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  • Someone just gave a 1 to everything I madeIf you take a look at all the titles I am involved with that are hosted in the archive, you will find that someone gave a 1 at everything that I made…

    [QUOTE=ccowley;699077]Write good Spectrum software because you want to write good Spectrum software. Not ... 're totally in the wrong game if you want that. Mass ...
    leespoons leespoons May 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bounding into the App Store in the morning - Spectaculator 5Happy 31st Birthday, ZX Spectrum! [IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIfVWmpCEAAQ84S.png[/IMG] :) Jon.

    ... The rights for the original game are probably split between ... will have contracted Torus to write the Spectrum version but probably ... for anyone wanting to license the Spectrum version for distribution ... to the large number of keys used in the original game ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle June 2013 Emulators
  • New game: Escape from CnossusHot on the heels of Spectral Dungeons, I give you a new roguelike, this time with graphics and more complex gameplay. [IMG]http://notimetoplay.org/w…

    ... select which one you want to be active with a simple ... being the array you want to activate.[/QUOTE]
    That's ... did, as per the [I]How to Write a Pac Man Clone[/I ... have 23 items in the game. See what my problem is ...
    Felix Felix July 2013 Brand new software
  • Problem With POINT StatementHello everyone this is my first ever post, So firstly i'd like to say hello to everyone and secondly thank you to the admins for such a great site, …

    ... />
    Might be better to save out the grahics as ... in as part of the game loading. Load the basic, ... when you tell BASIC to jump to a new line it ... how to write pacman using it from scratch (this teaches you how to ... url]

    Said game is on WOS at [url ...
    Gedlion Gedlion September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Poor C64 speccy conversions[youtube]fNoqq9Vfc0g[/youtube] I ran across the above - and was struck by the graphics. At first I thought it was the speccy version, but then I rea…

    At least the C64 and Spectrum have different CPU's ... so someone had to rewrite code. Compare that to some of ... seem to be Spectrum versions with just some routines changed how to write to the ... but very hard to differ screenshots of Spectrum and MSX versions ...
    carlsson carlsson October 2013 Games
  • 1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.

    ... .cgi?screen=screens/in-game/p/ParanoidPete.gif[/IMG ... to sell it, full page advertising and all, had been able to write ... a Spectrum game. Unfortunately it is ... unplayable.
    That they tried to ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack January 2014 Games
  • How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…

    ... difficult thing to me was learning how to understand the spectrum screen ... what segment of the screen to write to

    The ... square (also called an attribute) to write to

    the ... pixel line of the attribute to write to, 0 to 7.

    slenkar slenkar February 2014 Development
  • ScrollsHello. Ive been working in scroll routines and I want to show you them. First, one vertical 2 pixels scroll routine with 13 sprites [youtube]D-T3…

    ... became a bit of "numbers game" for me when Uridium came ... out, so my advice now to anyone starting out would be ... fact don't know how to scroll the spectrum screen eight ways, even ... it once, can't remember how they did anymore :oops:
    dmsmith dmsmith May 2014 Development
  • Gold huntCouldn't there be a game based around gold exploration in the old days, you could advance from pick, shovel and pan, and a donkey and expand till you…

    [QUOTE=dm_boozefreek;805827]Why not? It's quite a fun little game, and I think it'd work well on the Speccy.[/QUOTE]

    I think so too. I had a few attempts back in the day to write a spectrum version - but never got very far.
    dmsmith dmsmith December 2014 New game ideas
  • Any Examples of player controlled masked sprite over flip screen tilemapped rooms?Please does anyone kindly have any z80 code examples of a flip screens tile map with a masked character sprite that you can control via keyboard, ie …

    ... be virtually impossible to decipher unless you already know how they work ... /> 1. Converting pixel co-ordinates to screen addresses.
    2. Sprite ... can recommend Jonathon Cauldwell's "How to Write Spectrum Games" document (available [URL="http ...
    GReW GReW February 2015 Development
  • I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…

    ... figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (not ... 's something I'm going to work on over the next ...
    tstih tstih June 2015 Development
  • Good first books to read?Hi all, I've never posted here, but have tried to search for an answer to the following question. What are a few good starter/beginner assembly…

    ... recommend reading the source code to games ( there are some ... Spectrum ROM Disassembly[/url][/quote]

    I beg to differ. Trying to ... ROM is a terrible way to learn Assembly. Also I ... egghead/index.asp?pageid=397755"]How to Write Spectrum Games[/url].
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2015 Development
  • Game development guidesHello all, I want to get into game development for the ZX Spectrum and would like to know where I can find some helpful guides. I've looked around t…

    ... Machine Code on Your ZX Spectrum[/url] by Toni Baker
    How to Write Spectrum Games[/url] by Jonathan Cauldwell
    dbolli dbolli August 2015 Development
  • Game development guidesHello all, I want to get into game development for the ZX Spectrum and would like to know where I can find some helpful guides. I've looked around t…

    ... Machine Code on Your ZX Spectrum[/url] by Toni Baker< ... egghead/index.asp?pageid=397755"]How to Write Spectrum Games[/url] by Jonathan ... 's very hard not to throw it out the ... is. I'm forcing myself to read it all though, ... a developer's guide to the ZX Spectrum.
    lunarul lunarul August 2015 Development
  • Game development guidesHello all, I want to get into game development for the ZX Spectrum and would like to know where I can find some helpful guides. I've looked around t…

    ... Machine Code on Your ZX Spectrum[/url] by Toni Baker
    How to Write Spectrum Games[/url] by Jonathan Cauldwell ...
    lunarul lunarul September 2015 Development
  • Arcade Game Designer & How to Write Spectrum Games DownloadHi, Would anyone be able to stick Arcade Game Designer 4.6 (Spectrum) Software and Manual, and How to Write Spectrum Games (0.6) up to Dropbox or …

