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Retro GamerI have only just heard about the Retro gamer mag. I am going to get issue 3 online as I can't find it in any shop :( I see on the website that issue…
My two issues cost me a grand total of ?11.98. Ah, them were the days! I could go to the pictures, have a fish and chip supper, and get the bus home and still get change out of sixpence. :lol: -
Memory Available for 16k and 48kAm I right in thinking that if I am writing a 16k Game, I have 8k available for the machine code prog 6000h to 8000h, and for a 48k game I have 40K a…
... 't know if some of that ram was used ... want to stay out of the way of Basic, set RAMTOP to ... first CLEAR 30000. Basic will move itself out of the way. If ... to a certain address, Basic can't contain itself in ... that limited amount of space and you'll ... -
sorry for repost, but can you give me the C64 games siteThere are a couple of site I was given earlier by someone on this board where I can download and play old C64 games. Can you send me there again? Tha…
... coder! Some of us, unfortunately, are limited to admittedly basic BASIC skills (or ... a game with 5 lines of BASIC code' for old time's ... -
sorry for repost, but can you give me the C64 games siteThere are a couple of site I was given earlier by someone on this board where I can download and play old C64 games. Can you send me there again? Tha…
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If any of those basic games written for the Crap ... said "not some 5 line basic game someones made up !" i ... was written in 5 lines of Basic then i'm the Popes ... -
New utterly crap game!Inspired by Andy Herbert's crappy game I decided that I should try and produce a similar if not better (or worse depending on how you look at it) eff…
... that 80% of contributions will be pure BASIC or BASIC with few MC ... extended versions of BASIC like MEGA BASIC, BETA BASIC
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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…
... 's from the book, "BASIC & FORTH in Parallel" ... 'some' knowledge of BASIC ) as it takes BASIC examples and shows ... do that goes beyond BASIC. I happen to like ... :) ) Getting a hang of the Reverse Polish Notation isn ... for Forth either. My Basic got better. I don ... -
New ZX Spectrum Development Site Soon...Hello, I am collating as much info as possible on programming the ZX Spectrum with the hope of more people getting into Z80 ASM, 'C' (z88dk) with Sp…
I know you're probably not really going to aim at BASIC, but my own project, BASin is gaining recognition as something a bit special in the realm of BASIC development.
Feel free to use it if you like...
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QuickBASICQuickBASIC Emulation: Is it possible to declare and pass global variables throughout a program along with confine a local variable to just a module-…
Sinclair BASIC has no concept of local/global variables, unless you' ... too, into the main "pool" of BASIC variables.
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Porting game to SpectrumHello, I'm trying to port a few of my homemade adventure games on over to the ZX Spectrum (16 or 48K). My games are available below: [url="http://…
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ModdingWouldn't it be great if we could mod Speccy games just like today's PC games.
... point is the horrible sick colour of the main thing, sorry, but ... ... in the words of Cartman "You shouldn` ah done ... -
SMAX - My Spectrum Killer App that never quite materialisedThis is basically a copy of my post to CSS, for anyone that doesn't read the group:- One or two of you may, if you have particularly good memories, …
... machine-code programs" with a BASIC compiler. Have you never ... />
The problem with BASIC is that it has a ... more 'friendly' way of describing a library of functionality for those ... am more than skeptical of the real benefit of BASIC compilers to anyone ... -
ModdingWouldn't it be great if we could mod Speccy games just like today's PC games.
... point is the horrible sick colour of the main thing, sorry, but ... ... in the words of Cartman "You shouldn` ah done ... -
Z80 core testing ?OK, my z80 core is almost finished (apart from RRD, RLD, and block instructions except LDI,LDIR,LDD,LDDR). I run the 48K rom and hurray, it resets co…
Found out the culprit - hadn't emulated EX (SP),HL.... (D'oh!)
