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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…
[QUOTE=Digital Prawn;332017]When I get "Nonsense in BASIC", the first thing I try is to enable the Interface 1.[/QUOTE]
Ok, just tried to load the disk with Interface 1 enabled, but the emulator (ZX Spin) crashed as I entered the LOAD command. -
Who Are You Guys..... ???I'm curious to learn about the guys (and no doubt gals) who keep this forum alive. Were you all Spectrum-heads from the start? Did any of you come la…
... first had a Speccy back in Xmas '83 and followed it ... taught myself how to program in BASIC to pass the time as ... />
I found an ad in one of the PC mags ... CD-ROM player and found in one of the mags ... br />
I don't play many games on emulators nowadays ... -
Unoriginal Unimaginative UnplayableOK, never mind all those great games, what were the worst? Keep it to games you (or someone you know) actually paid money for back in the days when 8…
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Grid Iron, written in BASIC, and so bad that I ... to suffer him attempting to play it, and obviously trying to ... to do, you'd be in a cell next to Gary ... -
Spectrum +4 ProjectHello there my new forum chummies, Recently I have aquired a specy +2 (grey console) from fleabay after having a wonderfull time at the 2 day Byte B…
... at the time. However, the PLAY command should suffice for testing a ... whatever). And of course built-in ethernet :-)[/QUOTE]
Oh ... will also include an audio in feature, but theres something about ... -
Which tools did developers use to create classic Spectrum games?Does anybody know which tools developers used in classic Spectrum game development? I tried to search web, but unfortunately didn't find anything hel…
... custom sprite editors I wrote in Basic were what I used. Before ... instead of Spectaculator - it's command-line interface is pretty good ... -
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
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ret ; return to BASIC
doprint ld ... BASIC will print anything that is entered after the PRINT-command ... .
The BASIC-interpreter in the ROM makes ... sure this is done. In MC ... -
speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…
... my games and sit and play them in there and annoy the ... geeks while my gran was in the main building doing her ... I think used to key BASIC progs into every now and ... 500 lives for a type in version of Pac-Man. That ... that Keith guy used to play Jumbly a lot on the ... -
speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…
... that the teacher let us play at lunchtimes.
I ... used things like the INT command in my programs as we had ... -
speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…
... that the teacher let us play at lunchtimes.
I ... used things like the INT command in my programs as we had ... -
speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…
... log in and type their password. But the login command would ... 'd type their password in full view of anyone ... I also wrote a program in basic that simulated a working BBC ... , and snuck it in to places to auto-load ... errors. Like you'd type in "*I AM ...." and it ... -
how do i....yank open a game and look at the stuff inside? (im sure there is a technical term for this.) someone mentioned that 'jet set willy 5, ZX heroes' has…
... example, 8 quick beeps in place of one normal speed ... beeps when you would normally play 2 notes at once ... piano. OR, you could play the arpegio bit up to ... slow main tune comes in and then stop playing ... convert. They are not written in BASIC for one, which is ... -
how do i....yank open a game and look at the stuff inside? (im sure there is a technical term for this.) someone mentioned that 'jet set willy 5, ZX heroes' has…
... example, 8 quick beeps in place of one normal speed ... beeps when you would normally play 2 notes at once ... piano. OR, you could play the arpegio bit up to ... slow main tune comes in and then stop playing ... convert. They are not written in BASIC for one, which is ... -
Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…
... store each PLOT or DRAW command in 3 bytes internally. Byte ... an sequence of {COMMAND + parameters} where each COMMAND (PLOT, DRAW, ... "insert" stuff very easily (in BASIC you add extra DATA lines ... (overwriting the final STOP command of course) to effectively ... -
DivIDE and Spectrum +2 (gray)DivIDE connected to my +2 always resets it in 48k mode. Some of the 128k games work but some don't. Is there a solution for it? My DivIDE has a Fatwa…
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1) select in your DivIDE system (fatware/demfir ... ) any 128kB game in .TAP format
2) ... TAP file in 128 basic.
Some 128 basic loaders with ... WARNING:
After write any basic command in 128 basic will ZX software crash. -
DivIDE and Spectrum +2 (gray)DivIDE connected to my +2 always resets it in 48k mode. Some of the 128k games work but some don't. Is there a solution for it? My DivIDE has a Fatwa…
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WARNING:
After write any basic command in 128 basic will ZX crach.[/QUOTE]
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River Raid Tech DemoJust a little something to look at. Enjoy. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_River_Raid_Tech_Demo_01.tap"]Joefish_River_Raid_Tech_Demo_…
... a small retailer back in 1980-something (done in BASIC and compiled). This ... make them appear to be in 3 colours, but they ... , though I have worked in programming for various communications and ... people would actually want to play. It's the latter that ... -
Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
... such as
; a BEEP command, will interrupt the display.
