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Pirates on ebay or not???Great lines are appearing in the item listings now... [SIZE=2][B][COLOR=#ff0000]NOTE TO EBAY STAFF:[/COLOR] [/B]WE HAVE HAVE PERMISSION FROM ALL RE…
... I was a teenager (in basic) and a more recent demo ... , is the WOS archive that big?!?!)...
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ZX81 more powerful than the Speccy?I have been reading ?The ZX Spectrum Book 1982 - 199x? by Andrew Rollings (thanks again, Andrew - it?s a great read!). There are some comments in the…
... 411899]This is exactly how it does work now, ... remember the tutor saying how he prefered to access hardware ... on the Speccy and BASIC was a high level ... and similar, and saying how they wish they could ... *driver* here is a big list... telling the actual ... -
128k musicThis has probably been asked before but I'm going to ask again (just because I can :razz: ) I was playing OutRun2sp on my Xbox360 the other night an…
... 's no real rule about how games choose to deal with ... , so it's not a big deal.) In that situation, the ... written in machine code - the Basic PLAY statement doesn't exist ... -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... the game (eg: static weapons, big bosses, player characters - all are ... will obviously say something about how the sprite may be broken ... />
9 ) What is the basic maptile unit size in pixels ... be now?!?!)
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Fastest fill m.c. routine ever?What is the fastest fill routine you've ever seen? Is there a listing somewhere? Most games and adventures that use fill routines were considered slo…
... . The first one is a basic flood fill program. This is ... .
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Machine Code for BeginnersHi folks. [sort of] newbie alert. Not new to Spectrum - been there since getting first rubber key 48k in 84 and a regular visitor to WoS for many y…
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In the basic compiler you can easily include ... and calling them from basic (with a simple gosub ... Also, z88dk has a big library of routines you ... -
Questions about Velesoft boot BIOS for divIDEI've been playing with that new BIOS, and I've got some questions not answered in readme. When powering the computer, it shows a menu with some firm…
... they're inside the big bin file). How can I put newer ... 48K basic?[/QUOTE]
Yes. BIOS access to one big BIN ... only if you select "48 BASIC" in BOOT menu. But all ... -
Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…
... from a simple Basic program. From Basic all you can ... way. I'm a big fan of what you're ... conversion tools and small Basic and machine code routines ... we can give examples of how to do this), and ... would refresh the preview.
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Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…
... from a simple Basic program. From Basic all you can ... way. I'm a big fan of what you ... conversion tools and small Basic and machine code routines ... with 10FPS with the BASIC loader - nothing higher, ... /> [QUOTE=zxbruno;432286]
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Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... to you concerning ideas about how to do the sprites, and ... sprite design, and ask some basic questions about what limits are ... maps. This could make a big difference to masking data!
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... to you concerning ideas about how to do the sprites, and ... sprite design, and ask some basic questions about what limits are ... talking but you have very big (and unreal) expectations about computing ... : perhaps it looks strange but basic bricks of sprite is not ...Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... plenty about reusing tiles and how much space could be saved ... would you consider then the basic unit for 'building' sprites?... ... sprites here are generally quite big...
Ideally, what ... for the sprite designers about how they are allowed to split ...Which assembler do you recommend to a (complete) newbie?OK, I am re-dusting my assembler books and want to re-dig into the Wonderful World of Assembly. Just wondering which assembler to go with. I reme…
... and is very tailored to how I work. Plus I think ... , I started with TASM (very basic and lacked important things like ... with z88dk which has the big advantage (for larger projects) of ...Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…
... to work as a ZX Basic subroutine :)
Big K magazine.
how nicely this works as a basic call-able ... subroutine in Boriel's ZX BASIC compiler:
... 10,10;"Routine 1 (Big K)"
DIM x ...Any ex-pats on here?Basically, I want out of the UK. I don't hate the place or anything like that, I'm just a little tired of it all. I've also always promised myself …
... the year and, depending on how long you spend IN the ... fall into there tax regime. How you do this depends on ... was working for a very big, American based, multi-national oil ... on the condition that our basic wages were paid into Chinese ...How many hours a week do you use your Speccy?How many hours a week do you use your Speccy and for what (gaming or programming?).
