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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…
... Since it's quite instructive to see what 12 year old ... 't yet know how to do proper attachments so ... INVETERVAL type commands to force periodic calls to the game code ... his version can be reduced to less than half the length ... LET c=21: LET u=32: LET w=22: LET g ... -
What is your worst Speccy related memory?We've had the good times, but there were bad times too. I will give you two choice cuts from my back catalogue... Over at a friends house, wanting to…
... anyone remembers the Alphacom 32 printer came out with ... was the first thermal to print on white paper ... than normal :( ) and having to tap it on the top ... freind bought an alphacom 32 and to my suprise on relaying ... my horror to him we checked and ... -
Let a=val "1"I see some basic programs which use Let a=val "1" instead of let a=1 syntax. what is the difference between val "1" and 1? is it an effect of some …
If only needed in a FOR NEXT LOOP you could use
FOR X = SGN PI TO SQR PI
even in strings you can use it since BASIC will take the closest integer to SQR PI, hence 2.
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Mac2Spec v2I announced the release a week or so ago on c.s.s. but I thought I'd give it a plug here too. Mac2Spec is a graphics converter written in Objective-…
Would it be possible to make a converter from 256x384 aspect ratio 32:24 to 2 spectrum screens that can be alternated between with the interrupt on a +2A which has 2 screen areas? -
Mac2Spec v2I announced the release a week or so ago on c.s.s. but I thought I'd give it a plug here too. Mac2Spec is a graphics converter written in Objective-…
... converter from 256x384 aspect ratio 32:24 to 2 spectrum screens that ... here. I think you want to convert a 'tall' picture made ... -
X-Out level loaderCan anyone confirm all the levels of this game (the original game tzx) will load? Does anyone want to find how the checksum works?
... Alkatraz decoder in MakeTZX 2.32 (due to the bug in v2 ... ) have the command line syntax to do it... but it's ... -
Platform vs BackgroundForgive my ignorance if this is a 'stoopid' question, but although I've written games for many platforms over the years I'm only now making my first …
... with different virtual colours to identify different platforms of ... virtual pallette" to translate a virtual colour to the physical ... uses a single byte or integer to identify which state (zone ... simplifies game logic, because to check with collision with ... -
the happiest days of your life-pt2hello,again i have come up with 2 solutions to the problem of solving this game:- 1.the more people that try to solve this game (by combining diffe…
... mortar board 1 point 32
Saddlebag to get 17p stamp 1 ... /> Joystick+loaded computer to software shop to get reel of film ... /> Railcard + pound note to dolesville to get train ticket 1 point ... /> Take hammer + nails to secret passage to cross bridge safely 1 ... -
How do I convert score to 00000 formatWhat is the quickest and best way in machine code to display the score formatted in zeros. For example, My score is currently 320, so I want it to …
Excellent, thanks, I should work it out from this.
Is there a ROM routine to convert an integer to chars, i.e. 123 to 3 bytes, "1","2","3"
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How do I convert score to 00000 formatWhat is the quickest and best way in machine code to display the score formatted in zeros. For example, My score is currently 320, so I want it to …
... ROM routine to convert an integer to chars, i.e. 123 to 3 bytes ... but you don't want to use it. Just repeatidly divide ... -
Stupid Question... but: BMP2SCRI have downloaded bmp2scr, and produced a couple of pictures in the hires formats, I can see that there are 3 binary files, a red,green,and blue, how…
... other way round - you need to specially generate an uncompressed AVI ... - it might also be able to string these into a TAP file ... . Again, you'll have to roll your own playback routine ... according to your hardware limitations and the ... -
School SpeccysLook, i know you guys had Spectrums in school (only fair, you guys had to wear uniforms, we didn't) I'm 15. We have crappy macs. Sooooo what games di…
... Acorn Electron and a Dragon 32. Needless to say, the Speccy got ... own boot menu to choose which pirated game to play! :)
to play on a Donkey Kong ... -
Writing for MultifaceI was just wondering, is it possible to write a BASIC program, compile it and use the Multiface to run it? I'd like to write a small util to edit te…
... using a slow Amiga to emulate I think, although ... the following would compile to under 8k, and if ... code in general, hence wanting to compile the basic.
