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Was there a POKE that broke the SpectrumHi Everyone I've been recalling myths and rumours from back in the day. You know "Lunar Jetmans" trailer and that sort of thing. But one rumour …
... you look at the memory map of the Spectrum, ... ROM and RAM. POKE in BASIC simply writes the specified ... may cause the the BASIC ROM program to crash, ... ignored. And in fact, the BASIC program in the ROM actually ... exists, poking random values in it's registers may ... -
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... have another pad and free USB port then add ...
Once done, load in SpecEmu
Options, Options, ... we are back in spectrum 48K basic mode.
... basic program
10 PRINT AT 0,0;"31 ";IN ... .
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Contact Sam Cruise - BugWhile playing through 'Contact Sam Cruise' yesterday I happened upon a bug when I was arrested, when I moved inside the jail cell the screen scrolled…
[quote="Nonsense in BASIC;840915"]Mmmm. You may ... with a 25 year old memory! so I'll fire ... character walks towards the right in the game, the screen ... The girls school scrolls immediately in from the left? Anyway, ... 'P' while being carried in order to get the bug. ... -
Gaming MythsLike mentioned in earlier threads - we have games like Mire Mare, Lunar Jetman and Scooby Doo. Does any other ones spring to mind. They need not be…
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Already mentioned in the first post. ;)
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New Game: AmnesiaHello! First of all, sorry for my English. I have developed my first game. It is called "Amnesia", and I have used the Freescape engine "3D Con…
... had problems with corrupt memory in the 3D Construction Kit ...
I also posted tips in the aforementioned thread for creating ... Freescape compiler (at least, in my case); it appears to ... when the free memory was too low. Initially, the free memory was only ... -
ZX81 Character SetHello, hope I don't offend anyone with my request. I've put together a program on my Amstrad that redefines a condensed text and displays it appropri…
... in ZX81 BASIC, so you'd need to store the font data in memory ... erase the array in memory
In any case you ... floating point number in memory uses five-bytes; in a program ... quickly exhaust available memory.
ZX81 BASIC doesn't support ... -
ZX81 Character SetHello, hope I don't offend anyone with my request. I've put together a program on my Amstrad that redefines a condensed text and displays it appropri…
... a block of memory as screen and poke values in basic to it ... a screen with pokes from basic is slow. Like poking a ... on the ZX Spectrum from basic.
Take a look ... can show what is possible in BASIC. -
New Game: AmnesiaHello! First of all, sorry for my English. I have developed my first game. It is called "Amnesia", and I have used the Freescape engine "3D Con…
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Regarding your memory problems and compiler failures, it ... possible to save the game memory from the editor and ... that the game data memory is identical in both the editor ... to free memory. Maybe, there is something wrong in my data file in ... -
128K programmingDoes anyone know any good resources on assembly programming for the 128? All I'm after is an "idiot's-getting-started-guide" on how to utilise the…
... is at the top of memory then you push something on ... and do a CLEAR 32767 in BASIC before loading it. -
Help! I'm learning Machine Code...Having decided to take the plunge and learn to machine code a while ago, I have started in earnest using the much recommended 'Mastering Machine Code…
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Haha, ... the order of bytes for memory locations are preserved and don ... how the Spectrum stores data in terms of bytes, address ... /> Toni does include a BASIC type-in called Hex Loader which I ... -
Help! I'm learning Machine Code...Having decided to take the plunge and learn to machine code a while ago, I have started in earnest using the much recommended 'Mastering Machine Code…
... to get the stack pointer in BASIC, there's an easier ... , and on returning to BASIC, that value will appear ... a routine too. When BASIC calls machine code, the ... it at a set place in memory first. But you could ... ' function return the address in BC of where to POKE ... -
48K Memory MapHi, I'm having some trouble understanding the top of the 48K Memory Map. From reading elsewhere I have this as the memory map: 0 to 16383 - …
... the start of the available memory for BASIC programs from the standard ... of the basic program upward. You can see that in the diagram ... things move around as the basic program is edited and run ... you don't care about basic none of this is relevant ... -
What's the maddest a Speccy game ever drove you????What's the maddest a game ever made you and what did you do about it?? I have plenty of memories of punching TV's, myself, sofa's etc. as, for exampl…
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If memory serves, the way to beat ... Was to waggle your joystick in a slow rhythmic motion, completely ... slow rhythmic waggle' ) was given in the instructions as the way ... -
Pietro Bros [DEMO]Hi People. I wanna share with you a game that I'm working on, since a month or so... [img]http://i.imgur.com/kOoPGzU.png[/img] [url="https:…
... I'm running out of memory...
