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Greatest Error Messages of all timeAfter compiling the 13 Greatest Error messages ranging from Abort? Retry or Fail to the Blue Screen of Death, Technologizer has come up with a second…
... the ZX Spectrum's 'Nonsense in BASIC'
[url]http://technologizer ... but good to see it in there.
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BEEP conundrumFor the "CSSCGC 2008 Tape Magazine" December edition, I have decided to use a BASIC sound routine I wrote last year which plays a festive tune using …
... have decided to use a BASIC sound routine I wrote last ... there's no easy way in BASIC to make the menu responsive ... course anyone knows any handy BASIC trick.
That would ... just modify the already implemented BASIC routine.
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12-pixel-wide font on 512x192 screenThanks to Geoff I have a working prototype for displaying this font in BASIC. Machine code to follow.
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16K Rom with RS232 supportHi all, I am looking for a 16K Rom-code (to fit into the speccy) which supports RS232 and Network of IF1. Background: I am using 48K Issue 3 with W…
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New version of mb-resi copy tool, ver. 1.5Dear fans of MB02+ and ResiDos, on my site [URL="http://hood.speccy.cz"]http://hood.speccy.cz[/URL] you will find a new version of this copy tool, t…
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Corrections to "Authored with Quill"Started testing today from the end of the list... These are not written with Quill: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^You+Ca…
... Quill game, it is written in Basic.
[URL="http://www ... "]Xtroth[/URL] also is a Basic game
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The best ... beginning with "G"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "G", which do you think are the: [B]Best …
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Best sound or music (in a game):
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Best ... B]
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[B]Best graphics (in a game): [/B]Green Beret ... the "GO TO" command in BASIC. -
Couple of questions...Howdy, 1. Is there a decent way to get a random number in BASIC/MC? I've been using LET a=INT(RND*2)+1 but the numbers tend to stay at 1 or 2 most …
... to get a random number in BASIC/MC? I've been using ... (as per J.Cauldwells info in his HowTo.doc)
Help! An IP problemMy mate is a member of a well known file sharing site whose name I won't say in case they randomly google for mentions of their name and match this p…
... means the same number, as in basic algebra. Any alterations I've ... many different IP addresses in your account in the future, we reserve ... Red][Link deleted][/COLOR][I] in the premium zone you can ... know, please change your password in the premium zone using the ...INPUT magazineDid anyone else have this magazine back in day, I did. Spent hours typing in the examples and it did helped me develop me a few techniques in basic a…
... else have this magazine back in day, I did. Spent hours ... typing in the examples and it did ... develop me a few techniques in basic and assembly. Did anyone else ...InkosiI uploaded this a couple of days ago, but not sure if it's worked yet. Although quite slow and written in BASIC, it's quite a good little rescource …
I uploaded this a couple of days ago, but not sure if it's worked yet. Although quite slow and written in BASIC, it's quite a good little rescource management game, a bit like an educational Mugsy!DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…
... allow me to see it in BASIC, but I want to be ... on a memory location range in a for loop). Can someone ...Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
... a,c ;On entering from BASIC, BC holds the
... interrupts
;Return to Basic:
ld bc,colour_map ;This ... again
ret ;Return to BASIC
;Main ... /> ; that the keyboard still works in BASIC):
jp 56
Cheetah 125 AutofireI have two of these fine joysticks (I never did like the competition pro style) but cannot seem to get the autofire working - switching it on seems t…
... seems to have no effect. In basic the control directions and fire ...not much gear and absolutley no ideaIm looking for some help with two spectrums that i have just dug out of storage and are both unfortunatley faulty. I had always regreted that during …
... to program anything for them in basic so i decided to turn ... clock back and teach myself basic for these two machines. I ... located a book in a charity shop that coverd basic for numerous ... the basics of basic.Unfortunatley about two weeks in several of the ...The point of fixing a QLHi All Recently picked up an old QL that was in pieces, all the screws are missing and the keyboard membrane is shot, but it does work. Gave the me…
... an old QL that was in pieces, all the screws are ... games werent written by amateurs in basic years later, any good demos ... waste, especially as twenty quid in Australian pesos would get you ...XgamestationI was flipping through an old edge magazine from 2003 and in the news section there was a story about the iminent release of a diy console kit that y…
... edge magazine from 2003 and in the news section there was ... kit that you could program in basic and c. At the time ...Name the game : double impactHi i'm looking for name of two games. 1) the first is na old arcade adventure at least partially written in basic. i think the story revolves about …
... adventure at least partially written in basic. i think the story revolves ... . i think there was review in crash.