... s$="": FOR n=address TO address+31
110 ... (PEEK n)32 THEN LET ADDRESS=ADDRESS-32: GO TO 100
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Investor spamI've received a bizarre snail-mail spam from some outfit called Inside Track -- they're promising to turn me into a property-investment millionaire b…
... loads from people who "want to buy my motorbike" the classic ... /> *yawn* I did used to reply to string them along, but got bored. -
Floating point representationI'm planning on picking up the [url=http://matt.west.co.tt/category/spectrum/openzxrom/]OpenZXRom[/url] project from where I left off a few months ba…
... will have to support integer to float conversion anyway (which looks to me like ... might put two numbers in integer representation to your stack and want ... the math, and convert back to integer. Now, checking whether the two ... -
The 150 pound home computerWe missing out on this still ... I think. I know the PC market has wrecked all chance for any alternatives to ever have a hope but ... what if. :lol:…
... waiting for the software writers to flock to it are long gone ... but 5 or 6 managed to string it out for a few ... you are going to be loath to change architectures just to get better ... just wouldnt be able to raise enough interest to make anything happen. -
Reason for strange display layout?I have always wondered if there is any technical reason behind the strange layout of the display file or why did Sinclair choose to do it this way?
... loading those registers with 7,32,8... to speed up execution. JP ... make universal routine it tends to be constrained by variations user ... limit of useable screen area to 32x16 attrs (just 2/3 ... limit 128 pix in height to simplify calculation
every ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... top. I set the path to c:\z88dk\bin as it ... should be. On trying to compile the test, I got ... " L:85 Warning:#8:Converting integer to pointer without cast
sccz80 ... should just copy the snapshot to C: and not over the ... -
Sinclair +2 to VGA without VGA boxA few days ago someone in a Spanish forum mentioned that his friend claimed to have built a cable to connect his Sinclair +2 to a VGA monitor without…
it should be possible to build a spectrum RGB to VGA converter using ... 625 line to 32 line standards converter, and a 32 line to VGA box ... . so a 625 to VGA seems ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... amp; (d) to something like POKE v*n,32 i'd imagine ... can do even better: 32 corresponds to "NEXT i" in your ... there's no need to continue iterating on i ... gives us an opportunity to remove variable v and ... br /> However we certainly want to fix this. So how can ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... . one program just outputs an integer to the screen and then quits ... />
However, I would like to see this job completed, and ... unlikely I will be able to provide further useful screenshots of ... them are still very possible to do however, and other people ... -
1st. parts vs 2nd. partsThere are many games with 2 parts (even more): Beach Head 1 and 2, Saboteur 1 and 2, Gauntlet 1 and 2, Highway Encounter and Alien Highway, ... In g…
... is that you're able to string together attacks: e.g. backkick ... chuck him into a crowd to give yourself a breathing space ... with friends?
Back to the question: Action Force II ... -
1st. parts vs 2nd. partsThere are many games with 2 parts (even more): Beach Head 1 and 2, Saboteur 1 and 2, Gauntlet 1 and 2, Highway Encounter and Alien Highway, ... In g…
... is that you're able to string together attacks: e.g. backkick ... chuck him into a crowd to give yourself a breathing space ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... /> ld bc,6144-32 ; number of bytes in total to copy
to move to character row above
... /> ldi x 32 ; repeat ldi 32 times to copy all 32 bytes in the ... 10+16*32+11+10 = 543 cycles. So to copy 32 bytes takes ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... means the z80 has to share access to it with the ula ... hl
ld hl,$57e0+32 ; destination address in last pixel ... . After popping, you have to subtract 32 bytes to get at the first ... started. No adjustment to the destination address needs to be done for ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... if two mazes were added to eachother so it gave ... this morning in the train to show you what I ... f=1 TO 6: READ a$(f*32-31 TO f*32):
... /> 20 FOR f=1 TO 6: PRINT AT 10+f ... PAPER 1;a$(f*32+x TO f*32+x+6): NEXT f ... INKEY$: IF k$="" THEN GO TO 40
60 LET ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... wider, but first I had to see if this would work ... /> POKE n,12:
Go to setting first field
32+65 TO g*32+96):
NEXT g ... -
The amazing Miles Mad Mission thread!Following on from the "Thuderstorms" thread! The JSW I mocked up for a laugh then decided to actually do is under construction. As promised I said …
... far about 20 of the 32 screens are fully WOS related ... are fillers, there's another 32 screens to go yet. Once I ... -
games with bullfighting?how many are there?
... too much difficulty. Your inability to string together much of an argument ... extraneous. I'm trying to elucidate what exactly your political ... and mine should be to try to win over any lurkers ... this thread, thereby attracting converts to your cause. Surely this ... -
games with bullfighting?how many are there?
... too much difficulty. Your inability to string together much of an argument ... extraneous. I'm trying to elucidate what exactly your political ... and mine should be to try to win over any lurkers ... this thread, thereby attracting converts to your cause. Surely this ...
