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  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... very crude example of a basic homing missile (well.. it's ... some drawbacks to such a basic approach. The most obvious is ... is the missile wandering in circles around its target, which imho ...
    TrueVideo TrueVideo March 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... types are common in programming circles and have a general purpose ... like C, Pascal, Fortran and Basic were king. A language is ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • compilerI am currently developing a sudoku game for the old faithful speccy. My idea is to write the code in basic and then compile it to m/c because i suck …

    ... a
    machine-codified Basic and is instead a collection ... be bigger. But only might. Basic compilers often attach an
    Basic). There are screen functions ... lines, plotting points and doing circles which are several times
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2006 Development
  • Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…

    ... job for the text -> BASIC converter rather than the editor ... myself, and googling "textmate sinclair basic plugin" doesn't turn anything ... thread is going around in circles - and I think I am ... ]Whilst browsing through the Sinclair Basic TM bundle, I found the ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…

    ... image parser to draw lines, circles and fills on screen reading ... to leave enough space for BASIC?

    Thanks ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2007 Development
  • Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…

    ... image parser to draw lines, circles and fills on screen reading ... to leave enough space for BASIC?
    [/QUOTE]

    z88dk ... pattern fill and return to basic

    .DOLINE

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …

    ... were pulled there is a BASIC program in the ZX81 manual ... when the author discovered that circles with sides divisible by four ...
    Geoff Geoff August 2008 Development
  • Bresenhams circle algorithmI post here my final circle code to replace, if you want, the one in the ROM. It only uses integer math and runs very fast and is very compact. It is…

    ... like circles I could share a piece of code in BASIC with ...
    Ralf Ralf September 2008 Development
  • Bresenhams circle algorithmI post here my final circle code to replace, if you want, the one in the ROM. It only uses integer math and runs very fast and is very compact. It is…

    ... like circles I could share a piece of code in BASIC with ...
    Fikee Fikee September 2008 Development
  • Hi-colour gamesDoes anyone remember some of the games that used something called Ho-colour? Like the options page on the Agent X games, and a few others. If memory …

    ... took forever to render in BASIC, but I don't remember ... animation. The Rainbow Processor uses circles image, and it was scrolling ...
    LCD LCD February 2009 Games
  • divers padi/cmasany divers amongst specchums?

    ... passed my PADI Basic cert (known in BSAC circles to stand for ...
    chev chev November 2009 Chit chat
  • divers padi/cmasany divers amongst specchums?

    ... =aowen;403347] PADI Basic cert (known in BSAC circles to stand for ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup November 2009 Chit chat
  • Feelin' kinda proud of myselfOkay, it has bugs. But I kludged it together about 10 mins after getting the sprite thing to actually work. [url]http://britlion.googlepages.com/Spr…

    ... write a complete Basic program (I tried drawing circles) with these things ...
    Ralf Ralf March 2010 Development
  • How paint in the down two lines ?The down two lines on the spectrum screen cant be used. But i remeber from the 80's that exist some code that allow us to paint on these two lines wi…

    ... serious about looking into ZX BASIC. (And a reference in ... /> 140 REM FAST CIRCLES - AND BIGGER THAN SINCLAIR BASIC ALLOWS
    150 ... as close to standard sinclair basic as possible. This program doesn ... draws in areas that Sinclair basic doesn't allow. Here's ...
    Gedlion Gedlion May 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    ... all seems to chase in circles in the buffer area.
    Basic entrypoints. In z88dk we offer ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2010 Development
  • Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]

    ... so routines are the most basic building blocks that many programs ... easy to begin with a basic program library shell when starting ... go round and round in circles starting projects and never ever ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Electric Bingo seriesThe Electric Bingo series by Sinclair User are a series of Amidar-clones that are pretty much the same game with the second and third games modified.…

    ... /> The basic gameplay is moving your ball around the circles to light ...
    Raphie Raphie March 2011 Infoseek database
  • Big K FlexidiscFrom issue 2 of Big K ([URL="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/BigK/Issue02/Pages/BigK0200011.jpg"]Page 11[/URL]) [URL="http://cg…

    ... help the user improve their BASIC programming.

