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  • please help to find certain speccy art page........that I found sum time ago. (and can?t find now, of course..) On that site one guy has put his own remakes of Dizzy loading screens, there was o…

    ... line, same as that Color Draw program. However on that site ... not *really* done by a basic Speccy, which mars this stuff ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG January 2005 Games
  • Just remembered - Spirograph Effect. - Please ExplainJust remembered that we used to mess about with the Draw command to get a spirograph effect in Sinclar Basic. Squares 10 plot 75,75 20 draw 80,48,…

    ... Draw command to get a spirograph effect in Sinclar Basic.< ... of the way that BASIC draws arcs and circles. ... does, of course, tell BASIC to draw a curve, and that ... of an arc, and BASIC would plot a point, ... is confusing BASIC - it knows it has to draw a number ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 the ... include/graphics.h for plot, draw, circle, cls (clg) commands. To ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2005 Development
  • Popeye 1 no colour clash?How was Don Priestley able to get rid of the colour clash in this classic game (and the Trapdor etc)??? Was it because he was doing the fast switchi…

    ... so large, that he could draw the detail into a character ... /> _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz February 2005 Games
  • 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…

    ... in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first two ... ]

    ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * Place ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • 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. …

    ... , in the demo program to draw a clock. That must be ... get the correct value from BASIC short of issuing a DI ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... /> Amiga (AMOS): Platform game in basic, in which you are a ... . It took painfully long to draw each screen though. That was ...
    Arcane Design Arcane Design May 2005 Games
  • 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…

    ... wrote was a dire BASIC program to draw the Indian flag ... />
    The first BASIC game I wrote was a ... a series of small BASIC games including road racers, ... integrating machine code with BASIC. The MC did the ... recent attempts at ZX BASIC have resulted in Dash- ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2005 Games
  • 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 ...
    psj3809 psj3809 June 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    Geoff Geoff July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ...
    NotFound NotFound July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ...
    20 PLOT 0,0: DRAW 255,175
    30 RANDOMIZE ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2005 Emulators
  • 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 ... />

    Yes, and we draw the window with UDG!
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ...
    Kiwi Kiwi September 2005 Development
  • 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 ...
    na_th_an na_th_an September 2005 Development
  • 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 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2005 Development
  • 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 ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup October 2005 Development
  • 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 …

    ... to draw 2/3rds graphic on the screen with BASIC is gonna ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2005 Development
  • 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 ...
    jonathan jonathan November 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2006 Games
  • 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 ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones February 2006 Games
  • Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.

    ... consider a game "written in BASIC" if the main portions of ... decompress a static image and draw it on screen, do a ... nasty border effect or draw a chunk of backdrop ... t make the game "less BASIC". That's the case ... main loop written in pure BASIC which use M/C ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2006 Games
  • Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.

    ... a game "written in BASIC" if the main portions ... decompress a static image and draw it on screen, do a ... nasty border effect or draw a chunk of backdrop ... make the game "less BASIC". That's the case ... loop was actually written in BASIC; compare with, say, Mined ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2006 Games
  • 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 ...
    absorbentgnome absorbentgnome April 2006 Chit chat
  • 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...
    ret

    BASIC ... size of the image to draw.

    If your calling ...
    Kiwi Kiwi April 2006 Development
  • 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 ...
    Kiwi Kiwi April 2006 Development
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