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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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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)?
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
GAMES I'D LOVE TO SEE ON THE SPECTRUM.....What more modern games from other formats would you love to see on the Speccy...? I'm talking games that could be converted, and would be possible t…
... auctions )
yea they flicker, i am doing my own ... /> gigasecreen ion pentagon does not flicker though, personally though, i do ... not mind some flicker, well anyway im working on ... qbert vbut it is in basic ( and i was surprised its ... -
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…
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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 ... -
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…
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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.
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i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
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z80 asm, C, Basic | Delphi, Java, C++
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Basic. To learn programming in general ... to finish up. It's flicker and shearing free and is ... -
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 ... -
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…
... you to reference the tiles, sprites etc in your program from ... a supplied language such as BASIC or a hybrid. This also ... -
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
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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 :…
... into the blockiness of the sprites and the abuse of the ... of memory to store detailed sprites ??). In fact, the C64 architecture ... slap a scrolling background w/sprites on the screen, exploit the ... talking about a computer whose BASIC doesn't even have a ... -
Platform vs BackgroundForgive my ignorance if this is a 'stoopid' question, but although I've written games for many platforms over the years I'm only now making my first …
... game, which was written in BASIC, i detected platforms from color ... ". Screen should be drawn from sprites using information about level. Collision ... , screen routines are slow (in BASIC). How to create model: for ... -
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 :…
... are talking absolute rubbish. Spectrum BASIC acted as a stepping stone ... what the first two letters BASIC stand for? "Beginners All- ... logic are covered by Commodore BASIC too, anything else isn't ... way that some people claim sprites do? Nope.
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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 :…
... logic are covered by Commodore BASIC too, anything else isn't ... way that some people claim sprites do? Nope.
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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 :…
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You learn Spectrum BASIC and get two commands; border ... with what was learnt in BASIC. Commodore BASIC sucks, but at the ... you make the transition from BASIC expert to novice machine code ... just a matter of slapping sprites on the screen and using ... -
Why the Spectrum?Of all the 8-bit [I]microcomputers[/I] that were around in the 80's, why did you choose the Spectrum and not another one?
... 't seem very impressive: no sprites, those awful rubber keys, crappy ... inexpensive, it has a superior BASIC, it doesn't occupy a ... -
Where you jealous of Commodore 64 owners?I most definitely WAS! A sad admission, I know. I knew they had me beaten when I went round to a mate's house and saw 'The Way of the Exploding Fist'…
... the same. mentioning hardware sprites to argue that it will ... can be drawbacks. Sometimes software sprites are better in certain situations ... to something comparable. Software sprites on the C64 with its ... when i've made some basic games or something, colour ... -
1 colour per pixel without interlace flickering on +3No, no, it is just April's Fool day. ;)
... with all the features like sprites, background, sounds, to make it ... . i think it will do Basic, C, Z80asm, and Forth is ... to manually drag tiles, place sprites in position, select properties and ... -
1 colour per pixel without interlace flickering on +3No, no, it is just April's Fool day. ;)
... the translation of DithvIDE to Basic, but it must be a ... around for some C to Basic converters for you a long ... TommyGun, the part to create sprites/ maps/ tiles/ udgs/ character sets ... know how to code ( either Basic, C, asm - and probably Spectra ... -
Martianoids Map Editor Yup, I`ve managed to get instructions written it`s now ready for downloading at [url="http://www.angelfire.com/retro/carcass/index.htm"]www.angelf…
... to write it in AMOS Basic for the Amiga - no memory ... to write an editor in BASIC,
compile it, move the ... editor as some of the sprites are 32x32 pixels in size ... -
EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…
... created in basic rom on-fly, these are not sprites which could ...
