World of Spectrum
  • Categories
  • Discussions
  • FAQ
  • Sign In
Home › Search
Title Search
@title beer Word 'beer' in title
User Search
  • @user admin Only posts by Admin
Text Search
  • @body beer Word 'beer' in the text
Phrase Search
"Hello World" Exact phrase match
Exclude Terms
  • car -red Search cars that are not red
"Or" Searches
  • honda | bmw 'honda' or 'bmw' results
Multi-Field
@(title,body) hello Both contain 'hello'
WildCard
  • hond* civ* Match all with an astrix
Combination
  • @title bmw @user admin
See more supported syntax examples
Search Again :: Adv Search 1000 results in 0.016s
<1…18192021222324…34>
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... its hardware assisted sprites and scrolling. That raised the entry level ... on the Sam when using Basic and the Rom routines for ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong February 2007 Development
  • TommyGun 0.9.x updates** Should be available via the utilities page soon! Please be patient :-) ** I'll be posting all future updates in this thread, instead of creating …

    ... and a short machine code reverse scroll routine to make a ... cool spreadsheet like program in BASIC. It scrolled up and down ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • 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..…

    ... lifts will be problematic in BASIC, so I am thinking of ... must be a way to reverse engineer the ammo box, mace ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • 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..…

    ... . Both will be slow in BASIC.
    3/ additional problems if ... must be a way to reverse engineer the ammo box, mace ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Development
  • So how much programming experience do you need to create a Spectrum Game?Hi all i was just mucking about with that old program "Game Designer" and i was wondering how difficult it is to write a new Spectrum game?

    ... two or three in there. Basic is usually people's first ... slow for most things, but basic can be compiled and some ... that don't do any scrolling. It can do much more ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2007 Games
  • 1982 speccy gaming pioneersThe games that helped get the Spectrum noticed are about to be 25 years old. Which is the best game from 1982? A list of the 30 with the highest rati…

    ... call so all the horizontal scrolling shmups, at least.
    it ... 's very original in its basic principles.
    and what faults ...
    cichlasoma cichlasoma March 2007 Games
  • BattlecarsI don't think this was ever a very popular game. But I really liked it back in the day. The only problem with it is that you have to do a lot of re…

    ... game isn't entirely in BASIC, although a big chunk of ... essential for anything with a scrolling map, even if it's ...
    Matt_B Matt_B April 2007 Games
  • Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …

    ... I stored the bits in reverse order so that the rightmost ... -bit wall byte. The reverse keeps the basic simple whilst plotting the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... be used generally by a basic program) so when I want ... would be mighty slow in basic, so you'll want some ... . You can poke values to reverse HL and DE so that ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... would be mighty slow in basic, so you'll want some ... . You can poke values to reverse HL and DE so that ...
    DEATH DEATH May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... ) ive never done anything outside basic sinclair basic stuff. So I don ... , let alone integrating it into basic).

    Is there an ... would be mighty slow in basic, so you'll want some ... . You can poke values to reverse HL and DE so that ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 20 tons([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000024[/url]) has anyone played this true gem? do you believe all levels are possible to fini…

    ... screens are Boulder Dash in BASIC.
    I'd say that ... superior to BD's annoying scrolling & find 20 tons overall ...
    cichlasoma cichlasoma May 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…

    ... happens to be where the basic system stores the location ... set. On returning to basic all printed text would look ... message across the screen (the scrolling will be accomplished using memop ... to", equivalent to "" in Basic. Other common C comparison operators ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • ZX Spectrum 128+ problemsHello!I recently purchased and got myself a spectrum 128+ from ebay.The item did not have an original power supply so i got a power supply of 9volts …

    ... when you drop into a BASIC.

    Connecting the power ... include a diode to prevent reverse polarity damage, but he didnt ... up placeholder page).

    "Reverse polarity destroys the regulator almost ...
    Womble Womble July 2007 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... this is a scrolling text message in ZX Basic"
    20 for ...
    mulder mulder 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…

    ... this is a scrolling text message in ZX Basic"
    20 for ... *were* doing the equivalent :) The basic string slice operation creates a ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous 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…

    ... return to basic will still have the message scrolling while basic is running ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Emulating the Plus3e in SpinHi. At the weekend I finally got my ass in gear and started to go through my many +3 discs, with the aim of transferring a lot of the content to a CF…

    ... a utility which does the reverse of tape-to-disc, that ... have to load up each BASIC file independently and SAVE"" it ...
    icabod icabod July 2007 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... the map for text and scrolling messages. I tentatively decided to ... 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 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2007 Development
  • Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…

    ... 'img2mgt.pl' to do the reverse.[/QUOTE]


    I ... . All I know is Spectrum-Basic and also Z80 Assembler.
    Speccyman Speccyman October 2007 Emulators
  • Fastest Baud Rate On A Loader ?Following on (sort of!) from the thread about the best loading.... Which game(s) had the fastest (highest baud rate) ? I seem to remember a couple …

    ... clear to anyone without a basic understanding of electronics. So I ... until you first remove (or reverse) the applied voltage (which results ...
    Laser Laser October 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... called from the user's BASIC program.

