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The Diagnostic PCBIt arrived in the post today so this is my first go with the Diagnostic PCB. (bought on Ebay) This item , I think , does the same job as Retroleu…
... the normal ZX Spectrum ROM (BASIC). Then load from tape (or ... about the original version somewhere in these forums.
write data to the relevant output ... these threads...
In the meantime Brendan has improved ... -
Dynamite Dan II - Island 6 - HELP!Hi all, can someone possibly create a snapshot of Island 6 (car park island) on Dynamite Dan II for me please? I'm trying to work out why half the…
... of loader/island poker Program: Data (147 bytes).
Instructions ... ZXBlockEditor, double click Program Data, in window click Open and select ... /> db 0,$0d ; END of BASIC line
runusr: ... br /> ld (hl),c ; Write Island number into 29384
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…
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; (non-sprite) data and non-time critical routines ... assembler is going to write data to
endoflvldata BLOCK ... clear_cell
; blank a cell in back buffer
; hl: offset ... beginning of buffer to cell data
... to the Basic.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…
... , a ; write it back
; stash column in A
... /> ld h, a ; write it back
ld l ... /> ld h, a ; write it back
ld l ... /> ENDR
; shift the data in both buffers
ld hl ... /> Press space to return to basic.
The ...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…
... flag
ld h, a ; write it back
ld l ...
ENDR
; shift the data in both buffers
ld hl ... flag
ld h, a ; write it back
; push table ... a marked improvement in performance over doing this in Basic though I think ...AY musicThis is a format I'm proposing for an AY music player. If anyone can see any problems or anywhere it can be improved please say so. An AY music form…
... (one for each channel) of data in 2byte pairs.
The ... to compact the muscial data, provide flexability in creation, and be easy ... be easy to shift the data around in their 4k blocks. When ... music is intended. As the basic structure doesn't change it ...ZX48k terminal...Hello everybody, I thought someone might help me. I connect my good old ZX48k to my PC via serial (IF1) link, and I was trying to write a little term…
... was trying to write a little terminal program in BASIC.
Can anyone ... /> need to consider how slow BASIC is)
open a stream ... , and print it out.
in BASIC:
10 format "t ... missing?
Thank you in advance.Games that benefit from a change in speed.Has anybody tried playing games on an emulator at different speeds? I've found that certain games are more playable with a slight speed tweak. Obvio…
... speed tweak. Obviously programs written in basic and text adventure games are ... with a 10-20% reduction in speed.
On the ...Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…
... which was completely written in BASIC.
3. In Raid over Moscow ... off a platform suspended in space in this amusing conversion from ... />
21. Conversion from a Data East coin-op where you ... the arch-baddie of a Data East coin-op converted to ...Type in magazineCan anyone remember the name of a type-in magazine. All I can remember was it had programs for zx81 and 48k Spectrums. Some of the programs were a ph…
Can anyone remember the name of a type-in magazine.
All I can remember was it had programs for zx81 and 48k Spectrums. Some of the programs were a photo-fit, one called London Raid, and one with crabs. All in basic.
ThanksAdvice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
... . Do the (shifting + AND + OR) in one pass to the screen ... to continue coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
BTW, after ...Trouble loading old tape - any restoration software available?Hi there, I am trying to load in an 18 year old basic game that a friend of mine wrote. However, I am getting R Tape loading error, 0:1 after about a…
... trying to load in an 18 year old basic game that a ... however, is process spectrum data as spectrum data and somehow clean it ... me clean up the audio data in the hope to load it ... all in?
Right now, I can ...TommyGun - Utility ... what's going on...For those interested, Tony has been busy lately and unable to put as much time into TG as he'd like. He also has a child on the way soon. He told me…
... support they may have to write all their own plugins if ... a SDK for others to write their own plugins for ... is there for you to write your code. It supports ... be used without Forth, but in Basic, by the way ) and ... way would be to help write plugins to add more ...What's wrong with YS94...Hello, I'm Steve Anderson. You might remember me from such magazines as Your Sinclair and, um, that's it. I was the one who wrote a platform game in …
... wrote a platform game in Basic and then attempted to ... whilst pretending to live in a washing machine. I ... your MP and/or write to Retro Gamer about ... quality scans from prints in the magazine, they could ... issues raised here are in someway addressed; otherwise it ...New Functions for Sinclair BasicA total of 52 new functions can be added to Sinclair BASIC; 26 numeric functions (A-Z) and 26 string functions (A$-Z$). Owing to the internal structu…
... BASIC, the best place to store these functions is in ... partially compatible with their Beta BASIC equivalents. Some of the ... dealing with 16-bit numbers in BASIC would be tortuously slow. ... used here in order to permit compilation with HiSoft BASIC.
