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The best ever isometric game on the Speccy.Lets see the show of hands in numbers eh? ;) For sheer nostalgia I have a soft spot for Batman and I really enjoyed playing it. However, Head over H…
My favourite isometric is Fairlight. IMHO best speccy game ever. The "pick and drop" object routine is fantastic, the superb graphics, very nostalgic... -
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…
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Floating point representationI'm planning on picking up the [url=http://matt.west.co.tt/category/spectrum/openzxrom/]OpenZXRom[/url] project from where I left off a few months ba…
... people could use whatever ROM best suited their needs. Variable precision ... CoCo BASIC used a keyboard routine that was more efficient and ... -
How to save TZXGreetings to all. I am starting to move on from just games into some testing of home made programs. Although I could have done that in ancient tapes…
... filename also.
The best way around avoiding Bytes: from ... assembly) uses the ROM load routine to load a SCREEN$ without ...
call 1366 ; Run load routine in ROM
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Xenon TriOxide (Xeo3)I just wanted you all to know that a new cross platform game has started development (well the +4 version has been around a while, but my colleague f…
... a empty/used flag. main routine goes through all of them ... probably a compromiss.
the routine which is calling code above ... the correct position.
so scroll them to the left by ... -
Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…
... `t even understand how to scroll the numbers in assembly yet ... somewhere on net, the loader routine is called LD_BYTES (or LD ... -
Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... EightyOne and it is the best Windows emulator we have available ... does not include the interrupt routine that must call the player ... -
The BASIC ISRFirst of all, excuse me if my blatant ignorance about this topic makes me write some nonsense :) The thing is that I'm finishing a game in mixed BAS…
... where the vector table and routine are.
Better, IMO ... $fe, then put the routine at $fefe. Less wastage ... DI before the first (setup) routine too.
The ... tho', is having the routine in the top page, ... I did it by heart, best tabel is this
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Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... , if you're trying to scroll the screen or something like ... worth, I thought HoH looked best in the four colour mode ... -
Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... , if you're trying to scroll the screen or something like ... worth, I thought HoH looked best in the four colour mode ... -
PSPSIM - SamCoupe Emulator for the PSPI have just been playing around with PSPSIM and just wanted to know what Sam Coupe users thought were the best games/apps for the Coupe? Cheers,
... alas the Put, Roll, and Scroll commands are disabled in 1 ... someone will do a MC routine for Mode 2 Put...
Black paper, white border. Ram fault?We have a speccy that wont work properly. When we power it up, we get white border around a black screen. We swapped the rom and ula with a working o…
... upper RAM.
The best place to start is here ... /> Go to 48K Information then scroll down and find 'Servicing Sinclair ...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…
... through the roof ) which you scroll about in ... doing things... ...then ... Sam C isn't the best way to go....
best just to say that a ...Developing the Spectrum ROMI'm working on some Z80 assembler for a Z80-based single board computer that I'm building. For the things that don't poke my hardware, I'm using a Sp…
... was a 64-column display routine) - but when I was 14 ... awful (I remember benchmarking my routine and finding it wasn't ... the Speccy's RST16 putchar routine and it had much less ... sensible, productive discussions about how best to implement requirements. A code ...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…
... Sam C isn't the best way to go....
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"chunky" gfxHas anyone some experience with coding "chunky" gfx routines ? (chunky is something like this [url]http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13204[/url])
... shades of grey) is the best trade-off between quality, memory ... two independent pictures). The display routine is also very fast:
Who knows how to program a "pathfinder"?Hi all. I like to play games like "Colour Lines" and I think, I will create a version of this game for the SAM Coupe. It looks easy - until this "dam…
... "damn" thing of a pathfinder routine, which finds a path from ... closed.
Has anyone a routine or tip in Assembler for ... and must actually calculate the best direction to move in each ... combinations you just pick the best. (it is however a bit ...Aggravating problem with screensI've rewritten my Sam C runtime emulator code ( well almost ) to allow me to use my own routines for blitting sprites onto the screen, storing tiles …
... do through calling a ROM routine. That is fine and would ... way, I'm making the best compromise between screen write speed ...Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…
... 16k), as does the interrupt routine -- these two things are constantly ... /> [quote]
What is the best way to pass parameters to ... line from your machine code routine. Eg:
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Uridium on the Speccy: definitive version?Uridium is one of the staples of the C64 shoot-em-up canon. I first played it on the Speccy twenty years ago, but became much more familiar with it …
... 8-bits. Most of the best scrolling shooters on the Spectrum ... Genocide) that use it can scroll as smoothly as anything on ...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…
... something in the ASIC ) to scroll the display or any part ... handle any sized sprites, or scroll any size area of screen ... you need is always the best route for speed!Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…
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As for a DRAW routine that could manage arbitrary shapes ... /infoseekid.cgi?id=2000012"]40 Best Machine Code Routines for the ...Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…
... ;171187]As for a DRAW routine that could manage arbitrary shapes ... /infoseekid.cgi?id=2000012"]40 Best Machine Code Routines for the ...Groundbreaking gamesWhich games really broke new ground? I mean the ones that actually got around the hardware limitations of the Spectrum. For example: Aquaplane - f…
... /> Besides being one of the best games for the speccy, great ... Goblins. The smooth (almost fullscreen) scroll is awesome. Only much later ...Adding AY music to your plogramI'd like to add some nice tune to my program written in machine code. I am not new to assembler programming but with music programming I have no expe…
... think Vortex Tracker is the best bet. It's a PC ... /50s in an interrupt service routine.Where to start?Hi all, I wanna start coding something for the speccy. I have good experience at C/C++ and some other languages. I have coded asm on pc too, and ma…
... school programmers are the best of the best. Shit, I stuck myself ... it fit in the DrawScr routine:
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routine, and I must say it ... way. I think my rendering routine will get lota smaller on ...Anything good on the Sam Coupe?I've just tried a Sam Coupe and seen two of its headline games/conversions in action - Lemmings and Prince of Persia. Both are excellent. This comput…
... /stratoinfo.htm]click here![/url] (scroll down a bit past the ... from that link is the best:
"It's sexy. Get ...New Game - JustinA new isometric 3D Game for ZX Spectrum, Justin: [url]http://cpce.emuunlim.com/justin.tap.zip[/url] It can be played in spanish and english languaj…
... /> Okay, I've got a routine to activate/deactivate invincibility (press ... can't work out the best way of putting it into ... br /> CALL keypress ;run keypress routine
LD A,$EF ; ... br /> CALL keypress ;run keypress routine
JP $E4E9 ;continue to ...Game Programming Source Code & Startup HelpHi there, I'm planning on porting an existing commercial title to the speccy. I'm in the process of disassembling the original code and commenting i…
... and look yourself (that's best learning process anyway). As a ... /> AND 7
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