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  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... but the IS compiler results in much faster programs. this, ... writing a perfectly good program in basic then to have a ... fro a custom short basic program to do interlaced ... i use and how i write the programs.

    ... what some of you in your opinion is the ...
    Amigo Amigo June 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Advice 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…

    ... as horizontal "tears" in the sprites, especially in the fast moving ... please keep us Timex users in mind -- the Timex machines ... to continue coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
    [/quote]
    ... memory with most emulators. Once in the emulator's memory, ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2003 Games
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... />
    Also the more you write on one single line also ... youll get a C Nonsense in Basic error.

    So if ... get more than 9999 lines in Basic. Again when it comes back ... be better off compiling your basic program - but this has worked ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…

    ... :07, Woody wrote:
    Oh, in that case I'll have ... can be loaded after a basic loader and create colored striped ... with a bit of MC in data lines in basic, and playing around with ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…

    ... use a Basic analogy, imagine having to write a Basic program where ... that every branch taken in your Basic code takes exactly ... with ay music in a intro i made in basic, and it ... me then the stops in sampling woudl be so ... at other parts like in a small intro(if ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • AssemblersOk, two quick questions for you guys: 1) Can anyone give me a link to the Prometheus Assembler ? 2) Does anyone know of an assembler that satisfies …

    ... 40000
    (this comes in easy when coding new ROM ... />
    Further : controls as in TASWORD
    SShift+Q = delete ... E-cursor = Back to BASIC

    In BASIC is a menu for ... loop ld a,(hl) ; fetch data
    or a
    ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…

    ... we can make a tiny BASIC program to poke every possible ... screen and have to match in our code booklet) into E97A ...
    BadBeard BadBeard August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Was spectrum the most advanced thing when you got it?When you got your first spectrum games, were they the most advanced games at the moment? When my dad bought it for me I was crazy excited, it was ama…

    ... there, that i could write little programs in Basic or type out 20 ... a new release coming out in a month or so was ...
    psj3809 psj3809 August 2003 Games
  • 128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …

    ... /> Am I right in thinking that when in BASIC, Bank 2 is at ... be able to set up data in Banks 3 and 6, then ... 0 as required by the BASIC program? (I notice that bank ... 0 always gets paged back in on return to BASIC).
    trellis trellis August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • 128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …

    ... /> Am I right in thinking that when in BASIC, Bank 2 is at ... be able to set up data in Banks 3 and 6, then ... 0 as required by the BASIC program?
    [/quote]

    in on return to BASIC).
    [/quote]
    Woody Woody August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... ?
    [/quote]

    Basic compilers, no. Basic is pretty much a ... really really want to program in Basic :)

    C Cross compilers ... that people still want to write C on the Spectrum itself ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... (I made around 10 in BASIC in the old days, I ... />
    I've coded in x86 assembly, even a simple ... m not skilled enough to write something more complex. Z80 ... IMHO (not knowing it in depth), but I'd ... m very accustomed of coding in Basic (QB mainly, also sucky ...
    na_th_an na_th_an August 2003 Games
  • Translating games from RussianThe recent arrival of biotoxin and his obvious enthusiasm for Russian games has set me thinking: Will any Russian games ever be translated into Engl…

    ... Russian - you can check words in a paper/online dictionary and ... Russian and write the English back to the file ? The data in most ...
    GOC GOC September 2003 Games
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... need to really know basic well to code in asm, or know ... it as it might be in basic. I think that together with ... as you would in Basic, by thinking in terms of data structures (variables) and ... />
    In conclusion, your best bet at having a new Basic compiler ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... an emulator and write something in 30 seconds in basic that would take ... me aeons to work out in ... I believe the most powerful basic compiler was Hisoft's - ... produce the most efficient spectrum Basic compiler ever... and that ...
    Gedlion Gedlion September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…

    ... of the time, the data in the pages seems to be ... , but the target data (viewed in the Memory panel) ... program breaks up with BASIC from line 1. It ... does not access any BASIC feature, it disables interrupts ... to return to BASIC.

