World of Spectrum
  • Categories
  • Discussions
  • FAQ
  • Sign In
Home › Search
Title Search
@title beer Word 'beer' in title
User Search
  • @user admin Only posts by Admin
Text Search
  • @body beer Word 'beer' in the text
Phrase Search
"Hello World" Exact phrase match
Exclude Terms
  • car -red Search cars that are not red
"Or" Searches
  • honda | bmw 'honda' or 'bmw' results
Multi-Field
@(title,body) hello Both contain 'hello'
WildCard
  • hond* civ* Match all with an astrix
Combination
  • @title bmw @user admin
See more supported syntax examples
Search Again :: Adv Search 1000 results in 0.111s
<1…22232425262728…34>
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... last sequence of the copy routine, when the attributer are transfered ... . anyway, it worked fine in win98se but in xp with the same ... leet? ;)
    Okay, BMP2SCR was written in DB Classic, so it was ... ,ME,W2K. BMP2SCR Pro is written in Dark Basic Pro, so it will ...
    LCD LCD March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…

    ... , I tried something like that in BASIC. It was pitifully slow but ... will fill colour quadrant by quadrant. As for how the routine works ... I stored all my programs in and restore it! I could ...
    Arjun Arjun August 2003 Games
  • ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…

    ... wrote:
    I have written my own fill-routine.

    I have ... ]

    Anyone still intrested in this routine????

    It is ... .
    This routine will work in almost all figures to fill. Only a ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2003 Games
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... questions. I can set you basic programming assignments if you
    Basic. To learn programming in general, I'd ... you click on the flood-fill picture, you'll download a ... will also see some examples written in C for the Spectrum. I ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2004 Development
  • The Speccy Games Programming CompetitionFor those who weren't following the OT thread... We have the CGC and we have the Minigames competitions, but we don't have an actual Spectrum Games …

    ... use music written in WHAM! or simply mc routine it is a BASIC game ... note: what about BETA BASIC and MEGA BASIC? that are pretty clever ... tools aimed to speed up BASIC.)
    in my opinion the main ... . ask people for fast MC routine (there is a development forum ...
    Fikee Fikee May 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…

    ... , although some Linux games are written in Perl with GTK libraries. I ... interpreted than the original ZX BASIC does compiled (the 50MHz eZ80 ... megabyte of ROM space to fill, I'm not worried.
    in BASIC than assembler. Although the assembler ...
    Sparky Sparky 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…

    So someone who's written a game in pure MC can tack on a hi-score table or redefine key routine in BASIC, and instantly double their final score?
    gasman gasman March 2005 Development
  • Game being created with Platform Game DesignerBeen playing with this since yesterday when i bought it from Cronosoft. To someone like me who cant program its excellent to create a Manic Miner st…

    ... need this to return to basic. Would a RET do ... correctly there's a ROM routine at address 654 (028Eh ... So your redefine key routine should CALL this address ... This can then be written to the memory location ... were planning to do this in BASIC. Yes, a RET will ...
    jonathan jonathan May 2005 Development
  • Game being created with Platform Game DesignerBeen playing with this since yesterday when i bought it from Cronosoft. To someone like me who cant program its excellent to create a Manic Miner st…

    ... there's a ROM routine at address 654 (028Eh ... So your redefine key routine should CALL this address ... This can then be written to the memory location ... were planning to do this in BASIC. Yes, a RET ... a little (my first) routine in assembly to call that ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2005 Development
  • GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…

    ... can work in BASIC as well, but a large figure will fill very ... slow. Better is an MC routine which will ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • sprite making in +3 BASIC?Any sprite tutorial I come across is far too complicated! Can someone help me? For instance, how do you create a person-shaped animated sprite which …

    ... which provides sprite extensions to Basic, such as Ocean's ... Sprite handling was covered in several articles in the Sinclair User "How ... ll get a sprite handling routine written by Raffaelle Cecco, which can ... programs on that page and in other sections of the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2005 Development
  • horror text adventure scenario writer neededany outthere? I started to make program for text adventure [B]Mysterium Magnum[/B] on basis of ?multiple choice? which was project I wanted to make …

    ... , I thought it would be in BASIC. :(
    [/quote]

    BASIC!
    but... just ... thought I would add/fill the text into the ... cca one screen in my game [my routine is made ... to posses 480 characters in the ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup October 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... graphic, just as you would in Basic.

