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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: RIP F David Thorpe
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1991
Re: RIP F David Thorpe
Certainly one of the more established Spectrum artists, with his own distinctive style. Sad loss.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: AGD - How to play AY sound effects WITH music?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1788
Re: AGD - How to play AY sound effects WITH music?
@Nienn Heskil I just read about a fixed AYFX player by Haplo: https://www.zxuno.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=643 In your mFX code, is this fix incorporated? It doesn't say exactly what was the bug and/or where is the fix, so it's hard to say. Iirc I rewrote the player from scratch for mFX, an...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: How big should new Speccy games be? 48k? Bigger? Release 2 versions?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 2426
Re: How big should new Speccy games be? 48k? Bigger? Release 2 versions?
Year 2024 A.D. The 'spectrum community' still hates 128K
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: Showcasing my graphics
- Replies: 455
- Views: 41041
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:19 am
- Forum: Sinclair Miscellaneous
- Topic: Are all coders basically autistic?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 2141
Re: Are all coders basically autistic?
Yes, some of them are. Not on the level of some of the posters ITT mind you, but still. /thread? /thread.
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 8:20 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Solomon's Key - fireballs?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 259
Re: Solomon's Key - fireballs?
There was another game rather like this, but with a ball. It was called "Rebound" or "Revolution" or something...? I thought it was by Infogrames but I can't find it. (I don't mean "Helter Skelter", or "Turbulence", or any of 1000 other ball-based games! This...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:35 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: When did the Spectrum scene hit rock bottom?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1600
Re: When did the Spectrum scene hit rock bottom?
Great thread! Let's be honest, it's been a clown fiesta from roughly the fall of WoS to this day, run by absolutely disgusting hypocrites/egotards from both sides. I'm glad to be no longer actively involved with all this circus xd And I've heard plenty of people who refuse to believe that any Spectr...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:21 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: AGD - How to play AY sound effects WITH music?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1788
Re: AGD - How to play AY sound effects WITH music?
Glad it helped!
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:41 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Should game reviews mark down games for being unoriginal?
- Replies: 52
- Views: 835
Re: Should game reviews mark down games for being unoriginal?
Ah yes, the baby years syndrome where it was just assumed that every game should be completely different from anything that came before it
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- Fri Aug 04, 2023 9:02 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Kempston - Why dont games make it default?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 511
Re: Kempston - Why dont games make it default?
Well, 5 buttons didn't get old for a while, but then it kinda did, and there you goo
>asdasd 8 button interfaces no-one is using cuz muh 80's
>asdasd 8 button interfaces no-one is using cuz muh 80's
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 8:59 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Piracy of new Games today on the ZX Spectrum and Next
- Replies: 22
- Views: 910
Re: Piracy of new Games today on the ZX Spectrum and Next
Yes, you're practically Hitler. Yw
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:57 am
- Forum: Preservation
- Topic: Inside Outing (2021 fan update)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 262
Re: Inside Outing (2021 fan update)
^ Do you mean archive.org? Those guys host all sorts of stuff without some sort of made-up distinction cancer.
There's no 'archive' to speak of here, this site leeches most (if not all) of its downloads off archive.org.
There's no 'archive' to speak of here, this site leeches most (if not all) of its downloads off archive.org.
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 7:10 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: What is a "stonker" anyway?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 755
Re: What is a "stonker" anyway?
A stonker is, naturally, someone dabbling in the stonks. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.GTzodghRx3QRgsTpmqk3KQHaFj%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=056a0efe3d7e605954992fa0b230c8ccdd8bba7a958058bf88254e380daf68a5&ipo=images https://externa...
- Tue May 30, 2023 5:05 pm
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: Horizontal Scrolling :0-
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1368
Re: Horizontal Scrolling :0-
Scrolling is just a way of showing a bigger map in a small window. Chances are you don't even need that for your game idea. If you don't, that's a big plus on such a platform. Otherwise just use Unity/Godot really. Only downside is it's not Spectrum anymore, everything else is a plus, you aren't in ...
- Thu May 11, 2023 8:46 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: ZOSYA - Best game graphics ever?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1115
Re: ZOSYA - Best game graphics ever?
It's nice to see how spoiled and picky we've become, these days... Considering the state of a 'sinclair user' around these parts, it's impressive (not) they are sometimes aware new games are still coming out :roll: 'they use DITHERING in it and and and ... if this was out bAcK iN 1983' https://zxar...
- Thu May 04, 2023 10:55 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Were there any Spectrum models with stereo output?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 994
Re: Were there any Spectrum models with stereo output?
The first and only Javascript game I made was a Sokoban where the footstep sound panned left to right as the character moved by altering the volume, and as mentioned above it worked better to go from 80/20 to 20/80 than having the sound totally in one ear. It was quite atmospheric. I think it would...
- Wed May 03, 2023 9:12 am
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Good enough to be an Ultimate game?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1928
Re: Good enough to be an Ultimate game?
As for this thread being kind of a stupid and ridiculous: Yeah, this entire community is kind of stupid and ridiculous. One thing, I like me my stupid and ridiculous, please don't mix it up with stagnating and pointless - tyvm. :) Check out communities like NES, Genesis, Amiga, C64 of all things, t...
- Tue May 02, 2023 5:25 pm
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: AI art generators and Spectrum graphics
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1013
Re: AI art generators and Spectrum graphics
With quality similar to your avatar? Yeah, not really what I mean.PeteProdge wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 5:20 pm
You can convert any modern image to a 256x192 ZX Spectrum SCREEN$ by using imagetozxspec, easily imported into a Speccy via .tzx/.tap/whatever.
- Tue May 02, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: Graphics
- Topic: AI art generators and Spectrum graphics
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1013
Re: AI art generators and Spectrum graphics
Perhaps a better approach could be to train it to convert existing pictures to Spectrum limitations. At least on the paper, it sounds like a simpler goal to me. There are some really good ZX artists out there that excel at this sort of task. Make a set of pairs like 'original image / Spectrum conver...
- Tue May 02, 2023 5:01 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: Good enough to be an Ultimate game?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1928
Re: Good enough to be an Ultimate game?
Is there such a thing as jumping the shark in terms of thread ideas..? Because it does seem like you guys are getting there. )) A good number of these games are perfectly fine on their own, and are much better than Ultimate's output anyway (better gameplay, balance, content etc). In terms of similar...
- Mon May 01, 2023 3:16 pm
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Were there any Spectrum models with stereo output?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 994
Re: Were there any Spectrum models with stereo output?
One thing I haven't seen yet on ZX is a game with real stereo panning, i.e.taking objects positions into account. Use both left/right channels to play back the fx with simulated panning (different volumes), central channel for 'system' and/or player fx that need to be centered. Idk if this would mak...
- Mon May 01, 2023 9:25 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: Were there any Spectrum models with stereo output?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 994
Re: Were there any Spectrum models with stereo output?
Official models don't have that OOTB, but for unofficial ones this is pretty much the norm, and still is I think. Most popular schemes are ABC and ACB, sometimes BAC but very rare. It was considered good practice BITD to provide a setting to switch between some of these (ABC/ACB/BAC) in ezines/new g...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 3:33 pm
- Forum: Games/Software
- Topic: The best top 10 best spectrum games ever list ever.
- Replies: 73
- Views: 1864
Re: The best top 10 best spectrum games ever list ever.
Fairly sure they more or less boil down to the same games as in the other 16357245298310397519837516 threads on this topic
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 10:09 am
- Forum: Programming
- Topic: "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 338
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 8:47 am
- Forum: Music
- Topic: AGD - How to play AY sound effects WITH music?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1788