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Too hard to use RZX recordings!Now many emulators support recordings of RZX clips. I like it very much because it allows me to share some game tricks. But making RZX records requir…
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The Pre 85 threadMost of our memories are of games that were from 85 and onwards when the programmers had got to grasps with the Speccy and were coding more efficient…
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Finding my way home!Ohboy! Just signed up to this forum and boy am I going to hang around here from now on! I just need to tell you about my own background as a Speccy …
... with Spectrum 48K, playing games, coding my own games, and taking ... high school and went into coding on the Sam Coup? instead ... -
Finishing my Ragnar game...Hi all, Way back then, in my youth, I worked on a game for the Speccy called "Ragnar", which was a 3d isometric style mcoded game written from scrat…
... I would need is not coding, but rather advice on HOW ... to think when coding this!
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Decimals, bcd etc in z80...Working bloody full-time on my Ragnar Revival game right now - just finished the basic sprite engine and before I go on coding the actual 3d engine (…
... and before I go on coding the actual 3d engine (moving ... on how to think before coding!
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Survey: buying new games?Hi all, I'm steadily progressing with my Ragnar Revival isometric game for the Spectrum 48k and if I keep working as hard as I do now, it'll probabl…
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TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…
... . He would tell me about coding and stuff and I would ... versions will contain Editors for coding, memory, sounds, actions, scripts, etc ... . combined with an editor for coding all in one "Suite" that ... -
How do I fix faulty keys?I have recently bought a 16K Spectrum off e-bay,when I came to test it I found several keys where not working,is there a way to fix this problem by m…
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RemakesIm interested in getting into making remakes as a hobby although I have very little knowledge of programming at all. My question is which languages …
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Dave Perry InterviewI conducted this interview with Dave Perry, famous for games like Turtles, Trantor, Extreme and Dan Dare 3 to name but a few... Enjoy! Dave Perry wa…
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Wanted: Machine Code Sprites and Graphics BookWould anyone be willing to either sell or swap this book. Its full title is Machine Code Sprites and Graphics for the ZX Spectrum : A complete guide…
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RETRO GAMER ISSUE 7 now available to pre-order!Retro Gamer issue 7 will be available to buy from August 31st, and copies can now be pre-ordered from [url="http://www.retrogamer.net"]http://www.ret…
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My geeky timeline...1982 - Dad bought me a ZX81, started getting interested in computers. couldn't do much with 1k though :) 1983 - Dad bought me a ZX spectrum. Really …
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Open vs Closed Source Emulators.[quote] On 2004-09-02 01:51, cyborg wrote: [quote]Additionally, an emulator author may not have access to a recent Microsoft compiler and/or the appr…
... get practice at "distributed team" coding.
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Basic info about platformers...I have run a search for an answer to this question and haven't found quite what I was looking for so I thought I would pop a post on here... What ar…
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BASin Release 11 out nowBASin has been updated once again, for your BASIC programming pleasure! Get it at: [url="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/BASin_r11.exe"]htt…
Does Anyone have any advice for me?Hey, I've just recently bought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum + (I've been looking for one for a good year or so) and I plan to be learning to program with …
... some advice for me when coding, so far all I have ...DelphiSpec problemMaybe someone knows that problem with the emulator DelphiSpec? After some seconds of emulation it begins to produce strange noise (similar to helicop…
... with? DelphiSpec has quite strange coding style also...Project Future remake in progressActually I was too fast for my own good and posted the following bit in the "Them!" thread because I read "Project Future" in the title. D'oh! But h…
... have, and that affects the coding.
...but suddenly it ...Help needed to speed up functionCan anyone help me to re-factor this code snippet. The "MAP" section holds information about which tiles go where on the screen (handled by another f…
... have forgotten some of the "tricks".
ORG 50000 ...Sinclair branded softwareI am very interested in the Sinclair branded range of software and plan on creating a website on this at some point in the future. First I need to d…
... a while alongside the old coding system; I can only assume ...TZX Loop 0The original Road Blasters TZX has a decryption tone loop with a counter of zero. I'm coding TZX handling in my emulator and I'm wondering the best w…
... counter of zero. I'm coding TZX handling in my emulator ...BASin and LinuxHello funsters. Has anybody here tried running BASin under Wine on Linux? I'm going to try but want to know if my luscious locks are going to get pu…
... I can get back to coding in Basic again. But I ...LCD ( bmp2scr's author):Someone heard/met/mailed by LCD after September 2004?Hi everybody, I (and a my friends more then me) used to mail (1 mail every 2 or 3 months) to LCD (always kindly replied) about spectrum graphic r…
... ) about spectrum graphic related stuff , coding and
things like that ...Weird loaders; 1) Why? 2) How? (Curiosity question)Hello again. Sorry to be asking/posting so much today, but I've just arrived here and am plumbing the depths of nearly 22 years of making cups of te…
... some sort of special machine coding that meant the Speccy displayed ...Problems gettingI have been experimenting with the audio-out options most Spectrum emulators feature, in the hopes to get some of my games running again from the ROM…
... levels and a few other tricks but I seem to be ...ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
... you left off in your coding
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... you left off in your coding
Automatic line numbering - just ...ArmalyteI am sure a lot of folks here remember Armalyte, the fabulous C64 shoot-em-up that almost came out on the speccy. I think there was a demo on some of…
... Wildsmith is credited with the coding for it.
Well ...Looking for people to help with light codingNo, I don't have any lights in my house which run on Z80 ;). I am, as some of you probably know, an avid hacker of the JSW, though I use John Elliott…
No, I don't have any lights in my house which run on Z80 ;). I am, as some of you probably know, an avid hacker of the JSW, though I use John Elliott's excellent JSWED and some rudimentary hex editing sometimes to create special effects.
Since ...
