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How do I save?I've made a HUGE text adventure with lots of collectables and lots of locations, but how can I get the user to save their game to tape if they need t…
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Ripping Text from ZX games running on EmulatorsHello one and all - All hail Retro! I'd like to know how to rip all the .txt from ZX games running on a windoze emulator (I'm a writer and like do…
... way that would render ASCII strings unreadable (except in the edge ... -
Ripping Text from ZX games running on EmulatorsHello one and all - All hail Retro! I'd like to know how to rip all the .txt from ZX games running on a windoze emulator (I'm a writer and like do…
... even a windows binary of 'strings')
Then you can run ... the 'strings' command on the .Z80 snapshot ... just filters out any text strings found in the .Z80 file ... -
Which games that never materialised would you most like to see?Over the years there has been many games that never made it to the shelves. Which ones would you most like to magically appear now? I would like to s…
... houses which held the purse strings had decided, there was "no ... -
Emulator File types...SNA/TAP/TZX/Z80/ZXS All I knew about the Spectrum was how to play games on it, but since being introduced to pc emulations back in '97 I've always w…
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BASin Release 13 is now availableI'm still at it. BASin is now in it's 13th incarnation (disregarding the inter-version updates) and is now available at [url="http://homepage.ntlw…
... as variables. (MetalBrain)
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Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…
... BIN 01010101) simply by subtracting variable z from 255
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Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…
... BIN 01010101) simply by subtracting variable z from 255
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Machine Code QuestionHi All Not sure if this is the right place for this but it seems closest. Am starting to read the Toni Baker Intro to Machine Code book and its ver…
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Banned from WOSSo yesterday I got banned from WOS. Annoying, but then I did have open 27 tabs in firefox (*cough*). My problem with the banning is that if it happen…
... stray from mummy's apron strings perhaps.
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128k Screen Flipping - Sample Code PleaseI know this has been covered before, but I cannot find out code to do the following: On a 128k Spectrum tell the speccy to display from address 4915…
... to run, then the system variable at 5B5Ch (23388) must be ... -
4-pixel scrollingDo you think is 4-pixel scrolling accetable for horizontal shooter ? (aka do u like Chronos ? :)
... scrolling are possible, and also variable speeds.
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Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …
... , and scores for speed on variable handling which it uses its ... -
Run Length DecodingRun length encoding/decoding is far less efficient than using a modern compression program.
... ration then i should use variable bit lenght for most common ... stand alone values and variable bit lenght for storing number ... -
Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
how to pass arguments from Basic to MC ?can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this: PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2:…
... nnnnn, look up the system variable DEFADD. The value of your ...Longshot?Might seem like a daft question, but has anyone got any examples of handling TZX files with Perl?
... nice language for handling byte strings. I got quite close to ...New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…
z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... asm they produce using dead variable analysis, etc, while z88dk only ...Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…
... stored as PrintStrings. PrintStrings are strings that can have print position ...some questionshello all, I havent been here for a while, but Im back, older and wiser (I hope). No more stupid spectrum OS ideas. Well I have a speccy + 2a and I …
... was mashed. It was making variable amounts of white noise when ...+3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…
... make the input statements accept strings insted of numbers only to ...+3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…
... parts to the user input strings. Basicaly you should be able ...+3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…
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I read the strings section in the +3 manual ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... showing you what this function/variable is here, but it's ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... of the file. The C variable "frame01" will point to the ... label "_frame01" and the C variable "frame02" will point at the ... this is stored away in variable "temp". The next call to ...