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  • 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 ... )=p$(i): NEXT i
    80 LET nextphrase=4: REM index ...
    gasman gasman August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • last of the summer wine..yer you all watch it I know ;) I'm guessing like me, most of you grew up with it.. at a time when shops were shut on a sunday and bullseye or hart t…

    ... funny thing. In the late 80's remeber when Harry Endfield ... with theur Smashie and Nicey characters? Because of this the nation ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk August 2010 Chit chat
  • last of the summer wine..yer you all watch it I know ;) I'm guessing like me, most of you grew up with it.. at a time when shops were shut on a sunday and bullseye or hart t…

    ... funny thing. In the late 80's remeber when Harry Endfield ... with theur Smashie and Nicey characters? Because of this the nation ...
    ChuckieEgg ChuckieEgg August 2010 Chit chat
  • General purpose full screen input routineHi Folks, One of the things that annoyed me back in the 1980s with most BASICs was the lack of a full screen "formatted" input function. You could …

    ... hairy when the user deleted characters within a line. I don ... with a maximum of 32 characters per line I do not ... the Electron and CPC (with 80 column displays) I did go ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …

    ... a maximum of 64 or 80 32 x 32 pixel sprites ... from 8 x 8 pixel characters stored in VRAM (not pixels ... 1 to 4 x 4 characters with any combination, example; 2 ... the 8 x 8 pixel characters stored in the 64K of ... 240 pixels (40 x 30 characters) would be 64 x 32 ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Ewgf banned - how did I miss thatjust curious...

    ... in the existence of early 80's television, it was no ... doubt one of the ultimate 80's shows - you cannot knock ... effects. Best to use real characters that jaja blinks (or whoever ...
    Hercules Hercules November 2010 Chit chat
  • Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…

    ... quicker printing of fixed-size characters
    But 16K model was ... 00 01111xxx 00000000
    15 80-87 FF 10000xxx 11111111
    TVzombie TVzombie February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Something else to hate about modern gamingDespite my skirmishes with DRM, the dumbing down of first person shooters, the awful server support for many console games (which don't allow you to …

    ... pre-order with extra levels/characters, but normal packaging.[/QUOTE]
    80-90% of todays games are ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2011 Chit chat
  • Something else to hate about modern gamingDespite my skirmishes with DRM, the dumbing down of first person shooters, the awful server support for many console games (which don't allow you to …

    ... ;513495]I would say that 80-90% of todays games are ... the facial expressions of the characters are. Not one post about ...
    MinerWilly MinerWilly February 2011 Chit chat
  • Trying to like Black Books, perhaps I'm deadI'm a massive fan of Father Ted and as such I thought it time I started to watch Black Books as it seems to have a pretty good reputation. I'm 4 epis…

    ... as does my wife. The characters are just so lovable. I ... young ones is its OTT 80's ness which makes it ... and adds to the early 80's feel. I wonder what ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk March 2011 Chit chat
  • Trying to like Black Books, perhaps I'm deadI'm a massive fan of Father Ted and as such I thought it time I started to watch Black Books as it seems to have a pretty good reputation. I'm 4 epis…

    ... as does my wife. The characters are just so lovable. I ... young ones is its OTT 80's ness which makes it ...
    merman merman March 2011 Chit chat
  • Trying to like Black Books, perhaps I'm deadI'm a massive fan of Father Ted and as such I thought it time I started to watch Black Books as it seems to have a pretty good reputation. I'm 4 epis…

    ... as does my wife. The characters are just so lovable.[/QUOTE ... young ones is its OTT 80's ness which makes it ... and adds to the early 80's feel. I wonder what ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2011 Chit chat
  • Duke Nukem FoeverFirst of all, Duke Nukem Forever's release date has been set back (again!) to June. The designers say it's the shortest delay the game has ever had, …

    ... you could go round 'raping' characters in the game and that ... music back in the late 80's but i didnt talk ...
    psj3809 psj3809 March 2011 Chit chat
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... .png[/img]

    and 80 column (in 512x192 mode on ... far apart now. When more characters are packed on the line ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman April 2011 Games
  • New Psion logo...Hi Folks, A bit off topic but has anyone visited Psion's web site lately - they have a new corporate logo (or icon as they call it). May be I am ju…

    ... a new one (So the 80's one) we would be ... and customisation through the five characters that together form Psion.
    characters each have their own distinctive ...
    psj3809 psj3809 May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • GTA IV vs Earlier GTA gamesOne of the regular discussions (or arguments, depending on the age of the participants - how I wish no one under twenty could post on the forums :() …