so, your ...Syntax Eraok so they've changed the name to Micro Men. Scottie came up with two alternative names, can you do better than his:- Tape Loading Era and See No…
ok so they've changed the name to Micro Men. Scottie came up with two alternative names, can you do better than his:-
Tape Loading Era
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See Nonsense in BasicDavid Hewlett aka Dr Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantisis one of us! He's on holiday visiting family in Good Old Blighty atm... [url]http://twitter.com/dhewlett/status/4157322916[/url] "Found old Sinc…
... 's on holiday visiting family in Good Old Blighty atm...
in BASIC that is?"ResiDOS file launcher?Hi As much as I like ResiDOS, has any Divide+ user out there written a file launcher (in basic or m/code), that allows the user to scroll up and dow…
... there written a file launcher (in basic or m/code), that allows ...New beeper music editorsInformation for those people who interested in 1-bit beeper music on ZX Spectrum 48K. As you probably know, there was no beeper music editors with t…
... year of beeper trackers - in less than half year, three ... All these trackers were made in Russia, but they are available ... the file operations are done in Basic), and they has english ... plays sampled drums (8 built-in samples). Unfortunately, the editor ...Implementing goto on error condition...OK, so when I'm reading a file or directory on a network filesystem, when I reach EOF, it's not actually useful at all for ZX BASIC to stop the progr…
... at all for ZX BASIC to stop the program ... it ends with C Nonsense in BASIC. If you hit BREAK during ... course) then prints C Nonsense in BASIC. It's almost like ... can't just trace it in an emulator!)
in BASIC itself to interpret a ...Old peripherals on the Spectrum +2I have a Wafadrive and an Alphacom 32 (ZX Printer clone), neither of which work in 128 BASIC, but both of which work flawlessly when you run them in …
... clone), neither of which work in 128 BASIC, but both of which ... work flawlessly when you run them in ... 48 BASIC mode. The Wafadrive makes ... software to make it work in BASIC (even if you have to ...Framerate of arcade gamesThe Golden Age of video games coincided with the birth of 8-bit home computing; this is why every computer of that era has a slew of really bad Pacma…
... at a clunky conversion written in BASIC and using UDGs. The pixel ... readily observed by frame-stepping in MAME. Pacman moves one ...
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This ties in with the recent discussion here ... about frame rates in Spectrum games. A game ...Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
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Where games written in pure machine code or was ... those early and obvious written in BASIC games) - but have seen some ...POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
I remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input ... you would POKE each square in the 8X8 character.
< ... br /> Am I right in thinking that only 21 letters ... 's graphics like this (but in assembler) where more characters alterable ...The ZX App StoreI was watching one of those iphone adverts and got to thinking Hmmmmm what if you could do something like that for the speccy. Ok heres the idea, if…
... little usefull program you wrote in basic then you could upload it ... chance to show off your basic skillsSpectrum +3 suspected memory faultHi, I've been using my +3 for the first time in a while and found that some games have problems with the display becoming corrupted and sometimes cr…
... +3 for the first time in a while and found that ... 've tested the first 48K in BASIC by poking and peeking, and ...Req' Help with Random numbersHello all, im new to the forum, i hope im putting this in the right place ... I would like to ask a question in the hope someone will be able to as…
... i hope im putting this in the right place ...
... a little about zx basic programming but this problem ... I would like to write in Basic, a routine that can choose ... as random as spectrum basic can), a series of ... to store them in an array in the order they ...
