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  • Degsy search requiredI've recently acquired a Mikro-Gen tape which I'd like to find out some more information on. On the cassette inlay, the tape is called THE "GAME". It…

    ... details of the Laserwarp compo in an Automania ad which was ... in C&VG June 84 ( ... full details of the promotion in Your Computer May 84 (the ... the cover)

    The interesting thing, which may explain why there ...
    BadBeard BadBeard April 2003 Games
  • cassette inlay scansPlease, all you who scan the inlays, is it much of a problem to take it out of the cassette case, unfold and scan the ENTIRE inlay? I know some peopl…

    ... them if needed.

    In my opinion the instructions or ... uploaded people think its whole thing, which in most cases it is not ... peronally re-typed the whole thing in text format and have uploaded ...
    Paul Thompson Paul Thompson April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…

    ... others. first it loads a basic program where you determine how ... i get a C: Nonsense in Basic error + line number but i ... try to write my own in compiled Basic ( which i'd like ... especially loading your own screens thing i mentioned earlier?

    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…

    ... Artworx but if they work in conjunction I don't know ... as the 128k ram bank thing, im afraid thats a little ... just this dumb C: Nonsense in Basic error i get 'all the ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • T H E . B E S T . J O Y S T I C K . E V E RThe best joystick I ever had was the Emax Arcade Professional Big, BIG, massive thing just like the ones in the arcade... boy did that joystick tak…

    ... it wasn't the most robust stick in the world, though if ... holes in the switches held them in place forever!

    Most overrated ... stick: the Konix Speedking...nasty, heavy little thing with ...
    TygerBC TygerBC May 2003 Games
  • Spectrum problemHi I've just been trying to resurrect my 48k spectrum. I'm having some problems loading some of my games, but if it does completely load, it crashe…

    ... . Most of them gave me the error message 'C NONSENSE in Basic'. I ... have been able to load 'Z Man' and 'Froggy' in ...
    clare_bear26 clare_bear26 May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... , but commodore programming (Even in BASIC) was the most ackward and unpleasant work ...
    Cambaccio Cambaccio May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • FifthDon't know if this is the right forum, but anyway... Anyone remember a Basic extension called "Fifth"? It was supposed to enhance game programming. R…

    ... compared to betabasic or laser basic, especially white lightning ( forth ) ... make those complex games done in basic, that on the surface ... that can be done in regular basic. it might have been ... its age.

    interesting though. i think theres better ...
    Amigo Amigo June 2003 Games
  • What was the most technically advanced game you've seenThe sort of game that made you disbelieve it was a spectrum you were playing on...

    ... .S.Gold coin-op conversations most of all... The last ones ... ...) -
    surely the only "stunning" thing in it is the bore :p
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel July 2003 Games
  • Shocker: C64 to be relaunched!Just read this piece on PC Word: [url="http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0"]http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0[/url],aid,111556,00.asp Is that …

    Some interesting points made above:

    ... : now this could be the interesting thing. an "official portal". that can ... mean only one thing - all other C64 portals are ... basis (as Amigo pointed out in Saturn's case). Ironstone's ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…

    ... coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
    [/quote]

    Cross ... directly into memory with most emulators. Once in the emulator's memory ... save it to tape from BASIC.

    I now ... gets my vote as the most talented Spectrum programmer of all ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • ANN: ZXF Issue 5 now availableWhat better way to spend a day of this summer swelter than to chill out in the sun with a copy of the latest issue of ZXF? :) Yes folks, ZXF05 is he…

    ... didn't know the first thing about newsgroups when i becasme ... and type in news.whatverisp.net.

    the only thing that ... ill have to write it in basic, i dont know not nearly ... an epic sort of thing, it takes place in Post apaoclyptic times ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Was spectrum the most advanced thing when you got it?When you got your first spectrum games, were they the most advanced games at the moment? When my dad bought it for me I was crazy excited, it was ama…

    I know most of you have probably talked ... i could write little programs in Basic or type out 20 pages ... a new release coming out in a month or so was ...
    psj3809 psj3809 August 2003 Games
  • Nether Earth (again)Does anyone other than me play this a lot? Anyways, if you do then have a go at rescuing this bizarre situation.. There needs to be bigger nukes! [u…

    ... this was the most interesting situation I ended up in... Usually I get ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a August 2003 Games
  • Uncle Clive speakLink to an Uncle Clive interview: [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/CliveSinclairInterview1982/"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/CliveSinclairInter…

    ... piece of 'whatever' someone did in basic like moving the letter "A ... comeback ( even if most of it is in a modern 3D form ... and all the Retro sites in general.

    the Playstation ... is happeneing because they see $ in their eyes knowing the retro ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... others. coding is the last thing i need to know how ... actullay see a resemblance to basic. it's not as high ... level as basic but it's still high ... i were to do this in basic it would be like 'this ... it is high level like Basic, and has a bunch of ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... . If there is such a thing please direct me to where ... section with a complete course in Basic and Machine Code but Speccy ... is/was great! ) ... it's in Spanish though. I don't ... Z80 processor. Her at WOS in the software section you can ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... compiler, source basic and resulting code in memory all at ... this a "one day, maybe" thing?


