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CPC Power goes down?These Amstrad CPC folks are unlucky people. WOS used to link to some CPC site and it went down. Recently it linked each game to a site called CPC-P…
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pathfindingworking on pathfinding in the game. here is Russian description of Lee's algorithm: [url]http://algolist.manual.ru/games/wavealg.php[/url] "if-then"…
... [*] All positions that are neighbor to the destination must be marked ... remaining positions that are neighbor to "1" must be marked ... look at the illustrations in slides 13 to 22 while reading ... when written in machine code - I've used it in several games in the ... -
Games written in White LightningI've just got my hands on the White Lightning package from Oasis (courtesy Bobs), and it seems to be a fairly powerful system with a comprehensive ma…
... designer was great to work with, but programming in FORTH was terrible ... . It's a really simple language to ... Lightning[/I] and [I]Machine Lightning[/I] being advertised for ... ]'s FORTH was easier to use than machine code.
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Varios +3(e)DOS questions?I'm converting tape games to disk, for being used in my +3e. I'm trying to convert them to standard BASIC loaders, so files could be copied using BAS…
... How did they read the disk? Did they use +3DOS calls ... quickly to read the CODE blocks for the game directly from the disk ... was working out where to break in the code.
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QL Super BasicDoes anyone know if the Basic on the QL was any good and if so would it be good to write platform games and such ? I am really interested in all ty…
... good implementation of the ability to create your own functions and ... commercial QL programs were written in SuperBASIC and then compiled with ... core functions and procedures in machine code and link them in as extra SuperBASIC ... -
Shifting the UDG pointer from a MC loop...I have got myself in a bit of a mess again, I am trying to write a machine code subroutine that shifts the udg pointer (23675) up 64 places then shif…
... ;708202]I have got myself in a bit of a mess ... again, I am trying to write a machine code subroutine that shifts the ... loop of the game, basically to create an animation.[/QUOTE]
Trigonometric find angleHi guys, anyone knows a formula to calculate an angle between two coordinates, using basic?s function ATN , recent programming tools have ATAN2(dy,dx…
... times than I care to remember as I write ... basically how the towers in Blizzard's Rift work ... out which direction to fire at the player:< ... you can then add to/subtract from the relevant compass ... Rift does all of this in machine code but the principle is ...Designing an icon-driven adventure: looking for adviceHi fellas, after the release of Funky Fungus, I am currently contemplating the possibility of designing an icon-driven adventure with location graph…
... think you'd need to incorporate some Machine Code routines in it. Doing this ... stuff in mags like ZX Computing that showed how to pass parameters to Machine code ... routines. Toni Bakers Streams and Channels series in ...Toni BakerApologies if this has been asked and answered before; a search (both WoS and Google) doesn't bring up many clues. I spent many hours as a youth try…
... as a youth trying to fathom Z80 machine code. I didn't ... reference I can find to her (him?) in my [URL="http ... find anything after an article in issue 38 (June 1987 ... wrote some later type in listing for Your Sinclair ... some references to some of his type in's which ...How do I enable Currah speech in ZX SpinHow do I get the speech to activate? Do I need to download the ROM from somewhere? Also how do you program it in machine code?
... do I get the speech to activate?[/QUOTE]
Tools ... how do you program it in machine code?[/QUOTE]
[url]ftp ...Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... to say that negative numbers don't exist in binary, not in "machine code". In ... any case, in binary, isn ... according to the 2's complement concept, in the case ... genuinely interested in this stuff and want to make sure ...Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... to say that negative numbers don't exist in binary, not in "machine code". In ... any case, in binary, isn ... according to the 2's complement concept, in the case ... genuinely interested in this stuff and want to make sure ...Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…
... to say that negative numbers don't exist in binary, not in "machine code". In ... any case, in binary, isn ... according to the 2's complement concept, in the case ... genuinely interested in this stuff and want to make sure ...Cover tapesI have acquired quite a number of cover tapes over the last two years with my Sinclair collection effort. I have Crash from June 89 to April 91, SU r…
... as I actually never bothered to see what are on them ... admit that since I started to collect Sinclair stuff just over ... few hardware interfaces. Even back in 1980 when I started with ... hardware design and doing programming in machine code.Speccy listings from 1984-1986 MikroBitti magazinesHey guys, I managed to scan these listings last night and now I uploaded them to my Dropbox. Grab 'em while you can. :D [url]https://www.dropbox.com…
... , but "Ahmatti" is a machine-code Pac-Man clone, which won ... interesting enough. I actually typed in and saved "Pyramidi" myself ... have to.[/QUOTE]
Well, if they were even in machine code, I ... to all those who type up!).
