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  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... ) in BASIC routines?

    2) Pokes to get cool stripes in ... to make first line in BASIC start from 0.

    Admittedly these are all BASIC related stuff. Hopefull we'll ...
    Arjun Arjun March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... in BASIC routines?

    2) Pokes to get cool stripes ...
    Admittedly these are all BASIC related stuff. Hopefull we'll ... Reading the kempston joystick from BASIC is very easy. You ... sometimes in BASIC) you can get some really cool multicolour border ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers April 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... bits and bobs for a "BASIC Programming FAQ" style document, and ... bainstorming in as possible? All tricks and tips are welcome, no ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2005 Development
  • Anyone remeber Pegasus Software?I've got a bit of a strange question for you all. A couple of months ago, I started work at a company called Pegasus Software, who make accounting so…

    ... if my memory was playing tricks on me (possibly RAM pack ... corridors of Speccy gaming history :cool:
    Mighty_Zol Mighty_Zol April 2005 Games
  • Game being created with Platform Game DesignerBeen playing with this since yesterday when i bought it from Cronosoft. To someone like me who cant program its excellent to create a Manic Miner st…

    ... some sort of text in basic to add to the main ... like that ?

    Sounds cool though.

    The lower ...
    psj3809 psj3809 April 2005 Development
  • WOS Times magazineOK folks, as promised in the latest ZXF I'm starting a thread up to discuss the issue of a new magazine. I know this has recieved some discussion al…

    ... of the various BASIC compilers. (new!)
    * RZX recordings - tricks and tips ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Competition: Sadistick routine on Spectrum ROMMy vote goes to BEEPER at #03B5 Let's ear you pick! :) And a great BOHHHHHHHHHHHHH to Dr Ian Logan & Dr Frank O'Hara for their description about the…

    ... program using the Spectrum Calcularor... Cool :D

    Thanks
    Basic. :D

    _________________
    AE.Vasconcelos AE.Vasconcelos May 2005 Development
  • Game endings..which are your best / worst ones?I'm not sure how valid this is on a spectrum site considering the memory capacity of the machine,but were there any games out there with any good gam…

    ... in the flower!),
    Cookie (cool cake!), Knight Lore (animation shows ... so it's a very BASIC ending but at least you ...
    jil jil May 2005 Games
  • What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…

    ... .

    The first BASIC game I wrote was a ... followed a series of small BASIC games including road racers, alien ... at integrating machine code with BASIC. The MC did the ... My recent attempts at ZX BASIC have resulted in Dash-it ... haven't forgotten the tricks!
    Arjun Arjun May 2005 Games
  • Gotta love computers......for they allow me to do cool things such as THIS: [url="http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/whatsnew.htm"]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/tvprog/whatsnew.htm[…

    ... time. It's very basic, but it still looks so damned cool ;)
    NickH NickH June 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games with weird titlesSome games have weird titles. For example "Kokotoni Wilf". What are your favourite weird games titles?

    ... to write a game in BASIC with a friend. We called ... but we thought it sounded cool :D
    cascarria cascarria July 2005 Games
  • Mayhem Accelerator in actionI've put together the first video of the prototype Mayhem Accelerator running on the Sam Coupe. The video shows the Sam running a ZX Speccy emulator …

    ... I need a fan to cool it?

    Can you ... Accelerator down & Speedup from Basic ie, is it programmable? for ... BASIC or code?

    Great ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) July 2005 Announcements
  • GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…

    ... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas"]http://www.wearmouth ... .demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas[/url]
    [/quote ... /> I have this in the tricks section of the old spanish ... to use in my own basic interpreter adapting to C++ from ...
    NotFound NotFound July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Commodore 16 (yuk!) help neededJust got hold of a whole bunch of retro computers. Slowly working through them, fixing, canibalising, dumping etc. does anyone know what power suppl…

    ... that provided 128 colours. The Basic was a vastly improved one ... SID card, which is really cool. Its worth seeing what these ... be expanded. Also came with basic version 2, in a lot ...
    C16 C16 August 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Commodore 16 (yuk!) help neededJust got hold of a whole bunch of retro computers. Slowly working through them, fixing, canibalising, dumping etc. does anyone know what power suppl…

    ... that provided 128 colours. The Basic was a vastly improved one ... SID card, which is really cool. Its worth seeing what these ... be expanded. Also came with basic version 2, in a lot ...
    C16 C16 August 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • commodore 64 site???when I was a kid, I had the old +3 spectrum, most of my friends had the 48k and the +2 (my dad baught the +2 on christmas...got to impatient and swap…

    FACT - Although the Spectrum is cool and an 80`s icon ... the Spectrum has got better Basic"...And anyway, it was only ... in their rooms programming in basic.
    BuzzySounds BuzzySounds September 2005 Emulators
  • commodore 64 site???when I was a kid, I had the old +3 spectrum, most of my friends had the 48k and the +2 (my dad baught the +2 on christmas...got to impatient and swap…

    ... /> FACT - Although the Spectrum is cool and an 80`s icon ... the Spectrum has got better Basic"...And anyway, it was only ... in their rooms programming in basic.