    ... some of the other GTA characters, since he at least tries ... was good, i loved the 80's soundtrack but it does ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2011 Chit chat
  • Famous 8 x 8 graphicsHi All, Part of a game I'm writing involves collecting falling 8x8 graphics, one level will be fonts (got this bit sorted) and another will be 8x8 g…

    ... />
    The list of game characters already done is:

    defb 80,60,242,117,63,124 ... willy himself
    defb 144,80,254,15,175,15,254 ... ,36 ;microbot
    defb 48,80,32,76,94,60,8 ... ,41,61,88,88,108,80,144 ;exolon[/CODE]
    R-Tape R-Tape July 2011 Development
  • Monsters graphics for a roguelike/dungeon crawlerSome time ago I was trying to make some roguelike/dungeon crawler type game. The result looks like this: [URL=http://www.image-share.com/igif-844-4…

    ... Lone Magpie;560366]These are characters I created for a game ... working on that's about 80% finished, so I think I ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2011 Development
  • The zxodus engineI've been playing around with this for a couple of days now. Its one of the best things I've seen for sinclair basic, and I've seen nothing about it …

    ... 't know, what does line 80? It has worked for me ... version to use just 64 characters and so free up 12Kb ...
    na_th_an na_th_an September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • The good old days (what do you honestly miss)?I was reading a post on Gamefaqs where the author was saying how modern games were better than older games, and even though that's just his opinion (…

    ... =karingal;565997]Artists in the 80's did solid gigging to ... entirely virtual and media-related characters, made like an industrial product ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu September 2011 Chit chat
  • Up/Down Left/Right scrollCan anybody give a newbie some pointer to simple one char scrolling by pixel? I've looked at a lot of resources, but as you can imagine, it's all a …

    ... 16 pixels wide (or two characters of data) and the animation ... 11,4,3,192,32,80,80,16,208,32,192
    ;two standard Spectrum characters placed side to side. And ... little 8 byte blocks of characters just like ABCDE or ... 11,4,3,192,32,80,80,16,208,32,192
    Turkwel Turkwel November 2011 Development
  • Which Ultimate Play the Game game's do you like (tick the ones you like)After discussing Sabre Wulf in another thread, I thought it would be interesting to see which games of theirs we liked and disliked in proportion to …

    ... %
    6. Gunfright 53 43.80%
    7. Cookie 51 42 ... you play as three different characters, meaning that the map has ... score table, and erm, an 80% price increase when you bought ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2011 Games
  • space optimisation algorithm neededScenario: * An adventure game consists of a series of locations, each of which may or may not have some text and/or graphics associated with it. * A…

    ... yours into 8 pixel characters, a lot of them ... empty characters, there are 27 of them of 80 total. ... I'm coding these characters with single byte of ... The program draws by characters and when this value ... (nonempty) +27(empty) + 80(attributes)=531 bytes[/B]
    Ralf Ralf February 2012 Development
  • Generating a constant of 2?Hi Folks, Through "The Wizard of WOS" I learnt that you can generate constants as follows: [B]NOT PI=0 SGN PI=1 INT PI=3[/B] Is there a quick way …

    ... the names as just two characters whenever possible: k0-k9, kA ... like proper looping, integer variables, 80 column screen and this made ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... /> [QUOTE=dm_boozefreek;605773]Hopefully another characters story will skip the game ... at the end, but maybe 80% have DNF guys.

    VincentAC VincentAC February 2012 Chit chat
  • LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…

    ... table for the first two characters with a maximum of 2000 ... +1)=x(k+1)
    80 LET x(k+1)=s ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2012 Development
  • number padding functionI wrote a number padding function in BASIC a while ago, but when I came to want it again I couldn't find it, so I've done this enhanced [url=http://w…

    ... hl,bc
    ld (hl),$80 ;end marker
    inc hl ...

    NEXTDEC:ld c,$80
    ld b,0
    ;copy B pad characters to new number string
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…

    ... ,y=0,x2=60,y2=80. Using rectangular intersection I calculate ... ,y=10,x2=60,y2=80. That means I can skip ... bytes wide or less (icons, characters), so it seems to work ...
    flashjazzcat flashjazzcat July 2012 Development
  • Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…

    ... -wide verticals specifically so that characters were more easily readable in ... one[/url] looks odd in 80-column modes.
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston July 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…

    ... -wide verticals specifically so that characters were more easily readable in ... one[/url] looks odd in 80-column modes.[/QUOTE]

    chev chev July 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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