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How are people developing?Are most coding on actual HW or under emulation, or cross developing?
... /> To code in BASIC I fire up the emulator in 48 BASIC mode, I ... to type every single letter in a command, that's why I ... +3, load the sources in +3 BASIC and compile it from there ... real bummer. And I coded in BASIC, I can't imagine the ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... , if any games you occasionally play - out of interest, but also ... playing a game on speccy in 2006, or whether programming on ... programming on speccy and especially in Basic is how approachable and relaxing ... -
Issue 1 only?The thread on the +2 prompted me to start this one. I got an issue 1 Speccy 16k in 1983 for my birthday and then a Fox Electronics 48k upgrade for m…
... and above Spectrums were upgraded in exactly the way you describe ... and Deathchase) and teaching myself BASIC. For my next birthday, I ... I'd written a game in BASIC which filled up 16k. He ... me the upgrade just to play more games on! ;) -
Music on game cassettes?I was rather amazed at how professional the music included with Everyone's A Wally sounded: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNoqq9Vfc0g[/url] I…
... . many a time i'd play music on the tape deck ... gameplaying.... or when mucking about in Basic. -
Star Heritage::TranslationHi all! I am almost finished with a translation of a Russian adventure game Star Heritage (demo) to poor English. I need a volunteer(s) with a good …
... the list.
The command menu includes the following items ... 5. Use. The most comprehensive command. In the game you'll
8. Talk. Use this command to communicate with other
melody will play and you'll see "Combat ... -
Wich key of a rubber Key Spectrum get used least??I'm wondering of all the Keys on a rubber key ZX Spectrum on average wich one do you reccon gets used the least?? I have played with the idea whilst…
... ?" message when you use CAT command and have not empty screen ... ). This mean to use CLS in BASIC programs that need to print ... it's quite a common command.
But the real ... from the one I live in, of course. :) -
PSPSIM - SamCoupe Emulator for the PSPI have just been playing around with PSPSIM and just wanted to know what Sam Coupe users thought were the best games/apps for the Coupe? Cheers,
... of 20 meaning 60 ! Play`s I think at 25fps ... `s extended palette.. looks and play`s smoothly.
... find it unbeliable to play the arcade game on ... bit computer... also Renegade play`s VERY well on SAM ... one, yet still 100 % in Basic, it`s got added copper ... -
Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […
... binary, and it works nice. command prompt feels like speccy now ... get:
C Nonsense in BASIC 7450:1
7450 ... -
New years resolutions (Spectrum)Spectrum related only please Mine to finally get into Jonathan Cauldwell's Anno Domini
... propbably will be programmed mostly in Basic (for extra crapness) and will ... I can't wait to play! :-) -
Wanted: z80 asm routines...for the Sam. This call goes out to Colin and others who know how it should be done. If you look on the Sam C disk you can see the implementation…
Thats very helpful of you, I haven't found an OPEN style command in the BASIC part of the documentation yet, it seems the only thing I can do is LOAD ( the entire file into memory! ) which isn't ideal. -
funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... wrote a series of games in 1988-90 called 'Explorers' ... i think there were 5 in all). It was based on ... the type where you usually play some kind of warrior - ... thing. I wrote them in Basic and they were actually quite ... did get a free game in return! I must have ... -
basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... is binary compatibility. Modifying basic code and intoducing new ... (two can play that game)
Are compiled BASIC programs larger ... with large BASIC programs.
Current BASIC compilers get ... who used to be faster in BASIC than the speccy... you ... -
Audio level on a grey +2Hi all, I received yesterday my "new" Spectrum 128+2 grey. It's a french one (without modulator, and with specific roms : message in french). First …
Somewhere, in the +3 handbook. it says something about the PLAY command being a third the volume of the beeper. The beeper is the same level as all three AY channels driven at the same time.
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Audio level on a grey +2Hi all, I received yesterday my "new" Spectrum 128+2 grey. It's a french one (without modulator, and with specific roms : message in french). First …
... ]Somewhere, in the +3 handbook. it says something about the PLAY command being ... .
'swot it sez in da book![/QUOTE]
generated missionswhich speccy games randomly (or partly randomly, at least) generating their misions/scenes do you know, please? (combat lynx being a great example.) …
... they were both written mainly in BASIC. Could there be a pattern ... maybe 3 (I didn't play 3 much Joe Blade had ... then) the bombs were never in the same place twice.
Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?
... think because of the Basic being more or less ... Beta Basic V5 that it IS ... very very powerful too, even in Basic, forget the 24K of ... , 16 switchable screens to play with combined with the commands ... wonder why more of the Basic programmer`s from the ...Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?
... SAM. It seems obvious in retrospect that forking out ... experience. :-(
The BASIC was excellent. I remember doing ... impressive things with the Blitz command in combination with screen swapping. ... command was/is amazing too.
I guess, in ...Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?
[QUOTE=48K]The BASIC was excellent. I ... things with the Blitz command in combination with screen swapping. ... The SCROLL command was/is amazing too.[/ ... agree with you - the BASIC is great! That's ... with my BASIC tinkering on the +2 in the years ...Speccy vs C64 vs Amstrad - Make your vote count![url]http://www.retrofusiononline.com/fusion/[/url] You know it makes sense. We're winning at the moment, too... D.
... anything useful on the C64 in basic.
Carrier Command!
:lol ...Speccy vs C64 vs Amstrad - Make your vote count![url]http://www.retrofusiononline.com/fusion/[/url] You know it makes sense. We're winning at the moment, too... D.
... the C64 in basic.
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Carrier Command!
Games that shouldn't be good...Anybody ever read a blurb or review of a game and think 'nah, this looks rubbish', only to give it a go and find out that it's pretty damn good? I'v…
Admiral Graf Spee
Written in basic, really slow and crap graphics. But fun to play,especially if you breal into the program and give yourself loads of fuel and torpedos.Total amount of memory on a Speccy ?I wonder............ The C64 (excuse me for saying that name in here. I'll hereby name it just "it") has 64k, while only 38k, or so, is available f…
... free memory for use with BASIC.
... have 4**** available for BASIC, I wondered about how ... up for BASIC, if I can say it in that ...
C64 Basic was made by Microsoft (in that time far ... for Basic when starts. Even no command for it in Basic, but ...Adding AY music to your plogramI'd like to add some nice tune to my program written in machine code. I am not new to assembler programming but with music programming I have no expe…
... that would play e.g pure C note in channel 1 ... here because the SOUND command is a raw interface ... which is described fully in this chapter. There is ... first SOUND command in that chapter lists this to play an A ... to R7.
In assembler you would do the ...Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…
... many posts of agreement here in the past) that Sqij is ... ]
Just trying to play this now... but can't ... awful? (apart from being written in basic)Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…
... =bobs;178161]Just trying to play this now... but can't ... awful? (apart from being written in basic)[/QUOTE]
S'okay ... to turn caps-lock off in basic before you play it... Mmmm...!Worst game ever...?I was wondering which spectrum game was widely regarded as being the worst game ever? I don't just mean by personal opinion, but a universal accepta…
... personal.
Still, go play TT and you may find ... I first played it back in 1982. It's really got ... Arcadia, games were mostly written in BASIC and a bit of hi ... were certainly far worse games in the same genre at about ...Question about snapshot files....I've noticed that everytime I play "The Boss" (football management) it produces the same scores. I've played the first 5 games 3 or 4 times now and t…
... (Peaksoft) is a game written in BASIC.
Just press BREAK ... definite place in its sequence of numbers (according to the BASIC-manual ... ).[/QUOTE]
If I put the RANDOMIZE command in ... I just repeating the same basic error?Question about snapshot files....I've noticed that everytime I play "The Boss" (football management) it produces the same scores. I've played the first 5 games 3 or 4 times now and t…
... is interesting, I wrote a basic program for a horse racing ... the chase. Is there a BASIC line I could add to ... be appriecated as I am in the middle of trying to ... sure I had a randomize command in there at the beginning too ...Speccy 128Im looking to buy a speccy 128 (pref the original sinclair model (even better with the additional keypad)) to replace my broken 48+. I dont have a jo…
... that is impossible to tune in to my main TV so ... the fine tuner while the play command is running. You might get ...Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
... someone's house to play games in turns or 2- ... magazines, try to unprotect basic loaders, type apps and ... remember my first Pacman written in Basic, for eg. Did any ... All those tapes with simple basic+m.c. routines games ... a commodore c16 back in the 1980s when i ...
