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  • POKE requestsHello, all.. I've had a plea for haylp for a couple of games which have already been POKEd, where the plea suggests that the existing POKEs on Tip…

    ... />
    Kemshu
    Infinite time - POKE 25790,0 - doesn't work ...
    hackersanon hackersanon August 2020 Games
  • Textured Scanline Flood Fill for ZX Spectrum 48KPity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the…

    ... bit to support textures and color.

    Unfortunately ... lower byte
    350 POKE 63693,o/256: REM ... fill
    380 POKE 63692,196: REM lower ... POKE 63693,248: REM higher byte

    400 REM color ...
    410 LET c=56+RND*7
    420 POKE ...
    Volker Volker February 2021 Software
  • Question about the "Color" function of the number keysI'm very new to Spectrum. What was the purpose of the color function of the number keys?

    I'm very new to Spectrum. What was the purpose of the color function of the number keys?
    wongojack wongojack September 2022 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Quiz V - the revenge of D`n`C Ok, 50 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. Ther…

    1: What came free with the Nov 87 issue of Your Sinclair magazine that provoked outrage by many parents?
    (1 point)

    Copy of Viz comic book

    2: Two games on one cassette. Fly a magic carpet across Bagdad is one, the other is ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2002 Games
  • Quiz V - the revenge of D`n`C Ok, 50 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. Ther…

    Answers and results.

    1: What came free with the Nov 87 issue of Your Sinclair magazine that provoked outrage by many parents?
    (1 point)
    A 16 page issue of Viz magazine.
    -----------------
    Viz- TheComputerGame - I think ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins June 2002 Games
  • Quiz VI - Trident on VESA Local Bus.... Something to keep everyone busy while Arjun sorts out his caboodle of questions.... Ok, 12 quick fire questions.. Some cryptic - you`ll have to un…

    ... did Crash magazine review first... Pentagram (Ultimate) or Ghost`n`Goblins ... .
    (1 point)

    Pentagram

    3: Name the ... in a 128k Spectrum?
    Poke ?,?
    (1 point)

    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • Quiz VI - Trident on VESA Local Bus.... Something to keep everyone busy while Arjun sorts out his caboodle of questions.... Ok, 12 quick fire questions.. Some cryptic - you`ll have to un…

    ... did Crash magazine review first... Pentagram (Ultimate) or Ghost`n`Goblins ... .
    (1 point)

    Pentagram

    3: Name the ... in a 128k Spectrum?
    Poke ?,?
    (1 point)

    Vampyre Vampyre June 2002 Games
  • Quiz VI - Trident on VESA Local Bus.... Something to keep everyone busy while Arjun sorts out his caboodle of questions.... Ok, 12 quick fire questions.. Some cryptic - you`ll have to un…

    ... reviewed by Crash magazine first... Pentagram (Ultimate) or Ghost`n`Goblins ... only.
    (1 point)
    Pentagram was reviewed in Crash June ... in a 128k Spectrum?
    Poke ?,?
    (1 point)
    23388 ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins June 2002 Games
  • More "fake" screenshots, please.I don't know about anyone else, but I really like seeing Spectrum screenshots of modern and/or original games - even if there ends up being no game t…

    ... the ships paper color become the landscapes paper color, even slightly rounded ... present and the ink the color which is less present because ... those articles on peek n poke i get emailed everyday about ... my article on peek n poke. you should also see "Stellar ...
    Amigo Amigo February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... to duplicate ( 2x1 pixel, one color each with attr.- mock screens ... load and autorewind oing a poke 23739,111 and looping a ... the shades of a particular color, ie. red, dividing all the ...
    Amigo Amigo March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... it. gotcha. i found that color draw program. err, any idea ... you need DirectX drivers. I POKE the converted images directly into ... there are of a certain color, lets take blue for example ...
    LCD LCD March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Parasol Stars for Spectrum Having played a lot of Bubble Booble and Rainbow Islands on Spectrum, and later on also Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars on Amiga, I feel like it w…

