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  • Sam Revival magazine issue 16 now out! [Sam CoupIssue 16 of Sam Revival magazine is now out! This issue features the full Sam game 'Colony' on the coverdisk, which was written by Derek Koselo. Col…

    ... and ULA/ASIC? Sorry for random question but been thinking...
    Basic against GamesMaster, I started a ... last year in SAM Basic and Master basic and it`d be ...
    CKay CKay February 2007 Announcements
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... is followed by 10 seemingly random bytes until C0 A7 for ... relevant locations completely separately using BASIC, then save as code, and ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Development
  • generated missionswhich speccy games randomly (or partly randomly, at least) generating their misions/scenes do you know, please? (combat lynx being a great example.) …

    ... were both written mainly in BASIC. Could there be a pattern ... time, but sometimes it throws Random enemies at you (they are ... Speccy games threw a partially random game at you sprite wise ... some did throw a completely random game at you every time ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2007 Games
  • generated missionswhich speccy games randomly (or partly randomly, at least) generating their misions/scenes do you know, please? (combat lynx being a great example.) …

    ... the shadows , viking raiders all random with strategy.[/QUOTE]
    < ... Stonkers doesn't seem very random to me. It's only ... seems to play the same basic strategy every game. You ... ]I "think" Carrier Command generates random landscapes [/QUOTE]

    ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Games
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... 128 machine thats in 48 basic from the menu or 'spectrum ... ' from 128 basic is bugged. You have to ... reset, it just does a random crash screen. I have to ...
    mulder mulder March 2007 Development
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... 128 machine thats in 48 basic from the menu or 'spectrum ... ' from 128 basic is bugged. You have to ... reset, it just does a random crash screen. I have to ...
    mulder mulder March 2007 Emulators
  • Games that looked absolutely fantastic, but turned out to be a pile of steaming......Following on from the games that shouldn't be good thread hows about the games we expected to be good, REALLY good, but actually turned out to be a s…

    ... in BASIC with 2 ml high sprites, screechy sound, and random gameplay ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2007 Games
  • Question about snapshot files....I've noticed that everytime I play "The Boss" (football management) it produces the same scores. I've played the first 5 games 3 or 4 times now and t…

    ... interesting, I wrote a basic program for a horse racing ... 20yrs ago. The winner was random number + parameters. However when ... why if it was a random number.

    ... chase. Is there a BASIC line I could add ... would make the results random instead of the same ...
    beanz beanz April 2007 Games
  • Announce: Fuse 0.8.0Version 0.8.0 of [url=http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/]Fuse[/url], the Free Unix (and OS X) Spectrum Emulator has been released. The major chang…

    ... />
    It might need some basic support of a rotating disk ... sectors and multiple copies of random data already, but don't ...
    obo obo April 2007 Emulators
  • The whole "Maddie" thing...Can you say "trial by media"? How about "media over-reaction"? Had "Maddie" been a poor, ugly, black child, this would never have been headline news…

    ... -time with speculation together with random people saying how horrible it ... to enjoy their holiday above basic parenting skills).

    Yes ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek May 2007 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... because Im beginning to think basic is just going to be ... the array is set with random x and y positions and ... negative this isto give a random wave feel to the level ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…

    ... /> MCoder3 can compile almost every basic program, it's very compatible ... doubled) so it can overwrite random data in memory. Keep your ...
    Arda Arda June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • i need to buy this game"stock market" a game about buying and selling stocks in gold and silver and tin etc.have you got one for sale???:smile:

    ... something like this myself in BASIC, wittily titled Advanced Shares Simulator ... interrelationships, plus the ever-present random chance of a stock market ...
    Danforth Danforth June 2007 Wanted
  • The Non Randomness of Sam BasicHows about this for weird. Hardly ever bothered with such simple stuff before but this is what I just did on the Sam ( as in a real one now I've got …

    ... this a factor of how BASIC generates random numbers?

