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  • Books for BASICIs there any godo books out there to learn BASIC ? I want to go from begininer to advanced really even though back in the day I used to write games …

    [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/books.html[/url]

    ... Knock yourself out. Books with a * by the end ... "Step by Step" programming books from Dorling Kindersley, as they ... later books by providing routines that will enhance your BASIC code ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Computer Science not being taught in UK schoolsI uploaded this to youtube from a broadcast last night on Newsnight. [youtube]MkSEUb2LWX0[/youtube] Its shocking that schoolchildren no longer lear…

    ... Word to write picture story books for the younger kids, or ... =http://smallbasic.com/]MS Small Basic[/url]. Any suggestions for projects ...
    Prophet Prophet October 2011 Chit chat
  • How to start a new game?I know this might sound really stupid... but I've always wanted to make a spectrum game, but no zero of programing... is there any "making speccy gam…

    ... gone as far as buying books on the subject, like "Game ... day when writing things in BASIC... but now that Im trying ... for the system (Forth, C, BASIC, etc), many of the best ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil December 2011 New game ideas
  • How to start a new game?I know this might sound really stupid... but I've always wanted to make a spectrum game, but no zero of programing... is there any "making speccy gam…

    ... gone as far as buying books on the subject, like "Game ... day when writing things in BASIC... but now that Im trying ... for the system (Forth, C, BASIC, etc), many of the best ...
    polomint polomint December 2011 New game ideas
  • Forest of DoomLoved the Fighting Fantasy books as a kid, and remember playing this years ago. Does anybody have a spare they'd like to sell, or even know where I …

    ... better.

    The early books were simpler, in fact house ... used to tinker around with Basic and The Artist II I ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi December 2011 Wanted
  • Forest of DoomLoved the Fighting Fantasy books as a kid, and remember playing this years ago. Does anybody have a spare they'd like to sell, or even know where I …

    ... start, but yes, a bit basic, but obviously a better description ... in the style of the books established ones, or use something ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi December 2011 Wanted
  • Spectrum bookWhen i got my 1st spectrum in the 80's, I also had a book which had type in pictures, one that sticks out in my memory is the flag of the USA. Does …

    ... Union flag in the ZX BASIC manual's appendix isn't ... ? I've checked all the books which I have, and the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …

    ... ambitious. One of the best books too.

    [QUOTE= ... play with dice, inventories and basic rules without it getting all ... the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books? :lol:[/QUOTE]
    The ... best thing about those books was that they spawned those ...
    Maroc's Astral Projection Maroc's Astral Projection December 2011 New game ideas
  • House of Hell gamebook conversionAs there's potentially several people working on this I thought that I'd set up a thread in the correct section, rather than it continuing in Wanted …

    ... the basic map data (excluding inventory & stats) for eleven books and ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2011 New game ideas
  • (Very) newbie query re loading gamesApologies for the very basic nature of this question, but I can't get games to load on an emulator! I've downloaded both Head Coach and one of the F…

    ... if my query seemed very basic (BASIC?), but my excuse is I ... ://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/ZXSpectrumIntroduction.pdf[/url]

    Ricket Ricket December 2011 Emulators
  • The Sinclair Myth - New Scentist June 12 1986I thought you'd all find this particularly interesting, so I scanned it especially for the holidays! Merry Christmas! [url]http://www.zxdesign.info…

    ... have stacks of type-in books and magazines which showed you ... play games on your speccy? BASIC, Assembly language, PASCAL and even ...
    Arjun Arjun December 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Sinclair Myth - New Scentist June 12 1986I thought you'd all find this particularly interesting, so I scanned it especially for the holidays! Merry Christmas! [url]http://www.zxdesign.info…

    ... to, besides helping in some basic tasks - and at the same ... light pens, no BASIC courses, no programming books, no BREAKing into programs ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Words of adviceHi all This is my first post on World of Spectrum and I'm gradually starting to discover the wonders of the machine. Just to give you a bit of bac…

    ... to get my head round BASIC myself :lol:

    I ... are a few scans of books in the archive which I ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Words of adviceHi all This is my first post on World of Spectrum and I'm gradually starting to discover the wonders of the machine. Just to give you a bit of bac…

    ... work through all the obvious BASIC functions over the last two ... ://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/ZXSpectrumGameMaster.pdf"]book [/URL]particularly ...
    PontyJosh PontyJosh January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Willy's Guide to the GalaxyJust starting out, trying something a little different. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/DaRkSiDe74/WGttG-BabelFish.jpg[/IMG] The idea i…

    ... /> The screen is a little basic but is there just to ... , I think the first two books are brilliant, the third less ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2012 New game ideas
  • Newbie QuestionsI have just purchased my first Speccy! It should be shipped to me (in the U.S.A.) very soon. I'm a ZX newbie & I have some questions :-D First of al…

    ... a very good version of BASIC that allowed you to get ... ="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/"]BASIC manual[/URL] that came with ... language there are tons of books, assemblers, disassemblers etc, also in ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2012 Hardware
  • Newbie QuestionsI have just purchased my first Speccy! It should be shipped to me (in the U.S.A.) very soon. I'm a ZX newbie & I have some questions :-D First of al…

