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Daggerfall is now freewareDaggerfall, an early (DOS) game by the people who made Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and Oblivion, is now available free from the companies website a…
... not an RPG. And map size did get a bit crazy ... Speccy has one of the largest maps of any RPG. Then ... -
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…
... address
ld de,32768 ; size to load
ld iy ... [b]need[/b] to keep basic active, just as long as ... -
Where's the border line between a Spectrum and something else?I mean: there are purists out there that consider that anything that is not a true Sinclair Spectrum, with a true Z80 and a true ULA, and at most, 48…
... you will have a frame size of 820 samples, it would ... be synchronized with whatever the basic time constant of the emulator ... -
Assembly code in The TerminatorSo I was watching The Terminator on T.V today. What a great movie eh? Anyway, towards the end of the movie when the terminator reaches the Tiki Mot…
... Amstrad NC100 was an A4-size, portable Z80-based[1] ... was fully integrated into the BASIC interpreter and shared variables with ... language code, but also BASIC code to emit assembly language ... even write simple compilers in BASIC.[/quote]
Which ... -
Another scare tacticHo hum... when will people learn? Got a facebook message from a friend who has pasted this: [B][I]on a completely different note "Apparently the FAN…
... cause them to grow in size. When my Dad had his ... largest ones that they had seen, they were both about the size ... . Healthy ones are about the size of an adult closed fist ... -
Spectrum Diagnostics Board - 25th Anniversary projectWell, I said I'd try and get something online about this by today, and I have indeed done so. This web page still needs finishing off (in particular,…
... board:
[QUOTE][B][SIZE="4"]Adding new ROMs to ... the flash chip[/SIZE][/B]
You can now ... pages. This can be alternative BASIC ROMs, or Interface 2 game ... -
2 questions about matrix and string handlingI was never good at understanding how to do something random in Sinclair Basic without repeating something that was already done. Had problems unders…
... do something random in Sinclair Basic without repeating something that was ... , I do stuff in Sinclair Basic to help them, or to ... with 10 characters (unlike M$-basic where you can store 10x10 ... DIM W$(10) : REM ALWAYS SIZE 10 for ANY word in ... -
Printing in 64 columns, from Basic?Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any known machine code utility that allows something similar to PRINT AT that can be called fr…
... ages ago I wrote a BASIC 64-column font routine which ... character and setting a half-size pattern based on if adjacent ... -
Advanced Soccer SimulatorAdapted game Advanced Soccer Simulator for disk system +3DOS. Adaptation full, it is made even load/save the postponed condition of game. [URL="http…
... ASS.
1. Naturally basic – preservation and loading of a ... " is added. Earlier in the basic menu it was possible to ... catalogue finishing change of the size of a shipped file. Really ... scattered mixed up with the basic code of game, therefore the ... -
Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... fellow Boriel has created a basic cross compiler targetting the ... of things!) and many Sinclair basic-isms (which is good ... memory restrictions on source code size, easier to use text ... The cross-compilers (Boriel's basic, z88dk, etc) can generate assembler ... -
POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
... cels) for use in Speccy BASIC.
When writing in ... characters as to like, whatever size you like (they needn't ... -
POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
... it and every time the BASIC PRINT (or ROM routine that ... that character 16x16 pixels in size? Sure you'd have one ... do all this with the BASIC PRINT functions and using the ... are way round this in BASIC but you won't get ... -
POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
... cels) for use in Speccy BASIC.
