Spectrum Computing

And all the sprites seem to have this horrible individual 'vignette' effect where they darken away a certain radius from the centre of the sprite. It makes everything look like a smudge. Used to see that a lot on the 16Bit ports for Speccy games. The artists didn't know what to do with the original...

Lol...why old-ass youtubers always feel the need to make these daft faces in the video snapshots? It's so ridiculous :D (and one of the reasons I never watch any of them). Eye-tracking experiments have found that our eyes are attracted to: 1. Faces 2. Circles 3. Slightly diagonal black text on yell...

I'm responsible for there being no new Magic Knight game.

This is literally how SpecBAS was born. When I was a kid, I didn't have the brain necessary to code in m/c so I pined for the speed but wanted it in BASIC. Now we have PCs with multi-GHz CPUs I could realise my dream - and made SpecBAS. It runs natively on the PC and interprets Sinclair BASIC with e...

Cybernoid

Flick-screen was lazy; should have been an 8-way scroller.

Well, let's find out!

Devil Fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A36tf8htxak

From what I see SpecBAS is very good but the lack of some commands make it a bit incompatible for what I want to do. Also,most listings I found need modification to run there. Although I don't recommend trying to use SpecBAS to run pure Sinclair BASIC programs - you will get issues with display siz...

SteveSmith wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 2:47 pm Do you have a list of games that people put in their Top 10 but that didn't appear in the Top 100? (Including @ZXDunny 's of course ). Might be interesting reading.

Hey, can easily add many, many more to the list if anyone's interested

Well huh. That's a shocker and no mistake.

I have it on good authority that Mr. Campbell was working from inside information; I shall write to my MP and demand a public inquiry.

Everyone's had their Top 10 whittled away, with the exception of the untouchable @ZXDunny, with @catmeows only left with 2 of their 10 remaining. @Luzie is looking like the bookies' favourite with 8 picks still in the hunt. Still quietly (not really) confident here in zxdunnyland - it's been a real...

ZXASCII AUTO -1 PROG startup-sequence 10 REM Startup option commands can be set here 20 OPTION "INTSCALING",1: SCREEN WINDOW 1024,768: WINDOW SIZE 0,512,384 30 LET a=168: READ a$,b: IF a$<>"" THEN OPTION a$,b: GO TO 30 40 REM ASSIGN "demos:" TO "sys:demos" 50...

So there's another ad that I found a bit curious the other day:

https://archive.org/details/your-comput ... 3/mode/2up

It was fun to start there and see what happened. I don't know what the outcome was though.

I have to say that with recent developments in the top 100 chart, I'm feeling better and better about my choices

I never said he would be surprised; after all, it's his top ten. I'm quietly confident he will surprise us . Um, well you did, when you replied to him and said "you might be surprised", but hey, I'm just generally baffled here. :shock: Well yes, of course he might be surprised, this is St...

Oh yes, big fan. That's why I'm so confident. So you are confident that in a top 100 of arcade game conversions to the Spectrum, his top 10 will consist of non-arcade games? And he will be surprised by that? Just so I'm clear what you are getting at. I never said he would be surprised; after all, i...

I thought the github version was ready for compilation (windows 32bit since it runs great with wine in linux)... Then I guess I won't even try to check the code. Thanks for the warning :) Yeah, you can load the sources up into a copy of Delphi and build SpecBAS just like that. But you'll need to be...

Thanks for the information. I was thinking of something more simple. PRINT, INPUT, FOR loops , IF . Up to 3 class hours for start. I'll check these out but for now the tools I think are qaopJS and SpecBAS. Basin is nice but will need a second step (loading to the emulator). Just for information, bu...

One of the reasons I wrote SpecBAS was specifically for remaking 8bit games. It's old-school Sinclair BASIC but has all the sprites, graphics and sound abilities you could ever want.

BASin was briefly in about 1,800 schools up and down the UK teaching BASIC. I even made a specially modified version for the task. It all went tits up (as these things do) but for a brief period in 2015/16, it was glorious.

Mpk wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:21 pm

ZXDunny wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 6:41 pm

I think you might be surprised.

Just be 100% clear, you know who you were replying to there, right? I'd be very surprised if he was surprised.

Oh yes, big fan. That's why I'm so confident.

firelord wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 7:48 pm I've tried it thanks

Btw this version says it is v0,944 but I guess it's newer that the released v0980.

urgh, yeah I haven't updated the build/version info. I'll get that updated thanks

I will admit that my choices are slightly off the wall, but having been a fan of Mr Campbell since the Amiga Power days I will say that I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised - let's face it, none of his choices so far have been what the rest of the community would have chosen. Let's wait and see. I...

You can use this: https://github.com/ZXDunny/SpecBAS/blob/master/SpecBAS_32.exe if you want a 32bit version. I'll try and keep it updated. I may even see about a native Linux build. Maybe. As for the BORDER command - it didn't make sense when every pixel is addressable, and can hold any colour in th...

Mine: 1. Carrier Command 2. Head Over Heels 3. Batman 4. Explorer (RamJam) 5. Horace and the Spiders 6. Booty 7. Manic Miner 8. Cybernoid 9. Exolon 10. Jet Set Willy 2. Um... I will admit that my choices are slightly off the wall, but having been a fan of Mr Campbell since the Amiga Power days I wi...