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  • BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum - possible?I have never used a Cambridge Z88 - but I understand it was Z80 based and had a functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the…

    ... functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…

    ... the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on ... any other aspects of spectrum BASIC that were better than other ... BASIC variants on home micros? Was ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... . It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program ... Adventure Game frameworks written in BASIC. Also any commercial adventure games ... written in BASIC, back in the day?
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • BASIC Bug: DEF FN after REMHello all, Having mused the Spectrum ROM disassembly by Drs Logan ad O'Hara, I wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF FN when call…

    ... wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2022 BASIC
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... .
    Whenever I attempt placing text or UDGs on the two ... get rid of it in Basic, but I still don't ...
    Kotek Kotek June 2022 Development
  • How to return to basic properly from ASMI am messing around with a fast stack copying routine. But I am getting "A: Invalid argument" error when I later return to basic. I know you h…

    ... when I later return to basic.

    I know you ... IY register before returning to basic but my code at the ... as IY when returning to basic. I think one of the ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • Games that would make good moviesHey, guys. With the trend of adapting videogames into movies (thanks, Super Mario Brothers and Mortal Kombat), I've been thinking: which Spectrum …

    ... . I'm not big on text adventures, but this is one ... Rider[/b]
    Take the basic idea of [i]Death Race ...
    Swevicus Swevicus August 2022 Games
  • SSADB portI have done port of a small text adventure called "Escape from SSADB" from QBASIC to ZX Spectrum BASIC. It was improved, fixed and corrected also. N…

    ... text adventure called "Escape from SSADB" from QBASIC to ZX Spectrum BASIC ... /indexes/if-archive/games/source/basic/
    It's not much ... it, I'll port more text adventures.
    TheShich TheShich October 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …

    ... added a few bits of basic stuff on algebraic notation in ... credited you guys in the text file for getting me on ... 5 seconds until you get Basic. Now you can type RANDOMIZE ... the program has not overwritten BASIC, or protected it with system ...
    Ed Ed February 2002 Games
  • INPUT magazineHowdy folks! Does anyone know of an online archive of this early programming mag? I'd like to get my hands on the issue which had a random maze gene…

    ... a way to import a text file Basic source listing into an ... complex to write (feeding source text directly into the emulated RAM ...
    Fuzzbucket Fuzzbucket September 2001 Games
  • INPUT magazineHowdy folks! Does anyone know of an online archive of this early programming mag? I'd like to get my hands on the issue which had a random maze gene…

    ... a way to import a text file Basic source listing into an ... called bas2tap that converts Spectrum Basic listings in an ASCII file ...
    McDope McDope September 2001 Games
  • PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…

    ... the interpreter to start text at the line after ... a graphic sitting above your text.
    Now, I'm ... at EXTVEC from the BASIC before you start the ...
    This is a very basic rountine that is inflexable and ... start...
    Anyway the basic idea is to take the ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • what did people.................hi there, what did people use their spectrum for? (playing games, programming, graphics, music or just for fun) :) octave

    ... deal multiple sources wrote a basic program that let me use ... editor not unlike any good text editor on a pc. an ... alike for UV, and a text editor that faster than the ...
    JHutcheson JHutcheson March 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…

    ... which was completely written in BASIC.
    The Fall of Rome ...

    18. In this text adventure you actually had to ... /> Imagination

    19. Another text adventure, but this time you ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2002 Games
  • Li'l help?I'm making a video-sketch-show thing, and I plan on putting some speccy code in somewhere, (as well as a comic strip on the inlay case) but I can onl…

    ... use BETA BASIC with routines like PLOT 100,100,"TEXT".

    With some simple BASIC you could ... make a SINUS-wave text.

    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... cry!
    C NONSENSE IN BASIC! (The text of the (string) argument ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis September 2002 Games
  • Translators wantedI am no longer looking for translators.

    ... looking for translators of SE Basic. I wouldn't mind taking ... />
    Do you have separate text files or something to make ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi November 2002 Sinclair Basic
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... in a bucket written in Basic.

    2 ... numbers. 90 per cent BASIC. 10 per cent ... /> 3) A text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped ...
    4) 4 text adventures written with The Quill ... conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in ...
    Arjun Arjun December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... in a bucket written in Basic.

    2) A Bingo ... />
    3) A text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped ... a conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in a book ... .

    ad 2) See BASIC program added.
    [code]
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... a darts program (part BASIC, part machine code).
    BASIC).

    MICROLINK ... BASIC, part machine code).

    SCHOOL REPORT - A text ... adventure, written mainly in BASIC (with touches of ...
    thezxfiles thezxfiles December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... 's going to be a BASIC interpreter using an emulation of ... get a whole "suite" of BASIC creation tools, such as UDG ... that they must be in BASIC - there will be *no* asm ... by mail, either snap or text format to be converted by ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... , FranciscoVasco wrote:
    A very basic AI game with my girlfriend ... +3 basic. I made a couple of graphical effects, a text adventure ...
    Tkrap64 Tkrap64 December 2002 Games
  • "La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…

    ... a couple extra things ( mostly text ) i added/changed.

    basic except i cant see anything ...
    Amigo Amigo February 2003 Games
  • "La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…

    ... (you can even MERGE the BASIC), and seems to work fine ... said I only wanted the text changed on the loading screen ...
    Ed Ed February 2003 Games
  • Brand New Software House - Retro games wanted...Hi All, I'm looking to start a new software label for older 'retro' computer games, CRONOS software. I'm looking for people that have written games …

    ... ( if done manually ) loading the basic loader-> save to disk ... the correct start address etc. basic loader may have to be ... get by fine making a basic loader name "boot" and placing ... cant find any manuals in text or doc, or scans. if ...
    Amigo Amigo March 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... all you know is Basic and compile it, tends ... those that are specialized basic or whatever with compiler ... it.

    The text adventure ones like PAW and ... .

    Laser Basic seems good but after what ... it. HiSoft has a basic compiler but there was ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…

    Can anyone here recommend a text+graphic creation program that allows ... others. first it loads a basic program where you determine how ... get a C: Nonsense in Basic error + line number but i ... write my own in compiled Basic ( which i'd like to ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…

    ... call external routines in either BASIC or machine code, however this ... better; The Quill is a text-only system), but you probably ...
    woodcock88 woodcock88 April 2003 Games
  • Most engrosing Adventure GameThis is one for all you text adventure lovers. Of which I am one. I remember reading those Fighting Fantasy books when I was a kid. The ones where y…

    My fave text adventures:
    Rigel's Revenge ( ... it was coded entirely in Basic!)
    Inspector Flukeit/Great Peepingham ...
    TygerBC TygerBC April 2003 Games
  • Should WoS get a facelift?I think everyone would agree that "The World of Spectrum" has the most comprehensive collection of Speccy related stuff, and is essential resource fo…

    ... your search to any relevent text it is quite normal for ... -4k. Add to that the basic text information and if we go ...
    ADJB ADJB June 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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