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  • ANNOUNCE: Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana TrumanHappy 26th birthday Allana! Today I release my new game, [I]Manic Miner: Neighbours - Allana Truman[/I] (MM:N-AT), a tribute to my favourite charact…

    ... and solving physical puzzles. The basic controls are left, right, ... which reduces the need for saving memory-snapshots every few seconds, ... " (like in "The Nightmare Room" of Jet Set Willy).
    memory (notably Room 7) when you fall ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad November 2004 Games
  • ANNOUNCE: Manic Miner: Ma jolie [Special Edition]I am delighted to announce the release of a Special Edition of my 2003 Manic Miner game, [i]Ma jolie[/i]. It's based on the game-engine from Matthew…

    ... to five items from each room before advancing to the next ... and solving physical puzzles. The basic controls are left, right, jump ... ], which reduces the need for saving memory-snapshots every few seconds, whilst ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad September 2006 Games
  • Memory and BasicQuestions 1. How much memory is available for Basic Progs? 2. How do I check how much is left? 3. How much memory does an array take up?

    Questions

    1. How much memory is available for Basic Progs?
    2. How do I check how much is left?
    3. How much memory does an array take up?
    chop983 chop983 November 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC.

    https://drive ... and with the aim of saving memory, I didn´t design any ... playability. And there is room for programming another type of ... BUG chips (reducing energy, memory, or damaging the controls), and ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • Basic info about platformers...I have run a search for an answer to this question and haven't found quite what I was looking for so I thought I would pop a post on here... What ar…

    ... 't have to worry about saving memory etc...!!

    Thanks to ...
    Scoops Scoops October 2004 Development
  • More memoryHi all... can anyone help, Is it possible to get more memory for basic pref' in Basin.... 40 odd k is just not enough !

    Hi all... can anyone help,

    Is it possible to get more memory for basic
    pref' in Basin.... 40 odd k is just not enough !
    loonix loonix November 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... Currys for ?50 after saving many, many weeks of ... proper keyboard (SIC), more memory, advanced BASIC, printers and Microdrives! Wow, ... decent peripherals (keyboards, discs, memory, processsors etc.) were falling ... 3 as it had more memory, better sound, a good ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2010 Games
  • The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …

    ... and uploading/downloading chunks of memory at high BAUD rates. ... the above.

    The basic specs on the Mega-Drive ... of four horizontal/vertical combinations saving memory.

    The VDP ... map in VRAM. The memory buffer automaticly wraps round on ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... loaded into memory without disrupting BASIC so they ... be loaded into memory using BASIC. Once these ... there is no room to store it ... cmp edx,1 ; No room for count!
    je ... ; ------------

    .copy: ldir ; Memory copy

    .next: ld ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…

    ... use of the extra memory from BASIC is not so straightforward ... with the extra memory from BASIC, apart from saving extra BASIC, CODE & ... something is loaded into main memory it overwrites what was ... to see if any significant memory savings could be made ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2013 Development
  • GAC Tutorial Started!Hi all. I have a Youtube channel where I play old games and such. I also do a few programming tutorials. I have recently added a Graphic Adventure Cr…

    ... drop. If you made a room that can change it's ... for any items in the room, and move them at the ... merge options are good for saving memory and having many locations simulated ...
    sentient sentient October 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • LOAD "" CODE - Blind Alleycame across [B]Blind Alley[/B] in the archives, and both tzx/tap versions only have Bytes header, no Basic loader with autostart - please, anyone, ho…

    ... BASIC and ends after loading the whole game. Due to the saving ... with the BASIC part of the loading ... will return to the loaded BASIC after loading and run the ... was to save the entire memory block of 48K. This would ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2013 Games
  • Maze-K for Sinclair ZX81Found this new game for the the Spectrum old brother. [URL="http://www.zonadepruebas.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4646"]Maze-K for ZX81[/URL]

    ... issue with running out of memory, surely it's better to ... many obscure methods of saving memory in ZX81 BASIC program before they can ...
    bobs bobs January 2014 Brand new software
  • Maze-K for Sinclair ZX81Found this new game for the the Spectrum old brother. [URL="http://www.zonadepruebas.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4646"]Maze-K for ZX81[/URL]

    ... issue with running out of memory, surely it's better to ... many obscure methods of saving memory in ZX81 BASIC program before they can ... , he seems a quite prolific BASIC programmer at the moment.
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington January 2014 Brand new software
  • Character Based SpritesHi, I'm working through Jonathan's excellent guide to writing games, and have mastered the animation of single UDGs. Before or move onto Pixel…

    ... make much sense to use BASIC/ROM routines, to read keys ... to process keyboard modes in Basic editor.

