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…