Spectrum Computing

I'm thinking it would have been possible to make an assembler and create whole 48k games using the +2 alone. As long as the game returned to the assembler when it was exited. if the game crashed it would be a pain, so using a seperate computer would still be the best solution. Were there any 128k wo...

Looks like an anti video gaming advert

Thanks,I had wanted to make a game exactly like that.
Manic miner has its place but so does Michael bay type stuff

Do you have support for projectiles?
I suppose the rex aspect would indicate yes.

Another vote for commando

Sounds challenging

I ended up doing that subtraction routine myself, but also used divide to print the correct number of hundreds and tens.
My routine is a lot longer than the one you posted.lol

nice, i was playing columns 3 on the megadrive for PS4 a few days ago. I had to make a function to display a number from 0 to 255, it was torturous but got it done. Had to create the divide number function as well :) I realise I am reinventing the wheel, but I like to know whats going on. Now I can ...

thanks, i wouldnt mind getting into macros


its interesting to see the spectrum doing something lightning fast:

Yeah I just wrote 8 wizards battling

Looks very interesting, exactly like those obscure fantasy games I was just posting about.
It looks like a rogue -like but maybe it's a bit different

thanks for the suggestions, derefencing without trashing DE is good. I'll check out lantern for a laff, always like to investigate these things.

I tried six different languages:basic,boriel's basic,Z88DK,OBERON etc. and all of them had faults like using too much memory, only using arrays or the data would overwrite the code, causing crashes. I'm now using assembly and trying to use function calls as much as possible. To make it readable. One...

Thanks I copied that code.

Got the thing in the original post working as well. Just had to use brackets at the right time

I need to explain this first: I want have a string and copy its address to the start of the character struct. i.e. right on the playerCharacter label. The string will be the characters name, but there are going to be loads of characters called 'goblin' so im just copying a pointer to the string gobl...

thanks

ORG #8000 LD HL,playerCharacter LD (thisCharacter),HL LD HL,(thisCharacter) LD A,D LD (HL),A INC HL LD A,E LD (HL),A DEC HL LD (16384),HL thisCharacter: defw #0 playerCharacter: defw #25 defb 3;strength defb 3;skill defb 3; charisma number: defw 256 Im trying to create a function which writes numbe...

nasty aliens.

you dont get enemy movement like that these days. It's horrific in a creepy crawly kind of way.

Back in my day the enemies were hard to hit, you had to graft away lad, to even get one killed.(etc.)

jr nc 1 seems to be not compiling

sn3j wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 3:24 pm add e
ld e, a
jr nc 1
inc d

Thanks, quite a complicated thing to do in itself

thanks, I just had another look at my code: here is a better explanation. at the label stringtoprint: is the address of the string to print. My string printing function reads it. So I need to get the memory address of the room +32 and save that address to stringtoprint. Just wondered the best way of...

ok ill give some more detail: I have 'rooms' with three string each to describe the room. I want to store pointers to the rooms in an array. So I can do random access to them. (this is not relevant to the original post though) So I wanted the first string at the beginning of the room struct, so no m...

actually im trying to put an address into IX and then I need to put that address +4 into HL

How would I do that? at the moment I'm simply loading it into DE and then doing addition on DE using the DJNZ loop.

I just wondered if its better or easier to use IX+ for that?

Thanks I'll give that a go