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Breakdancing - what *were* we thinking?!Just been browsing Youtube for the old breakdance "hits" that were in the charts ~1984. My word, the music doesn't age well, does it?
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Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…
... : Many finnish words contain scandinavian characters ? and ?, it might be a ... file so each language can redefine extra characters for ASCII 16-31 ... my best to map the characters.
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Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.
... memory. then going to the token table and double clicking the ... let me edit all the "Token Table" graphics.[/QUOTE]
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Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.
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ANNOUNCE: Jet Set Willy Construction Kit (JSW CK 1.0)Today I release Version 1.0 of my Jet Set Willy Construction Kit (JSW CK): the program I used to write We Pretty, Jet Set Willy: The Lord Of The Ring…
... guardian in pixels, not just characters.
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New BASin (Alpha Release 9) upHi all, Since you're more interested in here about BASin, here's the new update announcement. There's no major changes to the way the system work…
... as well as any selected characters. (Thanks to Bethany Carlton for ... -UK keyboards reproduce the correct characters. Previously, Shift-2 would produce ... an Annoying bug in the token window, which prevented the UDGs ... -
BASin Release 9a availableJust a quick not to say that an updated (ie, bug fixed) BASin is available. A list of what's new for release 9: Fixed a bug in the line tokeniser th…
... as well as any selected characters. (Thanks to Bethany Carlton for ... -UK keyboards reproduce the correct characters. Previously, Shift-2 would produce ... an Annoying bug in the token window, which prevented the UDGs ... -
Spectrum charactersHad a bit of time the other day so i captured a few Speccy characters to put into a graphic (Some of which could be used on the front page here). An…
... i captured a few Speccy characters to put into a graphic ... the 25 games these 25 characters are from, most are quiet ... -
BASin Release 11 out nowBASin has been updated once again, for your BASIC programming pleasure! Get it at: [url="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/BASin_r11.exe"]htt…
... clicking a command and choosing "Token Help", or by using the ... display string literals using the characters pointed to by CHARS - so ... look like. Also updated the Token Window with a checkbox you ... the string, and every 32 characters a red marker will appear ... -
Key Redefine RoutineAnyone written a nice key redefine code snippet?
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ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
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ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
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the funniest characters that made you ROFLI think there was a similar thread with the funniest games (was it?)- but what about the characters? I remember Pyjamarama Wallie quite funny to me …
... it?)- but what about the characters?
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Games with ball-/round-shaped characters?Kinda odd request, let me elaborate a bit. I got some unfinished pic (pencil lineart) here depicting some lass rummaging around a sort of attic (no …
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googling special charactersdoes anybody know a way to google, say, the string "***"? (the searching engines ignore the special characters "by default".)
does anybody know a way to google, say, the string "***"?
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Instantly recognizable Speccy game characters...How many Speccy game characters would be instantly recognizable to people these days? Especially if they weren't that familiar/hadn't used a speccy f…
How many Speccy game characters would be instantly recognizable to people these days? Especially if they weren't that familiar/hadn't used a speccy for years?
e.g. Manic Miner or Jet Set Willy would probably be a good bet.
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ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... nasty crash when inserting new characters into the Graphic/Sprite editor ... bleeding obvious.
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Games where the main characters speak English with a foreign accentI wonder if there are some Speccy games where the main characters speak English with an accent. Well, we shouldn't really hear them speak as in moder…
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First game that allowed you to redefine the keys?The first multiload thread makes me wonder what was the first Spectrum game that allowed to redefine the keys to play the game? The Don Priestly Tan…
The first multiload thread makes me wonder what was the first Spectrum game that allowed to redefine the keys to play the game?
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post your preferred 'up-down-left-right-fire' keys redefinefor me, and for some reason it was Emlyn hughes back in the day that got me attatched to this, from then on and to this day I will always redefine my…
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mitmaps of charactersSurprisingly, I cannot find any nice bitmaps of individual characters of Speccy's characterset. Don't you know about any?
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Great comedy charactersWho are your favourite comedy characters from TV? I mean ficitonal characters, i.e. for example Alan Partridge, but not Steve Coogan ('cos the latter…
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Speccy-only games characters?Were there many games characters that were made "famous" only on ye good, olde Speccy? I honestly don't have the answer, mostly because I progressed…
Were there many games characters that were made "famous" only ... be interesting to hear which characters were not on other platforms ... be interesting to hear which characters/games were "ported over" to ... -
speccy charactersis there a list somewhere of all the speccy characters? if not i thoguht i might go through all the games and create a list. might be interesting to…
is there a list somewhere of all the speccy characters?
if not i thoguht i might go through all the games and create a list. might be interesting to see all the names in one place.
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The 50 Greatest Video Game Characters[url]http://www.empireonline.com/features/50-greatest-video-game-characters/default.asp[/url] Sabreman is currently #24. Vote for him! :-)
[url]http://www.empireonline.com/features/50-greatest-video-game-characters/default.asp[/url]
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How to insert special characters in Basic and ASM ?Look the next picture. [IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9479/scode.jpg[/IMG] I dont know how to insert these black and diagonal characters. No…
... insert these black and diagonal characters. Not in basic, and not ... we can see some special characters but not the diagonal ones ... -
Keys redefine routine and key check.I have written some asm code which allows me to redefine keys (for a game etc.), and also allows me to be able to check any keypresses for the redefi…
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; Redefine Keys Routine
; written by ... /> ; This will either run the redefine routine *or* check for any ... array if it was the redefine routine you wanted. :)
;< ... with >0 to indicate redefine
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checking bits in BASICThe question of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this [thread=35728]Keys redefine routine and key check[/thread] thread. I s…
... in this [thread=35728]Keys redefine routine and key check[/thread ... space assigned is only 8 characters as that's the longest ... -
New SpecBAS available - v0.710Been a while, but I've just uploaded the latest build of SpecBAS. This one now supports tilemaps (with rotation and scaling) and added OVER mode (XO…
... a parser issue where invalid characters after a binary number (%1234 ... , for example) had characters deleted.
Fixed an issue ... - about 50% speed-up in token evaluation.
MERGE TO - merges ...
