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Meeting cancelledLast week I got an e-mail that the meeting for next weekend in Urmond in Holland is cancelled due to lack of people visiting the meeting. The meetin…
... 'd love to give an old laptop to the kids to learn to program BASIC on ... features - especially speed. I need to get some kids first though... :-) -
How Spectrum changed our livesHave you ever thought about how Speccy changed your lives? Just imagine all of us in our youth age without Manic Miner or Knight Lore, without that…
... anyway).
I did learn to program on the speccy though as ... doubt I would have learned to program on anything else.....c64 basic ... time I had an addiction to tinned sardines in tomato sauce ... 't know if thats related to the speccy but maybe as ... -
new speccy gamesDoes anybody know if there is anyone currently publishing new Spectrum games? I'm about half way though writing one at the moment and just wondered. …
... who can and will actually program the game, and a mock ... expectation either that they'll learn to program or that somebody else will ... -
What if...What if when you were a kid in the early 80s your parents didn't buy you a Sinclair Spectrum as your first computer? I was thinking about this earli…
... /> It took me 6 months to get a cassette for the ... it meant that I had to learn to program rather than play games on ... .
It caused me to develop a very minimal coding ... -
speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…
... school as a whole refused to have any computer science ... away and were only going to get more important in ... don't have the opportunity to learn to program - modern Microsoft-based PCs ... physics teacher, and encouraged us to learn and explore, unlike the muppet ... -
C64 users dying to get another flamewar goingThe C64 folks really are a bit of a laugh. In fact, some are so insecure they need a new war. ;-) Read this and try not to snort: [URL]http://www.lem…
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We learn to program....in c64 basic, we learn to give
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Pc200Is there anyone who can tell me what a PC200 is worth? I can buy one, it would be fun to add to my collection, but I have no idea of the collector's …
... said that it belonged to her husband and that ... said that he used to work for a Cambridge ... interested in some other hadware to get in touch. Unfortunately ...
The machine is fun to mess around with and I ... we used Amstrad 1640s to learn to program in 'Pascal' -
My first program - a vertical scrollerHi all, I'm new here. Nice to meet you all! A couple of weeks ago I decided to learn Z80 assembly language. I spent many hours in front of the Spec…
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Hi Riv - welcome to WoS!
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[QUOTE=riv;428034]To learn to program, I spent some time trawling ... me, and I want to thank you for sharing your ... -
"Programming the Spectrum in Assembly" series in Micro MartI see that Shaun Bebbington is starting a series of articles in Micro Mart magazine on how to program in assembly for those who might know a little b…
Feel free to make use of the tutorial ... while ago, Shaun. Looking forward to the rest of the series ... 3 of a series on learn to program in C, which looks really ... -
Outside world interfaceHi all, Im a newbie! 30 years old, bought up programming spectrums! I have no idea how to program PCs and want to write a program to control a se…
... like i am gonna have to learn to program a pc, my BIL is ... -
Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!
... built in BASIC you could learn to program as well.
Not suitable ... -
Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…
... why it's, erm crap to learn to program. What's the other ... choice of choosing Microsoft to write their BASIC's ... of the time (due to attribute clash), but with ... ; it was so simple to use, unlike the horrid ... offering that Commodore chose to use for the C64. -
Renegade 3My niece brought me Renagade 3 from a charity shop yesterday and I loaded it up with strange anticipation, having never played Renegade and having ha…
... did also cause some games to be hugely over rated. Reviews ... (some great type in's to learn to program), and the the covertapes, but ... month which hugely helped me to learn to program. -
Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…
... familiar with the beeper...and to play by the rubber ... much more easy and fun to learn to program in BASIC with it.
to mention to its "gummy" keyboard.
to find so many different solutions ... -
New MM ProjectHaving finished VHW, thought i'd have a crack at doing a Manic Miner game before getting on with AGD. Been on it for a couple of hours so well under…
... Beatles justice it would need to be a trilogy, and graphically ... I needed something more flexible to do the ideas any justice ... clone (one day i'll learn to program... one day...)
... Pepper is COMPLETELY redone, closer to the album cover, and much ... -
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
... know you started this Thread to show how easy it was ... you feel you have to respond to something then I shouldn't ... , and no one is going to change their beliefs anyway. :)
to learn to) program C, but are too intimidated ... -
Dynamite DanDynamite Dan is too hard, any tips folkes?