    ... weekend so couldn't respond to your last email. I've ... for version 1.0 of How to Write Spectrum and Vega Games, but for ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Arcade Game Designer & How to Write Spectrum Games DownloadHi, Would anyone be able to stick Arcade Game Designer 4.6 (Spectrum) Software and Manual, and How to Write Spectrum Games (0.6) up to Dropbox or …

    ... ,

    ... and How to Write Spectrum Games (0.6) up to Dropbox or similar ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Half forgotten, long lost, possibly never actually written text adventure game! Can you help?!Long shot! I half remember a computer magazine with an article explaining text adventure games. The article did not include a listing but did incl…

    ... 'how to program an adventure game' article, but more a 'how to write ... a good and believable story.' That mercury puzzle had something to ... to get anything that offered tutorials on adventure game ... something about adventure game writing would have ...
    Zoep Zoep January 2016 Games
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... turn them over. I used to write the disk's on an ... +3 .dsk images and how to write them back to disk. I also found ... version works without the in-game tune. On the +3 disk ... +3 disk image. Once the game loaded I halted the emulated ...
    Your Spec-chum Your Spec-chum March 2016 Hardware
  • Where can I get some AY music asm/binary files?Is there an online repository for these types of file that people can download and use on their projects? Seen something similar for MSX (Z80 base…

    If you can't find something you like, sit down and work out how to write your own routines. That goes for all other areas too. It's time-consuming but you'll learn a few extra things along the way and become a better game developer as a result.
    jonathan jonathan April 2016 Development
  • comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2016 is now openHi. Having won, or is it lost (well, whatever it is - I'm just as confused as the rest of you), I am proud to announce that along with Gab Amore (…

    ... , well done (one for each game)
    There are a few ... games and lost touch with how to write machine code... it was scary ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins May 2016 Games
  • comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2016 is now openHi. Having won, or is it lost (well, whatever it is - I'm just as confused as the rest of you), I am proud to announce that along with Gab Amore (…

    ... game)
    I wrote many BASIC games and lost touch with how to write ...
    R-Tape R-Tape May 2016 Games
  • Is there a Beehive Bedlam type game for the Spectrum?I cant think of any, would it be hard to do?

    ... in assembly. There are bound to be some libraries / guides out ... bit about how to do trig stuff in Jonathan Cauldwell's How To Write Spectrum Games ...
    chriswyatt chriswyatt July 2016 New game ideas
  • Is there a Beehive Bedlam type game for the Spectrum?I cant think of any, would it be hard to do?

    There's a section in "How to Write Spectrum Games" which covers trigonometry. Pinch the maths routines from there if you like. :)

    Edit: Oops, just noticed Chris Wyatt already mentioned it.
    jonathan jonathan July 2016 New game ideas
  • My first Greasemonkey script, up for testingI've decided to play with Greasemonkey and javascript today. (Greasemonkey is an add-on under Firefox)<br><br>Here's my first script written purely f…

    ... This basically means any individual game, with an id, for ... 0027279
    If the game doesn't show an id ... on the name of the game in infoseek.

    how to write a SCR viewer on client ... , it will ask you to install it there.
    ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2016 Chit chat
  • Best place to start learning assembly on WOS ?So I'm pretty new at this forum but not the Speccy so my BASIC is pretty good. I can see lots of resources on WOS for doing machine code/assembly but…

    ... free PDF book on how to write speccy games in assembly ... could post a link to that.
    Also ... a nicer learning experience to start with that ... to make, I keep thinking about making an RPG adventure game ... with Hisoft, but struggle to find ...
    andrewvanbeck andrewvanbeck October 2016 Development
  • HOW-TO ClassicsHi guyz'n'gerlz) Perhaps, there're similar questions, but I was checking out another BASIC version of Xonix (which instead of a flood-fill used st…

    ... writing up a howto on how to use Boriel's ZX Basic ... programming this, I wanted it to be accurate.

    So ... code is supplied with the game, there, as well as a ... ://www.boriel.com/forum/how-to-tutorials/tutorial-how-to-write-a-pac-man-clone ...
    Gedlion Gedlion January 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Database model ZXDBRecently, I have been trying to figure out how to provide my contribution to whoever takes over WoS archive rework next... So I came up with this: …

    ... have both prototype and final game there would be one entry ... be just one more file to download with proper description.[/ ... experience with database advanced search to find such stuff but ... will gladly help everybody on how to write the corresponding SQL queries!
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas June 2017 Announcements
  • ROM emulation in softwareHi, first of all -- I only have shallow / uni knowledge of hardware, electronics, and physics. So forgive me for asking things that are out of that …

    ... http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Write-ESP8266-Firmware-From-Scratch- ... br /> 2) has ability to intercept memory reads and writes ... ROM's NMI hook to jump to correct PC, and raising ... and redirects to (for example) WiFi commands, giving Spectrum very cheap ...
    tstih tstih July 2017 Hardware
  • Where to start? I want to learn assembly for the Spectrum (Total Novice)Hi, I want to learn to code assembly for the Spectrum but I'm a bit lost. I'm a programmer so I'm fluent with computers and several languages (or…

    ... />
    Shaun Bebbington who used to write for MicroMart produced a nice ... .co.uk/2011/12/introduction-to-z80-assembly-part-i.html ... going I would really recommend 'How to Write Spectrum Games' from Jonathan Cauldwell:
    jonesypeter jonesypeter October 2017 Development
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