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Read Data from memoryHi there. Not been on this scene for a long time. Does anyone know how to do a routine to read data from memory(peek..etc) rather than using lines of…
... to stick with BASIC and resolve the ... compiler. There's not a lot of screen activity in ... do a reasonable version in BASIC (eg. Rockfall from ... have also been done in BASIC. Copying the map ... in February). What other aspects of Diamond Digger were too slow in BASIC ... -
Read Data from memoryHi there. Not been on this scene for a long time. Does anyone know how to do a routine to read data from memory(peek..etc) rather than using lines of…
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Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
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You must save the compiler with the compiled code though ... everything intact and continue writing in basic without having to reload ... game in 48k basic mode.
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Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
... looking at serving some very basic HTML for fun, and ... simple and can be done in BASIC.
Documentation on ... handling sockets from BASIC is here [url]http://spectrum ... sending raw text back and forth but demonstrate everything you'd ... -
Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
... simple and can be done in BASIC.
Documentation on handling ... sockets from BASIC is here [url]http://spectrum ... sending raw text back and forth but demonstrate everything you'd ... -
Why on earth did I buy...Couldn't see a topic for this, so apologies if it does exist. Aside from games, what did you buy, and put away in a draw the next (or same!) day - …
... a crap game using Laser Basic (which was essentially White Lightning ... 's you program in BASIC. You have to write it in Forth for to ... all know Sqij was written in Laser BASIC. :smile: -
Why on earth did I buy...Couldn't see a topic for this, so apologies if it does exist. Aside from games, what did you buy, and put away in a draw the next (or same!) day - …
... 's you program in BASIC. You have to write it in Forth for to ... all know Sqij was written in Laser BASIC. :smile:[/QUOTE]
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What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
... ;805058]I go back and forth about what I personally would ... and start any Speccy game in a matter of seconds. Also ... have fun writing simple programs in BASIC and saving them as snapshots ... keyboard was the right project in the wrong hands, and now ... -
Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…
... adventure writing systems (including FORTH and Assembly language:o) ... br /> - Follow through the tutorial in the manual (available on WOS ... SCREEN$ images for graphics, in order to conserve memory. ... of PLOT and DRAW commands in BASIC, but with more functions). ... -
New game released: EXPLORER<div><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Courier New';">- EXPLORER -</span></div><div><span style="font-si…
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BASIC to Python - bringing a modern view on an 80's obsession...Howdy! I don't know how relevant this will be here, but I've just finished up a 3-part overview on my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic pr…
... would be great to program in basic and get the same ... a javascript exporter for Boriel Basic.
Nowadays it seems ... /Articles/25069/JSBasic-A-BASIC-to-JavaScript-Compiler
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My favourite b-list gamesBack in my Spectrum days I had a BASF tape. Onto this tape went all my favourite games as the years went by. It started off with Manic Miner, then Ha…
[i]Orbiter[/i] was compiled BASIC? I didn't know that. ... have been done in BASIC and sped up in a compiler.
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Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…
... the binary and outside the compiler's awareness.
... Doing the latter (outside the compiler's awareness), you could reserve ... the data into banks needed in basic before the C program ... it fully supports sdcc as compiler (z88dk's version produces ... -
Every Adult Can CodeI would like to request for a new section in the Every Adult can code category for C/C++. This is aimed for the users of the Z88DK. Thanks Andy …
It's a C/C++ compiler for the Z80 processor. It ... that had a Z80 built in.
If you want ... much more difficult than programming in BASIC.
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New Game - Pietro Bros [z88dk/Nirvana+][b]PIETRO BROS[/b] Pietro and Luizo were transported to pipe world after eating some rancid mushrooms on his pizza. Help them to escape from th…
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ZX GameDev tools consolidatedHello WoS! It's been a while, yet with a plenty of decent gamedev tools (including new ones!), is there a [i]single/pivot table[/i] or some datash…
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That's 8 sprites in 16x24 sprite mode. Most users ... is inspired by BASIC and COBOL and is designed in a way ... own program together in the same way you would in BASIC.
