... for one of the only games that wasn't really crap ... one-joke 3-lines-of-BASIC effort either...

Personally ... " game of this nature written in BASIC. That is why it is ...

... one of the only games that wasn't really ... 's too good for Basic it runs like crap ... one-joke 3-lines-of-BASIC effort either...[/quote]
... br />
for wire frame in Basic and that balance between detail ... game of this nature written in BASIC. That is why it ...

... can't, that make crap games.
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When ... I thought I could code. In Basic, obviously - nobody of that age ... machine code. I knew the BASIC commands and what they did ...

... AMOS games did not look like they were written in basic, and ... smooth as anything written in MC on the Amiga, ... but I wrote it in 2 weeks whilst in hospital.
... (or even indeed every basic)... but you can`t ... read about it first in Amiga Shopper (starts to ...

... spectrum without having to type in each individual pixel before saving ... there is! Look on WOS in the Utilities section - there's ... poke?[/quote]

Most games weren't made in BASIC you know.

... questions about miner willy`s in basic, and versions of willy`s ... in the same post... the whole of the games section ...

... />
anyone working on any games at the mo?

in Basic, also gonna try and get ...

... get better when they play games a lot, or they discover ... AtariAge high score club - two games in particular (Reactor and Marauder) were ... />
Likewise, playing River Rescue in the Speccy Tour I kept ... - after all, that's the basic point of the whole thing ...

... from spreadsheets, and playing educational games like Postman Pat.
< ... computer rooms, with a PC in practically every classroom. The old ... they were easy to program in Basic, and had an A/D ... of the least popular computers in the country, outside of academia ...

Its worked for me fine, not sure what emulator you are using. I'm using an old version of Spectaculator.

Surprised you've had problems, the games as simple as anything as its all written in basic.

... . When I saw in magazines screenshots of games, I always preferred ... />
I also likes several games in monochrome, some of them has ... has the same resolution.. but in that time I didnt knew ... />
And of course the Basic of spectrum is another thing ...

... a big pile of cassettes in a box the other day ... was a game I wrote in Basic on Boxing Day, 1989! It ... it into the next Crap Games competition, although come to think ...

... finally managed to get the games working! I used the ... 128 (128.rom - no SE BASIC)
No peripherals
... Accelerated Loading: Edge Loader (loads games in seconds!)

TURBO ...
- These games work in 48k mode only. Select 48k BASIC and type ...

The thing is, games written in BASIC are rubbish. Compilers can make ... not just write it all in assembler?

Just my ...

... few commercially succesful games that were done in compiled BASIC, for example the ... for example. Other even in pure interpreted BASIC. Are you gonna tell ... a nice idea, 'cause developing in BASIC can be quick, funny and ...

... 7 speccy games submitted in minigame compo (2 of them in BASIC).
and ... look at crap games ... . there is 30 or 40 games ? developping in BASIC is just faster. and ...

Nice games written in BASIC, BASIC + CM sprite routines or compiled BASIC, which I ... pop. Discouraging to code in BASIC is not a good policy ... game out of 20 BASIC games rather than out of ...
There are quite decent games in there which would be really ...

... ".

Try to think in positive, man, maybe a good ... will be a couple of games that "won't suck".
BASIC game and I've found ... ", or perhaps "This game is in BASIC so it must suck so ...

[quote]
On 2005-03-09 17:01, AndyC wrote:
The thing is, games written in BASIC are rubbish[/quote]That's the same as saying "games on an 8 bit computer are rubbish"

... saying that to say "all games written in BASIC are rubbish" is nonsense ...

... to write a good game in BASIC? AFAICS, you're just going ... [/I], whereas the quality of BASIC games didn't actually get much ... what can be done in terms of BASIC games, and there's nothing ...

... for writing engaging, good games in unless you're supremely talented ... for example.

BASIC is good for utility work ... things are perfectly suited to BASIC. Anyone with an ounce ... sense will avoid BASIC (including compiled BASIC) for games. You'd have ...

... to write a good game in BASIC? AFAICS, you're just going ... "2 and a half" decent BASIC games on page 1 ;)

... games were written in BASIC" is true, but "No good games can be written in BASIC ... " is not. I'm gonna try and prove that good games ... can be written in BASIC.

... of your program is written in BASIC, compiled or not. I ...

... (and even run N-Gage games acquired from 'certain sources' on ... />
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... of your PC 3D games utilize a BASIC, Python, PHP, or Perl ... 'm not programming games, although some Linux games are written in Perl with ... to see a game coded in BASIC than assembler. Although the assembler ...

... - I had the "all in one" 128k version which used ... was one of my favourite games, and I played it ... my own 128k version back in '86. It was pretty ... all the control code is in BASIC.

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... else has access to a Games Workshop copy, I'll ...

... BASIC games.'

Andy C. - 'The thing is, games written in BASIC ... />
Cyborg - ' The BASIC language is simply not powerful ... in) to competition with 3 sections comprising of BASIC, Compiled BASIC ... the chance to code in BASIC and thanking you for ...

... I started writing equivalent functions in BASIC which would compile under HiSoft ... benchmarked for different types of games...

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