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  • Can someone compile Mined Out, please?For those of you who are unaware, there is a great Spectrum game called [I]Mined Out ( [/I][URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=000…

    ... will need to tell it where the source basic program is (with ... Blast on microdrives. EightyOne fails when saying yes to "backup to ...
    Jimmy Jimmy June 2008 Games
  • What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.

    ... R-Type, mind you), landing when necessary to avoid enemy fire ... site owner for having Jetpac written down as an "Arcade-Shoot ... 't say "shooter game" or tell the people at the SHMUPS ...
    Lockett Lockett June 2008 Games
  • Uncommon games we should try ?The games section of the forum does seem to be very quiet lately ! We've had some similar threads in the past but over the last 6 months or so has a…

    ... real pain when doing the rzx of it, I tell you!![/QUOTE ... time, as it was fairly basic in the first place. Crap ...
    Vertigo Vertigo June 2008 Games
  • Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…

    ... certainly. Just a thought, but when you say "paging", you don ... support is only provided for BASIC "silicon disc" and PLAY ... still allowing the usual 128K basic editor to use another bank ... , this one wasn't really written with the BASin environment in ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2008 Emulators
  • 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 …

    ... in rare circumstances since ZX Basic can automatically promote ints ... is highly recommended.
    When a variable is not declared ... I suppose only testing will tell but it might be necessary ... both sides (currently ZX Basic only uses __CALLER__ and __FASTCALL__ ...
    boriel boriel June 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 …

    ... short periods of runtime. Microsoft Basic includes a garbage collector (really ... up to 65535 bytes long). When a string is changed, its ... automatic [i]garbage collection[/i]. When a string is declared in ... library code in z88dk is written to be CALLEE linked or ...
    boriel boriel June 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 …

    ... what I know from ZX Basic instead of finding out how ... . PRINT AT coords were "reversed" when the first one was a ... someone wants to collab. please tell me.
    boriel boriel June 2008 Development
  • TR-DOS in ZXDS[QUOTE=Patrik Rak;278549]The goal is to get the TR-DOS working, I have started working on that yesterday, the TR-DOS ROM paging already works nicely …

    ... as far as I can tell, I have never been using ... not work.
    When you move cursor to BASIC file (or press ... Enter) you should see BASIC
    text at right window ...
    Jon Needle Jon Needle June 2008 Emulators
  • Speccy Pool gamesI've been playing Midnight Pool on my cell phone, and I really like the aiming line. Is there any Spectrum pool game that uses this? And while we're…

    ... you tried the 128k version written in Basic ;)[/quote]

    I ... proof, but I won't tell you where.


    ewgf ewgf June 2008 Games
  • Best strategy gameWhat are your favourite strategy games? And don't say Stonkers, although it was fun for a little while in those early days. Mine's Desert Rats. A tr…

    ... ]Never heard about Confrontation. Please tell me more.[/QUOTE]

    written mostly in BASIC, and only supports two ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2008 Games
  • Best strategy gameWhat are your favourite strategy games? And don't say Stonkers, although it was fun for a little while in those early days. Mine's Desert Rats. A tr…

    ... turned the corner with Chaos. When most other strategy games required ... is Viking Raiders. Despite being written in BASIC, having a silly theme ...
    Matt_B Matt_B July 2008 Games
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... /38 holds adres off Next basic line

    20 LET ... , so it changes when you change the basic before the MC
    tell.
    emleymoor emleymoor July 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • mea culpa!I have just sent Digital Prawn another entry for CCG 2008 which might shock a few people! It is a program which emulates a Commodore Vic 20 - yes, yo…

    ... and knew little about CBM BASIC. I did hope that ... use it to enter CBM BASIC programs!

    After ... design and the PRG was written by people who knew ... it was released in 1982 when the VIC was still ... MHz). You can type BASIC programs in on this emulator ...
    Jimmy Jimmy July 2008 Development
  • Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…

    ... to tell if you're running from +3 BASIC are:< ... these are "Syntax" if +3 BASIC (ROM 1) is active.
    when +3 BASIC is running. Not particularly ... is when I get home.

