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speccy soundI know this sounds a bit vauge but can anyone explain to me why the music on some 48K games was so amazing and so much better than the usual beeper s…
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Best way to codeHi, I've been using Zeus Assembler to code MC programs so far. Nothing fancy just the odd scroll left or animation stuff. Wot I'd like to know is, …
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Books on Programming (ZX Assembler )Before you ask I trawl eBay on a daily/hourly basis. Any books in VGC wanted on programming games for the ZX Spectrum 48K. No creased, defaced or mi…
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The Spectrum Book of Games by Mike James ... consisting of 21 games in Basic at ?5
49 ... by Tom Hartnell being Basic listings of 49 games ... of 24 games listings in Basic at ?3
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Quiz V - the revenge of D`n`C Ok, 50 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. Ther…
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Li'l help?I'm making a video-sketch-show thing, and I plan on putting some speccy code in somewhere, (as well as a comic strip on the inlay case) but I can onl…
I must have a book with scrolling routines
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The funniest thing we made with the spectrumHello. The funniest thing i made with the spectrum were championships with my buddy francisco on a game called 3d stunt car racer, i think that was t…
... read in some book about error trapping for BASIC. So, one ... programm that would capture any BASIC runtime error and display ... programm consisted of only one BASIC part, containing my ASM routine ... started it. After that the BASIC programm deleted itselt (NEW). ... -
Yet Another Speccy Quiz (not too hard)OK! I thought I'd chance my arm at one of these things. I must say I've found the recent quizzes WAY too difficult, so I've pitched this one at simpl…
... PC game Digger, and a book by Ben Elton.
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a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…
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crashHi , anyone got a particular favourite issue of the superb magazine crash , mines issue 13 , just brings memories of xmas back and a cool review of m…
... majority of film, record and book reviewers use is a "bizzare ... other half was filled with basic programming techniques,
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did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... in a bucket written in Basic.
2) ... numbers. 90 per cent BASIC. 10 per cent MC ... text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped ... adventures for ur spectrum. good book!
4) ... an original Basic adventure listing in a book. 1 more ...did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... in a bucket written in Basic.
2) ... numbers. 90 per cent BASIC. 10 per cent MC ... text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped ... an original Basic adventure listing in a book. 1 more ...
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Book listingsI used to spend hours typing in programs from books. I had a whole box of them books and typed in hundreds of programs. Some good, some bad and some …
... dont want much for each book plus postage
thanks ... learnt eneything I know about basic from those books, which addmitedly ...did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
... some few very basic and uninteresting games, all in Basic.
A car game with vertical scroll had to ... game
A very basic AI game with my girlfriend ...Celebrity Deathmatch- Manic Miner vs Jet Set WillySince the two games have come up in this forum recently, it has made me think back to how imaginative they were, and how much fun they were to simply…
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- The use of PRINT ...did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…
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I've got a book ... on C, a book on Visual Basic and a book on ... m writing simple tutorials on Basic at the moment. I ... manual!)
But with Basic i'm :p with Assembler ...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…
... of those that are specialized basic or whatever with compiler arent ... more versatile.
Laser Basic seems good but after what ... find it. HiSoft has a basic compiler but there was a ... when i make a screen scroll vertically and horizontally and get ...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…
... level language but it isnt basic, and runs at comoparable speeds ... it's alot like using basic and the manual is pretty ... /> calculations to get a smooth scroll and is one of the ... . you can also use normal basic if youwant and is not ...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…
... buy such and such a book on Forth.
The ... compiled spectrum basic, and this is not spectrum basic. spectrum basic appeals because ... deal with it, like spectrum basic, but something new is always ... so and so book on Forth or any book on Forth. ( the ...Hewson QuestI have pretty much solved the game and visited all the rooms, but I cannot for the life of me get back out of the forest to the start room, or get ba…
... , clay vase, mirror, goblet, book, scroll (false one), scroll (real one), grail, chalice ... (golden and silver), jewel, phrase book, ring ...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?
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woooooo! ... vs instruction set vs basic vs keyboard vs games ... again, i liked the basic better, think it is ... get into than C64 Basic, and you can ask ... strengths is its weakness. Scroll, custom sprites etc. when ...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?
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The Basic is non-existent, meaning it ... video game effects, like smooth scroll, to be possible. But because ... had a strong version of Basic. It was quirky. It featured ...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…
... have a whole Basic routine, or an entire Basic program for that ... remember learning this but my basic has gotten very rusty over ... be better off compiling your basic program - but this has worked ... you want the screen to scroll upwards by Printing Graphics or ...Old Spectrum Books Im not sure of the name, but once upon a time you could by hard-back books containing basic programming language that allowed you to create your own…
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I have hundreds of BASIC books in my lounge.
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perhaps you ...Old Spectrum Books Im not sure of the name, but once upon a time you could by hard-back books containing basic programming language that allowed you to create your own…
... by hard-back books containing basic programming language that allowed you ... !!! And i still need a book on Standard Fig Forth so ...Unknown Games For ZX-Spectrum For Spectrum in period from 1980 to 1993 was made more 15000! games ...Where other 9000?(Don't check info) Also i find Names of very good games fo…
... with the listings in the book in case you didnt want ... others id come with a book of listings and a tape ... + graphics pack, PCW collections in book form + tape, which i have ... they made of pong in basic 15 years ago when they ...Was spectrum the most advanced thing when you got it?When you got your first spectrum games, were they the most advanced games at the moment? When my dad bought it for me I was crazy excited, it was ama…
... Captain America ( the whole comic book thing ), Side Arms, and i ... and play games and learn basic and do stuff, and buy ...Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…
... is the mode that Spectrum Basic normally operates in. The code ... can't find my data book at the moment. The actual ...Adventure type-insI know there are many adventure enthusiasts in here. Did any of you type-in adventure listings from magazines or books? If so, do you still have a …
... remember a book on writing adventure-games which had a BASIC type ...Adventure type-insI know there are many adventure enthusiasts in here. Did any of you type-in adventure listings from magazines or books? If so, do you still have a …
... /> Andrew: I well remember the book you are talking about "Haunted ... think I've got the book anymore, but it was a ... Usbourne. It contained a long BASIC program, with alternative lines for ...Adventure type-insI know there are many adventure enthusiasts in here. Did any of you type-in adventure listings from magazines or books? If so, do you still have a …
... but also type-ins (BASIC I suppose) by users? ... anything typed in for a book or magazine, or written ... . Sinclair User, or whatever book title with authors.)
... find in any magazine or book... in fact, nowhere ... for that "Micro Games" book I mentioned a while ...
