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Prportional Ascii text scrollerA couple of years ago I wrote a little scroller that nestles at the top of RAM (FFCA - 65482) and scrolls standard Ascii encoded text from anywhere y…
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Better keyboard = better sales ?Just a random thought. I want to start this by saying although I did not have a + model new, I was never really a fan of this keyboard as it was n…
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printing to the screen using pokei remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyon…
... So for a standard character, that's one POKE per line. Plus ... one POKE to the attributes ... colours). So for a 8x8 character plus colour, that's 9 ... TO 22527
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printing to the screen using pokei remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyon…
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Better keyboard = better sales ?Just a random thought. I want to start this by saying although I did not have a + model new, I was never really a fan of this keyboard as it was n…
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Manic MixupThe jswmm.co.uk community is very proud to present to you Manic Mixup :) "Times are tough for poor old Willy. Decades of excessive partying have t…
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There were many nasty tricks in some room (grrrr ... sixteen ... , I can provide a single POKE which makes the game start ... -
Printing text, part MMXIIXI'm pretty sure there's been a zillion threads about this already, and I don't think it's the first one by myself either, but here goes. Proportiona…
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Technician Ted disassemblyOkay, by popular (?) demand I have dug out my old disassembly notes on Tech Ted, converted them to skoolkit and stuck them up at [url="https://github…
... for adding the 'safe falls' poke too.
In regard ... to the time poke I think one of the ... hand, I may have to double check it if required/helpful ... -
procedural generationhi, is it possible for basic to program itself? i.e with a few pokes, as i know there are no commands for this.
Yep think someone posted something like this on FB group. BASIC keywords are just character set values you only have to POKE them into the right place in memory for it to become the program listing. -
Products you do not see any more.I was sitting at work recently and my mind started to wander, thinking about some of the products I remember seeing in Catalogs and in department sto…
... him set it up. The double sided tapes were quite good ... ? Unless my memory is playing tricks on me it seemed a ... -
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 make them the full character width, which colours worked best ... slows it all down (for double, and triple vertical steps per ... -
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…
... slows it all down (for double, and triple vertical steps per ... a "crater" (this is, a character space); the explosion itself will ... -
Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... (e.g. the Brain 8 character data)? Is it via inline ... that.
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Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
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I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... Kai/Johnny Lawrence = Bad). Every character has their faults, none of ... Cobra Kai is located to double the rent of all the ... -
I am currently watching.....This stems from a rant Mel did months ago on the currently listening to thread, and he suggested starting a thread like this to somebody (sorry can't…
... Kai/Johnny Lawrence = Bad). Every character has their faults, none of ... Cobra Kai is located to double the rent of all the ... -
TZX/Taper headachesI've been doing a stocktake of all my Spectrum stuff, most of which I bought in a job lot a few years back, and there's a whole load of covertapes in…
... almost-certainly-past-it Marantz double-deck (this one's a ... a cartoon of the main character and it looks like the ... -
im looking for other games like the muncher that use double height and width graphics with colouri havent come across this type of graphics mode on the spectrum before and would like to know if there are any other games that use it.
... game mechanics, upper part is double buffered, where sprites are immediately ... stretched horizontally, and later, when double buffer is drawn on screen ... need, moving sprites (like main character) are mirrored in realtime. For ... -
im looking for other games like the muncher that use double height and width graphics with colouri havent come across this type of graphics mode on the spectrum before and would like to know if there are any other games that use it.
... it using a table to double the width of the sprites ... in place every time main character changes walk direction for example ... -
Spectrum USB KeyboardI know you can buy these but how do you make one . What I am thinking of be similar to the type described in Issue 1352 of Micro Mart at page 45 .The…
... I have which came with "double" wires as I had I ... time .On Second go a "Poke Memory address box" came up ... -
Funny stories from arcadesIt happened in Poland , in the city of Łódź (Lodz) , in the spring of 1986 . There was a small arcade in which I played pinballs and Invaders . This…
... /> That reminds me of three tricks people used in Spain. When ... pesetas (called "duro") coin, but double the width, and with different ... -
Shrinky challengeInspired by this contest on c64: http://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html Make the smallest possible .tap t…
... CLEAR 32767 : RANDOMIZE USR 23759 : POKE 23739,111 : LOAD ""CODE : RANDOMIZE ... 'd love to hear the tricks used to get those 60 ... -
How to store and recall a "window"?I would like to memorize and then restore a rectangular portion of a screen, pixels and attributes. To make things easier, this "window" would be sit…
... memory will be ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS like character set
then for ... address of the image
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Games of the Decade 2010-2019Just realised that we've not had our usual GOTD discussion (has it really been 10 years since the last one?!) so thought would get the ball rolling. …
... a shame to lose my character though as he was about ... good! Really good!
Double Dragon Neon....OK now you ... better than The Rosetta Stone, Double Dragon 5, and a lot ... -
How does the anti-MERGE trick work?I remember on the Beeb you decided whether to load a program and stop, or load a program and automatically run it, by choosing between LOAD and CHAIN…
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You saw similar tricks on the CPC, where the ... would be full of inline character codes to draw protection info ... -
CSSCGC 2020The return of the famous, the one and only... https://www.connosoft.com/csscgc2020/ More details and an official announcement to follow soon...
... "][i]Two[/i] character sets? [i]Two[/i] character arrays?! Sounds suspiciously ... ]
Yes, [i]two[/i] character sets... well, 1 25/32 ... character sets, really, seeing as the ... BASIC, occasionally pull a few tricks with POKEs (see [url=https ...