    [/quote]
    You ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler September 2005 Emulators
  • unreleased spectrum protection system - any use any more? also pokerama sourceDon't know if anyone's interested in this. During my days hacking games for Your Sinclair and Crash (and Sinclair User for a while) I had a pet proje…

    ... decryption you used? Any clever tricks? Just listening to that wav ... like you've got one basic bit then it loads some ... don't incorporate it into basic and move it to where ...
    JonNorth JonNorth October 2005 Development
  • unreleased spectrum protection system - any use any more? also pokerama sourceDon't know if anyone's interested in this. During my days hacking games for Your Sinclair and Crash (and Sinclair User for a while) I had a pet proje…

    ... />
    [quote]
    Any clever tricks?
    [/quote]

    Dunno ... like you've got one basic bit then it loads some ... don't incorporate it into basic and move it to where ... incorporating the code in the BASIC :)

    [quote]
    Might ...
    Woody Woody October 2005 Development
  • 42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…

    ... system variables and before the BASIC area. There's not much ... , my memory may be playing tricks on me and I'm ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2005 Development
  • 42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…

    ... system variables and before the BASIC area. There's not much ... , my memory may be playing tricks on me and I'm ...
    wilsonsamm wilsonsamm October 2005 Development
  • PS2 Resident Evil 4!!Just played the PS2 demo of RE4....fantastic!! Anybody else played it yet?

    ... , most ports these days are basic copies of the lowest performance ... I'm most interested in :cool:

    _________________
    I ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob November 2005 Chit chat
  • PS2 Resident Evil 4!!Just played the PS2 demo of RE4....fantastic!! Anybody else played it yet?

    ... , most ports these days are basic copies of the lowest performance ... I'm most interested in :cool:

    _________________
    I ...
    Arm73 Arm73 November 2005 Chit chat
  • Another Cauldwell game shocker!Turbo Mania 16k was released yesterday at the time of writing. Does the man ever sleep? Regards, Shaun.

    ... 15:37, judasEZT wrote:
    cool.. also has minigames ala Warioware ... which fits cool in the gameplay.

    basic so i'm sure it ...
    psj3809 psj3809 November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • games on diskHelp does anyone know of any tape to disk transfere utility for the +3 speccy? I have games on tape & would like them on disk.Better still got the di…

    ... a RAM image - which is cool if you're not a ... me. I want:

    Basic loader
    Screen$
    block ...
    DEATH DEATH November 2005 Wanted
  • Just brushing up on old skills...Ahead of XLR-8 I thought it best I get a little hacking practice in after all these years ;) Chose Op Wolf 128K to pick on this fine evening! lol […

    ... incorporating Marko's rather cool method of leaving BASIC :)

    [url ...
    Woody Woody November 2005 Development
  • ANN: midi2ay 0.1Well, here's the MIDI-to-AY converter I promised. I've named it "midi2ay" (original name eh?) [url="http://es.geocities.com/qllaria/midi2ay/midi2ay-…

    ... :48, FRGT/10 wrote:
    Cool! great work!

    Can ... .tap file code return to Basic after play?
    [/quote]
    BASIC from an assembly program (at ... /> Another solution would be the BASIC PLAY output feature I mentioned ...
    cascarria cascarria December 2005 Development
  • ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…

    ... any site that shows visual tricks (which line is longest or ... and languages to illustrate the basic workings and logic of the ... issue would then use Blitz basic to do the same. Of ... the same article for Blitz Basic, then feel free.

    ADJB ADJB December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…

    ... to continue if Simon's cool. =-)

    Same deal as ... language do you use? (Asm, Basic, C etc)

    Assembly ...
    TMR TMR February 2006 Development
  • Worst loading screenAlmost every Spectrum game has a loading screen. Some of them are good, some are not. So, which one is the worst loading screen ever?

    ... loading screen is pretty clever/cool. However, I was judging simply ... ), not the clever little loading tricks going on before it. Nice ...
    jil jil February 2006 Games
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