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  • Calling All Emulator Authors...Hi guys, This may sound like a crazy idea, but I wondered if it might be possible to incorporate Arcade Game Designer into an emulator in some way? …

    ... . This method will allow more memory to be devoted to the ... , in a similar manner to BASin.

    I'll see ...
    BiNMaN BiNMaN September 2012 Emulators
  • Mini scroll routineI'm looking for a routine that scrolls a small section of the screen downwards and replaces it with nothing, 2 x 2 charcter blocks to be precise, to …

    Paste this into BASin and RUN. You might recognise ... be horizontally adjacent in the UDGs.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2012 Development
  • Query about memorySo I know this has been asked a lot and I beg your brief indulgence. I have scanned through a lot of old threads already but I'm trying to improve m…

    A quicker test (and easier to remember) is PRINT USR "u", as on power-up the UDGs are put just below the top of physical memory, so USR"u"+7 gives the top of memory (USR"u"+8 )/1024-16 gives the amount of RAM in kilobytes.
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston October 2012 Hardware
  • More memoryHi all... can anyone help, Is it possible to get more memory for basic pref' in Basin.... 40 odd k is just not enough !

    ... to get more memory for basic
    pref' in Basin.... 40 odd ... the code to save some memory ?

    e.g. combining ...
    fog fog November 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…

    ... enabled. Some other emulators; eg. BASin, ZXSpin, EightyOne; capture printer output ... be done with the extra memory from BASIC, apart from ... something is loaded into main memory it overwrites what was there ... to see if any significant memory savings could be made ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2013 Development
  • Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…

    ... :smile:
    I have downoaded BASin and it looks awesome
    memory savings by shortening variable names ...
    littlebrays littlebrays January 2013 Development
  • Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…

    ... :smile:
    I have downoaded BASin and it looks awesome
    memory savings by shortening variable names ...
    Gedlion Gedlion January 2013 Development
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... -front that says how much memory is available for sprites, levels ... clearly defined (like how much memory is allocated to each sprite ... . You have a pile of UDGs, which you then compile into ... of adventures.

    In-memory you have a bank of ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... mirrored on demand to save memory. That also fits with 4x4 ... status.

    (a) certain UDGs have certain properties (clear, solid ... tiles. You then form, in memory, a character-map of the ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • Red DwarfA Red Dwarf video game - good or bad idea? (given its recent resurgence in popularity in the UK) My ideas: [b]Plots[/b] - An interquel which bridg…

    ... from 256 UDGs. They can all go in one 16K memory bank ...
    joefish joefish January 2013 New game ideas
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... saved as 6912 bytes at memory address 32768.

    8 ... or the Screen$ Toolbox in Basin. Then make a loader for ... and the main program in basin (or include the LOAD "" SCREEN ...
    apenao apenao February 2013 Games
  • SAVE writing zeros after program?Hi there! I hope this is the right forum, but I didn't find any other more appropriate... I'm trying to recover some very old tapes with stuff I mad…

    You can save the UDGs alone inserting as a new ... to load the tape in BasIN, export as text, wipe everything ... , import the code back to BasIn from the text file, then ...
    na_th_an na_th_an February 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Fastest redraw of screen from UDGsHere's a question for everyone, to generate a bit of code to be used in games: On a standard 48K Spectrum, what's the fastest way to redraw the scre…

    ... data in smaller sets of UDGs and expand them into such ... to do the sprites with UDGs too (with maybe some pre ... makes this method expensive in memory terms.
    joefish joefish March 2013 Development
  • Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…

    ... to scroll some data in-memory or on-screen and just ... it all on the screen memory.

    If you ... use up a lot of memory on pre-stored pre- ... scenery and your sprites as UDGs, then work on a ... If that's not enough UDGs, consider having multiple banks and ...
    joefish joefish June 2013 Games
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... the screen if you use UDGs or can you? SCREEN$ AT ... , col)? May just be a memory hog and use a 32 ... can't use all the UDGs from 128K basic I believe ... ? (How do you POKE UDGs anyway?, can't remember).
    memory anyway if I wanted to ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2013 Games
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... poking and peeking values in memory, its the same and ends ... then, is it 100% BASIC??? UDGs don't count!), I take ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2013 Games
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... stack? - aren't the UDGs in high memory though? Are they above ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2013 Games
  • best basic to useAs I like to do a bit of basic programming now and then what do you think is the best basic to work with? It's a pity the ramdisk can't be used on th…

    ... course they all take up memory to start of with.
    BASin or Boriel's BASIC compiler ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    BASin isn't really ideal, unless ... into the virtualized spectrum's memory at any address you please ...
    Gedlion Gedlion September 2013 Development
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    [QUOTE=Gedlion;720938]BASin isn't really ideal, unless ... into the virtualized spectrum's memory at any address you please ... option.[/QUOTE]

    Yeah, BASin does that. And has an ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2013 Development
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    ... an emulator like fuse or BASin?[/QUOTE]

    Once you ... manually loading each bit into memory using fuse's "load binary ...
    u6c87 u6c87 September 2013 Development
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... only in the live screen memory - there is no back-copy ... have saved memory by using a character map of UDGs (with two ... , then done the rendering from UDGs. That would have saved 6K ...
    joefish joefish September 2013 Games
  • Couple of basic BASIC questionsPlaying around with BASin again in an effort to knock up a game and am wondering 2 things 1) Why when I run the program do my UDGs not always pick u…

    ... of basic BASin questions"?

    1) For the UDGs to be ... with BASin.

    2) The general form for defining UDGs from ... letters for the range of UDGs defined by said DATA statements ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Couple of basic BASIC questionsPlaying around with BASin again in an effort to knock up a game and am wondering 2 things 1) Why when I run the program do my UDGs not always pick u…

    ... of basic BASin questions"?

    1) For the UDGs to be ... with BASin.

    2) The general form for defining UDGs from ... letters for the range of UDGs defined by said DATA statements ...
    Wookiee Wookiee September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Couple of basic BASIC questionsPlaying around with BASin again in an effort to knock up a game and am wondering 2 things 1) Why when I run the program do my UDGs not always pick u…

    ... bet is to create the UDGs separately and load them in ... right that will work for BASin but if I tried to ... it then be missing the UDGs?
    Wookiee Wookiee September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Couple of basic BASIC questionsPlaying around with BASin again in an effort to knock up a game and am wondering 2 things 1) Why when I run the program do my UDGs not always pick u…

    ... right that will work for BASin but if I tried to ... it then be missing the UDGs?[/QUOTE]

    Save ... the UDGs to tape after the main ... listing with [code]SAVE "UDGs" CODE USR A,168[/code ... the line [code]10 LOAD "UDGs" CODE USR A[/code] ...
    chev chev September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... means that you have 256 UDGs and can select which one ... you redefine one of the UDGs, any instance of it on ... having different character sets in memory - that contains "pre-scrolled" characters ... so much more efficient on memory, but it is something i ...
    TMR TMR September 2013 Games
  • The making of R-Type on the speccy book, free downloadBob Pape, the guy who wrote R-Type on the speccy has made his book, "IT'S BEHIND YOU: the making of a computer game", available for free download: [u…

    ... means that you have 256 UDGs and can select which one ... you redefine one of the UDGs, any instance of it on ... so much more efficient on memory, but it is something i ... and its weirdly arranged display memory - the C64 also has its ...
    Sokurah Sokurah September 2013 Games
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