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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 :…
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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 :…
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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 :…
... comments about how all C64 games are presentation over playability or ... is saying that *all* C64 games suffer from the presentation over ... for a Circle command in machine code? I think not. We're ... -
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 :…
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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 :…
... ) My post specifically lists the games I said had superb scrolling ... reference was limited to those games and not meant to be ... superb and very clever code. And the games I refered to are ... help novices to migrate to machine code. period. I should know because ... -
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 :…
... reference was limited to those games and not meant to be ... help novices to migrate to machine code. period.
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When time stood still for 42 par secsWhat I mean by that is that around 4 years ago (maybe more, memory fails me) I innocently entered "ZX Spectrum" in google, and a moment later the wor…
... 500 (where all the games ran slower than the original ... spent hours loading dozens of games in at the original speed ... to teach myself Z80 assembler / machine code. During my research into this ... the Spectrum, get this: NEW GAMES were actually being created! There ...42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…
... up a new channel from machine code to print to via a ... stream - in this case stream 3 (which is normally used for ... ) to disassemble the original PAW code and work out if it ...Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??
... that was giving it a 3" disc drive instead of the ... 3 1/2" industry standard, that ... they were committed to the 3" format with their other computers ... time. I'm only learning machine code, so can someone explain to ...Text adventuresHi everyone (first post!) how ya all doing? I was just wondering to myself how many of you used to play text adventures? I remember when I was aroun…
... ever game!) which was a machine code text adventure (converted from Tandy ... on. But soon decent arcade games began to appear and I ... one of the very few games released for the Dragon 64 ...Retro Gamer and Type-InsWell, Retro Gamer is apparently looking out for some good type-ins to include on its cover CD (maybe, ok?). They'd like some from WoS, and I thought …
... there are indeed some good games there. Impressive demonstration of BASIC ... this one. The rest are machine code dependent, although very nice!
Retro Gamer issue 3Seen this? [url="http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/retro/retro3.shtml"]http://www.livepublishing.co.uk/retro/retro3.shtml[/url] Looks like they've off…
They would shift just SOOOOOOOO many copies if they managed to get the Code Masters or Ultimate games on the CD with a official deal.
And it's going six-weekly now as well, so even more issues for us. :)How to program Machine Code on a PC, and then run it on a speccy?Well, I've been looking into MC a bit more deeply recently - I reckon I could get my head round MC now. Back when I was a teenager, I couldn't see th…
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3) get some z80 code save as a text ... to assemble Z80 code. -g3 means to dump code in a binary ... .bin file and ran the machine code and.....it worked, ok I ...new programmer needs information hi , i have been learning c++ for a while and am trying to make games using windows but being 28 and nostalgic , i thought it would be fun try and f…
... basic .I wanted to program games that basic wasnt capable of ... so i bought a z80 machine code book . At the age of ... off the desire to program games .Over the last 2 years ...new programmer needs information hi , i have been learning c++ for a while and am trying to make games using windows but being 28 and nostalgic , i thought it would be fun try and f…
... of you actively program spectrum games still or is this just ... st emulator you could make machine code routines with TASM but having ...The old days and improving the Spectrum experience.I was reminded of this recently, by a thread about Mask... Back in the day, I used to have a DISCiPLE interface and had to make do with snapshots of…
... quite a lot of multifaced games and managed to take quite ... proper starting address for the machine code. Supplied them with a standard ...The Greatest Spectrum Game Programmer!In my opinion the greatest Spectrum programmer of all time was Pete Cooke, this lone programmer was responsible for some of the best Spectrum games e…
... company if I like their games
I am dismayed at ... publishers on the creation of games, I hear plenty of bad ... up to do with Spectrum games, this thread will give me ... written in machine code?! was this not so unheard of with Spectrum games?The Greatest Spectrum Game Programmer!In my opinion the greatest Spectrum programmer of all time was Pete Cooke, this lone programmer was responsible for some of the best Spectrum games e…
... in machine code?! was this not so unheard of with Spectrum games?
