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  • SAM Revival issue 24 now out![url=http://www.samcoupe.com] [img]http://www.samcoupe.com/2013/24.jpg[/img] [/url] It's about time... Yes, it's back! Yes, it's been a long time! S…

    ... thing were you thinking of writing in Basic?

    Actually I do ...
    DavidB DavidB July 2013 Announcements
  • Designing an icon-driven adventure: looking for adviceHi fellas, after the release of Funky Fungus, I am currently contemplating the possibility of designing an icon-driven adventure with location graph…

    ... window with basic directions - N S E W and in / out ... url]

    Writing an icon driven adventure in BASIC would not be ... Machine Code routines in it. Doing this from BASIC is not ... explains about passing parameters from BASIC to Machine Code, but ...
    dmsmith dmsmith July 2013 Development
  • Hardware description - MB-02+ interfaceOn this thread will soon released info about MB-02+ idisk interface ( memory paging mechanism, list of ports, addressing, MB IDE, schematics, etc... …

    ... only / log.1 enable writing to external memory
    ... page number 7 with enable writing.
    - OUT 23 ... page number 0 with enable writing.
    - OUT 23, ... emulation. Is possible enable writing to this page via ... rom via one OUT command in basic. (OUT 23,64+5 ...
    velesoft velesoft August 2013 Hardware
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    ... , but because of tiny mistakes in the hand-assembled code which ... I ended up writing my own assembler in BASIC in order to help me ... could really make any strides in getting somewhere. I'm not ... someone here can point you in the right direction.

    AndyC AndyC August 2013 Development
  • Converting Basic code into machine codeIm just interested to know if I can converter a game I've written in basic into Machine code, Is their a program that can do this??

    ... a game I've written in basic into Machine code, Is their ... would suggest re-writing it in Boriel's ZX Basic. The syntax is ... very close to standard Sinclair BASIC and the output will be ... on original hardware use HiSoft BASIC, but be prepared to declare ...
    chev chev September 2013 Development
  • zxgraphSite [URL="https://sites.google.com/site/zxgraph/"]zxgraph[/URL] was created for Spectrum graphic artists and music composers to exhibit their work a…

    ... would like to use my music in your game, please contact me ... ! I would like to avoid writing pages for other people (the ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2013 Announcements
  • SoftPLAY: Use the PLAY command from 48 BASICNow you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B]PLAY[/B] command. Just use [B]PRINT #8;[/B] instead. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/So…

    ... br /> Impressive feat there, both in concept and execution!!!...
    < ... I just got interested in the PLAY command syntax ... more use of this music format now in BASIC demos...!!!!...

    in responsiveness and speed - ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil October 2013 Brand new software
  • What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […

    ... notoriously difficult to get right in platform games, though if the ... [I]Gauntlet[/I] type game in BASIC. Maybe something like that (or ... I could perhaps write the basic graphics and joystick input engine ... could have a crack at writing a 16K gaming module for ...
    joefish joefish October 2013 New game ideas
  • New game: PYROMANIA-TRIED BY FIREWell this has been already annouced by R-tape. I posted this just to help people making the 2013 game list [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/foru…

    ... noticed, the game would gain in strategy besides keeping your reflexes ... it contains code of games in basic and some of the characters ... issues you mention do happen in these games. Using some ... arcade action elements and chiptune music. You can see this video ...
    hikoki hikoki November 2013 Brand new software
  • New game: PYROMANIA-TRIED BY FIREWell this has been already annouced by R-tape. I posted this just to help people making the 2013 game list [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/foru…

    ... noticed, the game would gain in strategy besides keeping your reflexes ... it contains code of games in basic and some of the characters ... issues you mention do happen in these games. Using some ... arcade action elements and chiptune music. You can see this video ...
    gabriele amore gabriele amore November 2013 Brand new software
  • A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…

    ... to use it is writing not in assembler but in some C (???)[/QUOTE ... be used in Assembly, C (z88dk) or Boriel's ZX BASIC. It ... you will program in Assembly, read the comments in "NIRVANA.asm".
    in Boriel's ZX BASIC, read the comments in "nirvana.bas ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas November 2013 Brand new software
  • Mountains of Ket - Written in Basic?Was Mountains of Ket written in Basic? And if so is there any way to break into it? The parser's pretty impressive, I want to see how it was done.

    ... likely that part is done in MC.[/QUOTE]

    If ... with the idea of writing a text adventure in Basic. Urban Upstart's ... do a reasonably complex one in Basic. I'm not so sure ...
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause November 2013 Games
  • Mountains of Ket - Written in Basic?Was Mountains of Ket written in Basic? And if so is there any way to break into it? The parser's pretty impressive, I want to see how it was done.

    ... with the idea of writing a text adventure in Basic. Urban Upstart's ... do a reasonably complex one in Basic. I'm not so sure ... make very complex adventure games in Basic entirely.

    There are ...
    Timmy Timmy November 2013 Games
  • Mountains of Ket - Written in Basic?Was Mountains of Ket written in Basic? And if so is there any way to break into it? The parser's pretty impressive, I want to see how it was done.

    Like an idiot I've started writing an adventure in Basic. So far it has 4 locations and you can go move between. There's 3 items that you can pick up. You can't do anything else at the moment.

    Why am I doing this?! :D
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause November 2013 Games
  • IF1bis vs SpectranetSince I will shortly have access to both an IF1bis (which I've bought) and a Spectranet (thanks to a loan from cmonkey), I will be in a position to g…

    ... />
    Although writing a TCP/IP stack, from scratch, in PIC18 assembly ... , is more interested in playing rather than typing-in BASIC commands.

