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  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... investing in a good book on programming for a ... Basic.
    [/quote]

    I've got a book ... on C, a book on Visual Basic and a book on ... m writing simple tutorials on Basic at the moment. I ... manual!)
    But with Basic i'm :p with Assembler ...
    Tkrap64 Tkrap64 December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... get back to learning Spectrum BASIC. How's that tutorial you ... simple tutorial from an old Basic book of mine, so it should ...
    Takashi64 Takashi64 December 2002 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... buy such and such a book on Forth.

    The ... compiled spectrum basic, and this is not spectrum basic. spectrum basic appeals because ... deal with it, like spectrum basic, but something new is always ... so and so book on Forth or any book on Forth. ( the ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Old Spectrum Books Im not sure of the name, but once upon a time you could by hard-back books containing basic programming language that allowed you to create your own…

    ... />
    I have hundreds of BASIC books in my lounge.
    book.....


    perhaps you ...
    thx1138 thx1138 August 2003 Games
  • Old Spectrum Books Im not sure of the name, but once upon a time you could by hard-back books containing basic programming language that allowed you to create your own…

    ... by hard-back books containing basic programming language that allowed you ... !!! And i still need a book on Standard Fig Forth so ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... actullay see a resemblance to basic. it's not as ... , RET=Return ... etc etc. knowing basic helps cause you can kind ... example, your learning from a book, it has an example ... were to do this in basic it would be like ' ... it is high level like Basic, and has a bunch ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Unknown Games For ZX-Spectrum For Spectrum in period from 1980 to 1993 was made more 15000! games ...Where other 9000?(Don't check info) Also i find Names of very good games fo…

    ... with the listings in the book in case you didnt want ... others id come with a book of listings and a tape ... + graphics pack, PCW collections in book form + tape, which i have ... they made of pong in basic 15 years ago when they ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Was spectrum the most advanced thing when you got it?When you got your first spectrum games, were they the most advanced games at the moment? When my dad bought it for me I was crazy excited, it was ama…

    ... Captain America ( the whole comic book thing ), Side Arms, and i ... and play games and learn basic and do stuff, and buy ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…

    ... is the mode that Spectrum Basic normally operates in. The code ... can't find my data book at the moment. The actual ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Development
  • Adventure type-insI know there are many adventure enthusiasts in here. Did any of you type-in adventure listings from magazines or books? If so, do you still have a …

    ... remember a book on writing adventure-games which had a BASIC type ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad September 2003 Games
  • Adventure type-insI know there are many adventure enthusiasts in here. Did any of you type-in adventure listings from magazines or books? If so, do you still have a …

    ... /> Andrew: I well remember the book you are talking about "Haunted ... think I've got the book anymore, but it was a ... Usbourne. It contained a long BASIC program, with alternative lines for ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad September 2003 Games
  • Adventure type-insI know there are many adventure enthusiasts in here. Did any of you type-in adventure listings from magazines or books? If so, do you still have a …

    ... but also type-ins (BASIC I suppose) by users? ... anything typed in for a book or magazine, or written ... . Sinclair User, or whatever book title with authors.)
    ... find in any magazine or book... in fact, nowhere ... for that "Micro Games" book I mentioned a while ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone September 2003 Games
  • The WoS Type-Ins ProjectGood folks of WoS! Lend me your ears (figuratively speaking of course)! At long last, the kind and noble Martijn has cleared the Type-Ins project for…

    ... 1. Title
    2. If book: publisher
    If magazine: magazine ... br /> 4. If book: title of the book
    5. If ... ) page number in the magazine/book
    9. Genre
    Basic Utility: BASIC Related
    Copy Utility: ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Another Free Ebay Day ;- Link to 300+ ?1.50 all in[url="http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=cornishdavey&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=200&rdir=0"]http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/w…

    ...
    The Hunt Red Oct. Book
    The Running Man x ... - No Inlay
    Intro to Basic Prt. 1 ? No Inlay
    Start Programming with the Electron Book
    Cornishdavey:)) Cornishdavey:)) January 2004 Sales
  • ebook on graphicsi would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there any scanned ebooks about it on a site?

    ... and get on with my book preservation thing.
    < ... 1 and 2 teach Basic. I didn't get ... /> anyway back to the book i mentioned. Yes, Rodney Zaks ... to code actually, with this book.

    the ... br />
    "Z80 Applications Book"

    You may ...
    Sadako Sadako January 2004 Development
  • ebook on graphicsi would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there any scanned ebooks about it on a site?