    ... to really know basic well to code in asm, or ... as it might be in basic. I think that together ... asm a decent knowledge of basic is great ... unless ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • create z80I want to Create z80 code and run it on an emulator for the 48k spectrum. I want it soo easy to use its a dream. I dont like dos based stuff.. Can a…

    ... , BuzzinRich wrote:
    The only thing I'm missing is a ... and end-all of Speccy BASIC coding... and I seem to ... method of coding in BASIC.

    2. A BASIC compiler.

    in operation to the current BASIC debugging tools, but ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2003 Development
  • Debut programmersDoes anybody know of any really big hit speccy games that were just programmed by some unknown amateur programmer and sent unsolicited to software ho…

    The most important thing when designing a game is ... one side for later use in another game, but keep everything ... ! :( I could be better paid in commercial IT, but I do ...
    BuzzinRich BuzzinRich September 2003 Games
  • help in byte mirroring.I need some help. What is the best way to mirror the byte? (for ex. 10010011 -> 11001001) I mean, if there is a simple way to do it (may be with OR, …

    ... is the kind of thing that turns your crank, ... />
    Everthing is in the form "code sequence A ... rules (about 43K in the files in total) are designed ... there are still some interesting nuggets in there. Some of ... so have been errors in the optimization rules. ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2003 Development
  • The Greatest Spectrum Game Programmer!In my opinion the greatest Spectrum programmer of all time was Pete Cooke, this lone programmer was responsible for some of the best Spectrum games e…

    ... machine-gunning the refugees in Zzoom and watching them ... Raiders was slow and written in BASIC, Halls of the Things ... Knowing what will work in a game and what won ... that just gels is the most difficult job of all. ... would consider to be in the same league as ...
    jonathan jonathan October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Greatest Spectrum Game Programmer!In my opinion the greatest Spectrum programmer of all time was Pete Cooke, this lone programmer was responsible for some of the best Spectrum games e…

    ... al.. they all had one thing in common - their games invariably had ... term from cricket) on them in addition to the normal gameplay ... their games so fresh and interesting to play because you could ... sure there would be something in them that you hadn't ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Review of the site.Hi, just thought id mention that i have done a review of the site. The link for this review is [url="http://www.uk.ciao.com/void_jump_org_World_Of_…

    ... can only be a good thing for WoS. :)

    PS ... />
    _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz November 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Hounds of Hell adventure - help!I'm stuck in this adventure game called Hounds of Hell by Peter Clark. I have the metal key, the ornate key, the wine glass, and the photo. I have fo…

    ... /> [/quote]

    That's most interesting... that you knew I was ... I drink the beer offered in the pub and survive?
    BadBeard BadBeard November 2003 Games
  • Did you choose to have a Speccy or did it just happen that way?A strange question I know, but, the reason I ask is that when we (my family) were looking to buy a computer non of my mates had computers and non of …

    When I got speccy in the early 90s it was the most widely available thing in Eastern Ukraine at that time. It was like 1 or 2 years after break up of USSR, so it was all weird that we had these old games to play. It was amazing to see that at that time.
    Vortexrider Vortexrider December 2003 Games
  • 3 new Cronosoft titles releasedJust to let everyone know.... Cronosoft has three new releases today. ------------------------------------------------- FOOTBALL GLORY: By The Sh…

    ... like ?23 lol cos back in the day it used to ... buying 1 game was the most expensive thing ever :p specially the ...
    mel the bell mel the bell December 2003 Sales
  • Christmas gamesHi all! Do you have any favourite game with Christmas topic? I want to play some Christmas game! It needn't necessarily be a Speccy one. I downloade…

    ... or some other south european thing.

    America ... it's the same thing, latino is not an ... RACISM for every little thing more than the average ...
    there's also a thing in America where many whites are ... extremists in the usa make a fuss, but most don' ...
    Sadako Sadako December 2003 Games
  • Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…

    WOW, the whole game was written in Basic??
    I have to take my hat off to those programmers. It has to be the most taxing game i have ever played though.
    Castor_ Castor_ December 2003 Games
  • Italian versions of ZX GamesHey everyone ! While transfering A LOT of ZX games to TZX files I stumbled across an original casette with about 10 games on each side. Side A is fo…

    ... really bad.

    Here in ex-Yugoslavia we didn't ... import it (basically hide it in the car) to be able ... with the ones that are most interesting in the following weeks.

    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat January 2004 Games
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