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SpectaculatorWill there be an update for this fantastic emulator soon? It's been quite a while since the last one :)
... initial tests, it's capable of writing a full Plus D ... for the +3. Since the driver is capable of reading any disks ... usermode program to make EDSKs of +3 disks, for example.
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Why relativly bad colour on Spec compared to other 8bit?Why relatively bad colour on Spec compared to other 8-bit machines like the Master system or even c64? I understand the 8x8 block that you could hav…
... br /> and uses a method of applying colour to an area ... that Andrew Wright (of Beta Basic) in one of his newsletters wrote a ... piece of the relation between ... map area and attribute area of the Spectrum screen. There was ... -
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…
... done in it`s extended Basic than I seen done by ... Dr Andy Wright... writer of Beta Basic, SAM Basic, MasterBasic/Dos)
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…
... version of White Lightning. It's weird, they also made a Basic ... version of WL ). I don't think the Spectrum needed a Basic ... of confusion earlier over the two - but SCADS was the enhanced basic ... ebay seller sent me scans of the Basic version manual and I ...Best game list!I looked at best game list and found out that a game I never heard of is voted best ever 'Chaos'. I tested the game and found out it SUCKED big time…
I'm not saying that everyone should play Chaos, i dont play it a ton but i dont dislike it just because of its basic graphics.
My main gripe is i'm shocked some people only seem to rate games on graphics alone.SpeedloadersSince I read Lee Tonks' post about the speedloaded version of MM3 he did, I've been playing around with various speedload routines I found on TTFn & …
... - load in as part of the basic, so if they don't ...The Spectrum is a Piece of ShitHow can you all stand there and defend a computer that was ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH even back in 1982, compared to classics like the Atari 8-Bit, Commodore…
... seriously be anti-Spectrum because of some basic program you did which ... arcade games are there. Most of the games are quite simple ...is it easy to learn z80 machine codewell is it?
... result in overwriting random chunks of memory, or crashing.
* the ubiquitous use of shift-instructions to simulate multiplication ... or division by powers of two (put simply, ... scratch, as is the wont of the BASIC programmer.
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…
... all of them.
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Even GW BASIC on ... BASICs were a superset of GW BASIC) They didn't however ... use the upper half of ... 't limit the number of characters like on the ... By the way, in Beta Basic you could type in the ...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…
... to manipulate the different areas of the memory that correspond to ... .e shift the address of the BASIC and variables workspaces according to ... I'd be hopelessly out of my depth and give up ...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…
... .e shift the address of the BASIC and variables workspaces according to ... for the 2068 that supports basic in the 64x24 mode (512x192 ... sw program that augments the basic to support the 512x192 mode ...Desert Island games - for someone you don't like!Here's something fun... There's currently the Desert Island Spec Games topic going on, so how about 5 games you'd give to someone you hate who is stu…
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After 'ahem' a lot of drinking and other substances, everyone ... the end (normally only one of 3 teams). Then again my mates ...How the hell does this work then??[url="http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf"]http://www.dslextreme.com/users/exstatica/psychic.swf[/url]
The number you end up with is always a multiple of nine and if you look at the table all the multiples of nine have the same symbol.
Derekloading 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 …
... (This is off the top of my head, btw - untested, but ... lines. See Chapters 24/25 of the BASIC manual for details):
BASIC program+variables, and the relevant ...New Functions for Sinclair BasicA total of 52 new functions can be added to Sinclair BASIC; 26 numeric functions (A-Z) and 26 string functions (A$-Z$). Owing to the internal structu…
very simple...
POKE 23755,0: POKE 23756,0
The first 2 bytes of the BASIC area hold the line number of the first line in lo-hi format, BASIC starts at 23755.
This will ensure that the first line will be 0.spectrum disks for saleI have 296 titles on around 200 disks for sale. Offering them on here first before ebay gets them. Contact me at [email="cluncastle@hotmail.com"]clun…
... me a huge list of +3 disks that we didn ... sent you a pair of +3 cables and adaptor in ... contributing to the preservation of spectrum games for ... your claim. I will of course appologise accordingly and ... you received were then accused of being anti preservation.
Does Anyone have any advice for me?Hey, I've just recently bought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum + (I've been looking for one for a good year or so) and I plan to be learning to program with …
Get a copy of YS Megabasic and use that instead of the BASIC you get with the machine if you don't fancy putting up with the multi-key input system you need to use whilst programming.MemoryI am writing a game for the Spectrum and need to store a lot of map data. What is the lowest address I can start to store the data at ?
If you're loading from Basic, a simple one-line loader ... unpack data over the top of the Basic memory (but don't ...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…
... machine code? With the quality of graphics i.e. digitaled ... tools that created the likes of Chase HQ, Robocop, etc...... ... memory added with the inefficiency of any basic compiler (in comparison to ... to say that 98% of all major commercial titles released ...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…
... machine code? With the quality of graphics i.e. digitaled ... added with the inefficiency of any basic compiler (in comparison to ... to say that 98% of all major commercial titles released ... based development package using Sinclair basic code, then compiling it ...ot: true type font makeris there a utility downloadable for free, that can make a true type font from jpgs or bitmaps? I loked on google, but I am not so good at finding thi…
... /> I am doing some drawings of +3 spectrums, and I want to ...How to make it working? (ZX 48)Hello participants, I have a ZX 48 Spectrum which was given by my uncle. But he said that he doesn't have the roms or he lost them.And he said that t…
... is to get a copy of SE BASIC. You'll have to ... you. Ask on the SE Basic forum.
When it ...Fuse Emulator & Manic MinerHi All I am trying to run Manic Miner on two different Spectrum emulators on my Mac. Thing is when I load the game in Miner Willy just keeps jumpi…
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The new version of zxsp is much improved and ... Phil has a good grasp of the basic emulation details that need ... do a pretty thorough job of analysing all the (non-border ... ) timing oddities of the 48K/128K speccies.The average salaryHow much is the average salary in your country? The average salary in the Czech Republic is 18000 Czech crowns = 600 Euro. The salary of 2/3 of peop…
... 20 cigarettes and a can of Red Bull.
of cigs, and ten cans of drink roughly ... it'll put everyone out of business.
3.20 an hour.
The bosses of the ... and introduced the minimum wage of ?3.65 an hour, the ...New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... games written in BASIC, BASIC + CM sprite routines or compiled BASIC, which I ... news) held a BASIC compo last year (Interpreted BASIC) and some ... get a decent game out of 20 BASIC games rather than out ... of 0 MC games.
...New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... not disagreeing that 99.9% of classic games are practically all ... just think the idea of a BASIC games competition shouldn't just ...Stupid Question... but: BMP2SCRI have downloaded bmp2scr, and produced a couple of pictures in the hires formats, I can see that there are 3 binary files, a red,green,and blue, how…
... your AVI into a series of SCR files - it might also ... hardware limitations and the complexity of the animation; if you only ... two of animation, you could get good results in 128K Basic by ... flash-loading of tape files, with the aid of a BASIC program like ...New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... sections then. One for pure BASIC (compiled or otherwise) and one ... there is still the matter of mixed BASIC and MC to be ... the program in MC or BASIC depending on how much it ...New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
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I just thought of the BASIC stuff 'cause I thought that ... 'cause everyone can code in BASIC. Later, when I saw that ... 't be focusen just in BASIC, I changed my mind. Just ...
