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  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... off by using the spec font.

    How ... feel about stretched Spectrum font? I was planning to ... combination of normal ROM font and enlarged on my ... Utter Tripe uses Speccy font bold and stretched.[/QUOTE ... games that use the basic speccy font are bad. Like ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie April 2011 Games
  • So what is the best Spectrum?I've had a search and even though i can remember a similar thread somewhere I'll twist it a bit. Whats the best "unmodified" Spectrum? (modification…

    ... difference. The ROM makes a bigger difference. Compare the results in ... ):

    [code] 48 Basic / 48K: 1261278 (7 hours, 0 ... minutes)
    +3 Basic / +2A: 1562448 (8 hours, ... 40 minutes)
    128 Basic / 128K: 1574523 (8 hours, ...
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • So what is the best Spectrum?I've had a search and even though i can remember a similar thread somewhere I'll twist it a bit. Whats the best "unmodified" Spectrum? (modification…

    ... makes a bigger difference. [/QUOTE]

    Well, only for BASIC. Pretty ... new features not accessible to BASIC might have seemed problematic (although ...
    AndyC AndyC April 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... /> Because Clairsys a horrible font. Ok, that's a ... from a completely different font. The lower case ' ... proportionally spaced Geneva bitmap font designed by Susan Kare, ... of the original Sinclair font over the bold monstrosities ... rotten for debugging BASIC.
    chev chev April 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... of the original Sinclair font over the bold monstrosities ... it's rotten for debugging BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    font looks bold in mode ... readable than a thin font when you take into ... to typing and debugging BASIC programs, so readability was ...
    AndyC AndyC April 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... the madness though, the CPC font looks bold in mode 1 ... more readable than a thin font when you take into account ... came to typing and debugging BASIC programs, so readability was key ...
    chev chev April 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... a reaction to the Sinclair font - but it's not ... UDGs, character-movement and compiled BASIC. Although that's not particularly ... .

    A readable square font is very difficult to pull ... read the score, a suitable font can improve the presentation, and ...
    joefish joefish April 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... font...[/QUOTE]

    You can extract it from the SE Basic ... outline font
    * the ACG font
    * the BBC mode 7 font< ... /> * the Mortal Kombat font
    * the font from Elite on the ... /> * a monospaced version of the font from Syndicate

    ...
    chev chev April 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... ;530092]Because Clairsys a horrible font. Ok, that's a ... the proportionally spaced Geneva bitmap font designed by Susan Kare, the ... lines of the original Sinclair font over the bold monstrosities on ... it's rotten for debugging BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    Yep, ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman April 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... someone wants to test a font from Elite or Lords of ... for activating these fonts in BASIC are available [URL="ftp://ftp ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas April 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... ;530092]Because Clairsys a horrible font.

    ...

    ... main purpose is to make BASIC listings easier to read (hence ... draw a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC I would have come ... ).

    Your alternative font that you’re very keen ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan April 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... ruins an otherwise perfectly good font.

    [quote]and ... ’ main purpose is to make BASIC listings easier to read (hence ... draw a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC I would have come ... br />
    [quote]Your alternative font that you’re very keen ...
    chev chev April 2011 Games
  • Relatos De Ahion ... how do you?[strike]I got the Luna emblem-thing and the fire but can't seem to be able to figure out what to do next. The dark room continues to be dark. I was…

    ... /> Good game considering it's BASIC. Hope they make a sequel ... ?!! I think in Basic its impossible to do something bigger and better ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx May 2011 Games
  • This might be something new[img]http://www.711chan.org/test/src/130427925559.png[/img] Have a look at this screenshot of my emulator ZX82. Notice the copyright message? That's…

    ... programs written in Sinclair BASIC, but there's no ... *are* going to need OpenSE BASIC.

