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best BASIC games? - besides 20 tons and Derby Day perhaps i know few of them, yet i believe, there have to be some cool ones i couldn't appreciate then as i was stup…
... You can use a compiler to turn a BASIC program into machine ... /> Typically, you can get a 10x speed increase by doing ... work with a limited number of BASIC commands and ... want to look like a div, and have ended ... anyway ;) Sounds a bit like a cheat for people ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
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from ... basin14,after opened (ctrl+j) a file "first.tap" ,seems impossible ... file (.bas).
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z88dk 1.8 releasedSince I am the most regular of the z88dk peeps to post here I might as well let you all know that v1.8 has been released. [code] A little later than…
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Ripping a fontIs it possible to rip a font from a machine code game using Spin?
Ok the font in Lords of Midnight appears to start at 55842 and finish at 56561
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Your favourite old arcade game clonesOld arcade games i.e. Space Invaders, Galaga, Pengo, Centipede, etc. I know it's far easier now to play the original version, and that's usually my p…
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Ok.. it's actually a clone of Stargate (or Defender ... think Invasion of BS is just a bit faster and slicker than ... high for added fear factor when a fast alien is on the way. -
The official Doctor Who threadOH MY GOD! I did [b]NOT[/b] see that coming at the end of the episode!
... story which were really accessible (a device borrowed from Buffy), perhaps ... up an easter egg with a recorded message for people who ... that quite a few times, eg when a news program puts out a number and ... just one digit difference with a curry house or taxi firm ... -
How to run assembled code in emu?Sorry for the complete newbie question, but I can't figure this out anywhere. I've assembled a very simple program using z80asm on linux. Now I hav…
You can use a tool to create a .tap file from the binary ... it will output a tap file with a BASIC program to load and execute ... the bytes block and no BASIC at all, use bin2code instead ... -
Olympics - blimey...Computer-generated fireworks, pre-recorded fireworks, little girls miming to songs because the original singer wasn't pretty enough, and now pre-trai…
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Brits made first computer tooThe Sinclair naming conventions ZX80, ZX81 make it easy to remember when these computers came out but can produce amusing effects when the ZX generat…
... ... I don't even know what the CS stands for nor ... if there was a CS(or CS1), CS2 etc ... ... Windows Vista, which is a DOS descendant is number what ... something like 8 or ... /xp all versions 7.x? (what about 2000/2003 (well, they ... -
Brits made first computer tooThe Sinclair naming conventions ZX80, ZX81 make it easy to remember when these computers came out but can produce amusing effects when the ZX generat…
... ... Windows Vista, which is a DOS descendant is number what ... something like 8 or ... , Vista isn't a DOS descendent, it's a Windows NT descendent ... .1
Now Vista, which is Windows NT 6.0
BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
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The purpose of this program is to force the machine to ... out of memory. If this program is run then the first column ... screen.
Whilst the program is running select View -> Debug windows ...Problem upgrading 16K SpectrumHello Spec-chums, I've been a long time Commodore user, but also a long-time Speccy admirer (and emulator user). I've recently got hold of a Issue 2…
... ? IIRC, the 16K machine needed a couple of 74LS* chips in ... did, you can write a memory test program to find the bad ... , I think someone posted a BASIC program that'll do a quick (but not ... exhaustive) RAM test about a year or so back.Happy Birthday Three Word Story!Well, we ought to celebrate that Scottie's Three Word Story is 1 today!
... sits around for a while before stopping with a blank page. Luckily ... had to quickly hack together a patch to handle that gracefully ... being stored in a 16Bit integer??
Is that what went wrong?Skool Daze disassemblyWhile developing [url="http://pyskool.wordpress.com/"]Pyskool[/url], I've also been putting together a disassembly of Skool Daze and Back to Skool, m…
... sprites you could do a reasonable job by looking ... transparent inner bits), and a couple of the teachers ... appear to have a piece of chalk in ... tile at a time). There is also what I call a "screen ... that needs updating after a pass through the main ...Top 5 Albums Of 2008Yep folks. It's fast approaching the end of the year (again) so it's now time to list your favourite albums of 2008. After careful consideration, her…
... you could probably knock up a BASIC program that could predict the names ...TAP filesI'm trying to figure out how to make TAP files and am none the wiser. Tried downloading Taper, got it working but it was one of the unfathomables. I …
I managed to get Fuse to load a TAP at normal speed the once by unticking those preferences. I just can't seem to get a sure fire way to save a BASIC program to a TAP file every time without problems. I might stick to TZX if it's going to be this tricky.Your best Type-ins gamesType-ins games bring me great memories. A whole evening typing a program from a magazine, after some hours I typed RUN and... an error message! After…
... spent ages typing in a BASIC program that was listed at ... I think it was a picture of the union jack ... i just getting used to a keyboard.
