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Elon Musks's Blastar (Conversion)Back in 1984, the 12 year old Elon Musk wrote a rudimentary video game for his SpectraVideo SV-328 (another Z80 Microcomputer) [url="https://www.t…
... ;TAB 16;"SHIPS ";sh
140 LET f$=INKEY$
150 ... -
Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …
... using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory ... eg.) by reading m$ 8 characters at a time. I was ... "X";: GO TO 140
130 PRINT " ";
140 LET w = INT ... "X";: GO TO 140
130 PRINT " ";
140 LET w = INT ... -
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... code which animate 4 aditional characters on screen (they are * for ... $ 144+" ": GO TO 160
140 IF a$="q" AND b ... -
Simpsons or Futurama?Simpsons or Futurama?
... good. In fact all the characters we're pretty strong (Reese ... a weak episode in all 140-odd. Even the flashback episodes ... -
Swords and Sorcery by PSSCan anyone help me out with completing this classic game? There seem to be plenty of bugs with it, so just knowing that it is in fact possible to com…
... must process each of the characters you wish to play with ... 0: RANDOMIZE USR 28000
140 PRINT "FINISHED": INPUT "ANOTHER? (y ... -
+3 how to detect if a file exist ?Need help. I am making a generic menu to my compilations over the spectrum +3. Exist some way programatically to detect if some file exists on the d…
... . There should be 203 X characters after the REM, and the ... ,205,9,1,1
140 DATA 1,0,80,89 ... -
Seeking alternatives to DATA statementsAnyone know of any memory saving alternatives to storing a list of numbers, other than using DATA statements or poking data into addresses?... Im ti…
... you manually add the backslash (\) characters as these mysteriously get omitted ... -
Help with a basic programI'm doing a very small basic program which I know is bloated, but it works. (I have limited basic knowledge compared to most on here). I just wondere…
... 8 phrases, up to 32 characters each
20 REM Read ... ), if there is one
140 IF nextphrase -
Help sought extracting dataAmong yesterday's TZX Vault update are all titles from [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=%5EPenguin+Study+Software$&loadpic…
... with a null character. Punctuation characters are also stored as "words ... :19:1
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(in commentary.txt ... three of the
main characters are normally
each associated ... -
Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
... I do not have any characters that are 8 pixels wide ... p$(a)-32)*8
140 LET width=width+PEEK address ... -
Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…
... change are the ones where characters are printed. Can you provide ... PropSys
130 REM
140 CLEAR 64103
150 LOAD ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... a value and inserting additional characters. Even this code is stretching ... Began: 18-Jul-2011
140 REM Ended: xx-xxx-xxxx ... -
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... at it rather than single characters. The main thing slowing it ...
130 LET a$=""
140 FOR b=1 TO 704 ... -
Graphics DisplaysI?m not sure if this should be in here in in the BASIC section, so mods please move if necessary Does anyone know of any programs (TZX or type-in) t…
... y,x;[COLOR="Red"]CHR$ 140[/COLOR]: LET p=p-5 ... have contained the literal graphic characters - and these seem to have ... -
Printing a ListingHello my fellow WoS'ers Todays trouble starts with the need to print-out a listing - personally I would prefer a text file, but beggars cannot be c…
... ;CHR$ 14;"Size ";c
140 CLOSE #6
150 NEXT ... , allowing you to cram more characters into the same space."
WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …
... key repeats.
* Prints all characters from $20-$7F.
* Cursor ...Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
... hand, it's twitter... 140 poxy characters about what you had for ...Empire - port of trs80 basic programBack when I was a little kid, I had the opportunity to play around with a trs80 model 1 with level 2 basic. One of the games I often played was call…
... -precision array with 7 × 20 = 140 elements; and Z(6,6 ... ], each of which is 10 characters by default but each string ...Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…
... let you display in 42 characters a line, but other than ... ."
130 INPUT a
140 GO TO 100+100*a ...Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…
... de,(XCOORD) ; Move across X characters
add hl,de
140 GO SUB 170
150 ...Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…
... de,(XCOORD) ; Move across X characters
ld d,$00 ; N ... =20: LET H=10
140 GO SUB 170
150 ...Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…
... a,(XCOORD) ; Move across X characters
ld l,a ; N ... =32: LET H=24
140 LET A=9
150 ...Summary : Fifty Pascal Programs by SybexI got around getting [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2001037"]this book[/url] and have had a look through it which consists of…
... a sequence of 4 characters which needs guessing. The ... : boolean; {solved flag}
140 exit : boolean;
150 another ... then tells you how many characters in your guess');
characters are in their proper ...Looking for any maze game where the map is different every timeHi folks, I'm looking to sharpen my game writing skiils (or lack thereof!) and I need an example of a simple maze game which creates a different map…
... it to keep corridors 2 characters apart?[/quote]
I ... /> 130 LET r=54
140 LET xp=3+3*INT ... $ (yp,xp)" " THEN GO TO 140
170 LET l=0 ... >0 THEN GO TO 140
1000 INK 0: PAPER ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... crafting dailies across 10 characters so got myself 140 reward boxes without ... build, and Stam build type characters, and I can run round ...Missing 2000AD games (again...)Hello, I've posted this on the MIA/MIS forum previously, but nobody seems to have noticed it, so I offer it here for the perusal of all of you, hopin…
... Spectrum games featuring 2000 AD characters were released, ranging IMHO from ...Missing 2000 AD gamesIn the past years, a handful of Spectrum games featuring 2000 AD characters were released, ranging IMHO from the brilliant (Nemesis the Warlock) to t…
... Spectrum games featuring 2000 AD characters were released, ranging IMHO from ...Timex Sinclair 1000 probsOk let's see if I don't get bashed with this one [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img] I got a Timex Sinclair 1000, which is giving me a …
... completely black background, with grayish characters on top of it. I ...
