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StalingradHi So question: What did I do that the 11-th Army is activated?
... your problem.
In the game, you can select and give ... the magazine reviews of this game. They all say the rules ... find any instructions to this game in the archive, so I can ... the BASIC listing, but it mostly seems to be written in machine ... -
What was the worst game you brought ?Only games you paid for please :) Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic) Apologies if the author is on here :oops: But even at the time…
... utter howler. Written entirely in BASIC (which is too slow ... only the menus were in BASIC, the actual flight sim ... bit was in machine code).
The game didn't give you any ... did get airborne, the in flight pictures were mostly ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... on the Othello game, as per your outline in #781.[/QUOTE ... /> Article #1: One-liner techniques in BASIC Sinclair
1. ... game structure (so even readers without much knowledge of BASIC ... . "AI": Explain how the simplistic game AI works.
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Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... in BASIC rather than m/c.
To get into the game ... " prompt. No modifications to the game are necessary. So that's ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... block. The loader gives "Nonsense in BASIC". The main m/c program ... will not recognise the game data of the game itself. I believe ... assembler source of the game embedded within the BASIC listing. Three increasingly ... -
Horace goes skiingSomething I always wondered... ...in the skiing section of [b]Horace goes Skiing[/b], is there an end to the course, or does he just ski and ski unt…
... , with a dreadful skiing sub game bolted on.[/QUOTE]
Oh ... dont know :) .. At the time in 82 it was a pretty ... appeared to be still written in basic... :)
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Starting on machine code - BASIC first?Howdy. If I wanted to start learning machine code for the speccy, from scratch, would you recommend I learn BASIC first or is it entirely possible to…
... enough understanding to pull these game-engines apart and put them ... and (in the old days) type them in as DATA-statements in BASIC, or ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... program could already finish the game without requiring the player ... in advance eliminates the need to check all 3 end game ... conditions).
Checking moves in advance is not viable in BASIC ... , but that's the way I would have done it in ... -
Help! Cauldwell's PGD.First of all I just want to say what an absolutely wonderful program The Platform Games Designer is. It's nearly everything I've ever wanted for the…
... save your game, PGD saves it at memory address 32768. In order ... to run the game without PGD, you ... will need to create a loader program in BASIC ... ) and run the game.
Bear in mind that you can ... -
Game EditorsWell as the title says, this is a query about game editors, specifically the ones for Gremlin games... Many moons ago, Your Sinclair published (I th…
... editor on the one printed in YS. I'd prefer ... packer / unpacker of the original game though, as the YS one ... couldn't put Death enemies in, or use different coloured walls ... />
Also, the one in YS was bugged, so you ... hard I suppose, it's in Basic after all. -
Need help with Sorcery.Hard game, crappy controls, awful steering, nonsensical method of movement. In room #9 (By The River) I come to a castlewall with a door but I can't…
... only last a few screens in this game. Hard as hell, but ... such a cool game for something written in Basic. One of the ... -
What game was your first 'tape to tape'Inspired by a post in another thread, what was your first 'tape to tape' game you received? (I know it might be several but which stood out). I got …
Have no idea which game was the first one. When ... parents bought my first Spectrum in 1990 (yes, I was late ... and creating my own games in Basic.
I remember copying games ... -
What game was your first 'tape to tape'Inspired by a post in another thread, what was your first 'tape to tape' game you received? (I know it might be several but which stood out). I got …
... the jump to the actual game entry point fixed that one ... load.
The first game I legitimately bought with my ... own money was Confuzion, a game I think that's hugely ... that I think was written in BASIC, a Viking war strategy game). -
CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... , I don't think a game featuring David Icke would be ... /> But in this case, it would simply be because the game "Pssst ... a tolerable version of it in BASIC.
If you have ... /detailed/135003]ftsoj[/url]*-themed game, and would rather I write ... -
Which AMstrad CPC 464 emulator is the easiest to use?It might be a bit off asking this on a Spectrum site, but I might as well ask the experts! I'm using Spectaculator for my Speccy games, and it's gre…
... has a built in game. To get to BASIC so you can load ... in other games from disks ... .
