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New GamesJust thought I'd find out what peoples opinions are of the latest games, and see what everyone is into at the moment. For me there seems to be a lack…
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How to save TZXGreetings to all. I am starting to move on from just games into some testing of home made programs. Although I could have done that in ancient tapes…
... doen't even remember ths BASIC syntax is putting an Aston ... you can help me with my BASIC syntax. :)
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Andrew Oliver: "The Dizzy games were rubbish"I think he's going to regret saying this when they start trying to reissue the old games and/or issue a new game in the series: [url]http://www.euro…
I got the a couple of Dizzy games as a kid. Although I never got into them too deeply...
They were well designed, but just a bit booring.... the only one I did enjoy was Fast Food Dizzy....now thats my kinda game :D -
Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…
... simulator for the c64? full basic emulator, and loads tapes directly ... ! You can load a Spectrum BASIC game in (like Mined Out) and ... -
Spectrum Game NewsSome snippets of Spectrum game news , via the RT forum and micro mart if you guys are interested.... [url]http://www.retro-trader.com/forum/index.p…
... WoS really. Take a game, update it for the ... keep the spirit of the game as close as possible.< ... and invariably with the same game title. Tribute games if ... spot on that a game idea can't be ... something blatantly based on my own game for sale. Especially if ... -
Where are they now?I often wonder whats hapenned to a lot of the old 8-bit software companies. You never hear anymore of companies such as Gremlin, Elite, Ocean or Mas…
I thought Atari were an independent comapny, owned my no one. They published Civ 3 a few years ago (possibly my favourite game of all time). Aren't Ubisoft (one of the last 8 bit survivors) into the habit of buying smaller companies? -
Where are they now?I often wonder whats hapenned to a lot of the old 8-bit software companies. You never hear anymore of companies such as Gremlin, Elite, Ocean or Mas…
... were an independent comapny, owned my no one. They published Civ ... a few years ago (possibly my favourite game of all time). [/QUOTE ... -
Developing the Spectrum ROMI'm working on some Z80 assembler for a Z80-based single board computer that I'm building. For the things that don't poke my hardware, I'm using a Sp…
... ROM was able to run my routines and they worked ... , and I had filled my Spectrum RAM with the heart ... I was also partly using BASIC as a debugging tool. ...
September '89 I got my first real Coup?, and was ... in the ROM area, where my BASIC needed to be, so I ... -
funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... what was the coolest dream game you never did?[/QUOTE]
i designed a transformer game, side scrolling split screen. (for ... shop in town. (the finished game, not the scratty pics) unfortunatley ... and go to work on my transformers game, the movie is due ... -
Cronosoft stuffCronosoft has acquired a large number of brand new unsold stock of cassettes for the Oric-1 / Atmos (1500+ units) These include mostly games title…
I can just about see my adventure game, The Curse of The Red ... able to finish the full game by April. Perhaps it could ... -
Cronosoft stuffCronosoft has acquired a large number of brand new unsold stock of cassettes for the Oric-1 / Atmos (1500+ units) These include mostly games title…
... ]I can just about see my adventure game, The Curse of The ... able to finish the full game by April. Perhaps it could ... be an official 25th anniversary game? :)[/QUOTE]
Big ... -
Cronosoft stuffCronosoft has acquired a large number of brand new unsold stock of cassettes for the Oric-1 / Atmos (1500+ units) These include mostly games title…
... a mortgage on this place (my granddad brought it for a ... that - I'll have my CPC game to you as soon as ... out a few bugs in my Lucasarts style system). -
Why has no one remade 3D Deathchase?Why is 3D Deathchase, which is about 8k of code running on a 16K Spectrum, still unmatched (as far as I know) for a game of it's type? Since 3DD I'…
... it's not the easiest game to code, but if the ... ago, surely even a compiled BASIC game on a modern PC should ... /> M. J. Estcourt's next game Full Throttle was certainly much ... -
Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…
... that I wrote for Blassic (my Basic interpreter, [url]http://blassic.org ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... the "New Functions for Sinclair Basic" sticky thread including a dec ... strings and functions back in my BASIC days.
I actually did ... a Basic forum search for "hex", which ... -
That scene in "Big".....Anyone remember that scene in [URL="http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/"]Big[/URL] when Tom Hanks finally completes the adventure game, towards the e…
My first game after Thru the Wall and ... me of today completed the game. But the feeling was really ... didn't really 'get' the game.
I got all ... -
That scene in "Big".....Anyone remember that scene in [URL="http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0094737/"]Big[/URL] when Tom Hanks finally completes the adventure game, towards the e…
My first game completion was Asteroids on the Atari 2600. The score was ridiculously high and then just reset to 60.
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Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…
... , please do... The extvec of my menu copy is 34768
my TZX loads my basic block, the SCR$, the ... ... This is way out of my league :( -
Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…
... bytes blocks, so my TZX loads my basic block, the SCR$, ... CLEAR 29856 in the basic I do not know. ... />
Try this new basic loader....
[code ... your TZX and running this basic program...
... :" in +2A / +3 Basic and playing your tzx.
first 3 speccy games you remember playingEarth Defence Desert Burner JSW [I]edit: not including Thru' The Wall.[/I]
... teacher called in me and my mate. she had a 48k ... .
i guess my next game was whatever I loaded up ... when I got my speccy. I ... it would be the first game on there. Beach Head maybe ...Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?
[QUOTE=48K]The BASIC was excellent. I remember doing ... to agree with you - the BASIC is great! That's where ... I was limited to with my BASIC tinkering on the +2 in ...first 3 speccy games you remember playingEarth Defence Desert Burner JSW [I]edit: not including Thru' The Wall.[/I]
... on, so that'll be my second game. The third would be ...UDG creator?Anyone know if there is such a beast for running on a PC to play around and create UDGs rather than mess around on a speccy or graph paper? I'm doin…
[QUOTE=beanz;176484]Downloaded both, thanks....how did I never find BASin before...I likes it.[/QUOTE]
Which means you haven't been following my BASIC articles on ZX Shed. :(
But yeah, BASin rocks!Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…
... - again, great graphics, terrible compiled BASIC game (but at least you got ...Atic Atac 128k version?Can anyone confirm that the version of atic atac in the 'UPTG : The Complete Works' is in fact 128k compatible? that is can you load it on a spectrum…
... mode and the Multiface or my hardware.
I heard ... and not have to load my favourite game from tape each time.Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…
Schizoids by Imagine is my worst game of all time. Because the ... worked up over a new game, only to load it up ...Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…
... ;178159]Schizoids by Imagine is my worst game of all time. Because ... worked up over a new game, only to load it up ... ]
That's another game I'd put in the ...Good 128k games?As I only got my +2 in the twilight years of the spectrum and then discovered cider and Doctor and the Crippens (punk band), I never really had many …
[QUOTE=Vampyre;61041]One of my 128k game faves is Amaurote and didn't this have a wierd cheat in that you could a Superbomb a fence and the game thought it waw the Queen?[/QUOTE]
IIRC this cheat worked in the 48K version as well. :)ZXSpin 0.62 Available nowAs promised (and only a [i]little[/i] past the deadline) here is the latest version of ZXSpin. Many bugs have been fixed, and a few new features add…
... that I could load in my fave game as with a regular ...Another Brick in the WallMartijn, actually this game doesnt exist, the only one released was "Another Brick in the wall 2", that was an entry for the 2004 bytemaniacos compo.…
... wall". It was a BASIC game for the Bytemaniacos BASIC compo '2004:
game, re-programming some routines in ... /index.php?lang=esp&game=abotw2[/url]
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