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Diagnostics on SpeccyHi, can anyone please tell me what key combo after you reset that you have to hold down to get the diagnostics for the speccy to show itself? I think…
... Model]. You hold down the Break key while you press the reset ... Speculator emulator hold the Esc key on your PC and press ... of the different 128's in Spectactulator and none of them ... -
Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
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It was a BASIC program with machine code routines ... purposes of the "best BASIC game" question, I'm ... programs have at least a BASIC loader.
... BASIC in that, as well as machine code. Simply press BREAK ... I meant games entirely in BASIC. -
Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
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It was a BASIC program with machine code routines ... of BASIC in that, as well as machine code. Simply press BREAK ... was mostly BASIC, certainly all the game logic was in BASIC. The menu ... screen was in machine code ... -
Disable BREAK 128 basicDoes anyone know how to prevent BREAK in 128k basic?
... 23613(SP) and 23610(NR) in 48K)
It ... the BREAK key is pressed, maybe its possible to ignore the BREAK key that ... :
In program Klavesnica pressing BREAK will result the return ... menu or to write in Slovak "Was the BREAK necessary?"
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Help with dead Spectrum +2aHello. My Spectrum +2a died some time ago. It was powered on, I looked away and next time I looked at it, screen was black. I have replaced the 4 r…
... change TEA2000 but problem is in the working +2a this IC ... have tried to boot with BREAK key (should display test pattern with ... -
ArmalyteI am sure a lot of folks here remember Armalyte, the fabulous C64 shoot-em-up that almost came out on the speccy. I think there was a demo on some of…
... wrote this little level editor in BASIC some time back. Its a ... code, as the loop is in BASIC.
Q,A,O ... the whole level - press another key to return to the editor ... tile with the previous one in the row - meaning faster rendering ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
... the tapes window (in the tools menu) and disable the LOAD/SAVE ... just gives a 'C Nonsense in Basic' error. It does not matter ... this with code actually assembled in SPIN itself. Does machine code ... work properly in Basin yet?
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Whats the worst spectrum game ever???Heres a question: whats the worst game you've ever played on the spec? Mines was LA SWAT by Entertainment USA it was just AWFUL! the graphics were sh…
... Space Race. I bought it in the early days of the ... was written in Basic so if you pressed the Space key, it interrupted ... to the code.
Even in 1984 when there were few ... -
New Speccy Games!!!Hi guys!!!... CEZ Games Studio has released two new Speccy games!!!... The first one is Galaxy Fighter, a Shoot?em?Up Download [url="http://cezgs.…
... the game is completely written in BASIC, increase the speed of your ... , if you let the fire key (SPACE) always pressed. -
What games can you create?After hearing that you need machine code to create commercial quality speccy games, what sort of games can you create in +3 BASIC, except text advent…
Like, poke 10000? I've never done poke before! Plus, if I were to create a pacman game or a character game, how would I create a character shape, e.g. pacman in BASIC? Would I need to define a graphics key, or something? -
Spin / Emuzwin and reading keys with IN in BasicIt's just a bit of a quirk I've found really, but here goes... Some of the Basic programes and games I've encountered lately , use IN to read the ke…
The best way to use IN in BASIC is to test the value ... of IN being greater than i.e ... /> [code]
10 LET A=IN 32766 : IF A < 200 ... GO TO 100 : REM NO KEY
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3" drive in w2k+Hi. I've been sorting out my house (it's an ongoing project that so far has lasted just over 3 years). I found a whole bunch of my old 3" discs, so …
... with RealSpectrum's "RealDisk" in win2k/XP?[/quote]
... If RealSpec doesn't disable that check in the driver, it ... report no disk is in the drive when you ... easy enough to fix in RealSpec if that's ... well. It currently supports basic copy protections only, but ... -
3" drive in w2k+Hi. I've been sorting out my house (it's an ongoing project that so far has lasted just over 3 years). I found a whole bunch of my old 3" discs, so …
... drive with RealSpectrum's "RealDisk" in win2k/XP?[/quote]
I ... . If RealSpec doesn't disable that check in the driver, it'll ... of using 3" +3 discs in the RealSpectrum manual ("Note that ... very well. It currently supports basic copy protections only, but if ... -
Unpublished spectrum gameHi there I have a Spectrum PDS development environment and before I get rid of my old PC which has an ISA slot I thought I should ask this question i…
This might work as well.
