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Why didn't I RTFM when I was a kid?!?!?!I've just been reading this: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXSpectrum128Manual/sp128p09.html And it got me thinking 'Why didn't I Read The F*%…
... , apart from a few things in BASIC that I could fiddle with ... might as well have been in Lithuanian. Of course I was ... face it I wanted to play games, lots and lots of ... -
A BEEP program I want to make in Basic. Helpful remarks gratefully receivedI want to explore the possibilities of the BEEP command. So I need to be able to try different combos of pitch/duration and sequences of same. I'm tr…
... using the BEEP command, from BASIC?... That would be TOO ... are likely after... In BASIC, your kind of limited in what you can ... generation...
Within BASIC itself, Iv never had much ... zip), to output BASIC listings like this, to play tunes: eg:
A BEEP program I want to make in Basic. Helpful remarks gratefully receivedI want to explore the possibilities of the BEEP command. So I need to be able to try different combos of pitch/duration and sequences of same. I'm tr…
... was trying to learn BASIC back in the day I'd ... effect that I could incorporate in my program, without actually ... what it did. So in that spirit, here's ... to play the sound is stored at 32768 in memory ... than trying to do it in BASIC.
Anyway I ...Homebrew game from 80's by Adrian KeylockTrying to track down a game by a boy I was in school with in Porthcawl, South Wales. I know Adrian made a spectrum game and I got it from a local sho…
... % machine code (as they said in early adverts), it has a ... was I wrote a game in basic with a man who erased ... , there always some nasties appear in place of destroyed stuff. You ... will show us how to play it correctly :)[/quote]
Happy ...1987-2017Here we are, with our tradional thread about games released thirty years ago, where we can contemplate how bad they have aged, how bad they [i]alread…
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It's blatantly written in basic, which has either been compiled ... games "action" comes into play, and it's basically a ... time of release guess) a basic knowledge of German (Oooo ...MIDI for spectrumI saw another topic for this in search but it didnt get any informative replies. I was looking through a magazine and found some MIDI stuff, keyboar…
... /> I used only PLAY in 128 Basic. Let a$-h$=" ... blah", PLAY a$,b$,c$ etc ... Midi channel is set in PLAY statement, upto 8 channels ... controller messages via the PLAY statement as well ... sending midi commands are in that small manual somewhere ...What's the Speccy's equivalent of Atari's E.T.?E.T. has long been associated as one of the worst games - if not the worst game for the Atari 2600. I wondered, is there an equivalent for the Specc…
... to play it, I realized I could've done something better in BASIC. :(Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…
... challenge - make a game in BASIC where a prescribed list of ... VAL$, a CONTINUE statement in the program that actually ... )
16.20: Play School (there's probably a ... score 100 points" game in there somewhere)
16 ... has already used it in one of his games ...ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
... I'm more interested in new software (regular spectrum ... in word processors, cp/m terminals and an adaptation of basic ... can write a program in basic that moves a lot ... spectrum, this reduction in development time is very ... just more toys to play with that will appeal ...Minidisc and tap/tzx playerHi I have 2 questions: Is there a player for Windows that can play tap/tzx files (The old links for winamp are no good) I have tried to save to min…
... player for Windows that can play tap/tzx files (The ... cable for the sound) in basic but when I try to ... program called Taper which can play tape files through the ... idea if this will run in Windows, or not. DOSbox ... the sound is stored in a way which makes ...Just watched Paul Jenkinsons's spectrum chanel and now want to write code againPlease assume for the purpose of this thread I know nothing... I want to look to write games on the spectrum but want to develop and test on my wi…
... pixel jumps using speccys built in gfx
[code] 20 PRINT ... think there is room to play with basic in this context..Dont know ... you go with the built in character set, but it could ...In game sound effectsStarting on my game and I have the player movement down well. I want to create a sound when fire is detected. What are my options which wont pause…
For sound, in BASIC, there is BEEP for very ... , and 128K there is a PLAY command for music.
Are social media and cloud computing technologies making computer users stupid?I've noticed of late that young folks seem less and less technically competent with computers when they leave school. With the advent of social medi…
... cases they're interested enough in basic car maintenance, and as ... anyone could be uninterested in the inner workings of ... files and folders contained in the zip file go ... old, it's starting to play up, and I'm ... with the old people in horror stories who steal ...1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …
... and so on.
