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  • Inlay Project DiscussionAll, It's time this project was actually started in anger. The aim of this thread is to find out what every wants from it and the standards that sh…

    ... full inlay scans, instruction sheets, maps etc.[/quote]

    I ... text file giving instructions for basic memorabilia purposes. Preservation should really ...
    Bangstick Bangstick September 2011 Support files
  • The good old days (what do you honestly miss)?I was reading a post on Gamefaqs where the author was saying how modern games were better than older games, and even though that's just his opinion (…

    ... later decade did the same basic "job" but largely lacked the ... and coloured versions of their maps printed and the clean, black ...
    Zagreb Zagreb September 2011 Chit chat
  • Improving existing games by hacking?Certain ZX-Spectrum games are already too close to perfection so it seems nothing else could be changed within the hardware limitations to make them …

    ... be altered quite easily. New maps are no problem. I have ... made a cool editor in basic.

    [url]http://www ...
    FrankT FrankT November 2011 New game ideas
  • How to start a new game?I know this might sound really stupid... but I've always wanted to make a spectrum game, but no zero of programing... is there any "making speccy gam…

    ... day when writing things in BASIC... but now that Im trying ... for the system (Forth, C, BASIC, etc), many of the best ... still go about designing your maps, working out your plotlines, storyboards ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil December 2011 New game ideas
  • How to start a new game?I know this might sound really stupid... but I've always wanted to make a spectrum game, but no zero of programing... is there any "making speccy gam…

    ... day when writing things in BASIC... but now that Im trying ... for the system (Forth, C, BASIC, etc), many of the best ... still go about designing your maps, working out your plotlines, storyboards ...
    polomint polomint December 2011 New game ideas
  • Forest of DoomLoved the Fighting Fantasy books as a kid, and remember playing this years ago. Does anybody have a spare they'd like to sell, or even know where I …

    ... used to tinker around with Basic and The Artist II I ... version lol, spent hours drawing maps and screens with no game ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi December 2011 Wanted
  • New Game! Maritrini, Freelance Monster SlayerAfter experiencing the sweet taste of success, Maritrini woke up one fine day in a mess of bed sheets and with the biggest hangover she could remembe…

    ... my next games) in compiled BASIC (Boriels ZXBC) and it works ... the tiles that have changed. Maps often are designed of similar ...
    LCD LCD January 2012 Brand new software
  • resident evil zxi thought i might write a text adventure based on the first resident evil game. i'd be happy to map the thing out and write all the code/ text and t…

    ... , fishing out my hand drawn maps, firing up the n64, and ... I'm still struggling with BASIC
    Wookiee Wookiee February 2012 New game ideas
  • BUG in zxspin and SpecEmu - read Loading speed in WAV fileI'm created a new save, but it can run at 44.1 KHz, to test it, i make a new file from WAV 44.1 KHz to 88.2 KHz. Load this file in a emulator zx-spin…

    ... and any duty cycle. to encode 4 bits.
    SAVE ... duty cycle, only change this encode.
    This data are ... br />
    All basic loading scheme encode 4 bits in 8 ... that :) [/quote]The basic load code from audio is ... ECC and use other encode data, it can be ...
    Z80user Z80user April 2012 Emulators
  • 30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectr…

    ... thanks to its version of BASIC which, although limited, was very ... that my dad wrote in BASIC back in the late 80s ... into machine code using HiSoft BASIC :-) I also compressed the game ... includes things like the story, maps, character information etc. Once enough ...
    pottyboy pottyboy April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Collapse of Free Radical DesignFor anyone interested in how and why Free Radical (the console games developer, made up partly of ex-Rare employees) managed to go from the brillianc…

    ... just seemed so limited and basic, at least to me.
    maps from the map maker), TS2 ... very well. TS1 is very basic, being basically a multiplayer game ... had better pre-made multiplayer maps than TS3, and the map ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2012 Chit chat
  • JSpeccy v0.90Hi4all, A new JSpeccy version has been released at my project webpage. This new release have many corrections, some optimizations and a few new feat…

    ... ? ie custom Speccy roms, SE Basic, etc?[/QUOTE]

    As ... mode JSpeccy maps all the keys to the SE BASIC / JGH ROM ...
    chev chev May 2012 Emulators
  • Platform games you *must* play?I've finally gotten around to buying Braid on XBox Live!, I played the demo years back on the PC and meant to buy it, but my backlog is so huge that …

    ... stop it growing stale. The maps (level layout) are great, the ... HATE having to commute), but (basic) PC and IT support are ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2012 Chit chat
  • Encode two positive int numbers into one?Hi guys) Recently I've been trying to simulate short lists in Basic, but the point is that using limited values, say, 0-99 or 0-999, I remembered ho…

    ... a BASIC string by its ASCII equivilent (even if it maps to ... efficient than storing numbers as BASIC floating point numbers.

