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How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
... of general encouragement to persist with BASIC (even though I ... weekend, where you sit in a room with other ... a big geek party in your pants. I have ... very nice game entirely in NextBASIC, which lets you ... processor 4x faster) directly from BASIC.
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Hello! New guy here!Hello there! Is this website still active? I feel like there's not much activity here, as if it's dead. Is this community is still alive? Also, the …
... of view - is the Basic language.
... keyboard which uses single key presses to input keywords.
key press P again and ... in HELLO WORLD and then CTRL+P to get close quotes. Press ... /> So to get out of that press SHIFT and the ... -
Hello! New guy here!Hello there! Is this website still active? I feel like there's not much activity here, as if it's dead. Is this community is still alive? Also, the …
... of view - is the Basic language.
... keyboard which uses single key presses to input keywords.
key press P again and ... in HELLO WORLD and then CTRL+P to get close quotes. Press ... /> So to get out of that press SHIFT and the ... -
Can I record binaries from any emulator with Basic commands, machine code, macros or something?Hello I do not know if this is the right place to put this question Normally with ZXSpin if I want to save a binary file, I'm going to: file ->…
... to do is to be able to create the necessary binaries with a BASIC ... 1) we make the program in Basic or ZXBasic de Boriel with ... waiting to press key or anything. Recording all the SAVE, continuously, in the ... with Boriel's ZX BASIC or in pasmo, etc, without ... -
LOAD""CodeWhy did some games load this way? Is it something to do with not having a 'header' or something? And if so why not? Also do we have a list of games …
... Entended Mode followed by I in 48 Basic mode. I've mentioned ... I learnt all the basic commands in 48 basic by having a visual ... in the back of the Speccy+ manual, which showed the key combinations to press to ... -
Joy (not) Stick Only gamesIt seems relatively common to find say C64, Amiga and in some cases Amstrad CPC games that are 'joystick control only' To be fair the port or two …
... Upon pressing a key immediately attempt to load a Basic program, the ... choose 'space' as the key to remove the startup banner copyright ... wanted Basic instead you'd simply start the machine, press a key ... to in effect do a two part load (the header then the basic ... -
48K Rubeer Key Spectrum Keyboard OverlaysThe use of keyboard overlays touched on by me here:- [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/55006/recreated-spectrum-what-do-we-get-f…
... series of Quicksilva games included in the PDF keyboard overlay ... overlay is not referred to directly in the game instructions so ... on screen in the game .It is a basic space invaders ... invaders . A definite repeat key press was needed to repeat fire .It was ... -
Problem with Pasmo Assembler/Speccy emulator?I'm at the start of trying to learn Z80 assembly for the ZX Spectrum. I'm using Speccy 1.7 as my emulator, Pasmo as my assembler, and am following t…
... , I press enter and it displays those three lines of basic that ... I've never used the basic in the emulator until now, and ... " which appears above the "L" key in green - green means it is ... Caps Shift, and finally press the "L" key to obtain the "USR" keyword ... -
Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…
... you need to, From the basic prompt, press the EDIT key. Then choose ... /> Sometimes quotes are required as in:
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in ".ls --help". In general unix utilities ported to the ... spectrum next follow the arguments in the ... -
ZX Spectrum BASIC "non UK" titles that can be easily translated to make an "easy" English VersionIt was the 16K German version of LEMONADE STAND written in BASIC that made me think about this . Really , I suppose this translation aspect just…
... : using a ZX Spectrum to do the BASIC editing . I was unlucky ... got the program to run as it spliced the BASIC and the ... ,Edit Data Block , Press OK , Save it in the Block Editor)
key to move it forward and I ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... /> ; compile time switches, set to 1 to enable
NOPS_AT_START EQU 1 ... , EMPTY_SPACE, EMPTY_SPACE, EMPTY_SPACE, EMPTY_SPACE, EMPTY_SPACE, KEY, EMPTY_SPACE, WALL
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Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…
... 'm not mad enough to do it in BASIC on a Spectrum though ... packing that as tokens in the unused ASCII range of 128-255 ... kvp in _letterfrequency)
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ZX48k terminal...Hello everybody, I thought someone might help me. I connect my good old ZX48k to my PC via serial (IF1) link, and I was trying to write a little term…
... I was trying to write a little terminal program in BASIC.
Can ... , and print it out.
in BASIC:
10 format "t ... />
Trouble is: when I press space (not break) on the ... both ways
until I press Space on the spectrum...
