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  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first two ... ]

    ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * Place ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…

    ... wrote was a dire BASIC program to draw the ... br />
    The first BASIC game I wrote was a ... followed a series of small BASIC games including road racers, ... code with BASIC. The MC did the scrolling.),a Bingo ... recent attempts at ZX BASIC have resulted in Dash- ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2005 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... news) held a BASIC compo last year (Interpreted BASIC) and some neat ... still believe that what a BASIC program lacks is speed ... White Lightning package from compiled BASIC. This afternoon I'll try ... to work with sprites and scrolling.[/quote]

    There ...
    radastan radastan July 2005 Development
  • Artist / Artists Required For 3 Brand-New Spectrum Game ProjectsHi all, I am currently looking for high quality sprite and background tile artists for 3 forthcoming Spectrum games I have on the go at the moment. …

    The vertical scrolling shoot-em-up is the furthest ahead, with most of the basic scrolling, sprite + control engine up and running. I'll try and get a snapshot put up soon.
    dansauk dansauk July 2005 Development
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... doesn't have stunning hardware scrolling or more colours per pixel ... be a superior machine! Hardware scrolling, multiple colours, better keyboard, blah ... on the basis of better BASIC (and I can't stress ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2005 Games
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... doesn't have stunning hardware scrolling or more colours per pixel ... be a superior machine! Hardware scrolling, multiple colours, better keyboard, blah ... on the basis of better BASIC (and I can't stress ...
    Arjun Arjun July 2005 Games
  • ArmalyteI am sure a lot of folks here remember Armalyte, the fabulous C64 shoot-em-up that almost came out on the speccy. I think there was a demo on some of…

    ... in BASIC some time back. Its a bit slow, and the scrolling ... , as the loop is in BASIC.

    Q,A,O ... that is built into the scrolling routine which tells the routine ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2005 Games
  • Smallest Reason for Loading a GameHi folks, Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing the loading screen or, as in the case of Jet Set Willy, trying to catch the mag…

    >>>>
    loading noise
    Ashley Pomeroy Ashley Pomeroy September 2005 Games
  • Smallest Reason for Loading a GameHi folks, Every so often I keep loading some games merely for seeing the loading screen or, as in the case of Jet Set Willy, trying to catch the mag…

    [quote]
    On 2005-09-30 21:12, Ashley Pomeroy wrote:
    >>>>
    loading noise
    JonNorth JonNorth October 2005 Games
  • Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…

    ... starting again (e.g sprites, scrolling etc). I think i am ... language do you use? (Asm, Basic, C etc)

    [B ...
    robpearmain robpearmain February 2006 Development
  • What does Sir Clive do nowadays ?I have searched the net a lot, but can't find much about Sir Clive's present whereabouts. The Sincair Research-pages still offer the same products a…

    ... the C64's POKE riddled BASIC, and of course the magazines ... the Spectrum has s superb BASIC, a manual that wasn't ... memory, a rudimentary and underpowered BASIC that was part of an ... Sinclair marketing strategy) sprite and scrolling hardware that was difficult to ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…

    ... etc)

    A sideways scrolling Shoot 'em up. Don't ... language do you use? (Asm, Basic, C etc)

    Assembler ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2006 Development
  • Spectrum Only GamesHiyas peeps. Has anyone out there got a list of 'spectrum only' games? As in, games that were only ever brought out on the spectrum, not cross plat…

    ... that most of it was BASIC (you can certainly BREAK it ... generating the layout) but the scrolling routines (or maybe most of ...
    Vampyre Vampyre March 2006 Games
  • Spectrum games which are better than 16-bit versionsLet's talk about games which are better on the Speccy than on 16-bit machines. In my opinion Spectrum versions of "Chase HQ" and "Space Gun" are bet…

    ... game with the amiga JSWII scrolling. That killed it before you ... 's sections that defy Dizzys basic gameplan which in my opinion ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2006 Games
  • Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…

