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Just wrote my first useful working Speccy BASIC program in years...A nice UK National Lottery number generator. And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replace…
A nice UK National Lottery number generator.
And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replacement (i.e. using 48 of the 49 numbers from 1 to 49) without repeating any number twice.
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Name this game, please (kids game)Hi! Second game what i looking for is game for kids. I remember one nice and funny game look really friendly. Most colors is yellow, you play as pe…
... smooth scrolling and tracking player position.
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Game engine design, graphic format?Having never written a game engine before, I'm in need of a little advice on the best way to store the game map. Its 512 x 896 map, 4-way scrolling,…
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The Press Are Rather UnderhandedI was going to call this thread "The Press = Scum", but I'll let you judge for yourselves. The News of the World has a story on it's site going on a…
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ghosts?right then. about a month ago I started noticing that despite turning my oven off every time I use it without fail - the big red switch on the wall (…
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So... you want to format your 3.5" as 720K eh?Well, i've been trying to get hold of an application to make proper use of my 3.5" +3 floppy disks but i haven't been able to find any. I stumbled up…
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ZX Certified... Not.Poop. I is crap. We are sorry, but you did not pass. Your score was 45.00%, while the required score is 70% Your subcategory scores are as follows:…
... programming: 20.00%
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400+ games for saleHiya! I'm likely to be moving house in the New Year so rather than try and sell my Spec tapes bit by bit on eBay as I have been doing, I'm having to…
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Pole Position - Datasoft/US Gold
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data waiting (if indeed that is the name)I've been taking a look at the Spectrum ROM Disassembly by Drs. Logan and O'Hara but admittedly I still need do my bit of assembly study before I can…
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(not quite as) Nice PhoneMy dad brought me a phone home from his latest work trip to the Caribbean, so I am now the proud owner of one of these: [URL]http://alistairsserver.n…
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[Discussion] Planned corrections to: The Complete Spectrum ROM DisassemblyOk, folks. Since I'm not obtaining replies from those involved in the previous effort to transcribe The Complete Spectrum ROM Disassembly, I'm going …
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Need video editing softwareA friend of mine has got a new DVD recorder to replace his ailing VCR (well, not replace exactly, we've still kept the VCR for playback of course), a…
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Analogue BeeperThere's been a discussion on foro.speccy.org about multichannel beeper stuff, and since I had the camera out and the scope set up, I set about demons…
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BASin Assembler suggestionsHi Dunny. According to your former request here goes a few suggestions. Been playing around with the Assembler and I'm glad I did. Quite nice indeed…
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[*]Assembly editors are usually simple affairs ... would gladly welcome into BASin assembly editor:[LIST]
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[BASin] Bug report and question[B]1. Bug report:[/B] BASIC Editor behavior I'm using a variable to store the contents of the BC register. But the BASIC editor works strangely. I t…
... the following (@ represents my cursor position):
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Understanding the StackSorry folks. I guess I'm going to be a pain for a little while. Hope it's ok with everyone. I'm currently studying the stack and wrote the little pr…
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What do you make of the Manchester City/Kaka would-be transfer?Personally as a fan of the team at the foot of the Premiership and who have virtually no money to spend I say good luck to them. Yes, it's an obscen…
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Thinking in Assembly (first efforts)The following is one small routine to educate myself on a few concepts (jumps, flow control, routines, CPI): [code]searchmem xor a …
The following is one small routine to educate myself on a few concepts (jumps, flow control, routines, CPI):
[code]searchmem
xor a ; a = 0
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Keyboard Input$/scan problemHi, I'm finally fulfilling my promise to get a reasonable understanding of the Speccy and embarking upon attempting a few simple routines in Assembl…
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First attempt at coding a game in assemblyRight.... I've knocked up something with basic graphics using TommyGun/Spin and Pasmo... It's not strictly a game, mainly cos I don't have any baddi…
Right.... I've knocked up something with basic graphics using TommyGun/Spin and Pasmo...
It's not strictly a game, mainly cos I don't have any baddies in it yet... :)
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Assembly Using a Windows PC Development BlogI am going to try and document my progress in developing a new game for the Spectrum by means of a blog. [URL]http://zxspectrumdev.blogspot.com/[/U…
I am going to try and document my progress in developing a new game for the Spectrum by means of a blog.
[URL]http://zxspectrumdev.blogspot.com/[/URL]
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How does the Speccy deal with the Character Set?Hi All, Can anyone spare a little time to explain to me the basic Assembly method of how the Speccy interprets and retrieves Characters to print on …
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Most Notorious Multiplayer Gaming Glitches[url]http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/02/05/the-5-most-notorious-multiplayer-gaming-glitches/[/url] The 5 Most Notorious Multiplayer Gaming Glit…
... be cut short so his position would not be reset after ... back to his original attack position.
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FUSE fails to save "Bytes:" files that can be converted to .tapI have been running FUSE with the OCP Assembler loaded. When I save the Assembly listing from OCP, I see border colour and noise of a proper save. So…
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Dynamite Dan/Rod BowkettI'm surprised no-one's mentioned this before, but in this month's Retro Gamer, there is the interview with Rod Bowkett. I was looking forward to this…
... Spectrum, and beginning to learn assembly, to him finishing Dynamite Dan ... , as well as teaching himself assembly from scratch, in just six ... -
INPUT magazineDid anyone else have this magazine back in day, I did. Spent hours typing in the examples and it did helped me develop me a few techniques in basic a…
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Which tools did developers use to create classic Spectrum games?Does anybody know which tools developers used in classic Spectrum game development? I tried to search web, but unfortunately didn't find anything hel…
... have years of experience in assembly language).
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Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... week that is in [B]assembly language[/B]
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What happened to...A thread for the old ideas that are still hanging around on the forum somewhere. I'll start with that Zelda-esque game that somebody drew a nice map…
... , possible a demo of the z88dk sprite lib.
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