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Spectrum games coming to the WiiJust received this [url]http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11037[/url] earlier this morning from my brother, who knows of my love of old compute…
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What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... to the assembler routine rather than the rom routine that handles 'GOTO ... , but you can have the best setting for what you need ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... if my little 128k Sound routine will complile.
([url]http ... the player in an interrupt routine. z88dk has an [URL="http ... calls. You may want to scroll down to the code examples ... -
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…
... g_scrollShift = 16; // initialize current scroll shift
g_scrollPos = g_textBuffer; ... // an interrupt routine called every 1/50s ... 32, 8); // scroll scanline left using operation ... -
What was the worst game you brought ?Only games you paid for please :) Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic) Apologies if the author is on here :oops: But even at the time…
... the program had was a routine to play an intro tune ... flip side, one of the best flight simulators I played on ... -
Why oh why....... did I have to read the thread about cross-assembling using pasmo and ConTEXT......grrrr. Now I've just wasted hours playing with z80 m/c, lol I…
... display it. Is there a routine anywhere that can do this ... compile your code.
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Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…
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speccy plus keyboard helppicked up a really clean boxed speccy + with a ton of games for ?4 from the local recycle centre yesterday, woohoo :) Anyhow on testing it powers up …
... isn't working either. Your best bet is to buy a ... .co.uk/spectrum.html[/url] - scroll to the bottom) if you ... -
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…
... a row. However, your current routine for flashing aligned pieces won ... avoided by starting the analysis routine like this:
[CODE ... 1 and 2), so the routine to print the entire board ... not sure what's the best/shortest way to do it ... -
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…
... avoided by starting the analysis routine like this:
[CODE ... 1 and 2), so the routine to print the entire board ... not sure what's the best/shortest way to do it ... -
Letters with accents on the SpectrumIs there any way to type letters that have accents (for example ? ? ? etc) on the Spectrum? Maybe it's really obvious but I don't know how.
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In machine-code, the best way is to store each ... (re)write a character-lookup routine. I document how I patched ... -
Starting on machine code - BASIC first?Howdy. If I wanted to start learning machine code for the speccy, from scratch, would you recommend I learn BASIC first or is it entirely possible to…
... grasp of the basics, the best way to improve is to ... some routine works by yourself is in fact one of the best ... level will remain mediocre at best. -
Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…
... it possible to copy loading routine from ROM to RAM, then ... did on it :( It's best to disassemble it and change ... -
Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... the fp accuracy test would best be summed up by simply ... turned in some of the best numbers in spite of a ... operations using the same (or best) algorithm. Additonally the code has ... code. And basic's interrupt routine consumes another 1.4% of ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... apparent that the "falling token" routine will actually draw the game ... simplify the initial board drawing routine such that it only has ... 't quite worked out the best way of doing this yet ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... your post #34 that the routine to draw the entire board ... routine itself.
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Hardware fault - HELP!I bought a speccy 48K (rubber) on Ebay. I was delighted when it arrived. It was in PRISTINE condition, it looks brand new! However, the machine has a…
... .worldofspectrum.org/documentation.html[/url] - scroll down a bit. Everything a ... Spectrum. Speccy users have the best website for any computer! -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
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help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... ), and your last post, the routine scrolls the entire screen one ... before we can recommend the best ways of coding it.
Games Programming Plagiarism - Did It Happen?I know there is at least one notable case were someone has passed off someone else's games as their own - usually by changing the graphics. (Can't re…
... . I did steal the music routine out of Mr.Wimpy (I ... of programming to get the best performance out of the spectrum ...help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... and pop. So the fastest scroll you'll get is by ... not bad compared to the best we could hope for using ...help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... and pop. So the fastest scroll you'll get is by ... not bad compared to the best we could hope for using ...help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... /> Interrupts are disabled while the routine runs (any interrupt will push ... /> And this doesn't even scroll the screen in pixel row ... is to hard code the scroll in a single monolithic code ...problem using FRAMES to generate 'random' numbersI realise the pros use bytes from ROM to get their random numbers, presumably because they want to use FRAMES to synchronise the printing and avoid s…
... road in my scrolling road routine (using Alcoholics Anonymous's 32x ... , but that would make the scroll slower and more jerky. Anyone ...Spectrum Ethernet update...in which a toastrack 128K machine prods a machine outside of my LAN for the first time. [url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Current_eve…
... I call the BASIC ROM routine at $007b (LD A,(HL ... operations as the original RST8 routine; job done.
[*]If the ... & CH_ADD (which were the "best guess" at the error condition ... operations in the original RST8 routine; job done.
[*]If this ...z88dk - Plus 3 dos librariesdo they work? I looked in the cvs to try to piece together an idea of the syntax of the commands (the documentation is pretty sparse :-() and it loo…
... the case it's probably best to isolate +3 disk access ... " and maybe a "write file" routine which will restore expected register ...Emulators on the ZX SpectrumHaving released a Spectrum 16K emulator for Spectrum 48/128 machines as part of CCG2008, I was wondering if anybody knows of any emulators which actu…
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I think the best change would have been for ... for specific ZX81 commands (Like SCROLL and UNPLOT)
One ...MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
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I think the best solution is if you could ... should enter the ResiDOS NMI routine as if it had happened ...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…
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And finally, messages may scroll across the bottom of the ...Retro-X Alpha availableChanges from WIP 7 (Alpha 3) to Alpha 4 ( 1.5.08 - 14.5.08 ). Requested by and help by - in brackets. Bugfixes: * Viewer: o File list not displaye…
... overlay the colour map at best with that due to error ... had some problems with this routine), as ellipse has no options ...