    There was ... get Circles and Horizon to load. As I remembered they were BASIC ...
    absinthe_boy absinthe_boy May 2011 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Attribute Challenge x30[b]1. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/attrscr2/1.JPG[/img] 2. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/attrscr2/2.JPG[/img] 3. [img]http://dl.drop…

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;536829]However there is a ... a bit by Mugsy's circles. If you download the screen ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain May 2011 Games
  • Homebrew Coding Weekend @ In Da 80s, July 16-17, ManchesterHi, This is a bit late notice, but we're trying to reach out to 8-bit homebrew developers who might be at a loose end this weekend! We're trying to…

    I'll be there, though my 8-bit skillz are generally limited to PLOTting circles in basic :lol:
    j00ce j00ce July 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • real value of some of these books as learning aids?Ok, I admit perhaps it was a late night and frustration. :???: I could have been hallucinating when i was doing the typein. But I think not.. [url]…

    ... /basfill.htm"]simple fill in BASIC[/URL] posted by one of ... 's performing recursion in Sinclair Basic, this is a very poor ... the region between two concentric circles. Had it tried to fill ... the larger of the two circles, the program most likely would ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • A new ZX spectrum cloneOver the past 12 months i have been developing a new spectrum clone as a hobby project to waste my spare time on. It is still not fully complete yet …

    ...
    To support SE Basic IV you'll need to ... the TC2048, but SE BASIC IV needs to use ... be to add new BASIC commands that run the ... br /> Adding new BASIC commands to Sinclair BASIC is never simple. The ... function would make drawing circles in BASIC a lot faster. ...
    chev chev September 2012 Hardware
  • Image to BASIC commandsHi all I'm looking for an app that read an image (jpg, gif, etc...) and convert it to BASIC commands (DRAW, CIRCLE, etc...) The images to convert wi…

    ... vertices in sequence.
    * CIRCLE: Circles: mark the centre point and ... a program, then the required BASIC commands could be generated from ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2012 Development
  • Books that you just can't quit.Much as parts of the presentation,writing style infurates me, there is a book I just keep comming back to again and again. Its like the Yang to the …

    ... 's got this dodgy coloured circles effort.
    [code]
    10 ... . This bloody sphere was pretty basic to be fair, I was ...
    ZX Spectrum 48K ZX Spectrum 48K September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Canonical Spectrum pixel aspect ratioHi, Do any emulators support scaling the Spectrum image to have the "correct/canonical" pixel aspect ratio? On a 4:3 display, Spectrum pixels aren'…

    ... you draw a circle in BASIC it will look like ellipse ... 5.36%. Particularly for smaller circles you probably wouldn't notice ...
    mark_k mark_k January 2014 Emulators
  • How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…

    ... Spectrum do something more than BASIC plots, circles and beeps! So when ...
    Winston Winston March 2014 Development
  • CIRCLEHi, I'd like to draw a circle x,y,r using the BASIC-ROM subroutines. I've put x, y and r onto the calculator stack and used CALL #232D and RET. I g…

    ... timed them against BASIC for drawing 100 circles with coordinates x=120 ... , y=90, r=60:

    BASIC ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2014 Development
  • Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…

    ... -- asm programmers, C compilers, Boriel basic, ...

    As an example ... graphics primitive in some way -- circles broken into lines, matrix transformation ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • I wonder what this is?Just having a browse on ebay and came across [URL="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191216974918"]this[/URL], I wonder what its for?

    ... the user to draw lines, circles and triangles, and produce fillings ... , LOADed or COPYed [sic] from BASIC.

    Requires ZX81 and ...
    balford balford June 2014 Hardware
  • Why is the scene less participative now? or at least, a bit hollow...I have found out in the last months, that despite of having a huge number of new games with a huge quality, a great number of hardware projects, and …

    ... preferred usenet.

    The basic difference between posting to a ... with people outside the usual circles. I know loads of people ...
    leespoons leespoons July 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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