    :smile ... :

    Hehe bet modern random number generators are just as ... non random :D[/QUOTE]

    I ...
    mjwilson mjwilson June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... even smaller than Sinclair Basic. There is something like ... strings to numbers, generating random numbers, etc. There is ... string variables. Sinclair basic hides the distinction between ... declare numbers with the basic interpretter automatically converting to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... contains a pseudo random number generator; all pseudo random number generators ... to be where the basic system stores the location ... set. On returning to basic all printed text would look ... to", equivalent to "" in Basic. Other common C comparison operators ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... of the simplicity of the random ghost movement method. It can ... /> Technical info
    -------------

    BASIC listing is 2 characters short ... you don't add a random element, they just cluster together ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... range); // return random number from 0..range ... />
    is the random number generators. u_rnd() returns a ... behaviour of random number generators like basic's RND ...
    u_binomial() generates random numbers that are binomially distributed ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Hidden messages whilst loading gamesHi all, Was having a chat with my mate about old speccy games and remembered that pausing the loading on some games and then printing gave strange m…

    ... were quite lengthy ones about random things like what the programmer ... attempted to break into the basic loader. I think it was ... you tried to list the basic loader program as part of ... preventing you from seeing the basic program loader.
    FrankT FrankT July 2007 Games
  • Hidden messages whilst loading gamesHi all, Was having a chat with my mate about old speccy games and remembered that pausing the loading on some games and then printing gave strange m…

    ... were quite lengthy ones about random things like what the programmer ... Doo) contain messages in the Basic loader. Some guy who's ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan July 2007 Games
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... (), p_VisitMapCrossTwo()[/b]

    If basic is your only background, you ... * something you could do in basic if so motivated (unlike most ... don't fit well with basic).

    There are several ... choose the "3" plot at random as the receiver of the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2007 Development
  • Question on Z80 R/W cycles.Snipped from the complete spectrum ROM disassembly: [CODE] Now the memory is checked. 11DA RAM-CHECK LD H,D Transfer the value…

    ... will get caught by a random memory fill test. One I ... the Speccy that'd run BASIC programs fine, but crash with ...
    Winston Winston August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... easy as before, unless the random price algorithm is changed. The ... $ as a string (Nonsense in BASIC), so you need more logic ... still occasionally thinking in BBC Basic, where a comma causes a ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • IY RegisterIve got a really bizarre bug, and I have only just started using the IY register. I seem to remember reading somewhere in a programming book, to neve…

    ... accessing data structures in a random way; most data structures can ... ) but sometimes you need the random access too.

    IX ... code that is one way Basic->m/c and has ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]

    ... 1 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 29752,146 ... 2 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 32067,146 ... 3 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 33614,146 ... you get 255's in random places, often spoiling the effect ...
    LaesQ LaesQ October 2007 Hardware
  • How could you hear if loading BASIC or MC?When loading a Spectrum program from tape you could usually hear from the sound if it is a BASIC or is some machine code program *. My question is, w…

    ... straight away if it's BASIC or MC.

    I ... with the line structure of BASIC as opposed to MC, where ... to the untrained eye more random.

    See, told you ...
    The Starglider The Starglider November 2007 Development
  • Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…

    ... , accuracy of 0.0006685257, and random 4.322937

    The ... accuracy of Speccy BASIC isn't bad, random usually varies from one ... the time beats standard Atari BASIC by over 2 minutes and ... the 6309 CoCo3 with neither BASIC patched to really take advantage ...
    JamesD JamesD December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…

    ... Z80... but the CoCo BASIC doesn't support integers so ... if the T100 BASIC does the speed difference ... different processors based on their basic interpretters' performance is very ... correlation between bits on successive random numbers to measure the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…

    ... different processors based on their basic interpretters' performance is very ... correlation between bits on successive random numbers to measure the ... unless you compare a BASIC that supports INT variables ... t. The CP/M BASIC probably does and Applesoft doesn ...
    JamesD JamesD December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…

    ... and redefinitions. Sinclair basic maintains a clean variable ... when declared. Sinclair basic performs string slicing and ... fp code accuracy. The random number generator test is ... numbers. Another less than optimal BASIC implementation.[/QUOTE]
    < ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2007 Sinclair Basic
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