    Dan Antohi Dan Antohi December 2013 Hardware
  • Why?I'm just wondering why people are here? Why are we working on or using old hardware? Why are some of you putting a lot of effort in upgrading the ha…

    ... I'm seriously thinking about writing a machine code game or ... spent all my time writing little games in BASIC for the fun of ... round. I was still writing little games in BASIC, but now they had ... surprised that people are still writing games for the Spectrum today ...
    gkmac gkmac December 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Pseudo-3D map renderingHave been mulling this over for a while, until that isometric thread prompted me to ask. I'm not sure if this is officially classed as 2D, 2.5D, or 3…

    ... abandoned) of Bomb Munchies was in the style of the screen ... was my first test of writing something in machine code, but it ... screen, masking , adding sprite and writing it back to the screen ... .cgi?id=0026575[/url] (compiled BASIC)
    which is character based ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins January 2014 Development
  • Outputting debug trace to RS232 (assembly)Hi Guys, I'm working on a game at the moment (written in assembly) but I am really needing to write out a debug trace of what is going on with the p…

    ... the emulator will simply be writing to stream to file ... works, and IF1 pages in but it crashes (RST ... 30 at 00BCh in IF1 ROM) and returns ...
    I could go "start in BASIC" route but having to write ... a string of BASIC before doing the appropriate ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz January 2014 Development
  • Spectrum Assembly Language Course (Honeyfold)Another MIA found. [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007969"]Spectrum Assembly Language Course[/URL] [URL="http://www.mediafi…

    ... and people here could fill in the lessons that their knowledge ... setting up and emulator, writing a simple basic program, using variables etc ... of it to keep it in a common style. That edit ... the understanding of knowledge imparted in that lesson.

    ...
    David Jones David Jones January 2014 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…

    ... - Hit Squad (without music)/Musical 1 (with music)
    [*]Cobra - ... Top Gun - Hit Squad (without music)
    [*]Tornado Low Level - ... 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 1500:3" error after the ... 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 22:1" error after the ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2014 Games
  • Best game writte in BasicThere's probably already a thread about this but who cares. I'm going for Rebelstar raiders.

    Possibly a football management game, a lot of those were written in BASIC but i'm going for 'The Biz' a music management game that i quite like.
    zx1 zx1 March 2014 Games
  • Games With Music? (Song written for them)I only know to these - Mostly Sensible Software [youtube]GtcZmyULZjo[/youtube] [youtube]BAVqOBCHxkM[/youtube] [youtube]Oe5hLhHXo6g[/youtube] [yo…

    ... piece of sh*t written in BASIC had the game on one ... guy who wrote it's music on the other side.
    in)

    [youtube]Uo3eg1ws7Sc[/youtube ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek March 2014 Chit chat
  • From RAM to dim v$() "video buffer" SPEED UP!Hi! This question is related to "quick RAM copy using LET in Basic" ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44296[/url]). Wel…

    ... tad tricky to do quickly in BASIC. I'm pondering ...[/QUOTE]
    I'm actually thinking about writing this routine into machine code ... original idea of ​​writing the game exclusively on Basic pure ...

    Hark0 Hark0 March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Questions about Vortex Tracker II exported songsHi, I have been experimenting with Vortex Tracker II lately and have a couple of questions. By exporting the song to TAP format, a file is generated…

    In short, player do two things: ... sec, song is heard.
    In basic you would do 1 rand ... : pause 1:goto 1
    In asm, you can transcript it ... from useless waiting.
    Im writing from my phone, will have ...
    catmeows catmeows March 2014 Development
  • The official CSSCGC 2014 threadJust to announce that the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2014 is now open. It's home for the year will be; [url]http://www.mykeweb.co.uk/c…

    You know how, in my Advanced David Moyes Simulator ... Without a Cause[/B] for writing a half-decent Football Management ... have looked out of place in the Classified Ads of Spectrum ... the game was written entirely in BASIC and then compared listings?
    MykeP MykeP March 2014 Games
  • How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…

    ... speccy in 2000 and something, after already having seen BASIC on ... the BBC Micro. I dabbled with writing c ... .g.c entries etc in BASIC but never ... once it clicks in your brain. Writing machine code in decimal notation just ...
    guesser guesser March 2014 Development
  • How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…

    ... of 10, and I typed in BASIC listings from magazines. Then we ... then I was already writing bits of BASIC but the moment I ... coding on the BBC Micro in BASIC (the pinnacle of the language ... of the Z80, and recently writing a utility to compress and ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay March 2014 Development
  • The official CSSCGC 2014 threadJust to announce that the comp.sys.sinclair Crap Games Competition 2014 is now open. It's home for the year will be; [url]http://www.mykeweb.co.uk/c…

    ... MykeP;759231]You know how, in my Advanced David Moyes Simulator ... Without a Cause[/B] for writing a half-decent Football Management ... have looked out of place in the Classified Ads of Spectrum ... the game was written entirely in BASIC and then compared listings?
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause March 2014 Games
  • New game and need some helpdoes anyone have a menu in ADG as an example I could use. (Event code) I have a new game complete other than bug testing. When I test my game with …

    ... then use the CONTROLMENU command in your event. The player ... in version 4.0. If you save your game with a BASIC ... you'll be writing your own BASIC or MC loader/ ... menu system and returns to BASIC at the end. I ... to write his own BASIC menu code in his games.
    jonathan jonathan March 2014 Chit chat
  • New game and need some helpdoes anyone have a menu in ADG as an example I could use. (Event code) I have a new game complete other than bug testing. When I test my game with …

    ... then use the CONTROLMENU command in your event. The player ... in version 4.0. If you save your game with a BASIC ... you'll be writing your own BASIC or MC loader/ ... system and returns to BASIC at the end. I ... to write his own BASIC menu code in his games.[/QUOTE]
    Dazman Dazman March 2014 Chit chat
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