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Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…
... a while)... does the BASIC loader for a ZX game ... come included in the size? I recall ... a code file and instructions (in the readme) for how ... viewed as rule bending; in theory you could exploit an ... are as REM statements in a BASIC program. Paolo did a ... -
If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…
... addresses. Ie POKE address,data in Basic. All Basic variables, all C variables ... bytes in Sinclair basic and some math libraries in Spectrum C implementations. Strings in basic ... and global variables (all vars in Basic are global, ie visible everywhere ... -
Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …
... currently trying to optimise some BASIC routines, so thought I' ... links to simple steps for BASIC optimisation is much appreciated.[/ ... QUOTE]
Actually, in theory, it doesn't matter ... on how the BASIC variables are stored in the basic program (see ... -
Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…
... so my TZX loads my basic block, the SCR$, the ... ve put CLEAR 29856 in the basic I do not know ... />
Try this new basic loader....
[code ... your TZX and running this basic program...
... a CAT "t:" in +2A / +3 Basic and playing your tzx ... -
Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…
... they've put CLEAR 29856 in the basic I do not know ... />
[quote]Try this new basic loader....[/quote]
I ... your TZX and running this basic program...[/quote]
Uou ... doing a CAT "t:" in +2A / +3 Basic and playing your tzx ... -
Atic Atac, the +3 and Multiface.Hello :smile: I have a Spectrum +3 with Multiface 3 attached and working well. I have discovered that at least JetPac and Atic Atac (all Ultimate …
... games?) will only run in 48k BASIC mode. in other +3 modes the ... you to save to tape in 48k BASIC mode.
Question ... -
Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…
... @Dunny
You mention putting in a special case trap for ... ? Custom rom trap entries in the Spin.ini or something ... to me a few times in the past.
p ... a 128 machine thats in 48 basic from the menu or ... 'spectrum' from 128 basic is bugged. You have to ... -
Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…
... resetting a 128 machine thats in 48 basic from the menu or ... 'spectrum' from 128 basic is bugged. You have to ... -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... resetting a 128 machine thats in 48 basic from the menu or ... 'spectrum' from 128 basic is bugged. You have to ... -
Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…
... br /> You mention putting in a special case trap ... Custom rom trap entries in the Spin.ini or something ... to be saved, and saves in ROM format :)
in 48 basic from the menu or ... 'spectrum' from 128 basic is bugged. You have to ... -
Atic Atac, the +3 and Multiface.Hello :smile: I have a Spectrum +3 with Multiface 3 attached and working well. I have discovered that at least JetPac and Atic Atac (all Ultimate …
... ).
Type this in +3 Basic (don't RUN it yet ... eject the disk, reset and in +3 Basic load and save [url ... screen$ has loaded and in +3 Basic insert disk then RUN this ... the disk in and reset, and if you called the basic program ... -
Atic Atac, the +3 and Multiface.Hello :smile: I have a Spectrum +3 with Multiface 3 attached and working well. I have discovered that at least JetPac and Atic Atac (all Ultimate …
... only be run from 48 Basic.
The trick is loading ... a different address and paging in 48 basic mode, then moving the ... -
So how much programming experience do you need to create a Spectrum Game?Hi all i was just mucking about with that old program "Game Designer" and i was wondering how difficult it is to write a new Spectrum game?
... many great spectrum game ideas in my head... but haven ... limitations, whether that be in speed, memory size or ... or two or three in there. Basic is usually people's ... for most things, but basic can be compiled and some ... C64 with its built-in sprites rather than a ... -
Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…
Dr. Beep means typing characters in the basic editor that have character codes ... -
CRC checkHi all, I'm trying to implement a way to check if two or more tzx files are identical or not on my app, so I would need a simple way to get an uniqu…
... a 16-bit checksum written in Sinclair BASIC that could be adapted ... -
Pause after blocksI've added a simple CRC routine to my app (thanks Gilby) to check for dupe TZX files and it was magical as I've located about two hundred of them tha…
... were so difficult to implement in viisual basic 6, and Gilby supplied ... 8 lines on spectrum basic that works ok in VB6. I think ... I suppose were beautified, but in some cases I have 6 ... -
1982 speccy gaming pioneersThe games that helped get the Spectrum noticed are about to be 25 years old. Which is the best game from 1982? A list of the 30 with the highest rati…
... all, it's very original in its basic principles.
