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  • Best loading screen.What's the best loading screen in your opinion? I really liked the one on Rescue from Atlantis (maybe minus the text) [url="http://www.worldofspec…

    What's the best loading screen in your opinion?

    ...
    Skarpo Skarpo March 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Map to screen address problemCan anyone help me out with what I guess is a screen address calculation problem. I need to calculate the screen address of a tile based on a number…

    ... what I guess is a screen address calculation problem.

    I need to calculate the screen address of a tile based ... to calculate for the other screen thirds.

    Could someone ...
    Mr Millside Mr Millside April 2005 Development
  • Converting a JPEG or BMP to speccy black and whiteI need to convert a few JPEGs or BMPs to Speccy black and white for my entry to the Speccy games compo. Anybody got any idea how I could go about th…

    ... a short game written in BASIC.

    Any tips on ... speccy pic to the screen using sinclair BASIC would be much appreciated ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick April 2005 Development
  • BasIn bug? feature? bad usage?I've found that Basin has problems with inline attributes into strings. If you load a snapshot containing a BASIC program which uses inline attribute…

    ... load a snapshot containing a BASIC program which uses inline attributes ... the BAS file again to BASIC the codes get misplaced if ... or ROM patterns in the string. I got funny colours in ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Emulators
  • Fastest way to write something to screen$Hi, I just got pasmo.exe and start playing with attr scrolling, well, not scrolling, just write different values to a block and see if I can introdu…

    ... fastest way to update the screen. I know that ldir/lddr ...
    AE.Vasconcelos AE.Vasconcelos April 2005 Development
  • Sinclair basic creation/editing programHi guys I'm just starting to write a game in +3 Sinclair basic and was wondering if there was a program out there that would alow me to write the pro…

    ... a game in +3 Sinclair basic and was wondering if there ...
    uzzzi uzzzi May 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • demo makingHow do you make a demo containing lots of pictures, I can only see how to make a string of screen$ like in a couple of animations by Anestis (sorry I…

    ... see how to make a string of screen$ like in a couple ... I can only fit 9 screen$ images in the RAMdisk.
    guesser guesser May 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclair flat screen pocket TV problemCan anyone give me some advise regarding a picture problem on a Sinclair flat screen pocket TV The picture has a black curvy band at the top and bot…

    ... problem on a Sinclair flat screen pocket TV

    The ... top and bottom of the screen

    Here is a ... is not moving across the screen

    channel 4 is ...
    Bluegoat Bluegoat May 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why Spectrum has a lots of software?I'm thinking a lot of it and can't find "magic" which produced a lots of software (games, educational, utility) for Spectrum. My suggestions: 1. Ea…

    ... />
    1. Easy-to-use BASIC with editor separated from listing ... AT to draw a game screen. Draws 8x8 bitmap in single ...
    kmatveev kmatveev June 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Looking for an old game, Can you help??Hi. I am looking for an old game that I used to play on the spectrum yearsss ago, trouble is I dont even remember the name of it. So Im hoping if I d…

    ... and basic game, you started at the bottom left of screen and ... and down the middle of screen that killed you if you ...
    Natrat84 Natrat84 June 2005 Games
  • Changing the colour of the screenCan anyone tell me the ROM command to change the paper colour of the main screen ?

    Can anyone tell me the ROM command to change the paper colour of the main screen ?
    Mr Millside Mr Millside June 2005 Development
  • Disable BREAK 128 basicDoes anyone know how to prevent BREAK in 128k basic?

    Does anyone know how to prevent BREAK in 128k basic?
    mgmetro mgmetro July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Screen distortion problems, I can't fix it!I just managed to get myself a ZX Spectrum +2 from the local car boot sale but for some reason theres a distortion halfway down the screen when i pla…

    ... a distortion halfway down the screen when i play games.
    screen the screen goes out of wack ...
    Resident0 Resident0 July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • screen$ and ramdisk 128kDoes anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape?

