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Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks
If you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used?
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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…
... I should learn to program in Basic, or machine code? Any help ... should concentrate my efforts. Learn Basic first? Then MC, or just ... -
creating UDGs in BASIC?I've been playing around with BASin, which is glorious, and my BASIC knowledge is flooding back but for the life of me I cant remember how to make UD…
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Basic Programming Routine Needed . . . HELP!Hello there, I though i would try and redo an old classic (pacman) in basic . . . BUT . . . I can't remember how to write the code to see what chara…
... redo an old classic (pacman) in basic . . .
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Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…
... a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid ... better). I started with the graphics, as it's the ...
As you can see in this badly compressed JPG (thank ... the row/column limitations of BASIC I can't center ... very good with speccy graphics :P -
Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
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The BASIC ISRFirst of all, excuse me if my blatant ignorance about this topic makes me write some nonsense :) The thing is that I'm finishing a game in mixed BAS…
... in mixed BASIC and Compiled BASIC (the pure BASIC part is to manage stuff in ... the RAM disk back and forth, the Compiled BASIC part ... I'm working in BASIC and I need to stay in BASIC (for the ... RAM disk stuff) - I know that BASIC has ... -
Why does Spectrum display has a border?Ok, this is problbly simple and very basic question but I don'r remember seeing an answer anywhere. Don't you think, that at first glance it is irr…
... is problbly simple and very basic question but I don'r ... if we could place some graphics in this place? Only 32 letters ... in one line isn't really ... ) Increasing resolution- adding more pixels in width and height
Bug in CONTINUE?I've found this anomaly in Spectrum Basic, but I don't remember have seen it in lists of ROM bugs: 10 FOR i=1 to 3 20 PRINT i 30 IF i=2 then PRINT a…
I've found this anomaly in Spectrum Basic, but I don't remember ... have seen it in lists of ...
CONTINUE
C Nonsense in BASIC, 30:1
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C Nonsense in BASIC, 30:1
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Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
In the late 80's I ... s house to play games in turns or 2-player games ... spectrum magazines, try to unprotect basic loaders, type apps and games ... remember my first Pacman written in Basic, for eg. Did any ... All those tapes with simple basic+m.c. routines games and ...graphics on the speccy...how?I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did arti…
I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did artists draw loading screens etc, light pen?line editing in emulatorhi, it's been a very very long time since i messed around in basic on the speccy.. wrote a couple of games back then on the original machine.. and w…
... time since i messed around in basic on the speccy..
wrote ... ? how come there's lines in my listing which i cannot ... get a low pitched beep in return..
i had ...How could you hear if loading BASIC or MC?When loading a Spectrum program from tape you could usually hear from the sound if it is a BASIC or is some machine code program *. My question is, w…
... if it is a BASIC or is some machine ... the differens?
In BASIC I assume that the keyword ... g. PRINT) was represented in memory by some kind of ... so should not a Basic program in memory (and to tape ... sounds hard and tight, and BASIC more light and open. ...ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... a new blank set of graphics to your specification - just use ... , and the original line remains in BASIC memory. This may break other ... grid would result in strange behaviour whilst editing graphics. (Woody)
Fixed ...speccy graphics in pc games[url]http://cactusquid.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=games&action=display&thread=22[/url] excellent!!! are there any original pc games featuring …
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are there any original pc games featuring speccy graphics?Help with maze in Sorcerer's Mountain.:-? Does anybody out there know how to get out of the maze in SORCERER'S MOUNTAIN a text adventure (with some pictures) written by Martin Sykes and r…
... get out of the maze in SORCERER'S MOUNTAIN a text ... realeased in for the Spectrum in 1984? The program is written in basic but ...Level9 Adventure GraphicsI have been developing a windows based adventure creating tool, which at the end of it all, creates a spectrum .tap file. Its a while off being finis…
... I have opted for doing graphics as well. As I have ... various software houses did their graphics in the past.
... have noticed that the graphics in Worm In Paradise are obviously ported from ... good until they are filled in with colour and all the ...Fastest way to decide which pixel to paint in order to draw a straight line(after I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided to ask this in here) in fact, I want to accelerate a car towards a direct…
... I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided to ... ask this in here)
in fact, I want ... pixel. since target changes position in every iteration, so a new ... fastest method to do this in basic?Help identifying a gameAgessss ago i wondered if anyone knew this game but it wasnt found. I thought i would try once more as i want to relive the memories. Yearsss ago t…
... which was released, all in basic where you created a ... huge stadium) and the graphics were UDG's. I ... 30 was again all in BASIC, an indicator moved up ... record a huge large basic graphic appeared with the ...
The graphics were very very basic and old but the ...About Chess games & BASICIs it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?
Is it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?8-channels music in games/demosHello there. Currently we are working on scrumbling out music engine from ZX-7 editor (8 channels from BEEPER) and using it in your own games or dem…
... Mister_Beep-A_piece_of_disaster.mp3[/url] easily in own programs and for now ... compiler/player. He wrote in some article on the beginning ... fitting music and its procedure in RAM.
For now ... and it works without it, in BASIC, without problems.
Also ...The best ... beginning with "G"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "G", which do you think are the: [B]Best …
Name (in your opinion) your "Best ... or music (in a game):
Best graphics (in a game):< ... :[/B]
In my opinion:
[B]Best graphics (in a game): [/B]Green Beret ... Or the "GO TO" command in BASIC.ANNOUNCE: Manic Miner: Ma jolie [Special Edition 2009]I am delighted to announce the release of another Special Edition of my 2003 Manic Miner game: [i]Ma jolie[/i] (the lower-case 'j' is important to me…
... and solving physical puzzles. The basic controls are left, right, ... edited a couple of cell-graphics in "The Vatican" [6] for ... [/i], as detailed in the room-documentation in README.TXT.
[*]I have updated the BASIC loaders, and removed the erroneous ...DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…
... BIN to insert converted jpeg graphics into memory, however after reading ... allow me to see it in BASIC, but I want to be ... on a memory location range in a for loop). Can someone ...The best ... beginning with "M"Been a long time since we did the letter "L", so here's the next one: Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per…
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Best graphics[/B][B] (in a game)[/B][B ...
In my opinion:
BASIC game ever, if you ask ... Christmas?
[B]Best graphics (in a game): [/B]Manic Miner ...help in making a tzx file from standard speedIn short, I want to create a tzx file from the original Navy Moves & Army Moves compilation, giving that the one in WOS archive has an error on Army …
... (it gives C Nonsense in BASIC, 50:3) and I ... recorded both cassette sides in two separate files. The ... report the very first basic header as a turbo ... />
The fragment in discussion is [url=http://www ... version of the very first basic header & program).
border graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…
... it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program ... you have "scroll ?" in the lower border?
thanks in advance, just curious because obv ... . the "scroll" seems to be in the border. but no one ...Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…
... RAM, and then a routine in BASIC (yeah, I'm a masochist ... , do all the modifications in BASIC, fix the BASIC header using POKEs and ... . routine to save the modified BASIC listing.
And ... ve never tried to compile BASIC listings that use VAL extensively ...Easy way to print text in machine code?Please? It sounds so simple, but I've never done it. At the moment I'm grabbing the start address for each letter then printing them out one at a t…
... 'd rather just do it in BASIC.
So... Can I ... spell, "HELLO" and put them in an address starting at, say ...
