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2016 Games ListHi, this is the thread I use for the 2016 Games List. Note: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found some…
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1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
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Share your gems / obscure titlesSharing is caring so what are your picks of underrated or obscure titles that you enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. Here's mine: Barbarian by Me…
... .org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/i/Infection.gif[/img]< ... .org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/t/Think.gif[/img]< ... worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/b/BrianBloodaxe.gif[/img]< ... looking rubbish and being written in BASIC.
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Share your gems / obscure titlesSharing is caring so what are your picks of underrated or obscure titles that you enjoy or have enjoyed in the past. Here's mine: Barbarian by Me…
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Dark Empire. In terms of the '"eXplore, eXpand ... worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/d/DarkEmpire.gif[/img]
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Favourite Horace game?Which one was your favourite? Hungry Horace? Horace Goes Skiing? Horace & the Spiders? [img]http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/af288/Thirdharm…
... could make a tribute Horace game with the same 'early' ... Horace[/b] essentially had one basic gameplay element/section (maze/ ... gameplay parts, the frogger game and the skiing game.
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A BEEP program I want to make in Basic. Helpful remarks gratefully receivedI want to explore the possibilities of the BEEP command. So I need to be able to try different combos of pitch/duration and sequences of same. I'm tr…
... using the BEEP command, from BASIC?... That would be TOO ... are likely after... In BASIC, your kind of limited in what you can ... of a 48k system, like Beepola, for music, or even BeepFX ... effect generation...
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XMAS 2016 tape magazineI'm planning to release a one off xmas tape mag in early December, nothing fancy - something along the lines of [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…
... I started writing a game in Boriel BASIC but it's not really ... another idea for a simpler game but haven't written any ... -
Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
... original Apple-II graphics commands in Graphics-Notes.TXT. By ... Apple-II program (included). In particular, although the graphics look ... gets things displaying reasonably quickly in ZX BASIC I had to use ... is needed to run the game. The three files named " ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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Sound adviceHappy New Year everyone! I want to write some more Spectrum games this year and I want to improve the sounds in my games. Can anyone recommend a "qui…
... of the threads mentioned in the comments above there ... there a tool like Beepola but for the AY ... change volumes between samples in order to reduce noise. ... I'm more interested in creating/modifying sounds than ... decide to go with an in-game tune.
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What causes "The disk has been changed" problem on a +3?I've seen this posted here on this forum and no explanation as to what causes it or any solution that doesn't involve writing a DSK image back to the…
... :5" message, select +3 BASIC and type 'run 1' the ... and you can load every game. Not sure if this ... I can load every game without getting a disk ... the above applies to that game as well, except you ... in the basic loader!
The loader for each game is ...1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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basic shoot'em up mixing very ...1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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in the 128k version.
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in spite of the total simplicity - which includes the basic ...Suggest a Speccy endless runner.It's a serious question. Suggest a game, any ridiculous suggestion might be entertained, that could be made into an endless runner. My suggesti…
... to be a single-button game. It could use up, ... the lines of the arcade game [i]SonSon[/i], where ... /> I remember an old game in BBC Basic which ran pretty fast - ... i] fits this kind of game? Although it's not ... , a lot of phone-game infinite runners are into-the ...Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
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Game must be written entirely in BASIC, without using any ... !" (ZX81)[/size]
Game must be written entirely in BASIC, without using any ... /> So I can write them in 128K BASIC then?1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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Limited, if not basic, ... .org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/d/Deadringer.gif[/img]< ... .org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/d/Deathscape.gif[/img]< ... .org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/c/Cybernation.gif[/img]< ...HOW-TO ClassicsHi guyz'n'gerlz) Perhaps, there're similar questions, but I was checking out another BASIC version of Xonix (which instead of a flood-fill used st…
... to use Boriel's ZX Basic while programming this, I wanted ... code is supplied with the game, there, as well as a ... the basics of using ZX Basic ( http://www.boriel.com/forum ... -write-a-pac-man-clone-in-zx-basic-t748.html ) - The source ...Elite clonesHi there Question. Is there any Elite clones out there for our Speccy worth playing? thanks!
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... Bell have stated that the BASIC type-in game Star Trader (1974) was ... .
The Speccy game called Star Trader (1984) was ... was in development for nearly two years, I doubt the Speccy game ...Elite clonesHi there Question. Is there any Elite clones out there for our Speccy worth playing? thanks!
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... Bell have stated that the BASIC type-in game Star Trader (1974) was ... .
The Speccy game called Star Trader (1984) was ... was in development for nearly two years, I doubt the Speccy game ...User-friendly UDG banks/sheetsHello, retro-colleagues) Sometimes I still play Speccyal games and try funny things in BASIC, but one thing keeps me slow: [b]sprites[/b]. Alright…
... case font because it's in ROM (well, I suppose you ... ). When you see custom fonts in BASIC programs, usually it's because ... idea for a new CSSCGC game, it's so bad!) & ... 2K's worth of graphics in my BASIC, all converted from hi ...Recommend: "modern" (1994-2017) games...No, that is not a typo in the thread. *Next* christmas (i.e. 25th December 2017) it will be 30 years to the day I opened a box containing a Spectr…
... "]Hey Alessandro! You missed Lost in my Spectrum :p
in game and graphics design using AGD ... screens and some of the basic mechanics in order to make it ... Normal and Extended versions sometime in the future ;)Crash/YS MagazinesAs many as can be supplied for about 15 quid delivered, :) I just want to be able to read a few again, cheers :)
... typing in the basic compiler code and debugging it. The sample game they ... given me a great career in IT.
Happy times ...1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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in places are pretty shall we say out there. The basic ... starfield.
The game also suffers from single shot ... but at least the game does have checkpoints in places, having to ...Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
Right now I'm considering if I should try to implement A* path finding algorithm in Spectrum BASIC, or do something far simpler that won't work as well. Hey, it is a crap game compo so perhaps functionality is not the highest priority.Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
... implement A* path finding algorithm in Spectrum BASIC, or do something far ... . Hey, it is a crap game compo so perhaps functionality is ... use the Assembly version (the BASIC version is only intended to ... use the BASIC version if you want a crap game that runs ...The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
... II;908047"]My level of basic is the same as yours ... this lets me write programs in sinclair Basic but has the speed ... stuff like Space Invaders written in Spectrum Basic working
... the error correcting alien in your space invaders game, that was a ...The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
... II;908047"]My level of basic is the same as yours ... this lets me write programs in sinclair Basic but has the speed ... stuff like Space Invaders written in Spectrum Basic working
... the error correcting alien in your space invaders game, that was a ...endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... when you are very fluent in ZX Basic. You will wonder why ... like BASIC, you can use them together to make a game. Games ... C when you are fluent in Assembly is just like this ... ) are just much simpler in C than in assembly. Doesn't mean ...Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
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The BASIC loader TXT2Emu has also changed ... lot of program data embedded in the BASIC; eg. dungeon structures, creature ... . Plus the BASIC is too big to load in one go, ... -Play will put you back in the game where you were before ...Less MIA: EnigmaHere is Enigma. Why has it been missing all these years? That's another enigma! http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009708 "Can you b…
... a doubt about this game. Did you say it ... note can be read in the BASIC listing about Dealer Deals ... , in the very last line ... possible that both programs in WOS were really the ... it give any hint? Thanks in advance.[/s]
