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  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... . The address of the score string is now returned in USR ... room as it can for text (previously it was just 1K ... rough idea of how much text the editor can use.
    jonathan jonathan April 2008 Development
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... only for "in de middle" string assignations:
    [code]
    REM ... 65535 bytes long). When a string is changed, its block is ... ]garbage collection[/i]. When a string is declared in a function ... " at the end of this text file:
    [url]http://z88dk ...
    boriel boriel June 2008 Development
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... have a comma in the string (for obvious reasons - it is ... commas from the in-game text.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Games
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... converted into a VDU 25 string sequence. DRAW is just a ... BBC wants a line of text to be inputted it calls ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... /> [*]VDU 24,26 - have implemented text windows. I have recoded the ... to obey the window bounds. Scrolling has also been modified to ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... if they entered an empty string.

    Here's what ... the result is an empty string, as expected.

    Run ... string, but it's previous value.

    No wonder my text ... adventure was repeating previous the command on an empty string ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The "Ernie Wise Memorial Game What I Wrote" thread 2008As the September rain lashes remorselessly long and hard against the window (Everest PVC-u) what more can a cove do but reflect on life whilst drinki…

    ... game with changed graphics and text, and the screen drew the ... change the graphics and the text, but I added a ramp ... ?

    I can barely string a loader or a PRINT ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek September 2008 Games
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... at the moment)
    [*]Attribute scrolling in text windows
    [*]Vectored read ...
    Jimmy Jimmy September 2008 Development
  • help making a gameive decided to make a game for the speccy but i have no idea where to start. i think i'd like to make a text adventure, i saw the 'build your own' pr…

    ... used for making the best text adventures are those regularly discussed ... speccy "string to your bow", then I think writing a text adventure ... already have, mile, but a text adventure is something where you ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2008 Development
  • Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…

    ... string of text. Like "print text in buffer, scroll up one string, ldi the text ... from buffer to screen, scroll up one string ... ..." and so on while the string is not fully ... pixels and then print new string, no difference.
    Shadow Maker Shadow Maker October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which computer is most similar to Zx Spectrum?I have wondered recently wihch other 8-bit computer is most of all similar to Zx Spectrum. I mean similar graphics, similar gameplay, similar program…

    ... smooth scrolling effects.

    There is also a 40 column text ...
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • PING:AlvinSince I archive my emails offline I am prone to losing people's email addresses.

    ... bit. It makes doing proportional text easy but it makes printing ... text to print.[/QUOTE]

    Ah, ok so printing a string ... is necessary is because the text windows are windows on the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2008 Development
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... , we have text adventure creators, platform game creators and scrolling shoot em ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2008 Games
  • artist neededany volunteer here on WOS ?

    ... if you do character scrolling rather than pixel scrolling. I know it ... background and so. i refused scrolling as it consumes too much ... into game, the routine depacking text on the fly is already ...
    Fikee Fikee December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Corrections to "Authored with Quill"Started testing today from the end of the list... These are not written with Quill: [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^You+Ca…

    ... will run, but with corrupted text for locations and messages. The ... crypting algorhytm for messages/locations text is cahnged. So you can ... s Tale[/I] hacked a text compression system into it -- ... brief:
    * 3Eh = end of string
    * 3Ch = newline
    * ...
    John Elliott John Elliott January 2009 Infoseek database
  • How does the Speccy deal with the Character Set?Hi All, Can anyone spare a little time to explain to me the basic Assembly method of how the Speccy interprets and retrieves Characters to print on …

    I prefer to use a test on value 255.
    This needs a byte more (CP 255) but you can use controlcodes too in the string to display, code like defb 22,0,0 to set the text at 0,0.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2009 Development
  • The best ... beginning with "L"Name (in your opinion) your "Best game beginning with [A to Z, one letter per post]". So, for the letter "L", which do you think are the: [B…

    ... mentions though.

    Best text adventure: [B]Lords Of Time ... ): [B]Light Force[/B] - Smooth scrolling in full colour with barely ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • RIP GeocitiesBought by Yahoo for $4bn, now killed off.

    ... />
    Animated GIFs and marquee scrolling galore!

    I'll ... " style which simply made the text after your own entry not ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG April 2009 Chit chat
  • speccy games at your school?this will probably only apply to those of us who were at school from say 82 to 92ish (guessing thats the majority of people here?). anyway did your…

    ... cursor up to the sample text and tapping the COPY key ... to auto-load. It would string you along for a bit ...
    joefish joefish May 2009 Games
  • Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …

    ... index) and then retrieve the string character by character.
    ... encoder that takes a text file (one string per line, no ... huffman tree and compressed string data which you can ... to have multiple [tree+compressed string] databases and switch between ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2009 Development
  • WoS RSS feedI've made an unofficial RSS feed for this 'ere site. Get all the "What's New?" news to your feed aggregator. Here it is, here: [url]http://feed43.c…

    ... address
    # $match[3] = link text
    $titem = $titem . " " . $match[3 ...
    Arda Arda May 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • PZX file support for ZX-BlockeditorDear readers, I'm working on the PZX format support for ZX-Blockeditor, as I discovered the advantage of having such a nice file format. It has a cl…

    ... are converted into TZX's text message blocks
    - pause blocks ... ", as described before, simply a string with pulse and optional repeaters ... point block that stores any text.

    As I want ...
    clausjahn clausjahn May 2009 Development
  • Brand new River Raid remake?one of my friend is trying to make a riverraid remake on flash just to have fun, I checked zx spectrum port of river raid. it is bad, really bad, jer…

    ... demo than a playable game. Scrolling the screen alone takes more ... probably get away with only scrolling a few areas where there ... ever done multicoloured lines of text myself, but the general principle ... done if you're not scrolling the same amount of data ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2009 New game ideas
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - the test adventure: Hard or what??Hi guys, this is a great website. Without the thoughtful people who posted the scanned magazine walkthrough guides for the above-mentioned game, I wo…

    ... experimentation and allowed for a string of commands to be entered ... today as perhaps the only text adventure that has massive replay ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley May 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... have effectively made the following string in memory eight bytes ... into the following string often get printed outside the text box. If ... the text cursor has moved and the next padded string does ... so introduces effectively an extra string into the game, causing ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... retain the padding in the text box I was actually working ... shunting it into the next string in order to avoid the ...
    jonathan jonathan June 2009 Games
  • Windows XP questionFor my mame cabinet I want to hide windows as much as I can. At the moment I have customised the motherboard bios splash screen so thats hidden, it t…

    ... and the 'Welcome' message is text that can be edited (there ... \CurrentVersion\Winlogon

    String 'AutoAdminLogon', '1'
    String 'DefaultPassword', ''
    Integer ...
    Integer 'LogonType', 0
    String 'Shell', ProgName
    [/QUOTE]
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2009 Chit chat
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... /> Anyway, about the padding of text.

    The $FF is ... needed, just print over the text with spaces before the $FF ... spaces are encountered in a string they aren't actually written ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2009 Games
  • Did NASA put man on the moon in July, 1969Discuss :)

    ... of it was as the text books say. In this position ... the 69s they only had string

    4 They would ...
    Kilby Kilby July 2009 Chit chat
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