In Basic this is going to be ... invisible overlays to check whats in the way to limit any ... to get the computer to play one side, just keeping an ...How do I convert a .z80 snapshot to a tape file?I've been fiddling with this for a while but can't get it to work reliably. I use Marvin to write short BASIC and assembly programs that uses .z80 in…
... easy to make tap files in ZXSpin.
Just go ... .
I coded a silly BASIC game using my ZXDS ... and ... it would be possible to play it on a real speccy ... 't get it to play the beeper in BASIC games... so my game ...Must have for all Spectrum fans !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8CRXR0d5NY
... at least from the programming in Basic point of view. I got ... still had a TS2068 to play with, what a nice machine ...Must have for all Spectrum fans !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8CRXR0d5NY
... at least from the programming in Basic point of view. I got ... still had a TS2068 to play with, what a nice machine ...Must have for all Spectrum fans !https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8CRXR0d5NY
... at least from the programming in Basic point of view. I got ... still had a TS2068 to play with, what a nice machine ...Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... are stored somewhere too, in case someone RETURNs), and ... L$, the DATA stored in line 30, which is ... memory as you're further in the game.
in BASIC instead. But if you want to play with ... crunch as much as stuff in as possible, then you ...TV for ZX SpectrumPlease select your TV type
... variable at 23388). Third, BASIC is probably too slow ... for this. Fourth, in principle, you won’t ... , program must be loaded in USR0 mode (or from ... ) then in basic is all ok, same as play AY music ... routines from basic.
4 ...My 128k +2 Clean upI decided to pull my old 128k +2 and 48k rubber key out of the attic this weekend. Not been switched on in 30 years or so. The rubber key is dead …
[quote="Nonsense in BASIC;56648"]Can I use ... standard/"]trivial and mostly mechanical in nature[/url] (cut a ... , solder a single wire in its place). If it ... even have to press the play button, as the circuitry ... is always active in these machines. You can ...What's The Hardest ZX Spectrum Game You've Completed Without Cheats?What is the most difficult ZX Spectrum game you've completed without cheats?! Mine is Impossaball by Hewson which I actually managed to do for the f…
... it was pretty bad to play ;;)
Still, managed to ... , mind you with it being in Basic it was not too difficult ...Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
I have just had a quick play, and I think it looks great. All in BASIC? Good job mate.random number generator without using rnd in basicwhat is the simplest way to generate random numbers in basic (0-255), without using the rnd statement? i also want it to always generate the same…
... initial seed used.
In BASIC the RANDOMIZE statement seeds the ... , detailed scenarios. For example, in Elite, there are eight galaxies ... the same every time you play it, because it was ... useful to control how games play. Different aliens can spawn at ...CSSCGC 2020The return of the famous, the one and only... https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/ More details and an official announcement to follow soon...
... can, with what I know in BASIC, occasionally pull a few tricks ... , usually involving PLAY commands to stop the game working in 48 BASIC. I ... Machine[/url], to the cleaners. In retrospect, I should have paid ... out the money in yen in that game rather than ...Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...
... /software/games/pssst-ultimate-play-the-game"][b]Pssst[/ ... and pushing the boundaries early in the Spectrum's history, ... and game innovations they achieved in the finished product.
... tried to write in BASIC (and later, compiled BASIC) could be considered ...Is it me or is the +2 manual nowhere as good as the original?I think it's probably as much to do with my ageing brain as the bloody manual for the Spectrum +2 from Amstrad but the explanations don't make as muc…
... you could write your own basic programs on, to a kiddies ... and type in basic programs on it, i did mostly play games on ...CSSCGC 2021: 25th edition extravaganza![img]https://csscgc2021.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/yellow_programmer_960x600.png[/img] [url=https://www.rickdangerous.co.uk/csscgc2021/][b][size=…
... helpfully left some paint in the shed, and the ... about four litres left in there after I'd ... dried paint that were floating in it. Unfortunately, there ... utterly generic and simple and basic - in BASIC - [b]FOR THE ... machine is child's play for anyone well versed ...