    A glitch in RS ? ...
    GOC GOC November 2003 Development
  • Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…

    ... as you don't use BASIC or +3DOS page 7 will ... /> If you're getting GENS data in your memory where you don ... thing you could run them in parallel and check the action ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2003 Development
  • helpcan any-one tell me how to load the 2nd,3rd games on a multipul game rom(eg. magazine cover tapes) thanx in advance [ This Message was edited by: gr…

    ... ROMs contain the operative system (BASIC interpreter, registers etc.) and are ... model. Tapes contain data that is loaded in the RAM, where ... used ROM cartridges to store data in.)

    Now, when ... or game in a tape, skipping the preceeding data blocks, you ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu January 2004 Games
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    Learning how to write games requires you know some ... a kit and are limited in scope).

    On the ... games are fairly crap in BASIC.

    So in short if you ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2004 Development
  • clueless spectrum usersI was quite young when I owned a speccy and didn't know much about how it worked. When I loaded games via the tape recorder it said in the manual so…

    ... /> I saw that each ZX81 BASIC statement had an ASCII code ... that you could write a machine code program in BASIC by substituting the ... the famous Sinclair error "BOLLOCKS IN MACHINE CODE AT 10:0"
    chaosmongers chaosmongers January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... /> Both are simply enough to write in basic and are not performance driven ... .
    Don't try to write the biggest and best RPG ... /> So get any version of BASIC and learn to program "Hello ...
    Kiwi Kiwi February 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    And if you're going to do it in BASIC you could at least write yourself a hex editor and make life slightly easier on yourself.
    cyborg cyborg February 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... machine in Decimal? Its stored as Binary in the actual addresses, BASIC ... I would have to write a HEX converter in BASIC, and then change ... my method to counting in HEX ... the small program would run in BASIC, just type it out ...
    GBNvK GBNvK February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... /> @Kiwi: Sure, the overhead of Basic is enormous, but a lot ... % CPU time, a lot of Basic games, even uncompiled ones, exist ... Laser Basic, but with a buggy compiler they cannot.
    I write ... my games in Basic and compile them, but ...
    LCD LCD February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... reference the tiles, sprites etc in your program from the code ... code editor could insert the data for images into the code ... Application Development) approach to the data in the code, so if the ... in, and not be constrained to a supplied language such as BASIC ...
    Kiwi Kiwi February 2004 Development
  • TZX format updateHi folks. Following the private communication with Andy I would like to start a discussion on changing the TZX format to reflect new needs and improv…

    ... not primarily for viewing plain data and code since many tapes ... they don't have unencypted data in that case.
    [/quote]
    BASIC blocks, extract the SCREEN$ and ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker March 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…

    ... /> GOSUB 9100 is my routine. In BASIC it is slow as hell ... , in compiled Colt it is slow ( ... be faster to have the data in memory and just PEEK and ... POKE each byte in each tile instead of having ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2004 Development
  • 256 colour gamesFollowing on from the thread in the Emulator section... Will people who are working on converting games to 256 colour using Emuzwin please let me kn…

    ... recolour big chunks of data in the gfx in the editor and played ... the re-colouring showed up in the background gfx. The ... I'll put it up in the current projects section of ... />
    _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz April 2004 Games
  • I have a hacked version of SCUBA DIVE, called TREASUREHello guys. I have modified and hacked or cloned version of game SCUBA DIVE of Durell. Made by Andromeda Inc. and call TREASURE. Several years ago…

    ... data in Taper they are the same size. However the BASIC is different in ... .

    In the BASIC it refers to "S/ ... table which is present in both of them.
    Similar titles in this vein can be found ... usual renamed games released in a non-UK country ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker May 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • 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 …

    ... caution for those going in for compiled BASIC. It works a treat ... specific compiler. That is, write a proper BASIC program. Make a copy ... , you still have the old BASIC program (that works) to fall ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2004 Games
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