Games that benefit from a change in speed.Has anybody tried playing games on an emulator at different speeds? I've found that certain games are more playable with a slight speed tweak. Obvio…
... programs written in basic and text adventure games are going to benefit but ... certain machine code games seem to play better.
I ... with a 10-20% reduction in speed.
On the ...Sharopolis's QuizHere you are folks, My quiz, edutainment at its best. This is the first quiz I've compiled so sorry if its too easy or hard or whatever. Some of the…
... Many celebrities endorsed or appeared in spectrum games during the eighties ... points) N.B contrary to reports in the press, Ed The Duck is ... keyboard function requires a two key combo on both the rubber ... game invited you to type in the word ORGY to enable the ...The Quiz to end all quizzesHere it is - The Quiz To End All Quizzes. You will have a whole [B]month[/b) to answer the questions presented here. 1. All answers give 1 point un…
... don't know what else to put in! :confused:
to prime bombs in order to destroy the ... must arrange it in order to prevent a Soviet ... holiday in Spain and have to take 10 photos in order to ... up screen if you press BREAK in the main menu?< ...a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of ... that in eighties..
also, there were a poke to quit ... "scroll? " message in basic??
where ...Something i'd like to see in future spectrum emu'sI haven't checked every emu out so i hope this hasn't been implemented somewhere already...one thing i'd like to see is a special enhanced mode where…
... ...one thing i'd like to see is a special enhanced ... enhanced emu mode was available in the options i think that ... thought it would be interesting to see if it was possible ...TZX to CD to play in real spectrumsHi!! I have some idea to convert TZX files to Audio CD and play it in a Hi-Fi or discman. But i have some problems to amplificate it because the tk9…
... idea to convert TZX files to Audio CD and play it in a ... because the tk90x needs to get high level in mic input. I ... have some idea to convert tzx to mp3 ...new emulatorHi All. If you wish you can download/test/link to/betatest etc. my new emulator EmuZWin 2.0. It emulates S48 and S128 and works under all Windows 9x…
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drawn keyboard can help to enter Basic commands. Also it allows ... (right mouse click on a key). In future, this keyboard will be ...
key combination pressed).
automatic saving current settings in the registry ...New BASin (Alpha Release 9) upHi all, Since you're more interested in here about BASin, here's the new update announcement. There's no major changes to the way the system work…
... currently "on", so when you press delete, that character is deleted ... out).
Added correct keyboard ascii handling - non-UK keyboards reproduce ... />
I'll upload to WOS in a couple of days if ...Basic Compilers and My Compressor CodeAs I mentioned in another thread I'm currently writing a set of compression routines for saving +3 disk space. I've done the first stage (write the …
... first stage (write the things in basic to check the logic) and everything ... reason I've written it in basic first rather than jumping straight ... anyone point me in the direction of a good basic compiler and ... give me some idea how to use ...How soon should we expect Uploads to appear in the archive?I appreciate people have other things to do, and are doing us all a favour sifting through all the downloads and posting them in the Archive, but I h…
... people have other things to do, and are doing ... the downloads and posting them in the Archive, but I ... one has so far appeared in the archive, although there ... something? Would be nice to know what the status is ... a moan - just worried in case they've been lost ...Editing in-game UDG'sI have just started playing an RPG that was in Sinclair User in 86'. The game is called Forest of Long Shadows and was excellent. You can find it on …
... an RPG that was in Sinclair User in 86'. The game is ... there is a slight bug in that the nasties that ... should appear on the screen in UDG's but they ... see that there is Data to create the UDG's ... UDG's in a basic program rather than having to use the BASIC editor ...TransAm - technical curiosityHi all, I guess this is for you machine code experts: how come a snapshot of TransAm always places the trophies in different places when I start a n…
... TransAm always places the trophies in different places when I start ... a new game (by pressing key "3").
Just wondered ... program that kind of procedure to happen just once after the ... am I thinking too much in BASIC?
Just interested of ...How do you play your Speccy games on your PC?Hi everyone, I was wondering what kind of device you use to play speccy Games under emulation, or if you play just with the keyboard. I do use an X-…
... great because I have freedom to move in any direction and perform ... other useful key that the game in question allows you to press ( like SPACE ... for the super bomb in Operation Wolf ...a key...a locked gate but how to put them togatherif u have no knowledge of saga of a mad barbarian..dont bother with this one. but the thing is...i need help soo badly, i have the game, i have t…
... whch are oh so important in a text adventure.so fay ... , take things..and talk to them in my inventory the frustration is ...
