Making NEXT Lemmings: Part 2
In this post, we look at drawing both the levels, and a Lemming itself. This will look at different ways of drawing, and trying to get them as fast as…
Making NEXT Lemmings: Part 1
Is a better version of Lemmings possibly on the ZX Spectrum Next? Read along and find out!
RayCasting engine on the ZXSpectrumNext – Part4
So I’m going to skip sprites for now. They’re basically the same as walls, but with transparency, though there are some fancy optimisations on it later that I will go…
RayCasting engine on the ZXSpectrumNext – Part3
SO now that I had the basic ray casting going, it was time to get some textures in. I toyed with a few ways of doing this, from normal code,…
RayCasting engine on the ZXSpectrumNext – Part2
This is the next edition of my ray casting engine series. In this article, I start to look at porting the C# engine into Z80.
RayCasting engine on the ZXSpectrumNext – Part1
o I’ve been making some good progress on my Ray Casting Engine – which is technically what a Wolfenstein engine is, and I thought it’d be fun to write how…
Hacking Manic Miner – Part 2
In last week’s episode we loaded up the original ZX Spectrum Manic Miner snapshot, and started ripping level information from it. This week I want to extend this and lift the tile…
Hacking Manic Miner – Part 1
So, I thought it would be a nice little change of pace to do a little retro game hacking, and at the same time learn about binary files. Since most…
Hacking Manic Miner – Part 5
In this final post we're going to extract the last few bits for this demo, that of the graphics of Miner WIlly, his starting location, and the portal location.
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…