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  • Linda Barker - Are there two?!So is the former editor of Your Sinclair magazine the same style guru we all know and loathe? :)

    Thank God! "Currys always cutting prices ..." indeed! :mad:

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    Refrenz Refrenz October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Zub - Lightfarce - Will the hidden game unlock on a PC?I've tried to use the keys to make Lightfarce work on my emu [Spectaculator] but ot just won't happen! I know it works I used to have the classic on …

    ... make sure you load Zub in 128k mode, then after the ... ,6,8 until *CHEAT* appears in the top-left of the ... />
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    Refrenz Refrenz October 2003 Games
  • The Greatest Spectrum Game Programmer!In my opinion the greatest Spectrum programmer of all time was Pete Cooke, this lone programmer was responsible for some of the best Spectrum games e…

    ... of machine-gunning the refugees in Zzoom and watching them fly ... Raiders was slow and written in BASIC, Halls of the Things had ... good. Knowing what will work in a game and what won ... I would consider to be in the same league as Viking ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…

    ... '.
    It's actually written in BASIC with a neat little MC ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: Spectaculator 5.3 (Speccy Tour players - please read!) Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/…

    ... have to go into +3 BASIC and load it manually from ... was a short little menu in BASIC and make a file to ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker November 2003 Emulators
  • Emulators without attribute clash?I know a spectrum wouldn't be the same without the attribute clash, but I was wondering do any of the emulators have a 'turn off the clash' feature? …

    You could get away with doing it in BASIC but it would probably not be worth the effort for anything else.
    cyborg cyborg November 2003 Emulators
  • Review of the site.Hi, just thought id mention that i have done a review of the site. The link for this review is [url="http://www.uk.ciao.com/void_jump_org_World_Of_…

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    Refrenz Refrenz November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Converting Final Fantasy 1 to the Speccy...Hi all! Although I've not been at Spectrum BASIC for a long, long time (and so have forgotten a lot as well as most of the important memory addresse…

    ... to do such a thing in BASIC. It seems this job would ... than someone who only knows BASIC (seeing as you're planning ... on using BASIC on the PC as well ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi November 2003 Games
  • Do you think the Speccy will live forever?Sorry if this was already discussed, but what do you REALLY think...will the Speccy live forever, or will the machine die with our generation... I …

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    Refrenz Refrenz November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum Database ProgramsWhat would people recommend to be a decent database program for the emulators? I've been fiddling with SGD but the databases are outdated, and ZX Rai…

    ... user (as you described in your reply). In ZX-Rainbow, both databases ... be given by another ID flag in the lines, that means, even ... you on my THANKS list in ZX-Rainbow main menu!!! :)
    Seejay Seejay December 2003 Emulators
  • So who plays PS2, Xbox & GameCube games?I'm still into gaming in a big way, how about you guys?

    well, im in the same position as many. ... and even arcade games written in Basic! theyre that much fun. Though ... what i have for PS2, in no particular order of prefernce ...
    Sadako Sadako December 2003 Games
  • Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…

    ... /> I played it but not in the original version. It was ... that it was entirely written in BASIC.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2003 Games
  • Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…

    WOW, the whole game was written in Basic??
    I have to take my hat off to those programmers. It has to be the most taxing game i have ever played though.
    Castor_ Castor_ December 2003 Games
  • Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…

    Can anyone remember any other games written in basic???
    Castor_ Castor_ December 2003 Games
  • Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…

    ... difficult) strategy/management game set in the last years of the ... free on a SU Megatape in May 1989.

    Apart ... remember any worthwhile game written in BASIC...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2003 Games
  • Better on an Emulator?!With the power of current PCs we can have our old spectrum running x2 x20 x100 it's original speed. There must be some games that benefit greatly f…

    ... guess because it was written in BASIC, in fact there must be a ... few games written in basic that could do with a ...
    mister_benn mister_benn January 2004 Games
  • Spectrum beep AY and my Cell PhoneCan AY music files be somehow converted and made to ringtones for my cellphone? I think many cellphones use Basic as their language, if I am not mist…

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    Refrenz Refrenz January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... a kit and are limited in scope).