    The ROM ... control are:
    - Screen (a memory mapped area, mapped in a ... similar code in RAM, hence saving memory, but it comes with the ...
    RMartins RMartins July 2016 Development
  • Why can't you make a BASIC program as big as you want?Let me rephrase that. Is it possible using BASIC to write a program that can be multi part? In other words one that can LOAD lets say a story, in se…

    ... [/quote]

    ZX BASIC can MERGE programs, but not ... make your main program A, saving memory for another part and using ... fill them in memory.
    - Using upper memory to store the ... BASIC lines (and relocate variables), so you can release the memory ...
    Zup Zup January 2018 Updates
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... you use the typically ZX81 BASIC definitions of integers e.g ... PI, etc. is exclusively for saving memory just in those lines in ... /> Glad to discuss about our BASIC programming!
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... PI, etc. is exclusively for saving memory just in those lines in ... remember where unfortunately) that Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum will still ...
    patters patters April 2019 Brand new software
  • Thanks for the memories... is it 16k or 48k? Hi. At three different flea markets in Gothenburg, Sweden I found just as many Spectrums... (and a ZX81! [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif…

    ... size of their RAM-memory?

    Most basic-dialects has commands ...
    Lars Lindblad Lars Lindblad January 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Hard drive and Multiface problemsI recently read about the Spectrum +3e, and thought to myself - "I'll give that a try, and I'll build the Hard drive Interface while I'm at it". So,…

    ... wrong here? I tried saving a simple basic program to the hard ...
    jagman5994 jagman5994 October 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • XLR-8 mastering utilities - help wanted!!Hello. Ironic I know given I wrote them! I can't for the life of me get the XLR-8 mastering utilities to work under emulation. It goes through the m…

    ... got as far as saving out a Basic loader - but it won ...
    JonNorth JonNorth April 2006 Development
  • Loading arrays in BASin...Hi Folks, I have been playing with loading and saving arrays from BASIC in BASin. By trapping the SAVE command the DATA can be saved to a .TAP file…

    ... playing with loading and saving arrays from BASIC in BASin. By trapping ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman November 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Calling machine codeOccasionally I see on ZX computers (mostly the spectrum, but I think also the '80 and '81), how someone made their machine code and wrote the bytes i…

    ... wrote the bytes into some memory which BASIC doesn't touch. Then ...
    wilsonsamm wilsonsamm February 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…

    ... us, BASIC in this case

    In the memory of the ... />
    Poke these numbers into memory from basic, (poke 32767,63 : poke ... memory) or writes to memory (LD (BC),A) and increases PC. In BASIC ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2002 Games
  • Games cracking...A question for the crackers out here.... What was your very first game you cracked and for how long were you 'in clouds' of it? My very first progr…

    ... wulf" conversion to three-part: Basic, screen and one code, the ... parts are poked directly into memory from Basic. My first real crack ...
    LCD LCD August 2001 Games
  • SPIN-Lite (Working Title) test availableHi all, I've been having a break from SPIN, pursuing my original goal of a BASIC interpreter. Well, I took SPIN's main core and hacked it around…

    ... basic programs? (Creating .exes with built in emulator with already programmed memory ... with basic. When someone click exe ... it starts basic program without editor. (break will ...
    Arda Arda January 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • This month's Retro Gamer - Cascade 50 honouredWell, after what seems like no end of Cascade Cassette 50 talk this month at WOS ("50 [I]great[/I] games on one [I]great[/I] cassette"), Retro Gamer …

    ... "good games using not much memory", a BASIC Challenge for "good games ... written in BASIC", a couple of others that ...
    jil jil September 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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