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Games published in Magazines.First of all this is a fantastic site. I am 38 years old now and this has bought back memories(and a lump in my throat) of my beloved speccy. I wond…
... got published :(
i used to get sinclair programs and i ... them but i cant seem to find them anywhere,does anyone ... a christmas special sort and in it, it had a very ... spectrum which ran in machine code,i remember typing it in took me 2 ... -
+3 Disks, SDP Project Getting There !!Hi folks, Seems to have been quite a good month for +3 disk preservation. More people are warming to the idea of preserving those little 3" plastic…
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WOW Bubbler from Ultimate on ebay!!!!!here is the link will be bidding myself :) [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3408211002&category="]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws…
... Ebay. I try to buy games to play, not to collect as a ... .50 max bid in, I check later to see that it sold ... manuals, I want to buy some to learn speccy machine code, but they all ... , it's getting too expensive to run ;) hehe. -
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…
... games designing programs was that to a (at the time) clueless ... Load "" or edit a loader to input poke cheats. learning another ... drive the average person nuts in machine code.
anyway i 'just ... , but someone explained it to me in a way that has now ... -
Type in Games from magsDon?t suppose that anybody has any scans of type in games that you used to get in magazones like Big K and the like. The reason I ask is that there …
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Speccy programmers?Do any well-known old speccy programmers, or other well-known people from the spectrum scene ever use this forum does anyone know?
... Smith is meant to get all the kind mentions in this forum ... early 80s. All done in machine-code, no compilers in those days. Forgotten it ... -
Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…
... code (ie. the code we see on screen and have to match in our code ... the code above from this point. The only things you need to change ... reults will be) we need to change the first instruction LD HL ... -
AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…
... from line 177 to 192. i want to get down theer ... and be able to plot by hand. i ... program that will only allow to draw lines, arcs, circles ... . i have to try and figure this out in MC.
the rest is in machine code. gimme a break ive JUST ... -
AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…
... from line 177 to 192. i want to get down theer ... and be able to plot by hand.
... fast plotter in MC, you can use it to draw lines ... [quote]
the rest is in machine code. gimme a break ive JUST ... I didn't mean to sound harsh in any way, I was ... -
AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…
... wrote:
the rest is in machine code. gimme a break ive JUST ... /> I didn't mean to sound harsh in any way, I was ... coding, I'd be happy to oblige. :)
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Machine CodeI would like to learn how to use it. Where do I start? Thanks.
... webpage below). There are subroutines in there for animated sprites, background ... call, just snoop around in the source code provided with SP, looking ... .bin" which is your machine code program assembled to start at 32768 (changeable ...POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…
... break into this program in an attempt to cheat by examining ... the one just typed to be changed to an A... and ... POKE in itself, or is it more likely to be a machine code routine ... was written entirely in machine code (the Island needs LOAD "" CODE to load it, it ...ANN: Spectaculator 5.3 (Speccy Tour players - please read!) Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/…
... /> I can't seem to play the disk version of "Axe of ... and the basically copied the tape to disk for distribution, nowt fancy and ... they needed to do was a short little menu in BASIC and ... make a file to load it ...ebook on graphicsi would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there any scanned ebooks about it on a site?
... /> i would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there ... 're in luck. Someone recently scanned in David Webb's Advanced Machine Code Programming ... />
Unfortunately (maybe) it's in Spanish.Multi loads and Mac Spectacle.I use Mac Spectacle but have never been able to get it to run multi-load games (such as Karnov) on it. Any ideas how I do this? [ This Message was e…
... loaders in machine code often don't work.
MacSpectacle used to be ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... s why Spectrum games tend to have superior playability.
to the extreme with modern ... machine, and in order to do so, you either had to delve into machine code ... taste for the machine's potential before having to learn machine code.whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... reliant on the machine to do the hard work" in the same way ... 't [I]available[/I] to them from machine code? Don't be a ... takes a lot of pride in his work, i take offence ... at personally albeit in a reasonably comedic, huffy manner ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... me bothering since everybody seems to file everyone with a different ... br />
You are entitled to your opinion, and some of ... it without putting their side to the argument. Especially when some ... support for a Circle command in machine code? I think not. We' ...Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... it'd be nice to be able to address this Ram as ... the instructions. If you want to address linearly then you just ... have to have bigger instructions.
in machine code scrolling PAPER is no different to INK. BASIC is ...The Greatest Spectrum Game Programmer!In my opinion the greatest Spectrum programmer of all time was Pete Cooke, this lone programmer was responsible for some of the best Spectrum games e…
... of whatever faceless corporation is to blame for the latest ... [/quote]
I tend to follow peeps about a bit ... impossible amount of catching up to do with Spectrum games, ... somewhere that Deathchase was written in machine code?! was this not so unheard ...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…
... /> Andy: *Thwack!*
Drats to you all! My self belief ... give up now. In fact, I'm off to code a truly crap ... , was very playable, was coded in machine code, and it still won the ... />
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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…
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In this case a smug satisfaction ...Bouncy maze game???Hi, I've been hanging around other Speccy sites for awhile now but only just come accross this one,which looking at the content amazes me that I didn…
... better. I think it was in machine code though, and the graphics were ... .
I would like to claim credit for at least ... was pretty easy to implement the routines printed in YS though.
I am glad to say ...This month's Retro Gamer - Cascade 50 honouredWell, after what seems like no end of Cascade Cassette 50 talk this month at WOS ("50 [I]great[/I] games on one [I]great[/I] cassette"), Retro Gamer …
... would bother ... maybe to push them to get programming and do ... result is almost guaranteed to not be anything exceptional. ... " was just a springboard to get more people programming into ... the minigame contestants doing stuff in machine code in 4k and 1k.
...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…
... next step for me is to create machine code routines for the coordinate ... calculation and screen update routines to bring ... rate to something acceptable. Unfortunately, I am only starting out in machine code, 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…
... version setting the emulator speed in Spectaculator to x6 ...
( for ... i set the speed in Spect. to 8 or more it seems ... were really done in machine code and you didnt need to set the speed ... program. i like it. ( using IN to use more than one key ...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…
... version setting the emulator speed in Spectaculator to x6 ...
[snip ... it was written in machine code. But the slowness of the code in Basic makes ... more fustrating to have to take the long way back to the castle ...jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…
... perfect in basic. You could just use four character blocks to draw ... actually how it's done in machine code!
The difficult bit ... with the guardians. Doing that in BASIC would almost certainly slow ...Key Redefine RoutineAnyone written a nice key redefine code snippet?
... have considered assembly language, not in a million years.
... the hell to do a key redefine routine in assembly. < ... to come here when I need help rewriting Crap Castle Master in machine code ... trembling in a corner, mumbling and gibbering away to myself ...making manic miner games(post 1 of new week) does anyone know of a freeware windows spectrum emulator that you can make new mm games with. i've tried zx32 and it did not wor…
... , and since it`s written in machine code, it doesn`t require a ... of processor power.. it tends to freeze a lot for me ... you were having problems with, machine chosen or something.
in 128K mode?
