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  • Making a Speccy-Like Text Adventure for Windows (follow-up)Hi to every1 who took an interest in the previous thread. I've decided to take up what I suggested previously and make a Windows version of a speccy…

    ... and make a Windows version of a speccy adventure.
    of the locations into ADRIFT ... work (on the pretence of actually doing something) and ... don't wanna change any of the puzzles as I ... me with any kind of comments/suggestions at
    Chris Chris August 2001 Games
  • Looking for the following...Do you have any of the following Sinclair software titles? Good money paid for working originals with inlays and instructions. Please let me know pri…

    Do you have any of the following Sinclair software titles? ... postage, if you have any of the following...

    email ... /> ZX Spectrum

    The Colour of Magic (Piranha / Delta 4)
    wadsterboy wadsterboy December 2002 Wanted
  • just "plus other bits"Meteor Storm, Quicksilva Games 1, Sinclair Rainbow book of BASIC programs, WH Smith Cheers, Steve. [ This Message was edited by: steven on 2003-04…

    Meteor Storm, Quicksilva
    Games 1, Sinclair
    Rainbow book of BASIC programs, WH Smith

    Cheers,
    Steve.


    [ This Message was edited by: steven on 2003-04-30 18:24 ]
    steven steven April 2003 Wanted
  • A tribute to Tim HartnellIn my bid to get some permissions from book authors for the Type-Ins Project, I thought I'll get in touch with the daddy of 'em all - Tim Hartnell. …

    ... in touch with the daddy of 'em all - Tim Hartnell ... says good ol' Tim died of cancer in 1991.
    ... feel a profound sense of loss at his demise. ... Having had a number of books edited by Tim ... have discovered the wonderful world of BASIC programming. God bless you ...
    Arjun Arjun November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Atari ST Diskshello again, forgive me for the format change.... some of you may remember i requested some *original* atari ST disks a while back for dumping to pr…

    ... me for the format change....

    some of you may remember ... , i had an amazing response of 1 person (thanks bcass!)
    Interceptor Interceptor January 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • ONELINER TEXTADVENTUREI had the idea to try to code a small textadventure in just one line of BASIC-code. Here is the result. Although short to play, have fun with it. [c…

    ... textadventure in just one line of BASIC-code. Here is the result ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2004 Games
  • The Speccy Games Programming CompetitionFor those who weren't following the OT thread... We have the CGC and we have the Minigames competitions, but we don't have an actual Spectrum Games …

    ... are:
    BASIC games
    compiled BASIC games
    ... of BASIC like MEGA BASIC, BETA BASIC
    any combination of ... above
    4)extended versions of ... , smoother than comparitive BASIC games (even if they ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2004 Games
  • Pentagon interface news from VELESOFTIt's from Xagon's board. It is about new interface for Speccy - it make Your comp compatible with Pentagon (and not only) and also it gives You up t…

    ... gives You up to 1024Kb of RAM.

    ... have finished the final concept of an internal
    interface ... for working mode change.

    - instead of ROM there will ... one disk change.
    MFC automatically detects the type of computer ...
    Yerz Yerz June 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • My geeky timeline...1982 - Dad bought me a ZX81, started getting interested in computers. couldn't do much with 1k though :) 1983 - Dad bought me a ZX spectrum. Really …

    ... . Bought books, wrote a number of basic programs, including a word processor ...
    Parky Parky August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best sequels...I know the speccy had a bad habit of ruining games with terrible sequels (renegade 3, barbarian, yi ar kung fu, op thunderbolt and so on) but what we…

    ... speccy had a bad habit of ruining games with terrible sequels ... sprint is possibly one (cos of the editor).

    IK+ is ... ).

    i cant think of many others tho...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree October 2004 Games
  • Great gag..In the early to mid 80's my brother and I would go into shops like Boots or W H Smiths which had Spectrums on display. We would type in a bit of BAS…

    ... would type in a bit of BASIC code that made it look ... . We would add a bit of code that said something like ... be high! After a couple of minutes or so, the Spectrum ... , does anyone know that piece of code? I can't remember ...
    mrmessy mrmessy November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Just Put 1500+ Tapes on Ebay for Grabs, alsoa few game and watches if anybody is interested, thanks for reading.. [url="http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQgotopageZ1QQsassZcornishdaveyQQsorecordspe…

    ...
    Cartoon Capers Compilation
    Colour of Magic, The Piranha
    Confuzion ... Weapon Dinamic Software
    Mystery of the Indus Valley
    Nosferatu ... Cars Construction Set
    Way of the Exploding Fist + aka. Exploding ...
    Cornishdavey:)) Cornishdavey:)) January 2005 Sales
  • Special Edition CGEUK Spectrum Disc, Would you be interested ?We are going to do a one off , limited edition , one day only etc. PC CD of spectrum games , for the show , pre - future proper commercial launchs of…

    ... , pre - future proper commercial launchs of games which will be done ... - There will be some sort of basic insert inside which will be ... !!) . Hence the one off nature of this disc. There are seven ... all being well a version of our new emulator , bugs permitting ...
    Retro-Soft Retro-Soft July 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games for saleHi all, after a bit of debate I've decided to break most of my games collection. The following titles are all available for the spectrum: Ollie & …

    ... br /> Mikie
    The Colour of Magic
    Dangermouse in ... Heroquest
    Heroquest Return of the Witchlord Expansion set
    of Aces & Gauntlet)
    ... (Supercars, Lotus Challenge, Shadow of the Beast, Impossamole & ...
    JJ JJ July 2005 Sales
  • Is there a utility to read TRD disk images from a MB02+ ?I would like to know if anyone has ever come across to a utility that could allow you to load trd images on a mb02 without having to change any of th…

