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Fighting Warrior's protection systemThis is one of those bizarre cases where cracking the loading system is orders of magnitude more fun than playing the game. (Indeed, discovering I wa…
... ) The code block after the BASIC overwrites all the system variables ... ERR_SP to point to the BASIC calculator's workspace which is ... of cells with PAPER and INK 0.
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BASIC ##linersThere was a thread in the past that asked people to send 140character BASIC games (https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/52743/) Does anyone …
There was a thread in the past that asked people to send 140character BASIC games (https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/52743/) Does anyone know where the entries are?
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Pascalated BASIC for those who do not have a Spectrum NextHere is a Pascalated BASIC converter for those who do not have a Spectrum Next: http://arcalusitana.fun/MuseuZX/Pascalated_BASIC/index.html
Here is a Pascalated BASIC converter for those who do not have a Spectrum Next:
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What Good Serious Successful Software Was Written Exclusively in 128K BASIC?I realize now that 128K BASIC has its serious enthusiasts . But I know very little about this type of BASIC . What good titles were written exclusi…
I realize now that 128K BASIC has its serious enthusiasts . But ... little about this type of BASIC . What good titles were ... written exclusively in 128K BASIC without any machine Code ? ... decent software written using 128K BASIC .I wonder if this question ... -
BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum - possible?I have never used a Cambridge Z88 - but I understand it was Z80 based and had a functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the…
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Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…
... the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on ... any other aspects of spectrum BASIC that were better than other ... BASIC variants on home micros? Was ... -
Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…
... . It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program ... Adventure Game frameworks written in BASIC. Also any commercial adventure games ... written in BASIC, back in the day? -
BASIC Bug: DEF FN after REMHello all, Having mused the Spectrum ROM disassembly by Drs Logan ad O'Hara, I wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF FN when call…
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How to return to basic properly from ASMI am messing around with a fast stack copying routine. But I am getting "A: Invalid argument" error when I later return to basic. I know you h…
... when I later return to basic.
I know you ... IY register before returning to basic but my code at the ... as IY when returning to basic. I think one of the ... -
De zeven sleutels van TARKUSI've decided to type in the game "De zeven sleutels van TARKUS" from a book I have for many years now. And, it seems the game as it was printed in…
... /> 10 BORDER 7: PAPER 7: INK 0: PRINT AT 10,10 ... LET dc=0
100 INK 1
110 IF a ... : GO SUB 1460
150 INK 0: PRINT AT 21,4 ... THEN PRINT AT 14,10; FLASH 1;" DOOD ": PRINT AT ... 15,10; FLASH 1;" LOPEND. ": GO TO 160 ... -
Viewing SCR screens in a web-pageI wrote a small program in java some time ago which allows you to view the spectrum screen dump in a web page. how about using this in the world of s…
... have look at the Spectrum Basic SCR, now that comes to ... example the very same Spectrum Basic SCR has a little flashing ... the effect by removing the flash attribute.
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Viewing SCR screens in a web-pageI wrote a small program in java some time ago which allows you to view the spectrum screen dump in a web page. how about using this in the world of s…
... , but you;d not get ink/paper values 100% correct all ... an anim-gif to determine flash.
D ... -
TZX to TAPIs there an application for the mac which will convert TZX files to TAP? I've searched around but can't find any.
... and almost saw my life flash before my eyes when I ... Taper etc, you can extract BASIC listing, SCR files, DATA blocks ... -
adding colourThis my sound like a real stupid Q but when programing a picture how do i add colour like filling in shapes with colour. What kind of programming sh…
... fill this file with ink/paper/bright and flash values.
where ... first 3 bits are INK
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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…
... =loads computer
fountain pen+ink bottle=gets 100 lines(in ... loss
charged battery+flash(not working)=flash charged.**thanks darren**.
the above solution(battery+flash)uses the same object TWICE ... -
The funniest thing we made with the spectrumHello. The funniest thing i made with the spectrum were championships with my buddy francisco on a game called 3d stunt car racer, i think that was t…
... wrote a program named FUN BASIC.
It gave you ... exploding bomb) 0:1
INK 2 > E : INKpot fell ... -
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... interesting IMO.
Now BASIC - that's a bit old ... ). I'm not saying ditch BASIC - I'm saying have something ... ). I would also look at flash cards (for a portable) as ... -
250,000 games on ebay - 2nd chance ??hi guys , thanks for all your help in the past few days , watching over the auction , it was quite exciting at the end ................until the winn…
Or alternatively:
10 FLASH 1
20 PRINT AT ... offended!)
This Spectrum basic seems strange after using C ... -
TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…
... screen (one paper and one ink for the whole screen). There ... . Other improvements were for basic support of the extra screen ... and your variables. Since BASIC code had to be copied ... the standard and unmodified TS2068, BASIC code from Spectrum machines was ... -
Here's a christmas present for you!SE Basic is no longer being developed.
... you planning to extend Basic to support the host ... meant to run Spectrum Basic programs fast and make ... so it'll run BASIC as fast as it ... still maintaining HALT timing and FLASH stuff. PAUSE 1 is ... the speccy community, although loading BASIC from a .sna or ... -
Newer name of the gameI can't find out the name of my old favourite game. This was a Boulder Dash style game, but no scrolling screen. I think you had to collect ?beer? or…
... wrote the engine of the Flash Beer. I would like to ... machine code, not some compiled basic program. :)))
If you ... -
More "fake" screenshots, please.I don't know about anyone else, but I really like seeing Spectrum screenshots of modern and/or original games - even if there ends up being no game t…
... ) :) heh ... a moving graphic's ink attribute assigned to overwrite what ... is most present and the ink the color which is less ... works out. he got 8x1 attr. like MB02 but can only ... -
OT : Dragon 32 loading probsSomeone here must have one of these and be able to help. Just got a tape player I can use with my Dragon. I tried loading some games by typing CLOA…
... the "S" was supposed to flash while it was loading and ... CLOADM (binary load, instead of BASIC load).
The fact ... -
Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …
... ink color 7
Default paper color 0
Default flash state ... -
Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…
... such a trick, to change Ink and paper every four pixel ... ot bottom can have bright/flash while the other not, otherwise ... -
What is SAM?Whilst looking at my spectum tape collection i foun a number of SAM only games. What is a SAM game and which emulators support it?
... grafx mode, and the basic is very similar and ... insatnce like in 48k basic. cool! ink also goes from 0 ... it in an extended basic thats more powerful than ... normal sam basic, which is good n ... manual to learn this special basic and also the compiler. ... -
ANN: ZXF issue 4 now publishedIt gives me huge pleasure to announce that issue 4 of ZXF magazine is now available for free download at [url="http://www.zxf.cjb.net."]www.zxf.cjb.n…
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Spectrum v Amiga : The Final starts.The final has begun, just in case you didn't know. The old Speccy is getting a bit of a kicking at the moment, so get those votes in!
... within the same 8*8 attr., so technically it's 8 ... and maybe at least a basic understand of how your speccy ... -
What is SAM?Whilst looking at my spectum tape collection i foun a number of SAM only games. What is a SAM game and which emulators support it?
... grafx mode, and the basic is very similar and ... insatnce like in 48k basic. cool! ink also goes from 0 ... it in an extended basic thats more powerful than ... normal sam basic, which is good n ... manual to learn this special basic and also the compiler. ... -
Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... music vs instruction set vs basic vs keyboard vs games vs ... why again, i liked the basic better, think it is much ... to get into than C64 Basic, and you can ask why ... just that and not the INK/PAPER thing. but for static ...
