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  • gold / mining game ?hi guys, i'm relatively new here and i'm looking for a game who's name i can't remember. the details are sketchy too (sorry!). it was a mining game…

    ... the game you're on about...looked like it was programmed in basic ... definitely wasn't a type in game was it? Seem to think ... it might have been in the pages of Input...
    luth714 luth714 December 2006 Games
  • gold / mining game ?hi guys, i'm relatively new here and i'm looking for a game who's name i can't remember. the details are sketchy too (sorry!). it was a mining game…

    ... game you're on about...looked like it was programmed in basic ... definitely wasn't a type in game was it? Seem to ... it might have been in the pages of Input...[/ ... want to mention it in case anyone else could ... 're talking about the same game here.

    ...
    slightly76 slightly76 December 2006 Games
  • New years resolutions (Spectrum)Spectrum related only please Mine to finally get into Jonathan Cauldwell's Anno Domini

    ... />
    This game propbably will be programmed mostly in Basic (for extra crapness ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk December 2006 Chit chat
  • New years resolutions (Spectrum)Spectrum related only please Mine to finally get into Jonathan Cauldwell's Anno Domini

    ... />
    This game propbably will be programmed mostly in Basic (for extra crapness ... />
    for once, a CGC game I can't wait to ...
    guesser guesser December 2006 Chit chat
  • funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…

    ... once tried to make a game for Jumping Jack Flash, the ... , wrote a bunch of nonsense in basic, though I did start it ... Flash' then actually ran it in the hope it would work ...
    InsertFaveGameNameHere InsertFaveGameNameHere January 2007 Games
  • funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…

    ... wrote a series of games in 1988-90 called 'Explorers' ... thing. I wrote them in Basic and they were actually quite ... a 'rock manager' type game but it was pants. Later ... i did get a free game in return! I must have ... enough to write a full game. After that it faded ...
    zx1 zx1 January 2007 Games
  • basin & spinWhen a basic program is loaded into Basin from .tzx does it display the real basic underneath or what the basic has been made to look like by the sof…

    ... QUOTE=dekh]When a basic program is loaded into ... the real basic underneath or what the basic has been ... br />
    [quote]
    In Spin is there a way ... it loading a full game when you load a ... spin just loads the whole game in.
    [/QUOTE]

    ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2007 Emulators
  • Phantomasa, new ZX Spectrum gameWe are proud to announce the release of a new Spectrum game! Phantomasa!, a platform game that combines puzzle and hability. You can download it (f…

    I feel so honoured, considering the game was written in BASIC :)

    How could I get a scanned page with the review? It's hard to get that magazine in my place. Do they have an online version or something?

    Thanks for telling, mate :)
    na_th_an na_th_an January 2007 Games
  • Phantomasa, new ZX Spectrum gameWe are proud to announce the release of a new Spectrum game! Phantomasa!, a platform game that combines puzzle and hability. You can download it (f…

    ... so honoured, considering the game was written in BASIC :)

    How could ... hard to get that magazine in my place. Do they have ...
    na_th_an na_th_an January 2007 Games
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... is binary compatibility. Modifying basic code and intoducing new codes ... can play that game)
    Are compiled BASIC programs larger or ... with large BASIC programs.

    Current BASIC compilers get ... who used to be faster in BASIC than the speccy... you ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • Most ridiculously over-sized game box?Which Speccy game had the most ludicrously over-compensatingly sized box?

    Surely The Great Space Race must win this one. It had a huge box and lots of paper inside but was a rubbish game written in BASIC.
    WhizzBang WhizzBang February 2007 Games
  • Most ridiculously over-sized game box?Which Speccy game had the most ludicrously over-compensatingly sized box?

    ... inside but was a rubbish game written in BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    Agreed ...
    beanz beanz February 2007 Games
  • Boulderdash style game in compilationHello, I remember playing a boulderdash style game that came in a compilation. The game's graphics were rubbish (looked like it was written in BASIC…

    ... style game that came in a compilation.
    The game's ... graphics were rubbish (looked like it was written in BASIC) ... but the gameplay was great !!! The game also ... looked like they were written in BASIC, and had a screen ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2007 Games
  • Sam Revival magazine issue 16 now out! [Sam CoupIssue 16 of Sam Revival magazine is now out! This issue features the full Sam game 'Colony' on the coverdisk, which was written by Derek Koselo. Col…

    ... whatever, does that mean that in a sense a Spectrum or ... `T is indeed a brilliant game, that Invasion II or whatever ... game in look and feel :) I wouldn`t mind bench marking Master Basic ... command took last year in SAM Basic and Master basic and it`d ...
    CKay CKay February 2007 Announcements
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... to use. Could be done in BASIC.

