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  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... to use. Could be done in BASIC.

    If you ... menu of a game (in this case Cybernoid) and ... fresh game and poke a different number there. Let the ... left. There should be a different graphic there. It's ... details with little effort.. in windows at least :)
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... can POKE the values in BASIC, export binary data from ... cybernoid, import and mod in BASIC, reexport the new data ... link between the screens in any direction so ... later date from a different direction. This could be ... use. Could be done in BASIC.
    If you just ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Development
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... =aowen;171132]It depends which commands you add, but there's ... what will fit in a 16K ROM. SE Basic adds the EDIT ... , RENUM, SOUND, DELETE and STREAMS commands. There ... up a little space for commands in the interpreter. The precompile of ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • generated missionswhich speccy games randomly (or partly randomly, at least) generating their misions/scenes do you know, please? (combat lynx being a great example.) …

    ... fun adventure game and guarenteed different every time you played it ... they were both written mainly in BASIC. Could there be a pattern ... then) the bombs were never in the same place twice.
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2007 Games
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... Ie POKE address,data in Basic. All Basic variables, all C ... in Sinclair basic and some math libraries in Spectrum C implementations. Strings in basic ... you know all the "commands" in C. Anything else you ... global variables (all vars in Basic are global, ie ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2007 Development
  • Speccy vs C64 vs Amstrad - Make your vote count![url]http://www.retrofusiononline.com/fusion/[/url] You know it makes sense. We're winning at the moment, too... D.

    ... be talking a completely different flame war here? : ... has a non-standard BASIC which didn't go ... early benchmarks were done in BASIC and with Apple IIs ... Atari responded to changes in the market slower than ... parts. Adding Extended BASIC made it very attractive ...
    JamesD JamesD March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • External Speccy CommunicationHow does a speccy communicate with the outside world ?? Do you have to have the interface 1 for serial communications ( rs232 ) or are there other p…

    ... , we concluded that no Basic commands for serial communication in 128K speccies. Port ... is used only for printers (in those times many printer had ... the 128K machines serial port in BASIC? I can assure you that ...
    DEATH DEATH March 2007 Hardware
  • Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…

    ... games is everyone will have different ones - more so perhaps than ... I first played it back in 1982. It's really got ... Arcadia, games were mostly written in BASIC and a bit of hi ... were certainly far worse games in the same genre at about ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2007 Games
  • Pussy: Love Story from TitanicDoes anyone else have the full version of this game which has a demo in the archive? I have the TR-DOS disk image but I can't get it to run. I can g…

    ... /> RUN "PUSSY"
    (note - PUSSY in all capitals).
    If that ... might try is select 128 Basic, enter "usr 0" (without ... quotes), then on the 48K Basic command line:
    RANDOMIZE USR ... way you run TR-DOS commands from Basic - occasionally you get programs ...
    gasman gasman April 2007 Games
  • Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…

    ... Best way in Sinclair Basic:
    Define DEF FN in top, place ... bottom.
    Place more commands in 1 line makes GO TO ... br /> The only thing in not familiar with at the ... if I compile the basic the compiler will remove ... I didn't even think in those terms, a bit ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…

    ... /> Don't worry about that in basic -- you'll definitely want it ... basic is fairly slow, other non-display related factors, such as different ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • I wonder why I started this....Hi I was bored today, and have for some time now been speculating about making a Spectrum game in Basic. As said today I was bored, and started on i…

    ... problem is, how do I in basic check what UDG character is ... is to give your characters different colour from each other. Then ...
    Arjun Arjun June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... sure the program generates different sequences of random numbers ... do we handle two different cases in this one subroutine? Simple ... equal to", equivalent to "" in Basic. Other common C comparison operators ... them there to make it different from plain old "=" ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... character coordinates (as in PRINT AT in basic), print centered text ... to be printed might have different justification requirements (left, center ... might be located at different print coordinates and might ... have different colour. So I ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... suitably short.

    In the case of the above ... can be moved to a different location in the program to solve ... no bitwise operators nativley available in Sinclair Basic - would've been very ... handy in this case!

    ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…

    ... which can be assigned different actions. In fact, you can assign ...
    Some basic object handling code is in there already, and ... />
    It's pretty basic but hopefully should give users ... The problem with nasties leaving different coloured bars behind has ...
    jonathan jonathan July 2007 Development
  • 68000 programming.Anyone here know anything about this? My question is: how does the programmer know how long hisinstructions are? Do determine the operands to branch …

    ... nice to have so many different commands and addressing modes available to ... me (versus the 8 commands and four addressing modes of ... 8 always saves the PC in location 0 and starts executing ... it. then the last instruction in the interrupt handling routine would ...
    wilsonsamm wilsonsamm July 2007 Chit chat
  • Vector`scan anyone give me any advice or a description of vector`s... don`t mean line drawing vector`s but directional vector`s, I think there called vector`…

    ... ) whereas "50 miles per hour in a north-westerly direction" is ... />
    There are lots of different ways to represent a vector ... magnitude and a bearing (as in the example above - and that ... 've ever tried using them in Basic). You only have to look ...
    gasman gasman July 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Vector`scan anyone give me any advice or a description of vector`s... don`t mean line drawing vector`s but directional vector`s, I think there called vector`…

    ... get about 20 commands or less per frame in Basic, compared to I ... imagine thousands in MC. Started ... long Sinclair Basic, SAM Basic and Master Basic take to perform commands, It`ll ...
    CKay CKay July 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • switchable ROM`sHi all, As I own a few Spectrum and Commodore computers, I am wandering a few years ago on the C64 there was a switchable ROM the normal C64 and a Ji…

    ... ROM that has got more commands in example.
    A proper ... a machine code monitor built in.
    The C16, Plus4 ... that has extended Basic ?

    Spectrum basic is Ok but ... the sort of basic that you load in and then you ... that can be used in a way and have ...
    swift240 swift240 August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • switchable ROM`sHi all, As I own a few Spectrum and Commodore computers, I am wandering a few years ago on the C64 there was a switchable ROM the normal C64 and a Ji…

    ... ROM that has got more commands in example.
    A proper ... a machine code monitor built in.
    The C16, Plus4 ... that has extended Basic ?

    Spectrum basic is Ok but ... the sort of basic that you load in and then you ... that can be used in a way and have ...
    DEATH DEATH August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... p_VisitMapCrossTwo()[/b]

    If basic is your only background, you ... *is* something you could do in basic if so motivated (unlike most ... (this code is different from what you have in your zip because ... I have is different from the one you have in the zip ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2007 Development
  • Amaurote - help neededHow do I detonate a Supa Bomb in Amaurote? I have radioed to have one sent and picked it up, but pressing fire seems only activate the bouncing bombs…

    ... .0 (but with a slightly different BASIC loader to the Dro Soft ... fact that you start in a different place in TRAAL in the two versions ... 's colour is different (green in one version, yellow in another). I haven ...
    StuBruise StuBruise August 2007 Games
  • A few questions about machine codeOh no... another noob. I'm giving my first steps in assembler (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article explaining that if I wan…

    ... (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article ... . I still see registers as BASIC variables, and I want to ... .[/quote]
    Again yes. Certain commands (e.g. LDIR LDDR) insist ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... />
    Two seperate INPUT commands:-

    First INPUT ... as a string (Nonsense in BASIC), so you need more logic ... overall, two seperate input commands, both reading integers seems ... m still occasionally thinking in BBC Basic, where a comma causes ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... -liner utility to renumber programs in BASIC, it's called ZX-LINE ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... liner utility to renumber programs in BASIC, it's called ZX-LINE ... programs that are a bit different. I have saved your ... one-liners covering as many different areas as possible, and I ... help, which undoubtedly resulted in significantly major improvements to many ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... are stripped off as in basic when INT() is ... ; // get player colour in paper
    sp1_IterateUpdateRect(& ... that look no different. The process of ... attr; // make these available in global vars
    g_uchar1 = ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…

    ... something that's too slow in basic but simple at an assembly ... modern machines. Maybe it's different for someone who's first ... all the hardware, of having different display modes, so you could ... if it's in the basic program.
    BBC basic itself is pretty ...
    guesser guesser September 2007 Sinclair Basic
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