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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 ... two celebrities who have appeared in spectrum titles and were ... Which game invited you to type in the word ORGY to enable ... for if M is for machine code I never understood)
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ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…
... this on the Dragon 32 - PAINT. For instance, if a red ... red square with yellow
PAINT 50,50,3,4 fills ... square with blue
PAINT 101,101,2,4 fills ... square with yellow
PAINT 50,50,2,3 fills ... machine code, but has anyone worked out a way to do this in ... -
"YOUR COMPUTER" magazineDoes anyone know of any websites that has reference to this great magazine from the 80s? With the title being so 'generic', search engines don't see…
... seem to be much good in finding info.
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Spectrum booksOK, this is a question posed not out of curiosity, but because I have to construct the 'bibliography' section of some paper I'm making. Unfortunately…
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2 Spectrum books for saleTwo classic Spectrum books for sale... ZX Spectrum Users Handbook by RJ Simpson and TJ Terrell. Newnes Microcomputer Books On the back it mentions…
... features of the machine and explains programming in Basic and machine code (199 pages ... 'exciting high quality' games to type in !
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Entire Sinclair Software Collection For Sale - Built Up Since 1988!Sinclair Spectrum Software For Sale Information below includes the title of the software, the type of media it is supplied on and the price. I can a…
... /> Crystal Castles: Diamond Plateaus in Space (U.S Gold ? ... 50
R-Type (Electronic Dreams/Irem ? 1987)
Screen Machine [Instant Machine Code Techniques To Improve Your ... 2.00
Spike In Transylvania (Codemasters)
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How to program Machine Code on a PC, and then run it on a speccy?Well, I've been looking into MC a bit more deeply recently - I reckon I could get my head round MC now. Back when I was a teenager, I couldn't see th…
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TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…
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A) It's a machine gun, dummy! Okay, seriously. Some ... " type of authoring system program. You need to know how to code in ... You can still program in Forth in the Code Editor, but support for ... text file that you can type in directly in the WL editor. ( I ... -
found old magazineHello fellow Spectrum worshipers :) As I was not sure where to post this, so I posted it here. I guess anything can be posted under miscellaneous. …
... portuguese magazine called "Jogos Sortidos" (in English it's something like ... lines of machine code or basic that one had to type in order to ... I tried were some in english and some in spanish.
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Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemBelow is my WIP code to do smooth screen wrapping sprites using char positions and offsets, as opposed to writing direct to a line (0-191) and shifti…
... be most welcome
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; ... is the only area, in theory left moving sprites are ... Store the X char accross in a, eg.A=20< ... thus moving 256 bytes forward in memory to FB0Ah
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IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
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in a,(07Eh)
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The ZX80 lives againI have often wondered if there was ever *any* commercially released software for the ZX80. I have never seen any, or even seen any info about it. Bu…
... . I've been sumbitting type-ins to the Type Fantastic, and some ... (either that or NO$ZX81 in ZX80 mode is playing up ... ! But if anyone knows ZX80 machine code, maybe there is a way ... -
how do i read the keyboard in assembly? here is the code i tried writting to find out the value of a key call 28f (hex) loop: ld a,255 cp e jr z loop ld (50000),e ret notes from what i …
here is the code i tried writting to ... is the value that is in e if a key ... the first bit of code is to make it ... i try this bit of code, it doesn't wait ... i doing wrong with the code?
thanks ... been such a newbie at machine code :D
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ZX-81 Ram Pack problemHi! I know this is a ZX Spectrum forum, but I am hoping someone here might be able to help me out... I have posted this to c.s.s. but noone was able…
... to type some lines
of code into the machine, if I type some ... . But if I start to type in the memory test program
when I type that in and press enter the cursor ... the display
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LENSLOK CRACKED IN EVERY INSTANCEKnocked the whole lot out in about fifteen minutes. Good to know I've still got it!! Incidentally I also downloaded Jewels of Darkness and Price of …
Knocked the whole lot out in about fifteen minutes. Good to ... it asks for the game code just type OK
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Toobin'I just took a look at this game for the first time. It got kind of mixed reviews, and I can see why. Quite a good idea, but a bit too frantic and unp…
... idea for a canoeing type game back in the old days, but ... machine code skills to do it. I did program a sprite routine in ... -
I've just found a couple of my old cassettes...Some people have interesting old cassettes full of machine code experiments they made while they were still at school. Not me. I found one cassette…
... interesting old cassettes full of machine code experiments they made while ... featuring a load of BASIC type-in programmes, mostly from Input magazine ... " was one of those "type in a number between 1 and ... and press play", I wrote in my terrible handwriting.
