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2008 Lookback/2009 Lookforward ThreadSo, what have we done this year? On the YS site, I've added the Virtual News Stand (the clickable double-page magazine spreads you see dotted around…
... BASIC oneliners, including a playable scroller.
learnt the rudiments of ... ]Plans for 2009[/B]
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What 80's games authors are here?I realise there may be some who are keeping a bit quiet about who they are, but I'm using my real name as my WoS name and I know there are some other…
... ragged on you in the scroller for [b]Vladivar[/b] and ... in my dev files (picture, scroller, music and a logo effect ... get around to an actual machine code game...
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Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
... pause or do a push-scroller). And call [b]USR ... bytes in front of the machine code routine. A '1' followed ... POKE in the bytes of machine code.
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Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…
Well, my solution doesn't involve any machine code at all - you're just changing the BASIC code on the fly.
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i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... me, Id take such a scroller, maybe a two liner. Put ... can see, is to implement machine code routines within ones basic program ... come across a BASIC message scroller program at some point, likely ... -
i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... me, Id take such a scroller, maybe a two liner. Put ... can see, is to implement machine code routines within ones basic program ... come across a BASIC message scroller program at some point, likely ... -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
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Interface for PC ZXSee last entry of former TOPIC. I'm working on the interface. Info about it on MISCELLANEOUS Author: Arjun (---.bng.vsnl.net.in) Date: 08-13-01 …
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moneyWhen i was younger and writing speccy games in basic with the occasionaly machine code subroutine, i used to dream of writing a hit game and making a…
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line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…
... library for the spectrum, in Machine code.
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spectrum mode smiilar to c64?i dont know much about machine code assembler routines, zilch actually to be honest, ive always fiddled with basic on my spectrum, only doing maybe a…
i dont know much about machine code assembler routines, zilch actually to ... doing maybe a couple of machine code programs out of issues of ... -
slightly different question - how long ago did you pack away the speccy ?if at all ;) personally I think I was about 19 when it, and all the games, went into storage - SNES and PCs etc took over. I'm 32 now, and only in …
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which programming language?........hi there, which programming language did people first learn to program the zx spectrum? a. basic b. machine code c. other what sort of programs did…
hi there, which programming language did people first learn to program the zx spectrum?
a. basic
b. machine code
c. other
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PALM OS.........I have just got mself a new clie and would like to run a spectrum emulator on it. Is there one available? If not, how do I start? I used to machine c…
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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…
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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…
Machine Code ChallengeHere's a challenge for all you Z80 programmers. Points to be awarded for elegance and brevity. (I haven't got the solution either) HL addresses the …
Here's a challenge for all you Z80 programmers. Points to be awarded for elegance and brevity. (I haven't got the solution either)
HL addresses the first of a number of contiguous bytes in memory the number of bytes being held in the B ...Machine Code Challenge #1 ResultsWell at the stroke of midnight there were 3 entries so everybody gets to stand on the podium and the 3 Spectrum books will be going out to prizewinn…
Well at the stroke of midnight there were 3
entries so everybody gets to stand on the podium and the 3 Spectrum books will be going out to prizewinners this week.
Brevity was to be deciding factor as I didn't have much room to squeeze it in so ...SpecEmuI was wondering, if in SpecEmu, it was possible to get a listing of the machine code instructions that scroll along in the machine code part on the s…
... of the machine code instructions that scroll along in the machine code part on ...[NEW]: Spectaculator 4.0Hi everyone, Finally managed to finish it... enjoy! --- [NEW]: Spectaculator 4.0 Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs runnin…
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o Some code was accidently removed from 2 ...ANNOUNCE: Mouse Driver for Speccy BASICI've written a small machine code utility that allows you to easily add support for the Kempston Mouse Interface to any Spectrum BASIC program. It c…
I've written a small machine code utility that allows you to ...Name the cosmic gameHi guys (+Knighlore), I still miss one game. The game was written in Basic (maybe with occassional jumps to the machine code). You had to control som…
... with occassional jumps to the machine code). You had to control some ... +SPACE and enjoy the source code printed using this cool font ...Playing AY files on a real Spectrum?Hi all! I wonder if there's any program out there that can playback AY files on a real Spectrum? E.g., something that takes the AY file on a PC, ad…
... it contains virtually unmodified Z80 machine code, so should be fairly easy ... * to code such a program?
URGENT programming question !I've gotta draw a line from machine code using the standard routine at 24B7, which expects the delta-X and delta-Y values on the BASIC stack. I put t…
... gotta draw a line from machine code using the standard routine at ...FA: 2 great booksLogan and O'Hara - The complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly. Classic book. A must for all machine code programmers. [url="http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eB…
... book. A must for all machine code programmers.
[url="http ...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…
... ? I assume it'd be machine code, but has anyone worked out ...Is this MIA?As part of a batch of software I just got hold of "Machine Code For Beginners - A Micro Simulation" by Dream software, 1983. I can find a sleeve jpg…
... I just got hold of "Machine Code For Beginners - A Micro Simulation ...Cleaning out my atticHi, I have the following, and would like to give them to a deserving home: 1x ZX Printer 1x "Spectrum Machine Language for the absolute beginner" 1x …
... beginner"
1x "Advances Sprectrum Machine Code".
If anyone considers ...Machine CodeI would like to learn how to use it. Where do I start? Thanks.
I would like to learn how to use it.
Where do I start?
Thanks.Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…
... I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very ... random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in ...
