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Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…
... (yet). It's nice for text adventures, but what you're ... achieve it in BASIC. It's just a lot of PRINT and INPUT ... right."
110 PRINT "Would you:"
120 PRINT "1) Open the ... you!"
210 PRINT "He shoots!"
220 PRINT "--- Game Over ---"
Looking for cursor routineIt's been a long time since I programmed a little bit in Basic, so I decided to create a simple cursor routine: [url]http://db.tt/SPnSdpx[/url] I k…
... 128k in 48k mode).
Print something (say six lines of text) in a ... program then in the ... at least, the 16k/48k BASIC system) RANDOMIZE USR 0
[code]10 PRINT "line 1"'"line 2"
Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... to do it in the fzx print routine but that ... , text justification, pixel width measurements of strings or buffers, print styles ... so you can enter text, scrollable text areas and embedded control ... the usual control codes found in basic. And then there's ...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…
... compression, and doing it in BASIC -- compression costs time and ... 25K to use for BASIC programs (but I ... add those 10 PRINT "" into that text file, and then ... use the old fashioned PRINT for those texts that ... on the Spectrum comes in multi-parts with passwords ...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…
... am storing all of the text in strings (LET a$="..." etc) ... the programme in Speccy Basic) to display the text and then ... of a few basic (no pun intended) text components: vocabulary ... BASIC text adventures would put them in DATA variables and then PRINT them ...Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... 48K Spectrum, then type:
PRINT USR 7962:
which calls ... time the text only appears in the data-space, not in the ... the game locations & text into zones, with one data ... zone's text, declared in DEFMs, can easily be emulated in BASIC - just ...Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... calls are stored somewhere too, in case someone RETURNs), and ... : READ L$
30 PRINT L$
40 STOP
40 STOP
9010 PRINT "It was a dark and ... write a multi-part game in BASIC instead. But if you want ... to crunch 50k of text into 25k of memory.Opus Discovery not WorkingHello hope you can help, or if this thread goes well that you also find the answers you are looking for... I have an Opus discovery that does not …
... work if I just 10 print "paul" 20 goto 10 etc ... throws an error of nonsense in basic. Which is a shame.
big ally heat sink as well ...Text file to BASICHi, Is there anything available for Windows or Linux which lets me enter BASIC in a text file and convert to a .TAP file. I seem to recall somethi…
... think he means for BASIC.
In which case I would ... a text editor separate from the emulation but with Sinclair BASIC syntax ... can load and save the BASIC as text. In fact, it's highly ... the BASIC program you're editing. I've even diverted the PRINT ...Text file to BASICHi, Is there anything available for Windows or Linux which lets me enter BASIC in a text file and convert to a .TAP file. I seem to recall somethi…
... think he means for BASIC.
In which case I would ... a text editor separate from the emulation but with Sinclair BASIC syntax ... can load and save the BASIC as text. In fact, it's highly ... the BASIC program you're editing. I've even diverted the PRINT ...FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... like to use FZX in a text adventure project in Basic. However, the ... 65000
03 PRINT #4;AT 0,0;"FZX ... c) Andrew Owen"
04 PRINT #4: FOR f=32 TO ... 127: PRINT #4;CHR$ f;: NEXT ... 05 REM CLS
10 PRINT #4 "Hello World ";[/code]
Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…
... that had interactive GUI elements in that lower screen space ... br />
Way back in the 90s I made the ... movement had turned out. BASIC games don't often have ... a big array then draw it all quickly using
PRINT ... using every trick possible in BASIC :)Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…
... a big array then draw it all quickly using
PRINT AT ... 's using every trick possible in BASIC :)[/quote]
You are ... is a good step beyond in the quality of the program ... ´t use any possible trick in BASIC yet, now I am doing ...How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…
... how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I ... text you want to use in your basic program, because I think that in ...
...
5000 PRINT "You are in a dank dungeon.": RETURN ... path.": RETURN
5020 PRINT "You have reached a dead ...Have you got a project or are doing anything interesting during lock down?I’m “having” “fun” cutting shapes in wall tiles to fit around the electrical switches, sockets and heating/boiler control box in the utility room. …
... porting (and updating) three BASIC Spectrum games to another platform ... getting a lot of practice in BASIC, that's for sure.[/ ... as they are not mega big / complex Basic programs it may be ... 'calculations' in it like a Basic strategy game that was text only like ...CSSCGC 2020The return of the famous, the one and only... https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/ More details and an official announcement to follow soon...
... and was implemented very badly in BASIC, but as it isn ... capacity for extra amounts of text, the ability to resize ... that text, and the lack of ... in 2008, based on a guessing game from The Big ... the game) that [b]Big Clive still owns his QL ...pixel exact printingis there a way of doing this in basic? or by copying / modifying the rom code or using a completely new routine? so that print at x,x works more like…
If you want fast print in pure Basic, then you need custom fonts.< ... on where you need to print, calculate which copy of scrolled ... font address. Print new text with OVER. Don't forget print two lines ... , if text does not fit in regular rows ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... to get rid of it in Basic, but I still don ... just poke it in Assembly like you do it in BASIC.
... more experienced you can print your own letters without ... is for displaying a big 24x24 tile square made ... assemblized poke command somewhere in this part of the ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
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in Basic you use the lower screen as in
PRINT #0, ... AT 0,0;
so in MC ... the NExt message will over print that LOWER screen part< ... /> ret ; back to basic
; Print text on screen
; ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
Are you defining the UDGs in BASIC first?
This ... /> ret ; back to basic
; Print text on screen
; ... ,1,ink,4,paper,2,"Text", 144 ;my custom string, ... ,ink,3,paper,6,"Second Text"
defb 255
...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... "]Are you defining the UDGs in BASIC first?
This ... /> ret ; back to basic
; Print text on screen
; ... ,1,ink,4,paper,2,"Text", 144 ;my custom string, ... ,ink,3,paper,6,"Second Text"
defb 255
...UDG creation? Back to the basics.I just discovered that I have a program called TILED in my download folder and it might be the very tool I need except that I dont think it can expor…
... , bung the binary numbers in a short BASIC program:
[code ... to get a nice Nonsense in BASIC :p
Back then ... ]
5 LET c=0: PRINT : PRINT
10 INPUT a$
text” line down.
[b ...Machine CodeOk i had a spectrum when i was younger and only used it for playin games and typing simple BASIC programs - i mean really simple! Things like 10 Pri…
... simple BASIC programs - i mean really simple! Things like
10 Print ... i want to do something in machine code. I've seen ... ) - how did they do that in basic?! lol im just curious now ...Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…
... which was completely written in BASIC.
3. In Raid over Moscow ... ever.
18. In this text adventure you actually had to ... game.
19. Another text adventure, but this time you ...+Off topic+ Does anyone know where I can by an arcade machine in England?I have been e-baying for sometime now, and have saved enough to treat myself to an arcade machine or possibly a fruit machine. I had a couple of sit…
... my questions about dimenions? Living in an end terrace as I ... , it is a worry getting big stuff in the house.Type in magazineCan anyone remember the name of a type-in magazine. All I can remember was it had programs for zx81 and 48k Spectrums. Some of the programs were a ph…
Can anyone remember the name of a type-in magazine.
All I can remember was it had programs for zx81 and 48k Spectrums. Some of the programs were a photo-fit, one called London Raid, and one with crabs. All in basic.
Thanks
