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Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…
... input "up, down or left? ",a$:if a$="up" then gosub 20:if a ... the line
10 INPUT "ENTER MOVE";A$
11 IF A$="LEFT ... SUB 20
12 IF A$="RIGHT" THEN GO SUB 30 ...
13 IF A$="UP" THEN GO SUB 40 ...
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Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…
... input "up, down or left? ",a$:if a$="up" then gosub 20:if a ... IF's in seperate line statements. It doesn't ... write a parser to go through the input to ... a sub-routine based on which verb index matches the player input ... you how to write a complex adventure in BASIC ... -
Speeding up BasicHi, Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic? What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 5…
> INPUT has an article on ... /> The Spectrum parses them on line entry and adds the hidden ... point or integer form after a CHR$ 14. At runtime ... variables on the Spectrum then a search for the 100th variable ... two lookups if you had a healthy spread of alphabetic ... -
VertigoHi all, I found this in a bundle I'd bought from ebay. [url="http://www.smarty.plus.com/misc/vertigo2.jpg"]http://www.smarty.plus.com/misc/vertigo2…
... my record input levels, I've got a working . ... br />
■ Checking input file integrity... ok!
■ ... Block 2 => ------------------- - Line= 100, Length= 321, Pause=1094ms ... Block 8 => ------------------- - Line= 1, Length= 5254, Pause=3211ms ... -
Emulation Feedback** Extended RTM sessions could over-tax the CPU.
... however many TStates elapse for a particular sampling rate - 79 ... the emulation, not the sound *input*. If your machine is one ... your soundcard utilises full-duplex line-in, then you may get ... frequency? Surely not, even a fantastic programmer such as yourself ... -
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 …
... can make the game and input [I]coordinates, properties, ... [/I] easily to create a game... am I right ... [I]junction[/I] [B]A[/B] leads to three different ... them again alternates the story line to (maybe always) ... (=> cca 500 characters a page = cca one screen ... -
TLOTRD - compiling problemsOk guys! A new demo for 'The Legend Of The Red Dragon' is nearly finished (just need my bro to draw some artwork as I'm using sample images from the …
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You set up a line that saves the memory from ... the SAVE : GO TO 1 line you just typed, and as ... variables so that a BREAK or STOP IN INPUT error will crash ... -
TZX2TAP neededA quick question. Does anybody have a tzx to tap converter program that I can use in batch mode and will take long filenames?. If so can you please…
... a program tzx2tap which takes filename.tzx (dos 8.3) as input ... . Now make a dos directory listing using ... nobody know how to use a command line anymore? This is possible ... -
did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... /> So - how do I get a program from Speccy+ with interface1 ... a PC - I presume that there is a Windows proglet that reads input ... from the line-in and ... (damn no tape player - will a hi-fi do?) and press ... -
questions about the +2 and +3I can`t remember if the +2 and +3 had a port on the back of the computer that let you use your own tape recorder so i`m asking if there was or not ?
... if you put a signal (input) on the output line :)
+3 tape output is both read/write - needs a ... it's glory (almost a direct quote there). Lots ... br /> To connect a tape deck to a +2/+3, is ... sort you out with a copy. Or maybe ... -
Lead ProblemI want to record games from the net using taper onto my pc and someone suggested taping them with a 3.5 headphone socket with 2 phono lead to plug in…
... br /> You need a cable that has a 3.5mm stereo plug ... 3 manual gives details of a suitable lead - you can ... recorder mic socket) and a mono/stereo plug at ... the mic socket - experiment a little and see which ... the AUX line, if an input, should be at line levels so ... -
Woody?s Tape2wav tested[quote] I've uploaded a new version of Tape2WAV to the same URL as given above. Any chance of giving this version a quick test? [/quote] Hi Woody, …
... -pin header (L-R Input and GND, and L or ... Should come in handy for LINE-OUT only players (like ...
Maybe I would add a driver bypass jumper, in case ... My Sinclair gadgetry:
A TS/1000 (8 KB SRAM ... two CZ Spectrum 48, a One-Drive OPUS Discovery, Currah ... -
RealSpec start upI understand that you can add a start-up line to initiate the version, mode,interface etc; for RealSpectrum but I'm a complete ham with emulators, a…
From a command-prompt, type "realspec -?" (without ... a list of startup options you can use from the command-line ...
-playback, -record : playback / record input from/to file
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Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …
... program (based on one in INPUT) in which you move around ...
