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Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…
... should be reserved for basic and compiled basic games. there are ... well for basic and a Q-bert game in basic that is ... just so clever and plays ... went looking for a game and it had a score ... a 20 foot pole, watch mtv and be "in" like ... -
ZX ShedNow that issue 2 is out and it's fairly obvious it's been a great success, we have to start considering issue 3. Thanks in part to the quality of wri…
... at this for 30 seconds and watch the white squares turn grey ... the technical bits of the game, and how to use it for ... various different tools and languages to illustrate the basic workings and logic of ... the same article for Blitz Basic, then feel free.
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The best adventure game on the speccy.I'm on a roll ain't I? Well the best adventure game this time. The Hobbit for me for various reasons: it was the first speccy adventure game I playe…
... watch the loading screen.
Seabase Delta, a budget game ... brilliant story, logical puzzles and some memorable characters. The ... for hours and hours. Random dungeon every game and although a ... lot of it is in BASIC, it ... -
Bipboi Adventure - Tech DemoHere is the first tech demo of my Bipboi game, still in progress (2 Years now :-? ) Anyway, have a download, let me know what you think. This wil…
... the star collecting game is 75% there, and this one is 50 ... this year and I am cracking on, honest.
Watch this ... a game, but a sample of graphics with motion and a basic idea ... . The characters looked so cute, and would ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... version of the game and determine most of the game logic for us ...
[*][B]game (game.h, game.c)[/B]
game-wide properties including ... So that's something to watch for when using them.
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Goldeneye (N64) can still surprise!After eleven years, I thought I'd seen and done everything Goldeneye on the N64 has to offer, but I've found this video: [url]http://uk.youtube.com/…
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And so Rare wrote and released Goldeneye (the game), and it shot ... your game, though. And the game has a proper James Bond style watch, ... , and 007: Nightfire have driving levels. AUF is very basic, ... NF is better. TWINE, on the N64 is a marmite game ... -
Game endings...Does anyone know why is that ZX Spectrum game's endings are so extremely dissapointing sometimes? Sometimes it's just some short text "Congratulation…
[quote=Ralf;329757]And here is the thread about ... . Some are really great to watch:
[URL]http://www ... BASIC block named "END" (i.e. the 5th part of the game) and ... of England[/spoiler]
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Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…
... The game has been released into PD, but the Basic loader just ... [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQMSTadpmKc"]load from CD ... easier to jump to CM and leave BASIC and its interrupts behind as ... a smaller BASIC loader leaves more memory for the main game. This ... -
Official CSSCGC 2010 Competition ThreadDear Wossers, As 'loser' of the 2009 competition, I am now obliged to host the 2010 competition. I have created a site which will provide a hub for …
... helper for the modern Sinclair BASIC programmer"
game project. The tool will actually guarantee this, and ... game, perhaps sprites, backgrounds, spaceships, bullets.. and then relax and watch ... - to optimize the performance and user satisfaction.
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Is it just me or.....Hi Everyone I haven't been on here for a while, so this might have been discussed to death already, apologies if it has but... Is it just me, or wa…
... them a Megadrive/SNES game and they get all misty eyed ... it go from early BASIC games to great machine ... etc was great to watch. The magazines at the ... started over again, emulators and roms, people playing Speccy ... 30 game for a few weeks, trade it in and get ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... way Game & Watch handhelds work. Some years ago, I wrote a BASIC ... memory to change the ink and reveal the sprite(s). This ... And better yet: even with a fairly dense game loop as this game ... spanish forum (ZIP with the game and source code included). [url]http ... -
Goody - another game that was supposed to be colourAfter the success with Outrun Europa ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39143[/url]) I decided to search for more games tha…
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Ladders, platforms and items are done.
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I ... so it will overwrite the Basic loader. I'll think ... quite hard later in the game and you can lose 10 ... , maybe you'll wish to watch it :)
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64x48 full colour graphicsHow feasible is this? Could an interrupt-driven routine be used to, for example, fill the top two thirds with a 64x32 blocky picture and leave the bo…
... Valkyrie -- a hybrid mc and basic game -- and games by Big5 Software such ... ="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdXlOTj9RZQ"]Cosmic Fighter[/URL ... buffer (already completed display) and a background buffer (the ... swapping' (a single OUT) and this time is filled with ... -
The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... /> Who is writing this crap game anyway? Isn't it supposed ... ASS OFF IF YOU RELEASE GAME BASED ON MY SNAKETECH v2 ... to step through it and watch the variables is already making ... for stepping through basic programs and a way to watch basic variables? I hope ... -
The day you unboxed your brand new SpectrumI was at junior school for much of the Spectrum's heyday, yet never owned a computer in that time. I was fascinated by computers back then, they were…
... bedroom as they wanted to watch TV. I also did a ... experiments some days later. and got right into BASIC programming, i was ... the whole holidays playing those game and also went to the local ... also loaned games off friends and relatives and got right into gaming ... -
Any reason to prefer the 48k version of a game over 128k?Title says all... are there any games for which it makes sense to play the 48k version if there is also a 128k version? To my understanding, the 128k…
... written in BASIC. But 128k BASIC was a different dialect and offered ... [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrgE_C-ZMpY"]https://www ... saying that a program/game written in basic runs slower on ... speed?
