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speccy v's comodore v's bbcThose old enough to remember the playground days when we each had our own little group speccy better than the comodore and the bbc users were all gee…
... faster, performed many things better and had alot better basic. theres also ... , it can be seen in many demos. but still any pixel ... -
Some \"newbie\" questions about the Spectrum +2I bought a +2 last week. I had never owned any of the 128k Spectrums before, nor seen them in action. I have a couple of questions; 1) Do all 128k …
... to be loaded in 128 basic mode, tape player mode or ... can some load in 48k basic mode.
If a ... really.
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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 ... their amazing multimedia qualities, but many are lacking in providing a ... />
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TZX to TAPIs there an application for the mac which will convert TZX files to TAP? I've searched around but can't find any.
... Taper etc, you can extract BASIC listing, SCR files, DATA blocks ... instance, if you know how many Ts a pulse takes, you ... -
Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…
... which was completely written in BASIC.
The Fall of Rome ... /> 30. King Crimson were, as many of you will know, Robert ... -
AY 8912 QuestionI got some problem... Does anyone have a formula to convert from Hz / kHz to the Pitch value of AY Sounchip of Spectrum? Please help...
Reading the BASIC manual on the PLAY command ... in order to know how many semitones above the A0 note ... -
32-bit handheld console GP32 / Spectrum emulatorFor your information Download Spectrum Emulator for GP32 [url="http://info2.info.tampere.fi/~teoarsa/ZardozJOnes/GPSPECCYV005.ZIP"]http://info2.info…
... doesn't really have that many commercial games at all. Rumours ... GP32 is more like a basic PC in terms of custom ... -
Basic listings memory occupationI remember readong someplace that due to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to save space, it was better to represent integers …
... readong someplace that due to basic's representation of number, ... the reason is that Speccy BASIC stores each number twice: one ... you do the trick which many anti-copying loaders did: ... different ASCII representation into the BASIC listing from the number that ... -
writing gameswhats the best games writing software/package for the speccy?i heard white lightning is good but it seems very difficult to me,apart from that and hu…
... mistake you can get blitz basic for Windows here:
many more here on WOS but ... easy to find as so many downloads have naff descriptions.
Horizons and Thro' The Wall- the greatest game of all time.I just got that Horizons tape in a charity shop, I'd never seen it before, and loaded the programs up. What a barrel of laughs that must have been on…
... that had been written in Basic at the time. They really ... /> My first real steps with UDGs were taken with the Character ...new to emulators...I tried using a speccy emulator several years ago...but I see that they have improved by leaps and bounds now. So...what is the best emulator to use …
... 128k Spectrums to have their BASIC expanded by a couple of ... , IIRC) they replaced the UDGs T+U with those command ... a 128k using the 48k BASIC option, and you'll ... a tape in the 48k BASIC mode of a 128k ... loader, and still display the UDGs wrongly. It is safer ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... that have sprung up in many of our national parks and ... cry!
C NONSENSE IN BASIC! (The text of the (string ...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 …
... interesting IMO.
Now BASIC - that's a bit old ... ). I'm not saying ditch BASIC - I'm saying have something ... primary storage device. There are many other small device storage options ...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 …
... to use one of the many downloadable ROM's.
The basic idea is that the default ... you'll not have too many bytes to work in.
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 …
... has written a BIOS in basic, and expects us to ... the basic compilers for the spectrum, and I don't see many ... to get an OS+"BIOS"+BASIC into his 64k of ... ROM using a BASIC compiler - I think he ... space, if he chucked out BASIC, but then what are people ...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 …
... a BIOS programmed in compiled BASIC, of the use of a ... than BASIC. :)
(edited because it had just too many misspellings ...crashHi , anyone got a particular favourite issue of the superb magazine crash , mines issue 13 , just brings memories of xmas back and a cool review of m…
... other half was filled with basic programming techniques,
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many of us learnt the basics ...Ebayers Please Help !!! (MIA/STP/SDP)Hi folks, Most of you who will read this are probably already aware that there are many of the above titles floating around on Ebay. However I simpl…
... addition they're scanning inlays, many using the guidelines I draughted ... stands at the moment the basic site layout is designed to ...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…
... in a bucket written in Basic.
2) A ... text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped by ... a conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in a book ... ) Several programs input from books. Many many late nights of frusterating coding ...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…
... text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped by ... a conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in a ... Several programs input from books. Many many late nights of frusterating coding ... />
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Book listingsI used to spend hours typing in programs from books. I had a whole box of them books and typed in hundreds of programs. Some good, some bad and some …
... on programming the speccy including many doubles , if anyone wants a ... sale.
I remember spending many happy hours typing in what ... learnt eneything I know about basic from those books, which addmitedly ...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…
As for BASIC:
I have a program with all my BASIC-onliners,
as there is: SNAKE, PACMAN, BOWLING, SPREADSHEET, HANGMAN, MASTERMIND, FROGGER and many more.
How do you want it? .Tap .Z80 .TXT?
You name, you get it!TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…
I owned a TS2068 for many years. Here's the " ... Spectrum design, but Timex made many improvements to the hardware design ... . Other improvements were for basic support of the extra screen ... the standard and unmodified TS2068, BASIC code from Spectrum machines was ...Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... work like that - the 128k BASIC play routines are not designed ... in counter.
2. many interrupts happen while counter is ...GamesI was looking thru the top 100 games in the YS rock and roll years website, and it occurred to me that i seem to have played at least 90% of them at …
... really seems to know how many games were actually produced, but ... lot of these were terrible basic mostrosities, but if you look ...Brand New Software House - Retro games wanted...Hi All, I'm looking to start a new software label for older 'retro' computer games, CRONOS software. I'm looking for people that have written games …
... in the USA (not many Speccy games go over ... else. i also got many other games from you, ... there aren't THAT many different types of utilities for ... if done manually ) loading the basic loader-> save to disk ... correct start address etc. basic loader may have to ...TZX compatibility issuesI seem to have a problem with using TZX files on different emulators. Specifically, files Saved As TZX from emulator. I better explain: I have a fe…
... , i dont like the protected basic loader ... but it works so ... some other copy, so for many of the titles getting an ...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…
... this art program could do many modes. but it is buggy ... don't even imagine how many coders out there got bit ... Pro is written in Dark Basic Pro, so it will work ... could for example, detect how many shades there are of a ... program from C to Basic, please contact me.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…
... of those that are specialized basic or whatever with compiler arent ... more versatile.
Laser Basic seems good but after what ... find it. HiSoft has a basic compiler but there was a ... buy.
theres so many Spectrum game makers ive collected ...
