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Best Way to Learn From Input Magazines?Hey all. I'm the lucky recipient of all the Input magazines that were published by Marshall Cavendish back in the day. I've decided to start prog…
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I'm the lucky recipient of all ... the bigger games, which contained M/C but I never tackled them ... set in order. Look at a page. Do you get the ... gist? Then have a crack at it. Don't ... -
Best Way to Learn From Input Magazines?Hey all. I'm the lucky recipient of all the Input magazines that were published by Marshall Cavendish back in the day. I've decided to start prog…
... the bigger games, which contained M/C but I never tackled them ... type-in's are a bit of a cheat in some ways ... -
Disabling the +3 disk buffer; yes, but how?I would like to disable the +3 disk buffer in order to retrieve those 4K from the machine's RAMdisk. By reading the computer manual and some posts on…
... had already done it.... "what a tit" I thought to myself ... 't khow s**t about m/c -
Drawing ovals...Hi Folks, Is it possible to draw an oval using the Sinclar BASIC DRAW commend and the 3rd parameter? I have been trying (and failing). Many thanks…
... .5 STEP .28:
LET m=INT (0.5+x+h ... +v*SIN i):
DRAW m-p,n-q:
LET ... p=m: LET q=n:
NEXT ... .2: LET s=SIN (a): LET c=COS (a):
LET p=INT ... +y+dx*s+dy*c):
DRAW m-p,n-q:
LET p=m: LET q=n:
NEXT ... -
Drawing ovals...Hi Folks, Is it possible to draw an oval using the Sinclar BASIC DRAW commend and the 3rd parameter? I have been trying (and failing). Many thanks…
... .0: LET s=SIN (a): LET c=COS (a):
LET p=INT ... +y+dx*s+dy*c):
DRAW m-p,n-q:
LET p=m: LET q=n:
NEXT ... :
LET m=INT (0.5+x+h*c(i)*c-v*s ... )*s+v*s(i)*c):
DRAW m-p,n-q:
LET p=m: LET q=n:
NEXT ... -
Font hack that was used in a lot of early gamesThere was a little hack for changing the fonts on a spectrum and I remember it being used in a couple of old games on the 48k, it was a sort of ye od…
... to $9700. As the m/c starts in the line ... So this one's not a simple POKE either.
... 11 00 A4
LD A, $FF ; 3E FF
AND A ; A7
CCF ; 3F ... -
BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…
... 1: LOAD *"m";1;"name": SAVE *"m";1;"Squares": VERIFY *"m";1;"Squares ... ": MERGE *"m";1;"Squares ... "
1002 ERASE "m";1 ... ,3: DEF FN a(b,c)=b+c: DIM a(1,2,3): DIM ... -
Spectaculator BlogHi All, I've decided to start a Spectaculator development blog [URL="http://www.spectaculator.com/category/blog"]here[/URL]. Normally months (somet…
... interesting Jon. I've taken a look at the article about ... . Mind you, my knowledge of M/C is sketchy to say the ... -
16k programmingHi all, If I want to code something for a 16k (or any spectrum) my understanding was that if I CLEAR below 24064 and put all the code above it up to…
... the m/c stack during an interrupt. Presuming that you have a BASIC ... whatever your own m/c program might do, the m/c stack might temporarily ... -
Buzzer sounds tips'n'tricksSo I have an ARM Cortex M3 with a buzzer connected to its GPIO pin. And because I read this forum I know that there is no need to add a separate buzz…
... ld a,(speed)
ld b,a
ld c,a ;8 ... bits are usually not enough, so generate a ... ch1
ld e,a ;restore counter ch2
... it stays off. I'm not going to post ... -
Siege RTS projectActually, it's but pre-prototyping: an upside-down tower-defense version of Sodov ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004618[/url…
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At the moment I'm considering 12 "stationary" ally sprites ... via grid, say, like a seabattle:
| a | b | c | d | e | f ... pressing AA2 will cause unit 'A' to attack zone A2. Sure ... .
Perhaps, it's a too big to eat for ... -
5th QuadrantAnyone ever mapped or completed it? Theres a game in there somewhere im sure of it but I cant make head nor tail of it!
... I've done a little bit of a map just to ... hex; 230 rooms gives a maximum of 230=$0E6 ... 1). R:=room#; M:=monitor message; C:=colours (the four ... ------
|R:0C7 |
|M:??? | 5TH QUADRANT - Ground Floor
Varios +3(e)DOS questions?I'm converting tape games to disk, for being used in my +3e. I'm trying to convert them to standard BASIC loaders, so files could be copied using BAS…
... m=INT PI: LET u=26000:
LET a=m*m+k: LET b=a ... +k: LET c=b+k: ... LET d=c+k: LET ... )): PRINT l$;":p.";d$(m+k);" a=";:
FOR y=l ... TO m:
READ d$: LET ...5th QuadrantAnyone ever mapped or completed it? Theres a game in there somewhere im sure of it but I cant make head nor tail of it!
