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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…
... too much space on the BASIC listing. So if you are ... a further 6 characters of BASIC listing. Finally
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Help hacking Split PersonalitiesI`ve been hacking away at Split Personalities for the purpose of putting new screens and graphics (items). The current screen is at 41187 and is 160…
... a packer for yersen in basic by loading your screen which ... first screen starts. If you scroll down or even better step ... -
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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Saving a further 9 BASIC characters. (It was a throwback ... now a generous 55 BASIC characters left before scroll? limit is reached ... to find later that more BASIC space could indeed be recovered ... -
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…
... [b]d_PrintDoubleW()[/b]. The pixel scroll routine requirement has changed (the ... double width characters for the scroll. So a little later ... on, after the new scroll routine is incorporated, I' ... anything normally done in Sinclair basic, but you should be ... -
What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
The speed advantage of BBC Basic has little to with the ... AY, and getting a smooth scroll out of the 6845 requires ... main way in which Sinclair BASIC could have been improved was ... -
Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…
... and rightmost boundaries on each vertical scan line. Very kind in ... C and libraries to create BASIC-ready routines which may come ... handy to many BASIC programmers. Thank you
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Rom dumping a Mirage MicrodriverI need to dump the rom of my Mirage Microdriver for Zub and don't know what to do...any help?
... ROM. You've got two basic ways of doing it - either ... in, though. The fact that BASIC fails to initialise when the ... . (This is why you get vertical stripes if you remove the ... -
Rom dumping a Mirage MicrodriverI need to dump the rom of my Mirage Microdriver for Zub and don't know what to do...any help?
... ROM. You've got two basic ways of doing it - either ... . (This is why you get vertical stripes if you remove the ... -
+3 startup modesWill it make any difference which mode I select (+3 Basic / 48 Basic) if I'm gonna load a 48k game ? Is one mode more compatible with 48k games than…
... UDG appears as a whole basic keyword. I cant remember which ... to the edge of a vertical wall and die this keyword ... -
help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... having ground my teeth with BASIC and then been promised 'Once ... post as well.
[CODE];scroll down 1 pixel at a ... repeating the pixel scroll
dec b ;one scroll less to go ... ;otherwise continue with another pixel scroll
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help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…
... iy is saved as the basic isr claims a monopoly on ... /> And this doesn't even scroll the screen in pixel row ... is to hard code the scroll in a single monolithic code ... -
Speccy sound on tv show - againRemember the spectrum loading noise in two CSI shows? Well, fuzzix on c.s.s. has found what seems to be another clip of Speccy goodness: [url]http:/…
... should form part of a vertical line, so you select the ... three pixels make up a vertical line. You then look at ... ? Is it machine code or BASIC; could there be any readable ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
[QUOTE=bigjon;256767]I started to think about doing a lightforce-style scroller[/QUOTE]
Looks promising!
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Emulators on the ZX SpectrumHaving released a Spectrum 16K emulator for Spectrum 48/128 machines as part of CCG2008, I was wondering if anybody knows of any emulators which actu…
... : There was a BASIC-Loader for the ZX81 BASIC, but that needed ... alterations for specific ZX81 commands (Like SCROLL ... -
SAM Games that never wereIn another thread on Multiloads there's been a bit of chat about US Gold's infamous statement about porting Strider to the SAM (which tbh if they had…
... much apart from Sphera (a vertical scroller), an early SAM game ... though I'm a lowly Basic coder ;) ), with around 400K of ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
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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…
... changes from horizontal movement to vertical movement
offset = ... in case text wraps in scroll
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Games with Parallax ScrollingI loved that effect. It gave a false depth to the game.. To me a game with parallax scrolling was a better game. How wrong I was.. anyway, a list of…
... a second, and then have vertical or horizontal attribute stripes which ... /width - depending on general the scroll direction but it could be ... say, these attributes "naturally" would scroll at 8 pixels each frame ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... of a one-liner in Basic...
[B]PATHFINDER[/B ... , and so on. By alternating "vertical" and "horizontal" expansions, the algorithm ... -
What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.
... shoot-em-ups, vertical shoot-em-ups, multi-scroll shoot-em-ups ... -
post your preferred 'up-down-left-right-fire' keys redefinefor me, and for some reason it was Emlyn hughes back in the day that got me attatched to this, from then on and to this day I will always redefine my…
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[QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;289624]O P Q A ... " that the screen did not scroll automaticly when you moved, instead ... -
'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... of the "shadow screen" from BASIC.
I had another ... ourselves to a 100% pure BASIC program). I could presumably use ... " though, it even has a "Vertical Hold" slider. I can only ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... in the emulator as Sinclair BASIC can manage!! (I think this ... because my screen write and scroll routines are quicker than the ... Sinclair routines). However, Z80 BBC BASIC will blow my emulator away ... emulate.
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Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …
... 're kind enough to include BASIC examples in the appendices, so ... ). The H - L horizontal or vertical steps and L diagonal steps ... taken; otherwise a horizontal or vertical step is taken. This is ... -
Question about something I don't know what is called.I am interested in reading about something which I don't know what is called (duh). I am looking for (online/offline) reading material which explain…
... you were expecting. Thats because BASIC is too slow to make ... bars, though they don't scroll (an artefact of the speed ... -
ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p
... to enter debugger when in BASIC. Press STEP. Why does the ... fails!
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ANN: SpecEmu 2.7Go get it kids! [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.woodmass/specemu.html[/url] :p
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Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…
... write a program in Sinclair BASIC that emulates a Windows PC ... .
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Goldeneye (N64) can still surprise!After eleven years, I thought I'd seen and done everything Goldeneye on the N64 has to offer, but I've found this video: [url]http://uk.youtube.com/…
... driving levels. AUF is very basic, NF is better. TWINE, on ... -visible nastier imp, and seperate vertical levels (so it wasn't ...