Machine Code mainly b'cos it was ...The Speccy Games Programming CompetitionFor those who weren't following the OT thread... We have the CGC and we have the Minigames competitions, but we don't have an actual Spectrum Games …
What about games written in C, i.e. ... see all games judged equally, not a separate category for machine code titles ...Type-ins for non-standard languagesDoes anyone know if there has ever been any type-in programs for non-standard languages e.g. Forth, Micro Prolog etc. I recently bought copies of tho…
... sometimes nearly as fast as Machine Code. It's also fun. ( Except ... gives an error, like [B]3 2 + 4 * . [/B] ( the same ... as [B]PRINT ( 3 + 2 ) * 4 )[/B] ... or maybe ...Any news on the Minigame compo ?I was just wondering, does anybody have any idea as to when the next minigame compo will take place ? I'm eager to send my next crappy creation - per…
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1 - All games submitted to the CSSCGC should ... to promote any of your games that you are proud of ... in the "all-time crappiest machine-code programs ever" collection, alongside Caverns ... Kontonia or A.J. Remic games :).Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…
... could have a standard to code in, rather than thinking it ... have the manual for Sound Machine... It`ll be hard to ... out the PC version 3...
Porting code is hard for ... all... I took some 3D code I did in AMOS and ...TZX in ROM...Is it possible to modify BASIC ROM to load TZX images from external memories like Flash EPROM? [ This Message was edited by: klingler on 2004-07-0…
... just wrapping raw unprotected binary machine code/data?
Maybe something ... so I want to put games as TZX/TAP files on ...Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…
... Deathchase were way better 16K games.
Of course, ... educational (our Atari was for games...), so I taught myself ... dozens and dozens of games myself and am ashamed ... games (unless they were poor copies).
I even learned machine code ...SMAX - My Spectrum Killer App that never quite materialisedThis is basically a copy of my post to CSS, for anyone that doesn't read the group:- One or two of you may, if you have particularly good memories, …
... bit disturbed about the "100% machine code", "glossy machine-code programs" claims. You can ... efficiency of human-made machine code. Most professional games use impressive screen-drawing ... making a hyper-intelligent automatic code optimizer, but I doubt it ...SMAX - My Spectrum Killer App that never quite materialisedThis is basically a copy of my post to CSS, for anyone that doesn't read the group:- One or two of you may, if you have particularly good memories, …
... 100% machine code output, and will permit the development of "glossy, machine code games".
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Producing 100% machine code isn't ... , as it stands, produces faster code that z88dk in some areas ...SMAX - My Spectrum Killer App that never quite materialisedThis is basically a copy of my post to CSS, for anyone that doesn't read the group:- One or two of you may, if you have particularly good memories, …
... machine code output, and will permit the development of "glossy, machine code games".< ... really get a glossy machine code game on a Spectrum ... I would describe the machine code as adaquate. Making an ... of string manipulation. Creating code output from that is ...found old magazineHello fellow Spectrum worshipers :) As I was not sure where to post this, so I posted it here. I guess anything can be posted under miscellaneous. …
... been trying to collect Portuguese games for preservation and they are ... of my own including translated games and modified ones from ... been many compared to foreign games being sold but collectively there ... can, even if it is Machine Code, it's probably in Hex ...Cascade 50 questionI remember playing on this around summer 1984. There was a game on this tape which was basically a 'W' shape made up of numbers and a moving line whi…
... had a tiny bit of machine code mixed in with the BASIC ... - there are some slightly reasonable games on there.found old magazineHello fellow Spectrum worshipers :) As I was not sure where to post this, so I posted it here. I guess anything can be posted under miscellaneous. …
In one of the games it appears in the basic ... are just for loading the code. To be honest I have ... type hundreds of lines of machine code and be disappointed in the ... chances they are portuguese made games are slim...