    If +3 BASIC is ... action to return to BASIC. It's not something ...
    glancaster glancaster July 2008 Development
  • Game scores (on WOS)I've just been voting for some games on here, and was amazed to see that forty-two people each gave Manic Miner one out of ten! Go to: [URL]http:…

    ... loved Manic Miner way back when. But after a period of ... SAM version was as well written and designed as you could ... and game design was so basic, so raw, so undeveloped compared ...
    NickH NickH July 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Channels and streamsSo I've put some thought into channels and streams, and read the dead (and presumably rotting corpse) of the CSS FAQ which contains some information …

    ... accessible (albiet limited) via BASIC. This would effectively bind ... the BASIC commands with the ... call entry points since when my CPLD traps the ... doing an A15 hold when they are paged ... the right function, code written for one device should ...
    Winston Winston July 2008 Development
  • How to load "Pang 16c" with EmuZWin and other emulators supporting ATM TurboHi, I'm a complete nut with Russian clones and one of the games I'd rather like to watch and play is the 16-coloured version of Pang, which I found …

    ... , I tried the way you tell me and unless game music ... when I set to ATM turbo 1024 and was in 128K BASIC ... by changing the model and BASIC mode, but none of them ... as far as I can tell. Although, I have never used ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2008 Games
  • Myth II - Return to HellHello all. A new game has been released... a sequel to one of the best ZX games ever. It is of russian make (I THINK) but I think you can get around…

    ... that-that... That I can tell,
    since 1983 having seen ... it, the truth on a BASIC.
    Then at receipt in ... 128.
    In general having written it for 9 months (the ...
    gargoyles gargoyles August 2008 Games
  • Ultimate box variantsIs there anywhere on the net that catalogues all the variations (accross all formats) of the Ultimate Play The Game boxes? I recently noticed that f…

    ... out screenshots unless somebody can tell me where I can 'acquire ... Penny[/quote]

    Also when you reset the BBC, it ... />
    Acorn DFS

    BASIC

    >[/quote]
    StuBruise StuBruise August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sequel to Earth Shaker released (beta)Hi everyone, 18 years later, I have released a beta of a sequel to my spectrum game 'Earth Shaker'. It is called 'World Shaker', is written in a ret…

    ... Shaker', is written in a retro style (in Blitz Basic) and runs ... 'm a commited console man!). When the Spectrum port is released ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2008 Games
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... poking stores the last value written to the port. It is ... changed before being OUTed and written back to that location. Any ... often.[/QUOTE]

    Yes, when this test progam runs in ... would have worked without the BASIC OUT command, until I just ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... "crap" programs in this year when I am not eligible to ... least the games written in VIC-20 basic for the Speccy 48K ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…

    ... "crap" programs in this year when I am not eligible to ... least the games written in VIC-20 basic for the Speccy 48K ...
    gasman gasman August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... [/I] graphics routines can be written in fast Z80. The PLOT ... the BASIC ROM goes via OSWRCH (write) and OSRDCH (read). When the ... in the emulator as Sinclair BASIC can manage!! (I think this ... Sinclair routines). However, Z80 BBC BASIC will blow my emulator away ...
    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…

    ... - which is faster than Sinclair Basic. I did make the change ... the links. I will implement basic graphics before moving onto fills ... Spectrum.
    I have re-written OSWRCH, but haven't finished ... fix problems with the cursor when using DEL (ASCII 127). The ...
    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…

    ... />
    This one is written in 6502 Assembly language, using ... 1. The game speeds up when no key is pressed, and ... slows down when the key is held down ... Hint: hold down "6" when starting the game to avoid ... c and how to mix Basic and machine code on ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …

    ... were pulled there is a BASIC program in the ZX81 manual ... floating-point variable to decide when to move to a new ... definitely written on the fly. There is old, unused code from when ... was abandoned, but left in when the author discovered that circles ...
    Geoff Geoff 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…

    ... =Dr BEEP]
    4) also when reading keyboard first read complete ... keyboard and return directly when no key has been pressed ... in the 2-3 minute BASIC speed test, but every little ... 't the fastest (it was written for flexibility to be re ...
    Jimmy Jimmy September 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: Spud v0.201New version of Spud released. Nothing major just a few bugfixes thanks to user feedback. At the soon to be usual link [COLOR=#4040c0][URL]http://…

    ... . It's a bit like when XP came out in 2001 ... finding any bug. The Visual Basic Spectrum emulator might be worthwhile ... source code. I've never written Win32 code talking to DirectX ...
    Jimmy Jimmy September 2008 Emulators
  • God or Evolution ?Today I spent lot of time with my friend Scott from Minnesota who lives in Bratislava since 2006. He says that there is God, who won't show you, but …

    ... you don't like it when our side responds. Interesting. ... excommunicated, he had two works written against him during his lifetime ... determine that ID is wrong when you have no opinion about ... not science.
    [/quote]
    Tell that to Pythagoras.

    andrew_rollings andrew_rollings October 2008 Chit chat
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