    On the ... games are fairly crap in BASIC.

    So in short if you ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2004 Development
  • 3.30am after a night of boozeI just spent the night in various pubs drinking cider and listening to quality music(metallica, korn, ACDC, Billy Tallent, The Beat, The Selecta & Th…

    ... are the popular curries/dishes in Brittany anyway? Is Biryani ... is often featured in establishments of Indian cuisine in the UK, ... easy to stomach. However, in my experience the Korma should ...
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    Refrenz Refrenz January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • clueless spectrum usersI was quite young when I owned a speccy and didn't know much about how it worked. When I loaded games via the tape recorder it said in the manual so…

    ... /> I saw that each ZX81 BASIC statement had an ASCII code ... write a machine code program in BASIC by substituting the letters, numbers ... the famous Sinclair error "BOLLOCKS IN MACHINE CODE AT 10:0"
    chaosmongers chaosmongers January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Super Mario from 1960s? What the? I just saw the opening credits to Stingray, that TV show with puppets. It's filmed in Videocolor [sic] and... Supermarionation. Eh?! S…

    :lol:

    I suppose you were also dissapointed when you saw Knight Rider drive about in broad daylight. ;)

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    Refrenz Refrenz January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... are simply enough to write in basic and are not performance driven ... /> So get any version of BASIC and learn to program "Hello ...
    Kiwi Kiwi February 2004 Development
  • 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…

    And if you're going to do it in BASIC you could at least write yourself a hex editor and make life slightly easier on yourself.
    cyborg cyborg February 2004 Development
  • So how many coders do we have here?Just out of interest, how many coders do we have here who are capable of knocking out a game? [ This Message was edited by: Swainy on 2004-02-02 15:…

    ... :

    So I wrote in MC:

    ZX81 Emulator ... parts.

    In BASIC:
    Crossword designer (lost in time)
    Boardgame ...

    That's me in short.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2004 Development
  • So how many coders do we have here?Just out of interest, how many coders do we have here who are capable of knocking out a game? [ This Message was edited by: Swainy on 2004-02-02 15:…

    I can (could actually) program fairly well in BASIC. My knowledge in MC isn't too bad, and I have used some of it in my programs, but I don't have that much expertise so as to knock up a complete game.
    Arjun Arjun February 2004 Development
  • Multi loads and Mac Spectacle.I use Mac Spectacle but have never been able to get it to run multi-load games (such as Karnov) on it. Any ideas how I do this? [ This Message was e…

    ... can handle the LOAD command in Basic quite well, but custom loaders ... in machine code often don't ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan February 2004 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... machine in Decimal? Its stored as Binary in the actual addresses, BASIC is ... />
    There is NO difference in using HEX, other than I ... to write a HEX converter in BASIC, and then change my method ... the small program would run in BASIC, just type it out and ...
    GBNvK GBNvK February 2004 Development
  • 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…

    ... machine in Decimal? Its stored as Binary in the actual addresses, BASIC is ... know. By choosing to use BASIC and decimal you're really ... has no inherent properties useful in this field.

    [ ... the small program would run in BASIC, just type it out and ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... an advanced version of BASIC and then some more. ... Kiwi: Sure, the overhead of Basic is enormous, but a lot ... time, a lot of Basic games, even uncompiled ones, ... similar Language to Laser Basic, but with a buggy ... /> I write my games in Basic and compile them, but ...
    LCD LCD February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    Why two versions? One Version with options (selectable) Novice/Expert/Guru could be fine too. To be honest, I'm a bit lazy too, that's why I do most stuff in a game in Basic. But I still like to have full control over my created game.
    LCD LCD February 2004 Development
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