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which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…
... all. if i could code now it would be great ... me. I dont like graphics, movement, sound, gameplay,.. anything.[/quote ... can't code in the Speccy. I can code in C and ... many other languages in a PC. ... i were to do this in basic it would be like ' ... -
Z80 Machine CodeHello again chaps, Hope I'm in the right category for this question - I suppose it could be under 'Game Creation / Programming'. hehe Ive got far t…
... with a complete course in Basic and Machine Code but Speccy.org seems ... should look for the books "Machine Code for the Absolute Beginner - ... by William Tang" and "Mastering Machine Code - by Toni baker" on ... stuff like "The Complete Machine Code Tutor" and so on. ... -
Z80 Machine CodeHello again chaps, Hope I'm in the right category for this question - I suppose it could be under 'Game Creation / Programming'. hehe Ive got far t…
... they're trying to approve in Europe. Should be back ... is being scanned and published in [url="http://www.robertp.net ... (on chapter 5). The Basic course is already completely scanned ... cards that complemented Microhobby's machine code course are scanned and ... -
Game votingWe often see threads querying which games are any good, which ones would be nice to remake, personal top 1/3/5/10, etc. To help people out, why not v…
... to reality :D.
In my opinion, the vote of ... for 3 categories: most BASIC programs, most compiled-BASIC programs, and Caverns ... , even the most crappy 100% machine code program must have taken SOME ... -
AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…
... try and figure this out in MC.
like i ... said i can already Zoom in, its just the drawing while ... , key presses, etc is controlled in Basic, yes, like changing your ink ... .
the rest is in machine code. gimme a break ive JUST ... -
AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…
... . You can even do it in BASIC if you don't need ... you make a fast plotter in MC, you can use it ... /> [quote]
the rest is in machine code. gimme a break ive JUST ... 't mean to sound harsh in any way, I was just ... -
C, Z88DK and the Sprite Pack Library I wrote a short demo that shows a taste of what can be done from C on the Spectrum: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/zqa/pacmen.zip"]http://justme…
... are mostly internal this time in preparation for new features down ... spiel:
Sprite Pack is a machine code library for the Spectrum ... br /> Double buffered Spectrum display in Timex dual-screen mode
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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…
... been clear enough in what I want ... Defender character set as machine code: on running Defender, ... BASIC loader and the character set loading as machine code ... in Defender, with the option to SAVE the character set as machine code ... have to load in the M/C routine ... -
Machine CodeI would like to learn how to use it. Where do I start? Thanks.
... assembly language programs, check out Sprite Pack (click my webpage below ... ). There are subroutines in there for animated sprites, background ... />
z80asm supports libraries of machine code subroutines, which is how SPLIB ... -
POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…
... not break into this program in an attempt to cheat by ... POKE in itself, or is it more likely to be a machine code ... in machine code (the Island needs LOAD "" CODE to load it, it has no BASIC ... view some kind of disguised BASIC listing...
Very odd ... -
POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…
... /> CLEAR 32000
LOAD "" CODE 32000
This ... code starting at address 32000 and stop the basic ... can quickly find the basic starts about 35000 ... then list all the text in the program.
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Converting Final Fantasy 1 to the Speccy...Hi all! Although I've not been at Spectrum BASIC for a long, long time (and so have forgotten a lot as well as most of the important memory addresse…
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I am interested in making a converion on Xbox ... it will be in z80 machine code? I know some code so I will ... can make it some basic and some z80 code mixed together.
New project for 256 colours Games emulator!O.K. , I suggested Jonathan Needle ( Creator of the excellent Spectaculator at [url="http://www.Spectaculator.com"]www.Spectaculator.com[/url] ) to c…
... some sprite routine to take a certain number of cycles in ... emulated machine, and will still rely on it?s sprite routines ... requiring any specific knowledge of machine code, than I am sure people ... games all did their sprite displays in exactly the same way ...ebook on graphicsi would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there any scanned ebooks about it on a site?
