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A silly BASIC programming challenge for you all..This is a very, very sily idea. So only read if you are bored. I use E-bay a lot. (my user id is thx1138ebn) edit: it's now retro-technology :edit…
For the rubber-chum, this screenful
10 FOR i = 64 TO 87 : POKE 23681,i : LPRINT "Top Ebayer+++++" : NEXT i : PAUSE 0
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POKEs that make games harder(!)Why not? I'm sure everyone has a few games that they always come back to, but wish they were a bit harder so it was more of a challenge. Not every ga…
How about a poke that shortens the time limit on games. Examples I can think of are Manic Miner (air supply) and the timer on Splitting Images. -
POKEs that make games harder(!)Why not? I'm sure everyone has a few games that they always come back to, but wish they were a bit harder so it was more of a challenge. Not every ga…
Spector, surely if you really wanted to play a game from level 4 or wherever, you could just load up an emulator, play to prefered level and then hit 'save as' ? Not amazing, but no Poke-trickery required. -
POKEs that make games harder(!)Why not? I'm sure everyone has a few games that they always come back to, but wish they were a bit harder so it was more of a challenge. Not every ga…
... order? That way, you can poke your way to level 4 ... -
SPIN v0.2c available now[Cut n Paste from the CSS post] Okay, I'm off to sunny(?) Scarborough for a week, so Woody and I thought it best that we give you something to d…
... to find out how the poke tabs work. I enter a ... poke on the Pokes editor but ... nothing.
Also in the Poke Now option, there is a ... next to the Address to POke / Value boxes. Is this supposed ... -
SPIN v0.2c available now[Cut n Paste from the CSS post] Okay, I'm off to sunny(?) Scarborough for a week, so Woody and I thought it best that we give you something to d…
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I enter a poke on the Pokes editor but ... nothing.
Also in the Poke Now option, there is a ... next to the Address to POke / Value boxes. Is this supposed ... -
curious: how did 'they' make games?Now that ive found this forum i can ask all the questions I always thought about :) Im just curious, how did they (the software companies) make the …
... the guy who used to poke his code directly was the ... -
BASIC code challengeWrite a program in BASIC as short as possible that will continue after KEY-RELEASED. The program must be fully relocatable (so it must be programmed …
Well done,
but it can be done shorter.
(P.S. I'm also looking for a nice solution, had something with POKE-ing 23620). -
BASIC code challengeWrite a program in BASIC as short as possible that will continue after KEY-RELEASED. The program must be fully relocatable (so it must be programmed …
... let p = (INKEY$""): poke 23618, 10: poke 23619, 0: poke 23620, ((p and ... way, isn't there.
Poke 23620 makes the program jump ... -
BASIC code challengeWrite a program in BASIC as short as possible that will continue after KEY-RELEASED. The program must be fully relocatable (so it must be programmed …
... this:
poke 23618, peek 23621
poke 23619, peek 23622 ... />
let r = INKEY$=""
poke 23620, ((p and r) * (peek ... . The '4' in the last poke is the number of instructions ... -
Basic listings memory occupationI remember readong someplace that due to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to save space, it was better to represent integers …
... many anti-copying loaders did: POKE a different ASCII representation into ... -
Basic listings memory occupationI remember readong someplace that due to basic's representation of number, in a program, in order to save space, it was better to represent integers …
... the internal representation. If you POKE 2 on the adress that ... -
Horizons and Thro' The Wall- the greatest game of all time.I just got that Horizons tape in a charity shop, I'd never seen it before, and loaded the programs up. What a barrel of laughs that must have been on…
... first had a Spectrum in '82 I did learn how to ... -
Horizons and Thro' The Wall- the greatest game of all time.I just got that Horizons tape in a charity shop, I'd never seen it before, and loaded the programs up. What a barrel of laughs that must have been on…
... 't get this for Xmas '82 (what a shame, eh?). In ... -
Avalon codesIt's always the same: you find out about a game, you want to play it, so you load it up and... it's got a code entry at the start. Anyone have the co…
Here's a quick poke (for emulators that support poking):< ... it asks for the code, poke this:
62281,98 ... -
The Jet Set Willy Editor...Having shared many, many hours with my friends playing the fantastic "Jet Set Willy: Lord of the Rings", they have approached me and asked if I could…
... the code entry system with POKE 34480, 195. Then save the ... -
POKEs that make games harder(!)Why not? I'm sure everyone has a few games that they always come back to, but wish they were a bit harder so it was more of a challenge. Not every ga…
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Manic Miner : Poke 45756,37-63 ie. a ... to start with
Poke 35392,0 Inf.Air ... />
Splitting Image : Poke 62242,1-20 Alter the ... pokes...
Poke 37430,0 Faster Batman
Poke 36607,X X=Springs ... -
POKEs that make games harder(!)Why not? I'm sure everyone has a few games that they always come back to, but wish they were a bit harder so it was more of a challenge. Not every ga…
... the magic of a good POKE. I wouldn't mind that ... -
Spectrum bits and piecesWould anyone be interested in various spectrum stuff - a couple of speccys, rampack, zx printer, interface+microdrive, books and lots of games/utils?…
... -bay 'newbie' and he got 82.00!)
anyway, I ... -
a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... /> LOAD "yourfont" CODE addr
POKE 23606,addr-256*INT (addr ... /256)
POKE 23607,INT (addr/256)-1 ... />
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a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
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To prevent 'scroll?' use POKE 23692,255
[/quote ... 't forget to repeat the poke after 255 screens 'cause the ... full screens
10 POKE 23692,255
20 PRINT ...
20 PRINT "HELLO" : POKE 23692,255 : GO TO 20 -
a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... copying the font, reroute POKE 23606 and POKE 23607 to the new ... -
a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... .. basic instructions likes peek and poke are mysterious for me =}
poke 23606,f making some "for ... -
a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... /> 30 NEXT F
40 POKE 23607,0
... 16384 to 32768 and higher, POKE 23606 with 127 (=> 127 ... F = 15616 TO 16383 : POKE F+17152,PEEK F : NEXT ... : REM COPY FONT
15 POKE 23606,127 : REM POINT TO ... = 32768 to 32768 + 767: POKE F,1+ PEEK F: NEXT ... -
a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... = 219 * 256 , so if you POKE your font from 56320 to ... -
a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
... vaguely that you have to poke the values for xpos, ypos ... -
What's you happiest speccy related memory?Mine would have to be coming home from school at lunchtime with a couple of friends, loading up manic miner or commando for a quick 30 minute game-pl…
... had a Speccy 48K since '82, but was young enough that ... -
Nomen LuniHow many items in total are there to collect in Jet Set Willy? Surely it isn't as many as 255?
... not get with the poke. Maybe the poke has to be entered ... -
Nomen LuniHow many items in total are there to collect in Jet Set Willy? Surely it isn't as many as 255?
Did you use the four pokes? You might have taken the invisible object without noticing. I don't think it can be finished without the invisible object or else why would the poke be necessary.
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Nomen LuniHow many items in total are there to collect in Jet Set Willy? Surely it isn't as many as 255?
... to complete without the Attic poke, that's what everyone else ...
