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games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... of those that are specialized basic or whatever with compiler arent ... more versatile.
Laser Basic seems good but after what ... i think comes with built in sprite editor, sound fx and music ... were no resources to learn machine code so i never had a ... -
handbook for newbies ?looking at questions what regulary appears on this forum i have an idea. why not to write short book for newbies. if few experienced coders write eac…
... . there's also the basic and machine code tutorial on microhobby if anyone ... book, Advanced spectrum machine code is also online although in Spanish, and just ... get graphics on the screen, movement, scrolling, sound.
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Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…
... i have. I just finished Sprite Machine and Spectrum Sprites for spectrum ... final official version of Blitz Basic because I heard it ... palette requester, all gads/features in AMOS about 8 years ago ... isn't easy porting Amiga code ( machine code ) to X86 and vice ... -
SMAX - My Spectrum Killer App that never quite materialisedThis is basically a copy of my post to CSS, for anyone that doesn't read the group:- One or two of you may, if you have particularly good memories, …
... -made machine code. Most professional games use impressive screen-drawing techniques (scrollers, sprite ... you can cram enough original BASIC extensions (sprite plotters have been done ... have an edge over other BASIC compilers in that it doesn't ... -
3d Code... simple Anyone know where I can get some examples of 3d routines written in basic... I`ve done some googling, and come up with some source for PowerBasic or…
... based upon it - written entirely in Basic!! I've also created a ... freedom of movement, but no proper collision detection. Being a Basic program ... I am only starting out in machine code, so I suspect I will ... I've probably optimised the Basic code as much as it can ... -
What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…
... right. SHIFT speeded up the movement. Simple game but I was ... one using the methods described in the superb "Exploring adventures ... my first attemp at integrating machine code with BASIC. The MC did the ... recent attempts at ZX BASIC have resulted in Dash-it and ... -
Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... /> It was a BASIC program with machine code routines...
[/quote ... bit of BASIC in that, as well as machine code. Simply press ... logic was in BASIC. The menu screen was in machine code and I ... think the animation and character movement ... -
"Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]
... /> For the transition from BASIC to machine code, the C64 is actually easier ... are handled by the hardware; in order to do a simple ... , DEC 53248 moves the player sprite left, INC 53249 moves it ... 17,000 C64 games catalogued in Gamebase64 so i suspect there ... -
sprite making in +3 BASIC?Any sprite tutorial I come across is far too complicated! Can someone help me? For instance, how do you create a person-shaped animated sprite which …
... get to grips with some machine code if you want to ... a tool which provides sprite extensions to Basic, such as Ocean' ... />
Sprite handling was covered in several articles in the Sinclair User ... several sprite designer programs on that page and in other ... -
sprite making in +3 BASIC?Any sprite tutorial I come across is far too complicated! Can someone help me? For instance, how do you create a person-shaped animated sprite which …
... use machine code is to shift the pixels of the 1x2 character sprite ... sprites why not draw the sprite in 2x2 character squares instead of ... /> So to do a JSW sprite in BASIC using UDG's for 4 ... complexity.
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What does Sir Clive do nowadays ?I have searched the net a lot, but can't find much about Sir Clive's present whereabouts. The Sincair Research-pages still offer the same products a…
... their hands dirty with small machine code routines, that lead to ... than a gamers-player's machine, which was supposedly why ... basic (i.e. cheap, to fit in with the Sinclair marketing strategy) sprite ... and very limited. The machine would probably have bombed, ... -
New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... not some user written special machine code function.
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90 ... on screen anding (NOT AVAILABLE IN SINCLAIR BASIC!!!)
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New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... You can then edit UDGs in any order, rather than being ... store in different UDGs. Say you use AB for a sprite, then ... CD could be the mask.
Unfortunetly (sp?) basic ... me to use to generate machine code sprites :)
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New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
... you choose to store them in.
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... ahead and writing the game in machine code.
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... , but mostly so that sprite commands using PRINT USR statements ... will all parse out to BASIC, naturally.
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TommyGun 0.8.9 availableShould be available by the utilities pages soon. Lots of bug fixes. Its close to 95% complete. So close to becoming a 1.0 release. Still a few minor…
... together in Basic, but virtually (or literally) no ability to write machine code, to ... write something in an extended basic and have it converted to machine code for ... command from a Basic programme to run a sprite routine, is not ... -
TommyGun 0.8.9 availableShould be available by the utilities pages soon. Lots of bug fixes. Its close to 95% complete. So close to becoming a 1.0 release. Still a few minor…
... together in Basic, but virtually (or literally) no ability to write machine code, to ... write something in an extended basic and have it converted to machine code for ... sprite engine(s). There's no smooth path yet to write in Basic ... -
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…
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// Table Holding Movement Data for Each Sprite
struct sprentry ... would in Basic.
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// Attach C Variables to Sprite Graphics Declared in ... column of the sprite's graphic definition located in the embedded asm ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... MHz when in native mode and running native code. That has ... the primamry use of the machine would be.[/QUOTE]
... even easy to animate graphics in Basic if you have hardware sprites ... machines with sprite hardware.
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The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... do the same in 70000 cycles in software there is ... frequently depends on speed of movement, colours, size of ... />
Certainly the sprite hardware makes it a *lot ... doing and on what machine because sprite hardware varies.
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... is approached, solved, and programmed. In this way I don't ... boiled down to basic operations on a Turing machine, yes, but there ... end up in machine code ALL languages are then resolved to movement of data ... -
Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... would require a machine with more built-in RAM, access to ... even from basic using these hardware sprites on an MSX1 machine. All ... as a rapid flickering of sprite graphics that is not ... most MSX1 games seem blockier in movement in comparison to the 2068/spectrum ... -
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…
[QUOTE=Toxitalk;190685]Basically movement of a sprite would only happen after ... that can be done in machine code, but the code's starting to ... your game than the 'drop-in' snippets that people have ... up UDGs from somewhere else in memory without actually having ... -
Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…
... the more optimized code, from original 64 byte machine code to 49 byte ... by basic
ld b,8 ;counter, number of bytes in graphic ... columns in "sprite"
ld b,8 ;b=number of rows in "sprite"
Comments for small "sprite" routine wantedI have just written my first machine code program and I am quite happy (and proud) to get it working! :smile: As a child I never learned anything e…
... the more optimized code, from original 64 byte machine code to 49 byte ... by basic
ld b,8 ;counter, number of bytes in graphic ... ,8 ;b=number of rows in "sprite"
loop1 ;main loop ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... is different on every specific machine. printf(), eg, is written ... included in a program. Things like graphics commands, sprite commands, ... [/B]
In Basic you have integer, floating point ... a bit of program code. In short, unpredictable results occur ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... two checksums generated by the machine code loader both fail. Therefore there ... least two typos or mistakes in this BASIC listing. I have captured ... of the program is a "Sprite Table", I can't ... an exectutable progam in this file.
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...Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... the BASIC program edited in BASin be deleted somehow by calling a machine code ... , can a machine code overwrite the area of the basic code edited in BASin?
sprite editor, so I'd be ...New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…
... properly machine code it would be any slower even with sub-character movement ... enemy sprites could be stored in 4 per-shifted versions - that ... that could still be written in Basic.
Like Zagreb ... that if they could write in assembler then so many ...BattlecarsI don't think this was ever a very popular game. But I really liked it back in the day. The only problem with it is that you have to do a lot of re…
... a lot less for the movement of the vehicle if you ... game isn't entirely written in BASIC; just the car designer and ... the game is in machine code, and consequently nothing special in terms of speed ...
