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New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
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Games featuring... relevant bugsThere was a recent improvement to the WoS database in order to classify [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=34261"]Games fea…
... area, it should be enough to simply change the order of these ... ??? ;yes it is so exit to menu or restart level 1 ... br /> $676d jp $6ff8 ;jump to mine carts/load next level ... have a finale, it's usually better to restart from the beginning (keeping ... -
Boiler Room ScamsTonight I was called by boiler room scammers. In case you don't know what these are, they are people who cold call you, tell you of an AMAZING share …
... can get, then try to get you to hand over thousands of ... was digging, they were trying to bullshit me into buying shares ... it would be far better to simply report them to the FSC instead and ... -
Astroclone...Huh... Does anybody make sense of astroclone at all? I have seen the tipshop, but they speak in strange ways. There is this defender game, then kill…
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To destroy the enemy ship, fly ... and wait for it to come to you, but this ... square, although it's usually better to take on the enemy ... ), but to get to that point you have to solve a ... do and this is usually discovered by picking up ... -
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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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…
... is the bottom row according to chess notation.
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Machine code issue...Hi Folks, My trials with MCODE continue and I am stuck. I wrote the following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute byte in to a "box" on th…
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SAM programmingHi Can anyone provide any example hello world or graphics/sprite printing style machine code routines for the SAM? I can't seem to find anything rem…
... , memory paging is key to getting started. The display ... ld (&8000),a ; write to start of display
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RCS (Reverse Computer Screen)[B]RCS[/B] ("Reverse Computer Screen", or simply SCR written backwards) is a small utility I'm about to release, that reorders bytes from the ZX-Spec…
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Therefore, it would be better to simply store each sequence of 1 ...
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Lime Rick, like Snake but with gravity[B]Lime Rick[/B] by [url=http://www.kissmaj7.com/games/]Kissmaj7[/url] is an elaborated version of "I Left Myself Behind". It's a puzzle game with an…
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I was already planning to replace the rotten apple with ... but perhaps it would be better to simply remove all unnecessary apples? ... users would be able to create more interesting puzzles ...
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some help pleaseive just got a 48k and brings me back to 1982 lol having problems loading games-used to be wizz at it but the grey matter aint what it used to be, iv…
... to record over the the plastic header on the tape. I usually ... going on. I used to leave a 5 second gap ... in that space, only to find after 3 minutes of ... and fast forwarding of tapes to ensure even looping of ... which is why C30 was usually better to use than C60 or ... -
New Game - When Alex Didn't Do ItHello everyone, and a Happy New Year for 2015. After 6 months of toil, I've finished my graphic adventure, When Alex Didn't Do It, which consists of…
... become where it was difficult to lose instantly.
... items is left wandering unable to progress.[/QUOTE]
... In this case, it's better to simply kill players and restart the ... games "where it was difficult to lose instantly", it means ... -
New Game - When Alex Didn't Do ItHello everyone, and a Happy New Year for 2015. After 6 months of toil, I've finished my graphic adventure, When Alex Didn't Do It, which consists of…
... ]It's bad game design to leave players still playing and ... . In this case, it's better to simply kill players and restart the ... the extra effort to find someone else willing to buy this item ... -
I'm going to have a poo at Paul's house.[b]Mummy I want a poo. I want to have a poo at Paul's. I'm going to Paul's to do a poo.[/b] That advert will haunt that kid for the rest of his natu…
... ago i did one that simply refused to go away despite repeated ... , i had no choice but to roll up my sleeve and ... and i have no desire to ever do that aain.[/quote ... /> Surely it would've been better to simply move house? -
Why don't the variables print where I told them too?I wrote the following program to experiment with creating sounds using 3 notes of BEEP and having the ability to change the notes up or down one at a…
... little misleading. Each individual call to INKEY$ will return a single ... be more surprising). It's usually better to call INKEY$ once, assign the ... value to a variable and then do ... -
Alternative to Poke 23659,0 to prevent a 'break in' to a Basic Program.Good morning everyone, My memory fails me these days but in the early days of programming I used to use Poke 23659,0 as a crude way of offering so…
... br /> Yes anything similar to that as it interferes with ... .
