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Worst graphics ever?There's (yet another) thread about the best Spectrum graphics, so here's one about the worst. Of course, if you want to be fair then a "worst" graphi…
... have been the only fish in a small pond. Still, porting ... about the Psion and DI games (flight sim and fighter pilot ... could have written this pile of dog-turd in BASIC back in the day ... -
W*H*BMany of you will know W*H*B from Bob Smith. For those that don't - what a game! One of the best puzzle games I have ever played. Some folks from WO…
... of the program was written in 13K or less then? ... currently playing, is resident in the working 48K, ... actively writing Spectrum games after Horace in the Mystic ... Woods last year, and moved onto the ZX81 ... more details. The ZX81 stuff has gone down ... -
The Sinclair Myth - New Scentist June 12 1986I thought you'd all find this particularly interesting, so I scanned it especially for the holidays! Merry Christmas! [url]http://www.zxdesign.info…
... was a toy. Coding in Basic and typing in programs was playing with ... computers, in embedded systems. Would you class the ZX80 and ZX81 as ... their users to programming than games? :)
I'm not ... see the Amiga as a games machine, but the teams of ... -
z88dk sticky?I've just tried to PM Alcoholics Anonymous and couldn't because "Alcoholics Anonymous has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot acc…
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The current stdio in z88dk supports one of two ... things have come up in the spectrum community in recent years, one ... current stdio can handle most basic things.
If ... that is about it. Most games written using z88dk (somewhere around two ... -
Two fingered gamesNifty Lifty, Crimebusters, Bug Eyes. I love games with simple two keyed controls like these*, can anyone name any other good ones worth investigating…
... you want two-button games. They got quite inventive ... from things like catch/bounce games, to traffic-dodging racing, ... those constantly-running Flash games on the web, where ... attempt at an action game in BASIC, though I never got ... needed that never got written. -
BASIC compilerI'm looking for a basic compiler that actually works, tried all the ones on the WOS archive and none of them seem to work... I'm only wanting to co…
... for the ability to use in line Assembly and expanding the ... binary operations (I missed that in Sinclair BASIC, and the workarounds are ... slow).
There are already some games written ... -
30 years ago today, launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum!Friday, April 23th 1982 - At a press conference at the Churchill Hotel, Clive Sinclair revealed to the world his new personal computer, the ZX Spectr…
... , joystick and loads of games on disk, going for ... celebrate, I've uploaded 2 games. They are:
in BASIC back in the late 80s/ ... br /> I'll upload these games to WOS later.
written in PAW, which I have ... -
Games translation to EnglishIn this thread will released translated games to English (for example Czech/Spanish games...) Here is first: [B]PEDRO NA OSTROVE PIRATOV[/B] origin…
... computers and, sometimes, in several ZX Spectrum word ... that lots of Speccy games from those lands ... yacht) for a game in BASIC which uses this kind of ... letters), the text is written in pure Russian. Pure, not ... actually busy making new games. The golden ages ... -
If The Spectrum Never Existed...Out of curiosity... Just say the Spectrum was never made, what computer would you have opted for as an alternative back in the early-mid 80s? BBC M…
... than just playing games forevermore. The games that were available wouldn ... to write my own games and stuff in Basic, after going through ... the examples presented in the ... program one friend had written that enabled you to ... -
dungeon crawlerHi. I'm toying with idea of making simple dungeon crawler in spectrum basic and i actually got first version working somehow. [IMG]http://watashi.ic.…
... .boriel.com/software/the-zx-basic-compiler/?lang=en[/url]
You can write in almost pure Sinclair basic, if you want. Or ... finally, there are even several games written using it, for which source ... 've written a bulk of a how to program in Boriel's Basic ... -
Official CSSCGC 2012 Competition Threadcsscgc2012 already got it's first entry (from R-Tape) :) So I'm almost forced to start the new official csscgc thread here. The official c.s.s Crap …
Mine are written in 100% basic. None of this machine code rubbish polluting my games! :) -
80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... releasing an interim zx81 model -- the 16k ts1500 in the spectrum ... the Missing 253' was written in Time Designs Magazine and investigated ... banks were to accommodate ROM (basic extensions or other languages), ... period only had a 16k zx81 to sell as Commodore ... -
Top 10 most important countries for the Spectrum game-wiseUsing infoseek with a little spare time and playing with the releases in each country, the results are somehow a little surprising, although I have u…
... it are amateur, little programs in Basic written around 1984 or some demoscene ... 't companies releasing commercial, quality games unfortunately:
[url]http ... Spectrum had a good start in Germany but it later and ... -
WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …
From ZX spectrum games master
Changes I ... fear is a limitation of basic.