    ... , and then switch rapidly the color attributes for the 8x8 cells ... be like the "peek n' poke" pics , or the little mayhem ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • 100 Spectrum games you HAVE to play before you die..Nominations please :) Im sick of seing all those progs on TV, like 100 things to do before you hit 30, haha, and if only they`d had them on a couple…

    ... Lore, Alien 8, Nightshade and Pentagram. I didn't like Atic ... Dave Perry Games full of color, like Extreme or TMN Turtles ...
    Ryderark Ryderark January 2005 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... used to set the BORDER color (bits 2, 1 and 0 ... "HELLO"

    POKE 23618,10: POKE 23619,0 : POKE 23620,2
    or

    POKE 23618,10: POKE 23619,2 : POKE 23620,0
    color than the controlcharacter and read ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Awesome new Spectrum game released!Ultimate Manic Miner, an amazing new JSW/MM rewrite for the Spectrum 128K, has been released. I've uploaded it to alt.binaries.comp.sinclair so go …

    ... sounds really nice (except some color problems).
    I will try ... it, but must first find POKE :D (little refresh of old ...
    piters piters March 2006 Announcements
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... change the shades of each color simultaneously - to shift the shade ... change the shade of each color adequately one by one.
    poke :roll: and then back
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup June 2006 Emulators
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    PEEK and POKE are useful for interacting with ... to change the bloody current color !!!!
    GOC GOC July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... so blocky you could just poke the values into the screen ... used for the graphics were POKE commands.
    I let some ... a whole lot faster to POKE the new X,Y coordinates ... newer models and a 256 color mode. But unless the blitter ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…

    ... around selected cell to avoid color bleed)
    *You can optimize ... pixels by using peek & poke, but you have to stay ...
    Arda Arda October 2006 Development
  • Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…

    ... print at 0,0;"0":poke 23606, (peek 23606) + 1:pause ... : if we store "9876543210[color=red]9[/color]" in the memory then ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2006 Development
  • Getting scr addresses from x and yCould someone please tell me how to calculate the 8 screen addresses corresponding to a character printed in basic at coordinates x and y? For examp…

    ... now I'm removing all color from screens on start-up ... play a little bit with poke and peek to see if ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Getting scr addresses from x and yCould someone please tell me how to calculate the 8 screen addresses corresponding to a character printed in basic at coordinates x and y? For examp…

    ... now I'm removing all color from screens on start-up ... play a little bit with poke and peek to see if ... invert the attributes if you POKE this value back to the ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • the best version of bruce lee(which one?!) :)

    ... the best, expecially the 256 color version:p
    No, really ... if somebody could find a poke to make enemies faster (or ...
    Arm73 Arm73 March 2007 Games
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=Digital Prawn;209837]Sheepdog Trials[/QUOTE]

    Good game!

    It reminds me of a game I co-produced a long time ago, where a cowboy had to move cows out of a fenced area within a restricted time limit:

    [url]http:// ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2007 Development
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=Einar Saukas;209961]Good game!

    It reminds me of a game I co-produced a long time ago, where a cowboy had to move cows out of a fenced area within a restricted time limit:

    [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi? ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • 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…

    Re: Sheepdog Trials,

    I have applied some of your improvements, and they have made the game better. I haven't applied them all yet, because already I have allowed the code to get too large and it's back over the size limit again.

    ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... Saukas;215225]I like the color but I think 6 is ... alignment idea could save a POKE, but I doubt it in ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... game stops, the current BORDER color will clearly indicate the winner ... THEN you can use a POKE to go to the end ... both previous ideas: use a POKE to go to the end ... br /> READ v,w:
    POKE 23620,16:
    DATA w ... r:
    READ v:
    POKE 23620,15:
    DATA w ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... game stops, the current BORDER color will clearly indicate the winner ... THEN you can use a POKE to go to the end ... both previous ideas: use a POKE to go to the end ... br /> READ v,w:
    POKE 23620,16:
    DATA w ... r:
    READ v:
    POKE 23620,15:
    DATA w ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... ]You could change the BORDER color to black at the end ... can now change the first POKE value to 7, and eliminate ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Development
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