Are these programs in ...Machine code optimisationI'm geting back into z80 coding and wonder what the best way of showing how efficient the code is. I've got Rodney Zaks book and see there are timin…
... processor's clock to 'tick' once. M-(machine)-cycles are the ... So the time taken to execute a machine code command will be the ... actions required to complete it. To find the time in seconds (or ... ). Comparing the data flow diagrams in Zaks' "Programming the Z80" ...Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... m doing a CLEAR in machine code. The ROM header ... before relocating the turbo to uncontended memory, so ... has to be:
[LIST=1]
[*]Jump to machine code
[*]Relocate loader to high memory
[*]Jump to relocated machine code< ...coding guruOk I'm looking for a to help me in my quest to do my first proper game. The 80's child in me thinks he can do it, But the 2013 man in me knows zip. …
... can acheve and not get to dissapointed at lack of progress ... .)
If you want to have a more user-friendly ... implement parts of the program in machine code. the guys on the forum ... find half a dozen ways to drasticly increase the performance, turning ...Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
... of experiments is usually done in Machine Code by means of the so ... get the SD card respond to an 'Identify' command, using ... called on IF1bis) is programmed to service a choosen set of ... : Give 'Identify' command block (4) to peripheral
20 OUT 159 ...SoftPLAY: Use the PLAY command from 48 BASICNow you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B]PLAY[/B] command. Just use [B]PRINT #8;[/B] instead. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/So…
... ch-add system variable to point to the start of the ... command parameters before calling the PLAY code ... .[/QUOTE]
I'm wanting to write a machine code ... routine for an in game tune in 48k ...SoftPLAY: Use the PLAY command from 48 BASICNow you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B]PLAY[/B] command. Just use [B]PRINT #8;[/B] instead. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/So…
... 'm wanting to write a machine code routine for an in game tune in 48k ... if you want anything else to be going on while the ... for the tune you want to play then SoftPLAY will do ...The top 10 worst game controls in video games...allegedlySaw this video and thought others may find it interesting... [URL="http://videos.digg.com/post/65927899532/the-top-10-worst-game-controls-in-video-g…
[QUOTE=cole;733489]Yeah, who thought they were a good idea? I did get used to them though.[/QUOTE]
write a speccy game in machine code and you'll find out soon enough :)Downloading code to physical hardwareHi folks, Back in the day, my devkit was a TRS-80 and I had a simple connector device from the TRS-80 parallel (printer) port to the expansion bus o…
... Dan Antohni, has release applications to explore/copy/move/rename and ... with full disassembly of his code, full info on the ... Although everything you need to know is in there I feel its ... managed with Rokos help to write some machine code to get drive catalogs ...Downloading code to physical hardwareHi folks, Back in the day, my devkit was a TRS-80 and I had a simple connector device from the TRS-80 parallel (printer) port to the expansion bus o…
... . Although everything you need to know is in there I feel its ... managed with Rokos help to write some machine code to get drive catalogs into ...What 80's games authors are here?I realise there may be some who are keeping a bit quiet about who they are, but I'm using my real name as my WoS name and I know there are some other…
... br /> i ragged on you in the scroller for [b]Vladivar ... small "demo" lying around in my dev files (picture, ... 128 dual screen port) in the past as well. ... i'll get around to an actual machine code game...
in the day", not much ...Why?I'm just wondering why people are here? Why are we working on or using old hardware? Why are some of you putting a lot of effort in upgrading the ha…
... games in BASIC for the fun of it. Tried to learn machine code on ... for the umpteenth time to see how machine code worked, and somehow ... little games in BASIC, but now they had little machine code snippets ... like I'm ready to write a real machine code game...Type In Adventure....With a "sage"?I remember as a kid getting a book from the library. One of those type in adventure book thingys... I vaguely remember an adventure with a sage in a…
... Is it actually possible to have a type-in text adventure without ... a few type-in's that are solely in machine-code or hex or ... something cryptic.
Would you like to ... try to type in one of those? :p ...Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…
Am I right in thinking that Boriel's won' ... /> Things have to be amended to work?
For in-Speccy compiling ... using trig and poked-in machine code that cached data in upper memory.
Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…
... program? Things have to be amended to work?[/quote]
... always had to modify existing programs to declare types to get ... trig and poked-in machine code that cached data in upper memory.[/ ... integers and restrict yourself to integer calculations then HiSoft ...Pseudo-3D map renderingHave been mulling this over for a while, until that isometric thread prompted me to ask. I'm not sure if this is officially classed as 2D, 2.5D, or 3…
... of Bomb Munchies was in the style of the screen ... first test of writing something in machine code, but it worked. Rendered ... and writing it back to the screen as it ... of it. Movement was in the same style as < ... just the logic has to be worked out first.