221 IF INKEY$="a" THEN LET py=py-2 ... />
I had a go at disassembling the line drawing routine in ... which I thought might be a good basis to work ... to make it cope with a moving end point - I ... -
GIF crop tool requestedI'm looking for a programmer to write a tool that takes a GIF file, made of a game screendump created with X128 (320x200) and removes the border, so …
Image Magick's command line 'convert' utility is ... .imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#crop[/url ... />
There is a batch utility or just turn ... a listing into a series of commands ... or use a shell script, perl to read input and form ... -
+3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…
... , if someone enters an invalid input, the program STOPs itseslf, I ... someone enters the name of a partition wrong etc. the speccy ... , but then redirect to another line and continue running.
There ... drive.
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+3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…
... but then redirect to another line and continue running.
... drive.This could be a major failing in this ... to the problem. Open a stream to memory, and ... exp" is formatted in a predictable way so it ... parts to the user input strings. Basicaly you should ... -
tapper on xpdoes tapper work on xp? planning to convert tzx to voc to wav
... wav on a notebook at maximum volume to the mic input of ... /> You might overload the MIC input on the cassette deck - you ... want to connect to the LINE IN if you have one ... my +3, and it has a socket marked "TAPE/SOUND" - does ... -
"Real Tape" mode?I'm trying to use RealSpec32 and Klive's "Real Tape" mode feature, but I can't get my tape player to play correctly. Am I doing something wrong? Fo…
... , I'm using WindowsXP and a SoundBlaster Audigy if that helps ... if I use the microphone input. The Line-IN jack does not ... also trying the Mic and Line-IN on my onboard CMI ... -
"Real Tape" mode?I'm trying to use RealSpec32 and Klive's "Real Tape" mode feature, but I can't get my tape player to play correctly. Am I doing something wrong? Fo…
... I now get a "PROGRAM: ????????????" message when using the Line-In for ... to select it as the input for recording). I have some ... suggestions (btw, tried to make a recording of the "Bubble Bobble ... -
Detect if program was loaded from tape or microdriveHow (if at all) can a BASIC program detect if it was loaded from tape or microdrive? This can be helpful to then load the screen or more machine code…
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50 INPUT Data
60 POKE A, Data
70 ... run assembler in the REM line after all the bytes BASIC ... inserts (2 for line number, 2 for line lenght and 1 for ... register BC, the PRINT in line 80 gave [B]10[/B ... -
Spectrum 128+2Greetings to all My Speccy Tape Drive has died. Fully blown :( Is there any way to hook up a external cassete player to the +2? I can't see any "lin…
There's no line in socket as ... but the +5V line is a useful place to obtain ... br />
Use a multitester/continuity tester if you ... - it's an input connection and should only ... NOT USE AS AN INPUT, you WILL fry the ... When you use the input to load a game for the ... -
Game: the GEM machineHi all, I'm moving this game discussion from the Wanted: Game Ideas! thread to here, so we can concentrate on just the game. Any comments/suggestio…
... column A and B, only the bottom line is detected, the line is ... erased and the two A's ... fall to the bottom line without doing the upper line ... . ;-)
Thanks for the input.
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... really liked the single key input system of the 48K), you ... the characters in a full (thirty-two character) line, as the editor ... for the line number, I'm sure there was a problem with ... checking when you entered a grammatically incorrect line (can't remember the ... -
TZX filesI copied a spectrum tape program onto my PC as a .wav file and used a converter to convert it to a .tzx file. The DOS window appeared during conversi…
... the tzx-file is not a valid tzx-file?
... demogroup.
| Checking input file... ok!
| RIFF Wave ... br /> Block 2 => ------------------- ! Line= 10, Length=38990, Pause=28516ms ... MakeTZX]
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Spectrum +2a Keyboard bug?If anyone has a Working +2a... I bought a +2a for Christmas 1986 with an 80 Column thermal printer from Dixons. It was bundled with a tape supposed…
... 3 is the caps shift line sometimes going logic low when ... but if you're doing a lot of work with Tasword ... +3, it's a nightmare. I was told at ... the time it was a "timing screw" issue - obviously ... you were at an INPUT prompt. Then a bug in the editor ... -
Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…
... a window and since the stream i/o can have input ... end of the basic line from your machine code ... read expressions from the line so that you can ... and advantage of having a linker/librarian as ... br />
Pageing (a segmented memory model) introduces complications ...
