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Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... , my understanding of FOR loops in ZX BASIC was incorrect.
would break out of the loop when e ... greater than 1 to break out of the loop.
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Hidden messages whilst loading gamesHi all, Was having a chat with my mate about old speccy games and remembered that pausing the loading on some games and then printing gave strange m…
... what the programmer could see out of their window, and could ... , Scooby Doo) contain messages in the Basic loader. Some guy who's ... -
graphics on the speccy...how?I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did arti…
... grabber/animator that could save out in multiple formats) and other ... that were all specially programmed in-house (map editors etc) ... though a photocopier can come in handy) and then drawn on ... a simple sprite designer - written in BASIC by Nigel Alderton.
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how is real spectrum used?I have just downloaded real spectrum for use on my win XP. I have read the info but still have got problems. 1) If I remove the 128k rom there is a…
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It runs in 128k mode but has the display ... tested this out.
The 128k mode indeed ... would also happen on real 128K hardware.
... correct top border graphics in 48K mode. (centred ... a problem loading it in 48K mode, maybe something ... -
Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... RANDOMIZE USR 0[/code]Numbers in listings are stored funny: First ... routine in your code, thus baffling any amateurs out there ... program from the "visible" numbers in your BASIC.
You ... CODE : RANDOMIZE USR 0
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Amaurote - help neededHow do I detonate a Supa Bomb in Amaurote? I have radioed to have one sent and picked it up, but pressing fire seems only activate the bouncing bombs…
I started in on this game for ... and brilliantly designed game and in 128K atmospheric beyond belief. I looked ... and couldn't work that out.
But now I' ... I think Amaurote just misses out. Is it just me or ... really quite easy and lacking in pace and variety? I ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... u$ as a string (Nonsense in BASIC), so you need more logic ... ) I realise I've missed out the upper menu item bound ... . I'm still occasionally thinking in BBC Basic, where a comma causes ... -
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... 0x38; // get player colour in paper
sp1_IterateUpdateRect(&r ... wipes out anything that might already be in the ... *screen; // +8 address in display file where this tile ... anything normally done in Sinclair basic, but you should ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... ' at the same time. But in practice after playtesting it doesn ... be negative, but it seems in ZX-BASIC that "0 OR -1 ... , instead of simply changing trajectory in mid-air and making a ... it seems to pleasingly blend in with the magenta border.
Double dragonWe all know the Speccy version is shit, but I've ragged the NES version of DDIII but this guy has real issues with it [url]http://www.youtube.com/wa…
... the Megadrive/Genesis only 1 in 10 was an accurate ... but I like to find out for myself, so I did ... pants. Abobo is either the basic black or white (I don ... crunches, screams and grunts and in are drones and beeps. ... this but this game came out in 1993 on a 16 bit ...New versions of ZX-Editor and ZX-Preview publishedDear ZX-Spectrum Emulator fans, I want to announce that I published new versions of ZX-Editor Second Edition and ZX-Preview today. Refer to [url]www…
... /> Are you trying to find BASIC variables? If so, please check ... to help you out. If a game is written in machine code ... game variables, only the ones in the BASIC loader (someone correct me ... 'm wrong). Basin only shows BASIC variables.
@clausjahn: ...New versions of ZX-Editor and ZX-Preview publishedDear ZX-Spectrum Emulator fans, I want to announce that I published new versions of ZX-Editor Second Edition and ZX-Preview today. Refer to [url]www…
I guess it would depend on the game. Some games were written in 100% BASIC, so they may have variables attached.
Out of curiosity, what game did you try that worked in BASin but not in ZX-Editor?What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... it wasn't abstracted in the BASIC. But BBC BASIC was better than ... want to write a program in BASIC for simplicity and maintainability, but ... to embed some assembler in a BASIC program was very, very ... errors rather than just bombing out is very useful. The first ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... something that's too slow in basic but simple at an assembly ... away with single key entry (in 128K mode). The BBC's single ... the assembler are mixed together in the BASIC listing? I've never ... if it's in the basic program.
BBC basic itself is pretty ...Leave AY Chip alone guysWould you have a go at a child with down syndrome? No, thought not. AY has Asberge Syndrome, it's a form of Autism - think of that please before y…
... write structured, well thought out code. These are the ... libraries - they're not in the 'spirit of BASIC'.
