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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…
ok, tried doing something in basic, and very painfully too :) (not ... coordinates, it works and looks fast, see what do you think ... :REM SNAKE SIZE
20 PRINT AT X,Y;"O"
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BIFROST* example: "Knights & Demons DX" source codeA package containing the source files of our multicolor game "Knights & Demons DX" is now available for download [URL="http://www.mediafire.com/?hbch…
... result value (just like Sinclair BASIC functions such as [B] ... (just like Sinclair BASIC commands like [B]PRINT[/B] and [B ... tile)[/B] will execute really fast when BIFROST* is disabled (thus ... board updates are still quite fast during battles).
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Problem With POINT StatementHello everyone this is my first ever post, So firstly i'd like to say hello to everyone and secondly thank you to the admins for such a great site, …
... as the browser won't print the graphic symbols. I put ... TO level
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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…
... at typing and computers are fast at printing.[/quote]
That ... can use sprintf(), eg, to print text to a 0-terminated ... it simple to use from BASIC. A small modification of the ... -
Why?I'm just wondering why people are here? Why are we working on or using old hardware? Why are some of you putting a lot of effort in upgrading the ha…
... time writing little games in BASIC for the fun of it ... still writing little games in BASIC, but now they had little ... in a speedy way that PRINT couldn't, that sort of ... the window.
Fast forward to today and I ... -
Graphics questionHello. I was wondering, does anybody here know of a method to display a large (as in, the better part of the screen) bitmap/raster image using ZX Sp…
... Assembler and so very fast. Boriels ZX Basic Compiler is better for ... -256*PEEK 23607
110 PRINT a$;
120 LET p ... . With some modifications, one can print full screen composed of 24 ... -
The Evolution of Some Nonsense[center] [B]TIMINGS FOR 100 BOUNCES[/B] [b]Ten Bouncy UDGs in BASIC[/b] [img]http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/a000test.gif[/img] [u…
... +CHR$ 17+CHR$ 2
PRINT a$;"hello"[/code]
which ... +CHR$ 17+CHR$ 2
PRINT a$;"hello"
[/code]
BASIC did that SpecBAS cannot - there ... well just run BASin in FAST mode instead.
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TAPlist - the emulator versionI've got this working reasonably well; there's just a couple of small extra features which I want to add. (Recall that TAPlist writes a formatted lis…
... conversion from BASIC to assembler, but it's fast enough.< ... 6)))):
STOP:
PRINT "no code":
STOP:< ... br /> PRINT "bad margin":
STOP:
PRINT "bad tabstop ... use it, LOAD the BASIC program which you want ... -
Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …
... is too much for BASIC.[/quote]
Using PRINT with OVER is ... faster than POKING. What slows PRINT down is printing a character ... string and print it all at once it's quite fast.
BASIC. And if you want to ... there's Boriel's ZX BASIC compiler. -
Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …
... character is too much for BASIC.
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... manage something half decent in BASIC with just one 2x2 sprite ... and it's probably still fast enough. But add another sprite ... Y=Y+1
100 PRINT AT OY,OX;c$;AT ... 1,OX;C$
101 PRINT AT Y,X;a$;AT ... -
Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …
... /> FOR y=1 TO 20: PRINT AT y,1;TAB 31 ... ":
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SpecBAS / SpecOS documentationHi, I just find out about SpecBAS and I was so impressed by the new functions while retaining compatibility with ZX Basic that I've been playing wit…
... be done in BASIC if you have a fast enough system. I ... br /> IF SPCOLL jj THEN PRINT AT 3,30:"jj" : ... PAUSE 4 : PRINT AT 3,30;" ":SPRITE COLLIDE ... 1,30;"jj": PAUSE 4: PRINT AT 1,30;" ": SPRITE COLLIDE ... 2,30;"kk": PAUSE 4: PRINT AT 2,30;" ": SPRITE ... -
Simple text scrolling routine...I'm having trouble writing a very simple text scroller, the idea is to use the ROM printer routine to print 32 characters each time the routine is ca…
... be too slow in BASIC. Here it is, anyway ... DF_CC to move the print position. The PAUSE needs ... otherwise it's too fast to read. (I ... de)
rst $10 ;print next character
inc ... ld (23688),bc ;the print position one row DOWN
Interface 1bis RAM Drive modificationAll Interface 1bis users I hope I am not interfering with Dan, but I saw on his site that he has a RAM Drive upgrade/modification for the Interface …
... to store data frequently and fast ( like memory swapping, but not ... original ZX Interface 1 extended BASIC, but ( just like the "B ... character-oriented instructions: OPEN#, CLOSE#, PRINT#, INPUT# and INKEY$#.