4) ofcourse its ... /> Quite somthing that it is written in so few lines and yet ... -
EmuzWinHi folks I'm using EmuZWin and it's started running games super quick (not all games but some) I've tried messing around with speed settings but eve…
... in case you forgot them, allowing you to program like Visual basic ... and developing 256 colour Speccy games... And yes, I know ... but his emulator wasn't written in a vacuum - he had user ... timing accuracy, whether its intentionally written that way or not... ... -
Department of Culture - Consultation on Tax Breaks for Computer Games IndustryI see that the Department of Culture have now started the consultation process on how tax breaks for the computer games industry should work. See [u…
... operating systems (for example writing games in just 1K of memory, compared ... Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Sinclair ZX81, with several commercial and public ... points for games which are specifically written for computers and games consoles which ... -
Boriels ZX CompilerI'm trying to compile a very simple program and I keep getting the error: unexpected end of file. Here's my code: [CODE]10 cls 20: let n=0 22 do 2…
... able to actually code games which actually worked in any other language ... our choices then were built in BASIC or nothing. I rapidly ... is a substitute for well written logic, and it's a ... Because I spent years programming in BASIC on various machines, until I ... -
Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure? I used to quite enjoy tapping them in, seeing how …
... I first had a ZX81 I had recently pissed ... only play games that I had typed in. In theory this ... should now be working in the games industry, but that ... ) When I tried typing in games in BASIC I was, for what ... up 'playing' a few games that involved jumping over ... -
Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure? I used to quite enjoy tapping them in, seeing how …
... they were 'battleship games' 'space games' All 1k games, from a distant ... think I had Space Games and Battle Games. My school had ... honest I was already advanced in BASIC programming and they were ... the listings were modified for ZX81, Speccy, Commodore and BBC ... -
Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure? I used to quite enjoy tapping them in, seeing how …
... That was something that failed in my eyes - "single key ... help you load and play games quicker :lol: which wasn ... *. In the days of the 1K ZX80 and ZX81 that ... made a difference when programming in BASIC.
If ... did a lot of BASIC programming you got to ... -
adventure compilerThis is the project I've working on for the last week(?), but I realise I won't be able to work on anything Spectrum related for a while. So here's …
... did it (having only ever written adventure games in BASIC personally), but that is ... -
adventure compilerThis is the project I've working on for the last week(?), but I realise I won't be able to work on anything Spectrum related for a while. So here's …
... did it (having only ever written adventure games in BASIC personally), but that is ... adventure. It looks surprisingly easy, in that all the stuff like ... -
Best Spectrum game from 2012Please vote for the game you liked the most this last year.
Im amazed at how many games we made this year??!?!...
... tempted to vote for the games Iv contributed to, but ... UNretro, playing much like games that appeared much later than ... Haunted Mansion ) - it was written in ZX Borial basic, yet oozes with atmosphere ... -
Minimalist gamingI've been pretty hooked on Thomas Was Alone since it's release [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cksBGDiEudM&playnext=1&list=PL4475A4838AA8E809[/u…
... the game has 3 seperate games in 1K of tapedata.
games[/URL].
Most of them are contestants in the ... the games I code in 1K or just 1 line of BASIC (ONELINERS ... .com/zx81hires.html#/"]my ZX81 hires games[/URL] in just 1K of programmable ... -
MegaManZXMega Man for ZX Spectrum [center] [IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/2ho90rd.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinypic.com/dzt7bd.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i49.tinyp…
... re very good at creating games in compiled BASIC (iirc) I've ... enjoyed them in the past. If you ... need a dedicated graphical engine written in assembly which would render ... can be easily written in C (z88dk) or BASIC (ZX Basic).
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New ZX81 1k hires game: PinballI just finished my 1K hires pinball game for the (unexpanded) 1K ZX81. Also some earlier released 1K hires games this year available [URL="http://ww…
... already one of the best ZX81 games in 2013.
(Although I still ... have a document written about how PINBALL was coded in a way ... use the tilt-effect once in a while
(when the ... -
Last 16K games....Just wondered.... I updated my speccie from 16K to 128 by continually returning it with (ahem) faults. But, for those who could not manage to pay f…
... surprised that there were commercial games in 1985 still for the 16k ... game of theirs from 1984 written mostly in BASIC (that's a topic ... to be more than 50% BASIC?) -
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…
... the original game was written in the 70-ties and the ... or one of the first ZX81 games. -
The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... ;692908]God I have not written anything in Basic since I was about ... />
and some of the games are totally not crap either ... -
pathfindingworking on pathfinding in the game. here is Russian description of Lee's algorithm: [url]http://algolist.manual.ru/games/wavealg.php[/url] "if-then"…
[QUOTE=slenkar;697462]I used A* in zxbasic its not fast enough for real time use though[/QUOTE]
Not in BASIC perhaps, but it is fast enough when written in machine code - I've used it in several games in the past.
