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The Pawn and Spin 5.04 - weird behaviourTwo TZX files from the TZX vault: The Pawn.tzx The Pawn v2.3.tzx (both are v 2.3 from the start text, but the first shows the title screen when lo…
... 2.3 from the start text, but the first shows the ... jumps straight into the first text description)
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RETRO GAMER ISSUE 7 now available to pre-order!Retro Gamer issue 7 will be available to buy from August 31st, and copies can now be pre-ordered from [url="http://www.retrogamer.net"]http://www.ret…
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In need of a Poke (ooer!)Back in my very basic Basic days, machine code was a scary thing. I think I advanced as far as 'LD HA' (or something!) before giving up. However, so…
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Smooth Color Masked Sprites using fast page flip on 48kHere is a quick demo of using char based sprites using the Page flip method: a) Background is copied to buffer b) Sprites drawn on buffer c) Buffer …
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TAPER USING THE PARALLEL PORTHow can i connect my pc to spectrum +3 for use with taper the read me fill points to DIAGRAM.Z80 but all i can see with notepad is scrambled text ha…
How can i connect my pc to spectrum +3 for use with taper the read me fill points to
DIAGRAM.Z80 but all i can see with notepad is scrambled text has anyone got a pucker drawing
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Smooth Screen Scrolling RoutineHi everyone, this is a follow up to the thread on smooth screen scrolling. As promised here is the code for the routine. It's pretty long and fairl…
... ,L ;row in background data table
SUB 12
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The incredible shrinking screendumpIn this topic I stated that I would be impressed if the screendump could be smaller than 37 bytes. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewt…
... hl ; Goto next byte in table
ld e,(hl) ; ... Fetch 'last' byte in table
prbyte ld a,(hl ... print
rst 16 ; Printing table and screen
ld a ... J",32 ; The printer control table
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Spectrum Development IDEI am currently writing an IDE that works with the "z80/.sna Assembler" found in the cross-development download section. The appearance is similar to …
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Cobra - scrollingHi everyone, I have been studying some of the code in Ocean' Cobra game using a debugger, in the hope of improving my own scrolling routines. In cas…
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Programming Sound EffectsHi guys, Have decided, probably due in some way to my midlife crisis, to tart up and re-release (or even just re-lease) the old 48K Speccy games I w…
... go back to just doing text adventures!
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NEW CRONOSOFT RELEASESHi all, A few things happening at the moment, which may be of interest ... PLATFORM GAME DESIGNER ----------------------- A surprise this one... …
... a must for fans of text adventures. Price is just ?1 ... />
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Another text adventure, this one, which should ... -
Bomb Jack 2Does anyone like this sequel? To me it's a dull, unexciting, badly-designed, visually-horrible mess, even before you consider how great the original …
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To people who post "name this game" topicsIt would help us to decide which Topics to open if they at least stated the genre(s) of the game [B]in the Subject[/B]. e.g. * platform * shoot-em-u…
... 3D
* sport-simulator
* text-adventure
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MIA - The Mural and MicromanAfter a recent visit to my parent house I discovered that they actually still had all of my old spectrum games in storage - several hundred programs …
... initial foray I found two text adventures, one is listed as ... -
What's wrong with YS94...Hello, I'm Steve Anderson. You might remember me from such magazines as Your Sinclair and, um, that's it. I was the one who wrote a platform game in …
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Signatures????How come that sometimes it sticks my signature to my text and other times it doesn't? I find this really annoying :(
How come that sometimes it sticks my signature to my text and other times it doesn't?
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What band-related name would you give a Spectrum game?Blitzkrieg Bop - Shoot'em up with rock'n roll background music (AY, please!) Howling at the moon - Remake of Knightlore The KKK took my baby away - T…
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Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…
I'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I ... multiple action descriptions. In many text adventure games, there were many ... -
Help required to calculate screen addressesDoes anyone have some code that calculates the screen address one pixel below the given address ? Is it best to use a lookup table ? Any examples of …
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Nostalgia about Nostalgia ?Hi All! I was going through my Backup CD's, some even from 7 years or so ago and found backups of my previous ZX Homepages that I made. I just had t…
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What is your Super groupOver the last week the PM of GB, Tony Blair has been answering text messages from all and sundry. One that caught my eye was who would be in yur bes…
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ANN: Tipshop updated Tuesday, 14 December 2004Tuesday 14 December 2004 I've FINALLY (hopefully?!?!) got caught up with stuff, so here's a fairly big update, with a distinctly mappy feel! * I do…
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copied/pasted into straight text for online browsing. I've ... as converting them back to text format for reading
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HelpMany years ago I used to play a game in my Spectrum, wich I cant remember the name. It was a text game, similar to or 2, but it was non…
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Does anyone think there will ever be an online Speccy arcadeSorry to post another Topic but I`ve been thinking all day how this would work, and how great it would be... after being pretty much hooked with some…
... position on the High Score Table, and hard even to get ... -
Name the game pleaseDoes anyone remember a text adventure game where you had been turned into an animal (possibly a cat) and you had to perform spells to turn into other…
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Unexpected twists in gamesI was playing a Spectrum fairground shooting gallery game (can't remember its name!) and one of the bullets went past the targets onto the smiling fa…
... kind of thing? I guess text adventures have quite a lot ...