    ... to brush up on some basic or to test a compiler ... I have one Peter Shaw book i got outside the UK ... listings and not necessarily the book.

    i take it ... tap file named after the book they were taken from?
    Sadako Sadako January 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... ROM routines or using the BASIC calculator routines*).[/quote]

    book on Z80 I've ever ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2004 Development
  • Playground Battles - Ridiculous ClaimsAah, the old days! All that rivalry between the various 8 bit computers. Can anyone remember any ridiculous claims made by the Spectrum haters to tr…

    ...lucky us that newspaper kiosks were FULL of, well, illegitimate software, and that the major magazines still treated the Spectrum as it deserved. Heck, even my math book came with BASIC listings for the spectrum!
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Playground Battles - Ridiculous ClaimsAah, the old days! All that rivalry between the various 8 bit computers. Can anyone remember any ridiculous claims made by the Spectrum haters to tr…

    ... . Heck, even my math book came with BASIC listings for the spectrum ...
    Arm73 Arm73 February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • AY MusicHi all. Happy new year! I'm new to spectrum programming, and am interested in writing some music for the +2 AY chip. The problem is...I cant find a…

    ... well in Joe Pritchard's book "Spectrum +2: Machine Language for ... 't believe it was just Basic. this is not suitable for ... Spectrum website that reads the Basic Program and then plays uninterruptable ... the program, even for a Basic program it will just play ...
    Sadako Sadako February 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Any professional programmers here ???I just received the news that the compagnie I work for accepted my programm to replace some old systems. I tried to give the programm a name related…

    ... a chapter for an educational book about typography. I managed to ... in a screenshot of a basic program my brother wrote on ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Retro Gamer and Type-InsWell, Retro Gamer is apparently looking out for some good type-ins to include on its cover CD (maybe, ok?). They'd like some from WoS, and I thought …

    ... from a magazine or a book, for the nostalgia factor. I ... games there. Impressive demonstration of BASIC programming.

    GOC: Mega ...
    Arjun Arjun March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • handbook for newbies ?looking at questions what regulary appears on this forum i have an idea. why not to write short book for newbies. if few experienced coders write eac…

    ... files. there's also the basic and machine code tutorial on ... translate. and David Webb's book, Advanced spectrum machine code is ... to just chuck this damn book now ). others say it really ... stuff.

    Rodney Zaks' book is also great and the ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Development
  • new programmer needs information hi , i have been learning c++ for a while and am trying to make games using windows but being 28 and nostalgic , i thought it would be fun try and f…

    ... had a decent grip of basic .I wanted to program games ... that basic wasnt capable of producing so ... bought a z80 machine code book . At the age of 10 ...
    Mark Sandles Mark Sandles May 2004 Development
  • Type-ins for non-standard languagesDoes anyone know if there has ever been any type-in programs for non-standard languages e.g. Forth, Micro Prolog etc. I recently bought copies of tho…

    ... far as machine code in basic listings, the Type Fantastic, i ... with the BASIC listing from the BASIC & FORTH in Parallel book plus ...
    Sadako Sadako May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin Release 10 releasedHi all, A quick note to let you know that BASin_r10 is out as of now. I've gone off on something of a tangent now with BASin, it's more like what …

    ... answered.

    Is the BASIC stored as a text file ... scan listings from a mag / book and output a text file ... cope with extentons to zx basic like the +D comamds or ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) June 2004 Emulators
  • BASin Release 10 releasedHi all, A quick note to let you know that BASin_r10 is out as of now. I've gone off on something of a tangent now with BASin, it's more like what …

    ... be to automatically translate the basic code into mc , but ... compatibility? Would the variables be BASIC compatible? Use ROM routines (and ... make the creation of new basic programs a little more interesting ... scan listings from a mag / book and output a text file ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2004 Emulators
  • AdventuresCan anyone recommend adventure games for the Spectrum? I know I have played a few back in the days (Black Crystal and Greedy Gulch ring a bell), but…

    ... games next from a big basic listings book for the type-ins ... the arcade section of the book and that's next. two ...
    Sadako Sadako July 2004 Games
  • found old magazineHello fellow Spectrum worshipers :) As I was not sure where to post this, so I posted it here. I guess anything can be posted under miscellaneous. …

    ... entire Tim Hartnell's Giant Book of Spectrum Games, manuals for ... done. ( If they are only BASIC you may be able to ...
    Sadako Sadako August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASIC Programming ChallengeHi there. I have started a competition to see who can make the best BASIC program. The catch is, you can't use all the bells and whistles your machi…

    ... perhaps I should move into Basic book collecting, as apart from manuals ... I have not one single book on Basic, i.e. like from ... a book company or repectred author.

    I think perhaps Basic ...
    CKay CKay August 2004 Announcements
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