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  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... . It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program ... Adventure Game frameworks written in BASIC. Also any commercial adventure games ... written in BASIC, back in the day?
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • BASIC Bug: DEF FN after REMHello all, Having mused the Spectrum ROM disassembly by Drs Logan ad O'Hara, I wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF FN when call…

    ... wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2022 BASIC
  • Best Type-In GamesWhat type in programs did you think the end result was worth the effort of typing them in? Even though most of them were not of the quality of com…

    ... the end result for a BASIC program, it had a five ... 10 screens and had masked sprites, but it was pretty impossible ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2022 Games
  • How to return to basic properly from ASMI am messing around with a fast stack copying routine. But I am getting "A: Invalid argument" error when I later return to basic. I know you h…

    ... when I later return to basic.

    I know you ... IY register before returning to basic but my code at the ... as IY when returning to basic. I think one of the ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • 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…

    ... won't get as many sprites thrown around. And you'll ... compile you need room for basic and the machine code. You ... ineffecient blocks of assembler and BASIC which invariably will not work ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2002 Games
  • spectrum on pcI was just wondering,the pc is brilliant for speccy emus but wen playing speccy games on a pc keyboard it just doesnt feel rite for sum1 who used to …

    ... ever program was TI extended Basic on the TI99 4A...i ... ...all with the super smooth sprites that it offered...Now id ... that on pc,,,TI extended Basic language...any chance you could ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr August 2001 Games
  • Best way to codeHi, I've been using Zeus Assembler to code MC programs so far. Nothing fancy just the odd scroll left or animation stuff. Wot I'd like to know is, …

    I use HiSoft Basic 1.1/1.2, USCHI ... , but it has non-masked sprites). Laser Basic is nice, but the ...
    LCD LCD August 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • new speccy game here!!You may remember a while ago I posted a demo of a game I was making on this forum, and I asked at the time whether or not anyone knew of any software…

    ... myself an assembler in Visual Basic that editted an emulator snapshot ... separate bits to quickly input sprites, and the title screen and ...
    david_pegg david_pegg July 2002 Games
  • 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…

    ... some cool graphical effects (hardware sprites, alpha blending, tile modes, rotation ... GP32 is more like a basic PC in terms of custom ...
    Quirky Quirky August 2002 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... of the engine updates the sprites. It can handle the control ... and collision detection of 60 sprites at the same time, during ... 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…

    ... in this mode to make sprites for him as proof, for ... . 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…

    ... :) i actually did some 8x2 sprites mistakingly thinking thats what Jonathan ... graphics could be used as sprites.
    [/quote]

    Sounds ... 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…

    ... all you know is Basic and compile it, tends ... those that are specialized basic or whatever with compiler ... .

    Laser Basic seems good but after what ... it. HiSoft has a basic compiler but there was ... horizontally and get my sprites moving on the scren. ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • 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 ... also allows using very large sprites. It's called IDEAL ( Interrupt ... 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
  • 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…

    ... There's a simple basic one for beginners which ... game and return to BASIC. This is so you ... title screen maybe in BASIC, wait for the relevant ... as and when extra screens, sprites, etc. are added by ... for title screens, music, BASIC or whatever you want, ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2003 Games
  • Spectrum v Amiga : The Final starts.The final has begun, just in case you didn't know. The old Speccy is getting a bit of a kicking at the moment, so get those votes in!

    ... and maybe at least a basic understand of how your speccy ... people who can make nice sprites within a limited palette. so ... ] where you can setup your sprites and your play area and ... the luxury of custom hardware sprites and other things, and musicians ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... addresses. There's a simple basic one for beginners which displays ... own title screen maybe in BASIC, wait for the relevant ... exciting. could even use compiled basic.

    okay, but ...< ... the sprite editor allows crtain sprites to be big enough even ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... using an extended/modified Sam Basic to program the game ( which ... things on Sam in Spectrum Basic and it worked quite well ... , except I dont know what Basic commands have changed! ie. in ... bit "creating modules" for the sprites/animations created in the Graphics ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • YS MegaBasicHas anyone got any other information on this utility apart from the YS articles published by Mike Leaman (which now seem to have gone missing)?

    ... wrote:
    I suffered Speccy BASIC for a long time [...]
    BASIC? What did you not like ... need to do that Speccy BASIC did not? Please, if you ... stuff like "sprites" or other things that the BASIC could not do ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2003 Games
  • YS MegaBasicHas anyone got any other information on this utility apart from the YS articles published by Mike Leaman (which now seem to have gone missing)?

    ... br /> I suffered Speccy BASIC for a long time [...]< ... did you suffer with Speccy BASIC? What did you not ... need to do that Speccy BASIC did not? Please, ... stuff like "sprites" or other things that the BASIC could not ... :D I love Sinclair Basic dialect, the thing I ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 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?

    ... always enjoyed brown love. The BASIC stunk. And it's true ... control of the admittedly smooth sprites is often less satisfying than ...
    Spector Spector 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?

    ... always enjoyed brown love. The BASIC stunk. And it's true ... control of the admittedly smooth sprites is often less satisfying than ...
    Amigo Amigo 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?

    ... music vs instruction set vs basic vs keyboard vs games vs ... why again, i liked the basic better, think it is much ... to get into than C64 Basic, and you can ask why ... is its weakness. Scroll, custom sprites etc. when trying to compare ...
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... onto the screen. Despite the sprites graphically occupying 2x2 characters, ... which is automatically called for sprites not needing any rotation. ... coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
    [/quote]

    ... save it to tape from BASIC.

    I now ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... />
    To use a Basic analogy, imagine having to write ... a Basic program where every 3 statements ... every branch taken in your Basic code takes exactly the ... the problems with providing multicolour sprites are similar (though easier to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... :
    To use a Basic analogy, imagine having to write ... a Basic program where every 3 statements ... every branch taken in your Basic code takes exactly the ... the problems with providing multicolour sprites are similar (though easier to ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Vic-20s ARE CRAP! (And a few other ramblings from 1984)There was a great rivalry between myself and some of my computer owning chums in the early/mid eighties. The thread title was a phrase I made good us…

    ... its 32 sprites, and multi channel sound. The BASIC-G language looks ... of the best versions of BASIC I've seen, with labels ... numbers, interrupt driven sprites and keyboard handling from BASIC, and windows. With ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers November 2003 Games
  • Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…

    ... 've read the wrong data (sprites whose coordinates are stored in ... the program breaks up with BASIC from line 1. It does ... not access any BASIC feature, it disables interrupts and ... not designed to return to BASIC.

    A glitch in ...
    GOC GOC November 2003 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... be adding any AMOS or basic style coding to TommyGun, mainly ... graphics for levels and characters(sprites) and sounds are the difficult ...
    Kiwi Kiwi February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... a character code, with sprites floating over top of these ... . Dunny mentions that the basic is translated into assembler and ... New Basic keywords could be invented to read joysticks, mice, move sprites ... be a way to specify Basic keywords and assembly functions ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
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