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Comando Quatro review:New review at Spectrum Paradise. Comando Quatro this time, a nice game A mix of platformer and side scrolling shoot'em up/beat 'em up in which you p…
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Screen address of PRINT position...Hi Folks, The following code uses DF CC system variable to extrac the screen address for a PRINT position. [code]100 CLS 110 PRINT AT 10,16;…
Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…
... some cool patterns via the POKE command directly to the screen ... =16384 TO 22528
20 POKE x,a+b
25 ... ? Where is it safe to POKE freely? I tried changing X ...So it occurred to me; "Why bother with going into 48K BASIC when you can just....wrap the machine code calls inside a 'RST #28;DEFW addr:RET'?" Of course, you DO need a small M/C routine to do that, and ta-daaa, here it is: [cod…
... a tiny BASIC program to poke it into memory:
(NOTE ... 23774
4 READ d: POKE a,d
5 NEXT ...Searching for the perfect Spectrum emulator (Android)I'm searching for the best Spectrum emulator to run on my GPD XD, which runs Android. I've got several thousand TZXs on a flash card (I own all the o…
... ROM - which means lots of scrolling up and down to try ...Simple Pattern GeneratorI'm pretty happy with this so very simple. 10 LET s=RND*16: FOR x=16384 TO 23296 STEP s 20 PRINT AT 0,0;s 30 POKE x,170 40 NEXT x
I'm pretty happy with this so very simple.
10 LET s=RND*16: FOR x=16384 TO 23296 STEP s
20 PRINT AT 0,0;s
30 POKE x,170
40 NEXT xUDG generator doesn't work, why?Typing in the UDG generator from the manual I get integer out of range when I run it. I'm going nuts trying to figure out whats wrong. Can someone pl…
Creating a POK from RAM or binary.Don't know if this is the right category or not but here goes. I'm working on a bug fix for a game, it's a few hundred bytes worth of custom code …
... ? I could manually enter each poke into the file but since ...Help remembering a game...Hi guys, maybe someone can help me here, although it's a difficult one. I'm trying to remember a game I tried to play when I was younger, but have…
... that it was a side scrolling game, our hero started on ...Simple program why doesn't it react to keyboard input?[code] 10 FOR x=16385 TO 22527 20 POKE x,255: POKE (x-1),0 30 IF CODE INKEY$=119 THEN BORDER 0 40 NEXT x [/code] If you press the m key while r…
Help with Snake type game...any ideas ?Hi all I've attached me trying to write a snake type game. My first concern is me not writing over the System variables area. I'm pretty happy what i…
... to stop the program from POKE information anything higher than 23296 ...Zx Baby - a new approachBack a while ago i asked around at WOS about toddler and kids games in spectrum since i have a girl of 7 months growing fast. We reached the right…
... up pacman, put some invencibility poke on, and then the toddlers ... well, without end, since the poke would allow for no colisions ...How would you approach parallax?So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then s…
So ... there is this trick by Joffa that we all know...of waiting for the ULA to reach certain pattern on the screen using the IN command. And then starting to draw on top of the screen while the beam is busy somewhere on the bottom. Hoping that your ...HACK ATTACK - STEEPLE JACK (MIA)POKE 57078, 201 IMMUNITY POKE 57162, 201 ALTERNATE ALIENS POKE 52825, 201 - Frozen bonus Neat little game which didn't use the standard lives co…
POKE 57078, 201 IMMUNITY
POKE 57162, 201 ALTERNATE ALIENS
POKE 52825, 201 - Frozen bonus
Neat little game which didn't use the standard lives counter routines.
:DWhats the best Boulderdash game on the Spectrum?Just that. I used to play Rockford's Riot a lot. But it probably isn't the best; playing it now, its really irritating that you can run off the side …
... of the screen before the scrolling catches up. So whats the ...help with my original issue 3b from when i was a teen. possible lower ram fault.hello, well ive tried to fix my old speccy, but haven't made much progress. could you help me out with some diagnosis. the fault occurred about…
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I also tried to POKE 32600,85 it wouldn't ... enter key. so I tried POKE 3,85 that worked. then ...What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…
... , I'm more thinking a POKE to change it to say ...Top-down scrolling racing gamesAre there any of these on the Spectrum? A brief search brings up the recent Car Wars but that is on static screens, and everything else seems to be O…
Are there any of these on the Spectrum? A brief search brings up the recent Car Wars but that is on static screens, and everything else seems to be Outrun/HangOn type games.Keyboark Clickevery time i press a key i get a click. The click is a beep but very short. i unserstood with this command. POKE 23609,255 by default is 0... and …
... unserstood with this command.
POKE 23609,255
by default ...RemakesHello everyone! I am new to the forums. (I was in read only mode for a while before I decided to join.) I owned a 48K Speccy when I was a kid (cca fr…
... and remaked it with smooth scrolling, and a starmap to mark ...Through The Trap Door - Level 4 issuesHi, I got a problem lads regarding the sequel Trap Door game - Through The Trap Door and would like help. First of all, is it possible one of you cl…
... there could create a POKE where when you ... even with an invincibility poke that the end result ... issue is the invincibility poke on THE TIPSHOP site ... because of the invincible poke making it impossible to ... a fully working invincible poke where the missiles don' ...Name the GameI've been asked if I know what this game could be. Any ideas? [i]"I'm trying to find an old spectrum game that I can't remember the title of. Wh…
... radiation..
Therre was no scrolling, the game area was the ..."ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…
... rows I could have used POKE 23606 to shift them vertically ... process was done, with a POKE of the display file where ... editor, I've had to POKE 23607,249 every time I ... something on the stack, and POKE 23607,60 at the end ...Please welcome Adrian SinghMy old school mate and 'Mr Poke' from Sinclair User Adrian Singh joined us here the other day. I'd been wondering where he'd gone for years and final…
... old school mate and 'Mr Poke' from Sinclair User Adrian Singh ...Good or Horrible: Beach HeadI got They Sold A Million with my Speccy. Also: Transformers. Eesh. Surprised I gutted it out long enough to like the machine. Anyway, Beach H…
... planes is okay. The side scrolling bit might be simultaneously the ...Gunfright for C64 and more!After Knight Lore and Pentagram, Gunfright also arrived for the C64/128, Plus 4 and Atari 8 bit. The stunning speed, especially in the C64 version, …
... title screen and no hardware scrolling is used) but the speed ...Samurai Warrior - The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo. BUGFIX.While playing around I managed to put the game in a bugged state. When the game is in this state any enemy that's facing right while executing an att…
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Jump Bugfix: [b]POKE 44989,195[/b]
poke that allows Usagi to be ... .
Shuriken Improvement: [b]POKE 40540,42[/b]
