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Pirate Software LtdAt first, I thought this was a joke, but now I've realised that this Harry S. Price guy really WAS a pirate, and of the worst kind - most of the game…
... and time again - especially to Mastertronic games! What a ... his theft in this note to WOS...
... hack it's graphics and text, and very little else ... Feud! :o And the loading screen from Tidy Tony is ... can't find any references to this. :confused:
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"Mega-tree (Manic Miner 3)" : development disks to be auctioned on eBayI plan to sell the development disks of "Mega-tree" to coincide with the 20th anniversary; the third game in Matthew Smith's "Manic Miner" / "Jet Set…
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Or the reconstructed Speccy loading screen?
I will also ... design sketches in the body text of the eBay auction.< ... the picture planning to convert it just to simply put in ... different experience, even down to the simplest things like comics ... -
Spindizzy: good or horrible?Spindizzy is definately a much-loved old speccy game but is it actually any good? I played it a load back in the day, but i played every game i had …
... is a (very simple!) plain text map showing all the room ... screen to the right of the starting location.
Poke #CA40,0: Poke ... /> Poke #9992,X : Poke #9993,Y
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ZX80 - it wont die.The Mighty Dope Throne's ZX80 cgc entry has got me thinking. Does anyone know anything about how the zx80 works internally? is it very close to the z…
... screen memory, but im interested.[/quote]
Sounds similar to PC text ... patterns that make up the screen they only describe the characters ... how am I going to go about loading files I've compiled ... />
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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…
... I'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC ... the game to run automatically after loading from .TAP ... also created a nice loading screen for the game using ... the game to show whilst the game is loading?
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Problem with saving picture for game!Thanks for the code guys! The auto-start code is very sweet! And thanks for telling me about programming it to pick up items etc. There's only one p…
... could try copying/pasting the screen$ blocks (there's two ... of 'em) out to another tape file using the ... :
LOAD "": SAVE "MyScreen" SCREEN$
as one line ... a sysvar poke to stop that.
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Sid Spider on WOS.Can we take it that the inclusion of Sid Spider on WOS is official confirmation that it is no longer being developed? :( :( :(
... redid the graphics, made a loading screen and did some more levels ... an end game screen with probably some text and a 1/3 ... or 2/3 of a screen ... was thinking of making another loading screen to replace the first one I ... -
Invisible loading screenI can't remember how this is done (I did it years ago but can't remember how). When loading a screen$ from basic you can see the lines being display…
... poke to make the "program: " and "bytes: " not to be printed on screen ... ?
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POKE ( ... But it gives a print to the printer!
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Bounder!Ladderman did a [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-maps/b/Bounder.png"]screenshot map of Bounder[/url] recently. In it, I can see…
... Nice to see the rollover loading screens revealing the hidden text like that ... much of hidden messages in loading screens and the code and ... of examples:
The final screen of Egghead says "HI MUM ... in bricks.
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MIA Found? Records FileI've just started going through my collection of Spectrum software and already I think I've found a MIA title. It's Records File by D&H Games - on t…
... added an Archive Info block to the TZX and given due ... credit to you. I've also added a STOP/Pause and Text ... may do. We might have to add an alias in infoseek ... on request" as per the loading screen? Did you send away for ... -
Cronosoft 'Cassette 50'I'm currently looking to start work on putting together a 'CASCADE CASSETTE 50' compilation. Admittedly, I might not get 50 games submitted, so if t…
... if the game has a loading screen etc., this version will ... need a 'shorter' version without loading screens.
... We can still do a loading screen without the need of ... to print some simple graphics/text on screen, and voila! You have a loading screen ... -
Cronosoft 'Cassette 50'I'm currently looking to start work on putting together a 'CASCADE CASSETTE 50' compilation. Admittedly, I might not get 50 games submitted, so if t…
... the game has a loading screen etc., this version will ... can still do a loading screen without the need of ... to print some simple graphics/text on screen, and voila! You have a loading screen ... a loading screen.
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Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
... uses OVER 1 to print "Bytes: MONASTERY" over the loading-screen so that ... 32767
80 LOAD "Luddite"SCREEN$
90 OVER 1: PRINT ... Matthew from Earth (ne";: POKE 16632,8: POKE 16888,16:
PRINT ... ; INK 7;"PRESS ANY KEY TO START"
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Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
... that technique (Rebel and How To Be A Complete Bastard spring ... to mind). A simpler approach is to use
POKE 23739,82: POKE ... saved as, and ruining your loading screen in the process.
Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…
... that I promised to release before christmas - down to earth reasons ... huge improvement! Gone is the text parser. Now the player chooses ... BASIC compiler (+3 version) to compile the game in Spectaculator ... (who has done a nice loading screen), no.
