My adventures and insights on game coding for the ZX Spectrum
12-23-2017
While looking at the code example within the FASE demo, I came across these lines of code.
x = 0x3000;
y = 0x1000;
I don’t know what to think about this line, so I have to call out the big guns – Antonio.
Continue reading “Placing your main character”
12-23-2017
Time to think about something else other than collision detection for a little while, what I have done prior with the collision detection works, however it’s a bit of a memory hog.
Continue reading “Got stuck in a rut”
12/15-2017 to 12/16/2017
This next bit took me two days to write because I struggled a bit to write it as I was trying to code. It is, however, an important subject.
Let’s say you get up in the middle of the night and are wandering about in a room. Let’s also say that you have a young child that loves to play with legos and left some on the same floor you are walking on. Let’s also say that you have bare feet. Other than the intense pain when you step on a lego, do you tell that you have stepped on one.
Now let’s think about that computationally. Kinda hard.
Continue reading “How to tell if you’ve stepped in something”
12/15/2017
Now that we have the game print 1 set of numbers at the top, what will we do to have a second set of numbers? Pretty much the same thing, but different.
12-14-2017
After drawing a blank for the last 2 days (in my defense, I haven’t been up to the silly challenge), I made a bit of a breakthrough on the main character placement.
All due to a silly error.
The whole blog should have started with this, but better late than never.
12-12-2017
Sometimes during the process of coding, you need to drop in a little tester routine to see what numbers are actually popping up. Such is the case with some of the variables I am using with this game.
Sometimes coding or the planning thereof, get turned around in a direction you didn’t anticipate. This is the problem I have looked at this morning and I’m not quite happy with, but it is what it is.
Sometimes I give in to reposting already discovered conversations and posts. This entry was found on the Mojon Twins forum regarding tilepaint in the FASE engine.
This Quote would be from Antonio Villena….
This is not my routine. I just saw this on the https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/ forums and thought I should place it here for further study.
Continue reading “Dixel Scrolling (2 pixel at a time scroll)”
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