Spectrum Computing

In my opinion the tape is incomplete. I was looking what is on the tape (some sound routines, at least one screen fx routine, udgs and the compiler) and I think, it contains just last code block from game. When I was looking on some other games by same author I noticed the games usualy contain three...

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Well, perhaps you could just change CHARS and print string like "abcdefghijklmn .... " for each character line.

IMHO, you can use Alphacom/ZX Printer in 48K mode only by default. Using it from 128K mode would need a printer driver.

Sorry, I can't help myself:

Comic Bakery


Ghouls'n'Ghosts


Sanxion


Golden Axe

Yes, but again I'm specifically talking about this specific ROM for the spectrum having little in common with the functionality required on a bbc micro so there's nothing to "port" Boss: Hey, you, programmer ... Programmer: Me ? Boss: We need to code this stuff... by Friday. Presto, prest...

Guesser wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 2:06 pm Still not come to a firm explanation on why the teletext adapter ROM is riddled with relative conditional jumps to other jumps/calls like these

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	LD (HL),A
	CP (HL)
	JR NZ,init_memory_0
	JP init_48k
init_memory_0:
	JP init_16k

Looks like direct translantion from 6502 to Z80.

Please tell me: 2. Why do you think they implemented this? I don't think I've ever seen any other BASIC that does it, and I see no particular benefit. In fact it would seem to impede parsing, and thus possibly increase the size of the ROM. Rather opposite, ROM uses single scan routine that skips wh...

Yes, you can draw behind beam. And instead of using floating bus (which do not work on every model/clone) just use wait loop. You can replace wait loop by sound routine but 15K ticks is too little to produce anything but farts and few notes. You may want to make sound loop longer, say 20K or 25K to ...

I will not finish on time, so I will release the game with Woot 24.

This is a sincere question: Has anyone done any serious programming of any sort with HiSoft C? I’m absolutely fascinated by this implementation. However, before I go all in, I was just wondering what people thought about it in general? Is it a capable compiler or more of a quaint curiosity? If you’...

What about https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/2 ... batrossity

I would say Castle Master is close (Driller and Dark Side are fine, but I think that castle and dungeon fits better limitations of engine - in Driller and Dark Side you are told that you are on a moon, in CM (or Total Eclipse) you see that you are in front of castle (or pyramid)).

That works OK for 16 colours (although if you're going that far in the design it's questionable why you would fix the palette entirely), but when you start introducing lots of extra rules like "If PAPER and INK match then the colour is Sky" or "If the Advanced bit is set then reinter...

The problem with a scheme like that is it requires masses of extra logic gates to gain a small amount of colours. The simplicity of the existing scheme is that the colours can be generated quite easily from the bitwise pattern. Not necessary, french Thomson (if I remember it correctly) translates I...

With more silicon they could have something like Radastan mode (128*96 16 colors). But it would make ZX more expensive.

The R-Tape Loading Error doll. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1008571127779573780/1183711652877717644/daveyboyhughes_an_evil_cassette_tape_toy._4358d35a-dc22-496f-aeb2-98cea305a692.png?ex=65895462&is=6576df62&hm=f641438117a4ca9f4fb9704381d65c8c6bb25b64411f1b91c813e58c52c12782& I...

I believe DIM a$(3,12) creates array of chars 3x12. I mean it really reserves maximum lenght 12 for each index. If you try to asign bigger string to index, the string will be cut silently to match maximum allowed length. If you assign smaller string, it will ber padded by spaces. So the answer is: l...

(Because I have started it) Personally I think, the message "We are not showing <number> titles because.. " is allright for me. In my case, I was looking for Jmeno Ruze, which fetaures slightly obscene dialogs and a naked women of cca 32x32 pixels. However the reason why I was interested a...

+3code wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 6:56 pm As catmeows has said, you can go to the CMD and type:
copy /b tape1.tap + tape2.tap mytape.tap

Right, sorry, I was typing from phone so I kept it short.

Are you aware of the fact that tap files can be concated ?

+3code wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 4:38 pm In some cases, you can compile a program with only few changes, like https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs/ ... narow.bas/

Doesn't look like Spectrum Basic, there is END IF.

Hisoft BASIC Compiler seems to handle some calculated jumps. Maybe others compilers too, no idea. Reading the manual: Yes it can be done and basically you could end with something that is in between straight to assembly compilation and transpilation to a bytecode that could cover all constructs ava...

Exactly. You need to be much more careful nowadays than before. About copyrights. About porn. About racism. About religion. About slightiest possibility of offending anyone with content you publish. Imagine some dumb mommy learning that teacher of her kids hosts porn games on his website. Doesn't m...