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  • Things you hated about the speccyFor me it would be the Kempston interface coming loose and the machine crashing after a good session of waggling my joystick.

    [quote="WhizzBang;26656"]Colour clash. If only Sinclair had followed ... Coleman;882311"]- Speed of the BASIC - seemed so slow compared with ... BBC BASIC[/quote]
    Yep, that was ...
    joefish joefish October 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... color clash with nothing but PRINT and GOTO statements in BASIC cause ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2016 Chit chat
  • What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…

    ... but very few pages on BASIC programming.[/quote]

    I ... a Spectrum just to learn BASIC.

    I would like ... colour[/b] - no more attribute clash.

    However, both of ...
    Bad Horsey Bad Horsey January 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... terminals and an adaptation of basic. The Portuguese never wrote much ... can write a program in basic that moves a lot of ... colours per pixel and no clash. (Assuming the Next's sprite ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... [/i] software made for [i]basic[/i] Spectrum :P

    basic that moves a lot of ... colours per pixel and no clash. (Assuming the Next's sprite ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... [/i] software made for [i]basic[/i] Spectrum :P
    [/quote ... that properly deals with colour clash (the four palettes in ula ... you are dealing with colour clash using logical operators on attributes ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... , who never progressed past basic programs. That's why ... When OS64 came out (basic in the 512x192 mode) many ... that runs on the basic Spectrum to convert in ... of your own about clash-bashing that will breathe ... be interested in a clash-basher module if it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…

    ... if sometimes plagued by attribute clash, is large and varied and ... ]Express Raider - [/b]Despite pretty basic graphics and sound this is ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu June 2017 Games
  • Gandalf - A ZX Spectrum platformer that looks rather nice indeed![img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BuVmuvmRXfg/WYhRw0z0lMI/AAAAAAAAisA/LFKD4SipiSkm3x0FsCNjJCRsCnHgE6W6gCLcBGAs/s640/GandalfZX.jpg[/img] [quote]As ma…

    ... to do all this from BASIC? With the multicolour engine running ... must, use Boriel's ZX BASIC with the Bifrost engine plug ... still going to get colour clash as everything overlaps. It might ...
    joefish joefish August 2017 Development
  • When games had very little or no sound ...We all know the Speccy often got ridiculed for its shortcomings like colour clash, and another factor was the lack of music in most 48k games. It jus…

    ... for its shortcomings like colour clash, and another factor was the ... />
    IMHO, I think that 'basic' computer games like the Spectrum ...
    Renegade Renegade August 2017 Games
  • New Platform Game: "Moritz 48K"Hello. There appeared a new platform game with my music. The game has been made by Sebastian Braunert and Uwe Geiken. Enjoy. "Moritz 48K…

    ... the 80s , platformers and colour clash. We love AGD... We talk ... again.

    "It's basic Latin, Watson. Surely a man ... was required to have a basic appraisal of Latin in order ...
    chico_71 chico_71 September 2017 Brand new software
  • Madballs - Wrong in-game screen?[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002971&loadpics=3"]Madballs[/url] I don't recall this in-game screen being a part of the g…

    I've found another clash, which I'll mention just ... quite nasty games written in BASIC, but for the sake of ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone January 2018 Infoseek database
  • How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…

    ... ]

    It is Sinclair Basic, every command is in there ... line 10 that is Spectrum basic.
    Note:The PLOT starts ... and also notice no colour clash :)


    So you ... a program using just sinclair basic and it will run blindingly ...
    ASH-II ASH-II May 2018 BASIC
  • Short unattended type-in'sThis follows a similar topic on the BBC/Acorn forum (said topic can be found [url="https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14919"]here[/url…

    ... * colour clash. This was done firstly with Spin and SE-Basic enabled ...
    spider spider July 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • VISTA apocalypse - FORCED into getting Windows 10So my laptop uses [b]Vista[/b] - it's old - but it runs fine... I've had this same computer for over 10 years! I hate change (when it comes to techn…

    ... core software to handle the basic I/O work and then ... ? Otherwise there'd be a clash between all the extra memory ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch August 2018 Chit chat
  • Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…

    ... flag movement had turned out. BASIC games don't often have ... that than having horrible colour clash problems.
    2. The draw ... using every trick possible in BASIC :)
    patters patters March 2019 Brand new software
  • Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…

