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About Chess games & BASICIs it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?
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Help name this game please.I remember playing a game in my youth that I liked but did not complete. I've got the urge to complete it now after so many years. All I remember was…
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Help designing a Jonathan Cauldwell game !Going to Byte Back retro show next March They've challenged the homebrew developer Jonathan Cauldwell to create a new Spectrum game in just one day …
... to create a new Spectrum game in just one day at ... Jonathan will create the game engine in advance but the levels ... an idea for a great game in your head for the ... 'll turn it into a game...
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Viking Quest 3I was reminded about this game in the 2007 games thread. It is the first in this series with an English translation and I'm keen to 'support' it by m…
I was reminded about this game in the 2007 games thread. It ... is the first in this series with an English ... first enclosure or have any basic instructions or hints? Is anyone ... -
Soon to come: Mine AlertOne of my projects for 2009 is already completed, i typed one of the missing games from Microhobby, Mine Alert. This is a long time favorite of mine …
... new Mine Alert 2 game in machine code sometime in 2009/2010) and ... , this is a real nice BASIC game with excellent technique. Good work ... -
Game you'd come back to.Wotcha, folks. Happy Easter. I've always had in mind a few games that I'll come back to when I get that beloved 'spare time' back (yeah, right). Na…
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I've always had in mind a few games that ... always thought there was more 'game' in the following than what I ... got out of them back in the 80s:
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Corrections to "Authored with Quill"Started testing today from the end of the list... These are not written with Quill: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^You+Ca…
... Interceptor Micros, not Players (inside game is message [B](c) 1986 ... ] is not a Quill game, it is written in Basic.
[URL ... "]Xtroth[/URL] also is a Basic game
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8-channels music in games/demosHello there. Currently we are working on scrumbling out music engine from ZX-7 editor (8 channels from BEEPER) and using it in your own games or dem…
... Mister_Beep-A_piece_of_disaster.mp3[/url] easily in own programs and for now ... compiler/player. He wrote in some article on the beginning ... fitting music and its procedure in RAM.
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Sabre Man Games - Style over Substance?Was Sabre Man primarily a marketing ploy? I quite like all Ultimate Games up to Gunfright and find I generally prefer the ones without Sabre Man, a …
... and price tag, worse game with unfair deaths and maintaining ... - Knight Lore, a true breakthrough game in Isometrics but not as playable ... reason (nostalgia? having a game that looked better than ... . It is still the best Sabre Man game though.
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Your views on...Albatrossity[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0021876[/url] It's been out a few weeks or more now, but I only just got round to playing it t…
... , [I]A Whole New Ball Game[/I]. The end result, coupled ... Speccy tune in years, is I believe JC's BEST GAME YET!
MIA / STP records in Infoseek which could be removed?There's a few records in Infoseek which if removed could clear a few MIA / STP entries:- Sector 90 by Quicksilva. I'm not sure there were seperate …
... case that Quicksilva advertised the game on behalf of Pixel, ... same version of the game, from the stock they ... the footballer endorsing the game was Spanish and it ... 'm certain that this game was only ever published ... or previews for the game in any of the UK ...Well done, BobsI've not seen this mentioned anywhere else, so in case no one's seen it, in this weeks (out last Thursday) Micro-Mart, the Spectrum retro best game a…
... this mentioned anywhere else, so in case no one's seen ... , in this weeks (out last Thursday) Micro-Mart, the Spectrum retro best game ...Game idea databaseJust had the idea to make some kind of game idea database. Everyone could add a coding idea and someone could get the idea and make the game. In…
... to make some kind of game idea database.
make the game.
In this way ideas ... view is like in the ZX81 game "Red Ants", ... the snake an its head is in ... in opposite direction. You must eat all pixels and during the game ...InkosiI uploaded this a couple of days ago, but not sure if it's worked yet. Although quite slow and written in BASIC, it's quite a good little rescource …
I uploaded this a couple of days ago, but not sure if it's worked yet. Although quite slow and written in BASIC, it's quite a good little rescource management game, a bit like an educational Mugsy!The [You] awardsI'm bored, so I thought I'd do the traditional ewgf Spectrum awards, for the first time ever. Once you've ignored my post, please post your own winne…
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Best Simulation game:[/B] Starglider, I ... [B]
Best Spectrum multiplayer game:[/B] Trivial Pursuit, ... game:[/B] Psion Scrabble, a fantastic game.
