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  • Games for relaxHi fans ! I've not enough time for playing the old spectrum's games. I played a lot in the past, I read all topic and try many games what you write …

    ... can either 'cheat' with SHIFT M (more lives) or SHIFT L ... all the level (150 in total) and save a snapshot after each ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2001 Games
  • Did you all take the exam???[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/testzx.cgi"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/testzx.cgi[/url]

    That FOR without NEXT has a mistake... Or maybe I'm bitter 'cause I failed... 67.5%... Although I got 80% or over in History, BASIC, Games, Hardware and Troubleshooting. Darn it.
    Fuzzbucket Fuzzbucket August 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Microdrive woesHi there! Just managed to pick up a 2nd hand Microdrive and interface one... Came with an introductory program which doesn't seem to load. Since its…

    ... /> I should have included RealSpec in my list of emulators that ... DIM a$(30000)
    20 SAVE * "m";1;"bigun"

    and ...
    CLEAR 32767
    LOAD * "m";1;"bigun"

    and ... the HALT instruction at #1303 in the main 48K ROM with ...
    Geoff Geoff March 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • what would you?.................hi everybody, what games would you have liked to have done the programming, graphics etc for and why? :)

    The programming in Knightlore so I would know ... stored and decoded.
    I`m still trying to decode the ... data so if anyone `is in the know` then please let ... write a room/map editor. (in glorious BASIC-o-vision)
    MatGubbins MatGubbins July 2002 Games
  • new speccy game here!!You may remember a while ago I posted a demo of a game I was making on this forum, and I asked at the time whether or not anyone knew of any software…

    I think congratulations are in order to Lars, the first ... make this game so I'm sure there's a better ... I made myself an assembler in Visual Basic that editted an emulator ...
    david_pegg david_pegg July 2002 Games
  • BMP2SCRCan anyone help me with this program? I downloaded it but I can't seem to get it to do anything! The readme file isn't the best in the world! Can any…

    ... is because it was coded in Dark Basic, this is very fast ... correctly.
    And yes: I?m a german-speaking lifeform, so ...
    LCD LCD July 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • graphics need to stayIm shure ther must b an easier and shorter way 2 explain this but i aint 2 bright. Can someone please help me with a program? OK say I program a pi…

    You need to save your UDG's and reload them after making them or remake them in the BASIC again.

    SAVE "UDG" USR "A",168

    will do.

    and then LOAD "UDG"CODE to reload them.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Basic listings memory occupationI remember readong someplace that due to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to save space, it was better to represent integers …

    ... to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to save space ... is that Speccy BASIC stores each number twice: one in the 5 ... different ASCII representation into the BASIC listing from the number that ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall August 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • tzx gamesHow can i run a tzx on my real spectrum?Is there a way i can copy a tzx to tape so i can load it in the normal way or can i load it from my hard driv…

    ... file for saving and then save it as a WAV ... Real Spectrum, and then save it as a TZX or ... whatever if theres other programs in the background. If i ... 128k or higher load it in 48 Basic, i think itll work ... but i left my Spectrum in another country
    :(
    ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2002 Games
  • ZX Spin 0.3 ReleasedStandard Cut'n'Paste from CSS post again! I can't get to my webpage, so I've uploaded SPIN0.3 to WOS, Alt.Binaries.Comp.Sinclair, and also Daren Pea…

    ... AY code, and so I'm reluctant to release it until ... menu options up, so in order to save a tape, you have ... too, so that'll be in next.

    Dunny ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2002 Emulators
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... them (my last project in electronics was an inteligent LED ... struggle to store the information in this page's HTML. ... (TASM). I'm not saying ditch BASIC - I'm saying have something ... There has been astounding progress in miniture display technology - quality ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... You'd written your BIOS in basic and then compiled to z80 ... asm. BASIC just doesn't have the ... off with z80 asm in order to save space. I do ... due to compiler performance from BASIC to z80, I'd ... its' salt is written in asm - BASIC won't cut it ...
    Anonymous Anonymous October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    I'm not sure I understand ... having a BIOS programmed in compiled BASIC, of the use of ... machine. ;)

    In a nutshell, Takashi, I say ... , keep in mind these technies' wornings, ... I'm sure you can compile something else than BASIC. :)
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... it's able to run in pure BASIC on a 48k Spectrum ... as excellent examples of what BASIC can be made to do ... - bear in mind that you'll not be able to save to ... to convert and extract the BASIC from them all. Then final ... can come up with, and in the meantime, I'll see ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... with Basic i'm :p with Assembler i'm :) with C i'm :( and ... with C++ i'm :mad ... interested in taking a look. It's just a very basic Speccy ...
    Woody Woody December 2002 Games
  • New commands workingSE Basic is no longer being developed.

    i'm very interested in SE basic, and the new rom is ... fonts:).

    But I'm not going to stop consuming ... .

    When I program basic and program gets complicated, it ... ?

