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  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... that was it. Same thing for Sam Coupe. It ... to see such a thing in my city. As far ... been a little different in other cities especially big ... rid of their Spectrums in order to get something ... the Amstrad was actually second in most parts. The Spectrum was ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • 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 the kind of thing you can do with ... made a Basic Lightning for doing games in Basic and something ... IDEAL can be used in Basic programs also and the ... as fast as regular Spectrum Basic.


    ... and that type of thing and it just shows ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • 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…

    ... happy enough to write games in BASIC (quick and dirty) you will ... of picking up a Spectrum BASIC book (there are hundreds - take ... released for the Speccy (look in the archive). Mind you, some ... .

    There is another thing you could do, if you ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2004 Development
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... . I think gameplay is the most important thing, & Spectrum games play ... graphics or sound is easier (in comparison at least, bear with ... is just such a personal thing; we can't compare like ...
    TMR TMR October 2004 Games
  • making games on a real speccy-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have recently bought a speccy on ebay and i want to try to make s…

    ... look like they were written in basic, and compiled... check the last ... as smooth as anything written in MC on the Amiga, guarenteed ... support was a VERY weak thing, and those pretend Intuition progs ... it (or even indeed every basic)... but you can`t argue ...
    CKay CKay October 2004 Games
  • 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…

    ... spectrum without having to type in each individual pixel before saving ... there is! Look on WOS in the Utilities section - there's ... poke?[/quote]

    Most games weren't made in BASIC you know.
    cyborg cyborg October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum on GBAHey guys could you do ourself a favor ? There s a tread on a Game Boy Advance site regarding what emulator for the GBA is mostly awaited. Could you g…

    ... your flash card.
    Another interesting thing is that you can download ... source code to anybody interested in finishing the project!!! I dont ... giving you the news just in case you missed it.The ... many people would be interested in such an amazing emulator!!
    Arm73 Arm73 October 2004 Emulators
  • Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…

    ... />
    I could put 'samples' in, but that somehow feels like ... no good on this Internet thing, really).
    [/quote]

    in BASIC with few pieces of MC ...
    Fikee Fikee October 2004 Development
  • Most popular new features? I know some people like a spectrum to be emulated as authentically as possible, while others like myself like features which improve the gfx, sound,…

    ... respect that people with talent (in doing what ever, my self ... ". I find this the most vexing thing, after all there is not ... this board or the spectrum in general.

    If you ...
    smogit smogit October 2004 Emulators
  • Most popular new features? I know some people like a spectrum to be emulated as authentically as possible, while others like myself like features which improve the gfx, sound,…

    ... ). May be not for most interesting feature (to the most of players) though ... . So, AI technique already used in emulators... No reason not to ...
    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov October 2004 Emulators
  • Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …

    ... games that were reviewed in every magazine in the same month used ... basically crap , its all there in black , white and sometimes colour ... and still is the most popular and most interesting read , i cant understand ...
    sirclive1 sirclive1 October 2004 Games
  • 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

    ... enjoy the experience very much, most of us started programming at ... you did it on Spectrum in basic, but you could do a ... , or even on another machine in basic (do you already code? )
    CKay CKay October 2004 Games
  • 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

    ... at doing your Manic Miner in BASIC and then sending your attempt ... 'm sure it would be most welcome! :lol:
    jil jil October 2004 Games
  • fao miner_willyplease stop putting 'from a 14 year old' on every post! you are making some of us feel old.

    ... questions about miner willy`s in basic, and versions of willy`s ... in the same post... the whole ... has been flooded, nearly knocking most of the current posts onto ...
    CKay CKay October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • YS94 - I've got it!Very short review: It's 21st-Century YS for grown-ups, not 1980's YS for teenagers. This is a good thing. It's not a new issue of YS per se, but a…

    ... Maybe they can do that in a second mag. I ... the Jeff Minter gag in the intro to the ... game ever *EVER* is in the Program Pitstop, though, ... little scared to type the thing in. It looks to me ... bent genius, perfectly formed in Sinclair BASIC. AND Halloween is around ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • YS94 - I've got it!Very short review: It's 21st-Century YS for grown-ups, not 1980's YS for teenagers. This is a good thing. It's not a new issue of YS per se, but a…

