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BattlecarsI don't think this was ever a very popular game. But I really liked it back in the day. The only problem with it is that you have to do a lot of re…
... couldn't use the garages in a combat game as ... is very easily worked out in the Autodrome, you can' ... , and you can't play Slug City at all.
The game isn't entirely in BASIC, although a big chunk of ... The main game itself is in machine code though, as is ... -
Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... be used generally by a basic program) so when I ... new RAMTOP with the CLEAR command and then copy the ... bytes would be mighty slow in basic, so you'll want ... the copy and the value in HL is the source ... so that the copy occurs in the opposite direction.
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Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... RAMTOP with the CLEAR command and then copy the ... would be mighty slow in basic, so you'll want ... that the copy occurs in the opposite direction.
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Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…
... said in my post) ive never done anything outside basic sinclair basic stuff ... , let alone integrating it into basic).
Is there an ... new RAMTOP with the CLEAR command and then copy the screen ... bytes would be mighty slow in basic, so you'll want some ... -
Faster Pussycat, yer man (UDG)Right we are almost into a game area. Ive started to play with UDG and by using bins and pokes I can redesign graphics to my hearts content. Now Im…
... that directly relate to characters in the ZX81 character set.< ... holds each row of pixels in each character, not entire ... the PRINT AT command, each row is copied in machine code, so ... anything similar you could do in BASIC.
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Faster Pussycat, yer man (UDG)Right we are almost into a game area. Ive started to play with UDG and by using bins and pokes I can redesign graphics to my hearts content. Now Im…
... UDG "a" AT 0,0 in BASIC (48k Spectrum):
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question about RST 10hhow do you set the position of the text when using 'RST 10h' to print to screen?
question about RST 10hhow do you set the position of the text when using 'RST 10h' to print to screen?
[quote=Dr BEEP;193296]ermmm, not tested, but I don't think that this will work, your pointer in BASIC are still doing the RANDOMIZE command.
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Works in Spin... :wink:question about RST 10hhow do you set the position of the text when using 'RST 10h' to print to screen?
Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…
... instructions, and just type in 10 PRINT "HELLO" rather ... a virtual speccy to play with I forgot that ... keyword' I had just typed in CODE after the "", stupid ... you take written something in basic then trying to convert ... game so it runs ok in basic
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...I wonder why I started this....Hi I was bored today, and have for some time now been speculating about making a Spectrum game in Basic. As said today I was bored, and started on i…
... problem is, how do I in basic check what UDG character is ... use the ATTR(x,y) command to find which colour is ...i need to buy this game"stock market" a game about buying and selling stocks in gold and silver and tin etc.have you got one for sale???:smile:
... program something like this myself in BASIC, wittily titled Advanced Shares Simulator ... . You could trade in Gold, Jewels, Copper, Guns and ... when I discovered the INKEY$ command and realised I could make ...A challenge thats probably impossiblehere's a challenge for all you coders. Given a snapshot, is it possible to create a program to sniff out the original start address for the game that…
... although), you can guess in some cases the start ... load game loader written in Basic, which then loads game ... of memory where this Basic loader is stored (it ... appropriate RANDOMIZE USR address command. THen we read the ... addres from this command and we have it. ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... specific character coordinates (as in PRINT AT in basic), print centered text on ... contain code for each recognized command byte. For the 0x16 case ... the next character in the string following the command byte sequence just ...Machine CodeHi all, I want to get a machine code/assembler/dissasembler program from the WOS archives. But what in your opinion would be the best to get? I don`t…
... 128K machines. The fault is in the way it sets the ... 768 instead of 767 bytes in the BC register.
Load ... it in 48K mode and then POKE ... does not survive the NEW command in 128K BASIC.Is 'Theatre Europe' winnable?Can you actually beat the computer at this, as Nato vs Warsaw Pact? Even if I hold my nerve and refrain from chemical/nuclear retaliation to their n…
... game was made as a basic shooter and then it was ... . Almost the opposite to Missile Command in fact, where Atari developed the ...Help hacking Split PersonalitiesI`ve been hacking away at Split Personalities for the purpose of putting new screens and graphics (items). The current screen is at 41187 and is 160…
... a packer for yersen in basic by loading your screen ... stick any code in say #33 in the first ten places ... game again. As you play the game you should notice ... instances of that address in the program by doing ... br />
Screens come in two parts. First is the ...Vector`scan anyone give me any advice or a description of vector`s... don`t mean line drawing vector`s but directional vector`s, I think there called vector`…
... , mostly... I`ll have a play around tommorow and see how ... commands or less per frame in Basic, compared to I imagine thousands ... comparing how long Sinclair Basic, SAM Basic and Master Basic take to perform ...A few questions about machine codeOh no... another noob. I'm giving my first steps in assembler (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article explaining that if I wan…
... , after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU ... certain purpose for a certain command?
I ... It's a block copy command. It loads the address ... very successful return to basic with the interrupts disabled. ... . If you use the command, make sure you enable ...A few questions about machine codeOh no... another noob. I'm giving my first steps in assembler (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article explaining that if I wan…
... (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article ... certain purpose for a certain command?
I have a ... . I still see registers as BASIC variables, and I want to ...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…
... ) I tried using one INPUT command of the form "item,quantity ... u$ as a string (Nonsense in BASIC), so you need more logic ... . I'm still occasionally thinking in BBC Basic, where a comma causes ...Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…
... convert the Basic-Loader (also add disk loading command) and ... did it last time in pure Basic. Using TAPER I ... TAP File in Basic and SAVE to Disk also in Basic. Any ... work with it and exchange Basic Loaders.
in another way as ...Paging MemoryAny idea why this short piece of code doesnt work, just crashes. I am just messing with paging memory in and out (not achived this yet) and reading t…
... call to MC from BASIC some bytes are put ... To succesfully return to the BASIC you must set the SP ... reset the SP in BASIC with a CLEAR xxxxx command you make ... you want to return to BASIC be sure that
... corrupted on return to BASIC (even in MC when you do ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... quote=ghbearman;215060]BBC Basic had a built in assembler.[/quote]
... hardware or whatever? The BASIC command(s) to change modes ... should resume with a CONTINUE command.[/quote]
... games written in BASIC? The speed of Spectrum BASIC is the ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... beat the C64's BASIC hands down, in my opinion. It ... At least writing graphical programs in BASIC was practical on the Spectrum ... d have liked to see in Spectrum BASIC are faster execution speed ... the subject of assembler: to play about with machine code on ...What was the worst game you brought ?Only games you paid for please :) Myself i think it was Alien Kill (Mastertronic) Apologies if the author is on here :oops: But even at the time…
... utter howler. Written entirely in BASIC (which is too slow ... only the menus were in BASIC, the actual flight sim ... bit was in machine code).
< ... was a routine to play an intro tune, which ... did get airborne, the in flight pictures were mostly ...Anyone program on the speccy and still program?I messed around with Spectrum basic in the 80's mainly doing drawings that I created using basic commands. I then learnt Z80 Assembler for a collage …
... Martijn DID see the pun in the post (we know eachother ... from meetings in Holland)!
As for ... )
3) a suitable BASIC-command in Spectrum BASIC which I can't remember ...
