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Why Spectrum has a lots of software?I'm thinking a lot of it and can't find "magic" which produced a lots of software (games, educational, utility) for Spectrum. My suggestions: 1. Ea…
... cared that much about the BASIC, good save/load routines, user ... how BASIC ran on each computer or how PLOT and DRAW worked ... -
GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…
... discovered that special cases of DRAW can produce geometric shapes.
BASIC/shapes.bas"]http://www.wearmouth ... .demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas[/url]
< ... /> There is a nice short BASIC fill routine that comes with ... -
GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…
... discovered that special cases of DRAW can produce geometric shapes.
BASIC/shapes.bas"]http://www.wearmouth ... .demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas[/url]
< ... /> There is a nice short BASIC fill routine that comes with ... -
GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…
... discovered that special cases of DRAW can produce geometric shapes.< ... www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas"]http://www. ... wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas[/url]
... the spectrum draw routine to use in my own basic interpreter adapting ... -
BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…
... 256x192 pixels (though for standard BASIC this is limited to 256x176 ... characters by 24 (again, standard BASIC limits this somewhat to 32x22 ... X,Y: DRAW 50,0: DRAW 0,50: DRAW -50,0: DRAW 0,-50 ... the granularity of your PLOT/DRAW coordinates to multiples of 8 ... -
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…
... gives a 'C Nonsense in Basic' error. It does not matter ...
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BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…
... , no. I meant OS in BASIC? As in (to quote the ... />
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Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
... 'm particularly proud of the BASIC loader for my Jet Set ... 5: BRIGHT 1: FLASH 0: BORDER 0: CLEAR 32767
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sprite making in +3 BASIC?Any sprite tutorial I come across is far too complicated! Can someone help me? For instance, how do you create a person-shaped animated sprite which …
... design your sprites why not draw the sprite in 2x2 character ... of 1x2?
You simply draw each frame across the entire ... do a JSW sprite in BASIC using UDG's for 4 ... .
Anyway sprites in BASIC are not easy, but its ... -
z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... be callable from Sinclair BASIC by one of my ... drawtile" function which would draw a variable-sized static ... BASIC trick of "switch to the graphics charset, draw ... another question: If I draw something to the screen [ ... the screen and then draw the tiles and ... -
z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... some "drawtile" function which would draw a variable-sized static tile ... that the BASIC trick of "switch to the graphics charset, draw the ... -
Smallest Reason for Loading a GameHi folks, Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing the loading screen or, as in the case of Jet Set Willy, trying to catch the mag…
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horror text adventure scenario writer neededany outthere? I started to make program for text adventure [B]Mysterium Magnum[/B] on basis of ?multiple choice? which was project I wanted to make …
... would be useful... I can draw something, but... I?m not ... can ensure its functionality in Basic game: not knowing the way ... -
horror text adventure scenario writer neededany outthere? I started to make program for text adventure [B]Mysterium Magnum[/B] on basis of ?multiple choice? which was project I wanted to make …
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How do you customize loading stripe colours?Is there a program or something that can let me change the colours of those loading stripes or whatever they are called, like when Bomb Jack loads? …
Not in BASIC, that's for sure.
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WOS 10th Birthday Bash?I see that WOS will be 10 years old in under six weeks time. Will there be any major surprises coming up? Will there be any TZX Vault updates to cele…
... long to put together the basic source for a WOS platformer ... ? Some people might want to draw graphics, others design rooms, and ... -
ANN: midi2ay 0.1Well, here's the MIDI-to-AY converter I promised. I've named it "midi2ay" (original name eh?) [url="http://es.geocities.com/qllaria/midi2ay/midi2ay-…
... .tap file code return to Basic after play?
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BASIC from an assembly program (at ... the .tap code changes the border to black and freezes when ... /> Another solution would be the BASIC PLAY output feature I mentioned ... -
ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…
... the Black and White border. Go onto any ... most striking feature - the border - and when you subconsiously ... languages to illustrate the basic workings and logic of ... would then use Blitz basic to do the same. ... the same article for Blitz Basic, then feel free.
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…
... OUT are pretty useless in BASIC except for the aforemeantioned keyboard ... rate far faster than that BASIC can do anything with.
border but again it doesn't ... can be used to produce border effects that require precise timing ...Creating a loading screen in 80'sToday painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loa…
... standards (it was written in Basic), that I don't think ... one of those two. Could draw lines, rectangles (non-elastic of ... with a keyboard to do draw some incredibly rubbish loading screens ...Creating a loading screen in 80'sToday painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loa…
... translated it onto the Spectrum. Basic laziness really.
With ... modified version of 'Melbourne Draw'(called 'Ocean Draw') to do the main ... still easier to use 'Melbourne Draw' to produce the bulk of ...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…
... . The memory map holds the BASIC ROM, system variables, etc. while ... to the ULA control the border colour of the screen. The ...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 once used OUT (well, to be exact I think it was OTIR) in a short machine-code routine (12 bytes or so) to give an "earthquake" effect to a BASIC game, by rainbow-striping the border and sounding a short burst of white noise on the beeper...Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... mode and mucking around with DRAW.
The music on demos ... and decoder written in spectrum BASIC, which has to be the ... slowest basic ever in the history of ...how to pass arguments from Basic to MC ?can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this: PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2:…
... with the image index to draw
...use the images index ... draw the image pointed to by hl...
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BASIC ... size of the image to draw.
If your calling ...z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... typical set of sprite draw routines. It started with ... if you want to draw backgrounds using some other ... "s added to the to-draw list).
draw this offset is added ... be LB (left border), RB (right border), NR (no rotate ...Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…
... games.
I have a basic sprite engine already.
You ... character. But if you can draw the characters right and get ...Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…
... , I needed to write a BASIC header/loader (it now loads ... good :) I even got the border to change colour!