7.) Yes! ...Best Loading ScreenWhat the hell ... we had worst so let's explore the other end of the Spectrum. * Some of my favourites are what I like to call [B]Picture Frame[/B] …
... notch!
i used to like the ones on the ... -is-what-data-is-loading text thingey. (i used to tell myself the ... ship was opening up to let MagicKnight escape at the ... />
Also loved the TrapDoor loading screen with Berk's roaming eyes ...Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... ]OVER 1: LET a$="text": FOR n=1 TO 1e3: PRINT AT ... : code" off your nice tidy loading screen after a second block has ... SPECTRUM (which switches from 128 to 48 mode but also stops ...Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …
... was listed as missing the loading screen on Alexanders redump project...
loading screen was 32768 instead of 16384 ... an emulator be able to automatically poke the memory with the fix ...Games that don't use loading screenI thought it would be helpful to start a new topic in which we can say what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don't use it, ju…
... a loading screen, but on my diskI had a black screen with text saying ... didn't have the loading screen. I managed to Stop the game somehow ... a screen, and played with it a little, added some text (loading etc ...TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…
... 1B00 -- this obviously relates to the loading screen. It calls a routine ... pointer, changes to page 7, copies the loading screen to $C000 (ie ... SCREEN$
30 FOR i = 1 TO 5: READ a: POKE ... blanks the screen and stops the loading screen from being obscured ...How to save TZXGreetings to all. I am starting to move on from just games into some testing of home made programs. Although I could have done that in ancient tapes…
... tell me how to hide the name print on screen so that the ... the "Program:" text. You can also use this technique to set BRIGHT ... the ROM load routine to load a SCREEN$ without the header block ... 16384 ; Start Address (e.g. SCREEN$)
ld de, 6912; ...Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…
... ,4). (For when screen is loading).
Press 'm' to poke co-ordinates/attributes ... .
Press 'l' to load ... when game is loading).
Press 'm' to poke co-ordinates/attributes.
Secret Of St. Bride'sI recently bought a copy of Secret Of St. Bride's (excellent game by the way) and the inlay says that it was distributed by Audiogenic (I always thou…
... 's" and "St. Brides" seem to occur in equal measure. Unfortunately ... SoSB loading screen title and copyright notice, the title screen and in-game text ...Secret Of St. Bride'sI recently bought a copy of Secret Of St. Bride's (excellent game by the way) and the inlay says that it was distributed by Audiogenic (I always thou…
... " and "St. Brides" seem to occur in equal measure. Unfortunately ... loading screen title and copyright notice, the title screen and in-game text ... database, we always stick to the title on the inlay ... different parts of the inlay, loading, title or in-game screens ...Worst. Controls. Ever.Right... time to have a vote on the worst keyboard controls ever! Here's some suggestions to start you all off: (1) The standard cursor keys. Need …
... game that is so hard to use that it's ... actually have someone else try to play it?
... for a keypress on the loading screen (all hex values):
< ... took me about 2 minutes to locate the key reading ... and about 10 to hand assemble it and poke it in ...What clues were on the Fairlight loading screen?As stated in the manual of [B]Fairlight[/B] there shall exist clues on both the cover and in the loading screen. This might be obvious to some, but I…
... personally believe these two items to be swords because of their ... in the text is the tall tower in the loading screen ... that's ...What clues were on the Fairlight loading screen?As stated in the manual of [B]Fairlight[/B] there shall exist clues on both the cover and in the loading screen. This might be obvious to some, but I…
... in the text is the tall tower in the loading screen ... that's ... that the tower to the right on the loading screen? Is that the ... same tower that you start next to?What clues were on the Fairlight loading screen?As stated in the manual of [B]Fairlight[/B] there shall exist clues on both the cover and in the loading screen. This might be obvious to some, but I…
... on the loading screen is the tower you start next to.
... to come in the next game (Fl2).
The text ... Book of Light. To be able to get the book you ... two bottles and what seems to be a skull between ... two monks which have to be killed with the ...Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... there a way of loading a file into screen$ then coping that ... command and then copy the screen$ to that address. Copying 6912 ... goes from the screen to memory. You can poke values to reverse HL and ... may be able to take your screen$ down to half to a third size ...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…
... to disk (address followed by length):
$4000,$1B00 loading screen ... FOR i=1 to 5 : READ a : POKE 23388,16+ ... NEXT i
40 POKE 23388,16 : OUT 32765 ... already be enabled if loading from BASIC anyway). ... banks in order to reduce loading times but again, ...
