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endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
... that they could do some basic formatting like cursor placement, underline ... have terminals that emulate zx basic's terminal (when you print ... codes). As you know in basic you can print certain codes ... all you want is to scroll the screen upward. You can ... -
Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…
Well, my solution doesn't involve any machine code at all - you're just changing the BASIC code on the fly.
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Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…
[quote="Dunny;910325"]Would you be averse to POKEing the scroll counter so you can make a BASIC infinite vertical scroller? [/quote]
Hmm. Not sure. It’s probably still kosher. I’ll have to consult the High Council. :)] -
im looking for a horizontal scroll routinehi, im looking for a horizontal scroll routine. i read somewhere that you can do it with at 'to' statement, somewhere in a print routine. althoug…
... 's some variations on my BASIC scroller:
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im looking for a horizontal scroll routinehi, im looking for a horizontal scroll routine. i read somewhere that you can do it with at 'to' statement, somewhere in a print routine. althoug…
... doing a full 32-frame scroll (shifting the whole of the ... , which is quite quick for BASIC:
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z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
... user, supports Z88dk and Boriel Basic. No scroll nor multicolour though. I ... -
How to improve my program using oversized numbersI'd like my dice program to print out the number four times bigger than normal if possible. Anyone know how to do this? Or I could write a sub rou…
... CODE 165 and above, the scroll effect is amazing:
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Speeding up PRINT code in ROMHi Folks, I seem to recall that someone stated the PRINT command is rather slow because it has to handle screen and printer printing - is this cor…
... key) and PO_SCR (test for scroll) respectively, aren't called all ... ; but if I enter a BASIC line "10 PRINT 111" and ... -
Issue with TV signal + Inductor Coil (16K Issue 2 Speccy)Hello guys, I just got a 16K Issue 2 Speccy from eBay. It was sold as not working so I knew there would be some work needed before it's working ag…
... asked me whether it should scroll the text I accidentally pressed ... a full list of existing Basic commands and an 'invalid color ... -
Mega basic long listingsHi, this might be a silly question, but does anyone know how to list a program in mega basic and have it pause the scrolling when the listing has fil…
... not auto pause as conventional Basic does ? I've not tried ... high to avoid it saying "scroll ?" but setting it to 20 ... -
Is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of fileHi, is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of file. E.g.: I have a Tape-Code-File Start f…
I got this working, although the method is rather different from that originally envisaged. In summary, it uses an alternative machine stack to use bits of the ROM without having to write any new m/code.
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where can i get assembly language routines to play around with?preferably in .asm format or text with comments? ive googled it but there is very little
... it a different version of basic?
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Those ... . I recall there were some scroll libraries in there.
You ... own inline asm within Boriel Basic. Here is a tutorial : http ... a bit in this modern Basic, then decompile to see how ... -
Help with adding graphicsHi, After like 20 years or so I started playing again with Spectrum stuff, especially programming. I tried to dig into machine code, but apart f…
This is a Boriel Basic highlighter for Visual Studio Code< ... an innovative debugger tool.
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i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... hard to adapt one to scroll UDG backgrounds, perhaps even with ... machine code routines within ones basic program that can take ... something like this, or any BASIC programming, is usually the ... perhaps already come across a BASIC message scroller program at ... -
i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... "]Jerri is technically right: BASIC doesn't lend itself well ... hard to adapt one to scroll UDG backgrounds, perhaps even with ... something like this, or any BASIC programming, is usually the planning ... perhaps already come across a BASIC message scroller program at ... -
i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... memory. You could use a BASIC array to store a load ... you can use arrays in BASIC to store strings that draw ... of UDGs. Then as you scroll your view of the background ... or DIM an array in BASIC to store a map of ... way of doing a horizontal scroll. It's more suited to ... -
Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... esoteric, but it is very basic functionality of every graphical engine ... and a horizontal scroll bar. You move the scroll bar right. Your ... -
Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... esoteric, but it is very basic functionality of every graphical engine ... of text and a horizontal scroll bar.[/quote]
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Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... esoteric, but it is very basic functionality of every graphical engine ... of text and a horizontal scroll bar.[/quote]
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Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... compression, and doing it in BASIC -- compression costs time and adds ... about 25K to use for BASIC programs (but I never tried ... now (like how to stop "Scroll? (y/n)" from appearing) but ... -
How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
... not with my level of Basic.
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Hello! New guy here!Hello there! Is this website still active? I feel like there's not much activity here, as if it's dead. Is this community is still alive? Also, the …
... point of view - is the Basic language.
Now you ... with HELLO WORLD and ask SCROLL? Any keypress will just repeat ... -
Hello! New guy here!Hello there! Is this website still active? I feel like there's not much activity here, as if it's dead. Is this community is still alive? Also, the …
... point of view - is the Basic language.
Now you ... with HELLO WORLD and ask SCROLL? Any keypress will just repeat ... -
If the ZX Spectrum AND the Commodore 64 were not available which 8 bit computer would you have got?Following on from the “[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/218/your-favourite-machine-apart-from-the-spectrum/p1"]Your favourite …
... play games, and "attempt" programming BASIC there, with all the actual ... a full listing of whatever BASIC the Acorn Electron used, in ... added for me decided to scroll up the screen filling the ... -
Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …
... you are just interested in BASIC. It doesn't necessary ... faster than another.
Atari BASIC is notoriously slow, but recent ... works.
So... yeah... BASIC speed is only as good ... Using 65816 code for the scroll puts the Atari version similar ... -
Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... I've ever seen a BASIC program scrolling the screen that ... a utility for speeding up BASIC graphics you might like, you ... sprites) for re-use; and scroll that background. It also speeds ... -
Super Mario Bros 64An 1:1 conversion of Super Mario Bros is now released for the c64 (and it's fantastic!). Things are looking good for the old breadbin what with Knigh…
... it: it's a unidirectional scroll with only a handful of ... be well within the machines basic capabilities. I'm not a ... -
How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…
... pressing the appropriate key to scroll through the output, then type ... don't take up much BASIC) to the strings within his ... BASIC program or else load it ... save string arrays in Spectrum BASIC.
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Have you got a project or are doing anything interesting during lock down?I’m “having” “fun” cutting shapes in wall tiles to fit around the electrical switches, sockets and heating/boiler control box in the utility room. …
... magazines I got then included BASIC listings for other machines. I ... I thought. But despite the BASIC on the Speccy being a ... of the ZX81 BASIC, I could not enter SCROLL, UNPLOT, FAST or ...
