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Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…
... I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then ... spectaculator to 128K mode and in basic type load "" with the ... to continue to develop in BASIC, then BASin is an ... spiffy - seeing real modernish games written in close to sinclair basic.
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Hunt the WumpusI converted the "Hunt the Wumpus" game from Texas Instrumenst TI99/4 to ZX Spectrum (Wilko Schr?ter wrote a different text-only version some years ag…
... to do tapes for "Yumiko in the Haunted mansion", so maybe ... the best modern ZX games, and it is written in Basic. Impossible!!! Also waiting ... -
Use of saving arrays ?I was wondering did much software (cannot think of any of the top of my head) make use of the facilities to save and load arrays ? :) I had to check…
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80% of it was written in BASIC and it was an amazing ... ://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-maps/d/DungeonMasterThe.png]build ... -
What was the first Spectrum game you bought.Mine was Technician Ted and Gift from the Gods. What were your first game you bought for the spectrum?
... games bought for me were Kong and an adventure game written ... by the Computer Cabin in Silverdale (they also ... mia it's definately not in the archive and I ... was written in basic), tended to rely on borrowing/swaps/being bought new games ... -
128k Basic used much ?Hi - I was wondering if there were many,if any, games programmed in 128k basic? I was also thinking of doing one myself as I wish to make a text heav…
... think there are many games written in 128K basic. Mainly because by then ... having a text-heavy game written in 128k basic, well, i don' ... 48k memory for all its BASIC programmes.
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Pinball by CODE MASTERSHi, i see that this game is not in the archives. Can i share it ? Its the best pinball game on the spectrum who doesnt know
... don't know why their games passed me by - I ... two or three Dizzy games through my cousins who ... as far as budget games go I always gravitated towards ... game you used to get written in BASIC in about 1983. It relies ... game that requires much in the way of strategy. -
Pinball by CODE MASTERSHi, i see that this game is not in the archives. Can i share it ? Its the best pinball game on the spectrum who doesnt know
... game you used to get written in BASIC in about 1983. It relies on ... challenging game that requires much in the way of strategy.[/QUOTE ... 've done for other denienced games. Better having a video than ... -
BASIC games.I remember back in the day, there was a way you could read through the BASIC of certain games, such as Football Manager or Johnny Reb. I can't rememb…
... could read through the BASIC of certain games, such as Football Manager ... I can find out which games were written in BASIC?[/QUOTE]
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Best game writte in BasicThere's probably already a thread about this but who cares. I'm going for Rebelstar raiders.
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Striker (think its mainly basic )
The Biz
Velnors ... lot of the management style games were in basic
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Best game writte in BasicThere's probably already a thread about this but who cares. I'm going for Rebelstar raiders.
... Manic Miner?) written in Basic. There were also some games made in Spain in the past ... few years, for a Basic compo ... played any games.
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Best game writte in BasicThere's probably already a thread about this but who cares. I'm going for Rebelstar raiders.
... Manic Miner?) written in Basic. There were also some games made in Spain in the past ... few years, for a Basic compo ... same, but I recall this BASIC competition a number of years ... -
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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It's written in basic with the plot routines from ... are written before the display bytes.
I wrote the basic ... will be useful for other games to hopefully. If it works ... I think it should then games that flicker can be improved ... -
DisappointmentsThink back to before you had your speccy... what were your major let-downs when you finally got your hands on one and realised that it couldn't do ev…
[QUOTE=Winston;759180]Joining in with this round of thread ... for a "simulator" (a game written in BASIC sold at full price!)
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Programming with an 8-year-oldI have promised to write a game with my 8-year-old son and was wondering what languages or tools to use. Does anyone have any suggestions? My own c…
Boriels ZX Basic Compiler is a very powerful ... fast. If you know Sinclair Basic, just forget the line numbers ... are a lot of new games written in ZX Basic. LCD made with Boride ... -
Re: Trying to find a game.I am hoping someone can help me regarding a game I use to play on the Spectrum 48k back in the early 1990's. I have been searching for a year without…
... with games/movies when I was sure I remembered them in a ... information that could aid you in finding the game. Like, publish ... as dots, it was probably written in BASIC, not in ASM code. Did you ... -
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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-The Untouchables has pictures in between loads
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-Circus Games - Has AY music.
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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 …
... mocking even the simplest project written in Basic.
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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 …
... politely complain that technically good games are no longer good ... about lack of originality in Spectrum games. It seems we're ... were very addictive games and they were both written in BASIC. A good game ... of "How to Write Spectrum Games"
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hyperthetical questionIf i was to remove the rom from a +128 or +2 and replace it with a 48k rom would the machine work and boot? if so would it still run 128k games im th…
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Change PAPER and BORDER colours from machine codeHow do you go about changing PAPER and BORDER colours from machine code? I've forgotten the system variables for border and paper.
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All my games are written in BASIC using UDG's and then ... -
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 …
... about lack of originality in Spectrum games. It seems we're ... shown in Slubberdegullion it's still one of my favourite games ... were very addictive games and they were both written in BASIC. A good ... of "How to Write Spectrum Games"
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Command and Conquer type game?Hey all One of my all time favourite games although not spectrum based, is the Command and Conquer series. I'm sure many of you are famailiar with…
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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…
... CSSCGC game has to be written in BASIC. :)
The 8 screenshots ... in the first SU article were actually games from our ... -
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…
... grainy screenshots of these 'original' games before hitting Google and Infoseek ... of 1944 whether it's written in BASIC, ASM, Quill or whatever ... -
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 …
... be a full price game written in BASIC whose only redeeming feature was ... of 2 channel beeper music in the game menu.[/QUOTE]
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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 …
... along gives me a headache in then minutes. I owned ... said many of times in this thread, it's ... Spectrum version is closer in terms of gameplay to ... game that you thought was written in basic, the rest of the ... br />
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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 …
... Spectrum version is closer in terms of gameplay to ... that you thought was written in basic, the rest of the ... />
How many games have you actually played by ... played/play lots of games. To me it seems ... />
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Which games would you remake? Or like to see a mockup of?We all have a list of titles that we know or felt was not good enough or simply rushed to market without thought or effort. So which titles would you…
... a number of great games that were written in BASIC - The Biz, Millionaire, Mad ... -
Oh MummyA game many CPC owners are familiar with as it came free with the £100 software pack withe CPC 464. A fun if limited little game. So when Amstrad …
... Amstrad needed to bundle some games in with the +2 they ... looks like it was coded in BASIC.
Anyone ... code? Is it indeed BASIC? Is there a story ... ]
It isn't written in BASIC, no. It has a ... evidence that it's compiled BASIC.
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Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…
A couple of crap games were really slow as I ... /> I think St Bernard was written in BASIC, but Mr Freeze, I've ... very slow (and I think written in BASIC) - but I didn't mind ... it quite a lot back in the day.