... articles in YOUR SPECTRUM and her book "Mastering Machine Code on ... your ZX Spectrum", aswell as "Spectrum Machine Language ... br />
"Spectrum +2: Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner ... deal in graphics. books 1 and 2 teach Basic. I ...i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
... one of those Speccy 'learn BASIC' books if u want to ... learn BASIC. or pick up a good 'machine code' tutor books ... may even help you out in this regard (ie, they may ...clueless spectrum usersI was quite young when I owned a speccy and didn't know much about how it worked. When I loaded games via the tape recorder it said in the manual so…
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I completely misunderstood what MACHINE CODE was when I had a ... that each ZX81 BASIC statement had an ASCII code ... e.g. ... you could write a machine code program in BASIC by substituting the letters ... famous Sinclair error "BOLLOCKS IN MACHINE CODE AT 10:0"Multi loads and Mac Spectacle.I use Mac Spectacle but have never been able to get it to run multi-load games (such as Karnov) on it. Any ideas how I do this? [ This Message was e…
... the LOAD command in Basic quite well, but custom loaders in machine code often don ...i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
... it would even return to BASIC.
(Actually it would ... - harder for the machine. Harder for you in the long run when ... .
Also writing your code in DATA statements is harder to ...emuzwinyeah i ran my game and i can't get back to the programming screen bit! when i used to have a speccy i'd just bang the keyboard a few times and it'd …
... on startup you could be in a spot of bother, since ... there is embedded machine code that takes over from BASIC when the game ... 't be able to BREAK in at all.
Hope ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... was more emphasis on presentation in C64 games and less ... graphics "capabilities" of the machine, and in order to do so, ... you either had to delve into machine code ... , or fork out for an expansion cartridge holding the extra BASIC ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... own [B]Katakis[/B] code doesn't hold a candle ... :
Overall the C64 BASIC seems to have been appalling ... about strengths being weaknesses, Sinclair BASIC was [I]too good[/I ... learn machine code and really get into the machine in the same way Commodore BASIC ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... machine code and really get into the machine in the same way Commodore BASIC ... not necessarily true. Sinclair BASIC was slooooow, and therefore ... move on quite quickly to machine code to get any decent ... in the early Spectrum games.
But the BASIC ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... not necessarily true. Sinclair BASIC was slooooow, and therefore ... on quite quickly to machine code to get any decent ... BASIC is... except that all the POKEs used in Commodore BASIC ... directly translate into machine code when commands ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... learn machine code and really get into the machine in the same way Commodore BASIC ... real thing, machine code. Remember what the first two letters BASIC stand for ... the concepts before doing machine code programming. C64 BASIC did not do this ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... POKEs used in Commodore BASIC directly translate into machine code when commands ... need to move on to machine code, which is obviously not ... serious people moved on to machine code as a natural progression. ... - move on to machine code, or give up completely.whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... real thing, machine code. Remember what the first two letters BASIC stand for ... reliant on the machine to do the hard work" in the same ... takes a lot of pride in his work, i take offence ... at personally albeit in a reasonably comedic, huffy manner ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... t available from machine code? They WERE available from BASIC, and that's ... needed to draw a circle in machine code? Hardly a common requirement.
in what you can do.
in programming - that's when you ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... the attribute area do they? In fact, the theory behind ... with what was learnt in BASIC. Commodore BASIC sucks, but at the ... make the transition from BASIC expert to novice machine code programmer, the theories ... :
You are restricted in what you can do.
whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... attribute area do they? In fact, the theory behind ... with what was learnt in BASIC. Commodore BASIC sucks, but at the ... held while programming BASIC will hinder you in this process. You ... of direct translation between BASIC and machine code! This won't help ...whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…
... Your comments are obviously biased in favour of the C64, and ... them...
For the BASIC thing, i do believe that ... a more featureful BASIC makes the transition to machine code harder. In fact, it ... had to say about Commodore BASIC, after that it sucks ...
