:

Normal screen at 16384
Shadow screen at 49152

Bitmap size 6144 bytes
ATTR area 768 bytes.

I don't see the use or the point of the original question. If you're in Basic then registers and flags will change tens-of-thousands times a second as Basic is running (the program counter will change up to 70.000 times a second alone). There is absolutely no reason to even think about reading the r...

Too bad that Graham Linehan was banned from Twitter - we could've asked him if he knew.
Does anyone know if he's on Instagram or Facebook?

R-Tape wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:20 am I can't take a pic just now, but viewing it in 8 pixel chunks there is structure and pattern from the off. Could still be gobbledegook of course.

It could be leveldata, which could give it a repeatable structure, but be much harder to identify than code or graphics.

With those keys I would suggest P or SPACE, but I really hope you'll have a 'Redefine Keys' options, because I would not enjoy using the WASD keys.

Beautiful graphics by 'Lobo'! I'm not familiar with him but this is impressive! He's a great artist and has supplied gfx for 8 of my games, the first of which was a remake of the Spectrum game The Snowman back in 2009. Mostly my PC games, but he also did the graphics for my Spectrum (and arcade boa...

While you may not use any ROM routines in your code, the interrupt will still be running and that might affect the Sys Vars that are placed not much below 24000. To be absolutely sure that you can use the Sys Var area for your own purposes, you should either have interrupts disabled ALL the time OR ...

The question/idea doesn't really specify if this remake would be for the Spectrum or a more modern platform ... but I assume it would be the former. I would've loved to see Costa Panayi make an Android 3 game. Something more solid and not ATTR based - like some of his later games. It could have a mo...

I'd be happy if I was never reminded og Dizzy (spit!) again, so half of those has disqualified themselves right from the beginning

I am going to give it a try. What I find especially attractive about it, is that it's made from scratch and not just Quilled or something similar. For a long time I've wanted to make an adventure game myself and made a start a couple of years ago, but somehow got distracted (as usual), but I had kin...

redballoon wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 10:59 am
H.E.R.O.

I see some familar tiles in there

Morkin wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 10:25 pm Yep, I swear that a Chaos disassembly has been mentioned a lot but I've never seen one.

Perfect opportunity for someone to do it again and make sure it's released this time

I love the look of that. Less colorful than the Spectrum version obviously, but the monochrome graphics actually suits it quite well.

I visited a friend once. He showed off The Key and offered to copy any game to me that I wanted (as was the norm )
... but he would not give me a copy of The Key.

So I used it to copy itself to one of my tapes when he went to the toilet

I turned 55 in June.

Like you mention, those permissions were given specifically to World Of Spectrum, so they don't apply here.

But for historic reasons, I think it would be nice if they were mirrored here though.

I remade one of "his" Edge-games back in 2009 specifically to annoy him, but I'm not sure he was ever aware of it.
I did, however, have a nice mail from the coder of the Spectrum version ... and he liked my remake

yeah I started with an Amiga 1200 and a PD emulator. It was pretty slow. Oooh, just remembered that, speed issues aside, they warned about a few bugs in the emulation, such as an animal sprite in Sabre Wulf running backwards. I don't think I came across that though. I remember, on the Amiga emulato...

Yeah, about the same story for me. While I can't remember the first game I played on my first real Spectrum (but it's likely one of the Ultimate games ;) ), I'm pretty sure the first game I played on an emulator was Sabre Wulf. And that was on my Amiga 500 - I did have an accellerator card though, b...