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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...
... the screenshot. Put the Basic letters back and watch the program run!
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Great Manual ,"Shame About the Game" Yup I came across a 1984 ZX Spectrum program with a REALLY GOOD manual. All nicely printed with a ring bound back . I remember trying out similar st…
... /> [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnlhIi2v3_M"]https://youtube.com ... .Here however I find that basic info is not very well ... :- Has anyonerecently actually completed this game ?And it would be good to ... -
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... interested in making a game should watch that Lemmings video that ... in most aspects of basic game design (except the actual ... for inspiration and even developing cover art and character design ... if your ambitions include game design and especially if, like ... -
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... interested in making a game should watch that Lemmings video ... in most aspects of basic game design (except the actual ... for inspiration and even developing cover art and character design ... if your ambitions include game design and especially if, like ... -
Looking for a game.I'm looking for a game and I don't know its title. I played it years ago and I still have a casette with it, but I haven't got right player and caset…
... m looking for a game and I don't know ... and casette cover is lost. So, can anyone help me?
Game ... description: arcade game. You fly a plane and you must ... to water, it sinks and you get to next ... Also, ther is choppers and flying arrows there. Third ... -
Head Coach - where can i find it to download?Does anyone remember a game for the spectrum , called Head Coach? It was a very simple coaching american football game, and was very basic, and very…
Does anyone remember a game for the spectrum , called Head ... simple coaching american football game, and was very basic, and very addictable! I need ... -
another nameless game...I've looked at 3 or 4 other requests for names of games and the response seems to be really good so here's hoping... i had this game where you were …
... had this game where you were a fly and your energy ... -connected-by-lift setup and you could push objects ... with food that rotted and gave more energy depending ... -friend who was trapped and the platform was filling ... whole time i had that game, and i had it for ... -
train game know its name?i used to have a train game, and it was like a big puzzle and you had to build the track for the train to go along till you got it to the end! does a…
i used to have a train game, and it was like a big puzzle and you had to build the track for the train to go along till you got it to the end! does anyone know what it is called?
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moneyWhen i was younger and writing speccy games in basic with the occasionaly machine code subroutine, i used to dream of writing a hit game and making a…
When i was younger and writing speccy games in basic with the occasionaly ... dream of writing a hit game and making a fortune.
Does ... actually make from a hit game? Did people really become rich ... royalties of one best-selling game (I did read in a ... -
Best Monty Mole gameI think this is quite difficult. The top 3 Monty games IMO were Wanted, Monty on the Run and Auf Weidersehn. Too pick the best is quite difficult. …
... Wanted, Monty on the Run and Auf Weidersehn.
Too ... the best with some superb game-design structure on many of ... 've got 60% thru the game and then can't get any ... has superb graphics, enjoyable gameplay, and if you know the items ... -
new speccy game here!!You may remember a while ago I posted a demo of a game I was making on this forum, and I asked at the time whether or not anyone knew of any software…
... of a game I was making on this forum, and I asked ... /> I have now finished the game and have had no luck at ... decided to post the full game up here. It has ... email] If you like this game you'll like "Earth ... to the game in Z80 format is below (zipped), and if people ... -
Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…
... . Name this strategy game which was completely written in BASIC.
game and the SU issue with which ... Vietnam War veteran. Name the game and the author of the song ... end of WWII and believed lost. Name the game.
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What is the name of the game?As far as I remember I got my Spectrum + together with 2 cassettes. One of them was USER GUIDE COMPANION CASSETTE by GOLDSTAR and the other one (or m…
... GUIDE COMPANION CASSETTE by GOLDSTAR and the other one (or ... ) was a Maziacs-like game. It was a very ... simple one screen game. The objective was to ... d like to download this game and play again as it ... game I had ever played. I don't remember the title and ... -
Old QL GameCan anyone help me? Back in 85, there was a review of a QL game, Land of Havoc by Microdeal (I think). I've searched the internet for a copy of that …
... a review of a QL game, Land of Havoc by Microdeal ... for a copy of that game, but could not find it ... download a copy of that game, and a decent QL emulator so ...