Yeaah ! The BASIC editor works perfectly ! I've made an emulator in only 5 days... :)
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Re Unread threads on WOSInfo on read threads and posts are based on cookies, right? When I sit on my stationary and reading the WOS forum, I log in and read the stuff I hav…
You mean that the links look pre-visited? There's nothing at all to tell you if you've read a thread or not. The fact that the links change colour is just your Browser's behaviour - nothing to do with the Bulletin Board code at all. -
Re Unread threads on WOSInfo on read threads and posts are based on cookies, right? When I sit on my stationary and reading the WOS forum, I log in and read the stuff I hav…
... in the forum database instead of as cookies, i.e instead ... of browser based. (Technically it can ... visit).
Edit: No, of course not I don't ... changing colors, of course not. I mean the colour of the icons at ... -
Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …
... try it with a large BASIC program like Football Manager ... rest of the program was intact, and, furthermore, the BASIC program ... know enough about the structure of BASIC programs, patch up the ... about SAM BASIC, but maybe some of the Spectrum BASIC tricks apply ... -
RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…
... it is merely the brightest colour of the palette, the eye ... levels per primary colour, giving a palette of 4096 colours.
colour cannot match the pallete of ones with ... no realistic limitations (32 bit colour, photo-realistic images). Another ... -
maketzx problemsDoes anyone else have problems running maketzx v2.33 (with or without the GUI) on Windows 2000 Sp4? I've just changed my OS from Win Me where i've m…
... , autoline number and the number of lines of BASIC. For code and screen ... 'm about to dump a BASIC block, I create a dummy ... so I can load the BASIC into memory without it autorunning ... ...
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An emulator(another on of my projects) Does anyone know how to write an emulator? The emulated computer is very simple (a MK14, infact -also by Sir Clive) and a…
... is this the best version of Basic for the SAM? ( in ... just for pure speed of development Basic suits me... ok, so ... /> That`s heaven to a basic coder :)
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TAPER again...I'm now using a laptop with Windows 98SE, and TAPER doesn't work with that, which is really disappointing. I think the saying is 2You don't miss your…
... you don't want to change any of the options if you ... realise this was why none of my USB devices were working ... -
Queries about loading schemesAccording to the review of Wizard's Lair in Crash issue 14: [quote]Wizard's Lair has an unusual fast loader, which makes the border flash in wide ban…
... his loading code made them change colour when nearly loaded and so ... -
Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... don't understand the concept of the Crap Game Competition, ... TOTALLY MISUNDERSTANDING the whole point of the competition and voting for ... throwaway one-joke 3-lines-of-BASIC effort either...
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3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
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Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... it's too good for Basic it runs like crap making ... throwaway one-joke 3-lines-of-BASIC effort either...[/quote]
for wire frame in Basic and that balance between detail ... a "3D" game of this nature written in BASIC. That is why ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... , if only for the love of 8-bit...
Despite ... Coupe... jeez, over 440K (approx) of Basic to play with, 4 distinct ... colours, Amazing sound quality, Best Basic EVER - beating even most 16 ... wasn`t 12 Mhz instead of 6.
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Screen$Is there a quick way to get pictures off a PC e.g. from MS Paint, onto the spectrum without having to type in each individual pixel before saving the…
... tape have to have a BASIC loader at the start to ... have to necessarially be in BASIC - a common method used was ... machine code embedded in the BASIC program (a REM statement usually ... over - leaving only the minimal of actual use of BASIC. -
Original ZX Basic Manual in *.pdf formatDoes anybody knows where to get original Sinclair ZX Spectrum Basic Programming Manual written by Steven Vickers and Robin Bradbeer in *.pdf format? …
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That a few lines of BASIC and the all-important variables ... -
Cracking softwareIn the 80-ies I programmed a cracking program to crack exact 48K sized programs like POLE POSITION and A VIEW TO A KILL - CITY HALL. I still have it …
... /> Finally, another program (a mixture of BASIC and machine-code) was used ... all the differences, with addresses of course (keeping in mind whether ... in memory).
Nowadays, of course, I just use the ... built-in memory-dump facility of Z80 or X128 (SPIN ... -
Most popular new features? I know some people like a spectrum to be emulated as authentically as possible, while others like myself like features which improve the gfx, sound,…
... I looked at the 256 colour system (in EmuZWin) it worked ... would work on a video of the game, and takes no ... advantage of any info in the spectrums ... more than aware of the problem of deciding the colour of any object, there ...