To quote from a Spectrum Computing ... POKEd in, normally to attempt to clear this unused ... bottom two lines it is usually better to use PRINT #1; " ... as well if not better, without such a ... -
Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…
... resetting the sequence. It's usually better to do it once at the ... never again. If you want to introduce a little more randomness ... bit of extra entropy necessary to make the randomness feel even ... -
How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... and it needs flags to be in certain states ... general it's better to not use A register to store stuff ... or L available it's usually better to pass parameters in those ... true/false I like to use the carry flag ... ' on exit you need to do your carry flag setting ... -
Spectrum games that were much better to play than their C64 or Amstrad counterparts?Retrogamer and PC Action Emulate! magazines often state that they would much rather play the C64 or Amstrad versions of games that also featured on t…
... Sinclair truly outshone when compared to other format conversions? One I ... at the moment would have to surely be Target Renegade ( ... detailed graphically and played far better than on other 8-bit ... Come to think of it, the first Renegade game plays better on ... -
New RZX Block Type Suggestion -- AnnotationWho is maintaining the RZX specification at the moment? I'd like to ask for the feasability of the following request. Annotations embedded within th…
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This block could simply be ignored and I'm ... annotations add to the filesize significantly. A 2 hour movie usually has ... . There are plenty more nice-to-haves to add on (such as ... the scheme of things that better to just repeat the information in ... -
Rebelstar 2 - hints and tipsI'm somewhat depressed as my games console broke the first day of this holiday period and getting a replacement is not so easy and taking time. I wan…
... and best way to cut through. You can simply bump into it ... let the rats come to me. It is better to finish them off ... a few laser pistols is usually enough.
- I often ... the builing without needing to engage the aliens (usually)
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The Spectrum and it's rivals...This has no doubt been posted and debated many times before, across hundreds of messages boards and across hundreds of playgrounds before that, but h…
... there are advantages and disadvantages to both. But I maintain that ... available on both platforms were usually better on the Spectrum.
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The Spectrum is a Piece of ShitHow can you all stand there and defend a computer that was ABSOLUTELY RUBBISH even back in 1982, compared to classics like the Atari 8-Bit, Commodore…
... this out of boredom, to express (VERY trollishly) my ... br /> When I first tried to program a Spectrum (this was ... wrote the program I usually do to test graphics, which is ... to be, in terms of graphics anyway.
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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…
... something that usually has to be beaten into undergrads new to computers ... commands" (functions from now on) simply by declaring them. This is ... a function in another unit simply by including the corresponding ... on which case it's better to do it like this:
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…
... POKE to go to the end of the program, where you simply execute BORDER ... same idea can be applied to g, to calculate it before the ... br />
Yes, that's better, I have applied this change ... The other alternative would be to again remove the initializations of ...I hate this country (serious - England gets worse)Have you seen this: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7059283.stm[/URL] "[B]The Prison Service has converted two jails to hold only foreign nati…
... prove it by treating minorities better than we treat the ... , he'd recieve far better treatment than I have.[/quote ... life means 6+ years, usually 8 to 10, which is insane).[/quote ... ]
Only barbaric societies execute ...Blue Ray vs. HD DVDBlue Ray vs. HD DVD Which is better, and why? And which will survive the other? Personally, I don't much care at the moment, as my TV is not high…
... progresses, consumers have access to more and more Gigabytes of ... is for me, it is usually better than VHS for example), then ... devalue the product, compared to selling each film on seperate ... ever newer emerging standards than simply superior quality though!MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
... need to know how to detect TaskMan. It would actually be better if ... you didn't, because ResiDOS is designed to be ... is if you could simply return control to the bank that was ... is optional. It is usually useful to use it so that you ...
