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Games that don't use loading screenI thought it would be helpful to start a new topic in which we can say what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don't use it, ju…
[quote=Philip Kendall]Anything more than "Program: game" or "Bytes: data" is a loading screen. Cheers :-)[/quote]
aye! this is really nice thread
it?s for the first time you?ve used a smiley... great! ;)
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Don't shoot me...Definitely off-topic, and most possibly dangerous... There's a preview of the first chapter of the c64 book available online at: [URL]http://www.c6…
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... then dump that to print / data statements with or without the ... can then be send to BASIC as DATA statements.
Colours ...ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... can then be send to BASIC as DATA statements.
Colours ...UDG's and BASinJust a noob question about BASin or Basic in general When I try and create UDG's using POKE USR "a"+0,BIN 10111100 etc. After the program is run, it…
... a 'Convert UDG set to BASIC lines' function. You'd need ... a block of memory to BASIC as DATA in decimal or hex ...Porting C64 text adventures to ZX Spectrum?I would like to port some of my text adventures from the C64 on over to the ZX Spectrum. Is this easy to do? Can someone with knowledge of the Spectr…
... ;271907]I wrote them in BASIC 2.0 on the Commodore ... (although I noticed that Spectrum BASIC uses PRINT AT and apparently ... [/QUOTE]
Spectrum BASIC has DATA, READ and RESTORE commands.
BASIC, which doesn't?Porting C64 text adventures to ZX Spectrum?I would like to port some of my text adventures from the C64 on over to the ZX Spectrum. Is this easy to do? Can someone with knowledge of the Spectr…
[QUOTE=Matt_B;271912]Spectrum BASIC has DATA, READ and RESTORE commands.
Are you sure you're not looking at ZX81 BASIC, which doesn't?[/QUOTE]
Does the DATA, READ and RESTORE work like it does in C64 BASIC?
PaulImage to ZXSpec 1.0Hi, I've written a piece of software (still not finished) that outputs any kind of image onto a Spectrum having being converted on a PC. It takes a…
... a .tap file, with a BASIC program at the start to ... errors after reading it), BASIC byte data seems to be in an ... ASCII) from looking at other BASIC tap files.
I ... a spec somewhere for the BASIC byte format? I can almost ...Desperately need help with .TAP file bug (probably a wrong value error)I'm trying to create a .tap file with Java and have been following the specification at [url]http://www.zxmodules.de/fileformats/tapformat.html[/url…
... the raw ASCII BASIC bytes into some sort of "compiled" BASIC bytes?[/quote]
BASIC in a tokenized form. The ...New beeper music editorsInformation for those people who interested in 1-bit beeper music on ZX Spectrum 48K. As you probably know, there was no beeper music editors with t…
... that can be used in BASIC (a DATA statement). Find it here ...SIF interfaceNew hardware was developed for spectrum. It is dual full UART with HW flowcontrol. In addition module could be populated with ConnectOne module for W…
... port to exchange game data in Sinclair BASIC? The data being exchanged would ...Playing AY sounds with BASIC.Is it possible? If so how? I've seen in one forum a while back mention of using interrupts to play but AFAIK this is machine code only. The goal of …
... /> They're different things for BASIC.
However ...
Playing AY music from BASIC interpreter - with interrupts - is ... a special small program in BASIC, using DATA commands.
... channels digital music from BASIC interpreter however it takes ...Minor Update to Gasman's Midi2BEEPDon't know whether this is worthy an announcement, but for those of you who enjoyed Gasman's midi2BEEP utility, a new variant has been made called mi…
... to reintegrate output back to BASIC using DATA statements… we’ll see ...emulatorsplease help can we see clearly which emulator emaulates which hardware is there any that has a pc function key for the mulitface nmi button and the +…
... format I require such as BASIC program DATA statements... the possibilities are ... have is with my old data. I feel that Spectrum emulators ... should help restore the old data as they are obsessed with ... perfectly. Don't forget the data stored on all those old ...Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... stored the way Sinclair's BASIC does. Variables are static ... them).
