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Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
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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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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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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…
... can now insert or remove tokenised keywords from strings. ie, ... display string literals using the characters pointed to by CHARS - so ... the string, and every 32 characters a red marker will appear ... a direct command rather than tokenised and stored as a program ... -
Key Redefine RoutineAnyone written a nice key redefine code snippet?
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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 …
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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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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…
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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. :)
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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 ... -
UN Squadron on real +2BHi there, I have been using 8bit computers for a long time (almost 25 years) and always was fond of ZX Spectrum. Last year I managed to buy a ZX S…
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Lesser-known recurring charactersOk, so we all know about famous game characters on the speccy like Miner Willy, Henhouse Harry, Monty Mole, Magic Knight, Wally Week etc who appear i…
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Boulder Dash with replaced charactersHello everybody :) Before i start i want to excuse me for my 'bad' english (i'm from Russia). All characters (jewels, rock, wall, firefly, butterfly…
... from Russia).
All characters (jewels, rock, wall, firefly, butterfly ... of Boulder Dash with replaced characters from B.D.KIT ([URL ... -
Redefine keys routineHow would I go about making a memory efficient redefine keys routine? I only want to define up, down, left and right and reserve key 'H' for pause.…
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Characters that move in 8 directionsHappy New Year! And the Revival Survival game is going to have a ZX Spectrum level with all the old classic characters (do kickstart support it)! S…
... with all the old classic characters (do kickstart support it)!
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Characters that move in 8 directionsHappy New Year! And the Revival Survival game is going to have a ZX Spectrum level with all the old classic characters (do kickstart support it)! S…
... with all the old classic characters (do kickstart support it)!
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Fat characters in ZX Spectrum gamesHi all, I'm trying to think of some games that had heroes who were quite fat. Now there are some obvious ones, like Monty Mole, Wally Week, Henhouse…
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Best way to have multiple characters in AGDHi Guys Can someone please tell me if you can have 2 playable characters in game at anytime that span multiple screen sort of like the way Enigma Fo…
... you can have 2 playable characters in game at anytime that ... to.
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Speccy characters in Comic form.From a recent discussion about comics, several peeps said they'd like to see their favourite characters in comic form. We've already had Wally, thank…
... like to see their favourite characters in comic form. We've ...
