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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…

    ... use sprite multiplexing in the border area)

    Besides the ... simulator for the c64? full basic emulator, and loads tapes directly ... ! You can load a Spectrum BASIC game in (like Mined Out ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2006 Games
  • 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,

    ... one, yet still 100 % in Basic, it`s got added copper ... look colourful and enhanced sound effects... This game owns hard :D ...
    CKay CKay November 2006 Emulators
  • DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…

    ... rid of that damned 128k BASIC - so when choosing solutions ... compatibility issues, disabling 128k BASIC and enabling all other good ... , except that poor 128k basic, and you'll be ... for easy improvements without side-effects remaining. :)

    Regards ...
    zilog zilog January 2007 Development
  • EightyOne site down?Has anyone else had problems trying to get onto Mikes site?

    ... if we're talking about Basic, but you have to type ... by letter (like in Beta Basic, the 80-lec.rom or ... Spectrum commands INK, PAPER and BORDER. If you use the imc ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Battle of Games 6: Shoot em Ups 1Greetings to all :D Welcome to the first battle of games dedicated to Shoot Em Ups. First because I'm pretty sure everybody will speak of some game I…

    ... a terrible conversion, poor sound effects, poor graphics, cant believe they ... by Fuxoft. Bit like a basic Nemesis style game, very good
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2007 Games
  • Well I'm excited, but I guess you might not beHehe this is as far as I got today, a silly little border program: [PHP] ORG 32768 PROGGY: LD C,255 ; We loo…

    ... 'll be back out to BASIC. :-)

    Si[/QUOTE]
    border operations ( :-o ).
    [PHP]
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong February 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... the Sam when using Basic and the Rom routines ... said, still uncompiled SAM Basic, and it looks soo ... taking tips from Dunny`s Basic Tips thread.... has a ... does seem that SAM Basic is pretty fast if you ... P.S. those spectrum demo effects have not been speeded up ...
    CKay CKay February 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... everything I wrote with Sam Basic was slower than what you ... /> P.S. those spectrum demo effects have not been speeded up ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong February 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... can also get some weird effects by specifying a large value ... could easily interface it with BASIC programs.
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Development
  • 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…

    Anything that runs on a basic Spectrum is by definition within ... that played about with attribute/border timings or multiplexed multiple channels ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... to draw things in the border (well, extending the horizon ... the first to use a border effect, but it's ... hardly drawing in the border - just a colour change ... you actually playing on the border, although it's a ... screen tunes or static spot effects - let's face it, ...
    Gwyn Gwyn February 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... to draw things in the border (well, extending the ... s hardly drawing in the border - just a colour ... worry about the border. Changing the border half-way through ... manage to change the border at exactly the right ... didn't just do fancy effects (look to the demo ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall February 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... the speccy, great graphics, sound effects, and an incredible achievement by ... visual effects I've ever seen in the speccy - a 'groundbreaking' BORDER ...
    netraider netraider February 2007 Games
  • Who wrote Nightshade?The October section of: [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/24/lloyd85.htm[/url] (a Crash yearly round up) says about Nightshade - "It also wasn't mis…

    But it IS BASIC.

    I remember looking ... something like:

    10 BORDER 0; PAPER 0; INK 0 ...
    Bad Horsey Bad Horsey February 2007 Games
  • Who wrote Nightshade?The October section of: [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/24/lloyd85.htm[/url] (a Crash yearly round up) says about Nightshade - "It also wasn't mis…

    ... Horsey;172030]But it IS BASIC.

    I remember looking ... something like:

    10 BORDER 0; PAPER 0; INK 0 ...
    liamenikufesin liamenikufesin February 2007 Games
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... the first bit of basic after your screen. This ... />
    [code]
    15 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 0 ... that the bit of basic immediately after the screen ... You have replaced that basic file with your own version ... tool to remove that basic program from the tape. ...
    mulder mulder March 2007 Development
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... so my TZX loads my basic block, the SCR$, the ... CLEAR 29856 in the basic I do not know. ... this new basic loader....

