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Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …
... your posters here about my game Quiz Master (Atari ST Public ... his name appears on my game on the LGD website.
game in ST Basic which doesn't (as ... protection - lens lok?) and Quazatron in action when I was a ... -
How are people developing?Are most coding on actual HW or under emulation, or cross developing?
... game "moggy").
To code in BASIC I fire up the emulator in ... 48 BASIC mode, I ... +3, load the sources in +3 BASIC and compile it from there ... real bummer. And I coded in BASIC, I can't imagine the ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... Arjun says that programs Speccie Basic from hobby and makes money ... m not strictly against Sinclair Basic, just wouldn't recomment ... programmed this year something in Sinclair Basic. And honestly, I ... will finish in Winter probably. There is nice game Prey, but ... -
gold / mining game ?hi guys, i'm relatively new here and i'm looking for a game who's name i can't remember. the details are sketchy too (sorry!). it was a mining game…
... the game you're on about...looked like it was programmed in basic ... definitely wasn't a type in game was it? Seem to think ... it might have been in the pages of Input... -
gold / mining game ?hi guys, i'm relatively new here and i'm looking for a game who's name i can't remember. the details are sketchy too (sorry!). it was a mining game…
... game you're on about...looked like it was programmed in basic ... definitely wasn't a type in game was it? Seem to ... it might have been in the pages of Input...[/ ... want to mention it in case anyone else could ... 're talking about the same game here.
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Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... wanted to release a decent game for that ), and two other ... absolute address in memory after having loadded it in using Basic. What is ... roof ) which you scroll about in ... doing things... ...then go ... />
I'd be interested in developing it for 20MHz as ... -
Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... over part of the Amiga game 'Harlequin' as a ... what I am using implemented in Sam Basic ( of all things ... up with a benchmark for BASIC, Sam C, Assembler ... ... SIAC sounds quite reasonable in price, its a funny ... one case. Generally the basic SIAC is the Sam ... -
NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…
... I got lucky as the game I chose doesn't use ... a TRD and convert the BASIC loader to a TAP ... asm loader is contained in the BASIC one so we need ... lowest in memory is at $66FF (26367) so our BASIC loader ...
In other words, we end up with a BASIC loader like ... -
New: authoring tool infoAnother feature was added to Infoseek tonight: authoring tool information - e.g. games authored with GAC, PAW, Quill, 3D Game Maker or Platform Game …
... be to look for 'watermarks' in the game files.
PAW would ... write "A PAWed game o hacker" in the BASIC loader.
in their file, which would indicate ... example the adventures from Traveller in Black.
So, um, ... -
Sam Revival magazine issue 16 now out! [Sam CoupIssue 16 of Sam Revival magazine is now out! This issue features the full Sam game 'Colony' on the coverdisk, which was written by Derek Koselo. Col…
... whatever, does that mean that in a sense a Spectrum or ... `T is indeed a brilliant game, that Invasion II or whatever ... game in look and feel :) I wouldn`t mind bench marking Master Basic ... command took last year in SAM Basic and Master basic and it`d ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... tho' and have it directly in the BASIC program. You could even ... for patching into the actual game but I'm not sure ... press 1 to start a game the map will be accessed ... do this myself with another game atm but akin to you ... -
If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…
... to see it make a game.
I was ... on...
bout the game, I never get annoyed, I ... is laughable in any other context than 8-bit Basic :) and yeah ... a lot of games in SAM Basic `back in the day` and they ... -
If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…
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bout the game, I never get annoyed, I ... is laughable in any other context than 8-bit Basic :) and ... yeah, I used to do a lot of games in ... SAM Basic `back in the day` and ... series of macros, so in theory it should be ... -
Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…
... game I've had planned for a while)... does the BASIC ... loader for a ZX game come included in the ... code file and instructions (in the readme) for how ... viewed as rule bending; in theory you could exploit ... are as REM statements in a BASIC program. Paolo did ... -
Atic Atac, the +3 and Multiface.Hello :smile: I have a Spectrum +3 with Multiface 3 attached and working well. I have discovered that at least JetPac and Atic Atac (all Ultimate …
... games?) will only run in 48k BASIC mode. in other +3 modes the ... you to save to tape in 48k BASIC mode.
Question ... />
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Atic Atac, the +3 and Multiface.Hello :smile: I have a Spectrum +3 with Multiface 3 attached and working well. I have discovered that at least JetPac and Atic Atac (all Ultimate …
... only be run from 48 Basic.
The trick is loading ... a different address and paging in 48 basic mode, then moving the ... 48 mode and runs the game.
Here is a version ... -
So how much programming experience do you need to create a Spectrum Game?Hi all i was just mucking about with that old program "Game Designer" and i was wondering how difficult it is to write a new Spectrum game?
... ]i have many great spectrum game ideas in my head... but haven ... programmer, IYSWIM. Jonathan's Platform Game Designer is very good and ... compromise or two or three in there. Basic is usually people's ... because it is not a game authoring system -- think of it ... -
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... /> Best way in Sinclair Basic:
Define DEF FN in top, place ... GO SUB (when called often in top)
Place REM ... br /> Place more commands in 1 line makes GO TO ... if I compile the basic the compiler will remove ... I may even have a game to post.
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Type-in resolution help reqd.In preparation for the next type-in update, I noticed that Infoseek has 2 type-ins wrongly attributed (quite likely be me :oops: ) to the book "49 Ex…
... I checked the few type-in books which I have, and ... programs; none of them are in Best of PCW. The books ... sure), compact in size with some really dud BASIC programs in them. I ... .worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/s/SwordsmanOfKraxis7The.gif[/url]
Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... because Im beginning to think basic is just going to be ... to the level.)
In the main loop the only ... to loop through each udg in turn and increment thex position ... can do or is my in game logic and methodology sound?
in over a week)Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... can do or is my in game logic and methodology sound?
in a couple of PRINT statements ... I've never used a basic compiler before.Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... moved to a different location in the program to solve ... ear" bit is flipped during game execution - the keys would clearly ... no bitwise operators nativley available in Sinclair Basic - would've been ... very handy in this case!
...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... , my understanding of FOR loops in ZX BASIC was incorrect.
game over condition):NEXT e
game over condition):NEXT e
in that case fixed that problem.Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... global and is typically defined in game.h / game.c.
Global ... an ascii string (similar to basic's STR$) and writes the ... end of string "s". The basic equivalent to this would be ... of random number generators like basic's RND and C's ...Hidden messages whilst loading gamesHi all, Was having a chat with my mate about old speccy games and remembered that pausing the loading on some games and then printing gave strange m…
... daly thompson or similar sport game was first one i discovered ... , Scooby Doo) contain messages in the Basic loader. Some guy who's ...Sherwood ForestAre we absolutely sure this game was made by Delta 4? It doesn't mention the company anywhere in the game, there's no mention of it on their [url=htt…
... was a youthful experiment in writing adventures in ZX Basic - thank goodness Gilsoft ... in itself proof that the GI Games release is the same game ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... output)
3) The game is probably still too easy ... need changing, to make the game more of a challenge.
in BASIC), so you need more logic ... . I'm still occasionally thinking in BBC Basic, where a comma causes ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... several times earlier, the game's map is a 5 ... screen.
In the original game, each plot of land ... ; 0x38; // get player colour in paper
sp1_IterateUpdateRect(&r ... from anything normally done in Sinclair basic, but you should be ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... ' at the same time. But in practice after playtesting it doesn ... be negative, but it seems in ZX-BASIC that "0 OR -1 ... , instead of simply changing trajectory in mid-air and making a ... it seems to pleasingly blend in with the magenta border.
