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Features that never made it into the SpectrumAlthough kind of a Hardware question (a kind moderator might want to move it, I was 50/50 on where to post it, I don't mind) , I was thinking about t…
... the manual which lessened the effect of the first time I ... and a better keyboard and Basic. -
Bit of fun - one change onlyI also posted this on another marque's forum (for their products) to see. Its just a bit of fun really. OK, if you could of made one change to a S…
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Replacing Basic I can see why but ... it with. Forth maybe ? Some 'basic' (no pun intended) control would ... was a 'new' machine in effect. I think a missed opportunity ... -
Bit of fun Part Two - CPU SwapFollowing on from [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/56671/bit-of-fun-one-change-only/"]this topic[/url], I felt given the erm 'natu…
... the memory useage. So the BASIC may have had less features ... would have had a big effect on Spectrum games ported to ... -
Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…
... two positions. The fire, the explosion and collapse, and the longer ... flag movement had turned out. BASIC games don't often have ... using every trick possible in BASIC :) -
Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…
... using every trick possible in BASIC :)[/quote]
You are ... lines, or UDG, and the explosion will make a "crater" (this ... is, a character space); the explosion itself will be the colur ... use any possible trick in BASIC yet, now I am doing ... -
Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... work, and full of advanced BASIC techniques. Really interesting to ... in Artillery. Your lightning strike effect is really surprising, especially ... be redrawn that fast in BASIC.
Overall ... use the typically ZX81 BASIC definitions of integers e. ... -
+3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…
... "]Try the following in 48K BASIC:
[code]10 OUT ... sound.. is sound the intended effect of this program? -
Grey +2 with lines on some games on RGB connectionHi Everyone, Is it OK if I ask a question? I dug my +2 out of the loft after far too many years about a month ago, and I have finally got it ba…
[quote="1024MAK;952856"]the vast majority of games (>99%) and ALL BASIC programs work fine with the original PAL/HAL chip
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Plus, at least one game—[i]Vectron[/i]—uses the rain effect deliberately. -
Grey +2 with lines on some games on RGB connectionHi Everyone, Is it OK if I ask a question? I dug my +2 out of the loft after far too many years about a month ago, and I have finally got it ba…
... games (>99%) and ALL BASIC programs work fine with the ... [i]my[/i] strange graphic effect
Thanks for taking ... info posts on the raining effect and general things to upgrade ... display (which causes the rain effect) which the GAL fix prevents ... -
How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…
... episode to have a similar effect to hypertext?[/quote]
basic program, because I think that in effect that means ... memory. You have the actual Basic program taking up so many ... gives you 10 lines of BASIC program for each location.
