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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 ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... . The security check is implemented in BASIC rather than m/c.
command, of course):-
PEEK ... -
Loading ScreensWhat method of revealling loading screens can be achieved in BASIC or is the only one which can be done the one which reveals it line by line over an…
... can reveal the screen from BASIC in any way you want - simply ... the FDD-/HDD- interface MB02+ in Basic you simply have to type ... memory.
The POKE command in BS-DOS has the same ... the start adress given in the POKE command.
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Daley Thompson's gamesChoose a game. On my opinion, although Decathlon was the first, Super Test has a wide variety of challenges (from pistol shoot to penalties...), and…
Super Test. more colourful and slightly more interesting events. (pistol shoot , tug-o-war, penalties). more fun to play that the basic track events on Decathalon.( in my opinion)
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How to rotate an imageI'm working on an idea for a game and to test it I want to draw some graphics on the screen which are made up of 8x8 pixel squares (single characters…
Just play with the counters.
For example (in BASIC for clarity) to ... -
ZXSpin 0.62 Available nowAs promised (and only a [i]little[/i] past the deadline) here is the latest version of ZXSpin. Many bugs have been fixed, and a few new features add…
... for the computer's built-in BASIC.
BASin provides ... can single step through your BASIC code and alter variables ... is fully supported, not just BASIC), Tape (tzx/tap) creator, ... more planned. The BEEP/PLAY composer is in production as is another ... -
Dangerous Z80 Assembly CommandHave been reading Toni Bakers' "Mastering MC On Ya Speccy" book and came across the list of Z80 commands in the dictionary section. Page 102 "[b]IM…
... the music stops playing whilst BASIC performs tasks like displaying ... % of my program is written in BASIC.
What works:-< ... ), returns to BASIC correctly whilst still running in the background.
BASIC to print the result of the USR command on ... -
BBC microI was often made aware by people at the time that the beeb was the "best computer in the world." Even my next-door neighbour ( who was a bit of a co…
... at, as only THEY could play 'Elite' which is far too ... /> 8. They would often type in BASIC program listings with lots of ... percent signs in.
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Spectrum Ethernet update...in which a toastrack 128K machine prods a machine outside of my LAN for the first time. [url]http://spectrum.alioth.net/doc/index.php/Current_eve…
... [LIST]
[*]$0b (Nonsense in BASIC)
[*]$0e (Invalid Filename)< ... BASIC ROM. Job done.
[*]Finally, you get to run your command ... jump to BASIC_STMT_R_1 ($1b7d) in the BASIC ROM. Finished!
... final point. If your command succeeded at runtime, it ... -
Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…
... the method could be copied in BASIC. The BASIC equivalent is:
10 ... />
Either of those BASIC methods could be modified to ... area and the slow PLOT command wouldn't be needed, then ... Robot[/url]. This is in BASIC and rather cleverly constructs a ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... such as the one used in #488.[/QUOTE]
in the main loop.
... and drawing only the doors in the main game loop. ... it's own seperate PLOT command, and three DRAW commands ... of the screen when DRAWing in BASIC, so this room is ... -
Interface 1 emulation issuesFor Virtual Spectrum v3.0 I am implementing virtual Interface 1 and Interface 2 options! The I/F2 ROM option works already, and I have got the I/F1 s…
... a play around. This program has actually exposed some bugs in emulators ... half way through with "Nonsense in BASIC". Normal speed loading works fine ... />
2) The second bug in Eightyone is to do with ... to 2). It works fine in EightyOne the first time around ... -
New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…
... to BASIC with the address of this string in the ... BC register pair. In other words, ... testing A worked fine in the demo game when ... and y before the spawn command in the restart. I find ... leave a ghost image in your starting position. I ... -
MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
... were talking about the ResiDOS command "[B]%cp[/B]" (copy ... to manually modify all the BASIC programs... Any ResiDOS software ... , mainly for typing form command line in BASIC. Because I am used ... Of course, I strongly bear in mind when writing any programs ... -
MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
... purposes, mainly for typing form command line in BASIC. Because I am used ... functions anyway (it's just in there for completeness). -
Advice needed please!Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of this question but I'm programming a simple adventure game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple …
[QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;263074]Thanks for the advice ... 's lots of options to play with, and it's *very ... it's very, very close in usage to common PC paint ... -
IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …
... to play the game tape. Just play from the main BASIC loader (in the ... /> JR newline ;do next line in BASIC
vclear:
CALL ... /> vload2:
;data type in D
;00 = BASIC
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Specdrum 3 W.I.PIts a new app so i needed a new thread sorry :) I am sorry i have been neglecting this site and i have been working hard on Specdrum 3 Honest i hav…
... files by converting them to play"xxxxx" strings which is what ... module page so you can play it from an external midi ... account that this is written in basic and then compiled
play etc........