    ... that than having horrible colour clash problems.
    2. The draw ... using every trick possible in BASIC :)[/quote]

    You are ... itself will be the colur clash.
    2. You have already ... use any possible trick in BASIC yet, now I am doing ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic March 2019 Brand new software
  • Question about Bill GatesI was reading a portuguese book that has a few memories from former Timex engineers, and one of them mentioned that when someone asked Bill Gates if …

    ... Microsoft tried to sell Microsoft BASIC and DOS to Sinclair more ... had rubber keyboards and colour clash for pete's sake. He ... : a Z80 complete with colour-clash mode, MS-DOS compatible MSX ... the original programmer, and MS-BASIC integral to the standard. It ...
    ZX_Steve ZX_Steve May 2019 Chit chat
  • If the ZX Spectrum AND the Commodore 64 were not available which 8 bit computer would you have got?Following on from the “[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/218/your-favourite-machine-apart-from-the-spectrum/p1"]Your favourite …

    ... speed but with no colour clash.

    The machine could ... shitty mono speaker, but the basic was second to none, had ... build multicolour characters with no clash.

    Oh and the ...
    Saboteur Saboteur September 2019 Chit chat
  • CSSCGC 2020The return of the famous, the one and only... https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/ More details and an official announcement to follow soon...

    ... was implemented very badly in BASIC, but as it isn't ... , and the lack of colour clash... even if it does have ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone December 2020 Announcements
  • CSSCGC 2021: 25th edition extravaganza![img]https://csscgc2021.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/yellow_programmer_960x600.png[/img] [url=https://www.rickdangerous.co.uk/csscgc2021/][b][size=…

    ... , it's made mostly in BASIC (about 22K of it) with ... keep away the dreaded colour clash.

    [img]https://www ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone December 2021 Games
  • Currah MicroSourceThis is an interesting one for the experts to mull over. I've got (and love) a MicroSource interface from Currah which consisted of an 8K ROM provid…

    ... providing assembly (excellent), forth (v. basic) and debug facility.

    Chris Chris August 2001 Emulators
  • zx32: cursor keysAre the cursor keys emulated on zx32? I ask because i want to select the 128k Basic option from the opening menu in Spectrum 128 mode, but when I pre…

    ... want to select the 128k Basic option from the opening menu ... how do I select 128K basic in zx32?
    Spector Spector July 2001 Emulators
  • Idea about improving EmulatorHi, I got a bright idea today how to improve such excellent emulators a bit more. Okay, disassemblers are available in nearly every one new released …

    ... how about a build in Basic compiler (much like HiSoft Colt ... and bit-test, or HiSoft Basic 1.1)?
    In fact ... compiler. The extended basic could base on Beta Basic, Laser Basic (Laser Compiler ... was lame) or Mega Basic and can include extra commands ...
    LCD LCD April 2001 Emulators
  • How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…

    ... /4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite ... wasnt very good with speccy basic as well all this peek ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr January 2002 Games
  • Head Coach - where can i find it to download?Does anyone remember a game for the spectrum , called Head Coach? It was a very simple coaching american football game, and was very basic, and very…

    ... football game, and was very basic, and very addictable! I need ...
    Matt Matt December 2001 Games
  • inRetroSpectIf any1 is interested I have made my Speccy Database program (inRetroSpect) available to any1 who's interested!! It's available at: [url]http://www…

    ... /> It's at its most basic point for a release at ...
    Chris Chris December 2001 Games
  • Interface for PC ZXSee last entry of former TOPIC. I'm working on the interface. Info about it on MISCELLANEOUS Author: Arjun (---.bng.vsnl.net.in) Date: 08-13-01 …

    ... ever program was TI extended Basic on the TI99 4A...i ... that on pc,,,TI extended Basic language...any chance you could ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2001 Games
  • moneyWhen i was younger and writing speccy games in basic with the occasionaly machine code subroutine, i used to dream of writing a hit game and making a…

    ... and writing speccy games in basic with the occasionaly machine code ...
    neil neil September 2001 Games
  • What's this racing game?Hi 2 everyone who likes Spectrum. Does anyone know what was the name of this RACING game. It was 2 words i'm pretty sure. It used the ZX Spectrum ba…

    ... . It used the ZX Spectrum basic font (you know what i ...
    Martin Martin September 2001 Games
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