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ZX Spectrum colour clash on modern hardware

Jul 18, 2023 mikedailly

How to reproduce the classic ZX Spectrum colour clash using modern GPUs.

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Raycasting Engine on the ZX Spectrum Next

Jul 7, 2023 mikedailly

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.…

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Porting Lemmings to the ZX Spectrum Next

Jul 7, 2023 mikedailly

Can I port Lemmings to the ZX Spectrum Next? Follow alone with my journey and lets see how far I can get!

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Advanced programming of the ZX Spectrum Next

May 10, 2023 mikedailly

So while porting Super Crate Box to the NEXT I decided to break with the norm, and use the hardware more fully. While doing so… I realised I’m probably the…

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Hooking up an SD card to the RaspberryPi

Apr 27, 2023 mikedailly

While doing a Raspberry Pi runner for GameMaker, I also added some GPIO functions, and decided to try and hook up an SD card to a Pi.

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Making NEXT Lemmings: Part 6

Apr 16, 2023 mikedailly

In this final part for now, I take a look at the famous explosion and nuke!

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Making NEXT Lemmings: Part 5

Apr 4, 2023 mikedailly

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.

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Making NEXT Lemmings: Part 4

Mar 24, 2023 mikedailly

I decided to get back to work and fix my sprite clipping for my object rendering. It turned out to be a simple fix and was just messing up when…

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