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3D Star Strike - best unofficial conversion ever?A copy of Star Wars as we all know, but I didn't realise how good a copy it was until I played the arcade game on MAME a couple of days ago. The bit …
... 2 or 3 games in the series are dodgeball games. Double dragon 1 ... the original mono gameboy are in fact the GB kunios 1 ... a bad copy of Bagman. In fact it was just as ... . Most of which were written in BASIC, and most of which were ... -
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... the cost of the games, so I used my ... programmed many a crap game in BASIC - which strangely set ... as a mainframe operator in 1992 which more or ... was similar to Speccy basic. Same thing with Quickbasic ... another full time position in Nottingham, where I stayed ... -
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... Parents took me upto WHSmiths in Manchester and got it, ... of writing a database in basic (on the Vic-20 ... br /> Wrote a couple of games on the speccy that were ... laid off from there in 2002 quickly followed by ... arses on the same chairs in The Bulls Head, Swinton ... -
Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…
... requires a little setup in BASIC first. The TZX file ... load in some of the Speccy machinec code games you ... will notice that the first thing that is loaded in ... is a short BASIC program called ... yourself and then load in the machine code. So ... -
New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
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This ... great tool to prototype games in before going ahead and ... writing the game in machine code.
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TommyGun 0.8.9 availableShould be available by the utilities pages soon. Lots of bug fixes. Its close to 95% complete. So close to becoming a 1.0 release. Still a few minor…
... ability to put stuff together in Basic, but virtually (or literally) ... to write something in an extended basic and have it ... You could write a game in basic, use small m/c routines ... and then compile the basic carefully with Hi-soft ... design certain types of games. -
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... with a load of dodgy games/stuff on which I worked ... times to get into programming in BASIC and machine code although the ... each time!
Favourite games: Doomdark's Revenge (by far ... I get distracted by downloading games that I play for 3 ... -
ESA games and shop softwareThere are two Czech games by ESA on [URL="http://esa.webz.cz/projectsen.htm"]this page[/URL] that are not in WoS: "Black Man" and "Letris 2". I think…
... equinox]There are two Czech games by ESA on [URL="http ... year ago (along with other games from the page which [I ... (LOAD d*) and the BASIC loaders are protected against modification ... stock control programs written in BASIC specifically for use in two shops (a ... -
When is a clone not a clone?If a Spectrum is built from scratch, using new components where available, is it a clone, copy or something else? See, I won an unpopulated Spectrum…
... introduce him to the Dizzy games. In the meantime, he's still ... and saveing a few short basic programs over and over again ... -
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How about we just flip a coin
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-** Egghead Iv - Cassette Version Now Available **-In case anyone wants the official cassette version of Jonathan's excellent EGGHEAD IV, it's now available from the Cronosoft website. Price is ?1.99…
... I know, no Cronosoft games for the Spectrum have ... s programmed in BASIC and encoded in MC with HiSoft BASIC, The ... that are 3-4k in size and in raw machine code ... really is still early in development), but I'm ... far too many commitments in the past couple of ... -
Disk image utility for USB disksI make simple utility programm for copy physical disk content to image files. It can work with USB disks, or memory cards attached via some card read…
... . Most of games is packed, depacker is usually in Basic REM line 1 ... snapshots, but most is Basic loader (and depacker in REM) + CODE.
I played DSpec on my DSlite!That's right, TheHiVE sent out a few copys of a pre-release version of DSpec and I was one of the luckiest fellers in the world to get one ! I't ver…
... in the world to get one !
I't very basic ... at the moment, but you can load up most games in ... SNA format and only in 48K mode ... play Speccy games on the DS in full screen ... looks impressive already, some games that never worked on ...What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…
... =Arda]are all of the games, such as Ocean's titles ... ,rambo III, rainbow islands), coded in assembler? C? Machine Code? Or ... of the early ones were in basic. I'm not sure if ... a library of routines shared in a widespread manner.
What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…
... -coded assembler in those days (besides the basic of course). ... possible to write commercial quality games in the high level languages. ... or PAW for adventure games. I think programmers pretty ... for all games. The most technically demanding games required an ...Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…
[I]Nebula [/I]and [I]Apocalypse [/I]are both very slow, being fairly complex strategy games written in BASIC.
They play quite nicely at 28MHz in Spin though. :smile:Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…
... =Vanamonde]Admiral Graf Spee written in basic and fairly clunky. Surprised nobody ... , most of the Richard Shepherd games were. 'Devils of the deep ...What are the best Soccer Management gamesI found the following in the archive : 2 Player Soccer Squad 7(5) The Boss 8.6(15) Graeme Souness 6(2) Jimmy's Soccer Manager Kenny D…
... why is most football manager games written in BASIC? You could easily break ...Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …
... CDS game which was written in Basic!"
No it wasn ... the coding on many other games and did work for Durell ... only one Star Soft game in the archive, it's called ... to that. It's written in BASIC with a solitary machine code ...Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …
... CDS game which was written in Basic!"
No ... around 8K or so of BASIC. It's kind of ... the language it was written in.
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... coding on many other games and did work for ... that. It's written in BASIC with a solitary machine code ...What new (ish) ZX game have you played mostJust wondering what games from 2000 on have grabbed you most, I found a lot of TR-Dos games on here last year and was seriously impressed by a little…
I have been playing Cronosoft games, like Higgledy Piggledy, Dead or ... them.
Another good games I have been playing til ... now Ragnablock, some little games written in Basic are good too. I basically ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... just blew away all other games in many peoples' eyes.
BASIC, a great (or horrible ... 't enter an incorrect BASIC line, and I've ... great games, and attracted by the easy to learn BASIC. ... realised that BASIC wasn't fast enough for games, and ...Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…
... in basic. I tried playing it once, took about an hour between games ...New Games WantedI'm sure 99% of you know already, but just in case you don't... CRONOSOFT.CO.UK is happy to release quality Speccy software you may have written!
... that it's being programmed in BASIC and that my programming ... The Dragon'), and is in fact heavily inspired by Dragon ... beginners at adventure games in mind. Instead of typing in instructions like ' ... similar to console-based RPG games, where each fight between ...Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…
... in basic. I tried playing it once, took about an hour between games ... it, and that was written in Basic. There`s a new version ... or something like that, anyway, in his new version unfortunately it ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... was far better for playing games (though not for fast ... buffer and the system variables in BASIC, but they could have set ... see many games that were monochrome, just two colours in the whole ... wouldn't necessarily have resulted in better games for the 128, but ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... a whole bunch of games of this type and ... influenced by the underlying hw in a big way.
... same algorithm as was used in the spectrum -- one that ... the Tandy Color Computer even in BASIC and it's pretty ... for the second display file in the 16k version. They ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... most on the quality of games available for it and the ... about the quality of the games.... all it shows is that ... objectively quantify quality of the games. That even varies with personal ... even easy to animate graphics in Basic if you have hardware sprites ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... even easy to animate graphics in Basic if you have hardware sprites ... can do software sprites in several versions of BASIC (e.g. Hisoft ... to do with the built in BASIC, but I've seen people ... essential one. Games are going to vary hugely in their requirements for ...The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... do software sprites in several versions of BASIC (e.g. ... and Ocean's Laser BASIC) on the Spectrum. ... do with the built in BASIC, but I've seen ... implement graphics accelleration features in hardware, scrolling and blitting ... I just play a few games on it. They are ...
