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  • SDP Project ExpandingHi folks, The next Vault update isn't going to see that many +3 disks, due to poor interest. However, I've still managed to source some disks for t…

    ... combine the raw disk data in the IPF file with ... protection descriptions in the IPF file to produce data that ... /protection were mastered - in the 16-bit era.< ... to know "how" to write data to be able to ... in the library? Absolutely not, I meant it produces the data ...
    fiath fiath July 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • SMAX - My Spectrum Killer App that never quite materialisedThis is basically a copy of my post to CSS, for anyone that doesn't read the group:- One or two of you may, if you have particularly good memories, …

    ... merge the two. TommyGun in its new form, unlike ... if people are willing to write plugins for it. her ... will write tutorials on using it, ... plus he and i will write one which is a step ... ( i did get kinda close in basic though ;) except it had much ...
    Sadako Sadako July 2004 Development
  • Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …

    ... Will be very similar in ways that it is ... of difficulty with the basic having to page stuff ... and also any blocks stored in string$ such as Arr$ ... when loading there is no data in String$ that has to ... to pure basic, without having lots of stuff stored in string$ ...
    CKay CKay August 2004 Development
  • lambourne cricket gamesI am a recent convert to retro games and the zx emulators. I remember playing a cricket game which is the lambourne games cricket 1991 but when I run…

    ...
    Cricket Player [I][B]Data[/I][/B] Cassette All Time ...
    Cricket Player [I][B]Data[/I][/B] Cassette All Time ... />
    Soccer Rematch Data Cassette 1 (released in 1994)

    ... the data cassettes fine and you get the 'Nonsense in BASIC' message ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous August 2004 Games
  • Any Windows based Spectrum Progam makersHi. I am looking for a game maker that i can use to make spectrum software. If possible could it not be a code typing in program and Windows based. T…

    ... these you usually need to write some scripts or claculate your ... games were and are done in BASIC. If speed becomes an issue ... what it won't ) and write BASIC programs to suit it and ... a more powerful BASIC like Laser Basic or Beta Basic among others.
    Sadako Sadako August 2004 Development
  • An emulator(another on of my projects) Does anyone know how to write an emulator? The emulated computer is very simple (a MK14, infact -also by Sir Clive) and a…

    ... Does anyone know how to write an emulator" aren't exactly ... guv) doing it in good old Master Basic with MasterDos ( ... no problems with doing it in Basic... but will need some ... /> That`s heaven to a basic coder :)

    --------------------------------
    CKay CKay August 2004 Development
  • An emulator(another on of my projects) Does anyone know how to write an emulator? The emulated computer is very simple (a MK14, infact -also by Sir Clive) and a…

    ... there is only SAM Basic (which more or less ... IS Beta Basic v5), then MasterBasic (with ... there`s anyone in the SAM community to write a compiler :( ... about and do most anything in Basic - so I doubt a ... pixel and setting it in that way... Would that ...
    CKay CKay August 2004 Development
  • PokesDoes anyone know where I can find a list of Pokes for my Speccy games? I am trying to find some for On the Bench ! Thanks

    ... 've merged all of the data (but not run it), and ... the team names are setup in BASIC, it should be fairly easy ... to edit in BASin, and save it back ...
    hackersanon hackersanon September 2004 Games
  • PokesDoes anyone know where I can find a list of Pokes for my Speccy games? I am trying to find some for On the Bench ! Thanks

    ... as long to change the data "manually" in the listing as it ... would to do it "in-game".
    I recommend you ... is to make doing things in BASIC a lot more convenient and ...
    jil jil September 2004 Games
  • Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…

    ... one-joke 3-lines-of-BASIC effort either...[/quote]
    < ... />

    for wire frame in Basic and that balance between detail ... " game of this nature written in BASIC. That is why it is ... crap. DUH - THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE!


    [quote]
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • Best emulator to use for type-insHi Everyone, I have loads of spectrum basic / mc code I had written when I was at school - some cool stuff, I'd like to type it in (from 4" silver p…

    ... asm routines for enhancing your BASIC code. It will not be ... a BASIC program, which is nothing but a collection of DATA statements ... ins that have machine code DATA statements in BASIC programs. It's easy ... to type in the wrong thing, ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2004 Emulators
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... couldn't be arsed to write their own sprite routines -- ... also made a Basic Lightning for doing games in Basic and something called ... since IDEAL can be used in Basic programs also and the Spectrum ... as fast as regular Spectrum Basic.