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various Spectrum MIAs not listed on WoS* PAUL (Personal Accounting Utilities Ledger) by Jaysoft was reviewed in Home Computing Weekly #9 (3-9 May 1983, page 39) for the 48K Spectrum, price…
... -type game) by Macronics Systems was reviewed in ... Byte Computing were reviewed in Personal Computer News # ... The Complete Machine Code Programmer by Softek was reported in Personal Computer ... Orzechowski") was praised in a letter in Personal Computer News ... -
How do I put 1k game in a REM statement in TAP formatBasically, If I am assembling my machine code game, say using PASMO or TASM. 1. What address do I assemble it at to fit in a REM statement 2. What …
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If I am assembling my machine code game, say using PASMO or TASM.
1. What address do I assemble it at to fit in a REM statement
2. What do i need to do to get this into a .TAP format
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Amazing Short Type-InsHey all ! Been having some pretty stressfull days lately so I tought I would type in some games. There was a very nice type-in book here in Slovenia…
... was a very nice type-in book here in Slovenia called "Mirko ... funnier than in English ;) ) which had some really amazing type-ins. ... we could post here type-ins which are extremely SHORT ... type-in called Snake. You can guess what it is ;)
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Your games on my site?Have you created a speccy game recently? If so, how about sending it to me so I can can give it a web page of it's own on my site. If you'd like to s…
... -mail me the game
in a zip file and include ... /> eg. Wether it's in BASIC, Machine code etc..
A brief description ... of the author
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ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... you a long way in understanding the source code if that is ... /> SP1 is a library of machine code subroutines that makes it easy ... The final blank column required in splib2 for horizontal pixel placement ... must make the sprite RB type (right border). The blank ... -
Various Games to TradeHi Another list (this time with slightly rarer games =D), I am looking to trade for adventure games e.g. text adventures on 8-bit platforms (infocom…
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71 Danger Mouse in Double Trouble Creative Sparks Spectrum ... Case Yes Basic -> Machine Code Translator
92 Menace ... Box Yes Large plastic "clamshell type" inc instructions, note from ... games are untested but all in excellent condition (apart from ... -
Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…
... a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid ... can see in this badly compressed JPG (thank MS Paint for that ... by that I mean using machine code, of which I have a ... -
A HTML Related QuestionI am having trouble with a quirk that seems to happen in my HTML page. Quite simply I contain my content in a Table with a percentage of 75% the…
... quirk that seems to happen in my HTML page.
< ... simply I contain my content in a Table with a percentage ... on the 17" machine in my office.
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ZX Spectrum emulation in QEMUI seem to have written [URL="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wholehog/stuart/qemu/z80.html"]ZX Spectrum emulation for QEMU[/URL]! For those that don't k…
... that the emulated code is converted to native machine code so that it ... anyone thinking of trying games in this, I should point out ...Running code from the display memory?Is it possible to run machine code from the memory area used by the display file? If you were really out of memory and some part of screen is not u…
Is it possible to run machine code from the memory area used ... to black/black, load some code in the display area and run ...How can I view code from a game?Hi All, I had a Spectrum years ago and it is what started my love for playing games. I have recently been playing some of the old games I used to pl…
... see how they structure the code and how they did things ... . I am not interested in copying the code straight from the original ... there anyway of extracting the code from the .tzx or .tap ... 't understand machine code, I think that Striker was written in basic.
ZX Spectrum and (real) B A S I CSometimes ago there was a thread "how spectrum changed your lives". Another thread dealt with "how to copy spectrum screens using basic not using co…
... basic not using complicated that machine code routines".
I thought ... hour" (as we would say in Germany) that means it was ... see Ready or OK and type in PRINT "Hello world" and it ... how "Visual Basic" works.
In my eyes "Visual Basic" is ...
