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  • The WoS Type-Ins ProjectGood folks of WoS! Lend me your ears (figuratively speaking of course)! At long last, the kind and noble Martijn has cleared the Type-Ins project for…

    ... Utility: Astronomy/Astrology
    Basic Utility: BASIC Related
    Copy Utility: Copier ...
    Dbase Utility: Database
    Draw ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…

    ... with cleverly used PLOT and DRAW instructions.

    [I]Fall ... any worthwhile game written in BASIC...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2003 Games
  • colouring inexample: 10 CIRCLE 45,30,15 wot do i type after it to colour it in red?

    ... 's my try at a BASIC filled circle routine, probably slightly ... X-H,Y
    30 DRAW 2*H,0
    40 ...
    GOC GOC February 2004 Development
  • your favourite adventureWe all must have played text adventures on our speccys,i loved them even tho i only ever finished about 3 in my life. Anyway what was your favorite t…

    ... puzzles! Written in BASIC and with some very basic (no pun intended ... clever use of PLOT and DRAW and a second part featuring ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2004 Games
  • Platform vs BackgroundForgive my ignorance if this is a 'stoopid' question, but although I've written games for many platforms over the years I'm only now making my first …

    ... game, which was written in BASIC, i detected platforms from color ... , screen routines are slow (in BASIC). How to create model: for ... , background means that you should draw player sprite above background image.
    kmatveev kmatveev February 2004 Development
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... code? They WERE available from BASIC, and that's where they ... last time you needed to draw a circle in machine code ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... meant.

    2) Spectrum BASIC did help novices to migrate ... " is a misrepresentation of facts. BASIC encouraged people to program, and ... use the CIRCLE command to draw a circle doesn't mean ... rule should apply to all BASIC commands then, including PRINT!
    Arjun Arjun February 2004 Games
  • Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…

    ... could just have a small basic tile unit with no more ... platformer then the time to draw tiles shouldn't be an ...
    cyborg cyborg March 2004 Development
  • T.I.M. - A New Interlace - Demo for DOWNLOADHere's something that's been in the works for quite a while ( mostly in my head ) and recently I've aquired assistance to help it come to fruition. …

    ... makes it impractical for a basic 48K machine. However it is ... requiring half the time to draw a typical full display. This ... can be done on a basic 48K.


    [ This ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2004 Development
  • TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…

    ... image as perfectly as you draw it, especially our favorite ... implement the tools required to draw an image and most ... br /> Tool currently implements the basic paint toolset, and image manipulation ... a palette object to actually draw the image, because although ...
    Kiwi Kiwi August 2004 Development
  • need help with speed optimization. this procedure draws a sprite with mask from memory onto the screen with x-coordinate in pixels. it doesn't shift sprites in realtime, it just uses …

    ... ;Preserve IY for return to BASIC
    LD (SPSTORE),SP ... ),A ;put preshifted mask into draw procedure (left side)
    draw sprite
    LD ... /> RET


    * Draw sprite in unshifted position. Called ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2004 Development
  • Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …

    ... you have 5-8 basic enemies you draw them by fast routines ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2004 Development
  • Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …

    ... remember exact number), ULA starts draw sequence: left border-pixel screen ... process.
    this is only basic info (for zx48)but it ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2004 Development
  • Any Windows based Spectrum Progam makersHi. I am looking for a game maker that i can use to make spectrum software. If possible could it not be a code typing in program and Windows based. T…

    ... LEEZ. That's where I draw the line. With dung ... and are done in BASIC. If speed becomes an ... more powerful BASIC like Laser Basic or Beta Basic among others ... to you in your Basic programs, like POKEing to ... and recalling SCREEN$, and basic things like that that ...
    Sadako Sadako August 2004 Development
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... the lack of a few BASIC commands.
    Examples:


    DRAW command that would draw outside the screen area ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins September 2004 Games
  • 3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…

    ... on SAM, draw and plotare so much faster, basic is soo much ... slow it actually is in basic... thankfully for things like ... me thinking...

    Basic is a comfort blanket, everything ... />
    So... Happy 40th birthday Basic...

    and the truth ...
    CKay CKay September 2004 Development
  • Most popular new features? I know some people like a spectrum to be emulated as authentically as possible, while others like myself like features which improve the gfx, sound,…

    ... be done but can`t draw... and specifically like me, don ... MC, and especially not from Basic.

    I think that ...
    CKay CKay October 2004 Emulators
  • jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…

    ... in basic. You could just use four character blocks to draw miner ...
    zster zster October 2004 Games
  • jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…

    ... in basic. You could just use four character blocks to draw miner ... the guardians. Doing that in BASIC would almost certainly slow things ...
    AndyC AndyC October 2004 Games
  • Pixel LimitIF Y3&lt;192 THEN : LET x2=INT (128+X*A*SIN A): LET y2=INT (Y3): DRAW INK

    [quote]
    On 2004-11-16 21:44, dalmudlee wrote:

    I have never seen this graphics restriction before. Why does the Spectrum have this limitation?

    1720 FOR A=0 TO INT ((50*3.14)-38) STEP 3.14/P
    1730 LET Y3=96+Y*A*COS A
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Is there any Bi-Plane games on Speccy... (Solved..Dogfight :) )I`ve been playing a Flash game called Top Dog thats a lot like an old Amiga game called Biplanes I think, also, Im sure there was an original arcade …

    ... , as you say a little basic, but I don`t care ... calculating the angles etc to draw the graphics too, rather than ...
    CKay CKay December 2004 Games
  • Is there any Bi-Plane games on Speccy... (Solved..Dogfight :) )I`ve been playing a Flash game called Top Dog thats a lot like an old Amiga game called Biplanes I think, also, Im sure there was an original arcade …

    ... , as you say a little basic, but I don`t care ... calculating the angles etc to draw the graphics too, rather than ...
    Rainbird Rich Rainbird Rich January 2005 Games
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