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Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... as far as possible in basic (maybe compiled basic) and will run ok ... REM display player
100 PRINT AT playery,playerx;CHR$ 144 ... THEN LET playerx=playerx+1: PRINT AT playery,playerx-1;" "
PRINT AT playery,playerx+1;" "
Name the game, vol. 34829048390Alright, it was a game where you dig through the ground and have to collect some items while watching out for falling rocks (even though I'm pretty …
... /> I remember it was written in Basic, so it would really slow ... (there is already tons of text here), I'll stop and ...Naughtiest keywordWe've had how to generate each of the error messages but which keyword can be used to generate the most errors? BORDER CODE VAL$ "WOS" Nonsense in B…
... /> Nonsense in BASIC
BORDER 0/0
Number too big
BORDER ...Speaking of encrypted Roms from interfaces...Is the MicroSpeech Rom encrypted too? When examining it I've always wondered how they can print the Currah copyright on screen when there's no readab…
Is the MicroSpeech Rom encrypted too?
When examining it I've always wondered how they can print the Currah copyright on screen when there's no readable Ascii text in the rom...
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Fransline editing in emulatorhi, it's been a very very long time since i messed around in basic on the speccy.. wrote a couple of games back then on the original machine.. and w…
... time since i messed around in basic on the speccy..
wrote ... ? how come there's lines in my listing which i cannot ... get a low pitched beep in return..
i had ...Print to text file? (ZX Printer)Are there any emulators that allow the zx printer output to be directed to an ASCII text file? I've been hacking some Brian Howarth adventures and a…
... be directed to an ASCII text file?
I've ... printer output sent to a text file.
I know ... Ultraedit to extract all the text, but I want to do ...Wow! The next big thing in video games?This is amazing! True 3D on a 2D TV screen. Well, alright, not "true" 3D, but it's good enough to fool your eyes and brain. [URL]http://www.youtube…
... see the "correct" 3D view in front of you. If only ...ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... ]here[/url].
The big news is the SCREEN$ paintbox ... of this is that the BASIC debugging windows are available whilst ... address and size in bytes) and import it into BASIC as DATA ... , and the original line remains in BASIC memory. This may break other ...Looking for an extended BASIC graphics routine from mid- to late-80sHello all, This is my first post here so please go easy. This is basically a cut-and-paste job from comp.sys.sinclair where I've had no luck with an…
... I've discovered a small BASIC program that makes use of ... swap' commands from a typed-in BASIC extender program. Alas the machine ... one I'm after. Most BASIC command additions used * or . ... Computing or Sinclair Programs sometime in the mid 1980s (probably no ...Suggestion: A new (and simple but good) feature for emulatorsOne slight but real problem with emulators is that when you load a tape file (.tzx/.tap) then the randomise seed system variables are always set to z…
... zero-zero before loading starts (in effect the game is loaded ... -on Spectrum). This results in any game that uses the ... since it's fortunately written in BASIC I simply added (something like ... remember exactly)
2 Print "Press [SPACE] to continue"
Fastest way to decide which pixel to paint in order to draw a straight line(after I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided to ask this in here) in fact, I want to accelerate a car towards a direct…
... I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided to ... ask this in here)
in fact, I want ... pixel. since target changes position in every iteration, so a new ... fastest method to do this in basic?BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... and some of the really big new features are unfinished.
in the Sinclair BASIC forum.
... to the binary number. (Nonsense in BASIC)
Fixed - A small ... user, which are parsed for BASIC functions, now accept the $ABCD ...Greatest Error Messages of all timeAfter compiling the 13 Greatest Error messages ranging from Abort? Retry or Fail to the Blue Screen of Death, Technologizer has come up with a second…
... the ZX Spectrum's 'Nonsense in BASIC'
[url]http://technologizer ... but good to see it in there.
The ... it with
210 PRINT "Stuff and nonsense. Give me ... />
or
380 PRINT "Answer me properly when I ...About Chess games & BASICIs it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?