    ... look at the excellent ZX BASIC manual by Steven Vickers, that ... Miner ;-)[/QUOTE]

    The BASIC book is very useful. Thanks ... in pointing out all the books on WOS. I also found ...
    zolli zolli February 2012 Hardware
  • PLOT and DRAW in machine codeHow do you go about it? If I posted a really simple BASIC instruction could someone do a machine code routine so I could learn from it? I wouldnt k…

    ... various "Spectrum machine code" type books, plus a bit of hacking ... the time that writing a basic compiler was a bit like ... ! But, yeah, Boriel's excellent BASIC compiler is the way forward ...
    ccowley ccowley April 2012 Development
  • The Real Thing v EmulationFellow Specchums I'd like to canvas yourselves and get your thoughts on this subject. Using real Spectrum hardware to play games or using an emulator…

    ... [/B]. The amount of software, books, magazines etc. available is truly ... the face of it ZX BASIC seems limited when compared to ... BBC and CPC BASIC. However, BASin provides a development ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Piratebay to be banned in Blighty?"[COLOR="Blue"]Popular torrent site The Pirate Bay is set to be blocked by six major UK internet service providers following a high court ruling, acc…

    ... down, but that sites (or books, manuals, whatever) that are designed ... be banned seeing as EVERY BASIC CHEMISTRY TEXTBOOK EVER PUBLISHED tells ...
    Jimmo Jimmo May 2012 Chit chat
  • Sonic Game PossibleIs a sonic game possible on the ZX Spectrum 48k? I read somewhere that someone tried to create a sonic game for the ZX Spectrum, but the only [url=ht…

    ... in with David Webb's books. If you know assembler but ... Z80 then Toni Baker's books are good. If you have ... all then do something in BASIC. Making an enjoyable game is ...
    chev chev May 2012 Development
  • Sonic Game PossibleIs a sonic game possible on the ZX Spectrum 48k? I read somewhere that someone tried to create a sonic game for the ZX Spectrum, but the only [url=ht…

    ... in with David Webb's books. If you know assembler but ... Z80 then Toni Baker's books are good. If you have ... all then do something in BASIC. Making an enjoyable game is ...
    Zxogger Zxogger May 2012 Development
  • Deceiving gamesWhat games you had good expectations. Games which yourself hope to have been better the more you played, but simply doesnt evolved. The first which …

    ... sure that I typed a BASIC listing from a book and ... how many listings published in books appeared as "commercial" software...
    Zup Zup May 2012 Games
  • Programming and what toolsI have Linux (Zorin OS 5) as my main system and i was wondering what was the best programming language to use to make games with. I am not a total n…

    ... similar coding background (ie: Sinclair Basic) and being a Linux user ... for someone coming from a BASIC background, most of the hard ... from some of the Speccy books I've had since I ...
    napoleonblownaparte napoleonblownaparte June 2012 Chit chat
  • Pixel Nation & Writers wanted!Before I get to my main question I just wanted to talk about a project I've been involved with. I recently worked on a printed magazine for NES-Bit.c…

    ... and page sets of the books which was a comment a ... about his time developing the BASIC language behind Apple Computers and ...
    Lorfarius Lorfarius July 2012 Announcements
  • FOR 1 TO 0 - Execute "no times"?I checked a couple of basic variations, and generally a for loop executes at least once, even if you create a negative loop without step -1. But in s…

    ... copy of the full BASIC standard, just to check ... the specification that Sinclair BASIC itself is based upon:< ... ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/BASIC_1968.pdf[/url]
    ... Wikipedia lists Dartmouth BASIC (1964) as the original BASIC implementation, so ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • INKEY$ giving me troubleHello, I have been using BASin (great program by the way...) Sad though it seems during the typhoon here I have been re-learning my spec-skills an…

    ... with assembly is compared to basic. even some of the more ... exotic basic commands (like out) seem to ... a bit better than the books. They don't assume such ... . But I downloaded the Rom books for later so I can ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Best books & Sugested reading..Hi i was trying to search the forum but couldnt find it. Looking at WOS there is a number of books on BASIC, programming, machine code ect.. I mess…

    ... you want to start with BASIC again, I think there were ... threads from people asking which books are good. I think people ...
    Timmy Timmy August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Best books & Sugested reading..Hi i was trying to search the forum but couldnt find it. Looking at WOS there is a number of books on BASIC, programming, machine code ect.. I mess…

    As regards books, the one I used for learning ZX BASIC was the ... computer:

    ZX Spectrum BASIC Programming (Vickers)
    Spectrum Advanced ... Code Tutorials.

    Other books which I refer to every ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Best books & Sugested reading..Hi i was trying to search the forum but couldnt find it. Looking at WOS there is a number of books on BASIC, programming, machine code ect.. I mess…

    ... you want to start with BASIC again, I think there were ... threads from people asking which books are good. I think people ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble August 2012 Sinclair Basic
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