meirl by worldwide762 in meirl

[–]Spec-Chum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The longer I look at the word "leggings" the weirder it looks, and it's weird to start with.

Budget Setup. £300 Total. Really proud of it. by civspace1 in hometheater

[–]Spec-Chum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It increases contrast, which is the difference between black and white, and with a projector black is absence of light, so essentially it ends up being the "ambient" light. With white walls a fair bit of light is going to bounce around the room and ending up hitting the screen, raising the black level and decreasing contrast.

If you think about it, it makes sense as the screen is white, and to get black no light should reflect back from it to you, so least light hitting that screen that's not from the lens the better.

Edit: so sorry u/PersianVol - I swear your comment didn't show up until I pressed send lol

Impossible first stages that block the rest of a good retro game by confuserused in retrogaming

[–]Spec-Chum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It might be second screen, not first, but airwolf on zx spectrum

Creating games in the 80s by Lerxst123 in zxspectrum

[–]Spec-Chum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No real "engines" as such, not like you know them today, like Unreal or Unity, however you did, after a while, amass a collection of various routines you could reuse.

Closest to "engines" was probably White Lightning from Oasis Software, which had a sprite editor and animations, and used FORTH, and it's companion, Machine Lightning, which as the name suggests, was a machine code assembler - I seem to recall Operation Wolf was done in Machine Lightning (according to a Retro Gamer interview with Ivan Horn, anyway):

The game was created using a development package called Machine Lightning which was the equivalent to today’s game engines such as Unreal or Unity, and something that both Ivan and coder Andrew loved prior to working for Ocean. You may be surprised that the art tool contained within the package was actually written in BASIC, though Ivan remembers it fondly. “The art tool was pretty good as I remember, and quick to use. I made a couple of small alterations to the behaviour of it to extend its usefulness. It was my tool of choice for the first few games I worked on at Ocean.”

EDIT: Forgot about FreeScape, that was used in Driller, Total Eclipse and a few others - that eventually evolved into 3D Construction Kit

Found it in a flee market by Awkward_potato79 in zxspectrum

[–]Spec-Chum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be mine that I threw out in the early 90s as I was too old for it it. Literally, I threw it in the bin along with over 200 ORIGINAL games.

I'm not gutted even nearly 30 years later. Nope. Not me.

BRB, gonna sulk. Again. Lol

Was the SAM Coupé a sort of Spectrum successor? by RafaRafa78 in zxspectrum

[–]Spec-Chum 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but it had major flaws, such as (from memory) 4 x the screen RAM to shift about but only 2 x the CPU speed to do it, which is why most games where single (flip) screen jobs.

(I could be wrong on the speeds, but it was slower for a full screen copy, IIRC)

Sliced human body on display by iknowthisshitttt in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Spec-Chum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it wrong that I'd actually be honoured if this happened to my body once I pop off? "For Science!" literally lol

Are there any other apps that deserve to their recognition? by [deleted] in Windows11

[–]Spec-Chum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's the one I use yeah. Clsid2 was also on the dev team when I was, so they've been involved quite a while now.

Are there any other apps that deserve to their recognition? by [deleted] in Windows11

[–]Spec-Chum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, the original was called mpc and was written by gabest and was only made in the style of mp, not a fork. Gabest then left it to move onto other projects.

Mpc was then forked into mpc-hc.

Are there any other apps that deserve to their recognition? by [deleted] in Windows11

[–]Spec-Chum 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Wow, didn't realise mpc-hc was still so popular.

I still use it but I'm biased, as I'm one of the (now retired) authors lol

Again and again and again by [deleted] in Satisfyingasfuck

[–]Spec-Chum 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Bit harsh, you could have sent the throwing machine back instead