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  • what features?.............hi there, what features would you like to make emulators even better? :)

    ... ) Variable emulation speed
    5) Fast loading of TZX
    6 ... bout all emulators having some basic functionality towards this end?
    Arjun Arjun July 2002 Emulators
  • what features?.............hi there, what features would you like to make emulators even better? :)

    ... ) Variable emulation speed
    5) Fast loading of TZX
    6 ... needs coding :)
    9. Done - basic debugging, needs more features.
    Dunny Dunny July 2002 Emulators
  • are games?................are games made today just as playable as they were in the 80's?

    ... day because the 'puzzles' are basic and the combat merely a ... easy so players finish them fast and demand more.

    Collie Collie July 2002 Games
  • BMP2SCRCan anyone help me with this program? I downloaded it but I can't seem to get it to do anything! The readme file isn't the best in the world! Can any…

    ... was coded in Dark Basic, this is very fast but buggy. BMP2SCR ...
    LCD LCD July 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What's you happiest speccy related memory?Mine would have to be coming home from school at lunchtime with a couple of friends, loading up manic miner or commando for a quick 30 minute game-pl…

    ... up the ZX in ultra fast time (my dad did actually ... writing my first game in Basic. It was some kinda wimpy ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2002 Games
  • 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 …

    ... . Actually it was written in Basic and translated other to Z80 ... compile from BASIC!??! I'll stick to my raw, fast, and optimised ... 're writing your software in BASIC and then compiling it... well ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 …

    ... 'd written your BIOS in basic and then compiled to z80 ... asm. BASIC just doesn't have the ... due to compiler performance from BASIC to z80, I'd be ... in asm - BASIC won't cut it for fast action (and Cascade ...
    Anonymous Anonymous October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone got a copy of 'Z80 for primates'?This Z80 lark isnt easy, in fact it makes me feel very much like Washoe the chimp trying to learn learn sign language, I just dont think I've got the…

    ... or five line BASIC proggy into a screamingly fast[1] m/c ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Advantages of SE?I'm not too aware of SE Basic. Primarily, I would like to know just wot kinda advantages SE Basic has to offer over other kind of BASICs? Wot can it …

    Compiling BASIC is never likely to yield fast MC. It's just not structured in a way that makes that sensible.
    cyborg cyborg November 2002 Sinclair Basic
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... surprising a darts program (part BASIC, part machine code).
    ... (main frontend written mainly in BASIC).

    MICROLINK - ... A computer hacking game (part BASIC, part machine code).
    < ... BASIC (with touches of machine code), but with very fast ...
    thezxfiles thezxfiles December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... 's going to be a BASIC interpreter using an emulation of ... get a whole "suite" of BASIC creation tools, such as UDG ... that they must be in BASIC - there will be *no* asm ... the PC. It moves rather fast here :)

    So any ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2002 Games
  • Here's a christmas present for you!SE Basic is no longer being developed.

    ... . Are you planning to extend Basic to support the host hardware ... just meant to run Spectrum Basic programs fast and make it easier ... timer, so it'll run BASIC as fast as it can, whilst ... the speccy community, although loading BASIC from a .sna or .z80 ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2002 Sinclair Basic
  • ANN: Write Spectrum Games in C with speclib121 Announcing the sprite pack C library for the z88dk C cross compiler available from: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/main.htm"]http://justme895.tr…

    ... wishing to progress from Sinclair BASIC. If I can find the ... . You can produce fast code (though not as fast as assembler) in ... disk access, tape loading and basic graphics primitives (circle, draw, plot ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2003 Announcements
  • 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…

    ... , because the engine is too fast without this. This cycle is ... machine code, not some compiled basic program. :)))

    If you ...
    edy.wss edy.wss February 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... know if it will be fast enough, screen compilers sure as ... hell arent fast enough so i wont ... this method isn't as fast and flickers more, at ... with 2 screen$ with fast load and autorewind oing a ... i hope it works, dark basic and db pro just dont ...
    Amigo Amigo March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... sometimes in a emultor with fast tap laod with load "" scren ... Pro is written in Dark Basic Pro, so it will work ... DithvIDE program from C to Basic, please contact me.
    LCD LCD March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... level language but it isnt basic, and runs at comoparable speeds ... of what makes it so fast, this seems confusing, and i ... it's alot like using basic and the manual is pretty ... . you can also use normal basic if youwant and is not ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…

    ... it was coded entirely in Basic!)
    Inspector Flukeit/Great Peepingham ... ? Conversely, the sequel had painfully fast key-response time)

    TygerBC TygerBC April 2003 Games
  • 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?

    ... attached.

    The Basic is non-existent, meaning it ... not chosen because it was fast or powerful. The result ... is at least twice as fast as the C64.
    ... that the Z80 was fast enough to handle the ... It was fast. It had a strong version of Basic. It ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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?

    ... price, and excellent (in comparison) BASIC. Seeing games like ATIC ATAC ... . The BBC has a great fast BASIC language and built in assembler ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... or is someone oulling a fast one on me so ill ... code 'for real' just some basic and theres only so much ... you can do even compiling basic. but I still am not ...
    Amigo Amigo June 2003 Games
  • Uploading games from tape...how?Is there not some way I could use the mike socket on my PC? I don't have a soundcard... :(

    ... , which all used the same fast loading method (it's one ... to remember breaking into the BASIC loader on each of these ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone June 2003 Games
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... the sprites, especially in the fast moving sprites.

    8 ... coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
    [/quote]

    Cross ... save it to tape from BASIC.

    I now prefer ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... actullay see a resemblance to basic. it's not as ... high level as basic but it's still ... , RET=Return ... etc etc. knowing basic helps cause you can kind ... were to do this in basic it would be like ' ... fast as MC when compiled and it is high level like Basic ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... handles everything very easily (and fast, smart and clean). I've ... in BASIC in the old days, I need doing anything fast just ... very accustomed of coding in Basic (QB mainly, also sucky VB ...
    na_th_an na_th_an August 2003 Games
  • Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…

    ... for basic and compiled basic games. there are some Basic games ... Miner type games in basic that run exceptionally well for ... and plays great, entirely in basic. THAT takes intelligence. not ... hollywood trash; xxx, 2 fast 2 furious, American wedding bullshit ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…

    ... for basic and compiled basic games. there are some Basic games ... Miner type games in basic that run exceptionally well for ... and plays great, entirely in basic. THAT takes intelligence. not ... hollywood trash; xxx, 2 fast 2 furious, American wedding bullshit ...
    stupidget stupidget August 2003 Games
  • AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…

    ... BASIC if you don't need speed. If you make a fast ...
    GOC GOC August 2003 Development
  • Sinclair Basic compiler for PC?I know we all can use BASin to play for a while in a little window. But... What about creating a 80x86 EXE program from scratch using Sinclair Basic…

    ... basic, it's an excellent PC programming language if you want fast ...
    BuzzinRich BuzzinRich September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic Compilers and My Compressor CodeAs I mentioned in another thread I'm currently writing a set of compression routines for saving +3 disk space. I've done the first stage (write the …

    Thanks Dunny, that running fast mode has really helped ... in "m/c like" basic, now just a simple job ... instructions as well as the basic stuff, you know, a ... , how about a nicer basic editor (like the window ... when you steo through the basic code).

    I ...
    BuzzinRich BuzzinRich September 2003 Sinclair Basic
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