    Just keep this in mind. I will wait :)
    Arda Arda December 2002 Sinclair Basic
  • A New RPG?I'm trying to make my own RPG for Spectrum but I'm an awful coder so I can't get the Assembly program right :(. Will anyone be interested in translat…

    ... you doing developing Spectrum games in Blitz Basic?
    If this is ... ]
    Take it easy. I'm not all that good at ... I have to use Blitz Basic. If I can learn Z80 ... 'll have to use Bliz Basic, even though it is awful ... being good at is Spectrum Basic.
    Sephiroth Sephiroth February 2003 Games
  • AMERICAN SPECTRUM FANS?Hi all. I was wondering, who many Spectrum-fans could live in America... I have many addresses in my zx-base, but not many of them belong to Americ…

    I'm in the USA and I owned a TS2068 back in 1983. I ... the US magazines advertised them in their various forms and slowly ... I wrote a TS2068 emulator in GfA BASIC (compiled) and it ran ...
    Sparky Sparky March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…

    ... few ive downloaded and i'm not sure which to go ... others. first it loads a basic program where you determine how ... i get a C: Nonsense in Basic error + line number but i ... try to write my own in compiled Basic ( which i'd like ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…

    ... stuff for calling your own M/C so you could easily ... an interupt driven music system in there plus generate any ... you to call external routines in either BASIC or machine code, however ... be straight forward.

    In terms of adventure writing systems ...
    woodcock88 woodcock88 April 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... /> Now I'm all confused!

    I found in the Same ... using an extended/modified Sam Basic to program the game ( which ... did some things on Sam in Spectrum Basic and it worked quite ... dont know what Basic commands have changed! ie. in GamesMaster "PUT" is ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • FifthDon't know if this is the right forum, but anyway... Anyone remember a Basic extension called "Fifth"? It was supposed to enhance game programming. R…

    ... of it ... i guess I'm psycho ...er... 'ic'

    basic, especially white lightning ( forth ) ... make those complex games done in basic, that on the surface look ... effects that can be done in regular basic. it might have been ...
    Amigo Amigo June 2003 Games
  • Tank gameDoes anyone know any games on the speccy similar to the kind I've seen lots of for other computers (usually shareware/freeware rather than commercial…

    I'm sure I wrote one in compiled BASIC about 10 years ago .. I'll see if any of my old tapes still LOAD, I can't imagine it will take too long to recreate tho..
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a August 2003 Games
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... Moves.

    I'm with all of you. Arctic ... in C and many other languages in a PC. I'm somewhat experienced in ... actullay see a resemblance to basic. it's not as ... i were to do this in basic it would be like ' ... it is high level like Basic, and has a bunch ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…

    ... editing the picture when zoomed in.[/I]
    [/quote]
    ... have free zoom like in most modern-day PC ... thing) or adapt the one in the ROM.

    ... and call the routines in ROM (#04C2=SAVE, #0556=LOAD; IX ... you're not writing this in BASIC I hope !!! :D
    GOC GOC August 2003 Development
  • are the following (tzx) really missing ?On the list at [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/stp/games.html"]www.worldofspectrum.org/stp/games.html[/url] there are some existing items ages a…

    ... br /> It contains both sides in a single TZX.
    Of ... for 48k and 128k in the BASIC block. Maybe it's ... Maybe it's all in there, I'm sure there was
    in 48k mode..., I'm sure one did ... the tape and compare just in case.

    Thanks ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • BASin Release 9a availableJust a quick not to say that an updated (ie, bug fixed) BASin is available. A list of what's new for release 9: Fixed a bug in the line tokeniser th…

    ... sends all the code to BASIC... I'm just speechless. I would ... do this for me back in the eighties. Brilliant. No more ... messing about with that grid in the back of the Spectrum ... even rivals the keyboard helper in SPIN.

    Colin
    woodcock88 woodcock88 September 2003 Development
  • Multiface 3 EmulationI've been trying to get hold of a multiface 3 to dump my 128 games onto +3 disk for a while now, but not having much success getting one. Then I saw…

    ... can't get into the basic loader to suss out what ... that it's got m/c embedded in the basic and uses a ... 's plenty of other code in there too... anyone offer any ...
    BuzzinRich BuzzinRich September 2003 Emulators
  • Conversions better than the originalRenegade was way better than the arcade version. Better sound, better graphics and better playability. Just load up Renegade in Mame. Any other conve…

    Obviously considering the differences in power between an Arcade machine ... these games are also superb in the arcade but Elite did ... arcade thats all and i'm a huge fan of the ...
    psj3809 psj3809 November 2003 Games
  • Editing in-game UDG'sI have just started playing an RPG that was in Sinclair User in 86'. The game is called Forest of Long Shadows and was excellent. You can find it on …

    ... data ? This is usually arranged in groups of 8, and the ... way than adding a subroutine in the BASIC program. If you're ... programs available for the Speccy, save the output to a TAP ... BIN, and load them back in a similar fashion.

    GOC GOC November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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