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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. …
... the games it appears in the basic listing saying
"Jantycar ... another one is in Spanish. The few Basic lines they have are ... just for loading the code. To ... hundreds of lines of machine code and be disappointed in the end. Do ... -
Strange layout of Spectrum video memoryHello, does anyone have an idea why the Spectrum's video memory has such a strange layout? I understand that a resolution of 256x192 is an easy mean…
... , as shown here:
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Normal layout (for the ... x x x x
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Bouncy maze game???Hi, I've been hanging around other Speccy sites for awhile now but only just come accross this one,which looking at the content amazes me that I didn…
... better. I think it was in machine code though, and the graphics were ... for at least one game in the archive, but I can ... programmer and was limited to BASIC. It was pretty easy to ... implement the routines printed in YS though.
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PokesDoes anyone know where I can find a list of Pokes for my Speccy games? I am trying to find some for On the Bench ! Thanks
... commands to view/hack the BASIC listing after all, and no ... to browse all of the BASIC listing. (There are many other ... finished hacking away at the BASIC code (e.g. altered [I] ... this might well be stored in the machine code section :(
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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…
... of going from a confident Basic coder to a crap MC ... an abyss - the jump from BASIC to Machine Code - I know, I was ... took the jump into Z80 Machine Code as it looked too daunting ... Z80 assembly straightforward... coding away in Comet Assembler, beginning with the ... -
Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... it's slow in regular basic although I compiled the ... version setting the emulator speed in Spectaculator to x6 ...
In the compiled version i don ... this were really done in machine code and you didnt need ... s because it's Basic and it's doing ... -
Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... nipper I thought I could code. In Basic, obviously - nobody of that age ... ever have hoped to crack machine code.
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Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…
... Yes it's slow in regular basic although I compiled the program ... it was written in machine code. But the slowness of the code in Basic makes the ... br />
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Char Based SpritesI've been looking at Rob's assembly example for character-based sprites in the other thread with interest. However, I find I'm not following it very …
... 's basically like the sprites in "Advanced Machine Code Programming" book for the ... a blank character above each sprite graphic to allow for the ... /> It is all explained well in that book, I am hoping ... -
I would like to write emulatorHi guys, I'm new to this forum but I realise that you must get loads of posts from people asking "how do I write an emulator" so I'll try and be spe…
... and appears to be getting code written and operating to a ... in assembler, machine code or even C. I am completely self-taught in OOP-Basic ... stumped as at address 0038 in the ROM image, there is ... -
Retro Gamer #7: The MegaTree / Matthew Smith interviewIssue Seven of Retro Gamer magazine has two items of interest to the Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy community: 1. The data from the MegaTree developmen…
... BASIC iirc, I think Andrew said he may work on a machine code ... try to design some rooms in each application alternately, swapping the ... back to continuing my 'game in progress' of Andrew's last ... -
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…
... arsed to write their own sprite routines -- which fitted me ... also made a Basic Lightning for doing games in Basic and something called ... since IDEAL can be used in Basic programs also and the Spectrum ... you actually had to code something, and in WL's case you ... -
Starting from scratchHello, I'd lack to have a crack at writing a Spectrum game. I have very limited programming experience from mucking around with javascript and VB an…
... from BASIC programming for the absolute beginner; to advanced machine code programming. In particular ... as creating games, graphics, utilities, machine code programming, etc. I found it ...
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Screen$Is there a quick way to get pictures off a PC e.g. from MS Paint, onto the spectrum without having to type in each individual pixel before saving the…
... tape have to have a BASIC loader at the start to ... in BASIC - a common method used was to have the machine code embedded in the BASIC ... program (a REM statement usually) and then when executed this code ... minimal of actual use of BASIC. -
Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... provided in its rawest form (i.e. just the machine code) I ... I'd need is a BASIC loader somewhere along these ... machine code, presumably contained as a string of decimal numbers in ... INPUTted values would be inserted in the machine code where necessary.
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Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... I'd need is a BASIC loader somewhere along these lines ... INPUTted values would be inserted in the machine code where necessary.
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Cracking softwareIn the 80-ies I programmed a cracking program to crack exact 48K sized programs like POLE POSITION and A VIEW TO A KILL - CITY HALL. I still have it …
... routine which installed itself in the RAM of the ... program (a mixture of BASIC and machine-code) was used to ... addresses of course (keeping in mind whether it was the ... or third pair that was in memory).
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can someone make manic miner in b.a.s.i.c (oh, the horrors!)can someone make manic miner (or it's first level) in b.a.s.i.c . yes i know this is stupid, but i would like to know what would happen! from matthew
... you did it on Spectrum in basic, but you could do a ... in some basic for PC, or even on another machine in basic (do you already code ... -
can someone make manic miner in b.a.s.i.c (oh, the horrors!)can someone make manic miner (or it's first level) in b.a.s.i.c . yes i know this is stupid, but i would like to know what would happen! from matthew
Wow, looks pretty darn good for a BASIC game. I really thought there must be some machine code in it somewhere, as I thought the graphic would be much more jerky and flickery for BASIC.
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jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…
... could make it pixel perfect in basic. You could just use four ... actually how it's done in machine code!
The difficult bit ... with the guardians. Doing that in BASIC would almost certainly slow things ... -
jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…
... think of it your sprite would obliterate everything in it's area ... long since I actually coded in BASIC). That would go for all ... each gaurdian per level. The code to do this would also ... -
jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…
... think of it your sprite would obliterate everything in it's area ... long since I actually coded in BASIC). That would go for all ... each gaurdian per level. The code to do this would also ... -
Spin format & real "Sinclair" compabilityHi to all! May be anybody use real ZX-48? I'm suppose that more of people had waste it many time ago, but I believe that somebody can help me. Can I …
... , but if you mean BASIC or machine code written in Spin, then yes -- if ... rather than to the emulated machine, then no.
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is it easy to learn z80 machine codewell is it?
Machine-code is best learned gradually, I think - by studying small code-fragments ... a small amount of code at a time and ... is the wont of the BASIC programmer.
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If you could re-design the Spectrum...Let's suppose you could go back in time to the beginning of the Eighties. The Spectrum is being designed as the revolutionary successor to the alread…
... Timex modes bolted on. From machine code (on the existing Timex at ... the new screen modes, in order to produce graphics.
in BASIC, and handle memory management ( ... shift the address of the BASIC and variables workspaces according to ... -
Key Redefine RoutineAnyone written a nice key redefine code snippet?
... have considered assembly language, not in a million years.
IN from BASIC, but what about in this assembly ... help rewriting Crap Castle Master in machine code! (Working title "Not-So ... be quaking and trembling in a corner, mumbling and ... -
loading techniques I never worked outFirstly, how do games that load with LOAD "" CODE autorun? Secondly, how do you save a basic program as a CODE file (but not as BASIC compiled into …
... games that load with LOAD "" CODE autorun?[/quote]
They ... CODE file (but not as BASIC compiled into machine code, I mean the actual BASIC ... 'd be from whereever BASIC tokens started - stored in the sysvars; evevitably ... -
Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…
... not all hand crafted from machine code? With the quality of graphics ... , a PC had to be in the mix somewhere........so where ... with the inefficiency of any basic compiler (in comparison to hand tooled ... for the Speccy are written in mc from scratch.