and what ... -
Help needed - UK lottery number generator in c++I'm trying to write a c++ program to generate 9 lines of 6 numbers for the uk national lottery. Anybody got any idea where I'm going wrong? I'm com…
I'll tell you where your going wrong. It's not written in Sinclair Basic -
Help needed - UK lottery number generator in c++I'm trying to write a c++ program to generate 9 lines of 6 numbers for the uk national lottery. Anybody got any idea where I'm going wrong? I'm com…
[QUOTE=chop983;182859]I'll tell you where your going wrong. It's not written in Sinclair Basic[/QUOTE]
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List of POKEs and PEEKs/cool memory addressesI was wondering if there was a list of cool memory addresses to POKE and/or PEEK. For example, I know that PEEK 23674 tells you how long a Speccy has…
... the system variables or something in a Basic program. The spectrum manual ... -
Help needed - UK lottery number generator in c++I'm trying to write a c++ program to generate 9 lines of 6 numbers for the uk national lottery. Anybody got any idea where I'm going wrong? I'm com…
[QUOTE=chop983;182859]I'll tell you where your going wrong. It's not written in Sinclair Basic[/QUOTE]
Have you seen this excellent utility:
[url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008586[/url]
Dave -
PZX file format draft[QUOTE=Andrew Barker;186084]To this date, there is no rival format for TZX, despite people saying they can do better. Well the challenge is on, prov…
... by design. This would result in cases where it fails, somehow ... express the pulse durations in 4MHz T cycles. In fact, I think ... denominator, that would result in pretty basic format which would not make ... -
BASIN type editor for Mac OS X (pic included)I'm currently working on a Sinclair BASIC language bundle for the popular Mac OS X text editor TextMate, here's a quick preview for those people who …
... now uses zmakebas to run basic listings in Fuse, this means you ... labels and omitting line numbers in your basic programs similar to Basin ... & properly escape UDG characters in your ... -
TC2068 emulator cart - problemHi, Sorry for posting timex related stuff on a spectrum forum. So, this cart (spectrum emulator) can only adress 16K. I can load small games but i …
... address of the OUT subroutine in the Basic ROM. But otherwise, the ... at the RET address of BASIC's OUT for just this ... -
TC2068 emulator cart - problemHi, Sorry for posting timex related stuff on a spectrum forum. So, this cart (spectrum emulator) can only adress 16K. I can load small games but i …
... address of the OUT subroutine in the Basic ROM. But otherwise, the ... at the RET address of BASIC's OUT for just this ... /> Well there's no harm in sticking a JP at that ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... can see the changes in the basic test program you can download ... than specifying the sprite 'type' in the create functions, you specify ... map details are always documented in the [URL="http://z88dk.cvs ... s data area has increased in size. Almost all the previous ... -
How did games started with LOAD "" CODE auto-start?Some early games (l remember for example [B]Galaxians[/B] from 1982) was loaded with LOAD "" CODE, which in one single block first loaded the loading…
... and a piece of BASIC.
In the BASIC there is something ... reloading the
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the lost years...hello what i am refering to in the title is the years 1993-1997 when the ZX spectrum was dormant.i know that WOS was set up in 1995,but i am guessin…
... to the formation of CSS in 1993, so I was ... a copy of Z80 in order to read tapes. If you could ... emulation had its own problems in that, had they taken the ... on and I'm still in the scene, with websites to ... documentary work turned that around in spades. I don't know ... -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
In the basic loader there's a line ... the real values are stored in the 2 bytes after each ... loading routine that's stored in that REM.
The ... also runs a disk loader in machine code. If you can ... -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
[QUOTE=zxbruno;193860]In the basic loader there's a line ... the real values are stored in the 2 bytes after each ...
