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Cronosoft TERRAPINS Competition*** COMPETITION TIME *** As you may well know, Cronosoft is releasing Allan Turvey's excellent new AGD arcade game TERRAPINS on cassette in the ne…
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1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …
... work fine, if a little slow, I'm just convinced it ... -
Spectrum LoadersI know YS did a few loaders in BASIC which I have tried on Spectaculator and fair play they do a good job, but are slow when adding your stuff into t…
... a good job, but are slow when adding your stuff into ... -
Isometric enginesWhilst taking a breather from Chess development I've been playing around with a little isometric 'room' building idea. Just wondering what sort of…
... ? Although in Basic and very slow, its nice to see the ... -
Anyone using Amazon Web Services?I didn't want to hijack Lee's donations announcement thread, so I thought I'd ask the question I raised there separately. Is anyone here using Ama…
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i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
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New Game: Astrosmash! ZXHello Spectrum fans! It's been a while. After a few months of health issues and larger projects getting put on the back-burner, I decided to work …
... ]Missile Command[/b]. It starts slow, but quickly becomes an onslaught ... -
Gmail sucks! Anyone recommend a better Email?Why does Gmail suck so badly? Its the slowest most badly organized email service I have ever used. AOL's was far superior, all the controls were c…
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ZEsarUX 6.1 RCHi I have uploaded a new beta version of ZEsarUX. This is ZEsarUX 6.1 RC so next version will be a final stable version :) You can download it fr…
... some features disabled) just for slow devices, like Raspberry Pi 1 ... -
1st steps in animation Having finally resurrected my familiar old graphics programs, chief amongst which is DPaint Animation, I was a little taken aback to reali…
... a sinuous vertical snake like motion. Starting with an S shape ... if you want realistic looking motion then its not a good ... -
Random-Access to Microdrive FileI am working on a BASIC program to backup a microdrive text-file to standard tape array-file. To backup a text-file from one microdrive to a secon…
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ZEsarUX-7.0Hi! I have uploaded a new ZEsarUX stable version :) This is ZEsarUX 7.0 There are a lot of new features added, more than ever! You can downl…
... some features disabled) just for slow devices, like Raspberry Pi 1 ... -
Spectaculator slowing down emulationHi I was wandering if there is a way in spectaculator to slow down emulation(like letting it emulate in 50% of the real time speed)? i only saw an …
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I was wandering if there is a way in spectaculator to slow down emulation(like letting it emulate in 50% of the real time speed)?
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Can an emulator send and receive via a PC's USB port?Interesting little question arises out of a conversation today with my son who is taking a Rockwell automation course. His latest test was to write …
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im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.
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Could be a game ideaSnippets, bits o' this n' that as might be recollections or mayhap misplaced bits o' stories as is lookin' for somewhere to fit d'you see?.. Then,…
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Poll : How do you rate Rambo?What did you make of Rambo by Ocean from 1985? An interesting, stealthy shooter thats fun to explore and even has something like the plot of the film…
What did you make of Rambo by Ocean from 1985? An interesting, stealthy shooter thats fun to explore and even has something like the plot of the film in it, or a slow, buggy mess that doesn't at all compare with Commando. -
"Good" Games?Hello all, just a quick question. Were any "good" games ever written in Basic alone? Yes I know it's hated and shunned because it's so slow, b…
Hello all,
just a quick question. Were any "good" games ever written in Basic alone?
Yes I know it's hated and shunned because it's so slow, but really. was there ever any fun games that are purely coded in basic?
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ZEsarUX-7.1Hi! There’s a new stable version of ZEsarUX, version 7.1! The next 24th of September it will be 5 years old :) So this is a special anniversary…
... mode on TBBlue, useful on slow machines
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site seems slowi just wondered whats happening here?
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While we're on the subject of BASIC Although my memory of the past still seems to be fairly reliable, memories relating to learning computer programming seem to have disappeared…
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Artillery - projectile motion gameI started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix fille…
I started writing this around 25 years ago and abandoned it due to performance issues, and a lack of physics knowledge. Bandersnatch on Netflix filled me with enough nostalgia to have another stab at it, and I got it done. Feels good to finish a project ... -
Todays rant! There must be something archaic about my wiring! Because Heather bought me a nice smartphone oh about two or three years ago and I simply could not…
... doing that but its too slow to be worth writing with ... -
AugmentinelEnhanced Spectrum emulation isn't a new concept. Spec256 adds 8bpp graphics to some Spectrum titles. TileMap uses code hooks to synchronise game stat…
... sound effects.
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Devils of the Deep - what to do?game is (very) slow, but it has its "charm"... manual is on WoS... 1st thing is to find a KNIFE, then you can chop seaweed and eat it to restore …
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GZX 2019.1 ReleasedI just released GZX 2019.1. You can download it from the [url="https://github.com/jxsvoboda/gzx/releases"]Github release page[/url]. Or you can get t…
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ZX Spectrum rescued from a friend, has Issues.Hi guys, I've recovered this ZX spectrum 48K from a friend. It's a 1984 ISSUE 6A. He told me the last time it was turned on was about 30 years ago!.…
... OK, but it is VERY slow. Then when I lost a ... with the same results, very slow!. Thought that the RAM was ... , but sadly no success...still slow, and the machine hangs up ...