I've added a bit to ... key? control:|C:1D8c||R:1D9 |
|M:??? | 5696 |M:??? ||M:??? | 5TH ... QUADRANT - 1st Floor
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|C:GWGG| |C:GMGG||C ...The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
[QUOTE=leespoons;706589]I'm bored of the hype already, ... it without any testing like a proper c.g.c entry? pffft :smile:What's on your saucer?Thanks go out to frobush and zx1 for inspiring* this WoSser to create a yet another excellent WoS thread. Lunch 10 minutes ago. [IMG]http://i300.ph…
... /> sounds like a German Eurodance outfit.
[I][B]M.C. Braunschweiger ...What's on your saucer?Thanks go out to frobush and zx1 for inspiring* this WoSser to create a yet another excellent WoS thread. Lunch 10 minutes ago. [IMG]http://i300.ph…
... ]sounds like a German Eurodance outfit.
[I][B]M.C. Braunschweiger ... /> Well, they don't make a lot of sense, guess you ... could do a follow-up to the [URL ...Tape loading - blocks with checksumThese were sometimes used for 128K games and had a searching / loading message, ie. Loading Block 08, then if a block didn't load right one could rew…
... mid 80's I wrote a rudimentary "block loader" for transmission ... the first (basic with embedded m/c) block, the rest would/should ... was slow, but it worked a treat.
The toughest ...Tape loading - blocks with checksumThese were sometimes used for 128K games and had a searching / loading message, ie. Loading Block 08, then if a block didn't load right one could rew…
... mid 80's I wrote a rudimentary "block loader" for transmission ... the first (basic with embedded m/c) block, the rest would/should ... was slow, but it worked a treat.
The toughest ...Lame claims to fameWhat's your most tenuous brush with the glittering world of celebrity? Here's a few of mine (all 100% genuine): - I was coming out of an Ed's Easy …
... once played a round of Virtua Fighter against (M.C.) Hammer in the ... Trocadero in London; my attempts to find a ... the attention of a few others and as a crowd formed he ...Lame claims to fameWhat's your most tenuous brush with the glittering world of celebrity? Here's a few of mine (all 100% genuine): - I was coming out of an Ed's Easy …
... ]I once played a round of Virtua Fighter against (M.C.) Hammer in ...generating a pre-defined list in an un-defined sequenceI've decided to become a drunkard, to which end I've been drinking a whole bottle of beer in one day (whereas normally I'd make it last 2 or 3 days).…
... Saukas;712781]I can imagine a couple alternatives. First, do you ... list. The originating Jim was a different Jim. I'd improved ... ; at my last post the m/c version was taking 80 minutes ...Elite's iPhone/iPad Spectrum Emulator updated... with Manic Miner, Monty and more!This was updated earlier today: [URL="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/zx-spectrum-elite-collection/id391336343?mt=8"]link[/URL]. Now includes Manic M…
... "FOUL!", and that player is a competitor to Elite Systems, shouldn ... by the rights owners (even a simple C&D, which costs ... little more than a stamp) implies they ... the book.
I'm ready to be proven wrong ...Elite's iPhone/iPad Spectrum Emulator updated... with Manic Miner, Monty and more!This was updated earlier today: [URL="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/zx-spectrum-elite-collection/id391336343?mt=8"]link[/URL]. Now includes Manic M…
... by the rights owners (even a simple C&D, which costs ... little more than a stamp) implies they ... statement seems a tad ridiculous.
[QUOTE]I'm ready to ... /> I'm ready to believe Steve Wilcox is a bit of a nob ...Full 16*16-digit BASIC multiplicationI liked Andre Adrian's 32-bit long multiplication routine so much that I decided to a decimal version. After all, 2^63 is only 9223372036854775808, a…
... ; 1115 LET I2=0: FOR m=1 TO I
ld ... SUB EXX
dec a ; 1155 NEXT m: LET I=I+I2 ... of 10
inc a
jr c,SubDigit
sbc hl ...ULAs interchangeable across issuesHi all, Now that I'm retired, I'm looking again at 8 bit computing :) I'm attempting to revive a spectrum 48K. I'm going to swap chips in/out from…
... 4A boards and above require a 6C001E-7 ULA. This ... only came to light when m/c programs started reading the ... of an effect on a Spectrum without any peripherals.< ... br />
Conversely, using a 5C102/112/6C001E-6 ULA ... on a Issue 4A and above ...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…
... , i had to retake a lot of gang territory. ... after me even in such a crazy environment.
I had a real c**t of a time catching Sweet, that ... wrong wrong wrong, I'm not doubting your mighty skillz ... , but I'm pretty sure you were very ...
