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  • Matt Smith as Doctor Who?Now that Matt Smith's first series (or season) as the Doctor has ended, how do you rate him? Do you think he's done a good job, is suitable for the p…

    ...
    [QUOTE]
    David Tennant in himself was a good Doctor ... what was the point in the big reunion in Stolen Earth/Journeys' End ... Captain Jack should have stayed in his own series.. Martha Jones ... understanding of science fiction is basic at best, and he' ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2010 Chit chat
  • How many hours a week do you use your Speccy?How many hours a week do you use your Speccy and for what (gaming or programming?).

    ... and not enough hours in the day to play ... my girlfriend's moving in in the next week or ... chilling (large video collection, big screen and games console) ... get the hardware up (in rotation with t'other ... 't recently. Also dabbling in BASIC (carrying on from where ...
    urbanupstart urbanupstart July 2010 Games
  • How many hours a week do you use your Speccy?How many hours a week do you use your Speccy and for what (gaming or programming?).

    ... as my girlfriend's moving in in the next week or so ... for chilling (large video collection, big screen and games console) and ... haven't recently. Also dabbling in BASIC (carrying on from where I ... the associated paraphenalia lives in a tuff crate in the loft. It ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 July 2010 Games
  • 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…

    ... head if there were any text adventure games with background music ... but I wasn't a big adventurer in my old Spectrum days ...
    NickH NickH July 2010 Games
  • DivIDE Plus FeedbackFinally had a chance to try out the DivIDE Plus since I got a CF card working (thanks to Rich) I put on a load of TAP and Z80 files I had onto it (I…

    ... loading/saving. (similar browser as in FATWARE). Actually I can't ... /> for example:
    - Is very big problem load ART STUDIO from ... for possibility use command line in basic....
    velesoft velesoft July 2010 Hardware
  • DivIDE Plus FeedbackFinally had a chance to try out the DivIDE Plus since I got a CF card working (thanks to Rich) I put on a load of TAP and Z80 files I had onto it (I…

    ... loading/saving. (similar browser as in FATWARE).[/QUOTE]

    ... can use Sami Vehmaa's BASIC program which runs on ... /> for example:
    - Is very big problem load ART STUDIO from ... for possibility use command line in basic....[/QUOTE]

    You ...
    glancaster glancaster July 2010 Hardware
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... made his editor for Cybernoid in basic. Everything is pre-calculated from ... a lot of slow down in rooms with the volcano, so ... can't put too much in those rooms.

    I ... on it, like getting the big gun from Exolon into the ...
    FrankT FrankT August 2010 Games
  • Granny's Garden[IMG]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Granny%27sGardenWitch.gif[/IMG] As I'm sure everyone is aware, Granny's garden is not permitted for distribut…

    ... Granny's Garden is written in BASIC...), or maybe it will run ... like Stig of the Dump). Text adventures are just unlike anything ... kids will have seen a text interface adventure. For me, ... BBC there were better educational text adventures such as Martello Tower ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2010 Games
  • Granny's Garden[IMG]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Granny%27sGardenWitch.gif[/IMG] As I'm sure everyone is aware, Granny's garden is not permitted for distribut…

    [quote=nonsense in basic;464067]there was an ... beeb, which was also in schools. It was more ... kids at the time. Purely text (well if not 99%). Black ... background white text (standard size font). Nsew ... movemnet. You're in a house for the most ...
    John Elliott John Elliott August 2010 Games
  • New Game: Climbing ManA few years ago I created a solo boardgame that simulated in a way, climbing a rock wall. It was roughly based on the rock climbing sections of the c…

    ... ) but it turns out once in a while a diagonal move ... can test as much keys in BASIC as you want, just you ... have to use IN instead of INKEY$.