    [code]
    15 BORDER 0: ... your TZX and running this basic program...

    [ ... "t:" in +2A / +3 Basic and playing your tzx.
    mulder mulder March 2007 Development
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... />
    Mulder, thx for the Basic load fixing :)

    FrankT ... this:

    [quote]15 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 0 ...
    alban lusitanae alban lusitanae March 2007 Development
  • Image convert: bmp - TAP - wav: help!(cross posted to css, too!) 'ello all! I've been asked to give someone a hand converting images into a format suitable for loading into a *real* sp…

    ... looking for a basic program.

    10 BORDER 0 : CLS
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Image convert: bmp - TAP - wav: help!(cross posted to css, too!) 'ello all! I've been asked to give someone a hand converting images into a format suitable for loading into a *real* sp…

    ... looking for a basic program.

    10 BORDER 0 : CLS
    j00ce j00ce March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Multiface ResidentI'm thinking about adapting some existing code to be Multiface "resident"... but being perfectly honest I'm not quite sure where to start. Any top t…

    ... red button will make the border turn yellow temporarily.
    [code ... turn the
    ;border yellow temporarily, then return to BASIC

    ;RET to BASIC


    in a ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous March 2007 Development
  • Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…

    ... time over to producing these effects meant the maze building took ... , games were mostly written in BASIC and a bit of hi ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2007 Games
  • It's fitting...... that in the very month that the 25th anniversary of the Speccy falls on, I'm just finishing up making my first ever Spectrum peripheral. It's a …

    ... part properly with a replacement BASIC ROM image (The Gosh Wonderful ... the other one with a BASIC OUT command (since the two ... . Basically sequence through checking the border colours set OK, colour attributes ...
    Winston Winston April 2007 Hardware
  • mgt disk readeri started writing a program for the pc to read and disassemble the files in MGT image files, but i have not had the time to do much with it latley, s…

    ... of each and every selected BASIC file selected. This involves searching ... right noises and flashes the border properly. It doesn't seem ...
    DEATH DEATH April 2007 Development
  • Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …

    ... will only be updated by BASIC programs).[/QUOTE]

    You ... which will therefore set the border back. Only time with a ... false border will be the time after ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2007 Hardware
  • Autorun BASIC programsIs it possible to write a basic program which will autorun after typing in LOAD ""? Thanks

    ... anti-merge and auto-run BASIC programs (most of them ... was to load the basic program as a code ... simple program to examine the BASIC listing and decimal contents ... routine which would LOAD the BASIC where it was supposed ... ,5,201
    20 BORDER 0:PAPER 0:INK 7 ...
    Marcelo Marcelo April 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Questions about the Emulator Cartridge...First of all, which models of the Timex Spectrum does it work on? Secondly, does it contain game files, or does it just enable you to play PAL Spect…

    ... support (and sometimes) AY sound effects added. Penetrator (the TS version ... use joystick, contains AY sound effects and will even fire on ... lower address than 2068 basic can allow (2068 basic has a ram ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2007 Hardware
  • Questions about the Emulator Cartridge...First of all, which models of the Timex Spectrum does it work on? Secondly, does it contain game files, or does it just enable you to play PAL Spect…

    ... support (and sometimes) AY sound effects added. Penetrator (the TS version ... use joystick, contains AY sound effects and will even fire on ... lower address than 2068 basic can allow (2068 basic has a ram ...
    beanz beanz April 2007 Hardware
  • SpeedloadersSince I read Lee Tonks' post about the speedloaded version of MM3 he did, I've been playing around with various speedload routines I found on TTFn & …

    ... loader (a copy of the BASIC loader) located in lower 16K ... that. I'd done raster effects before then too, but they ...
    obo obo April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Problems with TS2068sI bought 2 TS2068s, and this is what's happening: 1st computer: -The tv output doesn't work. The composite video output does* -The '7' key is dead.…

    ... little bit of flickering, the border doesn't include the top ... basic program that displays all the colours and a non-white border ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Hardware
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