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Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…
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PRINT """This is in quotes"""
[quote]< ... problems including multiple action descriptions. In many text adventure games, ... an object. A player could type in something like "pick up axe ... -
2005 retro plans?So what's everyone here got planned for the retro scene? My conservative estimate is that I get out two new chapters of the documentary, plus write …
... type-in update out in another month or so. :)
Build a 3D ... whether I should use the 3D engine itself to provide a ... -
New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... can be read with IN 61438 and IN 63486, respectively.
... can be read in port 31: IN 31 which give ... /> On other machines: search in VARS for start of BASIC ... remember that every number in your program takes ... printed out is contained in ROM starting at address ... -
Trig questionI'm trying to write a function that describes a 2D circle in 3D space - that's not important, just a bit of background! I've almost done it, but the…
... a circle (not sphere) in 3D space. This will allow me ... program any circular path in 3D space in my forthcoming 3D animation package.
< ... the following parameters (all coords in 3D):
vs - ... so all the values in those three formulae are known ... -
Gotta love computers......for they allow me to do cool things such as THIS: [url="http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/whatsnew.htm"]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/whatsnew.htm[…
... , then using two rotate statements in POVRAY - from what I've ... should be one rotate operation in three dimensions rather than three ... I thinking that writing a 3D animation package would be easy... :) -
Gotta love computers......for they allow me to do cool things such as THIS: [url="http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/whatsnew.htm"]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/whatsnew.htm[…
3D Animation package almost completed.
Work on the 1985 chapter about to resume Real Soon Now.
Have two weeks off in a week or so's time.
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Starglider 128k TZXNow I would if I could, but I simply don't have a copy of the game on tape handy, but is there any possibility that someone could upload a working ve…
... make a working snap for 128 I used spin.
type in the correct password using the ... .
Next change to 128 hardware in spin and load the snapshot ... will then load and work in 128 mode without switching to +3 ... -
Spectrum 128k(Heatsink)Hi A friend of mine picked up a spectrum+ 128k at a carboot sale at the weekend The thing is it did not come with a power pack Reading from anoth…
... give out 11v or more. In a nut shell, if the ... supply is of the regulated type, then you must use a ... can generally use either type. In the Spectrum 128 and 128 +2, the power ... -
N64 shooters?I loved my N64 buti did not have many shooters for it. Was their any shooters on it? Any that we did not get but came out in Japan? Thank for the …
... games (like Phoenix, R-Type or Galaxians etc), if that ... the PC's Duke Nukem 3D.
Other good ... be played in 1st person mode via a type in cheat, and ... I always play it in 1st ... own, against the built-in bots) in Conker's Bad Fur ... -
YSRnRY: 1985 documentary chapter OUT NOW!1985 documentary chapter out now! It's 7m22s long, a 73.5Mb download, features the rise of wireframe vector graphics, the wobble of Sinclair Research…
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You know the 3D animation package that generated that?
*beam*
In Perl.
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RARE/Ultimate games!I recently bought an XBOX 360 and Perfect Dark Zero, and it made me realise how much i missed RARE and Ultimate - Play The Game. Anyone else have an…
... Superman (Christopher Reeve) fly in the 1977 film Superman, to ... better than any Ultimate 3D game ever, in my and many ... (mostly) as advanced in their playability as in their graphics.
... in PAL format), but was apparently a Disney licensed DKR/MK64 type ... -
Games that crash because of contended memory.I find these are really annoying. You load up a game like Astro Marine Corps, Fantasy World Dizzy, Dizzy: Prince Of The Yolkfolk and so on (the init…
... my short list of fixes in POKE form (I'll leave ... someone else to provide a "type-in" hack).
Fantasy World ... on +2A/+3 (also 48/128/+2 and probably all Spectrums ... I knew about the difference in contended memory) but I can ... -
Any way to fix the DISCiPLE's joystick ports?I've found that they've always struggled with certain joysticks, but now I'm finding it hard to get any to work at all. Any ideas why that is and an…
... variant of Sys 3b (a type-in from Format magazine which lets ... have other disks running Sys 3d though.
All POKE ... it when I upgraded it in the shop. If I did ... -
Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…
... How long has it been in development?[/B]
1) a 2D animation package that's a wrapper ... .
