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  • Where any games programmed in C?Were any Spectrum games written in C on a secondary computer that could compile Z80 code?

    ... am very doubtful Psion wrote games in C for the *spectrum* ... back in the day and would be ... Some early games were written in Basic and compiled basic however.

    In recent years ... have been. I think closing in on about 15-20 now ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2011 Games
  • The New Commode 64I'm sure this will get all commode lovers all excited: [url]http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx[/url] It's basically a PC in a c64 bin. Wish …

    ... with ISO redraw and vector games (star wars / elite)[/QUOTE]< ... wise for me I guess in many games sadly.[/QUOTE]

    games and utilities "applications", there ... wonder if they were all written in BASIC." [/B]

    The ...
    ewgf ewgf April 2011 Chit chat
  • Games that are both rubbish and addictive.This has probably been done before but I've rediscovered this gash gem. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009301[/url] Advance…

    Football Manager

    Not that I liked it (I hate football games), but because a friend played it for days on end... Graphics were crap, & game written in BASIC.
    Hercules Hercules April 2011 Games
  • writing an emulator-newbie needs helpHi, this is my first post here. I decided to write a minimalistic emulator of ZX Spectrum-no emulation of advanced peripherals, no emulation of sound…

    ... CCowley has pointed out the basic steps. In order for anything to ... it with some simple programs written by myself, like "hello ... emulation test programs or even games.

    I know this ... start because a) it's written in BASIC b) its authors are active ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2011 Emulators
  • Best Basic games ?Any thoughts on what are (were) good games purely written in basic ? Any type be it adventure / platform / whatever. Nothing compiled although tiny…

    A lot of the best management type games were written in basic .

    Such as The Boss , Football Manager , The Treble , World Champions and im sure Millionare is mostly basic .

    Not forgetting the super Derby Day by crl.
    sirclive1 sirclive1 May 2011 Games
  • Best Basic games ?Any thoughts on what are (were) good games purely written in basic ? Any type be it adventure / platform / whatever. Nothing compiled although tiny…

    ... most of the best management games were written in BASIC. I suppose it's ...
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2011 Games
  • Games that are both rubbish and addictive.This has probably been done before but I've rediscovered this gash gem. [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0009301[/url] Advance…

    ... liked it (I hate football games), but because a friend played ... ... Graphics were crap, & game written in BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    I am ... 't matter that it was written in BASIC. It ran fast enough, and ... was one of the first games I downloaded when I found ...
    absinthe_boy absinthe_boy June 2011 Games
  • there are 10,000+ games in the archiveabout 1 month ago I realised it broke the 10K barrier (and that's not even including text adventures)... obviously some have "never released" and som…

    A lot of the games from 1982 and 83 will be written in basic crud. But i still find games in the archive that i haven't played and go back to once in a while.
    zx1 zx1 August 2011 Games
  • CRASH on Kindle (experimental)In the past couple of days, I've been looking at producing versions of CRASH Online for the Kindle. (It's DRM-free Mobipocket so presumably it can be…

    ... , that's true - character movement, written in BASIC, etc. But the conclusion I ... just one of many "old games" in my mind.

    Carrying ... error, since in issue 3, platform games stop at "Kong" (in alphabetical order ...
    mjwilson mjwilson September 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Is it a must...Since this ZX Evolution thing I have been wanting another ZX Spectrum but with the ros and an ide device. Well yesterday I was very lucky as I had a …

    ... you wish to write something in assembly, or something larger, ... much a problem for stuff written in basic, but does become a ... many of our most loved games likewise used development environments, ... EmuZWin comes with a built in assembler, as does ZXSpin... ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil October 2011 Development
  • all these unreleased gamesearlier I was reading [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=YourSinclair/Issue61/Pages/YourSinclair6100011.jpg]this YS page from 1990[/…

    ... for Dundee or Scottish football in general. A real product of ... games that was given away on a cover tape & was written in basic ...
    the_hawk the_hawk October 2011 Games
  • all these unreleased gamesearlier I was reading [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=YourSinclair/Issue61/Pages/YourSinclair6100011.jpg]this YS page from 1990[/…

    ... for Dundee or Scottish football in general. A real product of ... games that was given away on a cover tape & was written in basic ... kind of control the players in the match highlights, as well ...
    def chris def chris October 2011 Games
  • Which Ultimate Play the Game game's do you like (tick the ones you like)After discussing Sabre Wulf in another thread, I thought it would be interesting to see which games of theirs we liked and disliked in proportion to …

    Ultimate games were great, specially ... think I know why: in 1982, when most releases ... tiny UDGs half or completely written in BASIC, they released a handful ... -like gameplay machine code games which looked miles ahead ... Jon Ritman's efforts in the same genre are ...
    na_th_an na_th_an November 2011 Games
  • Tricked into buying/playing a game!Have you ever been 'tricked' into purchasing a game by the advert (looking completely different to how the game played out) or a review or an inlay c…

    ... it and realised it was written in BASIC as that kind of game ... can be good in BASIC. I spied it on the ... had a couple of quid in my pocket and took a ... be one of the worst games ever.