    [code]
    // Attach ... br />
    In the library functions I've written I use whatever ... video frame. The Basic system puts the z80 in im1 mode, which ... set up our own interrupt routine and another way is to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... s stdio library is still written in C, having been borrowed ... it relies on the Basic interrupt routine to scan the keyboard ... to stop running Basic's interrupt routine and use IM2, ... Basic's interrupt routine scanned the keyboard and stored the last keypress in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2006 Development
  • Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…

    ... 16k), as does the interrupt routine -- these two things are ... end of the basic line from your machine code routine. Eg:
    basic in general expects you not to ... library which is still largely written in C. This means when you ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2007 Development
  • 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..…

    ... when the "draw screen" routine redisplays a previously edited and ... screen containing lifts. The routine would either have to perform ... and then fill in from there. Both will be slow in BASIC.
    3 ... would just require a reset routine after each level/game - ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Development
  • Getting scr addresses from x and yCould someone please tell me how to calculate the 8 screen addresses corresponding to a character printed in basic at coordinates x and y? For examp…

    ... corresponding to a character printed in basic at coordinates x and y ... complex. I followed a routine written by dmsmith in machine code to do ... will probably be hideously slow in BASIC.

    What are ... or for asm?
    In BASIC, I got around this problem ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • E-mail from Dom MorrisA few weeks ago I started a thread about a possible ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page about zsock for the z88 and I …

    ... me remember my 1st fill-in routine, made with Basic! lol

    [QUOTE ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... printf() for the C64 is written in 6502 for a different crazy ... ]C VARIABLES[/B]

    In Basic you have integer, floating point ... the C compiler to automatically fill in the size of the array ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... be written to the memory buffer by this routine and ... screen (this routine assumes the text stays in the same character ... line). 2- the scroll routine will be dealing with messages ... not equal to", equivalent to "" in Basic. Other common C comparison operators ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Platform Game Designer 2?I've started tinkering around with some code today and have decided upon a number of handy little features that it would be nice to have. For the li…

    ... do as the sprite routine is of the slow ... for PGD was originally written in 1995/6 when I ... be assigned different actions. In fact, you can ...
    Some basic object handling code is in there already, and ...
    It's pretty basic but hopefully should give users ...
    jonathan jonathan July 2007 Development
  • Help hacking Split PersonalitiesI`ve been hacking away at Split Personalities for the purpose of putting new screens and graphics (items). The current screen is at 41187 and is 160…

    ... much until you've written the packer because if ... write a packer for yersen in basic by loading your screen ... stick any code in say #33 in the first ten places ... leave the #0d and fill the next 13 numbers with ... instances of that address in the program by doing ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous July 2007 Games
  • What was the worst game you brought ?Only games you paid for please :) Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic) Apologies if the author is on here :oops: But even at the time…

    ... an utter howler. Written entirely in BASIC (which is too ... only the menus were in BASIC, the actual flight sim ... bit was in machine code).
    < ... program had was a routine to play an intro ... did get airborne, the in flight pictures were mostly ...
    Winston Winston October 2007 Games
  • Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…

    ... /> # COPTRULES3 contains optimizations which call in other library
    # routines..boosting ... ]
    LIB SPPFill ; use library routine
    LIB liner ; use library ... SPPFill ; do the pattern fill and return to basic

    .DOLINE ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... screen for "XLR-8 Demo - Basic Loader".

    It' ... is obviously a tape loader routine. So it's clearly ... entire program is written in machine code, embedded inside a BASIC program listing ... some mildly amusing comments embedded in the program like "GO ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Games
  • Channel redirectionHi! I need help regarding the following problem. I want a BASIC decoder running on Spectrum, written in assembler. I found the great *LIST routine […

    ... BASIC decoder running on Spectrum, written in assembler. I found the great *LIST routine ... I need the ASCII BASIC listing in a buffer, because I ... use a custom 64 columns printing routine ... character to your 64-col routine? Also, the printer ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston December 2007 Development
  • Dangerous Z80 Assembly CommandHave been reading Toni Bakers' "Mastering MC On Ya Speccy" book and came across the list of Z80 commands in the dictionary section. Page 102 "[b]IM…

