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  • Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]

    ...
    Music (mainly rock)
    Football

    Oh and every ... then I'll make a BASIC game, stick it on my ...
    xfa84 xfa84 April 2006 Chit chat
  • What's the longest time you've spent playing a game?There's a similar discussion going on in the SFX forums right now and I thought I'd start it here. Around 1990, I spent about 9 or 10 hours playing …

    ... the same with that american football game !

    Not in ... crashed, the game had a basic error and you couldnt get ...
    psj3809 psj3809 May 2006 Games
  • ZX Game Book UpdateHi all... For various unrelated reasons the time I have for editing has been limited to weekends, but I'm still plugging away. I have created 'fi…

    ... niggles:

    Was [I]Football Manager [/I]ever compiled? The ... 've got is 100% interpreted BASIC and I can't find ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…

    ... , were written in Sinclair BASIC. Here's a list ...
    Dungeon Master
    Football Manager
    Journey's End ... in a mixture of BASIC and assembler such as ... also a few that used BASIC compilers. [I]Frank ... a language other than BASIC or assembler was [I ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2006 Development
  • What are the best Soccer Management gamesI found the following in the archive : 2 Player Soccer Squad 7(5) The Boss 8.6(15) Graeme Souness 6(2) Jimmy's Soccer Manager Kenny D…

    Nothing beats the original [I]Football Manager[/I] for me, although ... find the limited options, slow BASIC programming and generally weak user ... bit frustrating.

    [I]Football Manager 2[/I] was a ...
    Matt_B Matt_B August 2006 Games
  • What are the best Soccer Management gamesI found the following in the archive : 2 Player Soccer Squad 7(5) The Boss 8.6(15) Graeme Souness 6(2) Jimmy's Soccer Manager Kenny D…

    ... why is most football manager games written in BASIC? You could easily ...
    zx1 zx1 August 2006 Games
  • Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…

    ... some football manager type game, fairly complex and all written in basic ... /> /Just checked it could be Football Director.... not sure though.... after ...
    Trotterwatch Trotterwatch September 2006 Games
  • Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…

    ... football manager type game, fairly complex and all written in basic ... /Just checked it could be Football Director.... not sure though.... after ... letters.[/QUOTE]

    Football Manager perhaps ? Never played it ... and that was written in Basic. There`s a new ...
    CKay CKay September 2006 Games
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... to feel here as on football stadion - you should think ...
    Thread name is Sinclair Basic vs. pascal. Even this is ... br /> Comparing one pretty limited Basic with serious language, which exists ... earn some knowledge with Sinclair Basic.
    Choice is very ...
    piters piters September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... . Other people like mountain climbing, football, building hardware. What makes their ... superior to programming in Sinclair BASIC? Why should we have to ...
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    Going back to the original question, if Pascal has been used instead of ZX Basic what sort of programs would have been written.
    Would there have been enough memory left for programs like Football Manager and Valhalla?
    rich_chandler rich_chandler September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... been used instead of ZX Basic what sort of programs would ... memory left for programs like Football Manager and Valhalla?[/QUOTE]
    Basic programs to. It's not ... 's safe to say that BASIC was probably the best choice ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Easy one first, Tai Panby Mikro Gen Steve and me has one

    ... - Digital Fantasia
    League Table - Football Follower
    Softlink 1 - Gilsoft ... Hunter - JD Tronics
    Advanced BASIC Programming On The Sinclair ZX ...
    RichB RichB October 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Highest price of a Speccy gamePicked up from left field in the Mire Mare thread [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14621"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/…

    ?19.99 for a football management sim, written in BASIC.......:o
    ChuckieEgg ChuckieEgg February 2007 Games
  • Groundbreaking gamesWhich games really broke new ground? I mean the ones that actually got around the hardware limitations of the Spectrum. For example: Aquaplane - f…

    Lords of Midnight - Whole world (well 32,000 locations) in 48k

    Football manager - first basic game worth a shit (cept my self written ones)

    Stonkers - First generation command and conquor :P
    beanz beanz February 2007 Games
  • The Beautiful GameNo, not Head Over Heels. Or Stonkers hehe. Football. No thread here specifically for the beautiful game, so tell us who you support, why you suppo…

    ... for you this is his basic football stats.

