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Boomshine in SpecBASHere's a little game called "Boomshine": [url]http://www.k2xl.com/games/boomshine/[/url] It's a really nice, relaxing puzzle game about exploding b…
... ,palinc: IF palinc=target THEN PRINT SCALE 2,2;CENTRE 6 ... IF np=target-1 THEN PRINT SCALE 2,2;CENTRE 6 ... !": GO TO 570
550 PRINT SCALE 1,2;CENTRE 6 ... : READ nb,target
570 PRINT INK 247;SCALE 2,2 ... SCRw/2+66,246 FILL : PRINT INK 247;CENTRE 27;PAPER ... -
48K Upper memory issues?Having more issues with the 48K spectrum I just fixed that had the black screen in this thread [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread…
... /> Ran the memory test
PRINT PEEK 23732 + PEEK 23733 * 256 ... then run POKE 32805,85 : PRINT PEEK 32805
I ... I run POKE 32805,170 : PRINT PEEK 32805
I ... -
Soundex routineIn an idle 5 minutes I wrote a short routine to calculate Soundex codes using the algorithm described here: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounde…
In an idle 5 minutes I wrote a short routine to calculate Soundex codes using the algorithm described here:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex#American_Soundex[/url]
It gives the correct result for all of the examples on ... -
New Game: Micro INCYet another match-3 game made in a week just to finish my "1 game a month" challenge for 2014. Again Z88DK with SP1 lib and targeting the ZX Spectrum…
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Nothing fancy. Match 3 tiles or more. Time limit. An ... increasing number of tiles must be removed to level ... up. Some tiles are special (x5, time up ... -
An Atari ST calendar for 2015Unlike we are mostly ZX Spectrum followers, me too, I've recently marketed a 2015 calendar celebrating 30th Anniversary of the Atari ST home computer…
... want your own copy and print it for your home or ... -
PS1 'paint the planet' gameHi all Trying to remember I game I played on the PS1 (only played a cover-CD demo from a mag but I assume it was a commercial release too) where you…
... the 3D planet, colouring the tiles as you went. There were ... add their colour to the tiles. It may have been competitive ... trying to colour as many tiles as possible).
The ... -
RANDOMIZE - still not sure what it does...Whenever I wish a random number I use RND like: 10 LET a=RND*100 20 PRINT a 30 GO TO 0 and "a" will truly be random. But if is do the following: …
... a=RND*100
20 PRINT a
30 GO TO ... a=RND*100
20 PRINT a
30 GO TO ... a=RND*100
20 PRINT a
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48K Not booting properlyBought another faulty spectrum from Ebay. This one, when you turn it on, it looks like it's going to boot OK, but when it gets to the point where it…
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Strange keyboard port reads on 48+Hi all, I don't know whether it was already discussed (I also searched forum, but there are too much of results searching "48k keyboard" so I didn't…
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40 POKE 23692,255: PRINT USR 32768;" ";: GO TO 40 ... -
Chuckie Egg 2 PokesOkay, so, I fancy a crack at Chuckie Egg 2 before FA Cup MotD comes on. Loaded it up, and tried the Multiface poke, but the one that crops up EVERYW…
... that there was a mis-print on some Chuckie 2 tapes ... -
Biggest baddie in a speccy gameIf you ignore really huge ones where the whole game is set inside a baddie (Dominator, Gutz etc), what is the biggest enemy "sprite" in a Spectrum ga…
... those are just specific background tiles with multiple smaller enemies (=gun ... -
English text proof-readingHi, I'm a non-native speaker of English, and within few weeks (or earlier) I am supposed to give my technical report for evaluation. I don't want to …
... . I don't want to print out something that might contain ... -
SpecBAS 0.830 Released!Hi guys - A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. The full changelog is below, but for now here's the download: [url]https://sites.goo…
... optional numeric argument - DO 35: PRINT "X": LOOP will loop 35 ... which output graphics primitives (CIRCLE, PRINT etc) can now use alpha ... -
missing progHi Sometime in the mist of time I wrote a prog called French Verbs and sold it to ZX computing. I'm pretty sure it appeared in print as a listing bu…
... pretty sure it appeared in print as a listing but cannot ... -
N00b question for a slow dayHi i'm messing around with basic again using Spectaculator and was wondering if somebody could remind me how to print the (c) symbol? Thanks in advan…
Hi i'm messing around with basic again using Spectaculator and was wondering if somebody could remind me how to print the (c) symbol? Thanks in advance. -
moving things en masseJust a random thought while I warm up for the Crap Games Once you PRINT something to the screen..... can you manipulate it in anyway other than ove…
Just a random thought while I warm up for the Crap Games
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ZX Printer TroublesI've had a ZX printer sat about on the side for a while now and I eventually found the time and decided to try it out. I've hooked it up to a 48k Spe…
... visibly flash when attempting to print?