    The screenshot ... />
    63937 - perhaps a horizontal scrolling routine (crashes if not initialised ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Games
  • What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…

    ... . Dedicated chips to do hardware scrolling and move areas of memory ... display and memory to allow BASIC and commercial applications.
    Once ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2007 Hardware
  • Battle of the Isometric gamesYes, it is another poll. But I think this one will produce quite an interesting debate. I never really got into these games back in the day but sinc…

    ... -clash or whether the background scrolling was parallax. [/QUOTE]

    basic looking games like the Atari ...
    psj3809 psj3809 November 2007 Games
  • Matchday 2 remakeSince Matchday 2 is my alltime favorite football game i was wondering if there has been made a remake of it for PC ?

    ... the very old demo, rather basic, but you can run around ... player with the cursor keys, scrolling follows the ball. Use the ...
    Jmk Jmk December 2007 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... Speccy had a much better BASIC, was faster loading with tape ... ), plus the C64's forte, scrolling shooters, never appealed to me ...
    ewgf ewgf December 2007 Games
  • help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…

    ... loop
    ret ; return to basic when finished
    [/code]

    BOBS is right, try scrolling characters first - a good place ...
    Saboteur Saboteur February 2008 Development
  • Games Programming Plagiarism - Did It Happen?I know there is at least one notable case were someone has passed off someone else's games as their own - usually by changing the graphics. (Can't re…

    ... his own mini-library of basic routines. I was thinking more ... using the stack for your scrolling routines. That must have taken ... from using such a fast scrolling method or at least if ...
    zxspecticle zxspecticle February 2008 Games
  • help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…

    ... a fixed-screen game? as scrolling games are usually a nightmare ... having ground my teeth with BASIC and then been promised 'Once ...
    bigjon bigjon February 2008 Development
<1…18192021222324…34>

Latest Posts

  • I am currently watching.....
    Paradigm Shifter on 12:49AM
  • New video about S-video modification on Issue two 48K Spectrum.
    Renegade on April 21
  • Fixed Speccy Software. And which games remained unfixed?
    John Elliott on April 21
  • Happy 40th Birthday to the Amstrad CPC464!
    rich_chandler on April 21
  • Another Birthday! The Game Boy Is 35!
    mel the bell on April 21
  • European Software Titles with an English version
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • Elusive Strategy Games done by the Smaller or less Prolific Software Houses.
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • 1992 Spectrum Software
    harriusherbartio on April 21
  • +3 Disk drive motor
    AndyC on April 21
  • Celebrity deaths...
    mel the bell on April 20

HitBox

Word Docs Hits
reverse 1.9K 2.2K
scrolling 4.7K 6.2K
basic 24.7K 39K

Related Threads

  • Switch from 128k BASIC to 48k BasicHello,<br /> <br /> Is there a way to start off running a program in 128k basic (so that you can use the ramdisk facilities) but then switch back dow…
  • (Basic) Sinclair BASIC mode for EmacsI saw this [URL=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14622]post[/URL] regarding a Sinclair BASIC editing mode along with some Fuse …
  • Help with Visual Basic 6.0 vs Visual Basic.netI have a program that auto generates VB.Net code..... I know VB.net syntax and am happy with the code generated.<br /> <br /> However, I have been as…
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
  • 48K BASIC to ZX81 BASIC conversion possible?Looking for an automated way of converting a BASIC program done on a<br /> 48K Spectrum to one for the ZX81. It's obvious that some things cannot<br …
  • ZX Basic 1.2.5 - a BASIC CompilerWell, my old post about ZX BASIC seems to be gone (maybe this phorum purges old threads?), so I started a new one.<br /> <br /> After more than 6 mon…
  • Basic BASIC help needed RNDHi all,<br /> <br /> I have recently re-discovered an old program I wrote in the early 90s which would do generate random lottery numbers.<br /> <br …
  • Star BASIC or *BASIC??? Anyone heard of this?Does anyone remember a thing called Star Basic or *basic?<br /> <br /> It was a tape that extended the BASIC instruction set and from memory you put …
  • Loading basic from basic?Hi Guys,<br /> <br /> Could you please help me. I want to create a menu on my plus 3 disks. If I use the line below I just get "c nonsense in basic…
  • Couple of basic BASIC questionsPlaying around with BASin again in an effort to knock up a game and am wondering 2 things<br /> <br /> 1) Why when I run the program do my UDGs not a…

Related Searches

  • rst8 return to basic
  • rst8 basic
  • return to basic
  • basic tips tricks
  • best basic manual
  • writing music in basic
  • play in basic
  • play command in basic
  • basic upper lower case
  • basic toupper tolower
  • basic lcase ucase
  • scrolling basic
  • basic side scrolling
  • scrolling in basic
  • scrolling up basic
  • scrolling all up basic
  • reverseed scrolling basic
  • reverse scroll basic
  • scrolling text basic
  • reverse basic marko

Copyright © 2024 World of Spectrum