    Does anyone know how to load a screen$ from tape and then save it to ramdisk, without the screen$ showing during the load from tape?
    mgmetro mgmetro July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Labyrinth type game wanted!Dear Gamers! I'm looking for labyrinth type game, but don't remember its name. It is coded in basic combinated with some machine code. The graphics …

    ... name. It is coded in basic combinated with some machine code ... the right side of the screen. Can anybody help me to ...
    edy.wss edy.wss July 2005 Games
  • PRINT AT in assembler Hello everyone, I am very new to this forums. Like perhaps many others I had a Spectrum as a child and did pretty much simple BASIC programming, bu…

    ... and did pretty much simple BASIC programming, but never knew anything ... a single character to the screen.

    I have looked ... said that to achive the BASIC PRINT AT-operation the instructions ... the very bottom of the screen.

    So I am ...
    Rickard Rickard July 2005 Development
  • Speeding up BasicHi, Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic? What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 5…

    Hi,

    Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic?

    What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 50000,100?

    Thanks

    Derek
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • New Platform game in Development : Download availableHi, I have just been working on this for less than a week, so there is not a lot to show. It is based on a game called Jump Around which is currentl…

    ... being developed in the Blitz Basic community - basically people there just ... off the bottom of the screen. Control is done by selecting ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2005 Development
  • Looking for Triplets and Monopolia gamesHi, I looked for two probably Poland games: The first game called Triplets, it's like X and O board game, was written fully in basic, with the instr…

    ... game, was written fully in basic,
    with the instruction on ... man drawn on the tittle screen and his eye or nose ...
    ^m00h^ ^m00h^ August 2005 Games
  • 128k Speccy ScreenAm I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and d…

    Am I right in thinking that you can draw to one, while displaying the other (therefore eliminating the need for timing when you dump the screen and draw the sprites etc... a-la 48k ??)
    dansauk dansauk August 2005 Development
  • Name of Game?Trying to remember the name of a game that I used to play. It was a stategy type game where you captained a ship and had to sail around gathering gol…

    ... was written in BASIC, and the main screen was a blue and ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2005 Games
  • BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…

    ... .. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window ... text to my box but basic seems to position text in ... should be in the Spectrum Basic section.. I didnt see it ...
    javaguy javaguy August 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Programming MC : first stepsIsn't nice to collect all kinds of short routines to help making the first steps into MC for everyone who never touched MC? What I mean is mostly th…

    ... programs you make are more BASIC-based (PRINT AT) and therefore ... to print a score on screen
    A simple Randomgenerator (not ... print
    ret ; Back to BASIC

    random push hl ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2005 Development
  • Manic Miner Basic Source?Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making…

    Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making basic games for the speccy?
    Whitesnake Whitesnake September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX-81 Ram Pack problemHi! I know this is a ZX Spectrum forum, but I am hoping someone here might be able to help me out... I have posted this to c.s.s. but noone was able…

    ... with strange lines over the screen.
    This happens EVERY time ... the following line on the screen (as the program listing):
    basic (as if I didn't ... /> - Get this - I could enter basic programs normally !!! I.e. it ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IN command in BASIC to read keyboardThis weekend on a Sinclair meeting we had some BASIC-games using IN to control the character. The maker of the game assumed that the result of an IN …

    ... Sinclair meeting we had some BASIC-games using IN to control ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Avoid "Program:" and "Bytes:" messagesI converted some original +D programs into TZX files. That works fine, but I'm worry about the "Program:" or "Bytes:" messages of the program blocks …

    ... loading the screen. Is there a simple solution in BASIC to avoid ... the messages of the next blocks after the screen ...
    wilko0070 wilko0070 September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Spin / Emuzwin and reading keys with IN in BasicIt's just a bit of a quirk I've found really, but here goes... Some of the Basic programes and games I've encountered lately , use IN to read the ke…

    ... ...

    Some of the Basic programes and games I've ... , it's possible that these Basic games were not programmed with ...
    mulder mulder October 2005 Emulators
  • ZXSoftware.co.uk UpdateHi folks, This weeks update should be worth a laugh. I've been playing a bit with the code recently so anything not working please tell me. The up…

    ... your mouse in the emulator screen and tapping enter. It works ... II CP Software
    Beyond BASIC Sinclair Research Ltd
    Bridge ...
    ADJB ADJB October 2005 Announcements
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