    Six Dutch ...
    sirclive1 sirclive1 March 2007 Chit chat
  • Best Speccy footy games?What are you guys favourite Speccy footy games in order of best to worst? Mine are: 1. Italia 1990 2. Match Day II 3. Kick Off 4. Manchester Utd…

    ... /> Manchester United (and sequel)
    Football Manager (this game deserves a ... find out how this simple basic game keeps you hooked with ...
    Emlyn_Hughes Emlyn_Hughes May 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... 's mentioned yet is that Football Manager is one of only ... games that was written in Basic. The other 99% of the ... code you'll see for Football Manager and it'll require ...
    gasman gasman May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... over Spectrum BASIC.

    [quote]BBC Basic had procedures.( ... full BASIC add-ons, such as Laser Basic, Beta Basic and YS ... Mega Basic (the latter ... good Spectrum BASIC games. There's Mined Out, Football Manager, er ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]

    ... grips with BASIC hmmm.....I tried to program a football manager game ...
    48k+ 48k+ November 2007 Chit chat
  • Arti've decided to paint pictures and flog them to art cafes, and also online, mostly on ebay. i only did basic art at school, i can't really draw and …

    ... people with the equivalent latent football skills. Wayne Rooney just got ... music seems to be a basic property of being human. But ...
    Winston Winston January 2008 Chit chat
  • best BASIC games? - besides 20 tons and Derby Day perhaps i know few of them, yet i believe, there have to be some cool ones i couldn't appreciate then as i was stup…

    Mined Out was very good. Also, Football Manager was very popular, and I think that was in BASIC (I never played FM though, so I can't comment on it's quality).
    ewgf ewgf February 2008 Games
  • best BASIC games? - besides 20 tons and Derby Day perhaps i know few of them, yet i believe, there have to be some cool ones i couldn't appreciate then as i was stup…

    For me, Football Manager wasn't just a great BASIC game, but one of the greatest Speccy games ever; I still play it today from time to time.

    Can we cheekily include compiled games here? Although that would give us Strontium Dog...
    Bad Horsey Bad Horsey February 2008 Games
  • best BASIC games? - besides 20 tons and Derby Day perhaps i know few of them, yet i believe, there have to be some cool ones i couldn't appreciate then as i was stup…

    [QUOTE=Benway;248990]Xadom, Football manager and The Wild Bunch, for me.[/QUOTE]


    I didn't know the Wild bunch was written in BASIC. Good game though, just really hard to complete.
    zx1 zx1 February 2008 Games
  • three seperate top lists?as shown in another thread recently, top lists are a tricky stuff altogether - there are too many diferent possible criteria... could you put down th…

    ... />
    Football manager - great in the day , so very very basic now ...
    sirclive1 sirclive1 March 2008 Games
  • Underestimated gamesWhat games do you think never had the hype of the larger named games, but you loved to death. I loved Pedro where you had to plant seeds and stamp o…

    ... /> I'll nominate 'The Boss'. Football manager gets all the nostalgic ... in-depth. Again written in BASIC and minus the "fancy" graphics ... long time. My favorite Spectrum football game. Ever!!!
    stvd stvd March 2008 Games
  • Spectrum more loved than C64It just occurred to me that the Spectrum must be more loved than the C64 these days. After all, it has been more than a year since an update was made…

    ... were going over the BASIC routines in Football manager since age 8 ...
    Ælita Ælita May 2008 Chit chat
  • Games you speed upI was just having a go of Striker because it has such a high rating (8.94!): [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004952[/url] As…

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;285562]Football Manager. 'Calculating the league' takes a while at normal speed. Takes about a second at 400%![/QUOTE]Normal speed 4 seconds, then? ;)
    Vertigo Vertigo July 2008 Games
  • The "Ernie Wise Memorial Game What I Wrote" thread 2008As the September rain lashes remorselessly long and hard against the window (Everest PVC-u) what more can a cove do but reflect on life whilst drinki…

    ... BASIC when I was about 15 and attempted to make a football ... try. forgotten virtually all the BASIC I learnt now.
    def chris def chris September 2008 Games
  • ANN: ColorPRINTColorPRINT gives you 256 fully programmable Timex mode 2 characters (maximum 16 colours per character if you have bright black) to use in your 48 BAS…

    ... />
    Anyway, I'm sure Football Manager can be trimmed, but ... DIM command anywhere in the BASIC yet at line 9010 it ... converted from another dialect of BASIC. I'm sure the program ...
    Jimmy Jimmy September 2008 Sinclair Basic
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