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What is your worst Speccy related memory?We've had the good times, but there were bad times too. I will give you two choice cuts from my back catalogue... Over at a friends house, wanting to…
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Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …
... FIGHT 40 Verb
BREAK 40 Verb
HEAT ... /> Message 110
"TURN KEY" in panel to start.^{7}
in anger.^{7}"I'LL BREAK YOU ... /> Object 38
a key on the mantelpiece
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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…
... addresses. There's a simple basic one for beginners which displays ... a message "press any key to play" (you can change ... your own title screen maybe in BASIC, wait for the relevant keypress ... it for title screens, music, BASIC or whatever you want, as ... -
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…
... displays a message "press any key to play" (you can change ... your own title screen maybe in BASIC, wait for the relevant keypress ... know where to return to in the basic program? will it return ... predetermined line the user sets in his basic program, or game=1 ... -
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…
... considering it was coded entirely in Basic!)
Inspector Flukeit/Great ... not...Flukeit had painfully slow key-response time as it used ... , the sequel had painfully fast key-response time)
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Fire Ruby - More HelpI cant pass the spikes in the fire ruby by lawrence creighton, can someone please help? [ This Message was edited by: welsh_brawler on 2003-08-08 21…
... /> CARD 16
KEY 17
AGEN 18< ... You don't have the key.
Message ... Waiting for a convenient break{6}in the traffic, you ... DONE
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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]
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... thing) or adapt the one in the ROM.
... Start tape then press any key" at the bottom and ... values and call the routines in ROM (#04C2=SAVE, #0556 ... 're not writing this in BASIC I hope !!! :D -
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…
... . You can even do it in BASIC if you don't need ... you make a fast plotter in MC, you can use it ... /> the rest is in machine code. gimme a break ive JUST started ... 't mean to sound harsh in any way, I was just ... -
Insanely difficult gamesOK, folks, so we know Speccy games were difficult in general. But have you ever played some games which were totally unfair from your point of view ?…
... it's actually 12.01AM in the game! So, ... be midnight, but is in fact 1.00AM due ... automatically pulled towards the toilet in the bathroom! BUT if ... as when you press the BREAK key - there's no Game ... trying to explain these things in words is difficult! :)
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helpwhen you start up games sometimes it appears with a grey screen and i am unable to play the games what do i type to start the game
... games.
In general, you should do these ... steps in an emulator:
in 48K basic, you press the J key to get ... quote marks. in 128K basic you type in the whole thing ... 3) If the game is in BASIC, you may have to ... -
BC BillThis is embarrassing but here goes... I'm playing BC Bill using ZX32. On the control menu I press 2 to select 'Kempston'. What do I need to do then …
... this on my speccy back in the 80s (and I stress ... had just sequentially pressed every key on the keyboard to discover ... the start key, but alas I was young ... />
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Spectaculator keybord problem in 6.3In Spectacultor key presses no longer respond in the emuluator. Hot keys work fine. I have tried removing Spectaculator and re-installing. I have…
Yes 6.25.
In Basic for any model key presses do nothing.
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IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
... ld a,07Fh ;Trap Space key
in a,(07Eh)
and ... in ROM
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IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
... ld a,07Fh ;Trap Space key
in a,(07Eh)
and ... in ROM
jp 56 ;for smooth return to Basic< ... thus moving 256 bytes forward in memory to FB0Ah
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Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... s too good for Basic it runs like crap ... one-joke 3-lines-of-BASIC effort either...[/quote]
for wire frame in Basic and that balance between detail ... very well is the key, looks that way because ... of this nature written in BASIC. That is why it ... -
Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... it's slow in regular basic although I compiled ... version setting the emulator speed in Spectaculator to x6 ...
in Basic makes the game unplayable, ... you finally got the key you couldn't ... the often used calculations in variables. It now ... -
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…
... appears asking to press a key to start the game. Clever ... also made a Basic Lightning for doing games in Basic and something called ... since IDEAL can be used in Basic programs also and the Spectrum ... as fast as regular Spectrum Basic.
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Dixons - and the "death of the video"MIKE: Right. That's it. "Your video is now ready for use. Insert cassette, rewind to beginning of tape, and press play. Happy viewing!" VYVYAN: Ha h…
... was the one to break the screen in my laptop soon after ... , so you'll get screwed in every single one of theme ... with interest plan, which results in a massive large payment to ... />
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Rollback - how the hell?!Okay, so I'm incredibly dense. But pretty please, tell me, how does one do a rollback recording (sepcifically in SPIN)? I mean how the dickens do you…
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Secondly, use INSERT key to insert a snapshot into ... back using the DELETE key more than once. The ... toolbar or the PAUSE/BREAK key on your PC keyboard ... you put lots of snaps in (Auf
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About z88dk and autoexecsThis weekend I was playing a little with z88dk C cross Compiler. Amazing tool! I have three questions: 1- Does anybody know how to change the initia…
... 0: RANDOMIZE USR 32768' in Basic and press enter. Using ... need to press a key to start the program ... implemented as control codes in the printf statements.
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New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
So someone who's written a game in pure MC can tack on a hi-score table or redefine key routine in BASIC, and instantly double their final score? -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... when I saw it in a listing back in the olden days ... are making a directional control key routine in BASIC, instead of having a ... seperate IF statement for each key, you ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... when I saw it in a listing back in the olden days ... are making a directional control key routine in BASIC, instead of having a ... seperate IF statement for each key, you ... -
Protection against MERGEI remember using a routine to protect against using MERGE to break into a BASIC listing. It was along the lines of :- 1. Enter a random line e.g. 1 …
... against using MERGE to break into a BASIC listing. It was along ... vanish essentially.
3. Type in the actual program.
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What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
... platform-game that I wrote in BASIC when I was about ten ... couldn't afford a jump-key back then :oops:). The player ... to stand on special blocks in order to go up IIRC ... game is long since lost in the sands of time).
What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
... whole slew of crap stuff in Basic - all of which should be ... to crap +3 disks. Included in the softography is Wordman, a ... you couldn't press a key to play except between 'verses ... the appropriate points.
In some of them a bloke ...What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
... game, where batman had to disable the nuclear bomb, by guessing ... />
all written in basic (and very bad basic at that), sorry to ...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…
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I got my PGD in the post today, but haven ... loading routines are deliberately done in BASIC so they can be changed ... option from the menu and BREAK the program at that point ...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…
... the number of the key currently pressed in the E register (or ... being pressed). So your redefine key routine should CALL this address ... the memory location for the key you're redefining.
in BASIC. Yes, a RET will do ...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…
... the number of the key currently pressed in the E register (or ... being pressed). So your redefine key routine should CALL this address ... the memory location for the key you're redefining.
in BASIC. Yes, a RET will do ...
