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Claim to Speccy fameHas anybody had their name in print in a Spectrum magazine? Either on a letters page, giving a hack/cheat or printing of a type in. By the way I've…
... Crash in the cheat corner/tips-type thing (can't remember ... or sunning) I had a BASIC hack for The Colditz Story ... -
YS94 - I've got it!Very short review: It's 21st-Century YS for grown-ups, not 1980's YS for teenagers. This is a good thing. It's not a new issue of YS per se, but a…
... TipShop pages doing the Stormbringer tips? I've still got both ... 'I've Got Big Tips' badges.
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Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…
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Other PlatformsSorry for posting this ere... Any of you retro collectors got a Camputers Lynx and if so have u got any software for it ?? I've got one in front of…
... with a great version of BASIC, though I remember screen PRINTing ... (or is my memory playing tricks?)
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Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…
... your query regarding the above BASIC.gasman has already pointed out ... Gerrard for some great BASIC adventure writing tips. "Underground adventure" from the ... -
Rocky Horror tips?Has anyone here managed to complete Rocky Horror? I just CANNOT get anything done in time. I'd even settle for a cheat if there is one. Nice little…
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New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... joystick (Kempston for instance) in BASIC routines?
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New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... joystick (Kempston for instance) in BASIC routines?
2 ... br /> Admittedly these are all BASIC related stuff. Hopefull we'll ... nice assembly related stuff too (tips, code snippets, etc). ... Reading the kempston joystick from BASIC is very easy. You ... -
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. …
... Sickler: ZX Spectrum praktische tips,programma's, BASIC 1e druk 1983" (appendix ... -
What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
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The first BASIC game I wrote was a ... followed a series of small BASIC games including road racers, alien ... at integrating machine code with BASIC. The MC did the ... My recent attempts at ZX BASIC have resulted in Dash-it ... haven't forgotten the tricks! -
Problems trying to convert my tapesHello: Last weekend I have recovered my old tapes and I am trying to convert them to tzx. After several hours I got some of the programs converted,…
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FOOTBALL DIRECTORHow do u manage to change the value of your bank money, i remember doing this years ago but i cant remember now,after breaking into listing,i scroll,…
[url="http://www.the-tipshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?name=Football+Director"]The Tipshop[/url] seems to have tonnes of tips on this game, including a rather detailed walkthrough of how to hack the BASIC etc. :) -
GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…
... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas"]http://www.wearmouth ... .demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas[/url]
[/quote ... /> I have this in the tricks section of the old spanish ... to use in my own basic interpreter adapting to C++ from ... -
z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
Thanks for the tips, I'll take them in ... my final rendition to compiled BASIC), but be sure that I ... -
unreleased spectrum protection system - any use any more? also pokerama sourceDon't know if anyone's interested in this. During my days hacking games for Your Sinclair and Crash (and Sinclair User for a while) I had a pet proje…
... decryption you used? Any clever tricks? Just listening to that wav ... like you've got one basic bit then it loads some ... don't incorporate it into basic and move it to where ... -
unreleased spectrum protection system - any use any more? also pokerama sourceDon't know if anyone's interested in this. During my days hacking games for Your Sinclair and Crash (and Sinclair User for a while) I had a pet proje…
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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. …
... Dunny is anyway compiling all (?) BASIC tricks listed here into a single ... FAQ for BASIC, I suppose we don't ... -
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. …
... Dunny is anyway compiling all (?) BASIC tricks listed here into a single ... FAQ for BASIC, I suppose we don't ... as being available from the BASIC section here.
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42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…
... system variables and before the BASIC area. There's not much ... , my memory may be playing tricks on me and I'm ... -
42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…
... system variables and before the BASIC area. There's not much ... , my memory may be playing tricks on me and I'm ... -
Help needed for old manhi im wanting to play some old spectrum games and stumbled across this site and saw some old games from my younger days and the memories come floodin…
... my first 5 line long Basic programm over one hour, but ... .zxdemo.org/[/url]
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ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
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ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…
... any site that shows visual tricks (which line is longest or ... and languages to illustrate the basic workings and logic of the ... issue would then use Blitz basic to do the same. Of ... the same article for Blitz Basic, then feel free.
Starglider players required!Hello all.. I'm in the middle (well, start! Ed) of a Tipshop update, and would like to verify if the following POKEs for Starglider (1) work: 44705…
... by Gerald Sweeney on the tips and tricks for infinite fuel and ...total eclipse remake.myself and the ovine boyo's are currently doing a remake of total eclipse , the old freescape game. its early days yet but here's a few w.i.p shots …
... rooms meant that certain alignment tricks couldn't be employed, and ... guy... but messing with the basic physics is a no-no ...What should be the base address to set for my codeHi, I am new here and I have a simple question but one which I have not found an answer to. When I am developming my programs what should I set th…
... have to write a custom basic loader for my code.[/QUOTE ... ]
The basic loader generated by pasmo contains ... were written by hand, whithout tricks. The assumption is that clarity ...What is it exactly about that Spectrum that you like so much?I'm sure that most people here will agree that there's something very special about the Speccy, thats why we visit WOS afterall... But what why has i…
... of factors. It had the basic capabilities of colour graphics and ... by relying on the specialist tricks of their video hardware to ...What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…
... in those days (besides the basic of course). Compilers for any ... would have been full of tricks that were tied very closely ...+3 soundhello there, just a quick-fire question today. i'm kinda keen on the idea of using my +3 quite a bit, particularly if i bother to to actually sort …
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There's some tips and photos [URL="http://www ... /soldering.html"]here[/URL] about basic soldering technique you may find ...
