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Metacritic MadnessI have only recently wondered what Metacritic scores actually are, having seen them mentioned on the net for years. So, I had a look. It seems it i…
Fanzine review's were the only honest ones. They generally had to pay for software. Apart from the odd generous company. -
1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …
... ,031eh ;B=counter, C=next offset to add for rows
csa_lp1 ... byte
inc ixl ;next data byte for next pass
and d ... -
Isometric enginesWhilst taking a breather from Chess development I've been playing around with a little isometric 'room' building idea. Just wondering what sort of…
... , you only record the graphics for the cell that is right ... crude compromise. You could allow for up to three layers in ... their original scenery state, ready for next time. -
Cubic RevealI just though I'd develop this a little further. Written a while ago on a whim! [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/s/p44y5dda49ucmop/square_reveal_1_1.gi…
Anyway, the usual method for Next Line up is 15 bytes;
[code]
ld a,d
dec d
and 07h
jr nz,end
ld a,e
add a,e0h
ld e,a
sbc a,a
and 08h
add a,d
ld d,a[/code] -
ZEsarUX 6.0 stableHi! ZEsarUX 6.0 stable is out! This is a major version, it includes some new machines and a lot of new features and bug fixes :) You can downlo…
... add emulation for things like the ZX Next and TSConfig. ... windows emulation of ZX Next has slowed quite ... trace bugs especially for Next code which is complicated ... ZX Next emulator atm - cspect - which is good for ... one you can use for running NextOS, esxdos ... -
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 a PAUSE thinking that for some reason some moves were ... never work. Use a long FOR NEXT instead. or a BEEP.
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…
BASIC is slow, so I don't think any time delay is needed. And when I have written keyboard and movement routines, I never needed to use FOR NEXT delay.
[b][i]Mark[/i][/b]Zelda: Breath of the Wild.I thought I'd make this it's own thread as it was appearing in bother the Switch and "currently playing" threads, that way everything can go into the…
... wondering about, looking for stuff and doing the odd side quest, only ...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…
... side scrolling, but is better for games using static screens, just ... , perhaps even with colour codes, for such a task.
... , likely one that uses a For/Next look, printing a string from ... and all the other stuff for keyboard control, sprite movement, ...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…
... side scrolling, but is better for games using static screens, just ... , perhaps even with colour codes, for such a task.
... , likely one that uses a For/Next look, printing a string from ... and all the other stuff for keyboard control, sprite movement, ...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…
i dont know, im confused. i tried deleting characters with a for next loop and/or adding spaces to the first string but no good.What's on your saucer?Thanks go out to frobush and zx1 for inspiring* this WoSser to create a yet another excellent WoS thread. Lunch 10 minutes ago. [IMG]http://i300.ph…
As for those diet meals, most that ... not make some up yourself for next to nothing. Personally I would ... 't know how they are for putting on weight.Youtube DumpI think there was a thread containing only Youtube vids before but I can't find it so here's a new one. To start, here's my current favourite Mighty …
I might have to buy a TV for next year.
https://youtu.be/5Xy5wttiUqAMy new Punk music radio showHi folks, just posting that i now do a punk music radio show on the internet if anybody fancies a listen, i play punk, OI!, folk punk, goth, bit of t…
... put together my favourites show for next monday, 3 hours of my ... have done a part 2 for the following Monday lol, and ...My new Punk music radio showHi folks, just posting that i now do a punk music radio show on the internet if anybody fancies a listen, i play punk, OI!, folk punk, goth, bit of t…
... put together my favourites show for next monday, 3 hours of my ... key;944706"]Weekdays are out for me unfortunately. even Saturdays are ... sadly weekends is completely out for me, unless i took over ... show inbetweeny, maybe too short for an actual show)
[/ ...Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…
... 1 to 52 in a FOR NEXT LOOP, then every time I ... from 1 to 52 again (FOR N = 1 TO 52) swapping ...Good Beginners Basic BookMy 10 year old son would like to learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that would help? There are a lot in the archive a…
... ) and FUNCTION (FN)
6) FOR-NEXT, and the [i]infamous[/i ... complementing it with some compilers for the real machine, I would ... LaserBasic or others--not exactly for Speccy or even not Basic ... precisely. Perhaps, for a starter even AGD should ...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…
... elements).
So for example DIM a$(5,10 ... .
So for printing to the screen, a ... lot with PRINT a$() for example, this will not ... of the lines, use a FOR - NEXT loop:
[code] ... PRINT “*”;a$(c);”*”
40 NEXT c
[/code]
...Climate ChangeThis has been on the News for a couple of days now, including coverage of worldwide rallies calling for more efforts to tackle climate change. I have…
... going to get an AC for next year. At least my house ...Climate ChangeThis has been on the News for a couple of days now, including coverage of worldwide rallies calling for more efforts to tackle climate change. I have…
... going to get an AC for next year. At least my house ... . It did work reasonably well for what it was but really ...Extending SNA Standard Snapshot 48k 128k Format to new Hardware like ZXN (SpecNext)This may have been discussed before... Looking at the definition of standard 48k and 128k .SNA Snapshot e.g. at: https://www.worldofspectrum.org/f…
... stopgap early on in zx next dev as it was an ... selected from the file browser. For next programs, it's much better ...Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...
Thanks for the kind comments @luny :)
< ... always save the other ones for next week ;)
Cauldron, downloaded ...Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...
Good selections. :) I've not been able to participate this week sorry (unwell) but by next week I'll have tried/enjoyed(maybe?) the selections for 'this week' and will have some fresh ones of my own to contribute for 'next time' :)FOR loop without NEXT instruction. How come?I've been looking through the BASIC listing for M.C. Lothlorien's Red Baron and have noticed a line of looping code that is puzzling me. This is lin…
... - Meaning - Situations
1 - NEXT without FOR - NEXT
The control variable does ... from tape.
I - FOR without NEXT - FOR
There was a ... FOR loop to be executed no ...
