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CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... saying you were running out of memory, well I ... you're still thinking in Sinclair Basic terms! DATA strings ... need quotes around them in "real Basic" variants (unless ... they've got a space in ... away with having spaces in your strings without ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... well be a built in BASIC command to do this. ... lurk, without examining the 128K BASIC ROM, or at least ... colour that was available in gigascreen (without dithering). ... wanted to do it in basic. In the end I did ... be done well enough in BASIC for most applications I ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... page Bank 7 back out replacing it with another ... trying it out in the test program.
In BASIC, I' ... area below 49152 initially in order to load the ... screen in. But once bank 7 had been paged out ... be reclaimed again by BASIC for other uses. Interesting ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... see I will easily run out of space with 48K! ... however just echoes each byte out. Even if you disable ... but I want to find out the current copyright status of ... . It takes 58 seconds in 128 BASIC. So it's fair ... Once I take out the RAM trap code in the 6502 core ... -
VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... two to switch them in and out. In my tests that made ... than having them immediately accessible in the main register set. ... true - I did that in the Galaksija emulator, but ... than a second in the 2-3 minute BASIC speed test, ... 't want to miss out on the extra speed ... -
VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... ]The Apple I ROM appearing in most Apple I emulators was ... . You could probably type it out in about 10 minutes!
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CGC 2008 entry... help wanted please!Hi, I've written a BASIC game for the CGC2008. With a limited understanding of the hardware, I've written it in 128 BASIC, but have saved it out as …
... ;296497]I've written a BASIC game for the CGC2008. With ... 've written it in 128 BASIC, but have saved it out as a ... plenty of screen crap thrown in as it restores the snapshot ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
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[url ... with these games back in the 80's, if ... ones i've missed out on for whatever reason kinda ... end of Nov to come out in time for Xmas.
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Your views on Technician TedAnother game the were I first bought for the Spectrum. I liked this game alot. It has very good graphics and sound, much better then JSW. It is a ve…
The 128K remix version tried to make ... they were to be done in (I've no idea how ... were supposed to work it out in the original release); unfortunately I ... -
ANN: Spud v0.201New version of Spud released. Nothing major just a few bugfixes thanks to user feedback. At the soon to be usual link [COLOR=#4040c0][URL]http://…
... bit like when XP came out in 2001, you would've said ... finding any bug. The Visual Basic Spectrum emulator might be worthwhile ... -
ANN: Spud v0.201New version of Spud released. Nothing major just a few bugfixes thanks to user feedback. At the soon to be usual link [COLOR=#4040c0][URL]http://…
... bit like when XP came out in 2001, you would've said ... finding any bug. The Visual Basic Spectrum emulator might be worthwhile ... /> Most are easy to fix (in fact I've fixed a ... -
Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…
... 't work out how to draw 1 pixel line in colour and ... to switch between two screens in 128k mode at the exact right ... -
Goldeneye (N64) can still surprise!After eleven years, I thought I'd seen and done everything Goldeneye on the N64 has to offer, but I've found this video: [url]http://uk.youtube.com/…
... game was still in production, and out of respect for ... at how Perfect Dark turned out). But it also seems ... head. This game came out in the year 2000, and ... driving levels. AUF is very basic, NF is better. TWINE, ... not enough on all out blasting. It did advance ... -
Game creation packagesOver the course of the years, a number of game creation packages were released for the speccy: Games Designer (Quicksilva) H.U.R.G. (Melbourne House…
... ;309229]With the Quill manual in hand you'll find that ... need to plan your game out before you start using the ... idea with a poorly thought out flow for a game. That ... days and then program it in C64 Basic... What a bast that ... -
How is the Spectrum to live on when we are all dead???We have had 25 years of the Spectrum and it lives on in us all and as long as WOS is here, on the Internet. Because of this, it will be alive as long…
... . The PC maybe totally different in another 20 years.[/QUOTE]
out in 1981, all it's got ... with better bandwidth - but the basic architecture still remains the same ... and still has to start in 8086 real mode!
Interlace demoSorry to reference another thread like this, but in the thread: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=313428#post313428[/url] …
... Does it not do that in 128K mode too? I've ... though.
In contrast, a debugger is probably ... a good feature to have in an emulator.
out ways to make me ... 1] ignoring the known gaps in Fuse's Z80 emulation: MEMPTR ...Small BasicFor all those people who ask "where's the equivalent of Sinclair BASIC for today's generation", I give you (a link to) [url=http://msdn.microsoft.com…
... lack of pre-defined functions in Sinclair BASIC!
