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  • How to return to basic properly from ASMI am messing around with a fast stack copying routine. But I am getting "A: Invalid argument" error when I later return to basic. I know you h…

    ... when I later return to basic.

    I know you ... IY register before returning to basic but my code at the ... as IY when returning to basic. I think one of the ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... first. It's BASIC was fabulous (those wonderful SCROLL and GRAB/PUT ...
    hugh mann hugh mann November 2001 Games
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... and I made games in BASIC in speccy.. were so funny ... in time speccy asked you "scroll?".. I remember designing graphics in ... /> Also in Amiga with AMOS basic.. we I write games.. AMOS ...
    Javier Javier November 2001 Games
  • line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…

    ... />
    Compute the vertical and horizontal distance to these points. If ... of the rest.
    The basic computes every pixeladress by adding ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best way to codeHi, I've been using Zeus Assembler to code MC programs so far. Nothing fancy just the odd scroll left or animation stuff. Wot I'd like to know is, …

    ... you can make the screen scroll where your program still runs ... /> A program is doing normal BASIC (or MC if started). It ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... single byte of memory. To scroll left, say, you have to ... load of stages.
    To scroll vertically you just shift the ... hand - suffice to say the horizontal one is visibly slower than ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • ScrollingBit of a daft topic but anyway... Which game had the best scrolling? I would have to volunteer Commando and its silky-smooth scrolling. A particula…

    ... br /> ; I'll do one horizontal and one vertical motion because ... general principal

    ; Scroll left

    ; much ... to see the difference
    scroll rl (hl) ; incredibly useful ... - we can 'scroll' memory directly
    dec hl ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…

    ... accompanying instructions in basic.

    To prevent 'scroll?' use POKE 23692 ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan September 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... in a bucket written in Basic.

    2) A Bingo ... text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped by Peter ... a conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in a book ... the caverns" kind of game. Horizontal scrolling implemented in MC.
    Arjun Arjun December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped by ... a conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in a book ... the caverns" kind of game. Horizontal scrolling implemented in MC.

    ad 2) See BASIC program added.
    [code]
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... some few very basic and uninteresting games, all in Basic.

    A car game with vertical scroll had to ... game

    A very basic AI game with my girlfriend ...
    FranciscoVasco FranciscoVasco December 2002 Games
  • Celebrity Deathmatch- Manic Miner vs Jet Set WillySince the two games have come up in this forum recently, it has made me think back to how imaginative they were, and how much fun they were to simply…

    ... cursor
    - A message like 'scroll?'
    - A system report like ... '
    - An input command in basic
    - The use of PRINT ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan December 2002 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... of those that are specialized basic or whatever with compiler arent ... more versatile.

    Laser Basic seems good but after what ... find it. HiSoft has a basic compiler but there was a ... when i make a screen scroll vertically and horizontally and get ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... level language but it isnt basic, and runs at comoparable speeds ... it's alot like using basic and the manual is pretty ... /> calculations to get a smooth scroll and is one of the ... . you can also use normal basic if youwant and is not ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... cant its a fucking smooth scroll.[/quote]

    woooooo! ... vs instruction set vs basic vs keyboard vs games ... again, i liked the basic better, think it is ... get into than C64 Basic, and you can ask ... strengths is its weakness. Scroll, custom sprites etc. when ...
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... keyboard attached.

    The Basic is non-existent, meaning it ... video game effects, like smooth scroll, to be possible. But because ... had a strong version of Basic. It was quirky. It featured ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... . You can spot this as horizontal "tears" in the sprites, especially ... coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
    [/quote]

    Cross ... save it to tape from BASIC.

    I now prefer ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... have a whole Basic routine, or an entire Basic program for that ... remember learning this but my basic has gotten very rusty over ... be better off compiling your basic program - but this has worked ... you want the screen to scroll upwards by Printing Graphics or ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... easily make a 8-pyxel horizontal scrolling. It wont take much ... .

    also if you scroll, and background consist of paper ... of ink because paper doesnt scroll along with pixels and when ... a 8 pixel scroll has completed paper will "jump ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... actullay see a resemblance to basic. it's not as ... RET=Return ... etc etc. knowing basic helps cause you can kind ... to do this in basic it would be like ... is high level like Basic, and has a bunch ... pretty cool! easy to scroll background and have an independent ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Converting Final Fantasy 1 to the Speccy...Hi all! Although I've not been at Spectrum BASIC for a long, long time (and so have forgotten a lot as well as most of the important memory addresse…

    ... do such a thing in BASIC. It seems this job would ... than someone who only knows BASIC (seeing as you're planning ... on using BASIC on the PC as well ... lately...

    _________________
    scroll?

    [ This Message was ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi November 2003 Games
  • Scrolling string variablesCan anyone help me with this for a program I'm writing on the spectrum. There was a command in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variab…

    ... command in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variable ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers December 2003 Games
  • Scrolling string variablesCan anyone help me with this for a program I'm writing on the spectrum. There was a command in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variab…

    ... command in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variable ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone December 2003 Games
  • ZX81 ScrollingI'm tempted to have a go at a bit of ZX81 programming, using MCODER II, though I could really use a fast multi-directional scrolling routine. Does a…

    Just a character scroll is what I need. Horizontal right-to-left or Vertical top-to-bottom would be fantastic :)
    chaosmongers chaosmongers February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... libs, some tailored for smooth horizontal scrollers and others for 3d ... . Dunny mentions that the basic is translated into assembler and ... functions for free. New Basic keywords could be invented to ... be a way to specify Basic keywords and assembly functions ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... , the Spectrum versions do not scroll as smoothly as their C64 ... , Arjun wrote:
    2) Spectrum BASIC did help novices to migrate ...
    TMR TMR February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... produced masterpieces that *appear* to scroll as smoothly as anything on ... . OK, so they don't scroll at 50 fps, but they ... Arjun rightfully says - the Spectrum BASIC [I]encourages[/I] people to ... by their dabblings with Sinclair BASIC all those years ago? :) (A ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2004 Games
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    [quote] when you scroll up or down the grid ... .g. scrolling to the nearest horizontal edge) it is better to ... . In such case if you scroll further by pages, this sprite ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov April 2004 Emulators
  • EmuZWin supports 256 color gamesI am sorry starting new topic, but you see this info is important a bit: new version 2.4 of the EmuZWin is available to download, and it supports 25…

    ... ).
    [+] More options to adjust horizontal grid lines in GFX Editor ... a certain line and it scroll in such case together with ... vertical scroll of pixels).

    Main ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov April 2004 Emulators
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