    ... greatest game ever *EVER* is in the Program Pitstop, though, after ... little scared to type the thing in. It looks to me like ... in Sinclair BASIC.
    [/quote]
    No mention about typing in the UDGs in ...
    Stevatron Stevatron October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... your sprite would obliterate everything in it's area as the ... long since I actually coded in BASIC). That would go for all ... ...... Unless you plotted the whole thing. That would be real slow ...
    zster zster October 2004 Games
  • HOW TO *FORCE* AMSTRAD TO PRODUCE ZX?!OK then. Many chats last times about new ZX models, old ZX models but contemporary produced ;) , about Amstrad - what could it do and why didn't do m…

    ... a flaw, together with most games being in monochrome. Could lead to ... to the product being killed in the marketplace.

    At ... , and with this sort of thing it's the look that ...
    NickH NickH October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Enhancements to the forumsOver the last couple of months I've been heavily involved in the postings on other forums across the net and I thought I'd start a thread on how the …

    For me, the most annoying thing at this version of forum ... ..., even if I came back in 5 minutes.
    (the login ...
    secarica secarica October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OT: World Exclusive - US Election. I call Kerry.Yes folks, here it is another WOS world exclusive, John Kerry has won the US election! it's been a close race, but renouned one man news angency Sha…

    ... forget you are no longer in your private room when you ... forum.
    And just because most of the members here are ... /> America just voted him back in, and you're offended because ... />
    _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • For CKay and his Sam CoupeHope you like it!, [url="http://www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk"]www.samcoupe-pro-dos.co.uk[/url] Steve(spt)

    ... would still probably be the most logical thing to check over first ... . Two PSU's I've seen in ... , just to be `safe` in 10/20/30 years time ... Coupe's safely tucked away in my own collection to be ... ve not seen fail yet in the repairs I've ...
    Quazar Quazar November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Gold MineOk, foolowing on from the bad games discussion earlier, I was reminding myself of how much I hated Gold Mine by DK'Tronics. But... The TZX file in …

    ... best and most playable game I`ve ever seen written in Basic (at ... I think) gave it away in a slightly updated version for ...
    CKay CKay November 2004 Games
  • Gold MineOk, foolowing on from the bad games discussion earlier, I was reminding myself of how much I hated Gold Mine by DK'Tronics. But... The TZX file in …

    ... best and most playable game I`ve ever seen written in Basic (at ... I think) gave it away in a slightly updated version for ...
    b00mzi11a b00mzi11a November 2004 Games
  • Announce Pasmo 0.5.1Hello. New release 0.5.1 of Pasmo, multiplatform Z80 cross-assmbler. The main news are related to macros: the MACRO parameters now are expanded ins…

    ... extreme to another. Writing in C means frequently giving ... the same thing as what you had in mind, but ... possible to write most of everything in assembler and just ... section of code consumes most time with lots of ... just like the 'real' thing. It's built around ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2005 Development
  • Help me find this game !I asked a fair while back if anyone knew about this game but no one could seem to find it Its a simulation game where you try to get to the top of t…

    ... /> The game had very basic UDG's, you could release ... some basic speccy graphics appeared of a band in a ... this record now' sort of thing, very basic.

    ... final position the record went in as.

    ... of the games missing in action. Sorry to go ...
    psj3809 psj3809 January 2005 Games
  • Help me find this game !I asked a fair while back if anyone knew about this game but no one could seem to find it Its a simulation game where you try to get to the top of t…

    just had a look at the game chart topper , seeing as its in basic , i might have a pop at improving it as most of the hard work has been done , just some graphics and extra options etc , keep looking for your game though psj.
    sirclive1 sirclive1 January 2005 Games
  • Just remembered - Spirograph Effect. - Please ExplainJust remembered that we used to mess about with the Draw command to get a spirograph effect in Sinclar Basic. Squares 10 plot 75,75 20 draw 80,48,…

    ... thieves of crop rotation. Besides, most people probably think they are ... have just one fallow field in a 'rotation' on is it ... />
    _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz February 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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