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What games can you create?After hearing that you need machine code to create commercial quality speccy games, what sort of games can you create in +3 BASIC, except text advent…
In 15 years of programming in Sinclair BASIC (with a break of 10 years in-between :p) I never ran out of lines, nor heard someone did. This is real weird. -
horror text adventure scenario writer neededany outthere? I started to make program for text adventure [B]Mysterium Magnum[/B] on basis of ?multiple choice? which was project I wanted to make …
... /> It works fine in real Basic (emulator) but in Basin it keeps [I ... [/I] information locked somewhere in the memory stack so it ... could test it only in Spectaculator?s Basic, which is not that ... comfortable for writing the program in ... -
BASin and the 128k commandsI've decided to look at incorporating the 128k commands PLAY and LOAD!, SAVE!, MERGE!, VERIFY! for the ramdisk. It won't be full 128k emulation. No …
... keeping the last two UDGs in 128 Basic. Use the ZX Spectrum ... show up as UDGs, but in the editor they show up ... possible to replicate this behaviour in BASin. The SE ROM is ... it. You can find it in the standard distribution of the ... -
Gauntlet 2 & emulatorsI've done a quick search but not found anything, does anyone else have trouble getting Gauntlet 2 to load in either Spectaculator or Spin? The only f…
In Spectaculator 6.25 it gets ... forward any more).
In Spin 5.04, when I ... "Access Violation at address 004D4CED in ZxSpin.exe. Read of address 018A8000" -
BASin and the 128k commandsI've decided to look at incorporating the 128k commands PLAY and LOAD!, SAVE!, MERGE!, VERIFY! for the ramdisk. It won't be full 128k emulation. No …
... any programs written in 128 BASIC or 48 BASIC with the ZX ... long as no 128 Basic commands are used) or ... at being a Sinclair BASIC development environment I see ... fix some of the bugs in the 128 Editor.
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BASin and the 128k commandsI've decided to look at incorporating the 128k commands PLAY and LOAD!, SAVE!, MERGE!, VERIFY! for the ramdisk. It won't be full 128k emulation. No …
... to use those characters in a 128 Basic program, just as I ... that's supposed to work in 48 Basic - which also won't ... -
Calling Woody and Andy Ryals: Shed stuff...?Guys - Andy Ryals has some stuff he wants to publish for ZX Shed and Fogartylee has approached me for copy ... do you fancy hooking up and writing so…
Done these! Thanks for writing new games Nathan, I have virtually all your games which you have released, please keep writing new stuff. I have to hack Galaxy Fighter but thats soon, i will also do the games in your basic competetion if I get time!! -
Classic thread from the past[url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic=1485&forum=4&start=0"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.…
... , fully-working Artificial Intelligence system in Speccy BASIC?
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Conceptual differences between Speccy and modern PCWhat are them? Here I mean not much faster, more bit CPU, bigger and faster hard disks etc. 1: Speccy is keyboard computer, PC has separated keyboar…
... PC to have a built-in keyboard (a-la laptop's). And ... we can't just plug in a faster CPU, but it ... conceptually as the ZX Spectrum, in all of it's forms ... -
Conceptual differences between Speccy and modern PCWhat are them? Here I mean not much faster, more bit CPU, bigger and faster hard disks etc. 1: Speccy is keyboard computer, PC has separated keyboar…
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128k, +2, +3ok i`ve asked a lot of questions over the few days but this is gonna be my final one on whats what unless i get lost once i get my apeccy so here goe…
... has some abysmal bugs in the ROM - errors in PLAY or RAMDisk ... The +2 has a built-in tape deck (with which you ... vast majority of the bugs in the ROM for this ... full 64k of usable RAM in one configuration) and a ... that to load from tape in +3 BASIC (and on a +2a ... -
How does a Speccy keyboard work?Hi again. I saw a post a while ago about the Speccy keyboard. I think it referenced an old magazine article. I have no idea how a keyboard membran…
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How do I save?I've made a HUGE text adventure with lots of collectables and lots of locations, but how can I get the user to save their game to tape if they need t…
... the way, i'm interested in using machine code. do i ... somewhere or will it work in +3 BASIC? anyhow, i'll need ... -
SPECTRUM +3 NIGHTMAREGot my Specci +3 through the post this morning. The good news all the keys work and it turns on ok. The bad news the disk drive doesn't work. When yo…
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Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…
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Another idiot writesGuy's I seem to have a problem when trying to download files from the WOS archive. None of the links (such as [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub…
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EmuZwin27How does this thing work? I can't get it to load anything at all. All I can get it to do is show me loading screens and nothing else :confused: I'm p…
... Loader, LOAD "" in 48K Basic, in USR 0 mode, in 128K Basic. Some tapes are ... that the emulator is not in :paused: state? (just press any ...Z80 based computersHelp needed: Who can tell which computers besides ZX81/ZX80/Jupiter Ace/SAM Coupe: 1) use a Z80 processor 2) what the programmable RAM-size is (and…
MINIGAME COMPO 2006[url="http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/"]http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/[/url] it could be nice to meet you there :)
... that the whole game fits in the basic program. If there is ... format + the BASIC header, which should not be counted in the size ... of the game. But the BASIC code ... itself counts.
However, in this way ...Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
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Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…
... .mole, in that Sinclair basic is really simple basic and its ... But there are elements in Sinclair basic and in C that will help ... learn the concepts of programming in ... br /> Saying that go for BASIC first because its semantics and ...Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... can consider a game "written in BASIC" if the main portions ... of it are written in BASIC, i.e., the main ... tasks (play a tune in the title screen, decompress ... make the game "less BASIC". That's the case ... a main loop written in pure BASIC which use M/C ...Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... can consider a game "written in BASIC" if the main portions of ... it are written in BASIC, i.e., the main loop ... with a main loop written in pure BASIC which use M/C ... main loop was actually written in BASIC; compare with, say, Mined Out ...One plus oneSomeone pointed out, in a now-locked thread about the Brainless Nazional Party: [quote]Or how about the way some people claim that one plus one equa…
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[ This Message was edited by: swordheart on 2006-03-24 16:57 ]Desert Rats (CCS - Robert T. Smith) ManualHi, all. This is a message for Desert Rats adicts. Long time ago i am looking for authentic manual with all the necessary information for playing thi…
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The victory conditions in the scenarios are a little ... differently. Units under siege in Benghazi and Tobruk can still ... to infantry. HQ units in Desert Rats are extremely weak ... Tobruk assuming you are in control of both ports. This is especially ...Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]
... new mate in primary school programming one in 48k mode ... microcontrollers. Can program machine code in Z80, 6502, ARM RISC, ... difference and finite element) in the Port Talbot hot strip ... written in spectrum BASIC, which has to be the slowest basic ever in ...Here to go!Welcome to the new look! This migration took [B]a lot[/B] longer than expected (2 hours on the test setup, 5 hours on WoS), but everything ought to b…
It's just an image in a basic page, not sure why your ... would not be much point in replicating the effort.
