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  • im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.

    i know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.
    digital digital July 2018 Development
  • im trying to get the name of a simple puzzle gameit has a really small game area, about a quarter of the screen and it is on a white background. you play a smiley face that moves around and collect …

    ... like it could have been written in basic
    digital digital January 2019 Games
  • Beta-Loader (boot Loader for Betadisk) updated to v3Hi, I´ve updated original Version from unknown author of "Beta-Loader". This is a program written in BASIC as boot menu for BetaDisk / TR-DOS Disk…

    ... -Loader". This is a program written in BASIC as boot menu for BetaDisk ...
    Luzie Luzie January 2020 Software
  • Randomised data samplingHere is something that could be written in BASIC, if anyone is interested. Lets say we want to sample a subset of a larger population, we can do t…

    ... is something that could be written in BASIC, if anyone is interested.< ...

    This short BASIC program fills a population table ... then prints this distribution out in coloured 'O's - Red ... array because eache element in a numerical array takes ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Making a speccy-like text-adventure for WindowsWell, I downloaded an adventure creator for Windows 95/98 from: [url]www.adrift.org.uk[/url] and I just thought I'd recommend it, just in case any …

    ... Speccy adventures were written in BASIC so surely using Visual Basic is a option ...
    Chris Chris August 2001 Games
  • INPUT magazine.Howdy folks! Does anyone know of an online archive of this early programming mag? I'd like to get my hands on the issue which had a random maze gene…

    Need. one???

    I have them self written in BASIC or MC.

    Just mail me!
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • HELP me, racing game fans. I have drawn a picture!Hi. What's this racing game. ' Can you see the picture???? <img>http://www.angelfire.com/music/badboysblue/zx.gif</img> If not go to <url>http://w…

    Crazy Drive looks similar. But this game really sucks, I don't think anybody could want it. It was written in BASIC maybe.
    Anonymous Anonymous March 2002 Games
  • Books on Programming (ZX Assembler )Before you ask I trawl eBay on a daily/hourly basis. Any books in VGC wanted on programming games for the ZX Spectrum 48K. No creased, defaced or mi…

    ... Kay Ewbank consisting of 21 games in Basic at ?5
    49 Explosive ... consisting of 24 games listings in Basic at ?3
    In addition two books ... in good condition and complete ...
    mpaulj mpaulj March 2002 Wanted
  • can anyone remember?....................hi, can anyone remember the first game and last game to be released that came out for the zx spectrum and by which software firm? :)

    ... .

    Y'see people in some countries are still making ... ZX spectrum clones.

    In the UK the last pieces ... 'through the wall' a game written in basic on the Horizons tape that ...
    Anonymous Anonymous June 2002 Games
  • Loading Lord of the RingsHi I've got a new copy of the Lord of the Rings adventure game. it loads as far as completing the load screen graphics, but wont load any further. Th…

    ... quicker if it had been written in BASIC ?

    Do Balrogs have ...
    dave_beer_uk dave_beer_uk October 2002 Games
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... unfortunatly. I was born in 1986) but I have ... 't read 48k Spellbound in TZX format on a ... The aim of this project in the first place was ... what was left behind in the Z80 machines. Because ... -bit OS written in Z80. Actually it was written in Basic and translated ...
    Takashi64 Takashi64 October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... 8-bit OS written in Z80. Actually it was written in Basic and translated ... programming tip to compile from BASIC!??! I'll stick to ...
    Can you actually program in assembly? What would XOR A ... you're writing your software in BASIC and then compiling it... ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... a catch the ball in a bucket written in Basic.

    2) ... 3) A text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped by Peter ...
    4) 4 text adventures written with The Quill. 1 of ... conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in a book. 1 ...
    Arjun Arjun December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... a catch the ball in a bucket written in Basic.

    2) ... 3) A text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped by Peter ... conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in a book. 1 ... game in a ONELINER.

    ad 2) See BASIC program ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    I made some few very basic and uninteresting games, all in Basic.

