Raycasting Engine on the ZX Spectrum Next
One off the real wish list items for coders, is a proper 3D engine for the Next. Jim Bagley had, from day one, wanted to implement a ray casting engine.…
Porting Lemmings to the ZX Spectrum Next
Can I port Lemmings to the ZX Spectrum Next? Follow alone with my journey and lets see how far I can get!
Making NEXT Lemmings: Part 5
This was a pretty exciting one, as I finally got some NEXT hardware of my own, so the first task was to get it all running.
Shadow of the Beast
This games been part of my life for some time, I did the PC Engine port of it, and gave some advice on the C64 one, and did a Spectrum…
Writing a ZX Spectrum Emulator in GameMaker
So if you followed my last emulator series, you’ll know that I built up a lot of caches of shapes (characters and sprites) on demand, and then drew them when…
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 5
In this part, I’m going to start looking at sprites, and see if there’s anything I can do in order to display “something” so I can better see games running.…
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 3
The next part deals with tracking down CPU bugs, and ways to log quickly, and we also take a look at C64 memory mapping.
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 2
A look at the 6502 CPU's flags and how to actually emulate CPU instructions in any emulator.
CREATING A COMMODORE 64 EMULATOR IN GAMEMAKER – PART 1
These articles were first published at the start of 2015, and GameMaker has changed a lot since then – not least with the release of GameMaker Studio 2. Fortunately nothing…