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  • 42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…

    ... system variables and before the BASIC area. There's not much ... 'm unsure how permanent the effect might be.

    Of ...
    wilsonsamm wilsonsamm October 2005 Development
  • Gyroscope vs SpindizzyTwo games that play similar, both based on the Marble Madness theme. Gyroscope has more great graphics, with neat use of BRIGHT on the playing area a…

    ... backgrounds. Spindizzy is much more basic in terms of looks, but ... kid - just loved the sound effect when he got squelched!
    fahrenheit1987 fahrenheit1987 December 2005 Games
  • 128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…

    ... games. I mean would it effect the games badly ?
    [/quote ... any serious programming (especially in BASIC) then I'd say get ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2005 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... it for excatly the correct effect.

    You come along ... and languages to illustrate the basic workings and logic of the ... issue would then use Blitz basic to do the same. Of ... the same article for Blitz Basic, then feel free.

    ADJB ADJB December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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...
    robert@fm robert@fm March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ... it are written in BASIC, i.e., the main ... screen, do a nasty border effect or draw a chunk of ... 't make the game "less BASIC". That's the case of ... main loop written in pure BASIC which use M/C to ...
    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.

    ... consider a game "written in BASIC" if the main portions ... , do a nasty border effect or draw a chunk of ... t make the game "less BASIC". That's the case ... main loop written in pure BASIC which use M/C ... loop was actually written in BASIC; compare with, say, Mined ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2006 Games
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... very crude example of a basic homing missile (well.. it's ... some drawbacks to such a basic approach. The most obvious is ... /> -You can increase the inertia effect by tweaking both the missile ... inertia and the nicer the effect. Unfortunately as well, the ...
    TrueVideo TrueVideo March 2006 Development
  • Has anyone ever owned, played on, or even seen an Amstrad GX4000I ask this question because the machine must have existed because Mean Machines from issue 1 until about 8 reviewed software for it until it flopped.…

    ... . One screen had a sunset effect which was only possible because ... /> The joypads were nice and basic, and I still use them ...
    Spector Spector May 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... like C, Pascal, Fortran and Basic were king. A language is ... tables are composed of, in effect, associations between keys and values ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... of the IY register and Basic's interrupt service routine assumes ... keyboard joysick is read to effect movement.

    The pacman ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…

    [QUOTE=48K]1/ Random number generator: I've started using a ld a,r command to grab a number from the memory refresh counter. Only problem is that if I do this in quick succession, the numbers are obviously not very random at all.
    [/quote]

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Spectrum Music - Remixes?Anyone know of any sites that have remixes of spectrum music? Project AY is devoted to releasing the original music from the games and i've looked on…

    ... "vacuum cleaner full of nails" effect.[/QUOTE]
    I`ve done ... `ve got most of the basic bass line down here [url ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2006 Games
  • Restore Registers Returning to BASICI should really know this, but I've not written code that requires a return to BASIC for a loooong time. What registers need to be preserved / resto…

    ... small but finite possibility that Basic's ISR will run before ... function restores the IY register. Basic's ISR uses IY to ... instruction will not have desired effect.

    Though to be ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler July 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... had a strong version of basic (better that anything offered by ... a beginner. The version of basic was excellent and I found ... a really weak version of basic. The disk system was the ... borders and implement the "rainbow effect" but they affect only a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... never really upgraded it's BASIC themselves and eventually built ... third party did enhance Atari BASIC though. BASIC XL from Optimized Systems ... commands. They later introduced BASIC XE that added even more ... path (or something to that effect) but you have to ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Oh so BRIGHT!What is the SLOWEST way to change the attribute area to BRIGHT? It has to be legit! No meaningless instructions or doing stuff for the sake of it. …

    ... 'd have the disastrous side effect of speeding up the code ... will be interpreted using Sinclair BASIC and writing the program in ...
    monty.mole monty.mole November 2006 Development
  • Spectrum RPG'sOff the top of my head I can think of [i]Lords of Midnight[/i], and [i]The Bard's Tale[/i], but are there some other good RPG's on the Speccy that I …

    ... 16-bit originals, and the basic conversation feature was one of ... spell had a different graphical effect. The only thing it lacked ...
    Rainbird Rich Rainbird Rich November 2006 Games
  • Sam coup? - some questionsHi everyone. Got myself a sam coup&#233; without any kind of cables. I was a bit suspicious about it's working condition. Hooked it to a pc at psu a…

    ... pixel scrolls in Basic, be nice to achieve same effect in MC ...
    CKay CKay November 2006 Hardware
  • Autorun BASIC programsIs it possible to write a basic program which will autorun after typing in LOAD ""? Thanks

    ... , but if not the same effect can be achieved with:
    BASIC program containing the line 10 ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP January 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…

    ... "? Colour codes? :)[/QUOTE]

    BASIC stores two copies of every ... ) 32768, but actually has the effect of being (say) 30000.
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall January 2007 Emulators
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... through treacle effect you get on the Sam when using Basic and ... as it makes the same effect under an A500/A1200 look ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong February 2007 Development
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... through treacle effect you get on the Sam when using Basic and ... Colin said, still uncompiled SAM Basic, and it looks soo much ... taking tips from Dunny`s Basic Tips thread.... has a little ... , it does seem that SAM Basic is pretty fast if you ...
    CKay CKay February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... ]. It made my very slow basic mapdata compressor program a bit ... plant at the bottom. This effect is carried over into subsequent ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Development
  • Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?

    ... and with a lovely rainbow effect on the background, press a ... do think because of the Basic being more or less ... Beta Basic V5 that it IS ... very powerful too, even in Basic, forget the 24K of ... wonder why more of the Basic programmer`s from the ...
    CKay CKay March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Currah MicroSource emulationIt appears to be impossible to emualte the MicroSource in software on the ZX Spectrum SE as hardware polling is required. The following patch is not …

    ... the -ROMCS line so the BASIC ROM is not enabled. Once ... doings, in effect disabling the uSource ROM and reenabling BASIC.
    The ...
    Marcelo Marcelo March 2007 Emulators
  • List of POKEs and PEEKs/cool memory addressesI was wondering if there was a list of cool memory addresses to POKE and/or PEEK. For example, I know that PEEK 23674 tells you how long a Speccy has…

    ... .worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap25.html]BASIC manual chapter 25[/url].
    effect (e.g. 23607 etc.), others ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Reason for FLASH attribute?Is it known why Sinclair choose to implement the flash bit in hardware? Since flashing could be easily done with code when needed it seems quite un…

    ... wanted to achieve effect of flashing text in basic program to be ...
    Ralf Ralf May 2007 Development
  • Bipboi Adventure - Tech DemoHere is the first tech demo of my Bipboi game, still in progress (2 Years now :-? ) Anyway, have a download, let me know what you think. This wil…

    ... effect? Messing with real sine curves would be overkill - surely a basic ...
    TrueVideo TrueVideo May 2007 Development
  • Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…

    ... if it will have an effect of making the game run ... 't worry about that in basic -- you'll definitely want it ... as fast as possible. Since basic is fairly slow, other non ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
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