; return to BASIC
ret
; ... that the keyboard still works in BASIC)
jp 56
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Which is the most technically accurate Spectrum Emulator?Ok, which is the most technically accurate Spectrum Emulator? Please don't just vote but give reasons why.
I prefer to play games in ZX32 because it' ... or much extra surround in windowed mode, but also ... /> For development I test in ZXSpin because it seems to ... options, including a better command-line startup that will ... I do my assembly in PASMO though, generating TAP ... -
Goldfinch - an open software stack for mass storageYep, another pet project of mine to compete with all the others I've started. But hey, if I didn't get distracted by things like this I'd just get di…
... the tape in?
e.g. a BASIC app runs ... to the server). The BASIC program then attempts to load ... is run a small BASIC app which could be ... would be easy to write in BASIC, and a simple script ... to retrieve tap files and play them back (perhaps using ... -
Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
... a few handy utils built in too.
It runs ... filename as a command line parameter.
In the menu somewhere ... the resulting tap file will play fine in all decent emulators. -
Reading from the 128 Serial PortDon't shout at me if this is a silly question. I have Googled extensively, and searched the forums, but I can't find anything discussing what seems t…
... page the 48K rom while in +3 DOS. Is it ... use SAVE under +3 BASIC, but it doesn't ... for your experiments?
-In future versions of your Windows ... sent via a SAVE command under BASIC? Let's say I ... possible?
Thanks in advance.[/QUOTE]
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was it all a dreamAfter looking at the forums earlyer today my mind turned too amstrad and i have a vauge memory of two quite different, but both strange machines that…
you could play some Spectrum games on it.< ... .
Sometimes, I did play games on it.
in, or program in BASIC etc -
Centropods Rabbit softwareWeird one this, the game loads fine and all functions perfectly except none of the controls are responsive, the game starts fine but none of the keys…
... the
game was written in BASIC
Recommend you choose ... better centiped clone game to play -
Centropods Rabbit softwareWeird one this, the game loads fine and all functions perfectly except none of the controls are responsive, the game starts fine but none of the keys…
... the
game was written in BASIC
Recommend you choose ... better centiped clone game to play[/QUOTE]
Yep I ... -
divide plus back to life , preorderI have green light form authors to made DIVIDE PLUS, anybody interested? Promise from me , fully asembled and tested DIVIDE PLUS in plastic case. Qua…
... will detect rom type in your ZX Spectrum and ... grey) in USR 0 mode. But 128 basic is enable ... only SPANISH rom with 128 basic).
For example: ... only. But writing command in 128 basic is possible only with ... only add possibility use 128 basic.
For ... -
Reading from the 128 Serial PortDon't shout at me if this is a silly question. I have Googled extensively, and searched the forums, but I can't find anything discussing what seems t…
... system variables. The comments in my patched Spectrum ROM ... now have detailed comments in the 128 ROM 0 ... .
-In future versions of your Windows ... sent via a SAVE command under BASIC? Let's say ... possible?
In theory, yes my utility could ... -
Composing MusicHi, What is the best tool/utility to compose music for programs and games? I am looking for 'point and click' interface that then saves the score as…
... trackers work. For the BEEP command there's GarageBEEP, which is ... that you can load and play back from BASIC. -
Should I buy a Sam Coupe?Hi folks I been interested with the Sam Coupe since Miles Gordon Technology released the SAM as the successor to the Spectrum. Are their any SAM us…
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The keyboard in-ports are read as 95 ... very almost none. Some BASIC games use the IN command. On the SAM ... made a patch for this command in the ZX Spectrom ROM to ... -
Test program for 128k machinesThere is a Test Program for 16/48k machines: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008884&loadpics=3[/url] Is there a similar progr…
... I posted this to css in 2006
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... BASIC ROM which is substantially different and contains the keywords 'PLAY ... and totalling these in BASIC I got the ... LD E,A ; result in E
JR NC, ... -
Very basicI found the wos site a few months ago when searching for solutions to my broken spectrum, that i had dug out of storage and was learning basic on. Si…
... just one more thing in the basic book that ive got it ... a bit handicapped by Sinclair BASIC in that it doesn't allow ... yourself using GO TO's in BASIC, so don't worry too ... done!"
7. Ask user, "Play again?"
8. Jump to ...