2) a 3D animation package that's a wrapper ... a limited-edition DVD in future. There'll definitely ... br />
Learning 3D algebra. Still haven't quite ... -
"Real Tape" mode?I'm trying to use RealSpec32 and Klive's "Real Tape" mode feature, but I can't get my tape player to play correctly. Am I doing something wrong? Fo…
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Open your emulator (In my case Spectaculator) and select ... /> Press enter if in 128 mode or type LOAD"" in 48K mode to start ... -
How to save TZXGreetings to all. I am starting to move on from just games into some testing of home made programs. Although I could have done that in ancient tapes…
... 17,0,64,33,0,128,1,0,27,237, ... to have 14 'x' in the REM statement, as this ... make sure your in 48k mode, if in 128 BASIC type SPECTRUM before RUN ... 10.
To use type RUN ... .
To save to tape type, SAVE "name" LINE 1. ... -
DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... because they take longer to type in using the 128K editor ;) ... RAM is just hanging around in the RAMdisk.
... program a little larger in a special case: if ... in workspace and in program area to be copied. The 128 ... you only need space in program area to store ... -
Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…
... by specifying a third parameter in the DRAW command.[/QUOTE]
I was really just interested in something more like the other ... , screens for adventure games, simple 3D animation from BASIC and it takes ... -
Good 128k games?As I only got my +2 in the twilight years of the spectrum and then discovered cider and Doctor and the Crippens (punk band), I never really had many …
The 128 could take advantage of the ... screen to mix colours for 128 true colours I think. I ... remember a type in that could display all the 128 colours on screen ... version. It should go down in history as the best value ... -
Good 128k games?As I only got my +2 in the twilight years of the spectrum and then discovered cider and Doctor and the Crippens (punk band), I never really had many …
... QUOTE=FrankT;178306]The 128 could take advantage of ... to mix colours for 128 true colours I think. ... remember a type in that could display all the 128 colours on ... It should go down in history as the best ... not aware of?
128 colours?
Wow, ... -
"Binary Love"...anyone seen this?I downloaded a game (or I thought it was a game) for my speccy emulator called "binary Love"...but it's not a game, it's more of a graphics demo. any…
... if that happens in the future type in CAT (in Spin it's CTRL ... the 128k menu... go into 128 BASIC and do RUN.
YSRnRY Documentary - 1988 chapter now available for download23rd April 2007 is the 25th Anniversary of the launch of the Sinclair Spectrum! So, as part of those celebrations, here's the 1988 chapter of th…
... wants me to use my 3D animation engine for something else, so ... managed to get it done in time for the b'day ...Quick testCould I ask anyone with a real 128K or +2 to run the latest [url=http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/spectrum/fusetest.tap]Fuse test suite[/url] on it and …
On a black 128+, loaded in 128 mode via Tape Loader:
... length 0x8000 + 0x94fc
Machine type: +3
BIT ... LDIR... failed (0xfb)
Contended IN... failed (0xfd)
Floating bus ... is otherwise the same. In 48K mode 'High port contention ...Quick testCould I ask anyone with a real 128K or +2 to run the latest [url=http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/spectrum/fusetest.tap]Fuse test suite[/url] on it and …
... =gasman;224807]On a black 128+, loaded in 128 mode via Tape Loader ... length 0x8000 + 0x94fc
Machine type: +3[/QUOTE]
That ...Quick testCould I ask anyone with a real 128K or +2 to run the latest [url=http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/spectrum/fusetest.tap]Fuse test suite[/url] on it and …
... a grey +2, loaded in 128 mode via Tape Loader from ... length 0x8000 + 0x94fc
Machine type: +3
BIT ... LDIR... failed (0xfb)
Contended IN... failed (0xff)
Floating bus ... length 0x8000 + 0x94fc
Machine type: 128K
BIT ...Few results for "Toni Baker"I noticed that a search for "Toni Baker" had a only few of Toni's ZXC articles. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^Toni+Baker$ …
... s "Into the 128" articles, these are listed in SPOT under the ... p. 56 -BAT Into the 128
F ZX 5.87 ... p. 84 -BAT Into the 128
F ZX 6. ... Into the 128
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The only code in the 1986 ... t qualify it as a type-in. The 1987 two-parter should ...