to do all that in 48k and ... -
BBC microI was often made aware by people at the time that the beeb was the "best computer in the world." Even my next-door neighbour ( who was a bit of a co…
... at, as only THEY could play 'Elite' which is far too ... /> 8. They would often type in BASIC program listings with lots of ... percent signs in.
9. Not only were ... -
Running Zeus RoutinesHi, i need to load zeus routines in zeus assembler from Spectaculator or Spin.. I followed the manual (switched off auto tape loading, run zeus and t…
... doesn't work too well in 128K Basic.
The fault is ... in the way it sets the ... in memory and one byte is corrupted by the NEW command in 128K BASIC ... but not in 48K BASIC due to a ... -
Worst loading screens?For me, I think that it's a tie between [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013355]Star Trek 3050[/url] and [url=http://www.worldo…
... a FOR-NEXT loop in Basic with the CIRCLE command, and then the ... looked a little bit better in [B]Barbarian[/B]..
in the game are as bad ... -
New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…
... and that's lovely to play.
I would suggest ... ; enemy sprites could be stored in 4 per-shifted versions - that ... that could still be written in Basic.
Like Zagreb I ... that if they could write in assembler then so many more ... -
New game from CEZGS: Mariano the Dragon in Capers in CitylandHi all, here we come with another game for our Spectrums! Mariano, the Pink Dragon, has to face an incredibly difficult mission. All his friends hav…
[QUOTE=na_th_an;269059]I usually code my games pixel-perfect and smooth (Phantomasa 2, Moggy or Infinity), this was just for the tutorial, and that's why it's written in BASIC :)[/QUOTE]
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Porting C64 text adventures to ZX Spectrum?I would like to port some of my text adventures from the C64 on over to the ZX Spectrum. Is this easy to do? Can someone with knowledge of the Spectr…
I wrote them in BASIC 2.0 on the Commodore 64. They are fairly easy to port, assuming the C64 and Spectrum BASICs share similar commands (although I noticed that Spectrum BASIC uses PRINT AT and apparently lacks a READ command).
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Porting C64 text adventures to ZX Spectrum?I would like to port some of my text adventures from the C64 on over to the ZX Spectrum. Is this easy to do? Can someone with knowledge of the Spectr…
... Panks;271907]I wrote them in BASIC 2.0 on the Commodore ... Spectrum BASIC uses PRINT AT and apparently lacks a READ command).
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Spectrum BASIC has ... 're not looking at ZX81 BASIC, which doesn't? -
Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... &&5e"
50 play a$,b$,c$
60 ... ;f5&#ga"
90 play d$,e$,f$
100 ... &&5a"
130 play g$,h$,i$
140 ... scan) and gives a 'Nonsense in Basic' error. After I get the ... -
Classical music on the Speccy?While I was watching CVP409 videos on YT, I found a few movie scores and it made me start yet another topic about the AY chip. I know the beeper and…
... , while searching for classical music in midi format, I found some ... music in .abc format, which looks like ... ] into strings for the 128K Play command. :-o -
HELP: Installing FUSE on OpenSolarisDigital Prawn has made packages of Fuse 0.9.0 for OpenSolaris. I am still trying to get Fuse 0.10.x to compile under Solaris 10 U6.
... time, I know things in this package need tidying ... that is), and bundled them in the package.
play games in it.
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Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…
... is only provided for BASIC "silicon disc" and PLAY functionality.
in one bank whilst still allowing the usual 128K basic ... half of the app is in BASIC. The IM2 routine also jumps ... to allow editing of the BASIC program whilst my IM2 routine ...
