Feature: Border effects

[Einar Saukas]

Also:

Gnarly Simon
Rotatrix
BorderTrix
Knights & Demons DX

Rotatrix & BorderTrix are technical demos more than games. When you includes demos then add others as Shock Megademo & Overscan.

Actually Rotatrix is a development tool, not a tech demo.

[Turtle_Quality]

My own Mazeball falls into that Birds and Bees category of border stripes just being a mildly distracting effect of generating sound fx, but I think you would many other games that do the same

[Ralf]

Defender of the Crown (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=1321)

Press space at the menu to see the Hungarian Flag at the border

[Turtle_Quality]

There was one game that had a countdown (54321) where the numbers used the whole screen, can't remember the game now just remember being seriously impressed.

[druellan]

There was one game that had a countdown (54321) where the numbers used the whole screen, can't remember the game now just remember being seriously impressed.

Probably Starion https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4870 ?

[zx81]

Add MIG Busters to the list

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[PQR]

Black Hawk is part of the “Birds and the Bees” category.

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[Ersh]

I remembered Barbarian II having some neat stable border rasters when you completed the game but looking at youtube and the RZX-Archive recording there were none. So I checked my personal ending save state folder, found the Barbarian 2 ending and lo there were rasters. Perhaps they only appear when played on a 48k, seems the 128k just plays music instead.

Here's the rasters:

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[g0blinish]

https://zxaaa.ru/view_demos.php?tag=border

some demos for Pentagon timings

[R-Tape]

There are times I think I'm a hopelessly disorganised tosser...

So I checked my personal ending save state folder

...this is one of those times.

[druellan]

I remembered Barbarian II having some neat stable border rasters when you completed the game but looking at youtube and the RZX-Archive recording there were none. So I checked my personal ending save state folder, found the Barbarian 2 ending and lo there were rasters. Perhaps they only appear when played on a 48k, seems the 128k just plays music instead.

Here's the rasters:

Oh! Good catch!

[druellan]

More titles!

Draughts Genius
Expedice (also multicolor)
Extreme
Friday the 13th
Jack and the Beanstalk
Giant's Revenge
Rescate Atlantida
Defenda
Swords and Sorcery

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[druellan]

More!

Sabrina - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 96&id=4298
Afteroids - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=105
Chequered Flag - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.php?cat=96&id=912

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[ASH-II]

Jet set willy - https://youtu.be/y30XFFcjBMI?t=30

Jet set willy 2 - https://youtu.be/YZsvwsNDbK4?t=43

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[Alessandro]

Sophia and Sophia II both feature border effects:
- the first when Sophia drops a skull into the cauldron;
- the second when end-of-level bosses are defeated.

The code for this effect is based on a similar routine found in Mega-Buck$, which should then be added to the list as well.

Border effect also are used in Spellbound, Knight Tyme and Stormbringer whenever Magic Knight casts a spell.

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[Ersh]

Alien by Mind Games has some basic border noise every time the player issues a command. It's a quite useful thing though, for an example, if you happen to press fire while the sound of a grille being opened is played there's a chance that the game will eat your input. If there aren't any border noise you know that the order didn't go through and need to issue it again.

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[druellan]

Some games on the Speccy Minigame Collection
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=14609
Have border effects:

Nibbles - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=17814
Tunnel Esc 2 - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=17815

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[Alessandro]

Yesterday I was doing some tests after updating Cousin Horace, and I recalled that the third chapter displays a border effect when Horace dies.

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[druellan]

Explorer XXXI - https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... 6&id=14928

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[Alessandro]

Chopper Mission displays a border effect when you lose a life.

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[druellan]

BTW, the Border Effects feature group is officially part of the ZXDB and Spectrum Computing!
https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/index.p ... up_id=1040

[druellan]

New titles found:

Star Farce
Buggy Blast
Androids
Cyberbig
Strontium Dog: The Killing
Borzak
Stay Kool
Transnitron
Souls

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