    [quote ... expanded version of Sinclair BASIC for Windows and Linux, ... of the ZX Spectrum font is, but the original ...
    The ZX Spectrum font is (c) 1982 Amstrad. ...
    chev chev May 2011 Emulators
  • DIVIDE - source code of new FATWARE 0.14[B][U][SIZE="5"]Source code of FATware system is now free.[/SIZE][/U][/B] BAZE (author of FATWARE) release source code of last version FATWARE 0.14 …

    ... problems. All is configurable from basic via OUT commands. Also ZX ... rom code with different zx font)
    - code in this new ...
    velesoft velesoft May 2011 Hardware
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... draw a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC I would have come ... task to design a new font for continuous text (like for ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... /w rendering is an even bigger disaster).
    TrueType fonts (or ... rely that every other TrueType font has this.
    As far ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan May 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    ... challenges (a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC and one for an ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan May 2011 Games
  • Put off by the Spectrum character setAm I the only one? Someone suggests a game, and you go "Ooooo haven't heard of that one, I'll give it a sho...*recoils in horror at the ZX Spectrum c…

    [QUOTE=Paul van der Laan;532505]Thanks! I surely would love to give both challenges (a completely new font for Sinclair BASIC and one for an adventure game) a try again.[/QUOTE]

    Thank you, I'm looking forward to this!!!
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2011 Games
  • A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…

    ... packed listing in a tiny font that I needed a magnifying ... that's written entirely in BASIC. I've shown a few ...
    AndyOaks AndyOaks May 2011 Games
  • Proportional Print Routine...Hi Folks, Does anyone know of a good proportional printing routine for the ZX Spectrum? Ideally I am looking for something that prints with charact…

    ... - my BASIC program that loads the original MCODE and font data and ... changes it with my modified font. It also adds the extra ... is the original MCODE and font data file that is loaded ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman May 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Hi there ;) New development groupHi everybody! I'm Baron Ashler, founder and member of a new very little development group called "Kabuto Factory" and this is my first post ;) We'v…

    I've used HiSoft BASIC quite a lot, but I ... comfortable to use, allows for bigger programs, runs off the disk ... games have been coded in BASIC and compiled using HiSoft 1 ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2011 Development
  • Hi there ;) New development groupHi everybody! I'm Baron Ashler, founder and member of a new very little development group called "Kabuto Factory" and this is my first post ;) We'v…

    ... ;538414]I've used HiSoft BASIC quite a lot, but I ... comfortable to use, allows for bigger programs, runs off the disk ... games have been coded in BASIC and compiled using HiSoft 1 ...
    Baron Ashler Baron Ashler May 2011 Development
  • fast font engine possible?inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui and having done some of the work on this in the past i wonder if it …

    ... the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui ... to have a fast raster font engine on zx spectrum. it ... draw a string in particular font and measure_text to measure it ...
    chev chev May 2011 Development
  • Frank N SteinThis one > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001849[/url] Always seems to crash about level 7 (maybe a bit more) or so with an …

    ... [/B] code back to MCODER BASIC? Impressive![/QUOTE]
    I am ... the stack was still getting bigger.

    If you follow ...
    Jimmy Jimmy May 2011 Games
  • GUI/OS for the Spectrum?Hi, Is anybody working on a WIMP/GUI system for the Spec? Is there anything current out there? [url]http://snakeoillabs.com/wordpress/2005/10/30/8…

    ... to print the 4x6 font (although the font itself needs some ... channel must be created below basic
    ; so look at ... ; character map in FONT
    push hl ; save font address

    FONT (288 bytes)

    font:
    defb 0x02 ...
    chev chev June 2011 Development
  • The Duke Nukem Forever demo is due out, BUT...The playable demo of Duke Nukem Forever is (finally!) going to be released, on the 3rd of June, one week before the full game is released (on the 10t…

    ... Nukem shooters for big weapons, bigger explosions, over the top violence ... truck (which looks somehow very basic, as though it's model ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2011 Chit chat
  • The Duke Nukem Forever demo is due out, BUT...The playable demo of Duke Nukem Forever is (finally!) going to be released, on the 3rd of June, one week before the full game is released (on the 10t…

    ... Nukem shooters for big weapons, bigger explosions, over the top violence ... truck (which looks somehow very basic, as though it's model ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek June 2011 Chit chat
  • The Duke Nukem Forever demo is due out, BUT...The playable demo of Duke Nukem Forever is (finally!) going to be released, on the 3rd of June, one week before the full game is released (on the 10t…

    ... Nukem shooters for big weapons, bigger explosions, over the top violence ... truck (which looks somehow very basic, as though it's model ...
    VanTammen VanTammen June 2011 Chit chat
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