Is it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?Vote for the best games everGamefaqs.com are having a best ever game poll, and since Gamefaqs are very well frequented (it's a great site, apart from the trolls and the useless,…
... counted) games will appear in the final results.
... , I voted for: (text in grey is what I've ... and a level editor (basic, but at least it ... which is understandable, but in this case totally wrong).
in replayability, and that's ...The best ... beginning with "G"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "G", which do you think are the: [B]Best …
... game:
Best text adventure:
Best ... br />
Best graphics (in a game):
... ]
In my opinion:
[B]Best text adventure: [/B]No idea.
in BASIC.DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…
... have no idea how to print the memory to screen (Graph ... it in BASIC, but I want to be able to call print on ... a memory location range in a for ...Songs that remind you of your first experiences with the SpectrumHi everyone, glad to be here again after so much time :) I was recently listening to Alan Parsons Project's [i]Ammonia Avenue[/i] and couldn't help …
... Antescher, making my first experiments in computer graphics with [i] ... trying to put together some BASIC lines to accomplish some simple ... brethren. I got my 48K in June 1984, so most ... - Everything Counts
3. Big Country - In A Big Country
4. Dire ...David Hewlett aka Dr Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantisis one of us! He's on holiday visiting family in Good Old Blighty atm... [url]http://twitter.com/dhewlett/status/4157322916[/url] "Found old Sinc…
... 's on holiday visiting family in Good Old Blighty atm...
text adventures in BASIC that is?"help in making a tzx file from standard speedIn short, I want to create a tzx file from the original Navy Moves & Army Moves compilation, giving that the one in WOS archive has an error on Army …
... (it gives C Nonsense in BASIC, 50:3) and I ... recorded both cassette sides in two separate files. The ... report the very first basic header as a turbo ... />
The fragment in discussion is [url=http://www ... version of the very first basic header & program).
"8 CHANNELS" -ZX Spectrum BEEPER demoHi there. :) We finally managed to finish the BEEPER demo with 8-channels songs. You can get it from here: [url]http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=5…
... they require a pretty big buffer space in memory.
... code and scroll-text.
In hardware way Spectrum ... songs in own programs because the songs required too big RAM ... packer)
Tracks in MP3:
[url]http://8bitcollective ...border graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…
... it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program ... you have "scroll ?" in the lower border?
thanks in advance, just curious because obv ... . the "scroll" seems to be in the border. but no one ...Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…
... RAM, and then a routine in BASIC (yeah, I'm a masochist ... , do all the modifications in BASIC, fix the BASIC header using POKEs and ... . routine to save the modified BASIC listing.
And ... ve never tried to compile BASIC listings that use VAL extensively ...Spectranet updateWell, I've not put an update in here for too long, so here's a summary of what's been developing ... * A snapshot manager module. Basically, you can…
... client programs can be written in BASIC.
* Filesystem abstraction layer - allows ... written in C for PCs and other "big" systems.
* Support for BASIC ... going to want a BASIC programming guide in addition to the ones ...Adventures with music?Does anybody know off the top of their head if there were any text adventure games with background music? I can't think of any but I wasn't a big adv…
Does anybody know off the top of their head if there were any text adventure games with background music? I can't think of any but I wasn't a big adventurer in my old Spectrum days..+3 Basic QuestionBeing doing alot of programming in Basic on my +3 recently and was wondering if there is a way to get my Basic programs to auto boot from disk?
Being doing alot of programming in Basic on my +3 recently and was wondering if there is a way to get my Basic programs to auto boot from disk?Balfron the BraveHas anyone heard of a game called Balfron the Brave that came out in around 1983/1984? I remember playing in as a child but on a tape that my dad's f…
... the Brave that came out in around 1983/1984? I remember ... playing in as a child but on ... -setting text adventure with easy difficulty and seemed to be written in BASIC ...Machine code issue...Hi Folks, My trials with MCODE continue and I am stuck. I wrote the following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute byte in to a "box" on th…
... . I wrote the following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute ... byte in to a "box" on ... quick for BASIC if the box is not too big. However, an ...
C9 RET ;RETURN to BASIC[/CODE]
When I ...
