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Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
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For example the basic ROM writes to the attribute ... with the printing of characters in basic the following clashbasher commands ... ink colour using standard sinclair basic plot, draw and circle ... for my first attempt at writing a clashbasher script for ... -
Games with Plus3/Disk enhancementsFor about 95% of games of +3 disk, it was simply the tape version with the only benefit being reduced loading times. However, there were a few excep…
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-DynastyWars - Intro + AY music
-Football Director 2 ... - the game is mostly written in BASIC).
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What tune from a 48K game sounds like this?I was listening to this: [youtube]6ShPp2-16G8[/youtube] What interests me is what I hear betwen 1:09 and 1:20. Isn't there a game, probably by Ulti…
... the so-called "8 bit music" in their songs.
Hey ... ZX tracked music? I think I'm up to writing some. :-]
UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
Ah, well I was writing BASIC code on the +3 in Spectacular.
I always found BASIN a bit crashy and confusing.
I don't know how to load in custom fonts in BASIC.
My speccy BASIC knowledge isn't even up to CSSCGC levels, tbh! ;)Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
... back to basic with everything intact and continue writing in basic without having to ... with writing the game in 48k basic mode.
As you're writing in 128k basic ... you can save your basic ...Why is the scene less participative now? or at least, a bit hollow...I have found out in the last months, that despite of having a huge number of new games with a huge quality, a great number of hardware projects, and …
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[QUOTE]In the absence of the front ... even the simplest project written in Basic.
On the other hand ... be inferior. If you are writing your first game or demo ...Why is the scene less participative now? or at least, a bit hollow...I have found out in the last months, that despite of having a huge number of new games with a huge quality, a great number of hardware projects, and …
... even the simplest project written in Basic.
On the other hand ... be inferior. If you are writing your first game or demo ...ProTracker manual/instruction in English?Hello. A friend of mine would like to start making AY music on ZX Spectrum. In this purpose he'd like to have a ProTracker's instruction/guide/manu…
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Use -96 displacement in ornament for fix every note ... Loader:
Setups are in basic block:
5d3b, 5d3c = ...
Special commands (right column in every channel):
... br /> How to convert track (music channel) from Tempo=6 to ...Wanted: The Biz by Chris SieveyI've not had much success in this bit of the forum but I'll give it another go: Anyone got a (working!) copy of The Biz for sale?
... about the early 80's music scene, so that and the ... disc that I gave him in 2000.... well, its a lead ... a rather fascinating game, all in BASIC and flavoured with obscure punk ...Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
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I'm well versed in building and running Windows webservers ... looking at serving some very basic HTML for fun, and hopefully ... be as easy as writing a wee basic prog on the Spectrum ...Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
... looking at serving some very basic HTML for fun, and hopefully ... be as easy as writing a wee basic prog on the Spectrum ... simple and can be done in BASIC.
Documentation on ... handling sockets from BASIC is here [url]http://spectrum ...The end of the SpectrumWhat year is generally considered to be the last year commercial software was sold nationally in shops and stores? I think I abandoned my Speccy in …
... the Speccy obviously in terms of graphics. But in hindsight there ... a second hand Spectrum bought in approximately 1987 but when ... however, was launched in the UK in 1988 and was pretty ... multitude of sins behind BEEP music and BASIC programming - if it didn ...Your Spectrum RegretsSpeccy things that you have done (or haven't done) and have regretted them since. Here's mine... (in no particular order). 1) Sold my Spectrum 128K…
... sh**tty games in BASIC and a sh**ty music demo in machine code ... games
5. Loaded EVERYTHING in USR 0 mode
6 ...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 ...Simple text scrolling routine...I'm having trouble writing a very simple text scroller, the idea is to use the ROM printer routine to print 32 characters each time the routine is ca…
... considered how I do it in BASIC and then did something similar ... in assembler.