When writing in ... characters as to like, whatever size you like (they needn't ... -
Measuring the Roger Jowett problemPlease vote if you've received unsolicited mail from Roger Jowett during this year, be it binaries you didn't ask for, or unwanted invitations to soc…
... line or the text font size largest doesnt do a great deal ... -
Measuring the Roger Jowett problemPlease vote if you've received unsolicited mail from Roger Jowett during this year, be it binaries you didn't ask for, or unwanted invitations to soc…
... line or the text font size largest doesnt do a great deal ... and + or - to adjust the size of your browser. -
Piracy (a good solution for both sides?)A week or two back, Micro-Mart wrote an interesting article about software piracy, although they didn't say anything new, as there's little if anythi…
... decent size, the I-pod was the best option. The next largest ... -
Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…
... ]I try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 ... an arrya with the same size use
DIM A(2 ... -
Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…
... a DIM statement in ZX BASIC
what did i MIS ... DIM without the $ in ZX BASIC you always set the space ... the variable to a float size (5 bytes). There is no ... -
Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…
... feel is missing from Sinclair BASIC?[/QUOTE]
I play with ... at position x,y and size depending on number of strings ... -
Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…
... native compilers such as Hisoft Basic had to incorporate a ... they can work on basic programs of any size and can use ... optimal machine code from the basic source. This goes well beyond ... away the interpretter phase of basic program execution. The cross-compilers ... -
Matthew Smith's Delta Tau OneGoing through some old boxes I've managed to dig up some stuff on Matthew Smith's first commercially released game [B]Delta Tau One[/B]. I don't know…
... was......
[B][SIZE="5"]DELTA TAU ONE - PENETRATE ... ALIEN CONTROLLED SPACE[/SIZE]
At first sight this ... nothing to eliminate you. The basic scoring is 10 for a ... />
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Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
... using PRINT# and INPUT# from BASIC, or calling read/write in ... file that's 21MB in size, streamed over a TCP socket ... -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... across in their original size, and accepted that they ... ), then what is the basic unit (ideal to you) ... could be compounds of this basic unit... EG: For ... by 24 pixels, the basic unit might be 8x24, ... 9 ) What is the basic maptile unit size in pixels? (The original ... -
Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... not really intended to provide basic computer science education, if you ... gets around to it some basic installation instructions should be placed ... /> Standard C only provides for basic text output; it doesn't ... a single dimension array of size 200 at index 3*20 ... -
Sinclair Accounts 1980-1985Sinclair accounts docs from 1980 to 1985 are available on my website. [url]http://www.zxdesign.info/sinclair[/url] Apart from the figures, which ar…
Some fascinating tidbits on the size of the UK computer market ... . The 1985 accounts peg the size of the UK computer market ... /> Also interesting tidbits on the size of the US market (mainly ... /> Also a tragic view of basic typewritten documents giving way to ... -
Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …
... is one of three (initially) basic types; ASCII text, binary data ... specify an optional fixed 'chunk size', e.g. '32' for 16x16 ... series of chunks of this size. (There is no optional setting ... -
How do you destroy an enemy or object?Hi guys I allways wanted to know this, but how would you go about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do you use a huge ar…
Yeah, in BASIC you would use an array ... don't have struct in BASIC). Arrays can only have 1 ... letter names in Sinclair BASIC too, and numeric arrays take ... I would use a fixed size array and not bother with ... library and for data block size needing to be stored with ... -
How do you destroy an enemy or object?Hi guys I allways wanted to know this, but how would you go about making and destroying enemies in basic or any language? What, do you use a huge ar…
... I would use a fixed size array and not bother ... library and for data block size needing to be stored ... that can be called from basic that then jumps into ... work and there is another basic option in the mojontwins ... well with boriel's basic compiler if you want ... -
ZX Adidas?!Just spotted these on Adidas Orginals' Facebook page... [url]http://hypebeast.com/2010/02/adidas-originals-adigame-zx-500-zx-runner-video-game/[/ur…
... , was that the largest I could get was size 11 and that ... tight for my feet. One size bigger would've been better ... -
ZX Adidas?!Just spotted these on Adidas Orginals' Facebook page... [url]http://hypebeast.com/2010/02/adidas-originals-adigame-zx-500-zx-runner-video-game/[/ur…
... , was that the largest I could get was size 11 and that ... tight for my feet. One size bigger would've been better ...
