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How to write a simple C+asm horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial, z88dk)[b]How to write a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b] [b]Note:[/b] This tutorial has multiple parts... I am still writing but this first pa…
... can finish the tutorial in a later post in this thread.
... starters, you'd need a C compiler. We will use z88dk ... the game in tut2.c.
[b]A) Drawing a scrolling screen ... scrolling function in here, in assembly.
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Why not more interest in C?Just curious. Not trying to provoke anything other than a discussion here. It would seem that it would be better for "Z80 beginners" to write in C…
... to provoke anything other than a discussion here.
in C then have a look at the ... aware that hisoft C was around in the speccy heydey ... but was C used much in writing games back ... assembler came out of a C compiler of the time ... -
Why not more interest in C?Just curious. Not trying to provoke anything other than a discussion here. It would seem that it would be better for "Z80 beginners" to write in C…
... to provoke anything other than a discussion here.
in C then have a look at the ... aware that hisoft C was around in the speccy heydey ... but was C used much in writing games back ... assembler came out of a C compiler of the time ... -
Why not more interest in C?Just curious. Not trying to provoke anything other than a discussion here. It would seem that it would be better for "Z80 beginners" to write in C…
... to provoke anything other than a discussion here.
in C then have a look at the ... aware that hisoft C was around in the speccy heydey ... but was C used much in writing games back ... assembler came out of a C compiler of the time ... -
why not more interest in C?Just curious. Not trying to provoke anything other than a discussion here. It would seem that it would be better for "Z80 beginners" to write in C…
... to provoke anything other than a discussion here.
in C then have a look at the ... aware that hisoft C was around in the speccy heydey ... but was C used much in writing games back ... assembler came out of a C compiler of the time ... -
Why not more interest in C?Just curious. Not trying to provoke anything other than a discussion here. It would seem (to me) that it would be better for "Z80 beginners" to wr…
... to provoke anything other than a discussion here.
in C then have a look at the ... aware that hisoft C was around in the speccy heydey ... but was C used much in writing games back ... assembler came out of a C compiler of the time ... -
Why not more interest in C?Just curious. Not trying to provoke anything other than a discussion here. It would seem (to me) that it would be better for "Z80 beginners" to wr…
... to provoke anything other than a discussion here.
in C then have a look at the ... aware that hisoft C was around in the speccy heydey ... but was C used much in writing games back ... assembler came out of a C compiler of the time ... -
GTA: Vice City - features a C-64The Spectrum was snubbed across the U.K today, when the streets of Britain echoed to the sounds of GTA: Vice City being loaded for the first time int…
... /> What was that snub? A simulated C-64 loading sequence no less ... have not managed to steal a C5 or anything either :( -
all in a good cause...We are hoping to attract the attention of a magazine publisher to launch and support the UK?s first glossy (and hopefully rather funky) retro gaming …
... to attract the attention of a magazine publisher to launch ... magazine (Retroid is thankfully only a working title) hopes to ... systems, and, of course, a fat dollop of gaming nostalgia ... people would be interested in buying such a magazine, no publisher will ... -
What was the text adventure game based around surviving a nuclear war in suburbun London?I remember playing a game, I played loads my dad had a shop selling them, text adventure. You were based in a suburb as a civilian, and a nuclear w…
... a shop selling them, text adventure.
You were based in a ... suburb as a civilian, and a nuclear war was ... ' style shelters that the Jim in 'When the Wind Blows' built ... , using an old door and a matteress. - but you just died ... -
ahem!.. could I have a minute of everyones time please :)ok... here's the thing. I'm looking into sourcing some spare IC's for the whole range of Spectrums - mainly memory, as that's probably the weakest l…
... be interested in either :
a) buying some spares / a complete ... />
b) be interested in a 'future proof my speccy service ... (and socketed)
c) any other stuff, like replacement ... there's much actual interest in this !
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need helpw with speccy i found in a binToday what a find, walking past a wheely bin I saw an atari box, after more investigation I uncovered a wood panel atari and a speccy plus leads for…
Today what a find, walking past a wheely bin I saw an ... investigation I uncovered a wood panel atari and a speccy plus leads ... the speccy when connect to a tv has audio feedback but ... its aerial lead is wired in
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Install a Sintech Video adaptor in a Spectrum+Hi all, I'm an old Commodore user (boo! hiss!) that's aquired his first Spectrum. Since my modern TV doesn't like the RF output of any old computer …
... old computer I also bought a video adaptor from Sintech ([url ... . There are two leads going in there. Which one should I ... -
Big K, SU, C&VG ProgsHow Do!!! I was just wondering if anybody has scans of any of the type-ins from Big K, SU, C&VG etc. The reason I ask is that I remember two excelle…
... from Big K, SU, C&VG etc. The reason ... I typed in many moons ago.
1. A single ... screen Manic Miner game with a bloke chasing you called ... you chrachters face was displayed in a small 3x3 screen, is ... />
I know its a long shot but I played ... -
First Y2K bug found in a spectrum program ?I've just been making some tzx files and I always test the file when its finished. So I loaded up Micro Fitness by VO2 software which is a fitness ut…
... by VO2 software which is a fitness utility program. First it ... date, so I type it in, then it asks for your ... DOB so I type it in. Then it tells me I ... me I wish I was a lot nearer to 16 than ... year and ending up with a minus number....
