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  • AGD and CGD....can we have a compromise?Well I have been using Jonathan Cauldwell's Arcade Game Designer and I started to look at Dave Hughes' Classic Game Designer. I must say that they ar…

    ... stuff with token counting and basic key/door logic and block ... . sprites, background characters/blocks, level maps). Each editor would be responsible ...
    joefish joefish September 2013 Development
  • .z80 files load faster than .tap or .tzxHello again, I was wondering why the majority of games can be downloaded as .tap or .tzx but not as snapshots (.z80 or .sna). It takes about 5 minut…

    ... data such as later level maps for multiload games, or in ... written emulator with only very basic support for Spectrum software. It ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2013 Emulators
  • DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…

    ... nicer to program in than basic. You'd want to do ... on the PC. C also maps pretty nicely to assembler most ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…

    ... nicer to program in than basic. You'd want to do ... on the PC. C also maps pretty nicely to assembler most ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Help with 1-bit sampled soundHi all, I've been sent over this way from the CPC Wiki forums as you guys may be able to help me more specifically with a programming query. Firstly…

    ... i need to encode with? [/QUOTE]

    The basic theory is ...
    Winston Winston March 2014 Development
  • Some information please :)Hi guys, A friend of mine just bought a 128K bundle with mostly budget games, but some books and a software that I really don't know much about. C…

    ... are an incomplete set, and BASIC programming books in general have ... games with the extras included - maps, books, music, etc. - eg. Frankie ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…

    ... 40000,
    the game maps, graphics etc below 39970 (for ... Upside... you can write your basic, compile it, test within 30 ... seconds, exit back to basic with everything intact and continue ... writing in basic without having to reload anything ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    ... is 245 bytes (including the basic loader). When converted to ZX81 ... the best solution is to encode few levels (without compression) and ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena August 2014 Development
  • ZX-Assembler file handling concept[QUOTE=clausjahn;777075]Dear readers, At this time, it's a good time to ask you, the future users, how to implement the file usage. Let's suggest so…

    ... , then optionally loading code execution maps from emulators (so it will ... ZX-Editor, you can edit basic programs of tapes or disks ...
    clausjahn clausjahn September 2014 Emulators
  • Air Traffic Control RomeLuca has taken an old game he wrote in basic back in 1987 and with a bit of help from me and Einar he's managed to get it into 16k. [IMG]http://www.…

    ... .

    It's a basic management program, it works by ... Microsoft Flight Simulator's worldwide maps, so he thought at a ... slots), and submitting a 16k BASIC program to an audience.
    Luca Bordoni Luca Bordoni November 2014 Brand new software
  • Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…

    ... option is to use ZX BASIC. People used to write adventures ... in BASIC so it's not uncommon ... the adventure on paper. Draw maps, write descriptions, collect puzzles (and ...
    Timmy Timmy December 2014 Development
  • Song I madeIt's my first time using play, so don't expect greatness. 10 BEEP 0.4,10 20 BEEP 0.2,9 30 BEEP 0.3,11 40 BEEP 0.3,10 50 BEEP 0.1,19 60 BEEP 0.2,7 7…

    [QUOTE=kgmcneil;821466]Did you encode it by hand, or use ... to write a utility to "Basic Compo", but did not have ...
    Buka Buka March 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Trial version of CharAde graphics engine for Sinclair BASICA trial version of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">CharAde</span> graphics engine for Sinclair BASIC is now available. It consists of a block of …

    ... that whole sections of block-maps could be overlaid for parallax ... render the screen. It is BASIC, after all...

    Anyone ...
    joefish joefish June 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Which games would you remake? Or like to see a mockup of?We all have a list of titles that we know or felt was not good enough or simply rushed to market without thought or effort. So which titles would you…

    [quote]Those Golden Axe maps made me realise the Spectrum ... CPC which was apparently the basic version in this production.
    Ralf Ralf July 2015 New game ideas
  • Calling in some help?Hi guys. As you may know, I released the 'non beta' of the Vulcan expansion pack. OK so it ended up having a single minor, easily fixable bug. But…

    ... .