    A ... game

    A very basic AI game with my girlfriend ...
    FranciscoVasco FranciscoVasco December 2002 Games
  • Money!How much money do you think Kevin Toms made from the Football Manager series? I only ask because I imagine if he sold the units today that he sold ba…

    ... /> It was a dire game written in BASIC (with 1 small MC routine ... writing the excellent Ethnipod (available in the archive, great Cybernoid type ...
    Neil^P Neil^P March 2003 Games
  • WOS forumers,.. doy you prefer PC or Mac?maybe youll find a bit stupid question actually but Im curious... which you prefer??

    ... convert images to SCR format in about 30ms ;).
    [/quote]
    written in Basic, but 160ms is not bad ... hope, this will not end in a flamme war against Mac.
    LCD LCD April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WOS forumers,.. doy you prefer PC or Mac?maybe youll find a bit stupid question actually but Im curious... which you prefer??

    ... ;)! I realise BMP2SCR Pro is written in BASIC and an awesome job it ...
    JamesW JamesW April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Worst game - sort ofAny suggestions for worst game - but not just worst game period - the worst game that has had a lot of work go into it and ought to have been good, b…

    What about Voyage into the Unknown by Mastertronic. It was totally awful though I am sure that it crashed anyway after a while and was written in BASIC.

    I don't remember liking Rambo that much which I bought on the back of the license.
    Scoops Scoops May 2003 Games
  • FifthDon't know if this is the right forum, but anyway... Anyone remember a Basic extension called "Fifth"? It was supposed to enhance game programming. R…

    ... compared to betabasic or laser basic, especially white lightning ( forth ... it would make those complex games done in basic, that on the surface ... look like machine coded games ... that can be done in regular basic. it might have been ...
    Amigo Amigo June 2003 Games
  • Favourite latest generation consolesDisregarding previous consoles, out of today's big three, which console do you prefer? Gamecube? PS2? or Microsoft Halo-player? I'm wildly predi…

    ... any other console, quality of games are getting better and better ... spectrum from games done in basic which were blocky to such games groundbreaking if ... by the fact i like games like Resident Evil, Tomb ... we all still be playing games, i think so, basically ...
    Collin Addie Collin Addie June 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Hacking Gamesdoes anyone remember those hacking style games? i think they got popular on magazine coverdisks for a few months. you know, they are a bit like the h…

    ... strange game, text only, and written in BASIC, but was surprisingly good.
    chaosmongers chaosmongers October 2003 Games
  • POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…

    ... Island'.
    It's actually written in BASIC with a neat little MC ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…

    ... /> I played it but not in the original version. It was ... consider that it was entirely written in BASIC.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2003 Games
  • Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…

    WOW, the whole game was written in Basic??
    I have to take my hat off to those programmers. It has to be the most taxing game i have ever played though.
    Castor_ Castor_ December 2003 Games
  • Does Anybody remember The Abyss??? It was a tough little cookie of a game. The entire screen was filled with what looked like chicken-wire. Every section of the wire you came acros…

    ... difficult) strategy/management game set in the last years of the ... free on a SU Megatape in May 1989.

    Apart ... cannot remember any worthwhile game written in BASIC...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2003 Games
  • your favourite adventureWe all must have played text adventures on our speccys,i loved them even tho i only ever finished about 3 in my life. Anyway what was your favorite t…

    ... was [I]Ghost Town[/I] - in an "unofficial" Italian version named ... solve the puzzles! Written in BASIC and with some very basic (no pun intended ... now due to my interest in emulation. Anyway, I remember having ... out of the rest room in [I]Behind Closed Doors[/I ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2004 Games
  • Over the hill?Seem to recall a rock group management game with the above title, anyone remember it or know where I can get it?

    Could you remember some other details? Was it a simple simulation written in BASIC, or a more complex game? Any hints about the developer/publisher? About the time of release?
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Over the hill?Seem to recall a rock group management game with the above title, anyone remember it or know where I can get it?

    It wasn't just written in basic, a little bit more sophisticated, but I don't remember the publishers name or much more detail. I borrowed it from a mate & I think it was on a pirate tape but I can't be sure.
    Grobber Grobber February 2004 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Platform vs BackgroundForgive my ignorance if this is a 'stoopid' question, but although I've written games for many platforms over the years I'm only now making my first …

    ... platform game, which was written in BASIC, i detected platforms from color ... faster, screen routines are slow (in BASIC). How to create model: for ...
    kmatveev kmatveev February 2004 Development
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