... for chilling (large video collection, big screen and games console) and ... to her coming, but wondering how everybody else manages their hobbies ... 't recently. Also dabbling in BASIC (carrying on from where I ...How many hours a week do you use your Speccy?How many hours a week do you use your Speccy and for what (gaming or programming?).
... for chilling (large video collection, big screen and games console) and ... to her coming, but wondering how everybody else manages their hobbies ... 't recently. Also dabbling in BASIC (carrying on from where I ...SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
... like to ensure that whatever BASIC your planning, likewise allows ... BASIC and tools to hand will make a big difference as to how ... that would give speccy BASIC programmers a starting point ... way... Perhaps some included BASIC commands for generating similar menu ...Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
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How strange that it is quicker ... made to Speccy BASIC to make it faster. How/when it preserves ... a variable clearly makes a big difference.Hacking the O.C.P Full Screen Editor/AssemblerIf you have been reading my posts recently then you will know that I am eager to have the sourcecode I wrote for the Spectrum during the period 1988 …
... never managed to create anything big as I was using a ... system. I don't know how Joffa and all the others ... 8 down (4K). I used BASIC to poke the map data ...Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... make the calculation easy. The BASIC load filename may corrupt some ... avoid the system variables and BASIC program area.
EDIT ... I couldn't work out how the Spectrum cassette system functioned ... thought it was such a big one, it was worth mentioning ...Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... /> 1. How many bytes do we need to preserve basic *safely* until ... avoiding the system variables and BASIC area.
It ... , It would help you out big time!!! Just download any game ... url]
The following BASIC program will boot Cybernoid:
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... mean some people even wanted BASIC listings in the mag ... them , love seeing a big zoomed out graphic of ... people want pages about how to clean your old ... games, other people how to write in basic, difficult to ... want programming tips on speccy basic etc ? A mag ...Retro Gamer Issue 86 - The cover's a bit special![IMG]http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg615/scaled.php?tn=0&server=615&filename=dekmj.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640[/IMG]
... mean some people even wanted BASIC listings in the mag ... them , love seeing a big zoomed out graphic of ... people want pages about how to clean your old ... games, other people how to write in basic, difficult to ... want programming tips on speccy basic etc ? A mag ...Why do iPhone owners...?I know I made a joke about iPhone owners elsewhere, but really, why do iPhone owners feel the need to tell you that they have an iPhone? And then mos…
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My big question is this - where do ... I'm presented with a basic maths problem that I [B ...Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
... wrong with writing "big" programs in Sinclair BASIC as long as you ... are doing[/QUOTE]
But how do you know that you ...Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
[QUOTE=TVzombie;511460]But how do you know that you ... , the idea of writing a "big" program on a real Spectrum ... the real power of Sinclair BASIC. Couple that with the 64K ...Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... me, I have a really big library of games coded by ... I had to use HiSoft BASIC (with the requiered modifications/additions ... calculated GOTO/GOSUBs.
How on earth, in a compiled ... ugly code, but that Sinclair BASIC executes correctly):
[ ...I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... is nice, too, was a big letdown for me, compared to ... climactic, not anticlimactic. The fact how it all ends doesn't ... repeat simple pattern of 3 basic moves for ages, and then ... of the chests, no matter how well they look, is harder ...Load! Screen$ questionI've got a basic program listing in BASIN which among other things recalls a screen via Load! (I've Save!'ed a screen into memory before hand). How d…
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[QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;526828]How do I save the program ... big chunk.
(In fact, there are tricks to combine Basic ... approach is to have the Basic program load first, and ... memory for that purpose. Your Basic program will then look something ...
