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You all know this, right?Type 10 PRINT "DIXONS IS SHIT" 20 GOTO 10 RUN when it says: Scroll? Press BOTH SHIFT KEYS then ENTER see what you get. I want to know what thi…
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Fast MDR creation...Hi, I still have a load of Microdrives I want to get into mdr files so I can erase them and put better stuff on (like Sabre Wulf) and also to preser…
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New Development WSS Site OpenOk, I have created this site [url="http://pearmain.dotnetpanel.net/default.aspx"]http://pearmain.dotnetpanel.net/default.aspx[/url] Lots to do, but…
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Describe what makes the Spectrum so special and uniqueFor me its very much a nostalgic thing. I havent even seen a spectrum or a spectrum game for real for 13 years, and so when I found this site I was j…
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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…
... various ways to speed up BASIC, however using variables
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Adding commands to Spectrum BASIC?Are there any articles on how to do this? I think it could be done by making the error trapping routine point to your own commands, but not sure exac…
... up a 16-bit system variable VECTOR and after the ROM ... own routines you can extend BASIC in an Interface 1-only ... Carri's method of extending BASIC this way.
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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…
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Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …
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Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …
... awfully slow way to handle variable lookups - one could have done ... find. I feel that if BASIC didn't have to do ... string search every time a variable was encountered, it would have ... -
Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …
... awfully slow way to handle variable lookups - one could have ... string search every time a variable was encountered, it would ... variables first, your average variable lookup time may be as ... Basic (ie Microsoft Basic) didn't have this luxury and would do variable ... -
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…
... to be callable from Sinclair BASIC by one of my pals ... " function which would draw a variable-sized static tile (i.e ... I discovered yesterday that the BASIC trick of "switch to the ... -
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…
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16K games.Hi all, Cauldwell's stuff aside, are there any good 16K games that you'd recommend? Regards, Shaun.
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Gyroscope vs SpindizzyTwo games that play similar, both based on the Marble Madness theme. Gyroscope has more great graphics, with neat use of BRIGHT on the playing area a…
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Pocket Clive - 2 QuestionsHello, I've just started using Pocket Clive on my iPaq pocket PC, excellent emulator BTW. 1. I have just wrote a small BASIC program to randomly pi…
... the lottery number-picker ZX BASIC program, caused by running it ... the 3-byte FRAMES system variable is copied to the system ... variable SEED.
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Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…
... BIN 01010101) simply by subtracting variable z from 255
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Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …
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Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …
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Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…
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Unpublished spectrum gameHi there I have a Spectrum PDS development environment and before I get rid of my old PC which has an ISA slot I thought I should ask this question i…
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Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
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Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …
... very crude example of a basic homing missile (well.. it's ... some drawbacks to such a basic approach. The most obvious is ... get a sure hit if area detection was used (it misses ... -
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... patients still require all the basic nursing skills they recieve on ... out of curiosity Dunny which area of nursing do you want ... chosen Gerontology. It's an area that I enjoy immensely - multiple ... -
Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…
... should write reasonable engine with basic physic. while doing this you ... . of sprites, size of playing area, amount of space available for ...
