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PAW or GAC?Greetings all :) You might have heard me saying I was about to start in the programming of (quite silly and totally unworthy playing) games in BASIC…
... you'd need.
In many cases they're overkill ... plenty of great adventure games written in BASIC or with The Quill and ... -
Who wrote Nightshade?The October section of: [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/24/lloyd85.htm[/url] (a Crash yearly round up) says about Nightshade - "It also wasn't mis…
... download it, it was written in basic. He did it in an evening -- steve ... he wrote Black&White in Visual Basic it was more than ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... whet peoples' appetites :-)
In version 0.1, the editor ... the introduction of graphical input in the editor too. Need to ... it is the slow response (written in BASIC). Works fine at about 500 ... is an edited Cybernoid game in action! (It is actually ... -
Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…
Anirog "Flight Path 737". The worst Spectrum flight simulator _ever_. Even the picture on the cassette box was wrong (it wasn't a picture of a 737 - it was either a 727 or a Trident).
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Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…
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The game was written in BASIC. 'Nuff said.[/QUOTE]
written in BASIC, such as Nightflite and Airliner ... -
Games that shouldn't be good...Anybody ever read a blurb or review of a game and think 'nah, this looks rubbish', only to give it a go and find out that it's pretty damn good? I'v…
Admiral Graf Spee
Written in basic, really slow and crap graphics. But fun to play,especially if you breal into the program and give yourself loads of fuel and torpedos. -
Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…
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I was in Town with my dad (I ... my christmas copy of Crash in my stocking (I guess my ... ever seen for a game in Crash. "Phew!", I thought, " ... I'M sure it was written in BASIC with 2 ml high sprites ... was disgusted with the game in front of me, however ... -
Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…
... many posts of agreement here in the past) that Sqij is ... so awful? (apart from being written in basic) -
Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…
... so awful? (apart from being written in basic)[/QUOTE]
S'okay ... to turn caps-lock off in basic before you play it... Mmmm ... -
Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…
... I first played it back in 1982. It's really got ... and Arcadia, games were mostly written in BASIC and a bit of hi ... were certainly far worse games in the same genre at about ... -
Question about snapshot files....I've noticed that everytime I play "The Boss" (football management) it produces the same scores. I've played the first 5 games 3 or 4 times now and t…
... Boss (Peaksoft) is a game written in BASIC.
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Question about snapshot files....I've noticed that everytime I play "The Boss" (football management) it produces the same scores. I've played the first 5 games 3 or 4 times now and t…
... Boss (Peaksoft) is a game written in BASIC.
Just press BREAK ... definite place in its sequence of numbers (according to the BASIC-manual ... ).[/QUOTE]
If I put the RANDOMIZE command in ... I just repeating the same basic error? -
Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
... house to play games in turns or 2-player ... magazines, try to unprotect basic loaders, type apps and ... I remember my first Pacman written in Basic, for eg. Did any ... All those tapes with simple basic+m.c. routines games ... a commodore c16 back in the 1980s when i ... -
Listing games codeHow do you break into and list the programming for a game? I know Football Manager just required you to press the BREAK key, but what about others w…
... browse the contents of memory in much the same way that ... was written in Basic. The other 99% of the time, they're written in machine ... -
20 tons([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000024[/url]) has anyone played this true gem? do you believe all levels are possible to fini…
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Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…
... the compilers you've tried written in BASIC? If so, then you need ... or FP compilers which are written in machine code and put themselves ... you can then just load in your own program and compile ... -
A challenge thats probably impossiblehere's a challenge for all you coders. Given a snapshot, is it possible to create a program to sniff out the original start address for the game that…
... wrong although), you can guess in some cases the start of ... must first load game loader written in Basic, which then loads game machine ... part of memory where this Basic loader is stored (it is ... -
graphics on the speccy...how?I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did arti…
... animator that could save out in multiple formats) and other ... that were all specially programmed in-house (map editors etc) ... though a photocopier can come in handy) and then drawn on ... using a simple sprite designer - written in BASIC by Nigel Alderton.
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ex-YU Homepage Updated !Hey All... This will probably be interesting only for the people here that are from ex-Yugoslav countries, but it might be interesting for everyone …
... finally uploaded... GREAT one (partially written in Basic - who would know ;-) ).
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What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... quote=ghbearman;215060]BBC Basic had a built in assembler.[/quote]
... 't enter an invalid line in Sinclair BASIC).[/quote]
written in BASIC? The speed of Spectrum BASIC is the ... wasn't the Spectrum BASIC code written in a C/C++ format ... -
Horace goes skiingSomething I always wondered... ...in the skiing section of [b]Horace goes Skiing[/b], is there an end to the course, or does he just ski and ski unt…
... dont know :) .. At the time in 82 it was a pretty ... things appeared to be still written in basic... :)
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Make a Chip Strikes Again.Haa haa. Make a chip strikes again. [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SET-OF-5-VERY-RARE-ZX-SPECTRUM-EARLY-GAMES-SOFTWARE_W0QQitemZ180174711945QQihZ008QQca…
I have played Make a chip several times as a child, It was not a bad idea.
It was all written in basic I found its source code more interesting and educational than the program.
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Need help with Sorcery.Hard game, crappy controls, awful steering, nonsensical method of movement. In room #9 (By The River) I come to a castlewall with a door but I can't…
... only last a few screens in this game. Hard as hell ... a cool game for something written in Basic. One of the best. Always ... -
What game was your first 'tape to tape'Inspired by a post in another thread, what was your first 'tape to tape' game you received? (I know it might be several but which stood out). I got …
... one that I think was written in BASIC, a Viking war strategy game ... -
Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…
... of games I created in BASIC back in late 80-is and ... /> block 1) program instructions written in BASIC + some POKEs for assigning mini ... "" CODE)
4) Main BASIC program (LOAD "")
... in one TZX properly (having in mind that 1st block is the BASIC ... -
Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…
... of games I created in BASIC back in late 80-is and ... /> block 1) program instructions written in BASIC + some POKEs for assigning mini ... "" CODE)
4) Main BASIC program (LOAD "")
... in one TZX properly (having in mind that 1st block is the BASIC ... -
Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…
... one of them is written in BASIC, available only in Croatian. It's called ... way I could translate the BASIC code to English, then compile ... -
Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…
... one of them is written in BASIC, available only in Croatian. It's called ... way I could translate the BASIC code to English, then compile ... basin a try. Load your basic program into basin, translate, and ... -
What was the last commercially released game you bought?What was the last commercially released speccy game you bought? Mines was in 1994 when our WH Smith was selling off all of its 8 bit software really…
Some daft TV channel management budget jobby. ISTR it sucked like a hoover and was mostly written in Basic (with some creative use of UDGs) - no idea what the name was. -
Time travel gamesDo you remember any game in which you travel through the time, past, future,...? The games I know: Back to the Future Back to the Future II Back to…
... . It was rather simple, like written in Basic. You travelled through time and ... about different eras. I remember in first level you were chased ...