When the code was still in BASIC you can
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Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... br /> DICTATOR was written in BASIC except sound routine a the ... BOWLING 2000 is in basic
BOXING is in basic
THRU WALL ... are you trying break all bricks by ball) was in basic
... of basic inside
PAINTER was written in basic except main in- ... -
3D Star Strike - best unofficial conversion ever?A copy of Star Wars as we all know, but I didn't realise how good a copy it was until I played the arcade game on MAME a couple of days ago. The bit …
... quality unofficial conversion of prison break. The graphics and gameplay ... 2 or 3 games in the series are dodgeball ... original mono gameboy are in fact the GB kunios ... bad copy of Bagman. In fact it was just ... Most of which were written in BASIC, and most of which ... -
New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... the emulator thread with speccy8 in it.
... expose the Grid Size Options, in a more accessable place. ... screen to basic.
But that would break its Sinclair BASIC compatibility - ... screen anding (NOT AVAILABLE IN SINCLAIR BASIC!!!)
100 AND 1 ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... graphic, just as you would in Basic.
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// ... the IY register. Unfortunately, Basic assumes it has a monopoly ... video frame. The Basic system puts the z80 in im1 mode, which ... and another way is to disable interrupts entirely. I've done ... -
Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... ]I get a "C Nonsense in Basic 20:1"
Break" ??? since its recursive??[/ ... it to colour strings in say, red. Then ... TO, FN) that appear in red are inside strings. Point ... because tokenisation doesn't occur in strings - the user ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... // "update structs" Every tile in the display area managed by ... br /> in_Inkey() works like inkey$ in Basic: it returns the ascii code ... or more than one key is pressed. It is ... let go of the key. There's no need ... spazz out if the key is held down for ... -
-** Egghead Iv - Cassette Version Now Available **-In case anyone wants the official cassette version of Jonathan's excellent EGGHEAD IV, it's now available from the Cronosoft website. Price is ?1.99…
... s programmed in BASIC and encoded in MC with HiSoft BASIC, The chapters ... that are 3-4k in size and in raw machine code ( ... it really is still early in development), but I'm ... far too many commitments in the past couple of ... long until the summer break so I will be ... -
Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
CONTINUE is useful when you break into a BASIC program and want to ... continue without losing all the data in ... remember a program I typed in where you ran the program ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... thoughts:
* In Unix, there are means of ... analogy of "executable" is BASIC. Since we can't ... of extension to distinguish BASIC/Bytes/etc. looks to ... - it doesn't break anything in a filesystem :) If ... be able to load Basic but also plain ASCII ... -
What are the best Soccer Management gamesI found the following in the archive : 2 Player Soccer Squad 7(5) The Boss 8.6(15) Graeme Souness 6(2) Jimmy's Soccer Manager Kenny D…
... football manager games written in BASIC? You could easily break into them and ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... And I hated the new BASIC interface. Typing was terrible ... really liked the single key input system of the ... up the notoriously slow BASIC. In fact, it was ... and the system variables in BASIC, but they could ... clash or monochrome graphics in many arcade conversions, ... -
How to save TZXGreetings to all. I am starting to move on from just games into some testing of home made programs. Although I could have done that in ancient tapes…
... hide BASIC programming and / or block people from pressing caps+break to ... access the BASIC code?[/quote]
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Best-illustrated adventure game?Which Speccy text adventure had the best illustrations? It doesn't matter if they took ages to load, just as long as they were pretty.
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Wich key of a rubber Key Spectrum get used least??I'm wondering of all the Keys on a rubber key ZX Spectrum on average wich one do you reccon gets used the least?? I have played with the idea whilst…
... an IF construct when programming in Basic.
Given that ... allot?? and the completely filled in square is a redundant graphic ... common either. The only thing in its favour is the use ... of least used rubber speccie key.