@Einar Saukas Do ... , the debuger on ZXSPIN shows free memory from 24000 to up...
Here's my BASIC Loader:
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Character Based SpritesHi, I'm working through Jonathan's excellent guide to writing games, and have mastered the animation of single UDGs. Before or move onto Pixel…
... make much sense to use BASIC/ROM routines, to read keys ... used to process keyboard modes in Basic editor.
The ROM ... br /> - Screen (a memory mapped area, mapped in a weird but useful ... to have similar code in RAM, hence saving memory, but it comes ... -
Basic Screen Shadow QuestionHello, I've been porting a game to the Spectrum from another platform. So far so good and I have per pixel screen scrolling working really nicely …
... the 128 ROM system/BASIC is often a source ... to using the 128K memory, like let's say ... t mess with the extended memory ASAP and then have ... but only used to program in BASIC back then. I hadn' ... is to navigate around in terms of memory management.
Leading Zeroes on a Score in BASICI'm trying to print the score with leading zeroes such that it's always 6 characters wide, i.e.: 000010, 000150, 006100 etc. I quickly knocked thi…
... similar in my Znake game. OK, I realise it's not BASIC ... , I'm keeping the score in memory (encoded as BCD, to make ... (i.e. reloading hl from memory unnecessarily, and perhaps I don ... possible to do something similar in BASIC?Hacker QuestionHello hackers, as some of you might know, I am supervising the work on converting games from TR-Dos or TAP to the +D or Opus disk format for our SC…
... you see in a listing of a Basic program can ... follow each such numeric value in memory. In this case, they must ... is a non-issue for Basic lol
'Solving ... is mostly zeros but in the middle of it ... 'WHY' can be found in 'why bother with a computer ...Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
... 've converted this to ZX BASIC which came out at 40 ... free. Once the map comes up it complains about some "Nonsense in BASIC ...Must be missing the point - machine code... Hi Folks, Trying my hand at machine code again but falling at the first hurdle. I hand crafted the following to run at address 62000 and the co…
... you're poking it from BASIC, I'd suggest using decimal ... program, hex strings can save memory over numbers, but then use ... forces me not to think in BASIC terms.
PaddyWhere does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…
... If you want a simple, BASIC only, codge. And don't ... /> Instead of copying the screen memory, this just hides the drawing ... ' command in BASIC - which allows you to copy chunks of memory.
< ... to implement, and makes BASIC on the Spectrum massively more ...Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…
... ! Here's the Joefish code in one listing, type RUN then ... to copy the screen to memory or GOTO 220 to copy ... memory to screen.
[code]100 ... /> I've done the equivalent in BASIC in the past but it's ...Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…
Here's equivalent drawing functionality in BASIC, type RUN then GOTO 1000 ... screen get drawn back from memory, type PAPER 7 then CLS ...Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…
... you can POKE into memory, then call like a ... I've written into memory from a DATA statement, ... of one of my routines in BASIC would be:
... (16384) to address 58368 in memory. And it takes a long ... from' and 'to' memory addresses in HL and DE around and ...CAPS-SHIFT KeyCodeIs there a standard Keycode for CAPS-SHIFT Key ? Looking at the ROM documentation in the Main key table KEYTABLE_A, there is no Entry for CAPS_SHI…
... it's definition like defined in Wikipedia.
[quote]A ... position by public acceptance ... "in practice or actuality, but not ... common solution could have been in used.
For ... used[/b]", in Basic Programming manual, and hence free to be defined ...Abersoft Adventure 1This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but I've taken a quick look at Abersoft's Adventure 1, and written up the internal database format [url…
... per word.
23K of free memory was only enough for all ... room description and half the in-game messages...
... long descriptions or using 128k memory... :(
and here ... of the longest room description in the game...
[img] ...Abersoft Adventure 1This may not be of interest to anyone but me, but I've taken a quick look at Abersoft's Adventure 1, and written up the internal database format [url…
... per word.
23K of free memory was only enough for all ... room description and half the in-game messages...
... long descriptions or using 128k memory... :(
and here ... of the longest room description in the game...
[img] ...Hidden message on Astro Marine CorpsI 've been toying with [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000295]Astro Marine Corps (Dinamic)[/url], and I've found a hidden mess…
... 30 bytes or so of free memory. Or Beatrice is a person ... wanted some extra bits / graphics in the game, that is the ...Welcome to the Matrix!Ok here's something I been playing with while I'm at work and on public transport. I'm thinking I want to be able to move the large letters around th…
Every line in a BASIC program uses a ... plus one for every character in the comment.
When memory gets really tight, there are ... since every literal number in a program uses six- ... you're starting out in BASIC; since it makes readability ...