πBacteria, Bare Metal emulador for Raspberry PiSorry, Google traslated text below ---- What is an emulator Bare Metal? It is an emulator that runs directly on the machine, no operating system beh…
... sort of file system or fast loader from the SD card ... replace the BASIC loader with a single 10 PRINT USER xxxxx line ...πBacteria, Bare Metal emulador for Raspberry PiSorry, Google traslated text below ---- What is an emulator Bare Metal? It is an emulator that runs directly on the machine, no operating system beh…
... sort of file system or fast loader from the SD card ... replace the BASIC loader with a single 10 PRINT USER xxxxx line ...Detecting flash mode inversionsIs is possible to detect with certainty when flashing characters change from normal to inverted and vice-versa?
Actually yes, it can be done in 2 lines of BASIC:
[CODE]1 LET z=0
2 LET z=z+(INKEY$="q") AND zDetecting flash mode inversionsIs is possible to detect with certainty when flashing characters change from normal to inverted and vice-versa?
[QUOTE=Battle Bunny;803182]Some steps FLASH is on, sometimes it's off, but there's no particular pattern or synch points that I can see.[/QUOTE]
Your program is incorrect. It's supposed to update screen every frame, using FLASH 1 during first ...Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…
... CSSCGC to provide scrolling from BASIC. My principle is to add ... -mapped screen, then do a fast render of those characters to ... each time. You can then print some sprite-characters over it ...Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…
... this could be done in BASIC on the Spectrum using Arrays ... v v v v \/" 100 PRINT AT 0,0;a$ 110 ... any program in BASIC to keep it running fast. Or at least ...c compiler benchmarkingI am going to have access to a number of commercial z80 compilers for a time for benchmarking, namely Hitech C v750 MSDOS (abandoned when Hitech was …
... spectrum, the engine must be fast so a lot of functionality ... have to print and erase like you do in basic but otherwise ...Can I name a subroutine and then call it by name?No thats not really exactly the problem. I wrote 4 lines of Basic that draws an 8x8 square and then told it to check x,y and subtract 4 from x or y t…
... or On).
Although PRINT OVER SQUARE has invalid syntax ... of the square and then PRINT the required 1,2 or ... how fast I can get a horizontal pixel scroll in BASIC with ...z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…
... best choice if you want fast printing like for scores in ... bit too much like the Basic font,
does it have ... If you use sp1_PrintString() to print a string, it will expect ... subroutine that uses sp1_PrintAtInv() to print individual characters of a string ...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…
... I just wrote my first BASIC program in about 30 years ... a=a+1
50 PRINT AT 1,1; a
fast it wasn't.
Go to, gosub or something different?I'm going to write an arcade game in basic. May compile it. In both basic and compiled basic would a goto or gosub be faster? Also if I stored …
... tip for action games in BASIC is to look for an ... collision detection, e.g. PRINT your character, PRINT the enemies, then check ... it's not running as fast as it could.
I feel like such a moron having to post this but stillI started out to write a simple cursor move program to demonstrate how easy it is to program in Basic! Hah, serves me right. I started by setting…
... in thinking it can convert Basic to machine code?
print in the window gets damn tiring really fast!I feel like such a moron having to post this but stillI started out to write a simple cursor move program to demonstrate how easy it is to program in Basic! Hah, serves me right. I started by setting…
... in thinking it can convert Basic to machine code?
[/b ... the small print in the window gets damn tiring really fast!
i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... , it would still be fast enough to resemble something playable ... bottom layer scroll half as fast as the one above ... move him, but only occasionally print animation frames over top periodically ... something like this, or any BASIC programming, is usually the ...