ZX BASIC VAL only converts strings to ... is allowing as much Sinclair BASIC syntax as possible to ... /> Unlike other BASICs, Sinclair BASIC treated DATA as [b]anonymous functions[/b ...Create a new microdrive cartridge image formatHi there, I'm working to emulate the IF1+Microdrives in JSpeccy.I've found what the "classic" MDR format ins't capable to store all the required inf…
... a 3 bytes for DATA FILLER, and IF1v2 uses 102 bytes for DATA FILLER ... /> * COMMENTS FIELD (COMMENTS LENGTH bytes)
*
* DATA (RAW SECTOR SIZE * NUM ... SECTORS bytes)
* GAP DATA (# GAP ENTRIES WORD)
Question about 2-channel beeper musicI confess I haven't tried all the available beeper utilities and software. I always found music software confusing and trackers are not for me. I kno…
... just like two Spectrums playing BASIC BEEP music at the same ... which line to read DATA from. If the data for the first ... , at line 8000 in BASIC and data for the second one started ...Whats on your Disk?Following on from the highly popular whats on your C90 thread, how about whats on your disk? Having unearthed my 20+ year old MGT +D disks collection…
... /> 5 CHANGER 2 ZX BASIC 10
6 GRAPHICS ... /> 7 HEXENT 3 ZX BASIC 5
8 SAMSYNTH ... /> 14 WINDAS 3 ZX BASIC 9999
15 WINDACODE ... 38 BAYYYYY 4 ZX BASIC
39 DATA 1 ZX CODE 59000 ...Saving space using procedural graphicsAfter spending several hours playing around with various packers to squash the Alien8 test screen$ it occured to me that maybe bigger space savings c…
Screen needs a few adjustments in data, but now
574 bytes data and 82 bytes program with attributesSaving space using procedural graphicsAfter spending several hours playing around with various packers to squash the Alien8 test screen$ it occured to me that maybe bigger space savings c…
Full border and code in 616 bytes data and 79 bytes of code.
Total = 695 bytes
Working on shortening the code.Spectrum +3 cannot formatGot myself a new spectrum +3 replaced the belt in the drive I have tons of AMSOFT disks (used with amstrad), so, i tried using them in the drive and …
... be formatted from +3 BASIC (No Data error on track o), edit ...Spectrum +3 cannot formatGot myself a new spectrum +3 replaced the belt in the drive I have tons of AMSOFT disks (used with amstrad), so, i tried using them in the drive and …
... be formatted from +3 BASIC (No Data error on track o), edit ... done much formatting from +3 BASIC, so I'm not sure ...RAM used / corrupted by +3DOSAs I said previously, [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41775]I'm trying to put some games in hard disk[/url] so they can b…
... /> ld hl, 24000 ;backup 200 bytes data
ld de, 49152
bytes
LD E, 0
ld hl, 49152 ;restore 200 bytes data
ld de, 24000
Which game did you like the loading noise the most?I always like skool daze's loader, it seemed to come over in regular waves.
... and the loading noise of BASIC and data arrays. Can I join ...Manic Miner ZX81Hi Guys, Can anyone explain why [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0017539]Manic Miner ZX81[/url] is not able to reproduce the ex…
... the clever use of displaying data.
Each game has ... entire memorybuffer is just 200 bytes.
The second game ... also a maximum of 256 bytes data, but uses a counter that ...Emulator TZX multiloader help neededHi all, not sure this is the right thread, I use ZX32 as my emulator of choice, but have tried others to see if it is emulator specific. How can I lo…
... /> [*]Loads Program GAUNTLET 337 bytes
[*]Loads Data 21008 bytes
[*]Message STOP ... of screen
[*]Loads Data 2881 bytes & Data 30583 bytes
[*]Displays hi ... PLAY button)
[*]Loads Data 962 bytes & the game begins
Creating a linked list in Z80[FONT=Calibri][SIZE=3]I am using a circular buffer to store tiles to be displayed on the screen. Tiles only appear for a set period of time, so when …
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Start C000
5 bytes data, next pointer. Repeating until endmark ...I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…
... have to make data copies (16K up ... save current running basic program/data, and then overwrite ... standard system variables and basic program/data with new Basic ... program/data.
...Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
... are the line numbers of BASIC executed when that particular attribute ... example executes 16 lines of BASIC in order to work out ... /DRAW sequence specified in the DATA statements. (I'd originally ... -9 always use the same basic graphics data as distance 1, just ...
