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Comparing the old and new site design - my feedbackHello folks, As a regular visitor to the WOS site, I would like to offer a little feedback on the new-look design. I hope you won't take offence t…
... and better use of font weights.
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How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…
... 60000
300 PRINT AT RND*20,30;"*"
900 GO ... : ";s;
300 PRINT AT RND*20,30;"*"
400 LET ... -
Elon Musks's Blastar (Conversion)Back in 1984, the 12 year old Elon Musk wrote a rudimentary video game for his SpectraVideo SV-328 (another Z80 Microcomputer) [url="https://www.t…
Back in 1984, the 12 year old Elon Musk wrote a rudimentary video game for his SpectraVideo SV-328 (another Z80 Microcomputer)
[url="https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/9/8752333/elon-musk-blastar-pc-game"]https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/9/ ... -
Textured Scanline Flood Fill for ZX Spectrum 48KPity that it's quite hard to contribute code to WoS in a straightforward manner. Recently, I have created a textured/hatched fill M/C routine for the…
... br /> 110 LET x=40+RND*176
120 LET ... y=40+RND*95
130 LET ... r=10+RND*30
140 CIRCLE ... pattern
310 IF RND>0.8 THEN GO ... LET o=15624+8*INT(RND*30)
330 REM ... br /> 410 LET c=56+RND*7
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Loading Bars - Rnd USR cmd ?Morning, Just a quick question - messing about with basic and all those years back I seem to remember a way to create loading bars with a RANDOMISE …
Morning,
Just a quick question - messing about with basic and all those years back I seem to remember a way to create loading bars with a RANDOMISE USR command with a certain value.
Does anyone remember this or perhaps I am "miss-remembering" ... -
Loading Bars - Rnd USR cmd ?Morning, Just a quick question - messing about with basic and all those years back I seem to remember a way to create loading bars with a RANDOMISE …
Morning,
Just a quick question - messing about with basic and all those years back I seem to remember a way to create loading bars with a RANDOMISE USR command with a certain value.
Does anyone remember this or perhaps I am "miss-remembering" ... -
Loading Bars - Rnd USR cmd ?Morning, Just a quick question - messing about with basic and all those years back I seem to remember a way to create loading bars with a RANDOMISE …
Morning,
Just a quick question - messing about with basic and all those years back I seem to remember a way to create loading bars with a RANDOMISE USR command with a certain value.
Does anyone remember this or perhaps I am "miss-remembering" ... -
De zeven sleutels van TARKUSI've decided to type in the game "De zeven sleutels van TARKUS" from a book I have for many years now. And, it seems the game as it was printed in…
I've decided to type in the game "De zeven sleutels van TARKUS" from a book I have for many years now.
And, it seems the game as it was printed in the book, didn't work.
So there are some modifications in there to make it work ... -
Average age of a Spectrum fanHi! I'm wondering what's the average age of us, readers of this forum. I'm 29 and started playing and programming on the Spectrum when I was 13 (infl…
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agreed I use VB and am still getting the benefit out of some basic functions.
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Randomize USR xxxxxA weird topic: When I was a kid I use to mess around with the RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx, sad I know!!! For instance RANDOMIZE USR 51234 would give me a loa…
... Happen?!?"
50 Let R = Rnd*16384
60 Pause 100 ... -
A silly BASIC programming challenge for you all..This is a very, very sily idea. So only read if you are bored. I use E-bay a lot. (my user id is thx1138ebn) edit: it's now retro-technology :edit…
... /> 1 PRINT INK RND*7;AT RND*21,RND*22;"GOOD BUYER" {or ... }
2 BEEP 0.01,RND*69
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A silly BASIC programming challenge for you all..This is a very, very sily idea. So only read if you are bored. I use E-bay a lot. (my user id is thx1138ebn) edit: it's now retro-technology :edit…
Guess a number (=80 characters)
1 LET X=INT(RND*999):FOR G=1 TO 99:INPUT "NR.=";A:PRINT "> -
Here's a christmas present for you!SE Basic is no longer being developed.
... /> The main sticking point was RND, PI etc - if we disallow ... -
Here's a christmas present for you!SE Basic is no longer being developed.
... /> The main sticking point was RND, PI etc - if we disallow ... interpreters coding, but:
RND, or PI are EXPRESSIONS, and ... reason, another is:
RND, PI or STOP are all ... -
Random Smiley FacesAs promised, here's the Syntax: ;Startup 5 CLS 7 PAPER 0: BORDER 0 ;Graphics 10 FOR n=0 to 7 20 READ row: POKE USR "P"+n,row 30 NEXT n 31 DATA BI…
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LET X = INT (RND * 32) and
LET Y ... = INT (RND * 22)
Further more ... .
LET X = INT (RND * 32)
LET Y = INT ... (RND * 24)
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New commands workingSE Basic is no longer being developed.
... .41, sebasic doesn't recognize RND as a command in 128basic ... from a tzx, SEbasic shows RND commands as ND. strange. -
New commands workingSE Basic is no longer being developed.
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10 print rnd
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Number 6 in the Village (text adventure) Please help!!!Does anyone have a solution to this text adventure. I've tried to escape by air and sea using the jammer but it hasn't worked. I've been playing it …
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Object 1: weights 1
Object 2: weights 1
Object ...
Object 6: weights 1
Object 7: weights 1
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games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... you get back to basic, rnd addrs tune+1 to start ... -
Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?
... the right diet and lifted weights and trained really really hard ... -
RND not random?I recently wrote a simple Alien style game where the bad guys shoot you at random, it works fine, but after a while the Variable that is supposed to …
RND is pseudo random. However random getting 'stuck on a number' sounds dubious to me. -
RND not random?I recently wrote a simple Alien style game where the bad guys shoot you at random, it works fine, but after a while the Variable that is supposed to …
Sorry all - Found my mistake - had nothing to do with RND not being random. Gosh that was not good. -
More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…
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25 Beep .0010, INT ( RND*50 - ( SGN PI*INT ( PI ... ) - RND*5))
30 If n= ... 5000: Randomize: Beep .0010, INT ( RND*50 - ( SGN PI*INT ( PI ... ) - RND*15)): If n=10 Or ... -
More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…
... 0/1 you can use RND, but you can't tell ... -
More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…
... 0/1 you can use RND, but you can't tell ... -
More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…
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25 Beep .0010, INT ( RND*50 - ( SGN PI*INT ( PI ... ) - RND*5))
30 If n= ... 5000: Randomize: Beep .0010, INT ( RND*50 - ( SGN PI*INT ( PI ... ) - RND*15)): If n=10 Or ...
