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  • interesting russian gamesi start a new thread, as i don't know where to post it. here are some interesting ones i came across, perhaps i'll add more later, in every case i en…

    ... effort of learning some basic Speccy related words like ... by uploading instructions for a game in your own native language. ... greater communication between people in different countries. Also this ... or rather typed) documentation in other languages and makes it ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Games
  • Underestimated gamesWhat games do you think never had the hype of the larger named games, but you loved to death. I loved Pedro where you had to plant seeds and stamp o…

    ... this was far more in-depth. Again written in BASIC and minus the ... "fancy" graphics I played this game for ... a very long time. My favorite Spectrum football game ...
    stvd stvd March 2008 Games
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=bigjon;256767]I started to think about doing a lightforce-style scroller[/QUOTE]

    Looks promising!

    Notice that instead of this:

    [CODE]
    s-(IN 64510
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2008 Development
  • SAM Games that never wereIn another thread on Multiloads there's been a bit of chat about US Gold's infamous statement about porting Strider to the SAM (which tbh if they had…

    ... a Super Mario Kart style game... but then my development focus ... never got beyond some tests in BASIC to make sure ideas worked ...
    Quazar Quazar March 2008 Games
  • 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…

    ... and it does suit this game too.

    [ ... for the rest of the game, we can consider replacing ... multiples of 4, as in this game (to save space, and ... drawing only the doors in the main game loop. All this ... of the screen when DRAWing in BASIC, so this room is ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2008 Development
  • 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…

    ... /> [code]
    s+SGN (IN 64510-IN 57342)
    [/code][/quote]I ... you take a look at game "Esquiador" ( [URL]http://www. ... ] ), it's a scroll game implemented 100% in BASIC and it's reasonably ... to check the color attributes in a position (see Sheepdog Trials ...
    bigjon bigjon April 2008 Development
  • Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASICI'm trying to save a SCREEN$ to a tape file (basically the original data is in a .tzx file that I'm trying to save in a .tap format) but the problem …

    ... 's not some silly speedlock game or somesuch!)
    [/QUOTE ... to put all of them in a single .tap file. ... then save it all out in one shot. I had ... file threw a "C Nonsense in BASIC" error after it loaded ... Auto-Execute on loading option in BASin before saving out ...
    Arjun Arjun April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …

    ... following :

    [INDENT]BASIC loader
    Screen$
    CODE ... to get from the BASIC loader is the value ... how to start the game). In this case RAMTOP is ... as it appears the game uses the main Sinclair ... at address 32768. The BASIC bit above copies the ...
    Jimmy Jimmy April 2008 Emulators
  • IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …

    ... play the game tape. Just play from the main BASIC loader (in the ... first BASIC program as it just LOAD"" the next game).
    JR newline ;do next line in BASIC

    vclear:
    ... vload2:
    ;data type in D
    ;00 = BASIC
    ;01 = SCREEN ...
    Jimmy Jimmy April 2008 Emulators
  • 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 ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2008 Chit chat
  • Worst loading screens?For me, I think that it's a tie between [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013355]Star Trek 3050[/url] and [url=http://www.worldo…

    ... in Basic with the CIRCLE command, and then the game ...

    The game is called [B][URL="http ... looked a little bit better in [B]Barbarian[/B]..
    This strip poker game from 1988 actually costed ?9 ... if the pictures later in the game are as bad? ...
    Rickard Rickard May 2008 Games
  • Was this the worst game compilation?Is this the worst compilation ever? [B][URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0012017"]Power Plays[/URL][/B] from "The Power House"…

    ... .org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/s/SpectrumArcadePack.gif[/img]
    in BASIC wasn't considered totally unacceptable ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2008 Games
  • New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…

    The game is coded in BASIC. The purpose is ... using it as a living example in ... games using compiled BASIC (with the HiSoft BASIC compiler 1. ... series about coding games in C+SPLIB. Anyway, ... Consider it a nice little game to have some fun ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2008 Games
  • New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…

    ... and I think the game would be truly boring ... enemy sprites could be stored in 4 per-shifted versions - ... The rest of the game would pretty much work as ... that could still be written in Basic.

    Like ... up for them and their game design, and we could ...
    bobs bobs May 2008 Games
  • I've just bought a cheap PS2Well there we have it I've finally bought a PS2, after all I've only wanted one for about 5 years. Anyway couldn't get any Silent Hill games, so I bo…

    ... him until I played the game, but I'm not a ... br />
    Not a bad game, a bit samey and quite ... through 2 sections of the game in under 2 hours, and I ... far I prefer the previous game on PS1 Hail to the ... game itself seems to be objective based, and a very basic ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek May 2008 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... possible improvements in the maze generator implemented in this game, but then ... limitations of a one-liner in Basic...