Then, type CAT in BASIC to see the names of ... you put in the name of the file for the game you ... you can't get a game to run at all, try ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... 241542]DIGITAL PRAWN (in fact together with Einar Saukas ... and many of my game ideas could not have ... one compo, and coming last in another. :D
< ... early development of my game "One Line Invaders" ... had never been implemented in BASIC on a speccy before. ... -
Most difficult game to playThanks to Rickard's thread about Skulduggery (or however they wanted to interpret the English language) where you had to not only control your charac…
... a big fan of this game as well as i loved ... the Games Workshop original roleplaying game.
Played Battlecars a ... were terrible. Nice little game, wasnt it in BASIC ? Great storyline to it ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called ... slowed down by the tears in the fabric of space-time ... how to present the game on this forum in the easiest format ... ] tag (available from the # symbol in the forum web interface) to ... -
Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…
... couple of games I created in BASIC back in late 80-is and ... block 1) program instructions written in BASIC + some POKEs for assigning mini ... LOAD "" CODE)
4) Main BASIC program (LOAD "")
So ... , and 4th block runs the game)
- OR is there ... -
Copying games I created on Spectrum to PCI should look up for the tape somewhere, but I'm sure I had couple of semi-cool games I've created back in 80-ies. What should I do in order to conv…
... couple of games I created in BASIC back in late 80-is and ... block 1) program instructions written in BASIC + some POKEs for assigning mini ... LOAD "" CODE)
4) Main BASIC program (LOAD "")
So ... , and 4th block runs the game)
- OR is there ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... it's such an iconic game in our history.
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game would originally fit in a single screen ... awesome power of the Sinclair basic CIRCLE command, it was finally ... something coming up very shortly in your brand spanking new 2008 ... -
Time travel gamesDo you remember any game in which you travel through the time, past, future,...? The games I know: Back to the Future Back to the Future II Back to…
... educational game with arcade sequences. It was rather simple, like written in Basic ... about different eras. I remember in first level you were chased ... -
Time travel gamesDo you remember any game in which you travel through the time, past, future,...? The games I know: Back to the Future Back to the Future II Back to…
... educational game with arcade sequences. It was rather simple, like written in Basic ... about different eras. I remember in first level you were chased ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... this speeds the game up a little it is in fact better ... this may cause a "Nonsense in BASIC" error. I need to work ... -
3D Deathchase - Please tell me whyHowdy, I know I'm wrong already, because everyone else is clearly right, but I don't see the fun in 3D Deathchase. OK so there's some scaling sprites…
... its an excellent game for 16k and back in the day it ... was a great playable game in the early years of the ... a fair amount of crappy basic games around.
I ... when its often number 1 in game lists though. Thought it started ... -
best BASIC games? - besides 20 tons and Derby Day perhaps i know few of them, yet i believe, there have to be some cool ones i couldn't appreciate then as i was stup…
[QUOTE=Benway;248990]Xadom, Football manager and The Wild Bunch, for me.[/QUOTE]
I didn't know the Wild bunch was written in BASIC. Good game though, just really hard to complete. -
Time travel gamesDo you remember any game in which you travel through the time, past, future,...? The games I know: Back to the Future Back to the Future II Back to…
... educational game with arcade sequences. It was rather simple, like written in Basic ... about different eras. I remember in first level you were chased ... />
According to the adverts in the magazines you should be ... -
BBC microI was often made aware by people at the time that the beeb was the "best computer in the world." Even my next-door neighbour ( who was a bit of a co…
... is far too complex a game to run on a Spectrum ... /> 8. They would often type in BASIC program listings with lots of ... percent signs in.
9. Not only were ... -
Why don't you like homebrew games?Alright folks, I'm sure that there are a lot of people here who like the releases from Bob Smith, Jonathan Cauldwell, CEZ Games Studio and the likes…
... coders write their games in assembly languages? Surely, ... games that are written in BASIC (and then usually compiled ... understanding and profiency in assembly languages to ... required to make a game is much lower? Or ... Therefore, getting a decent game on an ancient 8 ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... basically the idea I had in mind. However, it's ... a slow drawing 3D view in BASIC since that's to ... a "real-time" maze game, where the player has to ... system variable TVCOUNT when the game starts (only address 23673 ... the screen all the time in the same loop that ...
