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post your preferred 'up-down-left-right-fire' keys redefinefor me, and for some reason it was Emlyn hughes back in the day that got me attatched to this, from then on and to this day I will always redefine my…
[QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;289624]O P Q A ... the speccy scans keyboard presses in blocks of 5. This is ... numbers mentioned above. In BASIC you could use the IN command IIRC to ... the numbers were for the different parts of the keyboard. -
post your preferred 'up-down-left-right-fire' keys redefinefor me, and for some reason it was Emlyn hughes back in the day that got me attatched to this, from then on and to this day I will always redefine my…
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[QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;289624]O P Q A ... wonder why they never put in a redefine option?
... , I and P back in 1982. For the small ... /showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/s/Skuldugery.gif ... do that yourself, using different keys to manage your ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... do I flip between screens in Basic again? I've forgotten the ... to screen2), then draws a different screen 1.
... into second screen (Very slow in BASIC - takes a few minutes. Hint ... because arrays start at 1 in Sinclair basic, b(1) actually refers ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... exist. With 128K BASIC, who knows what obscure commands lurk, without ... examining the 128K BASIC ROM, or ... I wanted to do it in basic. In the end I did ... screen using ordinary BASIC PRINT and graphics commands. Until today I ... -
ANN: open82The Open82 project has been merged with the OpenZXRom project. The homepage is here: [url]http://open82.sourceforge.net/[/url] The subversion repos…
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Can you name this game?It was called something like 'Alchey Ollie' but I'm sure was also published under a different name (which I can't remember) I may be looking in the w…
[quote=Nonsense in BASIC;295092]It was called ... was also published under a different name (which I can' ... /> I may be looking in the wrong place but I ...
You are in control of a bloke that ... is flip screen and pretty basic graphics.
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Can you name this game?It was called something like 'Alchey Ollie' but I'm sure was also published under a different name (which I can't remember) I may be looking in the w…
[QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;295452]Wow! Thanks Frankie, JS ... /> It was published under a different name. The only reason I ... Alky Ollie but with a different title. Maybe it's on ... -
10 Random things about you.Have a butchers of this. 1. I fell thirty feet out a window when I was 1 year old onto concrete, landed on my ass and survived totally unscathed. …
... have been to 25 different states in the USA.
... asm, various dialects of BASIC. I am also 3 ... flights (duration) as pilot in command were a five ... Arizona, to Abilene, TX. in a very slow light twin ... -19 glider, from Aboyne, in the Scottish highlands.
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"The arcade is done. Game over."Nice little article on the death of the arcades. [url]http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/explore/chi-arcades-end-0605jun05,0,3830088.s…
[QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;300438]I think you're ... is over 100meg. They came in 4 different flavors: 1,2,4 ... had a memory card readers in the front that you could ... -
VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... /> ; General purpose pointers, stored in zero page for indirect indexed ... Pointers are reused for different purposes in the INIT section and ... and restored before returning to BASIC
PTR1 EQU $FB< ... locations on stack that BASIC would otherwise use
BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... program generates a Nonsense in BASIC error and stops the editor ... daft people use commands that have no use in BASin :-p
Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…
[quote=chop983;307251]So can we do it in BASIC or what?[/quote]
If you mean loading different order it can be done in BASIC when you load line by line with 192 loaders.Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…
... you mean loading different order it can be done in BASIC when you ... from a stock Basic environment are the ones in the ROM, which ... to roll your own in Basic at the IN/OUT level would be ... that other people have written in machine code don't necessarily ...Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…
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Some kind of "still-BASIC-mode" would be to have ... a BASIC program that includes some POKEs ... the ROM loader, but with different values for the border stripe ...BEEP conundrumFor the "CSSCGC 2008 Tape Magazine" December edition, I have decided to use a BASIC sound routine I wrote last year which plays a festive tune using …
... you in the Dec edition for the help with this BASIC sound ... little different (slower) in the tape mag as there's also a BASIC ... text scroller in the main BEEP loop ... , it should make minimal difference. In any case, the scroller will ...How would you make Cybernoid a better game.Following on from the Cecco thread, it might actually be quite interesting to hear people?s views on how they would improve the recognised ZX Spectru…
... 48k made a cybernoid editor in basic, he got the ball ... for the first time in over 20 years and ... the lack of variety in its design makes the ... idea of adding a basic puzzle solving elements to ... new ship has different uses and different types of puzzles ...Programming Books for Kids - Whats happened to programming?What has happened to Programming in the 00's :( I remember at the tender age of 9 exitedly going to my library to get one of them colourfull program…
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2. For loops counting in increments of two.
