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Help with loadingI made a simple input game, and saved to tape/verified it (I bought the spectrum for ?1 at my church fete on saturday) and when I go to 'loader' on t…
The command is SAVE "Progname" LINE 10 ... t mean put a save command in line 10 of your ... using 128 BASIC Mode you can just type the command in, letter ... your program with the above command will make the program ... from the line chosen (in this case, line 10).< ... -
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... school friends back then in the era. 10 had ... lads could do anything but play games. Score: Speccy 8 ... single Speccy programmer working in BASIC on a text-only ... whilst there were several BASIC dabblers for the C64 and ... on games and tools in machine code, two of ... -
Emulator with frame advance?Are there any emulators which preferably both play RZX files and also (and here's the odd but important bit) feature a "frame advance" button so that…
... any emulators which preferably both play RZX files and also (and ... a game?
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In Windows you can try EmuZWin ... 2.6. In the debugger while playing RZX ... frame. Seems Spectaculator has similar command in the debugger, if I remember ... -
SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…
... (with the last two lines) in BASIC?
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What games can you create?After hearing that you need machine code to create commercial quality speccy games, what sort of games can you create in +3 BASIC, except text advent…
Very basic ones (excuse the pun) really. The same ones as 48k BASIC but maybe with better sound primarily (thanks to the PLAY command).
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Emuzwin / Spin AssemblerHello lads. Wondering if anyone can help. I've decided to look into playing about with some code using the Emuzwin or Spin built-in assembler. Are th…
... also need to use the Basic command CLEAR before you assemble your ... uses. So enter CLEAR 59999 in BASIC before assembling.
... code can be called from basic in a number of ways, all ... />
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football managers ( portuguese competitions..? no?)))just wondering if exists any football manager game with the portuguese league, im asking this cus some of this games have team/players editors and ma…
I used to play [B]football manager[/B] with ... copy). As the game is in BASIC, I guess you could edit ... -
RealSpectrum SoundI'm having trouble with RealSpectrum sound. When I'm in the emulation part, I hear only buzzing and screeching. When I enter some menu, the sound di…
... sound all the time, even in BASIC. Only when I enter some ... , but when I return to BASIC or to the game the ... />
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BASin and the 128k commandsI've decided to look at incorporating the 128k commands PLAY and LOAD!, SAVE!, MERGE!, VERIFY! for the ramdisk. It won't be full 128k emulation. No …
... just today got the PLAY command running nicely in BASin. I'll pass ... -
BASin and the 128k commandsI've decided to look at incorporating the 128k commands PLAY and LOAD!, SAVE!, MERGE!, VERIFY! for the ramdisk. It won't be full 128k emulation. No …
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Keyboard emulation accuracyWhen the IN function checks the keyboard how accurate is it in a real speccy? For example, say you had lightning fast hands and a keyboard that coul…
... , PrinceClumsy wrote:
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IN command is 'digital accurate'. When is ... more than 11 T states. Basic command IN takes probably several thousands T ... -
Recommend a Speccy game for my daughterMy 7 year old daughter wants to play some more speccy stuff. She's played the Dizzy games and various others, but I was wondering what you lot woul…
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GUI in sinclair basic.Can anyone point me to any existing subroutines or functions or library to be called whithin sinclair basic to create visual command like messageboxe…
... be called whithin sinclair basic to create visual command like messageboxes, listboxes ... . There are no such functions in BASIC.
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Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…
... faster raw Z80 is than BASIC. Copying such data would take ... per frame, but this depends in part on the model, and ... in part on the memory you ... screen) using a simple LDIR command would take about over 40000 ... sight faster than doing it in BASIC :p -
Unpublished spectrum gameHi there I have a Spectrum PDS development environment and before I get rid of my old PC which has an ISA slot I thought I should ask this question i…
This might work as well.
When the code was still in BASIC you can
give a load command in an emulator which will load from soundcard or real tape.
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Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... which I know was written in BASIC cos'I broke into it ... version of Oracles cave to play.
The Colditz Story ... know this was written in basic because the sprites in the game all ... -
Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
I remeber playing Warlord,written by M.C.Lotholorien a lot.It is a strategy game ,where you play a warlord in medieval Japan,I also liked City of death,which is also written mostly in basic,but i never could beat that nasty skeleton! -
Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... can consider a game "written in BASIC" if the main portions ... of it are written in BASIC, i.e., the main ... to do simple tasks (play a tune in the title screen, ... make the game "less BASIC". That's the case ... a main loop written in pure BASIC which use M/C ... -
Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... can consider a game "written in BASIC" if the main portions of ... to do simple tasks (play a tune in the title screen, decompress ... machine code. The game would play at a snail's pace ... main loop was actually written in BASIC; compare with, say, Mined Out ... -
3D Star Strike - best unofficial conversion ever?A copy of Star Wars as we all know, but I didn't realise how good a copy it was until I played the arcade game on MAME a couple of days ago. The bit …
... first 2 or 3 games in the series are dodgeball ... the original mono gameboy are in fact the GB kunios ... bad copy of Bagman. In fact it was just as ... wants to complain they should play the first one on ... Most of which were written in BASIC, and most of which were ... -
Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…
... run Tornado.TAP in FUSE gives me: C Nonsense in BASIC, 9000:3 ...
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Emulation in EmulatorZX Spectrum 48K in Amiga in PC [url]http://www.geocities.com/msgptre/Emulation_In_Emulator/PC_Amiga_Spectrum.htm[/url]
... ZX81 game 3D Monster Maze in... Spectaculator!
Been playing ... for LOAD / SAVE.
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TommyGun 0.8.9 availableShould be available by the utilities pages soon. Lots of bug fixes. Its close to 95% complete. So close to becoming a 1.0 release. Still a few minor…
... ability to put stuff together in Basic, but virtually (or literally) no ... able to write something in an extended basic and have it converted ... . So, no a USR command from a Basic programme to run a ... /> You could write a game in basic, use small m/c routines ... -
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Had first rubbery Speccy in '83 purchased from a bloke ... times to get into programming in BASIC and machine code although the ... by downloading games that I play for 3 mins, decide that ... -
Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…
[I]Nebula [/I]and [I]Apocalypse [/I]are both very slow, being fairly complex strategy games written in BASIC.
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What new (ish) ZX game have you played mostJust wondering what games from 2000 on have grabbed you most, I found a lot of TR-Dos games on here last year and was seriously impressed by a little…
... little games written in Basic are good too. I basically play almost everything ... -
Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…
... , fairly complex and all written in basic. I tried playing it once ... written in Basic. There`s a new version of it that you play ... or something like that, anyway, in his new version unfortunately it ... -
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…
... And I hated the new BASIC interface. Typing was terrible, as ... speed up the notoriously slow BASIC. In fact, it was even slower ... more or less useless "Spectrum" command.
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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…
... do software sprites in several versions of BASIC (e.g. ... and Ocean's Laser BASIC) on the Spectrum. ... do with the built in BASIC, but I've seen ... implement graphics accelleration features in hardware, scrolling and ... computer though... I just play a few games on ...
