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New Game: SKURFFNew game, authored with CGD (but I weely weely twied this time :-)) [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/game1_zpsf0e98e48.g…
[QUOTE=hikoki;737365]Nice "hero" !! This is ... , sounds as barmy as the plot of a Mojon Twin's ... -
SpecBAS 0.800 Released!Hi folks, it's that time again for another release. I was going to add a few more features, but I have other projects on the go at the moment, and it…
... /> 20 LET xc=RND*SCRw: LET yc=RND*SCRh: LET np=INT ... (RND*18)+3: LET r=(RND*150 ...
30 LET pp=INT(RND*255)+1: LET ik=INT ... (RND*256): IF ik=pp THEN ... ): LET y2=p(b,2): PLOT x1,y1: DRAW TO x2 ... -
hash function permutation tableI'm using a simple Pearson hash function to generate keys for a $(103,6) array using a 256-byte permutation table. How do I arrange the entries in th…
... #", "OUT", "OVER", "PAPER",
"PAUSE", "PLOT", "POKE", "PRINT", "RANDOMIZE", "READ", "REM ... ", "NOT", "OR", "PEEK, PI", "POINT", "RND", "SCREEN$", "SGN", "SIN", "SQR", "STR ... -
hash function permutation tableI'm using a simple Pearson hash function to generate keys for a $(103,6) array using a 256-byte permutation table. How do I arrange the entries in th…
... #", "OUT", "OVER", "PAPER",
"PAUSE", "PLOT", "POKE", "PRINT", "RANDOMIZE", "READ", "REM ... ", "NOT", "OR", "PEEK", "PI", "POINT", "RND", "SCREEN$",
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Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
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LET s=1+INT(RND*j):
LET i$=p ... /> ......
301 LET s=RND
305 IF s="5 ... -
Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
... :
LET s=1+INT(RND*j):
LET i$=p ... /> ......
301 LET s=RND
305 IF s="5 ... -
Film recommendations please!I've hardly watched any films, but would like to get into the genre. Seems to me though most films nowadays are all about kung fu and explosions. Has…
... am. :D
[QUOTE=hikoki;786026]Never watched Svankmajer's ... exactly got a nail-biter plot or anything (although it is ... -
Random object placementI'm looking for some advice on placing objects randomly in a game. I have a routine that reads a table and prints the corresponding object: 0 prints…
[QUOTE=Einar Saukas;817774]I just run a simple empirical test (plotting randomly on screen) to compare the random generator algorithms mentioned here:
[CODE]10 FOR f=0 TO 20000
20 LET y=USR 32768: IF y -
Random object placementI'm looking for some advice on placing objects randomly in a game. I have a routine that reads a table and prints the corresponding object: 0 prints…
[QUOTE=Jerri;817782][QUOTE=Einar Saukas;817774]I just run a simple empirical test (plotting randomly on screen) to compare the random generator algorithms mentioned here:
[CODE]10 FOR f=0 TO 20000
20 LET y=USR 32768: IF y -
Random object placementI'm looking for some advice on placing objects randomly in a game. I have a routine that reads a table and prints the corresponding object: 0 prints…
Random object placementI'm looking for some advice on placing objects randomly in a game. I have a routine that reads a table and prints the corresponding object: 0 prints…
... /> 20 LET y=RND*175:LET x=RND*255: PLOT x,y
RND from original ZX-Spectrum ROM ...The 20th comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition thread!Hi all, [SIZE="7"][B][CENTER]ANNOUNCEMENT![/CENTER][/B][/SIZE] The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2015 is now well and truly OPEN! [url]…
... USR VAL VAL$
RND has no spaces at all ... # OR OUT OVER PAPER PAUSE PLOT POKE PRINT RANDOMIZE READ REM ...Raycasting (3D Games!) with SpecBAS<div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">Here's one I wrote just recently. I wanted to see …
And finally Part 3!
