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Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... book, utilising no time-saving tricks or known features. The program ... -
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. …
... with whatever you want (the UDG vertical block symbol for instance ... -
I wonder why I started this....Hi I was bored today, and have for some time now been speculating about making a Spectrum game in Basic. As said today I was bored, and started on i…
... I in basic check what UDG character is placed just below ... -
Coolest robots.From the poll, what is the coolest SCI-FI robot you've seen?
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Help with having more than 21 UDGSHi All, I'm trying to work out how to have multiple banks of UGS. What I've read so far is that the default memory area for. 48K is 65368 16K is 326…
... trying to poke the "U" udg.
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Pal10h8 (128/+2)Hi, I'm trying to get hold of one of the PAL10H8 chips used in the Spectrum 128 and +2 (grey) machines, for use in such a machine. In the latter cas…
Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... address of the character's UDG definition. Note the use ... need to poke 8 UDG values into the display. ... and "*bmp" is the UDG byte itself. Since we're ... double width characters, single UDG bytes have to fatted up ... halves of each fatted up UDG byte.
[ ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... have a look at the UDG fatting up process.
UDG byte and returns the left ... half of a double-width UDG byte. The byte passed in ...A challenge thats probably impossiblehere's a challenge for all you coders. Given a snapshot, is it possible to create a program to sniff out the original start address for the game that…
... others with a combination of tricks and brute force?ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... in addition to character code ("udg code") as background (struct sp1_update ... /> };
// A Hashed UDG for Background
uchar ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... compute the address of the UDG definition for the current character ... address in hand "disp", the UDG definition to use in "bmp ... loop to poke all 8 UDG bytes on screen is entered ... ) so the loop pokes the UDG byte to the screen incrementing ...First steps in Z80 machine codeI never got into machine code much back when I had a speccy, as I didn't have any development tools at the time. The only machine code I'd previousl…
New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…
... machine. But no matter what tricks people make it pull, I ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
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1 LET n=191: BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 7: CLS : DIM i$(3,9):
FOR i=1 TO 3: LET i$(i)=" # # # # ": NEXT i: LET p=16: LET b=0: LET a=p:
LET s=0: FOR y=0 TO 14: LET e=y/2=INT (y/2): FOR x=(1-e)*24 TO e*24 STEP e*2-1:
PRINT AT 21 ...New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…
... I'm working on a UDG driver with pixel positioning for ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... code, and hopefully learn some tricks from it. My attempt is ...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. …
... keep this tread about BASIC TRICKS AND TIPS
instead ... MC.
better start MC tricks and tips.
this ...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. …
... keep this tread about BASIC TRICKS AND TIPS
instead ... MC.
better start MC tricks and tips.
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... /> I did learn some further tricks though by starting the above ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... use some further space saving tricks. All positions of pacman& ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
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You can employ similar tricks throughout your code, eventually becoming ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... to say the ZX BASIC tricks I've learnt from this ...graphics on the speccy...how?I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did arti…
... images or used a few tricks to transfer images to the ...Why did Gargoyle Games go downhill?Why plan to do a trilogy? Marsport, Fornax then Gath but then get no further than the first installment and instead bring out stuff like Scooby Doo, …
... used some of the same tricks. Anyway, the main thing for ...