different approach which would certainly have ... I could implement it both in BASIC and C, which perhaps gives ...what were the things the Speccy architecture was good for?I don't know a hell of a lot about all the different computers hardware and I wanted to know if the way the Spectrum was built lent itself to certain…
... that put the Speccy in comparison to other machines ... CPC are about the same in terms of CPU power; ... any advantage it might have in clock speed. It does ... wars as they've got different strengths and weaknesses, but ... of things you can do in BASIC. I'd guess that ...Name this vampire castle game pls[deleted]
[QUOTE=chop983;315594]Try a different Emu :razz:[/QUOTE]
... Preferably running a different game too. :p
in BASIC were still marketable. The shelf- ... life of most games in those days was pretty short ...ZX Spectrum (16K) sound/beepHi all, I think I'm in right place now, I've tried to find an answer how to generate two channel sound using ZX Spectrum 16K. Only think I've found …
... on the 16K Spectrum. Firstly, BASIC isn't nearly fast enough ... . Secondly, even machine code running in the bottom 16K of RAM ... to use the beeper routine in the ROM, which isn't ... can even be done in BASIC with short BEEP commands of, say, 0 ...ZX Spectrum (16K) sound/beepHi all, I think I'm in right place now, I've tried to find an answer how to generate two channel sound using ZX Spectrum 16K. Only think I've found …
... to use the beeper routine in the ROM, which isn't ... can even be done in BASIC with short BEEP commands of, say, 0 ... ]
for example this BASIC adventure [url]http://www.worldofspectrum ...Games with good sound of engineSpectrum beeper and AY chip aren't too good with generating the sound of (car, motorbike etc.) engine. But sometimes engine sound in Speccy game is q…
Enduro Racer isn't excellent, but I like it.
This thread reminds me of my attempt (in BASIC) at creating a Test Driver clone. The whole thing worked with CIRCLE, DRAW, PRINT and BEEP commands for the 'sound engine'. :lol:BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... was developing my own scr2udg in Basic, I knew it would be ... 'Window' and switch between the different screens.
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... was developing my own scr2udg in Basic, I knew it would be ... 'Window' and switch between the different screens.
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I'll just drop in another comment about reading the ...BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... I'm trying to program in Basic. And by the time I ... to find asterisks and parenthesis in the wrong place, print a ... option to use 48K-style Basic editor instead of Basin's ... another one (if this is in the manual or is already ... lots of INK and PAPER commands.New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…
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3. Which BASIC commands does it support? You're ... which is used widely in BASIC, but in its most arbitrary form ... .
4. Which BASIC commands are speeded up and by ... the most comprehensive support for BASIC commands. However MCoder 3 can ...BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
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[CODE]10 PLAY "ABC ... you'll get "nonsense in BASIC" at line 20 after ... end when it reports "nonsense in basic" at line 20.
... the correct error, and other commands like "CLS" or "PRINT" ... seems to be 128 commands that don't work ...Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…
... how to do in MC what I did in Basic.
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In that chapter he does give m/c examples of many BASIC commands ...What games did you get with your first Speccy?I did a quick search and couldn't find this topic before, apologies if I missed it. Anyway, was recalling the other day when I got my first Spectrum…
... Race' - the game itself was in BASIC and had an instruction manual ... -drawn cartoons introducing all the different characters. Complete failure as a ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... contents page, gives message "Nonsense in BASIC"
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When I get "Nonsense in BASIC", the first thing I try ... commands. (Again, fortunately the Interface 1 manual is available in ... the archive).
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