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MIDI for spectrumI saw another topic for this in search but it didnt get any informative replies. I was looking through a magazine and found some MIDI stuff, keyboar…
... is something called MIDI2AY out in web-land but it is ... 's a bit like a BASIC compiler in the sense of that the ... written with conversion in mind rather like preparing a BASIC program for ... -Geeks, it's command line in use and poor on instruction ... -
c compiler benchmarkingI am going to have access to a number of commercial z80 compilers for a time for benchmarking, namely Hitech C v750 MSDOS (abandoned when Hitech was …
... t particularly representative of anything in particular at the best ... types that involve simulation. In these cases program size rather ... let you know if any compiler has noticeably more loop overhead ... and erase like you do in basic but otherwise the engines do ... -
endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... a'). Another in connection to pointers gives the compiler more information about ... so that the compiler knew to make space in a jump table ... the means that the C compiler ensures that functions and ... example in Basic. Okay, you have the same stuff in asm. But in ... -
endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... that they could do some basic formatting like cursor placement, ... control codes). As you know in basic you can print certain codes ... turn into LDIR by the compiler), use a library function like ... using them will have the compiler insert extra code to deal ... -
Serious facts about the ZX Spectrum Serious fact Number 1: It is a business machine. From an article about and interview with Sir Clive ( by Mike Cowley) Sir Clive says here:-"Nor…
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One compiler in z88dk does not directly support ... you would miss them (Boriel basic is kind of a midway ... br />
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Serious facts about the ZX Spectrum Serious fact Number 1: It is a business machine. From an article about and interview with Sir Clive ( by Mike Cowley) Sir Clive says here:-"Nor…
... is non-obvious. That BASIC has all these nice ... back in the day for the Speccy - and BASIC led ... ubiquitous so it's usage in BASIC was pretty harmless.
compiler to produce code, but ...
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Thoughts on "Slippery Sid"I did always quite like this, as for the game type I found it quite straightforward to play although I'd be interested to hear suggestions of alterna…
... 99 % percent it was written in Basic and compiled to Z80.
compiler, that's why I think ... " or any early time simple compiler.
Here is ... was written in basic and compiled by WYE VALLEY SOFTWARE COMPILER V 0 ... -
Go to, gosub or something different?I'm going to write an arcade game in basic. May compile it. In both basic and compiled basic would a goto or gosub be faster? Also if I stored …
... I would suggest that using BASIC for your arcade game might ... help in which case be aware of the restriction that the compiler ... places on your BASIC code. Alternately, consider ... you still want to code in BASIC for the fun of it ... -
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…
... , you could create something in BASIC with a 1 character scrolling ... have been done well in BASIC before and it shouldn' ... BASIC program and throw it through COLT, or the more modern compiler ... known as the Boriel ZX Compiler ( http:// ... -
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…
... , you could create something in BASIC with a 1 character scrolling ... have been done well in BASIC before and it shouldn' ... BASIC program and throw it through COLT, or the more modern compiler ... known as the Boriel ZX Compiler ( http:// ... -
Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... player is moving back & forth between two adjacent locations which ... s text, declared in DEFMs, can easily be emulated in BASIC - just use ... which records which locations occur in which zones would be ... points to the first byte in the (initially empty) DATA ... -
Bit of fun - one change onlyI also posted this on another marque's forum (for their products) to see. Its just a bit of fun really. OK, if you could of made one change to a S…
... to replace it with. Forth maybe ? Some 'basic' (no pun intended) ... seen a 8" disc in action apart from various video ... 's, I mean not "in person" as such. 5. ... eye-watering sums of money in the early and mid ... was a 'new' machine in effect. I think a missed ... -
Mighty Maths ProgramsIn a break from typing in listings from 37-year-old magazines, I had a sudden urge to write a maths-related program, as I do, occasionally. Some, suc…
Seeing as the 81 can resolve pi to 400 decimal places in BASIC and using FORTH can work out !4000 (12670 digits) it should be doable.
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Penetrator - Compiled Basic ?For clarity: The Melbourne House sideways scrolling 'shoot em up' game, a very good game for its time and it still plays relatively well today, with …
... about it, as in perhaps the editor was written in Basic, but as ... Basic back to Basic as such, even if you know the compiler in question ... . I think I follow you in that compiled ...
