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Missing in ActionThe more I go in my loft the more I find "Missing in Action" files . Trouble is I am new to this. I have done the tzx's for them but cannot upload th…
... is funny how "keyboard fashion" has gone from small to big and ... myselk but do not know how . If I could buy one ... cause of problems with simple basic Spectrum progs I have to ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... me it was quite a big step to "destroy the originality ... problem of how to protect the IDE cables . The basic concepts re ... -
I had a go.I haven't written anything in ZX Basic since the 80s, so I thought I'd have a go. Now just to put you in the picture, I am a developer and know sever…
... , and can't believe how fast they can actually type ... install an OS, most become big paperweights. Yes, I know iPads ... runs GWBASIC, which runs a BASIC program that receives RS232 communication ... monitor and control ports). The BASIC program concentrates the data, ... -
Flood FillHi Folks, Can anyone point me to a flood fill that I can call from ZX BASIC? I have looked through the archive and although there are posts about…
The pattern filler in ZX Basic is the same one as ... how I made a pattern filler that can be called from basic ... /> ret nc ; return zero to basic if ok
inc ... the stack allocation is not big enough, the filler will abort ... -
Did you choose to have a Speccy or did it just happen that way?A strange question I know, but, the reason I ask is that when we (my family) were looking to buy a computer non of my mates had computers and non of …
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BASIC programming, so I asked for ... upgrade as I'd written BASIC games big enough to exhaust 16K ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... rare (though it depends on how one defines "rare") are very ... this!
So the basic question is "Is it worth ... shot it is hardly a big risk (even for me!) but ... -
128K programmingDoes anyone know any good resources on assembly programming for the 128? All I'm after is an "idiot's-getting-started-guide" on how to utilise the…
... I found the information on how to do that back ... for a practical example on how to do it.
... without offering any details on how to do it, or source ... whatever I did was no big deal.
Sure, ... data into banks from BASIC was a big deal. I only ... -
Not bored with ZX Spectrum actual PHYSICAL game boardsThere are a few ZX Speccy games with actual physical gaming boards that are worthy of attention
... MAIN Spectrum mode use . So how does the Brian Clough game ... just an initial assessment of how we got on with it ... entries required though are very basic so really I was just ... . This game has quite a big "baggage" factor . All the cards ... -
P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…
... graphic load, with sprites that big. This is why the ... over again...
Some basic questions to think about:
how many pixels?... (Obviously that determines ... as individual UDG 8x8s?). How do you want the level ... -
P.O.W.As far as I know, a port of P.O.W. (Prisoners of War) from NHK, doesn't exist. [img]https://cld.pt/dl/download/61d19b5e-453b-489c-b17b-d3ed6fccd594/…
... load, with sprites that big. This is why the ... [quote="kgmcneil;863355"]
Some basic questions to think about:
how many pixels?... (Obviously that determines ... as individual UDG 8x8s?). How do you want the level ... -
Pietro Bros [DEMO]Hi People. I wanna share with you a game that I'm working on, since a month or so... [img]http://i.imgur.com/kOoPGzU.png[/img] [url="https:…
... as you want because your basic loader still has to ... You can try experimenting with how low you can go by ... reclaim the area occupied by basic by placing data down ... has decided you need the big version of printf. You ... a smaller printf (ask how if you have to!) -
Fallout 4Looks like it will be announced tomorrow: http://fallout.bethsoft.com/<br>
... how hard it is to build anything other than basic accommodation, and basic ... because if you build 1 big cool building with fully working ... settlements are running on the basic requirements anyway with the ... Starlight Drive-In into a big shopping area, but I got ... -
Quoting Wikipedia: WOS was...In the Brazilian discussion board, one member figured out that [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Spectrum"]English Wikipedia article[/url]…
... original systems' popularity, and grow big / popular even when the last ... updates happening, and yes even basic things like internal links are ... archived just not (yet) uploaded". How is one to know if ... -
1986-2016.I'm early, but I'm tired of 1985. So here's the annual thirty-years after topic about Speccy games.
... other two, and that's how I'm choosing the games ... , and in this occasion a big festival is staged, and people ... />
So, this is a basic effort, with a nice modified ... , in spite of being in basic, it's sufficiently quick
Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…
... screen, well I know how to shift bytes but I ... you recoup memory lost to basic when the program was loaded ... memory). I'll show how to do that anyway from ... need a quick guide / how to if there is such ... if you have something really big that will not fit into ...Hacker QuestionHello hackers, as some of you might know, I am supervising the work on converting games from TR-Dos or TAP to the +D or Opus disk format for our SC…
... a list of values for Basic commands.