    RUNDOWN OF BASIC ARRANGEMENT OF PROGRAMME

    maps, so you can put things ...
    Daniel_Baines Daniel_Baines August 2015 Development
  • 80s assembler choiceHi These emulators have great little assemblers built into them but I was wondering what people used to use on their physical spectrums to program w…

    ... exercise book, a five line BASIC octal/binary loader and a ... octal, the Z80 instruction-set maps to octal surprisingly neatly).
    GReW GReW September 2015 Development
  • Arcade Game DesignerTime I posted an update on this, I've been working on the next version - along with another developer who is writing the editors - since July. Wor…

    ... editor will allow much larger maps, and will extend at the ... can have some truly huge maps.

    I've also ... this finished and that means basic functionality for the first release ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2015 Development
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    ... BASIC or machine code program to read each memory location that maps ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK October 2015 Hardware
  • What if there was a Speccy Games Console[img]http://segaretro.org/File:MSEvolution_Black_Console.jpg[/img] This would have made a really good looking spectrum console back in the day (mi…

    ... communities of hobbyists that make maps and mods for their favorite ... type & run a small BASIC program. :) And progress from there ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie November 2015 New game ideas
  • Sudden death of ZX Spectrum 48KHello A friend gave me a 48K rubber keyed Spectrum. I brought it home, hooked it up to my little TV and powered it up. I was very happy to see t…

    ... /Flash ROM that maps to the area of the BASIC ROM (0 ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK December 2015 Hardware
  • Reading PC text files from BASIC!I was playing around with my DivMMC Enjoy! and managed to work out that it's dead easy to load PC .TXT files into the Speccy - I've got them viewable…

    ... with inputing PC files for BASIC input awhile back... ah, yes ... files all the time for maps, data and source code and ... come up like that with BASIC... :)
    kgmcneil kgmcneil February 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • 48K Memory MapHi, I'm having some trouble understanding the top of the 48K Memory Map. From reading elsewhere I have this as the memory map: 0 to 16383 - …

    ... of the available memory for BASIC programs from the standard 23755 ... that additional Channel information, "Microdrive maps" or indeed any other external ...
    AndyC AndyC March 2016 Development
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... over again...

    Some basic questions to think about:
    maps?). Whole sprites or sprites designed ... do you want the level maps designed, 16x16 tiles?... 8x8 tiles ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil June 2016 Development
  • P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…

    ... /> [quote="kgmcneil;863355"]
    Some basic questions to think about:
    maps?). Whole sprites or sprites designed ... do you want the level maps designed, 16x16 tiles?... 8x8 tiles ...
    RMartins RMartins June 2016 Development
  • Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…

    ... extra features. (Nothing outlandish, just basic adventuring stuff like Save, Load ... to sort out is the maps, which shouldn't take too ... a bit different as those maps only show the parts that ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Kempston interface schematic: wrong IC?Hi! I'm trying to learn about the inner workings of the speccy, and I thought that building a kemspton interface would help me learn about things lik…

    ... , unless an extra fire button maps to pin 7, there will ... pin.

    Okay, some basic checks:
    Can you double ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK March 2017 Hardware
  • Crystal Kingdom Dizzy Remake[img]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hu3KFlY4PPQ/WPKTFRnh2mI/AAAAAAAAhRo/Fb92COWf6oMPL4oyEQ_z_Ep6BrRHUCOPgCLcB/s640/Crystal0.jpg[/img] [quote]Dizzy fan…

    [quote="ZX-BASiC user;907716"]Fantastic game!
    Where can I get the map?[/quote]
    http://maps.speccy.cz/map.php?id=Dizzy7_2017
    Daren Daren May 2017 Brand new software
  • Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …

    ... [/url] (games using Boriel ZX Basic only)

    besides ZXDB ... like [url="http://maps.speccy.cz/"]Speccy Screenshot Maps[/url] and [url ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2017 Announcements
  • SORCERESS: new AGD gameFrom the creator of CYBERMANIA! I've written a new game, SORCERESS - an AGD maze shooter/adventure. It was quite an ordeal, as I ended up having to w…

    ... the limited size of the maps that can be built.[/quote ... ]
    Yes. Especially if your maps feature screens with many different ... screens with just a few basic elements and limit the number ... memory available to create larger maps. You won't believe how ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2017 Brand new software
  • Using BASIC from Machine CodeHi Folks, Came across a very interesting article by Toni Baker in Your Spectrum: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr11/yr11_66.htm …

    The BASIC keywords need to be pre-tokenised in your TEXT section. Also you either need to encode the numeric parameters as per the usual BASIC 5-byte encoding or alternatively use VAL "50" instead (tokenising VAL naturally), which is probably easier.
    AndyC AndyC August 2017 Development
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