    Also ... so more than most Spectrum games of the time. A big ...
    absinthe_boy absinthe_boy December 2011 Games
  • Best game ever?Not sure the best way to do this, thinking top 10s with a sliding scale of 10 points awarded to the game you vote 'best' down to 1 point for your 10t…

    ... win out over the Rebelstar games for me. Having seven scenarios ... decent for early efforts mostly written in BASIC. The latter even has a ... weren't revisited in either the later Rebelstar games or Laser Squad ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2012 Games
  • Games written in BASICHi all, I've been racking my brain trying to think of a game which was definitely written in BASIC (ie not in assembler). The only thing that I can …

    [QUOTE=perini-ps;613488]So: does anyone have any favourites which were written in BASIC? [/QUOTE]

    [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0007185][I]The Wild Bunch[/I][/url], one of my all-time favourite games. :smile:
    GreenCard GreenCard March 2012 Games
  • La scopa[I]La scopa[/I] is a card game programmed by Original Soft and published in Load 'n' Run Italian tape magazine in February 1985. Load 'n' Run used t…

    ... contain simple, early games,year 1983 or 1984, often written in Basic. You'll ... and till 1984 about 4700 games were made with hundreds of ... obscure type-ins. Early Spectrum games were never my forte. You ...
    Ralf Ralf April 2012 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Something a bit like Jetpack Joyride in flavour?Jetpack Joyride is a fairly simple horizontal scrolling game, in which the player has one control. That control applies power to the jetpack as long …

    ... . There are more one button games for the Spectrum than, say ... usually written in BASIC, as it's really easy to write one button games ... second reason is that our games are supposed to be played ... example, 4 one button games released released in the last 3 years ...
    Timmy Timmy April 2012 New game ideas
  • Something a bit like Jetpack Joyride in flavour?Jetpack Joyride is a fairly simple horizontal scrolling game, in which the player has one control. That control applies power to the jetpack as long …

    ... with that... Games are generally written with standard hardware requirements in mind; perhaps ... difficult to design 'well', as games... Its like I said earlier ... ?... (answer: something that can be written in BASIC..?)...

    Nevertheless, despite my ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil April 2012 New game ideas
  • EV Computing Videoteca n.3Just came across this cassette, can't seem to find it in the archive. [IMG]http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj79/Hairyrecords/scan0027.jpg[/IMG] [I…

    ... good news, more italian original games for the archive ;)[/QUOTE]
    games. The others are utilities. The whole of them is written in BASIC.
    games?[/QUOTE]
    No idea, should ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu April 2012 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Games Club WC 21//5/12got 3 classic games that show the true spirit and nature of the british empire and how together we can give any foreign adversery be they german or f…

    ... from[B] The Dean of Games[/B]

    [I]
    Well maybe. It is completely written in BASIC so maybe that is the ... colourful, various linesmen like in real games, and I specially like the ...
    Jumping Stack Jumping Stack May 2012 Games
  • Deceiving gamesWhat games you had good expectations. Games which yourself hope to have been better the more you played, but simply doesnt evolved. The first which …

    ... to be quite happy with games in BASIC. It didn't matter if ... reading hex code listings if games or utilities required them. We ... entire afternoon entering an adventure written in BASIC without any graphics, or a ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2012 Games
  • 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 …

    ... are written in 100% basic. None of this machine code rubbish polluting my games ... my sole 2012 entry was written in BASIC on a 48K rubber keyed ...
    absinthe_boy absinthe_boy July 2012 Games
  • 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 …

    ... least there are many games that are written in basic i can study.
    in a day or so.
    in the archive.

    ... Interesting thing i noticed in magazines - more and more the ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Games that could be better off with a 7MHz CPUI've just reviewed Kung Fu Master for the Spectrum, as I remember it as a very poor conversion from the arcade. Then it just ocurred to me to raise t…

    ... run probably 50% of the games at 7MHz.

    I ... is a bit sluggish (ones written in Basic for instance)
    spider spider September 2012 Games
  • Games that could be better off with a 7MHz CPUI've just reviewed Kung Fu Master for the Spectrum, as I remember it as a very poor conversion from the arcade. Then it just ocurred to me to raise t…

    ... run probably 50% of the games at 7MHz.

    I ... is a bit sluggish (ones written in Basic for instance)[/QUOTE]

    ANDREW RYALS ANDREW RYALS September 2012 Games
  • REBELSTAR III've just finished playing Rebelstar II. Would it be controversial for me to suggest that it is actually superior to the first Rebelstar game? I fir…

    I think the ?2 I spent on both these games is some of the best money I've ever spent. it's rather shocking to think the original written in basic cost ?10.
    chop983 chop983 October 2012 Games
  • REBELSTAR III've just finished playing Rebelstar II. Would it be controversial for me to suggest that it is actually superior to the first Rebelstar game? I fir…

    ... I spent on both these games is some of the ... shocking to think the original written in basic cost ?10.[/QUOTE]
    < ... strategy games then had a similar price and were also written in BASIC, and ... for your tenner you got the game in a ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2012 Games
  • Homebrew on +3 disksI was just wondering whether Andrew Barker still does +3 disk stuff. I have a few homebrew games written by me and also by my mate and would like to …

    ... />
    Hi Ivan! The games are all written in BASIC and are from 1989 ... graphics drawn on a type-in graphics program, Bomber 2 is ... are Gold, a prospecting RPG in the American west and Dog ... is similar to horse racing games on the speccy.
    spinny spinny November 2012 Games
  • TreacheryOk, I've not actually played it, but there's a game in the archive called 'Treachery' (sorry, I'm not good on links) which was included in Computer a…

    ... ) which was included in Computer and Video Games magazine as a type ... -in. You needed a board ... listed as one of his games (as far as I can ... ) and a windowed interface, all written in BASIC :) They never printed it though ...
    numpty numpty December 2012 Games
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