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Max Pickles I - New Game from World XXI Soft Inc.World XXI Soft announces the release of Max Pickles I, an action arcade with puzzle flavors, and the first in the Max Pickles saga, and his tragic st…
... flavors, and the first in the Max Pickles saga, ... remake of unreleased games designed in 1988-1990.
- 100% written in Basic, except M/C routines in loaders.
- Optimised ... .
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"Good" Games?Hello all, just a quick question. Were any "good" games ever written in Basic alone? Yes I know it's hated and shunned because it's so slow, b…
Hello all,
just a quick question. Were any "good" games ever written in Basic alone?
Yes I know it's hated and shunned because it's so slow, but really. was there ever any fun games that are purely coded in basic?
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ZY10, a tool to store and display some small bitmapped imagesZY10 Builder ============ Download at: https://www.sendspace.com/file/rncgbo ZY10 is a file format/tool to store some small images on the Spec…
... The conversion is a very basic colour guessing conversion, so ... the images.
* in BASIC:
POKE 49157, : RAND USR ...
* or in assembly:
ld a,
in it.
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21UDGS Graphics PlotterHello everyone, Enclosed is a dropbox link to the latest version of my 21UDGS program 1.03 which allows you to plot 21 User Defined Graphics on sc…
... use multiple banks of UDGs in BASIC too.
Please run ... .
I've included the BASIC 21udgs103bas.szx and 21udgsbas.tzx ... />
Information can be found in 21UDGS.txt
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Book: Giant Book of Spectrum Arcade Games by Tim HartnellDarn it, I just missed out on getting this on eBay :( I'm looking for a hard copy or PDF. This book has games written in BASIC with machine code ro…
Darn it, I just missed out on getting this on eBay :(
I'm looking for a hard copy or PDF.
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Fuller FDS Keyboard schematicAnyone have a schematic for that? Mine is randomly triggering BREAK on powerup or Symbol Shift in BASIC. I guess it comes down to one of the CD4016 …
Anyone have a schematic for that?
Mine is randomly triggering BREAK on powerup or Symbol Shift in BASIC. I guess it comes down to one of the CD4016 having gone bad, but a schematic would certainly help pinpointing the issue. -
border effectsive been playing around with border effects like 10 border 1 20 border 2 30 pause 1 40 goto 10 ,etc i even wrote one in machine code. …
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i even wrote one in machine code.
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Missing XFAWorld Software games?I finally got around to looking at the PC compilation "Spectrum AllStars - Volume 1", and discovered several games by XFAWorld Software that are not …
... all appear to be written in BASIC, and are truly dreadful, but ... -
binary mirroring in basicsame as last question, really. only this time i want to mirror an 8 bit decimal number
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Beta-Loader (boot Loader for Betadisk) updated to v3Hi, I´ve updated original Version from unknown author of "Beta-Loader". This is a program written in BASIC as boot menu for BetaDisk / TR-DOS Disk…
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Amiga chit chat (sorry but it never really was a commode designed machine)I wish there was a forum like this for the Amiga, perhaps there is but I tried a few and they mostly seem pretty moribund and lots of the links at Am…
... most of them are duds in my opinion, so I ended ... have - and barely struggled by in Basic, it was always hopeless to ... graphics capability that attracted me in the first place. However I ... images that had got scrambled in transmission and needed massaging until ... -
Should I get a NEXT?Despite my having wanted one almost since I heard about it, I'm beginning to wonder whether it would be an extravagance, 'cos its sure to cost a fair…
... hand the fabulous improved Basic would in theory give me the ... to the days of when Basic was used to run ... surely that would mean the Basic would also be less ... and moving backgrounds and sound in Basic if - as it would ... here on my own out in the wild with no ... -
Randomised data samplingHere is something that could be written in BASIC, if anyone is interested. Lets say we want to sample a subset of a larger population, we can do t…
... something that could be written in BASIC, if anyone is interested.< ...
This short BASIC program fills a population table ... then prints this distribution out in coloured 'O's - Red, ... numerical array because eache element in a numerical array takes ... -
Computer Haiku (converted from C64)[url=https://archive.org/details/Computer_Haiku_1983_CES]Here's the original C64/PET program - "Computer Haiku" by Commodore Educational Software, 19…
... the original program was written in BASIC, I thought I'd examine ... look like the original, just in different colours. More system variables ... round from line 1000 in the original (660 in this version), to ... the equivalent of a PET in this case). This involved ... -
Arkanoid / Batty clones ?Although there is an old 2008 topic [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/16532/best-worst-arkanoid-clones/"]here[/url] , I felt a new …
... or care if its written in Basic, compiled or otherwise!, if it ... good. :)
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How Historically Accurate Were ZX Spectrum Battle Games?And I do have a game in mind to "kick this one off". It is "Vikings?" (Challege) 1989 .This set of 3 battles comes with a manual included . and it d…
... I do have a game in mind to "kick this one ... ?) So why were they put in the game as "heavy cavalry ... had a good chunk written in BASIC , so maybe they can be ... - they come with a manual in English so you can see ... -
Success or FailureSuccess or Failure is here...the brand new Football Management game for the ZX Spectrum. Do you long back to the days when Football Management gam…
... games were simple games written in basic, where you could start a ... abilities as a Football Manager in this brand new game written ... game, including features never seen in any Football Management games before ... -
converting decimal into binaryso like the opposite of the bin function. in basic if possible. it only needs to be an 8 bit number. like a dec$ function?
so like the opposite of the bin function. in basic if possible. it only needs to be an 8 bit number. like a dec$ function? -
(Fixing) The Swordsman of Kraxis 7The Swordsman of Kraxis 7 ([url="https://worldofspectrum.org/software?id=0013314"]link[/url]) is an arcade adventure, from a type-in book (in BASIC).…
... arcade adventure, from a type-in book (in BASIC).
I ... that it's unplayable in the current form. I ... checked the original type-in, and it seems to ... be typed in pretty faithfully. Unfortunately the ... a game of type-in quality. That means one ... -
Slideshow...Is there any interest in MDR files with graphics slideshows? I was playing around with a Microdrive Superformat I'm working on ( I'm trying to mak…
Is there any interest in MDR files with graphics ... we used to have back in the late 80's / ... ... Wrote a quick loader in basic, and just had it ... enough left over for the basic loader. A for-next ... looks kind of cool running in the background, transitioning between ... -
Joe's Drink StandThis is about this German prog . The link here refers:- [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/57301/elusive-strategy-games-done-by-t…
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pixel exact printingis there a way of doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the rom code or using a completely new routine? so that print at x,x works more like…
... a way of doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the ... that when u do it in assembler it just does it ... i want some kind of basic interaction...
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How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... to get rid of it in Basic, but I still don't ... know how to do it in Assembly. -
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…
I once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT ... five bits. It was written in machine code of course. It ... feasible, and easier to program in BASIC, but it would be pretty ... -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... whoever called us, BASIC in this case
In the memory of ... , 201 in decimal
Poke these numbers into memory from basic ... with the number in A
RET ; back to basic
In BASIC USR xxxxx will set PC ... -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... ...what if i write it in basic and use a compiler will ... -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... have programmed a frogger in BASIC in just 1 BASIC-line (so called ONELINER ... [/img].
Besides that in the MC-book from William ... the game to alter it in your own version. -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
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