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[B]Best game advert in a magazine:[/B] Jetset ...Midnight/MU (multi-player Lords of Midnight) - updateMidnight/MU has been mentioned on this forum before, but since we've had a fresh update recently and with Lords of Midnight continuing to be rated as…
... rated as one of the best Spectrum games of all time ... each other or play the game in predetermined teams, where co-operation ... While this seems obvious in a browser game, it's quite different ... was totally keyboard driven.
[*]In-game maps for those who are ...SPOT+SPEX magazine index update"This is precisely the sort of thing that no-one ever believes!" Firstly, a correction to the previous announcement. When I said "adding another 40 …
... specific topic headings (in addition to their current ... around 134,000 references in the combined databases.
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IN -- Industrial
PA -- Programming: Assem/Mcode
PB -- Programming: BASIC ... UDGs
UG -- Utility: Game Des/Editor
UH -- ...Name the game : double impactHi i'm looking for name of two games. 1) the first is na old arcade adventure at least partially written in basic. i think the story revolves about …
... adventure at least partially written in basic. i think the story revolves ... . i think there was review in crash.
so, your ..."The Wicker Woman": In DevelopmentI've started making the game, so I thought I'd move posts from the "New Games Ideas" forum to here. I've got my head around using PAW's processes and…
I've started making the game, so I thought I'd ... typed in all the locations I'm using after mapping the game ... PAW that already contains a game in the .sna called "DAWN PATROL ... start from scratch and type in all 70 locations again.The ---- Games of the decadeIn a few months time, we leave the first decade of the twenty-first century, so to rip off a thread idea from another forum, what are your games of t…
... the best "alien" designs in action gaming) to produce a first class game ... almost unnoticeable Also, the in-game vehicles were fun to control ... 360 follow up to the best game ever) had a weapon ... a guitar probably the best selling game-hardware-add-on ever ...Framerate of arcade gamesThe Golden Age of video games coincided with the birth of 8-bit home computing; this is why every computer of that era has a slew of really bad Pacma…
... Pacman clones.
The game design [i]looks[/i] simple ... at a clunky conversion written in BASIC and using UDGs. The pixel ... here about frame rates in Spectrum games. A game of Pacman has ... difficult to include sound in a Spectrum game running at 50 fps ...POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
I remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input ... you would POKE each square in the 8X8 character.
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If a commercial game created it's graphics like ... this (but in assembler) where more characters ...help in making a tzx file from standard speedIn short, I want to create a tzx file from the original Navy Moves & Army Moves compilation, giving that the one in WOS archive has an error on Army …
... (it gives C Nonsense in BASIC, 50:3) and I ... recorded both cassette sides in two separate files. The ... report the very first basic header as a turbo ... />
The fragment in discussion is [url=http://www ... version of the very first basic header & program).
The ZX App StoreI was watching one of those iphone adverts and got to thinking Hmmmmm what if you could do something like that for the speccy. Ok heres the idea, if…
... little usefull program you wrote in basic then you could upload it ... currency converter to a little game etc. Creative freedom so to ... chance to show off your basic skillsWould someone make me a rom?Hi I'm really hoping here but is there someone that has all the equipment / software to make speccy roms that would do a cassette for me if I send it…
... of course. Its a game I wrote in basic years ago that I ...Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…
... RAM, and then a routine in BASIC (yeah, I'm a masochist ... , do all the modifications in BASIC, fix the BASIC header using POKEs and ... . routine to save the modified BASIC listing.
And ... ve never tried to compile BASIC listings that use VAL extensively ...Grand Theft Auto 3Following a discussion today about GTA style games, and which one is the best, I thought I'd post here and see what everyone prefers. There are *lot…
... and which one is the best, I thought I'd post ... and which ones are the best? I've not played them ... to a set location, the game is totally linear, with no ... s nothing but the main game in Mafia, which is all the ... you're not playing the game, but you're just ...Perfect Dark (XBox Live!) is drawing near!!!The release of the Perfect Dark port* for the XBox 360 is getting closer every day. No release date has been given, but many people think that it wil…
... think that it will be in Early March, but my money ... 's still (to me) the best game ever anyway, but if Rare ... confirmed the price for the game as being 800 points (source ... indeed, though I wish the game would be released as an ...How do you destroy an enemy or object?Hi guys I allways wanted to know this, but how would you go about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do you use a huge ar…
... about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do ... on each object? How do game designers do that :) ?