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New Game: Pentacorn Quest[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mRT37k0.png[/IMG] DOWNLOAD: [url]http://www.mojontwins.com/mojoniaplus/download/file.php?id=5870[/url] All the worlds were …
... to someone, or to press tiles.
[IMG]http://i ... -
How big is the program?I've got the following one line program (running in a 48K Spectrum emulator) [CODE]1 input n:let n=n-int(n/4)*4:print "1 i -1-i"(n*2+1 to n*2+2)[/CO…
... =n-int(n/4)*4:print "1 i -1-i"(n ... has executed
[CODE]print "bytes:";peek 23641+256*peek ... -
Raycasting (3D Games!) with SpecBAS<div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">Here's one I wrote just recently. I wanted to see …
Here's one I wrote just recently. I wanted to see if SpecBAS can handle a raycasting engine - which doesn't mean doom-style texture mapping (though I may try that later!) but a rather nice algorithm that matches nicely up with the old "3D Maze" games you ... -
Grammar-based data compressionI'm working on a game for the 48k Spectrum but want a way to compress a lot of screens into a small space, so I'm looking into data compression. Each…
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+2A/Kempston interface incompatibility?Hello forum,<br><br>So, I used to be active here about eighteen months ago. I liked messing about with turboloaders. Then I disappeared b…
... -Joystick-Interface
Nada. PRINT IN 31 just returns zero ... -
SpecBAS 0.844 releasedHi all - it's been a while... Having some unexpected extra time off work, I've been able to get some work done on SpecBAS and it's now a bit more …
... rather than just embedded in PRINT or TEXT commands
Commandline ... /> Embedded SCALE commands in a PRINT command now reset after the ... PRINT has finished
System sounds ( ... -
ZX Interface 1 Compatability<p>I wondered if anyone knows of any compatibility problems between the ZX interface 1 and certain Issues of the Spectrum motherboard?</p><p>I just p…
... connect it up and type PRINT p but instead of the ... -
Inlay QUiz - Tiles, grids things mash up<div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: normal;">In the layout style of Rorthron.....</span></font>…
In the layout style of Rorthron.....These snippets are from inlays and advertisements for Spectrum games and utilities.
Some easy, some real stinkers and a couple of WTF?!!
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New game: WordBlasterWords. Do you ever think that you have too many words to read in your life? Bills, contracts, reports, books, small print, documents? Wor…
... ? Bills, contracts, reports, books, small print, documents? Words, words, words. Sometimes ... -
Tau Day<br>By popular demand (well, demand of one, which is highly popular in the sorts of things I do :D ), here is a small celebration of tau day, June 28…
... =8*atn 1
20 PRINT "June 28 is Tau Day ... "''
30 PRINT "tau = "; tau
40 PRINT "sin(tau) = "; SIN ... tau
50 PRINT "sin(6.28) = "; SIN 6 ... -
BASIC to Python - bringing a modern view on an 80's obsession...Howdy! I don't know how relevant this will be here, but I've just finished up a 3-part overview on my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic pr…
... in 87 (amazingly the thermal print is still readable after all ...