    10 LET a=IN 254
    20 PRINT AT 0,0;a ...
    ellvis ellvis August 2010 Announcements
  • New Game: Climbing ManA few years ago I created a solo boardgame that simulated in a way, climbing a rock wall. It was roughly based on the rock climbing sections of the c…

    ... /> 10 LET a=IN 61438
    20 PRINT AT 0,0;" ... 23 IF a=181 THEN PRINT AT 0,0;"up- ... 24 IF a=183 THEN PRINT AT 0,0;"right"
    PRINT AT 0,0;"down-right ... 27 IF a=171 THEN PRINT AT 0,0;"down-left ... Bit operations are pretty missing in BASIC.
    ellvis ellvis August 2010 Announcements
  • New Game: Climbing ManA few years ago I created a solo boardgame that simulated in a way, climbing a rock wall. It was roughly based on the rock climbing sections of the c…

    ... /> 10 LET a=IN 61438
    20 PRINT AT 0,0;" ... 24 IF a=183 THEN PRINT AT 0,0;"right"
    25 IF a=179 THEN PRINT AT 0,0;"down-right ... 27 IF a=171 THEN PRINT AT 0,0;"down-left ... /> Bit operations are pretty missing in BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    Just ...
    jonathan jonathan August 2010 Announcements
  • TIMEX 2048: anybody can convert GIGASCREEN?Hi. Timex 2048 has stable GigaScreen (no flickering at all). I know there are several big TC2048 fans on the Forum. Could anybody write a viewe…

    ... a game 3.5x as big as JetPac!

    e ... 2008 entry HunchBack '08 written in BASIC at [url]http://reptonix.awardspace ...
    Fred Fred August 2010 Development
  • New RZX Block Type Suggestion -- AnnotationWho is maintaining the RZX specification at the moment? I'd like to ask for the feasability of the following request. Annotations embedded within th…

    ... confusion).

    Text Attributes: The basic attributes of Text are display time ... , display duration, the text string ... report an error, and the Text in question will be ignored.
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak August 2010 Emulators
  • Mire MareThis could have been posted before, but What is the myth surrounding this game..i've read reviews off different people and some say it was finished a…

    ... the game was written either in Basic or using Quill (even if ... near the quality of top text adventures from these parts like ... was more of a type-in quality....
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2010 Games
  • Mire MareThis could have been posted before, but What is the myth surrounding this game..i've read reviews off different people and some say it was finished a…

    ... the game was written either in Basic or using Quill (even if ... near the quality of top text adventures from these parts like ... of a type-in quality....[/QUOTE]

    In that case we ...
    Pegaz Pegaz August 2010 Games
  • How do you work with fonts on speccy?just curious really.. I know c64 workings, and obv. the spec you draw direct to screen.. on 64 , you'd make what would be equivalent to UDG.. and sa…

    ... to work with Basic or assembler.

    In Basic there are 21 ... you store new letters somewhere in memory and change this variable ... doesn't have hardware sprites, text modes or graphic modes. There ... must create a copying routine in asm.
    Ralf Ralf September 2010 Development
  • IF and control flow in machine codeHi everyone, Basic has a nice control flow like if statements. How can these be done in machine code since i cant find anything thanks

    In MC you use flags and ... in BASIC and in MC

    10 LET A = 3
    20 PRINT ... printable
    rst 16 ; do print
    pop af ; regain original ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2010 Development
  • Another machine code problem, sorry[CODE] OPCODE HEX ADD LD A,00 3E00 F000 PUSH AF F5 F002 LD B,05 0605 F003 LD C,06 0E06 LOOP F005 POP AF F1 ADD A,C 80 DEC B 05 …

    ... keys. I did that bit in basic and it worked. The next ... screen). I first just used PRINT USR 61440 and it worked ...
    Robin Robin September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Last of my +3 disks and....a Wafadrive! Anyone actually ever use a Wafadrive back in the day? [url]http://shop.ebay.co.uk/millys-pigdog/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_t…

