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Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…
... locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program ... frameworks written in BASIC. Also any commercial adventure games written in BASIC, back in the ... -
Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…
... on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and ... work from a list of most common english words, and encode ... letters and symbols. Working from most common word lists I wonder ... feasible, and easier to program in BASIC, but it would be pretty ... -
Cassette 50Can anyone tell me where I can get hold of 'Cassette 50' by cascade games? I have looked on loads of different web sites but I just can't find it any…
... P.C.' that are available in service stations and newsagents these ... pretty much the same thing. In the end, most people would far rather ... -
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
Maybe you were joking, but the C64 had plenty of innovation too in my opinion. Nevertheless, of all the responses I've had on various websites to that question, that one was the most interesting. -
Spectrum kaput! HELP!Hi! I've had a Speccy since 1988. The only problem is that it went dead 6 years ago! ...Or atleast it seems to have.If I switch it on now, all I get…
... be ok.
The most probable thing is that the keyboard out ... . Either the membrane went dead (in which case you have to ... -
The funniest thing we made with the spectrumHello. The funniest thing i made with the spectrum were championships with my buddy francisco on a game called 3d stunt car racer, i think that was t…
... , to see what the most ludicrous thing I could get on screen ... Understand' if you typed in something not in it's lexicon.
girls and speccy gamesit seems that most if not all of us on here are boys (ok so some are men) and i can only recall 1 girl ever posting on here and if your not a girl Sm…
Well, the fact that most people in the area of vide- ... lead to conclusions. That, in numbers, girls do seem a ... tad less interested in videogames is a fact, ... always been a 'male' thing in that lots of penis size ... to be a 'male' thing) occur there. But then ...how many people?...............hi, how many people still program on the zx spectrum and what have you programmed? :) (game, utility etc)
... , mostly crap, all in basic with maybe some things in machine code id ... ones.
the last thing i did on spectrum was ...pics of people who visit wos :)hi everybody, how about having pics of people who visit world of spectrum :) octave
... I'm the oldest and most decrepit member of Wos! :(
thing in place.
BTW, I ...SPIN v0.2c available now[Cut n Paste from the CSS post] Okay, I'm off to sunny(?) Scarborough for a week, so Woody and I thought it best that we give you something to d…
... /> eg when you save a BASIC program or on a game ... .
On most speccy emulators, when you are in BASIC and you type ...Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…
... game which was completely written in BASIC.
The Fall of ... off a platform suspended in space in this amusing conversion from ... based upon one of the most successful trash horror movies ever ... think that "one of the most successful trash horror movies ever ...how many people?...............hi, how many people still program on the zx spectrum and what have you programmed? :) (game, utility etc)
... -show thing, and I plan on putting some speccy code in somewhere ... ) but I can only program in basic. Anyone know of demo-making ...What's you happiest speccy related memory?Mine would have to be coming home from school at lunchtime with a couple of friends, loading up manic miner or commando for a quick 30 minute game-pl…
... . I usually went back home in the school bus, so it ... home, set up the ZX in ultra fast time (my dad ... of writing my first game in Basic. It was some kinda wimpy ... the ball with a bucket thing. But was I damn pleased ...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 :…
... of serious medical conditions and in most cases it's use ... development , paranoid delusions and in severe cases total lack of ... sound software and yet lacking in sufficient computational abilities to ... our cry!
C NONSENSE IN BASIC! (The text of the ( ...My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... Maniac Miner.
My favorite thing about the ZX Spectrum was ... to Program! It's built-in BASIC language is very simple to ... !
I'm developing a BASIC to Z80ASM converter soon.
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... . Actually it was written in Basic and translated other to Z80 ... ludicrously labourious task. Secondly most modern programs don't even ... again refering to the fact most software doesn't use the ... you're writing your software in BASIC and then compiling it... well ...My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... 'd written your BIOS in basic and then compiled to z80 ... asm. BASIC just doesn't have ... its' salt is written in asm - BASIC won't cut it ... info is out there, most of it is on this ... clocked z80 (which would render most games unplayable).
Memory usageBrowsing the online documentation for the Spectrum I came across a peculiar discrepency. As we all know the start of the RAM is at 16384 which is whe…
Ok, here's an interesting thing which, IIRC, uses the printer ... out what is going on in this snap?
[url ...Celebrity Deathmatch- Manic Miner vs Jet Set WillySince the two games have come up in this forum recently, it has made me think back to how imaginative they were, and how much fun they were to simply…
... comes down to the same thing. If you use the poke ... :1'
- An input command in basic
- The use of PRINT ...did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... that sort of thing on account of this chip in my head ... from forming bad habits programming in Basic.
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I ... 'm writing simple tutorials on Basic at the moment. I've ... programming manual!)
But with Basic i'm :p with Assembler ...TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…
... stored its stack before the BASIC program in memory and the UDGs ... OS RAM Routines" in lower RAM below the BASIC program. Thus the ... BASIC program started much later in RAM ... many were made, and most made were in Portugal. If you are ...Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... he can do that as Basic is inherently a linear ... not the expert on SE Basic so he might have ... />
As to players most trackers for the spectrum would ... a simple USR call from basic (every 1/50th of ... trying to develop a game in BASIC. Hence I would suggest ...Game manuals in Russian - help...I found few interesting manuals in Russian in HTML format, which I translated with Web page translator but few others have 'weird' characters :( and …
... wrote:
I found few interesting manuals in Russian (snip) have 'weird ... ' characters :( and are in TXT format.
How I ... can convert those 'weird chars' in something usefull ???
[/quote ... around the 'net. the most useful i find is one ...Dizzy Games - Were they really that good?I know I will get shot down in a hail of swear words, but......and its a big but (so to speak)....Were the Dizzy games really that good, and worth al…
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true, that most of the adventures did, even ... exact same engine, and the most obvious of that fact is ... world. and that one life thing in treasure island realy was annoying ... .
[quote]Dizzy 1, in particular, seems a bit removed ...On-line magazineswell we've got all crash scans online thanks to Mort, WoS and others. YS has a great site in YSRNRY. There is Crash online and Sinclair User online t…
... the YSRnRY, it has most of the most interesting articles online, but there ... online?
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In the case of the YSRnRY ... , and indeed working on websites in general. I am working on ..."La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…
... oddly ) and lack thereof, while most tend to show very little ... a second i'm back in basic except i cant see anything ...What is your worst Speccy related memory?We've had the good times, but there were bad times too. I will give you two choice cuts from my back catalogue... Over at a friends house, wanting to…
... like it's drawing it in Basic, so I thought I'd ... until I'd completed the thing a second time.
thing above.
Ahhhh... the ...Professional PiracyI was just wondering... Back in the early nineties I tripped into my local John Menzies (Dunfermline) to buy a few Speccy games. Having picked up a …
... Of Thunder).
The interesting thing that makes these titles collectable ... title was invariably scribbled on in the handwriting of the spotty ...Question about CP Z80 instructionSorry if this is the wrong folder, but it seems the most appropriate. When performing a CP instruction, is the P flag set when the compared values …
... thought the most sensible thing would be to just type it in and ...Elite...David Braben has been telling various sites to pull any Elite files that may infringe his copywrite... Something to do with him releasing a "elite l…
... 48k version does have vipers in it , but they dont come ... /> You will run ito them in open space from time to ... each time.
The interesting thing about Elite 128k , is that ... using Realspec in Pentagon mode.. n it looks very interesting. A viper ...