I also ... a few of those programs that were in Your Sinclair's Program ... where you could look through a game's code. The ...Spectrum +2 A/B ManualsHi, please can anyone tell me what the manual for the black +2 looked like (black/grey) and how many pages etc. also what differences there are, if s…
... The +2 manual has a dark grey background whereas ... manuals!
Here is the +2 grey manual:
Here is the +3 manual (It's ... models came with a black manual... Is that what you were thinking ... the +3 one ... this is from memory tho' so ...Spectrum +2 A/B ManualsHi, please can anyone tell me what the manual for the black +2 looked like (black/grey) and how many pages etc. also what differences there are, if s…
... + models came with a black manual... Is that what you were thinking of ... the +3 one ... this is from memory tho' so I ... manuals. My +2 manual cover is dark grey and the +2A ... by the way. (The former is listed as +2 in the ... at least, the TXT one is, I didn't look at ...Interface One - New FunctionalityAs you may (or may not) be aware the Interface One is a pretty powerful piece of kit. One of it's greatest features is being able to easily extended …
... which supported the cassette as a device, ie: MOVE "c ... the printer buffer as a file buffer, or just ... able to type in a BASIC program using a keyboard transmitting on the ... could be made to implement a disk cache?
Basic allowed this.+3 dead(!)Hi, When I turn on my +3 I see only white and black strips (vertical) on screen any idea on how to fix it? Thank you in advance Chris [IMG]http:…
... that M1 cycle is just a NOP.
Is there any ... which a HALT is executed while it's booting? I recall that when a ... RAM error is found, the processor merely ... ground for a moment (so the HALT condition is exited). Is there ...font editor/designerI need a font designer, I've had a search on infoseek and not really turned up anything of any use. Any one got one I could have please? I need one f…
... around it ( I was having a blonde moment )
anyway ... just a little suggestion could the mouse ... do I save it to a tap/tzx file the font ... UDG editor to either a BASIC program, or directly to a TZX/TAP file ...Framerate of Spectrum gamesI was reading a bit about framerates in modern games and it got me wondering about the Speccy. First off I'd hoped to find what framerate my old gam…
... frame. So the screen display is built in some part of ... ) while the actual screen memory is unchanged. It can take only ... (some 3D games). When a new display is ready it is copied to screen ... Lore) really slow down when there is more action on the screen ...3.5 drive (external)Hi, I read that I have to put a 'diode' on the ribbon cable (for the RDY signal). But so far I could not find where can I put it on the cable... Any…
... RDY will respond only when a particular drive is selected.
(it's ... just a guess; as I told ...Really neat pictures you have taken.For Christmas this year I got from a wife a Lumix Z28 camera. It's a SLR style (note not an SLR) camera with a 18x optical zoom and wide angle lens a…
[QUOTE=frobush;407631]Show off! You dirty bugger! LOL![/QUOTE]
I told you, you can switch with me when a certain something is done! Besides, it's not showing off, it's a really neat picture I have taken! :pborder graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…
... at those two lines from a BASIC program, you output to channel 1 ...ZX Spectrum not working - Please help.Hi there, I am new to this forum and was pointed in this direction by a fellow Youtuber after uploading the following video and then explaining that…
... of the subject. i have a issue 2 48k spectrum and ... need to know a couple of things. should i ... from the speccy when a game loads? if so what could be wrong ...ZX Spectrum not working - Please help.Hi there, I am new to this forum and was pointed in this direction by a fellow Youtuber after uploading the following video and then explaining that…
... of the subject. i have a issue 2 48k spectrum and ... need to know a couple of things. should i ... from the speccy when a game loads? if so what could be wrong ... internal speaker.
when you are loading a tape you should hear ...Most impressive game you've ever seen which has been written in speccy BASIC?What's the most impressive speccy game you've ever seen that's been written solely in speccy BASIC? +3 Basic or 48k basic. No machine code routines…
... golden idol[/I]): I spent a lot of days typing this ... difficult, in spite of being a BASIC game.
[URL="http ... ]War Game[/B][/URL], a Microhobby covertape. A very good wargame where ... in spite of being a BASIC program. It came in a sort of 'plastic ...
