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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 making a directional control key routine in BASIC, instead of having ... seperate IF statement for each key, you can do something like ... -
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 making a directional control key routine in BASIC, instead of having ... seperate IF statement for each key, you can do something like ... -
You all know this, right?Type 10 PRINT "DIXONS IS SHIT" 20 GOTO 10 RUN when it says: Scroll? Press BOTH SHIFT KEYS then ENTER see what you get. I want to know what thi…
... is caused by the WAIT-KEY routine reprinting the edit line at ... every key stroke/mode change. In editing ... has its own console input routine that accepts a single keystroke ... -
Ghost & GoblinsIn one afternoon which you want to throw the +3 by the window, because the assembler or a inconsistent bug in the code, i take a break and lost the …
... ; Goblins uses a clever scrolling routine that allows for a smooth ... consider the horizontal scrolling routine to be the key routine for the entire ... -
Real long shot: Exolon and Arkanoid cracked and made really pretty but chucked away!!Apologies for the double thread. Please take a look here and let me know if you can help! Thanks all [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/vi…
... be typing ZORBA into the redefine key section i hacked it so ... -
How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…
... only a few instructions per key:
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ld ... a,(hl) ; get key row to scan, top byte ... )
and (hl) ; select which key in row to pay attention ... sure all my user-defined key routine and joystick routines return the ... -
Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…
... the true "press any key to continue" routine mentioned in the cassette ... . Unlike "PAUSE 0", this routine also accepts caps-shift, symbol ... /> 63937 - perhaps a horizontal scrolling routine (crashes if not initialised)
65236 the true "press any key" routine -
Issue 2 issue (...)Just acquired an issue 2 Spectrum 48 K, selled as working board, not working keyboard. Before testing it with a psu I opened the case and discovered …
... just trying, maybe the read-key routine (which occurs every interrupt, 1 ... -
New game: THE LOST TAPES OF SAMNew game: THE LOST [B]DISKS[/B] OF SAM Hi all With the blessing of Mr Dave "Moebius" Hughes I'm pleased as punch to present to you a new release fo…
... and I've included a redefine key option on the info screen ... -
Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... register, then a press 'any key routine' during which hl is incremented ... -
Xor-shift random number generator for Z80[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;320244]Come on, people, [URL="http://www.jstatsoft.org/v08/i14/paper"]xor-shift generators[/URL] devised by Marsaglia, that's the w…
... register, then a press 'any key routine' during which hl is incremented ... /> I did a re-seed routine based on the clock, in ... -
my remake of Barbarianhello i have done a remake in "open source" of the Spectrum version of Barbarian, the game of Palace Sofware in 1987. (nammed Death Sword in the USA)…
... other way round? Maybe a redefine key option would be a good ... -
The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
Rat Mole is rather good, and I loved that redefine key option. I kept getting screwed though by shooting opponents only for them to respawn in front of me and trample over me. What a piece of crap ! -
The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... good, and I loved that redefine key option. I kept getting screwed ... -
TommyGun with AGDHi everyone, I have been working with Jonathan to incorporate his excellent Arcade Game Designer utility into TommyGun. Jonathan has created a compi…
... some source code for a redefine keys routine. However, it would need ... -
Beeper Music DemoThis demo includes four original tunes made with Shiru's excellent Tritone engine, authored in Beepola between Christmas and New Year. I've used FZX…
... a border, never touched the key routine.
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Beeper Music DemoThis demo includes four original tunes made with Shiru's excellent Tritone engine, authored in Beepola between Christmas and New Year. I've used FZX…
... a border, never touched the key routine.[/QUOTE]
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New Game: Ninjajar!Yes, it's here! We had some late hour problems with +2A models and had to switch to a machine code loader (as the game takes up the whole 128K, even …
[QUOTE=na_th_an;770071]About the redefine option, it simply wouldn't ... start the game, with a redefine key option. Loader just needs to ... -
New Game: Ninjajar!Yes, it's here! We had some late hour problems with +2A models and had to switch to a machine code loader (as the game takes up the whole 128K, even …
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New Game(s): Sir Ababol 2 and Sir Ababol DXHere is our own Christmas Present from Mojonia! We weren't going to release these games (at least, by the moment) but we decided just yesterday to fi…
... one thing it needs a redefine key option
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Penetrator HackHello all.... Can anyone PLEASE hack Penetrator so that bomb and fire share a button, rather than fire and forward!? Just had a lovely game rui…
... ; bombs together using the fire key, given the choice - I find ... .
Looking at the key routine I noticed (accidentally) that it ... -
Startup colours of the Spectrum ROMHi Folks, Thought I would have a go at changing the startup colours of the Spectrum ROMs used within BasinC which ships with 48.rom (16384 bytes) …
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// Trap the KEY-LINE routine
PutWord(@ ... // Patch the ROM Reset Routine - it moves at normal speccy ... the program stop (Error) routine.
PutWord(@Memory[$12E9 ... for a key" routine -
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Control methods to support in new game (kempston, sinclair, redefinable keys etc)Hi guys, I've been busy lately working on porting a game from the C64 to the Spectrum, and I'm at the point where the main game is working pretty …
... ). I've seen a few redefine key routines on WoS. I'd ... -
Control methods to support in new game (kempston, sinclair, redefinable keys etc)Hi guys, I've been busy lately working on porting a game from the C64 to the Spectrum, and I'm at the point where the main game is working pretty …
... , a player may accidentally touch key 5 during the game, which ... as secondary fire key, or choosing Cursor and key 9.[/quote]
redefine-key routines that would prevent entering ... -
New Game: A Yankee in Iraq (2017). A shoot-em-up.Last year, I [url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/53207/new-game-2016-revival-a-yankee-in-iraq-1992"]resurrected my old shoot-em-u…
... , in that the redefined Fire key doesn't seem to work ... 'have to' associate the fire key with starting the game for ... redefining these. Typically just the 'redefine' key itself and also 567890 for ... -
Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…
... a LOT faster. Put your key routine branches at the start of ... -
hacking controls for atic atac?I was wondering if there is any way to hack in game controls? In particular for Atic Atac. I prefer to use keyboard controls for most games, but the …
In an early issue of Crash there is a hack routine in the letters page for altering the keys on Sabre Wulf. Maybe this routine could be looked at and converted for Atic Atac - providing Ultimate used the same style of key routine for both games. -
hacking controls for atic atac?I was wondering if there is any way to hack in game controls? In particular for Atic Atac. I prefer to use keyboard controls for most games, but the …
... ignore (and call) a new routine somewhere else to read whatever ... can simply stick a new key routine into upper memory anywhere I ...