    ... did write some pretty involved BASIC programs, and even graduated into ... more complex (albeit somewhat buggy) BASIC of the SAM Coupe - what ... its separate screen display pages, scrolling, and what not. But since ... /> 1/ a good modern BASIC editor (or should I just ...
    48K 48K April 2006 Development
  • Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…

    ... did write some pretty involved BASIC programs, and even graduated into ... more complex (albeit somewhat buggy) BASIC of the SAM Coupe - what ... its separate screen display pages, scrolling, and what not. But since ... /> 1/ a good modern BASIC editor (or should I just ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2006 Development
  • What is it exactly about that Spectrum that you like so much?I'm sure that most people here will agree that there's something very special about the Speccy, thats why we visit WOS afterall... But what why has i…

    ... of factors. It had the basic capabilities of colour graphics and ... do things like sprites and scrolling which tended to constrain games ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2006 Games
  • I played DSpec on my DSlite!That's right, TheHiVE sent out a few copys of a pre-release version of DSpec and I was one of the luckiest fellers in the world to get one ! I't ver…

    ... !

    I't very basic at the moment, but you ... an XP style with a scrolling bar.
    You just have ...
    mel the bell mel the bell June 2006 Emulators
  • name the football mangement game......pleasei've been trying to find the name of this football management game - anyone help me, the only real thing about it that i can remember that my help so…

    ... ;-)).

    its written in BASIC and is one of those ... happened again here!), then the scrolling text part of the game ...
    pigdog pigdog August 2006 Games
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... /> And I hated the new BASIC interface. Typing was terrible, as ... speed up the notoriously slow BASIC. In fact, it was even ... and the system variables in BASIC, but they could have set ... from the CPU, and hardware scrolling would definately have benefitted the ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... easy to animate graphics in Basic if you have hardware sprites ... sprites in several versions of BASIC (e.g. Hisoft's ... Compiler and Ocean's Laser BASIC) on the Spectrum. They' ... graphics accelleration features in hardware, scrolling and blitting seem far more ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... sprites in several versions of BASIC (e.g. Hisoft's Colt ... Compiler and Ocean's Laser BASIC) on the Spectrum. They're ... do with the built in BASIC, but I've seen people ... graphics accelleration features in hardware, scrolling and blitting seem far more ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... each line entry that Sinclair Basic does. I absolutely hate the ... would have looked at hardware scrolling for sure, maybe hardware sprites ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…

    ... each line entry that Sinclair Basic does. I absolutely hate the ... would have looked at hardware scrolling for sure, maybe hardware sprites ... flexible, can be used for scrolling and once a blit is ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Xenon TriOxide (Xeo3)I just wanted you all to know that a new cross platform game has started development (well the +4 version has been around a while, but my colleague f…

    ... at the code?[/QUOTE]
    basic idea is pretty simple. both ... what can be called "floating scrolling blocks".
    another view on ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2006 Development
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... the msx. For instance, scrolling games on the Spectrum ... , I´ll start with Basic for TS2068 because I´m ... to work with sprites in basic?
    [/quote]

    basic is much too slow ... with almost no effort from basic.

    On ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
  • Class ofHiya :) Just wondering what`s happening with the Spectrum version of the PC remake of the Speccy original... Class of 99 that is. I know James was w…

    ... dirty areas updated and the scrolling parts are achieved by copying ... a string table, using a basic script to control the characters ...
    Jmk Jmk November 2006 Games
  • Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…

    ... modes have full hardware screen scrolling.

    So the 64 ... simulator for the c64? full basic emulator, and loads tapes directly ...
    netraider netraider November 2006 Games
  • Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…

    ... modes have full hardware screen scrolling.[/quote]

    That ... the Speccy had had hardware scrolling, though unless it scrolled ... simulator for the c64? full basic emulator, and loads tapes ... You can load a Spectrum BASIC game in (like Mined Out ...
    ewgf ewgf November 2006 Games
  • Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…

    ... do hi-res hardware pixel scrolling? [/QUOTE]


    ... easy to do hardware pixel scrolling in multicolour 160x200 or ... . This can be done in BASIC.

    For example, ... are not reliant on hardware scrolling, relying solely on processor power ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers November 2006 Games
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