Spectrum Computing

worcestersource wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 4:18 pm Is there a book? I’m writing a game with it and am pretty sure there must be some hyper efficient coding tricks I don’t know about.

Yes...and I think it's called "Boriel Basic for ZX Spectrum."

EDIT: Here's the link.

Forgive the necro, but I'm gonna be trying to get a book on Boriel Basic from Amazon. So, one step closer to this idea from scratch at least.

I have dropped you a message. Thanks for being awesome, @pgregory

Wow...admittedly I knew this would cause a bit of a stir, but not of this scale.
Shout out to @PeteProdge and the rest for keeping the peace.

I am sad because I wanted to link you a great AY-3 chip cover of "fake lesbians" tATu but I can't remember the song name so I can't find it! Hahaha... ok point taken. But licensing a brand to a game is fake by definition eh. At least you can tell your parents, who are concerned about all ...

equinox wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 11:58 pm If you didn't have 121 posts I would think this was a troll account.

Yeah, sorry about that. I have a tendency to go overboard when I'm excited, so maybe that unrelated question about Minter is unwarranted.

equinox wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 11:45 pm He was gay for llamas. and fractals.

Has Jeff Minter ever attended a furry convention before? I could see him having a fursona that happens to be a llama or something related.

equinox wrote: ↑Fri May 31, 2024 11:35 pm P.S. There's also that strange "Rocky Horror Show" game, by Mirrorsoft. Everyone sing along now...

LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!!!

I should make a disclaimer that I am not trying to start anything too major. I'll still keep my politics lowkey. If this is too much, please let me know before locking this thread.

Besides the Celeste Classic port on the Next, what ZX Spectrum game should I play to celebrate June being here?

...and yes, you can recommend me some text adventures as well. :3

I think parodies and homages should be protected under fair use, but copyright laws are getting so ridiculous on an international level that Nintendo has taken down the assets used to create parody work made using Gmod and SFM. Fair use should also apply to fan-made demakes and ports (especially if ...

@pgregory Thanks for answering. Bless you. Really.

@AndyC Yeah, it does seem weird to do this in the context of something like Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy derivative, but I do want to tell a somewhat decent story through something other than a text or graphic adventure.

ParadigmShifter wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 10:20 pm Well that's just Ocarina of Time which was probably first game to do that right. Not that hard to design and program.

Okay, but what about in something other than ASM?

You know what I loved about Conker's Bad Fur Day for the N64? The use of a context-sensitive button...especially in humorous situations. Imagine playing a platformer one day and you press that exact button to do a different thing depending on the context of the situation. I'm not talking QTEs that p...

Not sure what you mean by project savefile that aren't snapshot files, can you clarify? When you do gamedev using a native tool in Fuse and whatnot, you don't get a lot of options. You either save to a *.z80 (or *.sna, whichever you prefer) or you have to put it on an entire TAP/TZX image. Back in ...

@Jusalak Welcome to the Spectrum Computing forums, and welcome back to the ZX Spectrum scene as well. I'm actually a new person here, so I don't really get why would anyone put a Z80 in a DOS context. Doesn't DOSBox just emulate MS-DOS or something? Just curious.

@PeterJ Thanks for reminding me about CSpect, but I did say almost no other emulators.

But yeah you're probably right about OP already choosing a game to develop.

danboid Believe it or not, Celeste Classic is one of my favorite games in recent history. I wish I could play the Speccy Next version, but... 1. I don't even have a N-GO yet. 2. ZEsarUX is kinda buggy and idk how to set it to emulate Next anyway 3. There's almost no other Speccy Next emulators besi...

777 wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 4:57 pm i mean an assembly language routine

Ah. I get it.

Unfortunately, Z80 assembly is not my strong suit unless if we're talking in-line of Boriel BASIC; even then, I'm still a noob at Boriel BASIC too. So, maybe take ParadigmShifter's advice instead.

Can you repeat that question with a bit more detail? Because I'm confused by what you mean by "zoom-in routine". Which software are you even using? Forgive me if I'm being blunt.

I forgot to mention something about Furnace Tracker and I think you should look into it for sound and music. As somebody who wants to create soundtracks for the Speccy, I wanna mention Furnace because that can export VGM files, hence why I talked about converting VGM files earlier. I'm sure you'll f...

The number one thing I need are project savefiles that aren't snapshot files. Besides that, I might want a VGM file converter built into the devkit.

Thanks for the hard work btw. Don't forget to make a native aarch64 Linux build.

I feel many of the components besides the Musicizer are what keeps MPAGD from having a native Linux port that I really would love. With all due respect to Mr Caudwell, but I'm probably gonna switch to a Godot-based solution being developed by pgregory because it's especially hard to use the native S...

Forgive me for necroposting, but I know this has an iPad OS version that costs money...and I'm thinking of getting it next week instead of after I get a Bluetooth keyboard because...well...I recently got an iPad and I'm still figuring why I got it in the first place...besides a virtual Eurorack-like...