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Pc to speccy?Not been on here for a while, but after watching some of BBC4's electric dreams programmes it has given me the urge to get my old speccy out. So ye…
... 'll need to write a basic program to send files over ... bus, thus, allowing you to store games on a compact flash ... -
2 questions about matrix and string handlingI was never good at understanding how to do something random in Sinclair Basic without repeating something that was already done. Had problems unders…
... do something random in Sinclair Basic without repeating something that was ... , I do stuff in Sinclair Basic to help them, or to ... characters (unlike M$-basic where you can store 10x10 words with each ... -
Games that are impossible to complete due to bugs!I'm trying to compile a list of Speccy games that cannot be completed because of a bug (or simply bad programming)! Here's a few... [B]Frankie Goes …
... to crash on the higher levels (from memory with a K ... partly assembly and partly compiled basic or something...
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Coming soon...[IMG]http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/binman/trooper1.gif[/IMG] and [IMG]http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/binman/gbomber.gif[/IMG]
... and score data from memory, store it whilst another load is ... you could have many multiloading levels. You can already get the ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... around with the mode in BASIC you'll want to set ... are the red and green levels (0-7)
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packers / crunchers and general compressionI'm just curious where I would find such things, coming from a c64 background also , there is shedloads. I mean the obvious things like crunchers fo…
... all kinds of compressing to store the data.
Some games ... after loading:
TRACERS : 100 levels sized 7x7 incl. solution in ... called:
SOKOB-ONE : 26 levels sized app. 56 blocks in ... -
The ZX App StoreI was watching one of those iphone adverts and got to thinking Hmmmmm what if you could do something like that for the speccy. Ok heres the idea, if…
... in basic then you could upload it to the ZX App Store ... chance to show off your basic skills[/QUOTE]
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Obscure great games......Having recently received an old PC, I've transferred all my Speccy roms over to it off of my mums PC where they were previously stored, and have been…
... think is a classic, excellent levels and the inertia really adds ... Wins II is a good basic Commando clone, quite difficult with ... -
RAM PagingCan anyone shed some light as to how RAM paging actually works, at a hardware level (so not POKE xxxxx stuff). I know about CE and OE lines on DRAMs …
... changes.
Essentially, the basic paging circuit comprises of the ... unit of some sort, to store the page number. In concrete ... -
Imagine loading by tape nowadays!!!!I was bored so i did some working out how long it would take to load a more modern game at the rate old speccy tapes do which is 1500 bps (bits). 8 …
... escape to BASIC. It's available from the App Store right now ... -
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... market stalls.
The store's distributors said the man ... United States found antimony at levels of 93 and 106 parts ... -
Memory concerns with z88dkI've retaken my old spectrum project and sadly I've reached a dead end very fast. I'll try to explain my worst problem in a few lines. I'm not a vet…
... lot once you leave the basic system behind); it's just ... still be perfectly fine to store game data, for example.
store level data and level specific ... (and even be forced to) store the player and music data ... -
Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…
... Sinclair BASIC at all (and indeed described on all kinds of levels ... originally were not implemented in BASIC but might show up in ... missing feature: Buffering last direct BASIC command(s) and possibility to ... -
Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…
... Sinclair BASIC at all (and indeed described on all kinds of levels ... originally were not implemented in BASIC but might show up in ... missing feature: Buffering last direct BASIC command(s) and possibility to ... -
How do you start?ok just humour me, ive always wanted to code but never got round to it apart from the real basics ie:- 10 print "hello" 20 print 30 goto 10 i coul…
... to get the spectrum (In BASIC) to write my name with ... /> how?
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Games Notorious for F*cking UpThis is a thread dedicated to games notorious for f*cking up or crashing mid-game (48K and 128K games). :) Music demos are also welcome. My experien…
... game crashes and resets to BASIC if you try to interrupt ... game files which contain the levels. However, if you load the ... 1st level, it crashes to BASIC occasionally, and sometimes the game ... the plug and crashes to BASIC.
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Matthew Smith's Delta Tau OneGoing through some old boxes I've managed to dig up some stuff on Matthew Smith's first commercially released game [B]Delta Tau One[/B]. I don't know…
... nothing to eliminate you. The basic scoring is 10 for a ... change the black and white levels to increase the contrast. If ... -
New Game: Box ReloadedBeyker has just released his new game, a puzzle game that he started to develop almost 3 years ago in CEZ GS. It's a remake of his old BASIC game Box…
... a remake of his old BASIC game Box:
[url]http ... pretty nice music! Finished several levels and it's cool. :) I ... -
Most impressive game you've ever seen which has been written in speccy BASIC?What's the most impressive speccy game you've ever seen that's been written solely in speccy BASIC? +3 Basic or 48k basic. No machine code routines…
... to write a game in BASIC using BASIN. It's sort ... code and a load more levels. I asked on the old ... "Advanced Lawnmower Simulator : Tactics" in BASIC or go the whole hog ... -
Most impressive game you've ever seen which has been written in speccy BASIC?What's the most impressive speccy game you've ever seen that's been written solely in speccy BASIC? +3 Basic or 48k basic. No machine code routines…
... well) levels, very difficult, in spite of being a BASIC game.
BASIC program. It came in a ... -
Most impressive game you've ever seen which has been written in speccy BASIC?What's the most impressive speccy game you've ever seen that's been written solely in speccy BASIC? +3 Basic or 48k basic. No machine code routines…
... and a load more levels. I asked on the ... Simulator : Tactics" in BASIC or go the whole hog ... ship the complete Laser Basic runtime with your program ... />
That was in BASIC? Never realised!
BASIC, but BASIC none the less!
Favourite/Least Favourite Movie Licence?I could only do five each for this genre as I really couldn't find another five of each that I felt that good or bad about! [URL="http://jdanddiet.b…
... with the driving bit (Very basic GTA) but very poor
levels and played it a ton ...Are Pokes or snapshots 'cheating'?I've seen a few threads about easy/difficult games, but I've been wanting to ask this for a while now and haven't seen anything specific yet. Most m…
... basic space invaders type games where as you go through the levels ...Are Pokes or snapshots 'cheating'?I've seen a few threads about easy/difficult games, but I've been wanting to ask this for a while now and haven't seen anything specific yet. Most m…
... basic space invaders type games where as you go through the levels ...More questions to ponder/argue/ignore as you wish...Just copying some stuff to a memory stick, and I found some old questions I'd intended to post on these forums to provoke debate, that I'd never got …
... R-Type that loaded all levels at once into memory? Well ... , the A.I. was very basic, you could go inside almost ...Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
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Since we're designing levels, and Im in the process ... of translating those levels into usable blocks of data ... was wondering how you would store that colour data. Would you ... overlaid each screen?... How we store or handle the colour aspect ...American FootballHaving just finished playing 'Endzone' I am wondering what other American Football games were made for the speccy? Any action games...unlike Endzone?
... the lower levels are so easy.
Graphics look basic as ... Manager as its all in basic but its a great addictive ...Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
Four levels maps are done, at least ... tweak won't affect the basic format that the maps are ... bytes
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... BORDCR (23624) is used to store the current BORDER colour (multiplied ... .g. when using BEEP from BASIC to preserve the border colour ...