...I found a game that I made!I was looking through a big pile of cassettes in a box the other day looking for a sound sample (I collect sounds...don't ask), when I found a casset…
... a big pile of cassettes in a box the other day ... was a game I wrote in Basic on Boxing Day, 1989! It ... took me all day to write, questions including "Maggie Thatcher has ...Spectrum programmingI have a Spectrum+ at home. I tried to write some programs in BASIC (IIRC i wrote a breakout clone in which you had to hit those spider-like characte…
... I tried to write some programs in BASIC (IIRC i wrote ... a breakout clone in which ... characters which were presented in the manual). Anyway, ... was always wanted to write some code for the ... i wrote a small BASIC-like interpeter for a ...How To Upload BASIC program To WOS archiveIn 1987 when i was 15 years old,i wrote a program in BASIC on my Speccy 128 called ART STUDIO..yeah i know Its the only basic program i have ever wr…
... ,i wrote a program in BASIC on my Speccy 128 ... />
Its the only basic program i have ever written ... time ago and it works in Spectaculator!!
I ... for posterity.
Its in three parts being the ... .
It loads in Spectaculator in that order,but how ...Saving BASIC code as CODE... can't start programHi guys! I'm trying to create an adventure game for the Speccy in BASIC, called The Legend Of The Red Dragon. I'm using the excellent BASin to code…
... adventure game for the Speccy in BASIC, called The Legend Of The ... when I load the game in SPIN as a TAP file ...LOTRD is back!Hey guys! I've got some news to tell you all... TLOTRD is now back on after about 3 months absence! :D For those of you who don't know what the hell…
... making over a year ago in BASIC. Unfortunately, I had problems galore ... then decided to make it in GAC, but gave up when ... GAC version but not a BASIC version, as I'm gonna ... be graphics in there too!
Once I write a few ...IDE interface emulation request (yet another one) Simple, 8-bit IDE interface emulation for interface described here: [url="http://piters.tripod.com/zx.htm"]http://piters.tripod.com/zx.htm[/url] …
... (Spectrum 48/128 compatible).
Data register : #2B
Parameter reg ... define of IDE port addresses in INI/CFG file?
... R/W used in Fuse & Spin, in RealSpectrum is not ... IDE standard, and Read/Write routines in ROM can be little simpler ...Verification of data from MakeTZX (FAO Steve specifically)Hi all, I've TZX'd up a tape of files which just use the Spectrum ROM loader (Steve, FYI it's the XLR-8 mastering utilites we were talking about on …
... verifying the ingetrity of the data in the TZX's? Would MakeTZX ...Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks
If you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used?
thanksDevelopment SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…
... people who "plan" to write something in the future when they can ... . How long has it been in development?
3. How long ... language do you use? (Asm, Basic, C etc)
CheersBasic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…
... I should learn to program in Basic, or machine code? Any help ... should concentrate my efforts. Learn Basic first? Then MC, or just ...Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …
I am attempting to write a routine which will allow ... a missile to home in on a player. Basically the ... in most shoot-em-up games.
I have a BASIC ... program which in effect does this - but I need to write it in ...+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... which you can probably see in the "old code" thread ... the system would be in BASIC so that the saving ... , with the imaging code obviously in ASM.
... may be possible to write an EDSK image directly ... saving would be done in BASIC, saving to anything is ...compilerI am currently developing a sudoku game for the old faithful speccy. My idea is to write the code in basic and then compile it to m/c because i suck …
... . My idea is to write the code in basic and then compile it ... with the speed increase Hisoft BASIC gives me