... , especially total newcomers to the game, would ... Spectrum and starting to learn programming, to him having the ... to send out to potential publishers was only six months! Six months, to learn to program ... and to finalise a game ... -
Noob needing help with MP3 Loading?Hey all, I literally just got my first Spectrum today, and I've been trying to get Knightmare working on it. However, the tape I have isn't working, …
... of tape.
Rewind to desired location.
Press ... Audacity, and wait for recording to finish; new working tape acquired ... helping out, I look forward to my escapades for this wonderful ... of being [I]forced[/I] to learn to program. Hah hah. -
Department of Culture - Consultation on Tax Breaks for Computer Games IndustryI see that the Department of Culture have now started the consultation process on how tax breaks for the computer games industry should work. See [u…
... also encourages youngsters to lean unique program development skills which ... creative and technical expertise, to facilitate the production of ... loading (rather than having to save to tape or disk) - ... old machines to find out how they work, learn to program and ... -
Your Spectrum RegretsSpeccy things that you have done (or haven't done) and have regretted them since. Here's mine... (in no particular order). 1) Sold my Spectrum 128K…
... biggest regret? Not being able to go back in time and ... BASIC). Too hyperactive and undisciplined to learn to program properly. But I wrote some ... utilities I'd love to be able to look at again. The ... -
R.I.P. Gary Owens - Powdered Toast Man, Space Ghost, Roger RamjetDid voices for over 3000 cartoons and shows including the voices of Roger Ramjet, Space Ghost, Batman, Powdered Toast Man in Ren & Stimpy..and Narrat…
Sad loss. Roger Ramjet cartoons I found hilarious and even motivational, they inspired me to go to my Zx spectrum and learn to program.
Don't remember that Powdered Toastman cartoon, any of them though.
Great voice. -
Any noob friendly speccy dev tutorials?I mean, for a person who never used ANY kind of assembly, let alone Z80 one. Would be good if focused on making a game. Additionally, I want your …
... it made me curious enough to take a look, and I ... was surprised to find out how bad it ... was. I'm willing to write an in-depth review ... ROM is a terrible way to learn Assembly.
I ... skip all this, and learn to program in Boriel's ZX Basic ... -
Am i becoming an alcoholic?I've noticed over the last 6 months or so my alcohol consumption has been creeping up. I have calculated that for the past month i have been drinkin…
Yeah - try not to let it become habitual. Maybe ... different stuff and treat yourself to something quality once in a ... if TV is crap too. Learn to program the Speccy! Take some evening ... -
1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
... s more, much more to it.
First ... you're not going to discover what they are ... to make the game work was and is breaking into the program ... and even wanted you to pay for it: ... to stimulate the kids to really use their brain and learn to program, in order to ... -
The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
... non-computer-scientist to be able to learn to program. Writing code in ... a way that allows you to 'describe' your program ... was never really meant to be fast and optimised ... there. You'll start to have eureka moments where ... -
The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
... non-computer-scientist to be able to learn to program. Writing code in ... a way that allows you to 'describe' your program ... there. You'll start to have eureka moments where ... amount of information not to mention the goldmine of ... -
endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... that the tools have to be 'proper' to do this so they ... in using C for learning to [i]program for it[/i]. As ... would be verging on insanity to learn to program for modern platforms—small embedded ... around high-level programming languages. To quote Pooh, “I am a ... -
The R-Tape loading Era. An Easter story?R-Tape loading era Nostalgia's a funny thing you know. You might remember what at the time seemed a damn nuisance, only to recall it much later…
... were pretty much limited to what their teaching notes ... ]
I went to college in 1980 for my ... a requirement that we learn to program in Basic. Thats how ... a usable time slot to use the college mainframe ... home and 3 youngsters to take care of, some ... -
Things that people >= 40 (ish) would recognize (and others would likely not)#1: Used to see these all over the place, usually right above the bath tub. [img]http://www.constructionphotography.com/ImageThumbs/A052-01718/3/A0…
... up cheap. I wanted to learn to program it on the go, but ... it just became something nice to show off but lived in ... -
Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
... very small roadrace game to help me learn.
I reckon you ... can learn the basics of machine code ... drunk it, you be able to program in machine code!
- write a BASIC program to run the machine code and ...
