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  • INPUT magazineHowdy folks! Does anyone know of an online archive of this early programming mag? I'd like to get my hands on the issue which had a random maze gene…

    ... in issue 7 I think - Random maze for an evil pirate ... to import a text file Basic source listing into an emulator ...
    Fuzzbucket Fuzzbucket September 2001 Games
  • Average age of a Spectrum fanHi! I'm wondering what's the average age of us, readers of this forum. I'm 29 and started playing and programming on the Spectrum when I was 13 (infl…

    24 - INTERNET DEVELOPER.

    agreed I use VB and am still getting the benefit out of some basic functions.

    like : random = int(rnd(4)*100)
    ozonic ozonic April 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... in a bucket written in Basic.

    2 ... adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped ... conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in ...
    ad 2) See BASIC program added.
    [code]< ... 123456789
    After a random number it will be
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2002 Games
  • TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…

    ... . Other improvements were for basic support of the extra screen ... and your variables. Since BASIC code had to be copied ... it's data bus gave random data when unused addresses were ... the standard and unmodified TS2068, BASIC code from Spectrum machines was ...
    Sparky Sparky December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... [/B] to pick a few random examples are all very playable ... wrote:
    Overall the C64 BASIC seems to have been appalling ... about strengths being weaknesses, Sinclair BASIC was [I]too good[/I ... in the same way Commodore BASIC did.


    [ This ...
    TMR TMR February 2004 Games
  • Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…

    ... address - it was just a random choice by Dr Beep.
    BASIC?[/quote]

    Poke ... />
    It's essentially your BASIC code efficiently translated into machine ... all the associated codes in BASIC (like INK, PAPER, BRIGHT, AT ...
    cyborg cyborg March 2004 Development
  • 256 colour gamesFollowing on from the thread in the Emulator section... Will people who are working on converting games to 256 colour using Emuzwin please let me kn…

    ... Spectrum sprites and applying quasi-random colors to them - see for ... /> _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz April 2004 Games
  • An intriguing question...Well, intriguing for me anyway. As we all know, when calling a Machine Code function from BASIC, we use the USR (address) function. But for this to …

    ... you're working on a BASIC game or something, and spend ... too long wondering why your random numbers suddenly aren't ...
    gasman gasman June 2004 Development
  • InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…

    ... 1 (as used by Spectrum BASIC), the processor simply executes an ... has not been confirmed) put random bytes onto the data bus ... 1. However, hardware devices placing random bytes onto the data bus ... means a random opcode could be executed, which ...
    Fraser Fraser July 2004 Development
  • Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …

    ... paging...

    In 128K BASIC the operating system sometimes
    BASIC program would occupy this area ... .

    The 48 BASIC system is very robust but ... home-brewed programs write a random value at this location. Examples ...
    Geoff Geoff August 2004 Development
  • I need ASM for random numberI need to generate a random pair of coardinates in asm so that x=random no between 0 and 31, y=random no between 0 and 23. Any ideas on how to code …

    Do you need speed or just a random number.

    You can use the calculator routine in the rom like it is BASIC.

    Otherwise I have a RANDOM-routine from the machinecode book of William Tang in his Frogger game.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2004 Development
  • PokesDoes anyone know where I can find a list of Pokes for my Speccy games? I am trying to find some for On the Bench ! Thanks

    ... games, it was written in BASIC, had no graphics whatsoever (or ... cup matches were almost totally random (regardless of your team's ... of them being written in BASIC and looking like something from ...
    jil jil September 2004 Games
  • I would like to write emulatorHi guys, I'm new to this forum but I realise that you must get loads of posts from people asking "how do I write an emulator" so I'll try and be spe…

    ... file its just garbage and random characters - I don't know ... ('48.rom'); or whatever. Your BASIC should be able to do ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2004 Development
  • Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…

    ... thought I could code. In Basic, obviously - nobody of that age ... the BASIC commands and what they did. And how to use random ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone September 2004 Games
  • Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …

    ... to do a basic loader that poked a random value to the ...
    darkman darkman October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • is it easy to learn z80 machine codewell is it?

    ... can easily result in overwriting random chunks of memory, or crashing ... is the wont of the BASIC programmer.

    Some online ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad October 2004 Development
  • Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…

    ... find the right one. Some basic tricks:
    - Increasing or decreasing ... speaker with (more or less) random bits. The effect is even ...
    cascarria cascarria November 2004 Development
  • I found a game that I made!I was looking through a big pile of cassettes in a box the other day looking for a sound sample (I collect sounds...don't ask), when I found a casset…

    ... a game I wrote in Basic on Boxing Day, 1989! It ... played a tune consisting of random BEEP commands after every answer ...
    Collie Collie December 2004 Games
  • Speccy vs C64 loading screen artHi everybody, Don't know if someone post this before, but i never see it and was just nice to appreciate. Check this: [url="http://www.lemon64.com/…

    ... :12, TMR wrote:
    From BASIC there's 39K available, but ... [/B] does that as a random example, but there are loads ...
    TMR TMR February 2005 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... section will contain `links to BASIC compilers and manuals, `cross-compilers ... about the peculiarities of the Basic...

    Like all ... scroll the entire screen in basic, not just upwards by a ... , that blue bloke and his random movement works well, but is ...
    CKay CKay March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first two ... ]

    ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * Place ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... are all the BASICly useable random usrs?
    randomize usr 1234 ... is the "compleet Randomize Usr BASIC-entry List?"

    [ This ...
    dave_beer_uk dave_beer_uk April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... are all the BASICly useable random usrs?
    randomize usr 1234 ... is the "compleet Randomize Usr BASIC-entry List?"

    [ This ...
    chop983 chop983 April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • RND not random?I recently wrote a simple Alien style game where the bad guys shoot you at random, it works fine, but after a while the Variable that is supposed to …

    The first random number that RND always generates ... /> (I sounds like the orange BASIC User Manual!)

    Summary ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Protection against MERGEI remember using a routine to protect against using MERGE to break into a BASIC listing. It was along the lines of :- 1. Enter a random line e.g. 1 …

    ... MERGE to break into a BASIC listing. It was along the ... :-

    1. Enter a random line e.g. 1 REM ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…

    ... />
    The first BASIC game I wrote was a ... ' would fall from a random position at the top of ... a series of small BASIC games including road racers, ... integrating machine code with BASIC. The MC did the ... recent attempts at ZX BASIC have resulted in Dash- ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2005 Games
  • What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…

    ... , by guessing the code sequence (random number between 1 and 10 ... /> all written in basic (and very bad basic at that), sorry to ...
    liamenikufesin liamenikufesin May 2005 Games
  • Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.

    ... . All the menus are BASIC. All the random maze movements are precalculated ... using BASIC into a string and ... and then drops back to BASIC when you die or finish ...
    Spooky Spooky June 2005 Games
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