    ... />
    If the programs are in Basic, you've got no problems ... . Just load them in, then save them onto the ... COPY to Epson printer, print graphics from Basic, a printer channel driver ... "]a single wafadrive image[/URL] in the archive - so someone ( ...
    jp jp September 2010 Sales
  • Location of variableHi everyone When basic makes an array how to you find out the location in the ram of where the data is stored. :) Also, does it store the values in…

    ... 122-124 of the 48k BASIC Programming manual. Here's an ... manipulating them directly from memory in BASIC is a bit tricky.
    IN o$
    3001 PRINT #0;AT k0 ... :
    IF e=code THEN PRINT #0;AT k0,k0;TAB ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • ccompletly baffeled machine codeHi everyone, BEFORE you ask i have not asked help for loads of problems i have recently now encountered and i figured the problems out myself, hones…

    ... can't - for example - Print the Letter A all over ... cleared, so you can Print a Character or UDG, ... as something else and Print it again somewhere else ... br />
    Example: To print the letter "A" at the ... is equivalent to PRINT AT 0,0;"A" in BASIC) you could ...
    Turkwel Turkwel September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Adventure games written in basic (commercial)This thread partly got me thinking > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31141[/url] But I'd like to know about adventure ga…

    ... ). School Report was mainly BASIC (with a hint of ... was a lot of text in it. I did write ... structure a text adventure game in good old Speccy BASIC, and ... it and decipher the BASIC listing.... with no success ... by Automata) also written in BASIC, as well as both ...
    thezxfiles thezxfiles September 2010 Games
  • Adventure games written in basic (commercial)This thread partly got me thinking > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31141[/url] But I'd like to know about adventure ga…

    ... ). School Report was mainly BASIC (with a hint of ... was a lot of text in it. I did write ... structure a text adventure game in good old Speccy BASIC, and ... it and decipher the BASIC listing.... with no success ... by Automata) also written in BASIC, as well as both ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 September 2010 Games
  • Keyboard mapping...Hi Folks, This is probably going to be one of those daft questions but... On the emulators (Spectrum and CPC) why are the keyboards not mapped to t…

    ... big gamepad, few users probably notice it. Anyone up to tinkering in BASIC ...
    obo obo September 2010 Emulators
  • The Cecco controversySo as I said in the other thread, I'd try out Cybernoid - since I've never played a Cecco game, and never seen one, I'd be coming from a position of …

    ... Cybernoid editor done in basic by '48k' in the archive.[/QUOTE ... manage to get my text adventure finished that' ... Maybe I'll do a text-based Cybernoid III.....
    ... They are only ever in rooms where you duck ... hide from them in sequential holes in the green piping ...
    Lebowsk1 Lebowsk1 October 2010 Games
  • variable variable names with VAL$It's possible to make the RH-side variable names in a LET statement be themselves variable by using VAL$. Thus, if v$ holds the [b]name[/b] of anothe…

    ... machine code routine, but not in BASIC. Is there any method available ... for doing this in BASIC?[/QUOTE]

    I' ...

    And:
    [code]PRINT this is a variable[/code ... , this also works:
    [code]PRINT thisisavariable[/code]
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Print text in assemblyHello, a perhaps simple question: I would like to print a text string on the screen and I wonder how to do that in the most easy way? I seem to re…

    ... I would like to print a text string on the screen ... wonder how to do that in the most easy way? ... I set up a position in memory with some string, ... equalient of PRINT AT 5,10;"Hello", but in assembly.
    PRINT "" AND USR adres = upper ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2010 Development
  • ZX-Editor, Blockeditor and Paintbrush 2.0 publishedDear ZX-Spectrum & Emulator friends, yesterday I've uploaded new versions of - ZX-Blockeditor - ZX-Editor - ZX-Paintbrush on my website at [URL="h…

    ... on testing my Beta Basic syntax checker etc. I ... like ZX-Editor being in pure text mode after start, ... file and then was in Basic editing mode and could ... new function of editing Basic programs in a [COLOR="Red"] ... if you select a Basic program/Variables block and ...
    clausjahn clausjahn October 2010 Emulators
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