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  • Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…

    ... know too much about SAM BASIC, and what the performance is ... . That should provide a relatively fast environment that wouldn't need ...
    monty.mole monty.mole June 2004 Development
  • Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…

    ... Forever and Amithlon, which is FAST on my slow computer, too ... final official version of Blitz Basic because I heard it is ... . Now they only do Blitz Basic for Windows. Bah. Also got ...
    Sadako Sadako June 2004 Development
  • Sound problem in SpectaculatorHi, now that the site is up and working again, I was able to install Spectaculator on my new system but very oddly, while everything else is perfect…

    ... from the left which says ' basic acceleration ' , seems to give the ... /> And thanks for being so fast and give me a solution ...
    Arm73 Arm73 July 2004 Emulators
  • GP32 speccy emulators and other stuffI'm about to invest in a GP32 BLU as I have a long long long stay in hospital coming up and really want to know if anyone has one of these and can gi…

    ... />
    A few questions, how fast is SNES, GB, Genesis and ... the following systems ... Megadrive (very basic sound, frameskipping), SNES (Very jerky ...
    Refrenz Refrenz July 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best scrolling everHi All - I've been lurking here for a while enjoying reminiscing about my magical 10 years of rubber-keyed fun back in my youth! What game featured …

    ... , the other 'defender' listed are basic programs... :) Don't care for ... scrolls, and it is very fast-paced. The whole game basically ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi July 2004 Games
  • Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …

    ... have 5-8 basic enemies you draw them by fast routines and ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2004 Development
  • If there's ONE thing that......frustrated you about the spectrum when you were a kid (not now) what would it have been? 1) The attribute colour problem 2) The sound 3) The size…

    ... be a really fast typist when I was typing BASIC programs.
    Neil^P Neil^P September 2004 Games
  • 3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…

    ... programs. Not very fast though as entirely in BASIC.

    If ... , have a look at DARK BASIC or BLITZ BASIC

    Derek
    dmsmith dmsmith September 2004 Development
  • Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…

    ... it's slow in regular basic although I compiled the program ... on the other hand goes fast and i don't seem ... mistaken, so it's very fast. )

    I disagree ... well and be more than fast enough. the only thing about ... that's because it's Basic and it's doing ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • I would like to write emulatorHi guys, I'm new to this forum but I realise that you must get loads of posts from people asking "how do I write an emulator" so I'll try and be spe…

    ... /> So for a very naff BASIC implementation, you would:

    I suspect that your BASIC probably doesn't allow this ... , your emulation will go nowhere fast.

    Again, see the ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2004 Development
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... your question about the BASIC. As far as I ... far, the best BASIC (it was fast, had loads of functions ... and the worst was Commodore BASIC, in which, apart from ... in comparison to the other BASIC adaptations. I seem to ... recall that the BASIC got better with the ...
    GOC GOC September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... the crummybore64 had a pathetic basic and was hopeless at non ... 1571 disk drive was as fast as a tape loading....
    biolaboy biolaboy September 2004 Games
  • Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…

    ... DOS based, and run ridiculously fast, or have a crap user ... ask, well, with the four basic building blocks of ANY true ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2004 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... they also made a Basic Lightning for doing games ... the Spectrum needed a Basic Lightning, since IDEAL can ... be used in Basic programs also and the ... more than half as fast as regular Spectrum Basic.

    basic by Glen Cook (who ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • Starting from scratchHello, I'd lack to have a crack at writing a Spectrum game. I have very limited programming experience from mucking around with javascript and VB an…

    ... (before it crashes) with Laser BASIC, design hundreds of identical 3D ... to create mind-blowing multicolour, fast paced smooth action games with ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2004 Development
  • New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…

    ... reason why it's so fast to load. It's so ... WOS. If you check the BASIC loader you'll see I ... second block and returns to BASIC at line 30 once loading ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks October 2004 Games
  • can someone make manic miner in b.a.s.i.c (oh, the horrors!)can someone make manic miner (or it's first level) in b.a.s.i.c . yes i know this is stupid, but i would like to know what would happen! from matthew

    That`s remarkably fast for basic, pleasantly surprised, although it`s very very tricky to control and it doesn`t seem to wanna jump when your not pressing left orright first/ at same time.
    CKay CKay October 2004 Games
  • Gold MineOk, foolowing on from the bad games discussion earlier, I was reminding myself of how much I hated Gold Mine by DK'Tronics. But... The TZX file in …

    ... /> You have to completely disable fast loading to get it to ... back into BASIC for some reason (if you leave fast loading on ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle November 2004 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…

    ... game which will win COMPILED BASIC GAME COMPO
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    fast though - is pretty painful at ... two and a half decent BASIC games. If that's really ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... games written in BASIC, BASIC + CM sprite routines or compiled BASIC, which I ... ) held a BASIC compo last year (Interpreted BASIC) and some ... White Lightning package from compiled BASIC. This afternoon I'll ... does not produce very fast code but has a plethora ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... /> [quote]
    The BASIC language is simply not powerful ... a graphics module to provide fast drawing, scrolling, etc. And ... compiler, not the BASIC.

    Sinclair BASIC, although very ... smooth sprites using only compiled BASIC with no extensions!
    ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... -iterate that the implementation of BASIC provided by Sinclair is in ... , a graphics module to provide fast drawing, scrolling, etc. And you ... that a game requires smooth, fast sprites, scrolling and music. Why ...
    Rael Rael March 2005 Development
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