For daftness ... , which would be too slow in BASIC. Here it is, anyway. Note ... : defm "I'm having trouble writing a very simple text scroller ...non-sports management gamescan we get a list going of these? obvious one that springs to mind is Rockstar Ate My Hamster. I gather The Biz is another music based one but I've…
... gather The Biz is another music based one but I've ... is to reach number 1 in the charts, i made number ... be warned, it's written in BASIC.Worst purchaseThere's a lot of talk about the bestest games out there but which one was your worst purchase? I bought Barbarian II for the princely sum of ?10 (a …
... a full price game written in BASIC whose only redeeming feature was ... piece of 2 channel beeper music in the game menu.Worst purchaseThere's a lot of talk about the bestest games out there but which one was your worst purchase? I bought Barbarian II for the princely sum of ?10 (a …
... a full price game written in BASIC whose only redeeming feature was ... piece of 2 channel beeper music in the game menu.[/QUOTE]
What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
... and start any Speccy game in a matter of seconds. Also ... users could have fun writing simple programs in BASIC and saving them as ... keyboard was the right project in the wrong hands, and now ... Vega is the wrong project in the right hands :(Early thoughts about creating a text adventureSo I always wanted to create my own ZX Spectrum text adventure. I tried looking at PAWs and GAC, but frankly I'm probably too stupid to use them. I…
... used a variety of adventure writing systems (including FORTH and ... (and most other adventure writing programs I've heard of ... SCREEN$ images for graphics, in order to conserve memory. Instead ... of PLOT and DRAW commands in BASIC, but with more functions). ...Which emulators support ULA+Tried ZX Spin 7.0, but its unstable. Tried to drag and drop .scr files onto it, but it comes out all wrong. Don't understand the TAP file that's sp…
... you don't understand, try writing a little program to change ... the palette if you're writing a ULA+ game.[/QUOTE]
How do I go about writing such code?
All ... get is a TAP file in BASIC when I try to save ...Which emulators support ULA+Tried ZX Spin 7.0, but its unstable. Tried to drag and drop .scr files onto it, but it comes out all wrong. Don't understand the TAP file that's sp…
[QUOTE=daveysludge;805971]How do I go about writing such code?
All I get is a TAP file in BASIC when I try to save the palatte.[/QUOTE]
Try looking at scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/ulaplusSpeccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... Flashy presentation, smooth scrolling & music can enhance a game but ... Great graphics: Check!
Great music: Check!
Great gameplay: Nope ... Spectrum version is closer in terms of gameplay to ... that you thought was written in basic, the rest of the ...Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... Flashy presentation, smooth scrolling & music can enhance a game but ... Great graphics: Check!
Great music: Check!
Great gameplay: Nope ... Spectrum version is closer in terms of gameplay to ... that you thought was written in basic, the rest of the ...Specbas new game PacmanWell I have been beavering away at this for a bit and I am now happy with it. (nearly) it's not bad (even if I say so myself) [img]http://i699.phot…
... game starts and the music plays was OK, but ... had put every file in the right place, including ... br /> This is a bug in the multi threading sprite routine ... />
My basic skills are very basic, where people use lines ... I can do it in basic THEN so can everyone ...ZX games - music only / effects onlyYou know any ZX games using in main menu setup: MUSIC ONLY / SOUND EFFECTS ONLY ? I have one idea for Turbo Sound (2x AY chip) card. This games can …
... ZX games using in main menu setup:
MUSIC ONLY / SOUND EFFECTS ... chips. First AY for play music and second AY chip for ... very easy. Before loading game (in basic loader) can be detected TURBO ... if exist then active patch in game code for support both ...BASIC to Python - bringing a modern view on an 80's obsession...Howdy! I don't know how relevant this will be here, but I've just finished up a 3-part overview on my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic pr…
... be, if you were proficient in BASIC, then you don't need ... functions (GOSUB/DEF FN) than BASIC.
As for ... currently using Python and not BASIC for writing simple code only because ... I like writing functions and Python's abilities ...Trial version of CharAde graphics engine for Sinclair BASICA trial version of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">CharAde</span> graphics engine for Sinclair BASIC is now available. It consists of a block of …
... it says they should be in the manual.
writing everything in their 4x4 square area. ... draw sprites like the examples in the manual, using whole ... is finding other efficiencies in the code so that ... changing the manual and BASIC editor.Tritone WIP tunesTwo wip's I don't know what to do with. Free to use. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9498358/beepola/tritone/super70s.tap https://dl.dropbox…
Yes in Vortex Tracker.
Here' ... with the pt3 player and music in bank6. I used ZXSpin assembler ... you don't need the basic editor, remove rst $38 from ...1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... .org/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/s/SpyStory.gif[/ ... least a MSX version is in English. Not sure if ... are also 2 arcade sequences in the game. The Maze ... in a scramble/penetrator like game (a lot simpler tho, almost basic ... s even some beep-ed music in game too so it' ...
