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New game: ZoomBloxHi everyone, this is my first post here, so first off I'd like to say hello to the Spectrum development community :) I've been developing on an…
... really felt like learning Z80 in-depth, so I never ... to code it in
- I'm not too happy ... the raster overscan, resulting in some flickering. I had ... :)
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New Game (2016 revival): A Yankee in Iraq (1992)Hello everyone, Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot-em-up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I…
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Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot ... The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I thought I ... able to find was the BASIC file; the rest of ... to load a headerless BASIC file to reduce the ... ’s tips on loading BASIC using machine code can ... -
New Game - Strange Kitchen (Boriel version)Further Greetings, O People of the Spectrum! This is Strange Kitchen written in Boriel ZX Basic. You have to prepare recipes by destroying unwant…
... is Strange Kitchen written in Boriel ZX Basic. You have to prepare ... it before. Finish all levels in one game for the ultimate ... Beta version of Strange Kitchen in normal Basic + CharADE, you might have ... I found Boriel Basic recently and I'm happier with this ... -
Arcade Game Designer for ZX Spectrum Next/Timex 8x1For those of you who are not members of the Spectrum Next or AGD Facebook groups, I've released a new editorless AGD compiler. While it has been des…
... which takes a program written in AGD "BASIC" and creates an assembler ... have to type in the data manually, Spectrum BASIC-style. The ... compiler is written in C and ... br />
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What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…
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A power switch (mains) in either the flexible lead or ... the tape baud. I'm not thinking here of the ... 300 vs 1200, I'm more thinking a POKE to ... a push. Obviously being in the Basic etc it could be ... -
Getting a +3 working again (keyboard & tape socket issues)So, as part of my Spectrum restoration project I will also try to tackle the problem child among my fleet, the +3. PROBLEM ONE: Ever since I firs…
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However, I was also ... 3 manual that demonstrates the IN function (three lines, ... keys changes the value of IN ***** (whichever address is ... type LOAD "t:" in +3 BASIC due to the non- ... issues, before trying the IN function program I opened ... -
New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…
... -game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old ... 1992, which I’d written in Sinclair BASIC. It was a fun ... from all the limitations inherent in BASIC.
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"ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…
... Starfire, the early, mostly BASIC-based release from Virgin Games ... m quite pleased that I've made some routines work in BASIC ... and I'm never going to be in the league of ... I've written it in +3 BASIC which goes mad if ... character sets on the BASIC editor, I've had ... -
Game quiz: Spot the differencesAlways loved these puzzles from the newspapers when I was a kid. Why not make something similar here, Speccy related? Hope it comes out fun. You k…
The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
... reasons why I fell in love with Speccy Basic is because I ... /> Do you see what I'm saying? Basics chief virtue is ... mean.
The various Basic manuals I've read don ... line like Dunny sent me in the BASIC thread produces the same ...The dicMMC Future interface problemI bought a divMMC Future interface, which allows you to load and save Spectrum games in seconds, and like the divMMC Enjoy!, it does that fine. [i]Ho…
... you to load and save Spectrum games in seconds, and like the ... work normally when pushing in certain directions. I'm curious as to ... why, and I'm thinking that since the divMMC ...Sounds & tunes bankIs there any web out there, or even a thread here at WoS, that includes useful BASIC routines that generate certain sounds or music to be included in…
... at WoS, that includes useful BASIC routines that generate certain sounds ... to be included in any program?
I'm coding a ...Go to, gosub or something different?I'm going to write an arcade game in basic. May compile it. In both basic and compiled basic would a goto or gosub be faster? Also if I stored …
I'm going to write an arcade game in basic. May compile it.
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Thanks in advance.Mega basic long listingsHi, this might be a silly question, but does anyone know how to list a program in mega basic and have it pause the scrolling when the listing has fil…
Hi, this might be a silly question, but does anyone know how to list a program in mega basic and have it pause the scrolling when the listing has filled one screen? Thanks RickHelp with adding graphicsHi, After like 20 years or so I started playing again with Spectrum stuff, especially programming. I tried to dig into machine code, but apart f…
... 'd play around with BASIC using BASin because of ... few questions. Since I'm much more of a ... (only did some Pascal in high-school) it would ... use it in the program
I'm mostly interested in say... ... anything easier/faster for BASIC coding than BASin?Detecting +3 / +2AWhat's a simple but reliable way to detect if code is running on a +2A/+3? My first though was to try switching to ROM2 and then checking for the …
... I thought about testing for differences in the partial decoding of port ...
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m also not sure how it ...Nasty vertical pattern on a 128K Toast Rack via RGBI managed to fix the busted membrane on my [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55755/got-myself-a-128k-toast-rack-plus-a-simple-a…
... signal delay, which results in yellow/blue vertical lines around ... with the values of resistors in all possible combinations—no ... (I think). For example, in 48K BASIC, the pattern will change as ... video socket?