... common method, and in most instances in BASIC the programmer will say ... Decimal type with built-in Visual Basic functionality is extremely ...Digitized videos and sounds projectAfter starting this thread [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14420[/url] I decided to start converting parts of clips and…
... saving isn't offered in Pure Basic and I do not ... , and this also work in animation conversion mode. It ... way to read it out at the moment). I ... "-BMP2SCR always places images in the right-left corner. While ... kinda like moving a layer in Photoshop);"
Will be ...Speccy emulation with R4 - DSpec, ZXDS & SpeccyDS...Finally got an R4 card up & running, and I've installed DSpec, ZXDS & SpeccyDS onto it, but I've a couple of questions I'm hoping somebody can help w…
... the titles in 128K mode since I couldn't suss-out how to ... type LOAD "" in the 48K mode ... . Having found that out, the games ...Recent Returnee to the spectrum fold needs hardware adviceHi all. Thanks for taking the time to read this. This is my first post to this forum after I stumbled on this site just a few weeks ago, i only reg…
Just got this in my email, looks like it ... HD as known for tape (in NMI menu you can simply ... -DOS runs in 128k Mode but uses the 48k basic interpreter with that ... known token input, the basic is corrected and improoved with ...Bubble Bobble on SpinDoes anybody else find that Bubble Bobble has corrupted sprites (bubbles for example) in 48k or 48k+ mode in Spin? Works fine in any 128k machine mo…
... new screens, do miss the 128k theme tune though !
The 128k music can be heard if ... , delete line 25 in the BASIC program, and then ... you have to do in Spectaculator to set this ... GOTO command). Reload it in 128k mode, and you should ...Testing the Ram on a Toastrack 128KHi All My "new" 128K is misbehaving, all the demos I have loaded for it crash instantly, Ghostbusters 128K is playable but one of the background scr…
... the ram-page that's in address 49152-65535 is selected ... in the bottom 3 bits of the value sent out to ... ) then you'll page out the 48k BASIC ROM, and your program ...SAM gets ethernetWhilst off topic - head over to [url]www.samcoupe.com[/url]. Colins got his ethernet board for the SAM available to buy and some interesting news ab…
... a >=128K flash ROM and >=128K static RAM ( ... mess once I figure out the logic that's ... to make this memory mappable in 8K pages, and any ... in 0x0000-0x1FFF, W5100 in 0x2000-0x3FFF, or RAM in 0x0000-0x1FFF, ROM in ... can't be sorted out in a sane and reliable ...Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... BASIC program which loads these files into memory and saves them out ... but do not print anything out. (Maybe a dissasembly would show ... this out.
Hack:-
Looks like a type-in ... least two typos or mistakes in this BASIC listing. I have captured ...What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…
... dirty video" article in a magazine in the US. I ... ZX80/81 as Geoff points out. In SLOW mode the z80 ... your programs and your BASIC interpretter. In other words, impractical unless ... the processor's burden in manipulating images in the display file increases ...Speaking of encrypted Roms from interfaces...Is the MicroSpeech Rom encrypted too? When examining it I've always wondered how they can print the Currah copyright on screen when there's no readab…
... (even I could code it in Visual Basic), but it has the ... trace the PCB to find out which lines are effectively crossed ... a real pain to find out the paging mechanism for the ...The terrorists have wonWhen a man collapses in a diabetic coma, instead of the bus driver assuming the man is ill, but assumes he's a terrorist (and gets the police in who …
... follow your argument, and in a society with a proper ... having a police presence in a high crime area ... even giving up a few basic economic liberties for the ... oppression (which he laid-out in his influential "The Road ... is about to carry out an atrocity but can' ...Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... processors based on their basic interpretters' performance is very ... out, multiplying numbers directly was faster. Yes it pointed out a flaw in ... Speccy BASIC's SQR function ... in less than average numbers. Another less than optimal BASIC ...+2A, are they all this incompatible?My +2A does not seem to be faulty but the number of games that don't run on it are silly. Scooby Doo(Elite), Crazy Cars , Turbo Outrun, Vindicator(im…
... you're having problems with in URS0 mode?
in USR0 mode (even on ... to try. Just go into 128k BASIC and type USR0. It ... has reset itself to 48K BASIC... in fact it has, then ... was required for some 48k/128k demos, and maybe some ...+2A, are they all this incompatible?My +2A does not seem to be faulty but the number of games that don't run on it are silly. Scooby Doo(Elite), Crazy Cars , Turbo Outrun, Vindicator(im…
... you're having problems with in URS0 mode?
in USR0 mode (even on ... to try. Just go into 128k BASIC and type USR0. It ... has reset itself to 48K BASIC... in fact it has, then ... was required for some 48k/128k demos, and maybe some ...+2A, are they all this incompatible?My +2A does not seem to be faulty but the number of games that don't run on it are silly. Scooby Doo(Elite), Crazy Cars , Turbo Outrun, Vindicator(im…
... you're having problems with in URS0 mode?
... demos that would only work in USR0 mode (even on ... to try. Just go into 128k BASIC and type USR0. It ... has reset itself to 48K BASIC... in fact it has, then ... Ghost Hunter, codemosters fine in USR0 mode :)
