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PokesDoes anyone know where I can find a list of Pokes for my Speccy games? I am trying to find some for On the Bench ! Thanks
... it was probably written in BASIC :p and it is (mainly ... view it. :D
The variable in the listing for money ... ) simply merges in some blank BASIC lines to overwrite some of ... -
Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... it's slow in regular basic although I compiled the program ... slowness of the code in Basic makes the game unplayable, and ... PI/180 value in a variable (rad?), since you are using ... -
Best emulator to use for type-insHi Everyone, I have loads of spectrum basic / mc code I had written when I was at school - some cool stuff, I'd like to type it in (from 4" silver p…
... - it's kind of a BASIC editor/emulator. quite nice to ... it from Dunny's web "area":
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Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... of applying colour to an area, rather than an object, so ... that Andrew Wright (of Beta Basic) in one of his newsletters ... between the bit map area and attribute area of the Spectrum screen ... -
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…
... Jonathan's minigame entry, AREA 51, that is a ... they also made a Basic Lightning for doing games ... the Spectrum needed a Basic Lightning, since IDEAL can ... be used in Basic programs also and the ... as fast as regular Spectrum Basic.
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SpeedloadersSince I read Lee Tonks' post about the speedloaded version of MM3 he did, I've been playing around with various speedload routines I found on TTFn & …
... , iirc. The trouble is, the BASIC program I wrote to enable ... for creating loaders in that area. That's part of the ... -
If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…
... I used to use 128 basic editor and never 48K...
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jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…
... make it pixel perfect in basic. You could just use four ... his position with a seperate variable. You could actually do this ... -
jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…
... make it pixel perfect in basic. You could just use four ... his position with a seperate variable. You could actually do this ... the guardians. Doing that in BASIC would almost certainly slow things ... -
jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…
... obliterate everything in it's area as the print function didn ... since I actually coded in BASIC). That would go for all ... -
jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…
... obliterate everything in it's area as the print function didn ... since I actually coded in BASIC). That would go for all ... -
Pixel LimitIF Y3<192 THEN : LET x2=INT (128+X*A*SIN A): LET y2=INT (Y3): DRAW INK
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On 2004-11-16 21:44, dalmudlee wrote:
I have never seen this graphics restriction before. Why does the Spectrum have this limitation?
1720 FOR A=0 TO INT ((50*3.14)-38) STEP 3.14/P
1730 LET Y3=96+Y*A*COS A
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…
... have multiple action descriptions, but BASIC will only let me use ...
REM tokenparser sets index variable command
GOSUB commandhandlers + command ...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…
... a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like ... the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and ...
then use a short BASIC prog:
10 ... multiple action descriptions, but BASIC will only let me use ... it is stored in a variable. If the command matches one ...loading techniques I never worked outFirstly, how do games that load with LOAD "" CODE autorun? Secondly, how do you save a basic program as a CODE file (but not as BASIC compiled into …
... Chapters 24/25 of the BASIC manual for details):
BASIC program+variables, and the relevant ... memory from the first System Variable up to E_LINE (which comes ...Dixons - and the "death of the video"MIKE: Right. That's it. "Your video is now ready for use. Insert cassette, rewind to beginning of tape, and press play. Happy viewing!" VYVYAN: Ha h…
... with (on returns and repairs area) were too stupid to own ... /> _________________
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[ This ...New Functions for Sinclair BasicA total of 52 new functions can be added to Sinclair BASIC; 26 numeric functions (A-Z) and 26 string functions (A$-Z$). Owing to the internal structu…
very simple...
POKE 23755,0: POKE 23756,0
The first 2 bytes of the BASIC area hold the line number of the first line in lo-hi format, BASIC starts at 23755.
This will ensure that the first line will be 0.BASIC performance tips?Been fiddling around with an old project a little after rescuing it from tape, and I'm toying with the idea of completing it (hey, better late than n…
I did use the HiSoft BASIC compiler for Dash-it (CGC2004 ... GOSUB, put it in a variable.BASIC performance tips?Been fiddling around with an old project a little after rescuing it from tape, and I'm toying with the idea of completing it (hey, better late than n…
Again Arjun, BASIC doesn't make any optimisations ... /> A variable will have to be looked up, but BASIC doesn't ... a var.
A variable will be slower than an ...The average salaryHow much is the average salary in your country? The average salary in the Czech Republic is 18000 Czech crowns = 600 Euro. The salary of 2/3 of peop…
... 1999.
In this area you can't buy ANYTHING ... I still belive in the basic role the market powers.
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…
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The BASIC language is simply not powerful ... compiler, not the BASIC.
Sinclair BASIC, although very ... variable? Integer? Word? Float? There's no way to tell from BASIC ... smooth sprites using only compiled BASIC with no extensions!
Removing the attributes from a loading screenAnyone able to tell me how to do it in 'Fuse' of 'Zxsp' fos OSX? I just need to be able to see the actual pixels with no colour added.
Well, just fill the attributes area with (say) 0x07, which is trivial from either BASIC or machine code.
If you need to break into the program, either use Fuse's debugger or File/{Save,Load} Binary Data features.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. …
... Recursive functions in ZX Spectrum BASIC.
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variable?". Simple, but not obvious to ...CronosoftI ordered a few Cronosoft games a short while ago and they arrived today. Although I've only played the games in question (Egghead III and Rough Just…
... games, exploring a large map area
SPACE HOPPER - free ... , that can be called from BASIC if necessary, so you can ...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. …
... thread might be reading a variable at the same time that ... as easily happen with any BASIC key scanning code. A clearer ...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. …
... them frequently but what about Basic?
If you have ... Y coords and increment the area to be read next? I ... `d be worth it in Basic, but I`ve always liked ...New Functions for Sinclair BasicA total of 52 new functions can be added to Sinclair BASIC; 26 numeric functions (A-Z) and 26 string functions (A$-Z$). Owing to the internal structu…
... first 2 bytes of the BASIC area hold the line number of ... line in lo-hi format, BASIC starts at 23755.