I’m really open to suggestions and ...Fixing a poorly Issue 3 - Odd faults.Here's one for you Spectrum fixers, I warn you it's a long one. I've spent a couple hours this evening doing several repairs on a rubber keyed Speccy…
... working keyboard and entering in a few basic commands, the odd colored ... itself so tested again typing in some basic commands and the glitches ... the evening.
I'm thinking with the faults being ... they might be damaged. I'm also wondering if maybe one ...Max Pickles I - New Game from World XXI Soft Inc.World XXI Soft announces the release of Max Pickles I, an action arcade with puzzle flavors, and the first in the Max Pickles saga, and his tragic st…
... flavors, and the first in the Max Pickles saga, ... remake of unreleased games designed in 1988-1990.
- 100% written in Basic, except M/C routines in loaders.
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Available in [url="http://www.worldxxisoft.com ...Replacing voltage regulators - need to sanity check a few things pleaseHi Everyone I'm in the process (with a lot of help from some friends at Greenford Computer Club), of giving my three Speccys some much needed prev…
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I'm in the process (with a lot ... 7805/78S05 regulators are in the 48K and Toastrack and what they ... are rated to?
I'm ... trying to determine whether the Toastrack should also get ...My custom debian with some emulators - for everyone to tryHello, I'm posting here my modified debian linux distribution,based on debian 9 & puppy linux. I don't have much time to make it a generic distro s…
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title ZX stretchdog64_zx save ONLY on EXIT: changes_zx.dat ... br /> title ZX stretchdog64_zx LIVE SAVE to changes_zx.dat
find ... title ZX stretchdog64_zx run in RAM no save
find --set- ...Setting breakpoints in source code to make debugging easierAfter two years I've resumed my Speccy coding project. I'm porting a yet "unported" game from C64/Atari to 48k Spectrum using Z80 assembler. At the m…
... Speccy coding project. I'm porting a yet "unported" ... to tell me I'm doing something completely wrong ... of instruction or macro in the code, which when ... very long delay loop in the code in the "interesting place ... , but in my inexperience I'm doing stuff in the most ...Manic Miner (light modification)Hi, This project was a small try to make something different. I would like to present in old-fashion magazine style. I hope you will like :) Pg…
... If you type-in well it will save a program code ... 90 STOP
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BASIC part, stop the tape ... those are only different in the BASIC part, the game is ... what you see on the BASIC list.
...how do i store a disk directory listing in +3 basic as a string?i cant seem to find anything in the manuals about this. the +3e system has a way of storing a stream as a variable for instance.
i cant seem to find anything in the manuals about this. the +3e system has a way of storing a stream as a variable for instance.How to write a simple C+asm horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial, z88dk)[b]How to write a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b] [b]Note:[/b] This tutorial has multiple parts... I am still writing but this first pa…
... one will work. I'm probably not using this ... myself either (checked, I'm using a version of ... program that was also in our basic code. One of ... to add out scrolling function in here, in assembly.
in separate assembly files. I'm too lazy ...How do you get the GRAPHICS cursor in 128 Basic?I know its something plus the 9 key but I cannot discover what! I just typed in a simple UDG maker which allocates the data to USR "P" but I even …
I know its something plus the 9 key but I cannot discover what! I just typed in a simple UDG maker which allocates the data to USR "P" but I even tried print usr "p" after loading in the binary to make a character and that wouldn't work either.BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum - possible?I have never used a Cambridge Z88 - but I understand it was Z80 based and had a functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the…
... functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the BBC ...Programming as a means of staving off dementia...?I have to wonder if anyone here is worried about getting the human equivalent of severe bit rot - and it seems it could happen to anyone. For the mos…
... 'll be 43 in July and I'm one of the ... Eastern Lands), i.e. not in the first flushes of youth ... hand of the National Lottery in the 1990s that points from ... or quit before it kicks in. Don't want to get ... programs into another form of BASIC (don't kill me but ...Sort 2 byte words (x, y) on ypos, also question about swap (DE), (HL)Well that was a lot of debugging ;) But if you want a routine which takes an array of 16 byte words x, y and then sort them on y (ignoring x), I'm…
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In my game I'm probably going to try ... movable object that is in the wrong position relative ... /> // which is an index in arr[].
// n is ...adventure gamesI always liked text adventures and the speccy had loads,my favourites were Robin of sherwood,,Espionage island,,emerald isle,,dracula,,secret of st b…
... thesaurus and I'm sure it's possible in Visual Basic or C ... this, as Microsoft pride themselves in the way there apps are ... .
Am I wrong in this assumption, as I may ...