    ... inside the pre-written AY chip music player routine I was supplied ... with that is resulting in the ... />
    I have CLEARed the BASIC area to below the area ... to check the AY music routine itself in the dissassembler, and see ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Packing numbers in as least memory as possibleI am writing some code for drawing vector lines etc. on the screen. These need to be stored in memory and I want to pack them in a smaller area as po…

    ... been developing the most useable fill routine. I have gone for the ... speed, but doing a block fill beforehand to cover the bulk ... space.

    I have written a windows scene creater, that ... all be pulled together. All in .net I am afraid, which ...
    carlinski carlinski March 2008 Development
  • Packing numbers in as least memory as possibleI am writing some code for drawing vector lines etc. on the screen. These need to be stored in memory and I want to pack them in a smaller area as po…

    ... been developing the most useable fill routine. I have gone for the ... space.

    I have written a windows scene creater, that ... all be pulled together. All in .net I am afraid, which ... beginning with line draw, pattern fill and move point functions. Adding ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2008 Development
<1…22232425262728…34>

Latest Posts

  • Happy 40th Birthday to the Amstrad CPC464!
    Luny on 5:14PM
  • Your Favorite Magazine Cover Tapes.
    dm_boozefreek on 4:45PM
  • "Late Entries"
    harriusherbartio on 4:00PM
  • How Do You Categorize Your Speccy Software and Games?
    harriusherbartio on 1:34PM
  • Simple Sprite Routine
    dmsmith on 1:25AM
  • I am currently watching.....
    zx1 on April 11
  • Today's BASIC program: visit attribute cells I am interested in, in pseudorandom order
    Paradigm Shifter on April 11
  • How do you share programs online?
    firelord on April 11
  • Celebrity deaths...
    Ælita on April 11
  • Who Has Got The Earliest ZX Spectrum Software?
    harriusherbartio on April 11

HitBox

Word Docs Hits
fill 3.1K 3.7K
routine 9.5K 14.8K
written 12.3K 14.1K
in 401.9K 810.5K
basic 24.7K 39K

Related Threads

  • im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.
  • getting c nonsense in basic when trying to load a program through a string in +3 basicstrangely if i use load s$(to 8), it says nonsense in basic but works when i run it. but when i execute the command without a line no it works withou…
  • Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime <br /> <br /> VIKING RAIDERS.
  • IN command in BASIC to read keyboardThis weekend on a Sinclair meeting we had some BASIC-games using IN to control the character. The maker of the game assumed that the result of an IN …
  • Spin / Emuzwin and reading keys with IN in BasicIt's just a bit of a quirk I've found really, but here goes...<br /> <br /> Some of the Basic programes and games I've encountered lately , use IN to…
  • No sound in SPIN in 48K BASICI'm using an Acer Travelmate 5310, with Realtek HD audio. When I start SPIN (0.666) in any of the 48K modes and press a key, I get a click, followed …
  • Most impressive game you've ever seen which has been written in speccy BASIC?What's the most impressive speccy game you've ever seen that's been written solely in speccy BASIC?<br /> <br /> +3 Basic or 48k basic.<br /> <br /> …
  • A.I. in a Pacman game made in BasicA few years ago I tried to make my own Pacman game in Sinclair Basic. The map, UDGs and the whole game was completed and was working with just one gh…
  • Adventure games written in basic (commercial)This thread partly got me thinking &gt; [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31141[/url]<br /> <br /> But I'd like to know abo…
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

Related Searches

  • writing music in basic
  • play in basic
  • play command in basic
  • tell when basic written
  • differences in 48k basic and 128k
  • differences in 128k and 3 basic
  • disable break key in basic
  • games in basic
  • differences in basic
  • differences in 128 basic and 3
  • differences in toastrack basic save m
  • differences in toastrack basic m
  • different commands in basic
  • differences in basic 3 128k
  • differences in basic 3
  • differences in basic 3 and grey 2
  • games written in basic
  • scroll routine in basic
  • zx81 games written in basic
  • fill routine basic

Copyright © 2024 World of Spectrum