Here's the full engine with floor and ceiling rendering:
http://s22.postimg.org/xup7xc9m9/maze4.png
It's ... slow. Where SpecBAS could help enormously with vertical texture strips for the walls, floors can't be done ...Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…
... pixel coordinates in c(). (The PLOT in line 40 is just ... c(pc,2)=y:
PLOT x,y
50 NEXT ...
80 LET i=INT (RND*p)+1
81 LET ... ): LET y=c(i,2): PLOT x,y
90 LET ...Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…
... : LET a(a)=low+INT (RND*num): POKE 65536-301+a ... table gets rearranged in reverse PLOT sequence each time.
call $22e5 ;PLOT_SUB PLOT B,C=y,x
Anybody read comics?I've read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series 1 and 2 and Watchmen by Alan Moore. Just finishing the last five issue of Y - The Last Man ton…
[quote="hikoki;858987"]@luny any more plug ... a Speccy appear as a plot device at some point in ...Anybody read comics?I've read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series 1 and 2 and Watchmen by Alan Moore. Just finishing the last five issue of Y - The Last Man ton…
... ="The Lone Magpie;859019"][quote="hikoki;858987"]@luny any more plug ... a Speccy appear as a plot device at some point in ...Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
... 8001 to emulate Apple-II RND function.
DEF FN x ... .9+0.5): HPLOT -> PLOT
Convert a 280-col ... (y)=175-y: HPLOT -> PLOT
Convert a 160-row ... /> [/code]
Apple-II RND (the POKEs address the FN ...Clamping Speccy InterfacesThere are a huge number of broken Speccy interfaces available . I came across one on Ebay recently said to be "partly working" or similar .Why are th…
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Well "losing the plot" is not the same a ... to something similar to what Hikoki suggested in the first place ...RompetechosHi, At last, I've finished my [b]"many-years-to-be-ready" Basic Game[/b], based on a spanish comic character, called [b]Rompetechos, created by Fr…
[quote="hikoki;905520"]I'm intrigued by ... other characters, the structure and plot would be other quite different ...Monty Mole GamesWith [url="http://www.spanglefish.com/egghead/news.asp"]work well underway on Egghead 6[/url] I've been looking at various flip-screen platform games…
... shoes is interesting. I like Hikoki's ideas about varying the ... .
Struggling with a plot idea at the moment. Egghead ...Alternative to Poke 23659,0 to prevent a 'break in' to a Basic Program.Good morning everyone, My memory fails me these days but in the early days of programming I used to use Poke 23659,0 as a crude way of offering so…
... TAB as we cannot use PLOT down here and PRINT AT ... 23659,10
20 PRINT RND
30 GO TO 10 ...How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
... 255 step 4
40 PLOT f,0
50 DRAW ... : DRAW 50,50
60 PLOT 255-f,0
70 ... ,50
80 INK INT(RND*16)
90 PAUSE 1 ... Spectrum basic.
Note:The PLOT starts at the top left ...im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.
... 100
110 PLOT INK 5+RND*3;RND*255,RND*175
... y*y))
320 PLOT cx-x,cy+y: DRAW ...
330 IF x0 THEN PLOT cx+z,cy+y
Lines 100-120 plot some random stars in colours ... an increasing random amount then plot a point. Because it' ...im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.
... /> 350 LET z=z-1-(RND*(1-(z/x))*r*4 ... br /> 350 LET z=z-(RND*(1-(z/x))*r)
PLOT cx-x+(z*2), ... do:
320 PLOT cx+x,cy+y
Or to plot both edges:
320 ... PLOT cx+x,cy+y : PLOT cx-x,cy ...im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.
This was from a very old book I used to have.
Set your planet's coords as xc,yc and radius r, then:
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10 FOR y=-r TO r: LET x1=INT(SQR(r*r-y*y)): FOR x=-x1 TO x1: IF INT(RND*x1*2)+1Short unattended type-in'sThis follows a similar topic on the BBC/Acorn forum (said topic can be found [url="https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14919"]here[/url…
... /> 10 LET a=RND/10: LET b=RND/10: LET c=1 ... : LET o=0
20 PLOT 128-COS o*127,88 ...im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.
... =-x1 TO x1: IF INT(RND*x1*2)+1=x1+x ...
