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  • 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…

    ... [b]d_PrintDoubleW()[/b]. The pixel scroll routine requirement has changed (the ... double width characters for the scroll. So a little later ... on, after the new scroll routine is incorporated, I' ... anything normally done in Sinclair basic, but you should be ...
    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…

    The speed advantage of BBC Basic has little to with the ... AY, and getting a smooth scroll out of the 6845 requires ... main way in which Sinclair BASIC could have been improved was ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…

    ... having ground my teeth with BASIC and then been promised 'Once ... post as well.
    [CODE];scroll down 1 pixel at a ... repeating the pixel scroll
    dec b ;one scroll less to go ... ;otherwise continue with another pixel scroll
    endroutine
    ret[/CODE ...
    bigjon bigjon February 2008 Development
  • help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…

    ... iy is saved as the basic isr claims a monopoly on ... /> And this doesn't even scroll the screen in pixel row ... is to hard code the scroll in a single monolithic code ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    [QUOTE=bigjon;256767]I started to think about doing a lightforce-style scroller[/QUOTE]

    Looks promising!

    Notice that instead of this:

    [CODE]
    s-(IN 64510
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2008 Development
  • Emulators on the ZX SpectrumHaving released a Spectrum 16K emulator for Spectrum 48/128 machines as part of CCG2008, I was wondering if anybody knows of any emulators which actu…

    ... : There was a BASIC-Loader for the ZX81 BASIC, but that needed ... alterations for specific ZX81 commands (Like SCROLL ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Emulators
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... ] ), it's a scroll game implemented 100% in BASIC and it's ...
    bigjon bigjon April 2008 Development
  • 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 ... " that the screen did not scroll automaticly when you moved, instead ...
    Rickard Rickard July 2008 Games
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... in the emulator as Sinclair BASIC can manage!! (I think this ... because my screen write and scroll routines are quicker than the ... Sinclair routines). However, Z80 BBC BASIC will blow my emulator away ... emulate.

    Every time BASIC wants to LOAD or SAVE ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • Question about something I don't know what is called.I am interested in reading about something which I don't know what is called (duh). I am looking for (online/offline) reading material which explain…

    ... you were expecting. Thats because BASIC is too slow to make ... bars, though they don't scroll (an artefact of the speed ...
    Phu Phu September 2008 Hardware
  • ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p

    ... to enter debugger when in BASIC. Press STEP. Why does the ... fails!

    7) The scroll buttons in the main memory ...
    Jimmy Jimmy September 2008 Emulators
  • ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p

    ... to enter debugger when in BASIC. Press STEP. Why does the ... />
    [quote]
    7) The scroll buttons in the main memory ...
    Woody Woody September 2008 Emulators
  • Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…

    ... write a program in Sinclair BASIC that emulates a Windows PC ... .

    2 Beep. Partially scroll the POST screen. Clear the ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Emulators
  • Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…

    You know word "Interrupt" or T-state? Even my grandma can scroll the screen in 2,5 second using a basic. The goal is to scroll the screen in 1/50 second.
    Shadow Maker Shadow Maker October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…

    ... can scroll the screen in 2,5 second using a basic. The ... goal is to scroll the screen in ... reply. I would much rather scroll a smaller portion of the ... />
    EDIT: I can also scroll the screen using my mousewheel ...
    polomint polomint October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A scrolling starfield - help needed!I have been messing on my speccy again recently and tried to do a scrolling (parallax - maybe) starfield. I know how to scroll using machine code but…

    ... /> Use QAOP keys to change scroll direction of starfield.

    BASIC.

    The stars go ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2008 Development
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... of the orange 48K Sinclair BASIC manual (if they want it ... /arcade/raffle.htm[/url]
    Scroll down to the ZX80 emulator ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2009 Games
  • Game endings...Does anyone know why is that ZX Spectrum game's endings are so extremely dissapointing sometimes? Sometimes it's just some short text "Congratulation…

    ... [/URL].
    Scroll the tape browser to the BASIC block named "END ...
    mheide mheide January 2009 Games
  • Successor to the SpeccyBased on the rambling on the other thread it would be interesting to see what people felt was the 'spiritual' successor to the speccy. Amiga here....

    ... vertically (on the basic ST, you could hardware scroll 8 pixels vertically ...
    joefish joefish May 2009 Chit chat
  • Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …

    [QUOTE=ZnorXman;353598] and when I scroll the window [up/down] on this LCD screen I believe I'm emulating the "effect" nearly 100%[/QUOTE]

    no, there are no flicker in the real thing. ;) just plain, clean stripes while using basic.
    Arda Arda May 2009 Development
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... loads back with the same basic loader as the original russian ... to continue, the big letter scroll that comes next works but ...
    FrankT FrankT June 2009 Games
  • Running .TRD filesHi. Is there any way with an emulator to run .TRD files for Spectrum? Or maybe convert them to a usable format? Appreciate it.

    ... /> ASH-II:

    >scroll down on the pentagon to ... to
    enter:
    "128 BASIC"

    type:
    usr0 ...
    Mister Beep Mister Beep July 2009 Games
  • How many players can you cram simultaneous on a speccyYou know how they have those..how many people can you cram in a mini or a phone box things on guiness book of records. Well say someone wrote a game…

    ... to do something in Sinclair Basic. The mechanics work, but it ... [/I], or have the screen scroll only forward around the circuit ...
    joefish joefish July 2009 Chit chat
  • It's just not cricketHaving just watched the ashes, well done England, I couldn't think of any cricket games for the speccy other than Ian Bothams:-o I just wasn't into c…

    ... Cricket is part BASIC, part machine code. Part BASIC, because if the ... too long, you get the "scroll?" message come up. Part machine ...
    NickH NickH August 2009 Games
  • Printing in 64 columns, from Basic?Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any known machine code utility that allows something similar to PRINT AT that can be called fr…

    ... print subroutine entirely written in basic by me, in the game ... >21 THEN PRINT #0;"Scroll?": PAUSE 0: CLS : LET x ...
    Arda Arda October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Amiga or Atari STWhich system did you like the most ??? My person fave was the Amiga as i had loads of fun on it with games like Star Dust, Supr Frog, Speedball 2 an…

    ... the Amiga though you could scroll a full 15 screen * ... bitmap layer... all in basic at 50 fps or ... tred a half competent BASIC coder could attemp on ... even trying, even in Basic, which wasn't so ... more machines most versions of Basic, when you download scrolling ...
    CKay CKay October 2009 Chit chat
  • border graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…

    ... possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have ... "scroll ?" in the lower border?
    < ... . just try edit a long basic line.

    [QUOTE]
    [/quote] as said, basic system uses bottom of screen ...
    Fikee Fikee December 2009 Development
  • border graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…

    ... possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have ... "scroll ?" in the lower border?
    < ... those two lines from a BASIC program, you output to channel ...
    John Elliott John Elliott December 2009 Development
  • Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…

    I've uploaded my very basic "Skool editor" [URL="http://www. ... move around, keep going to scroll the map. Press EXT mode ... have a look at the BASIC to see which keys are ...
    Jimmy Jimmy February 2010 Development
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