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Small BASIC aims to put the ... fun (and GOTO) back into BASIC and I have had that ... between the two versions of BASIC.
Where is Joe ...Please help an absolute novice with some simple(ish) programming.I'm very, very rusty at BASIC. I'm using BASin, for my GCSE Astronomy coursework [quote] Use a spreadsheet and/or a graphing package, or write a com…
... /> There's no ellipse command in Sinclair BASIC. You can approximate a ... command to build one up out of a series of curves ... may partly blank each other out.2008 Lookback/2009 Lookforward ThreadSo, what have we done this year? On the YS site, I've added the Virtual News Stand (the clickable double-page magazine spreads you see dotted around…
... interface support or a simple 128k.
- Just finished coding ... it's ready to go out in 2009. Documentation might not make ... it in full :-P
[B ... more applications i worked on in 2008 and plan on reprogramming ...1K ZX ChessIt's a great surprise to discover that there were a guy who programmed a chess game for the ZX81 with only 1K! of memory. His name was David Horne. …
... you just carry them out on your wooden chessboard".< ... you can do breakout in a BASIC one-liner. No one ... has achieved Chess in a BASIC oneliner yet because of ... algorithm for such a BASIC one-liner I think ... where instructions are laid out in 2D on an 80x25 ...Duel Of The Games #8 : HoraceMore poll madness... :) Which is your favourite Horace game then? I'm voting for Hungry Horace. Skiing is probably equally as good but I played the …
... hold such a fond place in so many memories?:-)[/QUOTE]
out in 1982, back then there were many dire basic games ... . The other horace games came out in 1982, when you think how ...Duel Of The Games #8 : HoraceMore poll madness... :) Which is your favourite Horace game then? I'm voting for Hungry Horace. Skiing is probably equally as good but I played the …
... Horace came out in 1982, back then there were many dire basic games ... . The other horace games came out in 1982, when you think how ... was released and put it in the context of other games ... year, it really does stand out.
And the Man ...Usr 0 ?I'm not sure I've ever seen this explained before, but why do some programs (only demos, as far as I can see, so far) need USR 0 mode when run on a 1…
... BASIC, it goes into 48k mode but with all the 128k ... memory and bankswitching still fully operational and available in ... 48k mode. Whereas if you select 48 BASIC from ... use the SPECTRUM command in 128 BASIC, the bankswitching features are ...Usr 0 ?I'm not sure I've ever seen this explained before, but why do some programs (only demos, as far as I can see, so far) need USR 0 mode when run on a 1…
... use the SPECTRUM command in 128 BASIC, the bankswitching features are ... For switch from 128 basic to 48 basic you can use command ... cz/other/zx128rom-enable-paging-in-48-basic.zip[/URL]
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[quote=LCD;325114]in 128K mode the Spectrum uses some ...Usr 0 ?I'm not sure I've ever seen this explained before, but why do some programs (only demos, as far as I can see, so far) need USR 0 mode when run on a 1…
... ]Because there's code in the system to set ... user. Granted going into 128K BASIC, typing USR 0, and ... [ENTER] and the 128K Spectrum starts loading via ... had to recompile it in HURRY. So programmers usually ... code could be re-used in every subsequent program. Also ...Usr 0 ?I'm not sure I've ever seen this explained before, but why do some programs (only demos, as far as I can see, so far) need USR 0 mode when run on a 1…
... away. Typing USR 0 in 128 BASIC evaluates the function and ... . Since the 48 BASIC ROM is paged in, this is effectively ... USR 0 mode has the 128K features (sound and extra ... code that will drop the 128K Spectrum into USR 0 ... of code to drop the 128K into USR 0 mode ...Usr 0 ?I'm not sure I've ever seen this explained before, but why do some programs (only demos, as far as I can see, so far) need USR 0 mode when run on a 1…
... is because the program combines BASIC and machine code. While it ... to 128k basic. That's why many of the demos which load in ... multiple parts and use BASIC loader require USR ... you suggest, run a program in 128k mode which sets up everything ...Usr 0 ?I'm not sure I've ever seen this explained before, but why do some programs (only demos, as far as I can see, so far) need USR 0 mode when run on a 1…
... 0 mode has the 128K features (sound and extra ... thing: Spectrum Basic 48 and 128 runs in interrupt mode ... the background stuff of 128K Basic before you will call ... code and returning to Basic for USR adr is ... Even compiled Basic games won't work in 128K mode if ...Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…
... can't figure out how to READ in multiple strings for a ... />
You can do it in exactly the way I described ... />
It certainly works in Sinclair BASIC, although your mileage may vary ...