    [quote ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • Screen$Is there a quick way to get pictures off a PC e.g. from MS Paint, onto the spectrum without having to type in each individual pixel before saving the…

    ... 't necessarially have to be in BASIC this means that screens does ... loaders might load the data for the screen in an unsual manner ... (for example, loading the attribute data in a fancy way).

    data is just in another part of memory ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Original ZX Basic Manual in *.pdf formatDoes anybody knows where to get original Sinclair ZX Spectrum Basic Programming Manual written by Steven Vickers and Robin Bradbeer in *.pdf format? …

    ... write any Spectrum software though?

    She wrote these gems in BASIC ... which many of us have typed in.

    Geoff Geoff October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How do I save to tape, as it wereSo I've written my game, I've written a loading screen, I want to now put everything together with a loader etc so that it is the same as loading str…

    Yeah, just use Spectacular/SPIN, 'insert' a tape, and save your data from BASIC in the order you want. 'Eject' the tape by saving the TZX file and you're done.
    cyborg cyborg October 2004 Development
  • world of beebI wish someone would make a website similar to WOS for the beeb, there is stairway to hell but I don't really like the layout and I can't find anythi…

    ... rooms, with a PC in practically every classroom. The ... they were easy to program in Basic, and had an A ... used to collect the data from our self-made ... of the least popular computers in the country, outside of ... academia back in the 1980s. Perhaps they ...
    MattLamb MattLamb November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OT: World Exclusive - US Election. I call Kerry.Yes folks, here it is another WOS world exclusive, John Kerry has won the US election! it's been a close race, but renouned one man news angency Sha…

    ... are no longer in your private room when you write on a ... to a completely avoidable war in Iraq based on a pack ... /> America just voted him back in, and you're offended because ... />
    _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    mel the bell mel the bell December 2004 Games
  • ZX Spectrum 3.5 Floppy help and adviceGod I'm useless. Can I please ask for some serious advice here as I'm just too uneducated to get anywhere with this! The Problem. I want to be abl…

    ... the hole opposite the read/write tab.
    [/quote]

    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum 3.5 Floppy help and adviceGod I'm useless. Can I please ask for some serious advice here as I'm just too uneducated to get anywhere with this! The Problem. I want to be abl…

    [quote]
    On 2004-12-07 12:35, Steve Parry-Thomas wrote:
    Quazar Quazar December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 ...
    Collie Collie December 2004 Games
  • MemoryI am writing a game for the Spectrum and need to store a lot of map data. What is the lowest address I can start to store the data at ?

    ... - 24063 System variabels and BASIC-program to load ZX81games even ... BASIC-program to load from you can always store data in ... the printerbuffer and when running MC switch the data with the BASIC ... -code , storing the BASIC in the ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2004 Development
  • UnityI know it's not Speccy related, but I've just read on Jeff Minter's forum at [url="http://www.yakyak.org"]www.yakyak.org[/url] that the UNITY project…

    ... .S. Im wanking as I write this.
    [/quote]


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    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • UnityI know it's not Speccy related, but I've just read on Jeff Minter's forum at [url="http://www.yakyak.org"]www.yakyak.org[/url] that the UNITY project…

    ... .S. Im wanking as I write this.
    [/quote]


    _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... , then, could you compile basic code using a 128k machine ... sit comfortable in 128k allowing more free space for basic code, upto ... 256k, then you could write anything with basic and still convert it ... with the compiler in memory ...
    AD-RS1600i AD-RS1600i January 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Games ClubWould anybody be interested in starting a games club (a bit like richard and judy's book club) each week we nominate one game for the members to play…

    ... with that opinion has to write a couple of sentences why ... 're all well-versed enough in the art of speccy gaming ... />
    _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz February 2005 Games
  • 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…

    The thing is, games written in BASIC are rubbish. Compilers can make ... question, why not just write it all in assembler?

    Just ...
    AndyC AndyC March 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... , you're looking at something in the background and judging the ... it's not possible to write good games in BASIC is ridiculous.
    Rael Rael March 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... 's not possible to write good games in BASIC is ridiculous.
    [/quote ... name countless great games written in assembler.

    At a ... maybe 2 playable games written in BASIC, certainly nothing un-put-downable ...
    AndyC AndyC March 2005 Development
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