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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…
[quote]Okay, the game expects keys numbered 0-39.
If ... planning to do this in BASIC. Yes, a RET will do ... correct address, everything callable from BASIC.
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Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
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Xadom is my fave BASIC game. It's actually quite ... at first glance and the keys seem a bit of a ... -
Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
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Xadom is my fave BASIC game. It's actually quite ... at first glance and the keys seem a bit of a ... in mind that, 'my FAVE basic game' doesnt count as very ... -
Why emulators are not as good as the real thingI think I remember thx1138 saying before that emus didn't cut it for him. Well, I agree. They are good fun, and I got into the Speccy for a second ti…
... see the Speccy reset to basic in the familiar way it ... none of the hassles - bad keys, dodgy power supply causing resets ... -
Help with loadingI made a simple input game, and saved to tape/verified it (I bought the spectrum for ?1 at my church fete on saturday) and when I go to 'loader' on t…
... need to go into 128 BASIC and type LOAD "". Press play ... press one of the cursor keys (you can press any key ... , but cursor keys are safer) to view the ... , you can go into 48k BASIC and type LOAD"" (done by ... -
Challenge II: Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans on the speccyThis should be challenging!
... !!!!!!! How much!!!! Learn alone programming basic but i learn they limitations ... rewriting all the code of basic at routines of code machine ... of game is enter the keys in the squares white flashing ... not in the menu. The keys are redefines if you like ... -
Lunter's Z80 RegistrationHow can I register or crack Z80 v4.0 Please someone answer me.
... to use more than 2 keys at the same time, to ... ]
And the special spectrum keys are mapped to a PC ... key, and the PC arrow keys for editing.
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BASIC work.
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Manic Miner Basic Source?Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making…
... using up down left right keys(INKEY$).
Then try to ... learning games programming in Sinclair Basic.
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Scart - S videoWhat is the difference, I know they are both RGB. I want to make a Scart cable for my speccy, and my tv card has s video input, however I don't know …
... all new TV will automatically detect the presence of an svideo ... comment ...
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IN command in BASIC to read keyboardThis weekend on a Sinclair meeting we had some BASIC-games using IN to control the character. The maker of the game assumed that the result of an IN …
I've been playing around with this today, see my thread in the emulators section also, and I've come up with this...
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1 POKE 23658,8
10 GO SUB 9000
20 CLS : LET x=15: LET y=11: LET ox=15: LET oy=11
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divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…
... runtime features and so). Good BASIC loaders for Ultimate games MUST ... execution time, no software can detect this technique.
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Very first Speccy emulator?Which was the first? I mean here full emulator, not only Basic emu. I saw first Speccy emu. somewhere in 1991. Does anyone know something about Spe…
... called JPP (i.e. the keys you press for LOAD "") was ... here full emulator, not only Basic emu.
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Chuntey - what a fantastic word!Just thought I'd share that
... with vertical rolling of the Basic message around the screen first ... all, and ALL the ?function keys? on the left side of ... -
ZX Advance on the DS....It's fantastic!!! I new soon or later I was bound to get a DS, even though I have Zero time to play with it, and I am glad I did!! First thing I did …
... that use a lot of keys this way(like The Sentinel ... the keys if you never plan to write some 48K basic program ... -
Why did the Commodore 64 lose to the Spectrum in the UK?The Commodore 64 was released in the UK in 1983. As we all know, it was a great machine from a US company with a much larger financial backing than t…
... the Sinclair Basic, with the keywords attached to the keys. Because each ... -
What's the RAND USR code for the test screen?And what versions of hardware does it work on? Ta!
... . It works on the 48 BASIC ROM on the UK 128 ... because I just patched SE Basic to RET at that point ... to hold down the appropriate keys to activate it if you ... -
Advice needed - Xbox EmulatorsDoes anybody have experiance of using a speccy emulator with an Xbox ? My intention is to install Linux and then try and run an emulator (most like…
... the forty ZX Spectrum keys, either one Spectrum key ... a combination of two Spectrum keys pressed at once, where ... the virtual Spectrum was in BASIC entry mode, not that ... control, one for cursor keys (5,6,7,8 ... br /> to the forty possible keys that the use can enter ... -
Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... . The memory map holds the BASIC ROM, system variables, etc. while ... then press any of the keys A,S,D,F and ... -
Spectrum Game CompatibilityHi, At the moment I have a spectrum 48k. I am planning to get a 128k +2, but I have a problem. Will my 48k games work on 128k +2? Because some of the…
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* If you load a BASIC program/game in 128K mode ... on the keys, if you want to program in 48K BASIC).
Two mini-projectsLooking to help WoS? (If not, why not?) One thing you can easily do with just an emulator and an Internet connection is help fill in those [url="http…
... another game missing
Basic Rally. Author Miguel Angel Montejo ... to get off the road. Keys : Z Left M Right.
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. …
... /> I have written this short BASIC program (based on one in ... you move around the screen (Keys QAOP) trying to avoid the ... the same principle as the BASIC routine.
Obstacles, inertia ...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 ... rather than single coordinates to detect collisions. In the example I ...+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... the protection system can therefore detect a copied disk. If the ... the Spectrum's). Return to BASIC, peek the variables out and ... " etc). Then goes into a BASIC loop which, depending on the ...Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…
... Interface II joystick which are keys 6789 and 0 for selecting ... quit button to quit to BASIC
Use Run 40 ...Game: the GEM machineHi all, I'm moving this game discussion from the Wanted: Game Ideas! thread to here, so we can concentrate on just the game. Any comments/suggestio…
... Interface II joystick which are keys 6789 and 0 for selecting ... quit button to quit to BASIC
Use Run 40 ...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…
... of those boxes by pressing keys 0-8. The two selected ... /> in_Inkey() works like inkey$ in Basic: it returns the ascii code ... return 0 if either no keys are pressed or more than ...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…
... like C, Pascal, Fortran and Basic were king. A language is ... of, in effect, associations between keys and values and can be ... ADT.LIB's hash table, keys must be unique (no duplicates ...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…
... of the IY register and Basic's interrupt service routine ... in_LookupKey('o');
keys.right = in_LookupKey('p');
keys.up = in_LookupKey('q ... ');
keys.down = in_LookupKey('a');
keys.fire = in_LookupKey(' ');
OpenZXRom v2006-05-17 releasedJust knocked out a new release of OpenZXRom last night - a GPL licensed functional replacement for the original Spectrum ROM. [url]http://matt.west.…
... in keeping compatibility than enhancing Basic's capabilities, but if ... intention of incorporating an actual Basic editor, so it won' ... an attractive platform for general Basic fiddling. You never know though ... loading stripes! And it can detect the end of a leader ...What should I get??I want to add a Spectrum to my collection but having come from the Atari/Commodore/TI/Apple world, I am a little unsure what to get? Something that …
... legends (telling you what keys produce what BASIC key words in 48K ...