253 = ... but I want find out how it works, not just ... />
There are several BASIC/code tables online like [url ... like this (see the big blue window at the lower ... 0D's indicating ends of BASIC lines, but that's ...Usefullness of program listings in magazinesEarly computing magazines had printouts of program listings. I always felt this was a nice thing in that you might read the code and learn something,…
... almost everything was made on BASIC. Then, most people realized ... hex dumps. They still published BASIC programs and utilities (mostly ... - Most of that programs have big chunks of graphics, so publishing ... people that wanted to show how good were as programmers.Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…
... listing using POKEs from BASIC? How would I do this ... like a subroutine. For big programs you'd use ... 's roughly equivalent to the BASIC instruction:
... way of copying a big chunk of memory. It ... a lot faster than Sinclair BASIC.
Now ...Time Gate graphics patchI've rediscovered Time Gate and one thing I don't like about the game is that it's hard to remember what's what in the status indicators. The manual …
... of a witches brew of BASIC and machine code, tested with ... never did find out exactly how that works, but there are ... how to represent the Jump Drive, so it's just a big ...Welcome to the Matrix!Ok here's something I been playing with while I'm at work and on public transport. I'm thinking I want to be able to move the large letters around th…
... books or lessons on coding Basic is that they never touch ... find a lesson entitled "How to move big letters around without leaving ... /> Todays problem (for me) is how to make text scroll across ... up 'scrolling' in the Sinclair Basic manual and the BASin lessons ...Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... available , some of them a big improvement even over the latest ... there was no detail about how the "alternative system" all locked ... Opus Discovery came with a big label warning about the dangers ... Spectrum System" ,in its more basic form :- there was a 48k ...ZX Spectrum, ZX81 and Middle SchoolersToday I gave a talk to 120 US middle school kids (7 grade) about computer science and careers in programming. I also gave them a taste of programmin…
... interest when I told them how I got started with ... newer versions of Basic - like Visual Basic which sucks big time, and the ... systems is that the speccy Basic suits an unstructured approach, ... fine, no matter how many GOTO's how sloppy and inefficient it ...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…
... " I meant a description of how the code works, as it ... displaying reasonably quickly in ZX BASIC I had to use an ... the full listing is too big to load as one file ...ZX-Uno moddingStarting with ZX-Uno case modding I have not yet received my ZX-Uno yet (it is in the post) but I know that I will have to do at least one mod …
... tradition .So there are 2 basic "keyboard cultures" available for the ... -Uno keyboard . I have described how to it earlier but I ... OS2 small style connectors (or big style connector keyboards with special ...What is needed to get a high standard , "emulator focused" PC?The implication I am making is that a normal PC can be improved on emulation wise by building in some emulation friendly features . But this could be…
... Case has sorted out the basic viability of the core parts ... find out the detail of how this would pan out in ... hard drive cage with a big fan on the front of ...User-friendly UDG banks/sheetsHello, retro-colleagues) Sometimes I still play Speccyal games and try funny things in BASIC, but one thing keeps me slow: [b]sprites[/b]. Alright…
... , but I like writing Spectrum BASIC games. I can't draw ... mcode area for use in BASIC programs.
What I do ... download the game & see how I draw the trees. https ... it that lots of the big tree are just blocks of ...ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... [/i] software made for [i]basic[/i] Spectrum :P
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how much time is required in ... frame, the size of everything, how pixels are mixed with backgrounds ...ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... that runs on the basic Spectrum to convert in ... sprite hw defines exactly how much time is required ... each frame for sprites, how much data is read ... the size of everything, how pixels are mixed with backgrounds ... need lots of variables. Big surprise here! You need ...ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... , who never progressed past basic programs. That's why ... When OS64 came out (basic in the 512x192 mode) many ... that runs on the basic Spectrum to convert in ... native spectrum but the big improvements come from the ... engine. Just go check how it's done in the ...ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... , who never progressed past basic programs. That's why ... in software made for [i]basic[/i] Spectrum!
... is about. [b]About how BAD is to do too ... native spectrum but the big improvements come from the ... campaign. Please go read how it's done in the ...
