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Raycasting (3D Games!) with SpecBAS<div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">Here's one I wrote just recently. I wanted to see …
Here's one I wrote just recently. I wanted to see if SpecBAS can handle a raycasting engine - which doesn't mean doom-style texture mapping (though I may try that later!) but a rather nice algorithm that matches nicely up with the old "3D Maze" games you ... -
Peeking the contents on screen? How?You will have to forgive me for growing up on the C64, but I know I can peek the location of a character (1024 is top left from memory) and the peek …
... the peek will return the chr$ code of the character in ... -
Chompston Mazes in SpecBASAfter the discussion in ASH-II's Pacman thread, I checked out the link there about generating 2D Pacman style mazes. This one was quite good fun, …
... RND*LEN e$,d$=d$+CHR$ VAL e$(a),e ... $(a+1 TO),l$=l$+CHR$ FN d:
... LET x$=x$+CHR$ x,y$=y$+CHR$ y:
NEXT ... and y$ variables, using CHR$ to convert from a number ... CODE (the opposite of CHR$) to convert back from ... -
Reading PC text files from BASIC!I was playing around with my DivMMC Enjoy! and managed to work out that it's dead easy to load PC .TXT files into the Speccy - I've got them viewable…
... the memory addresses and PRINT CHR$ PEEK 50001; etc. I used ... IF statement to avoid printing CHR$ 0 or 10 (10 inserts ... -
Simple bit of machine code not working [SOLVED]ishHi all. It's late and I'm tired and I have no idea why the following piece of code wont display a little smiley face [code]ld hl,udg ld (236…
... compiles okay as does printing chr$ 144.
Can one ... -
140 characters Basic game contestHey there, I've announced a new micro contest on my blog (in Czech language only). However, it might be interesting also for the non-Czech/Slovak …
Hey there,
I've announced a new micro contest on my blog (in Czech language only). However, it might be interesting also for the non-Czech/Slovak speaking people like most of you (I guess ;-) )
The contest is about making a ... -
How to separate a character from a number in a string?Hi I've been writing a kind of logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws according to what you give it. Say you w…
... some trick with VAL or CHR$ so the Speccy can determine ... -
Hey grandma!HOW TO SUCK EGGS! I always wondered about that saying 'teach your grandmother to suck eggs'! Blow them, yes, but suck? If you've never blown an e…
... UDG's and Sprites, klutzy chr graphics in particular, its faster ... -
A game from an other machine.if someone interesting, this is a game I created in 1989. this is the basic source, maybe somebody can convert to specy. An image: http://www.ep128.…
Out of compo 2017: ZX Spectrum erotic graphics competitionPlease vote for the graphics from Out Of Compo 2017: http://events.retroscene.org/ook2017/zxgfx?lang=English This year we have 10 ZX Spectrum scree…
... screens in standard, gigascreen and CHR$ formats and 10 53colors screens ...Tutorial: Using UDGs in SpecBASSpecBAS is capable of using graphics mode, in a similar manner to the original Spectrum. Like most things though, the extended nature of SPecBAS's ab…
... . In this case, "a" is CHR$ 97. The UDG for "a ...Random-Access to Microdrive FileI am working on a BASIC program to backup a microdrive text-file to standard tape array-file. To backup a text-file from one microdrive to a secon…
... TO -1
1040 IF CHR$ PEEK (cha+4)"M" THEN ... (511)
1430 PRINT #N;CHR$ PEEK (cha+593);
1440 ...how do i change the text and colour of the boot message and error messages?i kind of know how to do this with the boot message but shortening or lengthening the text and adding chr$ control codes (if this works) overwrites o…
... lengthening the text and adding chr$ control codes (if this works ...SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…
... many pixels line/col and chr squares there are so as ...De zeven sleutels van TARKUSI've decided to type in the game "De zeven sleutels van TARKUS" from a book I have for many years now. And, it seems the game as it was printed in…
I've decided to type in the game "De zeven sleutels van TARKUS" from a book I have for many years now.
And, it seems the game as it was printed in the book, didn't work.
So there are some modifications in there to make it work ...Hook CodesIf you've dug into the Interface 1 this should be an easy question. I last had 'em circa 1990 while I can remember the things they did Start Motor C…
... PRINT 19EC 1EE0 1EE2 print CHR$ A on system stream $FE ... LPRINT 19FC 1EF0 1EF2 print CHR$ A on stream 3 (the ...Machine Code ChallengeHere's a challenge for all you Z80 programmers. Points to be awarded for elegance and brevity. (I haven't got the solution either) HL addresses the …
... 257 times, so after printing CHR$(13)
........RET Z ; when ...
