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joining lines of BASICDue to overwhelming demand - well, one demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical c…
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New WIP from Kabuto Factory: A.R.C.O.S.Hi everybody! After a long time in silence (...you know, life and its commitments...), we're coming back with new WIP for Speccy: A.R.C.O.S., a new …
... /> Game is written on compiled Basic. That's why it's ... a little "starfield" scroll to maintain the scroll effect and get more ... -
Two fingered gamesNifty Lifty, Crimebusters, Bug Eyes. I love games with simple two keyed controls like these*, can anyone name any other good ones worth investigating…
... -D platform game and the vertical movement depends on lifts.
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ZX Spectrum 48k issue 3b power problem?Hi :) I was lucky enough to find a couple of ZX Spectrums at a car boot sale yesterday. I spent the evening fiddling about with one (issue 2) and t…
... year old has been learning Basic on it so needs the ... black square filled with thin vertical red lines.
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A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…
... (obviously not an advantage for BASIC programs where it's better ... piece falls, I deactivate rendering, scroll it, then reactivates rendering so ...Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…
... can do the pre-shifted scroll in a spare uncontended bank ... , like that MASK example shows, vertical scrolling is fairly easy - you ...Games written in BASICHi all, I've been racking my brain trying to think of a game which was definitely written in BASIC (ie not in assembler). The only thing that I can …
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Yeah, the scroll routines and graphics are loaded ... , but the rest is pure BASIC.Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
... was so easy, even in BASIC ;)[/QUOTE]
Sorry Stojan, but ... fun, but Comet game has vertical bars. ;) Not so lame after ... ...
Show me that in BASIC.PLOT and DRAW in machine codeHow do you go about it? If I posted a really simple BASIC instruction could someone do a machine code routine so I could learn from it? I wouldnt k…
... didnt want to go into BASIC to do it, so a ... want a box, horizontal and vertical lines should suffice, which are ...Which Speccy game had best border effectsIn truth, I'm just trying to remember a game from my youth, and the amazing border effect during pause is the only thing I can clearly recall about i…
... fun, but Comet game has vertical bars. ;) Not so lame after ... ...
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Yes, those are vertical bars... ...but not in border ...The most powerful 8-bit machine, and CPU?Further to the discussion in: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=621787[/url] What actually is the best 8-bit ma…
... be incredible.
The basic instructions take 2 cycles. You ... the CoCo2/Dragon, some hardware scroll (vertically per pixel, horizontally per ...Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …
... interrupts
ret ; return to BASIC
org 0xc39a
jp 56 ; exit via BASIC interrupt handler
blit ... LDI for a 20 column vertical scrolling routine*. Though in data ...Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …
... LDI for a 20 column vertical scrolling routine*. Though in data ... know? I'm just a BASIC coder. :-PPlanning ZX-CentralDear readers, as I would like to start programming on ZX-Central (the central application of ZX-Modules) in a few weeks, I'm looking for suggestions…
What is the basic role of the ZX-Central ... able to replace all those basic functions, and being able to ... the zoom using the mouse scroll wheel... It would be helpful ...Question about 2-channel beeper musicI confess I haven't tried all the available beeper utilities and software. I always found music software confusing and trackers are not for me. I kno…
... to convert MIDI files to BASIC statements to make BEEP music ... these are on the same vertical scale:
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Pure BASIC just isn't fast enough ...Need to scroll one column using m.c.I've used many of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any direction, but I'm not being able to find one that would allow me to scro…
... compare doing the scrolling in BASIC, out of curiosity. Assigning the ... bytes are not moved in vertical column sequence, due to the ... /> ret
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Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …
... torn between this and Zoltars vertical scrolling thread.
One ... wide vertical scrolling engine. It uses the stack pointer to scroll a ...What annoys you about SpecBAS?Ok, here's another direction for me to go in - I'm almost done with SpecBAS, there's very little left to add. So... What don't you like about it? Wh…
... its easier to port old basic programs.
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scroll across to the bit you ...GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…
... children (i.e. menu bar, scroll bars, workspace window, etc.)
basic events, such as:
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In addition to basic events described earlier there are ...Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... yesterday integrated it in ZX Basic with no much effort, and ... covering the entire screen: strange vertical bars appeared). At first I ... it it, there is a vertical line not fully covered. It ...Good character sets ?Just wondering if anyone had any favourite character sets ? :) The one in SE basic is quite nice and I'm aware (I used to have it in my head I'm sur…
... , with double height pixels the vertical strokes just seem to look ... before transplanting it into SE Basic. Early days now, but I ... 'll be able to edit BASIC programs with an 80x24 display ...Printing a ListingHello my fellow WoS'ers Todays trouble starts with the need to print-out a listing - personally I would prefer a text file, but beggars cannot be c…
... prints each numbered line of BASIC as one unbroken line.
BASIC listings from Z80, SNA, SP ... ; size, print width, keyword highlighting, vertical spacing and separating multi-statement ...80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
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It's possible. SE BASIC IV pages in bank 7 ... needs to draw a character, scroll the screen, or clear a ... both worlds, but with SE BASIC IV it is greater than ...80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... ]It's possible. SE BASIC IV pages in bank 7 ... needs to draw a character, scroll the screen, or clear a ... time?
How does SE BASIC keeps the image if it ... if it was available in BASIC or a kind of "advanced ... both worlds, but with SE BASIC IV it is greater than ...Computer pranksAnyone ever play a computer prank on a friend, or had one played on you? Here's a few which will make you laugh that I did back in the day... In 19…
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The BASIC was also pretty fast. A ... wrote a 'BBC Emulator' in BASIC that gave the impression of ... who were typing in a BASIC listing, only to find the ... ,A forever, making the border scroll stripes and shriek loudly, turned ...Work out attribute location in MCHow do I go about writing a MC routine which calculates the attribute address from a set of PRINT co-ordinates. I know you in basic you multiply the…
... know you in basic you multiply the vertical co-ord by 32 ...Vertical Shoot'em Up's: Spacecrafts.what's missing? for updated lists look [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/concealedwords/home/zxspectrumgames/vertical-shoot-em-up-s"]here[/URL]. …
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And Afteroids ain't vertical, it has multidirectional scroll .WIP: ULAPlus hardware implementationThis aims to be an "almost" plug-in replacement for the Sinclair ULA chip fitted in Spectrum 16K/48K/Plus machines. It comes in a form of a small PC…
... , as I want to test basic functionality (JTAG and configuration PROM ... output generator, with horizontal and vertical counters, and a simple RGB ...