    [B]PATHFINDER ... advantage of generating the maze in deterministic time (so the ... use it for real in the original game. That's the ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas May 2008 Development
  • Can someone compile Mined Out, please?For those of you who are unaware, there is a great Spectrum game called [I]Mined Out ( [/I][URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=000…

    As it is in basic, and if you can't ... doing it in assembler? It's a pretty simple game, you've ...
    bobs bobs June 2008 Games
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... rare. The memory usage pattern in Basic is different -- strings are ... others. ZX Basic is targeted mostly to BASIC game writers so ... integrating this library with ZX Basic ... including header files in C for adding basic commands? Or ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2008 Development
  • BattlecarsI don't think this was ever a very popular game. But I really liked it back in the day. The only problem with it is that you have to do a lot of re…

    ... , the whole idea about the game etc was so good. Hmm ... update, but rather a new game on a similar concept. I ... BASIC), and would hope to get the car designer & main game in ...
    bobs bobs June 2008 Games
  • BattlecarsI don't think this was ever a very popular game. But I really liked it back in the day. The only problem with it is that you have to do a lot of re…

    ... this [B]Battle Cars[/B] game,

    [url]http://www ... look like it is made in BASIC,

    [IMG]http://www ... .org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/b/Battlecars_2.gif[/IMG]
    Rickard Rickard June 2008 Games
  • BattlecarsI don't think this was ever a very popular game. But I really liked it back in the day. The only problem with it is that you have to do a lot of re…

    ... update, but rather a new game on a similar concept. I ... BASIC), and would hope to get the car designer & main game in ...
    psj3809 psj3809 June 2008 Games
  • BattlecarsI don't think this was ever a very popular game. But I really liked it back in the day. The only problem with it is that you have to do a lot of re…

    ... needs reiterating: The game isn't entirely written in BASIC; just the car ... menus. The guts of the game is in machine code, and consequently ...
    Matt_B Matt_B June 2008 Games
  • Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…

    ... />
    I think I said in my first e-mail to ... had was changing the text in BASIC games and letting my friends ... and behold instead of saying game over it would say "Insert ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best strategy gameWhat are your favourite strategy games? And don't say Stonkers, although it was fun for a little while in those early days. Mine's Desert Rats. A tr…

    ... Rats, and was the first game that really kicked Stonkers into ... war game for the Spectrum. It's extremely primitive, written mostly in BASIC ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2008 Games
  • Best strategy gameWhat are your favourite strategy games? And don't say Stonkers, although it was fun for a little while in those early days. Mine's Desert Rats. A tr…

    ... and made you type in commands in some weird code, all ... />
    Another game that deserves a mention in this regards is ... Viking Raiders. Despite being written in BASIC, having a silly theme ... getting too bogged down in the game mechanics which are deliberately ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2008 Games
  • Whats the name of this game? Drawing includedHello. There was this game that was one of the first ones I have played on Spectrum. I never got into it, but I remember it as a decent game. In the …

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;286461]Bloomin' Nora Vortex! If ... your not looking at the game with a slightly jaded memory ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman July 2008 Games
  • The best Othello or Reversi on the Spectrum?Erm, the title of this thread pretty much says it all; I'm looking for the best Othello or Reversi style game on the Speccy. What would you suggest? …

    ... an othello one-liner game last year "1 Line ... not cosmetically the best game in the archive, it has ... (All three are also available in the archive).

    game, then you are pretty ... bad for a game written in a single line of BASIC. :D
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2008 Games
  • The best Othello or Reversi on the Spectrum?Erm, the title of this thread pretty much says it all; I'm looking for the best Othello or Reversi style game on the Speccy. What would you suggest? …

    ... 's not cosmetically the best game in the archive, it has internal ... bad for a game written in a single line of BASIC. :D[/quote ... the ONELINER game with extra options.
    ([PLUG]comes in this years ... minigame compo, vote on this game next ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2008 Games
  • The best Othello or Reversi on the Spectrum?Erm, the title of this thread pretty much says it all; I'm looking for the best Othello or Reversi style game on the Speccy. What would you suggest? …

    ... an othello one-liner game last year "1 Line ... s not cosmetically the best game in the archive, it has ... (All three are also available in the archive).

    game, then you are pretty ... for a game written in a single line of BASIC. :D[/ ...
    thx1138 thx1138 July 2008 Games
  • Whats the name of this game? Drawing includedHello. There was this game that was one of the first ones I have played on Spectrum. I never got into it, but I remember it as a decent game. In the …

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;288056]Just wanted to keep ... to know if the correct game has been guessed, as many ... have tried to provide help in this name-the-game thread.
    Rickard Rickard July 2008 Games
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