    BloodBaz BloodBaz June 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Messenger interfaceHave anyone photos, schematic, rom images, documentation, or software for Messenger interface ? [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?i…

    ... ok.
    - Port 77 reads (maps EPROM) ok.

    So ... the computer boots in 48K BASIC.

    I added A4 ... border. Pressing SPACE returns to BASIC.
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix August 2012 Hardware
  • Messenger interfaceHave anyone photos, schematic, rom images, documentation, or software for Messenger interface ? [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?i…

    ... ok.
    - Port 77 reads (maps EPROM) ok.

    So ... the computer boots in 48K BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    Test this ... .... and ZX crash to 48 basic.

    If you press ...
    velesoft velesoft August 2012 Hardware
  • DooM on Spectrum 128kHello my fellow WoS'ers My hope is that you can help me, recently I discovered a DooM clone -esque on the Humble spectrum, - here is a [URL="https:/…

    ... the disk plus two small BASIC loaders and two tiny m ... so it could load custom maps separately from the game.[/COLOR ...
    Crash Nicker Crash Nicker August 2012 Games
  • Wolfenstein / Doom for 48k SpectrumHi, is there any game / demo of this kind that runs on 48k machines? Thanks.

    ... compatible with the old Wolf2004 maps (sort of), and since I ... , 3) I suck at compiling BASIC executables in ALASM. :D
    Crash Nicker Crash Nicker August 2012 Games
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... it was possible to get basic to work that fast. And ... I should have the other maps done tommorow. I will figure ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • How much memory on sprites, maps etc.I've been tinkering with shifting & pre-shifting sprites recently, but as I haven't had that much experience with Z80 assembly I sometimes find it ha…

    For maps I've only tried the most basic compression (i.e. repeating ...
    Morkin Morkin September 2012 Development
  • RPGs?Hi, I was looking through the Archive at all the RPG-classified games. It is quite grim. The best one seems to be The Bard's Tale. I really want to…

    ... . Between the spells and the maps, I have some printing to ... lot of over-head, almost BASIC looking RPGish type games. I ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley September 2012 Games
  • Average age of a Spectrum fanHi! I'm wondering what's the average age of us, readers of this forum. I'm 29 and started playing and programming on the Spectrum when I was 13 (infl…

    ... /> I'm 41 been doing basic coding since the age of ... learnt coding on that, only basic at that time, got a ... time) I used to make maps of games, I remember quite ...
    TheManicMiner TheManicMiner September 2012 Games
  • ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …

    ... bytes per block on your BASIC program. Instead of this:
    BASIC.



    [*] Now ... /e/einar/"]"Cobra.scr"[/URL], encode it with RCS, and compress ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas February 2013 Brand new software
  • Use of saving arrays ?I was wondering did much software (cannot think of any of the top of my head) make use of the facilities to save and load arrays ? :) I had to check…

    ... % of it was written in BASIC and it was an amazing ... .worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-maps/d/DungeonMasterThe.png]build the ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz February 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Designing an icon-driven adventure: looking for adviceHi fellas, after the release of Funky Fungus, I am currently contemplating the possibility of designing an icon-driven adventure with location graph…

    ... worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-maps/l/LostInMySpectrum.png"]see ... Einar, you wrote Boriel's BASIC has some new functions, in ... comparison to ordinary Sinclair BASIC, which could help me design ... create something with Boriel's BASIC - name some, if you ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu April 2013 Development
  • ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …

    ... ].



    [*] Now encode these 3 screen files using ... />
    [*] Finally write a ZX BASIC program that will contain the ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2013 Brand new software
  • Z80 internal compressionThis isn't exactly a ZX Spectrum problem, but since WOS probably has some of the best Z80 coders in the world, I thought I might ask anyway. For my …

    ... to it, even a very basic form of LZ77 might do ... window sounds about right. To encode the current byte(s), you ...
    introspec introspec May 2013 Development
  • pathfindingworking on pathfinding in the game. here is Russian description of Lee's algorithm: [url]http://algolist.manual.ru/games/wavealg.php[/url] "if-then"…

    ... with arbitrary size. However Spectrum maps don't have arbitrary size ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2013 Development
  • FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…

    ... wasn't however useable from basic so nowhere near as useful ... one is. How would one encode an FZX character set?
    jamorski jamorski June 2013 Brand new software
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... use a string variable and encode row and column data using ... all super easy. If only Basic had pointers...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2013 Games
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