    If ... the main menu of a game (in this case Cybernoid) and ... .

    Once a game starts the proggy will break ... #A5AA. Return to the game and everytime you enter a ... number there. Let the game start and look at the ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... you can POKE the values in BASIC, export binary data from appropriate ... the unexpected things about the game logic and map layout is ... that whereas the original game is linear, it is quite ... wished to redistribute a modded game without altering the graphics? If ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Development
  • Passing off games as your ownWe ran into a rather interesting case over the past day: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0011821"]Jukebox[/URL], which appeare…

    ... REALLY good game written in BASIC that I had to get in there.........OK ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2007 Games
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... it breaks compatibility completely. The BASIC was never designed to be ... would run BASIC the fastest but not be very game friendly and ... that isn't needed at BASIC or game runtime to a separate ... loosing speed and new features in BASIC to get those last few ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... whet peoples' appetites :-)

    In version 0.1, the editor ... the introduction of graphical input in the editor too. Need to ... is the slow response (written in BASIC). Works fine at about 500 ... here is an edited Cybernoid game in action! (It is actually ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Development
  • generated missionswhich speccy games randomly (or partly randomly, at least) generating their misions/scenes do you know, please? (combat lynx being a great example.) …

    Oracles cave: A fun adventure game and guarenteed different every time ... they were both written mainly in BASIC. Could there be a pattern ... games threw a partially random game at you sprite wise apart ... did throw a completely random game at you every time like ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2007 Games
  • generated missionswhich speccy games randomly (or partly randomly, at least) generating their misions/scenes do you know, please? (combat lynx being a great example.) …

    ... same basic strategy every game. You obviously get some variation from game to game in ... is more down to variations in your strategy than the computer ... always the same for each game, although the individual layout of ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Games
  • horizontal shmupsare there any speccy horizontal shmups where you freely move your ship (or whatever) pixel-by-pixel except penetrator? (i?m glad to realize, the lack…

    ... do love the more basic cut down graphics/sounds ... love seeing an arcade game being simplified and put ... onto the Spectrum in 128k. If Jackal was ... games, seeing the graphics in a 'speccy style' i ... thats what makes a great game in my eyes. Many Speccy ...
    psj3809 psj3809 February 2007 Games
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... full lifts will be problematic in BASIC, so I am thinking of ... 2 tiles for each lift in its shifted position. Then when ... after #FC00 for the main game block. #FC00 is the address ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... there. Both will be slow in BASIC.
    3/ additional problems if ... is implementing this temporarily in a per-game, or even level specific ... reset routine after each level/game - hey why not hijack the ... ? Doesn't this reset each game?

    Cracks to ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Development
  • Speccy vs C64 vs Amstrad - Make your vote count![url]http://www.retrofusiononline.com/fusion/[/url] You know it makes sense. We're winning at the moment, too... D.

    ... was seen as a game company where Apple and ... has a non-standard BASIC which didn't go ... early benchmarks were done in BASIC and with Apple IIs ... Atari responded to changes in the market slower than ... shelf parts. Adding Extended BASIC made it very attractive ...
    JamesD JamesD March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…

    Anirog "Flight Path 737". The worst Spectrum flight simulator _ever_. Even the picture on the cassette box was wrong (it wasn't a picture of a 737 - it was either a 727 or a Trident).

    The game was written in BASIC. 'Nuff said.
    Winston Winston March 2007 Games
  • Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…

    ... Trident).

    The game was written in BASIC. 'Nuff said.[/QUOTE]
    in BASIC, such as Nightflite and Airliner ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2007 Games
  • Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…

    ... 've ever seen for a game in Crash. "Phew!", I thought, "lucky ... 'M sure it was written in BASIC with 2 ml high sprites ... . I was disgusted with the game in front of me, however I ... do thank this game in a way. If it weren ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2007 Games
  • Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…

    ... here in the past) that Sqij is possibly the worst game ever ... awful? (apart from being written in basic)
    bobs bobs March 2007 Games
  • Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…

    ... I first played it back in 1982. It's really got ... Arcadia, games were mostly written in BASIC and a bit of hi ... upgraded from a ZX81. The game just got a bad reputation ... were certainly far worse games in the same genre at about ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2007 Games
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