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Import new WoS data from ZXDB?This thread is intended to discuss [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/comment/883669/#Comment_883669"]my[/url] [url="https://www…
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It's a very basic task to document changes you ... -
endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... than there are in Sinclair Basic, for example.
... happened to me with Basic... And you have buffer ... of thing in Sinclair Basic in the recursive DEFFN ... a lot of garbage books in the market for ... size as the spectrum basic manual, and packed tight ... -
Import new WoS data from ZXDB?This thread is intended to discuss [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/comment/883669/#Comment_883669"]my[/url] [url="https://www…
... ="Lee Fogarty;909328"]Magazines and Books work are already done by ... ;909328"]It's a very basic task to document changes you ... -
I live and learnThanks to Einar's ZXDB link I found under the Books folder and English sub directory a PDF file named 'The Century Computer Programming Course for Z…
... 'm terrible at BASIC and find that different books that I have ... -
Top Five Spectrum Reads for HolidayHello all, I was wondering what your top five Spectrum books would be for holiday. I thinking preferably of books from the 1980s but you can pick…
... couldn't take any speccy books cos as soon as I ... /> Write your own adventures (generic basic so includes speccy)
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Key repeat weirdness with EI & IYI finally (after 35 years!) decided to write something a) for 48k speccy b) in z80 assembler. It's been over 20 years since I've written anything in …
... BASIC.
See [url="https://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/books ... ://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/books/c/CompleteSpectrumROMDisassemblyThe.pdf[/url] for ... program does not return to BASIC then you don't need ... -
Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…
... BASIC route, can I point you to one of the best books ... -
Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…
... BASIC route, can I point you to one of the best books ... by step programming ZX spectrum' books 1 and 2 by Ian ... -
Help with adding graphicsHi, After like 20 years or so I started playing again with Spectrum stuff, especially programming. I tried to dig into machine code, but apart f…
... code a little game in BASIC. Here it is:
https ... /> Most of it is just BASIC (at some point it was ... sets and then returning to BASIC.
I also added a ... slowly going through tutorials and books. I'd like to give ... -
Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…
... , it's cut off because BASIC is slow enough anyway, without ... read of one of the books on ZX Spectrum assembly!
BASIC interpreter and keyboard support still ... -
Keeping up to date with PC builds.I only do PC builds infrequently and I have stopped reading Micro-Mart so my abilities in the area can languish pretty quickly. But if it is new i…
... emulator PC" has very low basic requirements : i fitted a low ... are not in my "good books".This was an expensive power ... -
Books for the lay public?I always wanted a book where they explain to newbies how to approach and code classic favs such as XONIX, TETRIS, SNAKE, ARKANOID, PACMAN and so on--…
... aren't any good programming books for the Spectrum that shows ... />
Most of these books are about BASIC games programming though, so ... /> One book that describes some BASIC games in some detail is ... -
Pascal programs for games and graphics by Tom SwanI came across this book quite by accident, which seems to be still quite available (second-hand), though it's not in the World Of Spectrum Book Archi…
Well there's 28 Books in the World ... I purchased one of those books (which was only documented ... it again after converting a BASIC Graphical demo.
books which would be another ... graphical examples out of BASIC programs, at one stage ... -
Does anyone still use standard cameras anymore?I was watching a YouTube video recently on obsolete tech and one was about old 1990's cameras and it got me thinking, does anyone still use cameras a…
... properties so that even your basic 'selfie' can be made to ... up your own. Loads of books out there on how to ... -
Vic-20s ARE CRAP! (And a few other ramblings from 1984)There was a great rivalry between myself and some of my computer owning chums in the early/mid eighties. The thread title was a phrase I made good us…
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An introduction to basic (tape 1 / tape 2) - no ... , 1984) - No inlay
Books
Arcade games for your ... -
Vic-20s ARE CRAP! (And a few other ramblings from 1984)There was a great rivalry between myself and some of my computer owning chums in the early/mid eighties. The thread title was a phrase I made good us…
... /> tapes
An introduction to basic (tape 1 / tape 2) - no ... , 1984) - No inlay
Books
Arcade games for your ... -
Book: Giant Book of Spectrum Arcade Games by Tim HartnellDarn it, I just missed out on getting this on eBay :( I'm looking for a hard copy or PDF. This book has games written in BASIC with machine code ro…
... . What I need now are books that show me how this ... game programming books I've seen look to be purely BASIC with ... -
Good Beginners Basic BookMy 10 year old son would like to learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that would help? There are a lot in the archive a…
... learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that ... do very well using the Basic manual that came with the ... -
Good Beginners Basic BookMy 10 year old son would like to learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that would help? There are a lot in the archive a…
Sinclair Basic is obsolete. Go for Scratch ...
If you still want Basic for the fun of coding ... has a lot of free books at https://usborne.com/browse ... /computer-and-coding-books/
I like 'Practise your Basic' and the ... -
Good Beginners Basic BookMy 10 year old son would like to learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that would help? There are a lot in the archive a…
... programming. I've seen newer books, newer languages, newer IDEs, but ... or development environment; learning Spectrum BASIC isn't worse than any ... -
Good Beginners Basic BookMy 10 year old son would like to learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that would help? There are a lot in the archive a…
... basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books ... .[/quote]
“basic” as in BASIC, or basic, as in a ... />
If BASIC, as well as the BASIC programming language built ... of programming a microcomputer, BASIC may no longer be fashionable ... -
Why do we do it?I was sitting down thinking just now, why am I so into this Spectrum retro scene thing? Better than that why are there so many of us into the retro s…
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Games from the loft.Hi all, I've been going through my collection as my house is now bursting at the seams from the stuff we have hoarded over the years. I need to tr…
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I sorted out my books from the loft and have ... some retro books I'd like to ... [/img]
30 Hour Basic.
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30 Hour Basic, zx81 edition, [url="https ... 50
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Were the SciFi Fighting Fantasy books so bad?I stopped reading FF books after about Armies Of Death, #36. But they started printing only fantasy based ones after #33 Sky Lord. They ran all the w…
... . I've got some spectrum BASIC somewhere that maps the game ... companion to use with the books, in BASIC also, but I couldn ... -
Adding command to BASICI am looking for an article about adding commands via software to sinclair basic. I know there was one published and to the best of my knowledge it w…
... ://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/books/s/SpectrumShadowROMDisassembly.doc"]Spectrum Shadow ... chapter on adding commands to BASIC ( .txt file version [url="https ... -
FOR loop without NEXT instruction. How come?I've been looking through the BASIC listing for M.C. Lothlorien's Red Baron and have noticed a line of looping code that is puzzling me. This is lin…
... "]Err, there is a NEXT. BASIC does not care where it ... ://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/books/c/CompleteSpectrumROMDisassemblyThe.pdf"]The Complete ... -
By the end of the year I want too have....What goal(s) are you setting yourself this year? I've always promised myself that I would learn machine code on the ZX Spectrum and write a complete …
... to attempt to improve my Basic. I haven't a snowballs ... could read a couple of books and be well on the ... -
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... that you read sci-fi books. I remember my mum snorting ... the way to getting simple Basic down after I showed her ...