    ... a mb02 without having to change any of the loading routines.
    Anestis Anestis November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Microdrive FormattingHo hum, yawn, microdrives - my favourite subject... ;) I?ve been doing some tinkering around, and have noticed that issuing a FORMAT command (with t…

    ... syntax) from a line of BASIC, or by directly entering ... FORMAT with a BASIC program present, the newly ... with remnants of the BASIC program. The size of the BASIC program doesn' ... experimenting with the first line of BASIC being a REM statement ...
    jp jp November 2005 Development
  • Mega rare Red Boxes home control systemMega rare Red Boxes starter system hardware ? Sinclair / Commodore / BBC Now there?s rare and there?s rare! This piece of kit dates from 1986 and wa…

    ... by General Information Systems Ltd of Cambridge. It forms a ... />
    The package consists of:

    Poly inners ... something called Red Basic, a powerful version of BASIC, specifically developed for ... Red Basic system.

    I doubt many of these ...
    wadsterboy wadsterboy February 2006 Sales
  • Spectrum Wargaming bookAt the weekend my brother gave me a present that he found - a copy of [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Spectrum+Wargaming$"]…

    ... that he found - a copy of [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... know it, contains a bunch of BASIC listings for four wargames (I ... I've not read much of the book yet).
    I ... 'm a fan of turn-based strategy games on ... to know what people think of them.
    icabod icabod March 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Development advice I was an user of the Spectrum 48K in the old days. I arribed to learn a lot of BASIC, and a bit of assembler. The time have passed, and now I am …

    ... learn a lot of BASIC, and a bit of assembler.
    ... decided to broad my knowledge of Spectrum programming.
    < ... classic MONS/GENS, Hisoft Basic, and Hisoft C, ... to create Screen$, the basic loader, and compile C ... able to inject my Basic loader, Screen$, and ...
    jgutierrez jgutierrez March 2006 Development
  • loading up my old tapeshey there people, perhaps you can help me out with a (not so) little problem i'm having.... I'm trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventur…

    ... to transfer an old basic-coded text adventure my ... doesnt. (tape load error, lots of data missing)

    of basic as a TAP or ... questions. firstly, do any of the emulators work this ... mucking around with lots of tape related settings in ...
    Hungry Horace Hungry Horace March 2006 Emulators
  • Smax?I've got SMAX v0.0.1, has anybody got any information about it? It isn't on WOS any more as far as I can see. What language does it use (seems like…

    ... use (seems like a form of BASIC)? Is it still in development ... , or was it abandoned because of other projects like Basin and ...
    mulder mulder May 2006 Development
  • Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…

    ... Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great ... have a lesser understanding of (I find the game ... the row/column limitations of BASIC I can't center ... mean using machine code, of which I have a ... VERY pre-historic knowledge of).

    And ...
    zxbasic zxbasic October 2006 Development
  • Type-InsJust wondering ... The British comic 2000AD had a column of type-ins in the early 80's. Is there any info on them? All I have is that the 1984 2000…

    ... comic 2000AD had a column of type-ins in the early ... has a 2 page spread of basic programs:

    Robo-Seige ... regularly in 2000AD with more of your zarjaz microcomputer programs.
    dekh dekh March 2007 Infoseek database
  • I woke up this morning and wanted it sooo bad!I woke up this morning next to my girlfriend and the first thing that came into my mind was.... "I wanna play R-Type II on the Spectr…

    ... all other than a bit of basic back in the day (don ...
    HonoredShadow HonoredShadow August 2007 Games
  • Best faithful-to-the-original AY tunes?When I used to play the piano, I was told by my fellow mates that I didn't had to try to play the music as close to the original as possible. In thei…

    ... played. I don't change any of the notes nor add my ... [/url]

    Two of the channels on Zoom's ... notes that are not part of the original theme, and ... tune is a perfect example of how to do it ... if someone has any recommendations of faithful-to-the-original ...
    zxbruno zxbruno September 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…

    ... !

    The purpose of this prototyping session was to ... an extremely simple job of interpreting the line of BASIC at CH_ADD. As ... that's normally illegal in BASIC into a program.
    < ... a very successful couple of evenings of Spectrum hacking, and some ...
    Winston Winston December 2007 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and ... get through to the end of the wormhole without being slowed ... the tears in the fabric of space-time. T-Y is ... ][INDENT]I've taken lots of inspiration from the Dr Beep ...
    bigjon bigjon January 2008 Development
  • I am looking for .......ok way way back in 1985 specdrum was released for the spectrum this i know but on a magazine it was either crash or your sinclair or sinclair user …

    ... which was written by one of the tech tips people where ... had i think a kit editor too but i cant seem ... know there is a tzx of kit editor for specdrum on the ... tape but for the life of me cant remember which one ...
    wadfm wadfm February 2008 Announcements
  • The Colour Of MagicWho else will be watching this tonight? I can't wait for it. :D Necros.

    Who else will be watching this tonight? I can't wait for it. :D

    Necros.
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton March 2008 Chit chat
  • Looking for a type-in.I remember a type in program of a sliding block puzzle. It used code to shift the screen blocks. At the start of a game you could select how many m…

    ... a type in program of a sliding block puzzle. ... to jumble the pieces of screen up. The screen ... I do remember a basic program that drew some geometric ... sure it was a mixture of basic and code. I've ... Maybe I wrote the basic program myself using the various ...
    FrankT FrankT October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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