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C, Z88DK and the Sprite Pack Library I wrote a short demo that shows a taste of what can be done from C on the Spectrum: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/zqa/pacmen.zip"]http://justme…
... seamlessly integrate Z80 assembler into a C program. The 'turbo' mode ( ... executes a block of assembler in place of a block of C code in the ... hopes of speeding up the program. I was a ... (or maybe that's a good thing for C programmers!).
spectrum, microdrive and printer in a briefcaseHi, My godfather gave me a breifcase with a spectrum, microdrive and printer built in, which he and some of his colleguses worked on for the uk mod …
... gave me a breifcase with a spectrum, microdrive and printer built in, which ... uk mod army. It was a kind of lap top the ..."TommyGun" gets a complete MAKEOVER for next release ...From the author, Tony Thompson ... """""""""""""""""""""""""" [B][I] I hadn't worked on the TommyGun editor for while. But when I got sick (about …
... WhiteLightning format. (Interested in writing this one yourself? ... I write everything in Borland Builder C++ 6.0, ... also supports Microsoft Visual C++, but I took ... people who have Borland C++ or Delphi experience ... should have a good working version in a week or ...Don't forget about a priority of GAMEAll of us were united with this site, which name ? World of Spectrum ? speaks that it applies for being considered as storehouse of all Spectrum-prog…
... archive has obviously taken a great interest in minor, accompanying appendices ... Tienov (it is absent even in a MIA-list).
All ... , the bitterness will suffice. In a result I offer the following ... on these changes.).
c) To not suppose double standards ...Hisoft C #translate commandHi folks, Can any body give some idea of how to fix this command in Hisoft C program. So it will save compiled code to the +D. The " #translate 1:c…
... how to fix this command in Hisoft C program. So it will ... )
should compile your C program and dump code to ... /> It's a shame that Hicoft C has this bug in the #translate ...A bug in Z80 V4.00Yes, from what I've heard, this emu has plenty of bugs (though I've never heard what they actually are), but this one is my contribution to the bug l…
... list. :)
In a DOS prompt, use the SUBST ... />
Within Z80, in the "Load Spectrum snapshot" window ... the virtual drive (Z: in the above example).
... that since you're in the root directory of ... even though you're in a subdirectory of the actual ...Putting a Spectrum into the dishwasherI don't know where I read it, might be C.S.S. or WoS, but a while ago I read about cleaning the keycaps of a Spectrum+ using a dishwasher. I tried it…
... I read it, might be C.S.S. or WoS, but ... a while ago I read about ... keycaps of a Spectrum+ using a dishwasher. I tried it a couple of ... days ago (50? C) and was ... off eBay and that are in a rather... well... muddy condition.
I found a game that I made!I was looking through a big pile of cassettes in a box the other day looking for a sound sample (I collect sounds...don't ask), when I found a casset…
... looking through a big pile of cassettes in a box the ... other day looking for a sound ... and it was a game I wrote in Basic on ... your Ambulance! Do you... a) Shoot Maggie Thatcher, b) ... Ambulance at Maggie Thatcher or c) Drive faster?" It ...Idea for a new feature to compliment a debugger in an emulatorI had an idea for an emulator feature yesterday. Don't recall having seen this idea before, but I'm sure you'll correct me if it has. :) In that cas…
... it has. :)
In that case I wouldn't ... still be a good idea and could come in handy if ... - all represented using colors in a window where each pixel is ... . And if a word was used as a counter instead of ... a byte, to keep ...Anyone help re-factoring a tile functionI had some excellent feedback for re-factoring my function that displays the colour for my screen tiles. Can anyone offer some help to improve the fu…
... number refers to a tile type which is held in the lookup ... called "MAPLOOKUP". I've used a bit ... /> DJNZ PRTTILELOOPX
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JP ...Interest in a new adventure game?After recently reading the feature on Gilsoft in Retro Gamer I got the urge to go back to my adventure tools and create something which was actually …
... reading the feature on Gilsoft in Retro Gamer I got the ... decidedly ropey adventures I created in the past.
... been most pleasing - after about a week of planning, replanning, ... people would potentially be interested in such a thing. Do people still ...charcter you most wanted to hurt in a spectrum game?mine would proberly be the wolf in saberwulf. everytime i got down to that area he made me lose a life.
mine would proberly be the wolf in saberwulf. everytime i got down to that area he made me lose a life.A spectrum, in a museum!Massive apologies if this has been touched on before but I was at a Museum in Newcastle last week and they had a Sinclair C5, a ZX81 and a Rubber-key…
... I was at a Museum in Newcastle last week ... and they had a Sinclair C5, a ZX81 and a ... Rubber-key 48k Spectrum in ... thing with built in monitor which looked ... thought computers would look in the year 2000.
Help me find myself in a Speccy magI've been boasting to the kids about my programming prowess from years ago, problem is i don't have the spectrum magazine i was mentioned in anymore.…
... spectrum magazine i was mentioned in anymore.
I've ... sure which mag it was in now after all these years ... the magazine article, it was a tape loader routine competion.
