Spectrum Computing

Pre-shifting offloads much of the work in a scrolling game to outside of the game loop. For example: You are scrolling from right to left. You draw a column of blocks at the right hand edge of the screen, and then you literally process every single byte in the display - rotating the bits in each byt...

The word "Dixel" is indeed a thing and does mean a two-pixel scroll. I never heard of it in the context of the aforesaid game, but it does crop up in a type-in on page 74 of issue 19 of Your Sinclair. Hmm... I suppose it's possible that my addled mind got it mixed up and it wasn't in rela...

Back in 2000ish I discovered that I lived literally round the corner from none other than Woodster, the legendary Speccy emulator coder! I sh*t you not, that was probably the best thing to happen that day.

The word "Dixel" is indeed a thing and does mean a two-pixel scroll. I never heard of it in the context of the aforesaid game, but it does crop up in a type-in on page 74 of issue 19 of Your Sinclair.

Yeah, the PNGs (one for the colour data and one for the heightmap) are both 1024x1024. They're loaded into a graphics bank and then PEEK$ transfers the bank's contents to a string. cofs is the memory address of the colour data's string (c$) and hofs is the corresponding heightmap string's first char...

12 lines of code, one of which is a REM. :shock: To be honest, line 120 is only there because I couldn't be arsed to use an END IF. There's no practical limit (well, 2GB of characters and it might get weird to edit) to line length in SpecBAS so it can actually be done in 3 lines. What I need is mor...

Here's my latest adventure in coding in BASIC: [youtube]https://youtu.be/xln4HuvZpUc[/youtube] And here's the code - you'll need a bleeding edge build from the SVN to run it due to some new commands and a couple of bugfixes that surfaced while making it: 10 REM Voxel landscape. Try changing rz for a...

BASin can do that.

If a program's tape starts with a "Bytes: " header then to get it to run you need to LOAD "" CODE <enter>. That should sort it.

I voted for Auf Monty. That was a great game and was truly fun to play, bringing new things to the franchise after a glut of MM/JSW clones of varying quality. It added objects that had to be moved from one place to another, collectables that had noticeable effects when grabbed, great animations, a s...

Using some well-known scale like unit scale: pico, nano, micro, mili, unit, kilo, mega, giga, tera attached to some defined unit (ZX, bit, byte, gamer, dev, etc...) might work better. Start with Micro, and just append "Willy" to it, as in the character from MM/JSW. It's progression, it's ...

1024MAK wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:31 pm Also being talked about here

Mark

Help! I'm stuck in a loop!

Sorry if this is going over old ground but I'm a little puzzled by the status of this game. It's missing in action but we have two different screenshots, I recall someone once suggestion it was an ebay hoax. The game has reviews (including comments on the speed of the game as mentioned above). Both...

R-Tape wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 12:05 pmweirdo fringe stuff like Specbas.

I beg your pardon??

PeteProdge wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:25 am

Juan F. Ramirez wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:19 am Any Cassette 50 game that is worth playing it?

Just asking...

In all seriousness, I believe there's a Frogger clone early on as you play the tape, and it's actually pretty good for BASIC.

Yeah, Frogger (FRO) is brilliant. I even included it in the BASin demos because it's so good.

Crash's first Crash Sampler. That was a revelation and I spent ages playing (and watching) the demos.

On a related note, where would I be posting things about SpecBAS, should there be anything to post in the near future? Are we religiously Spectrum-only, or are Spectrum-related themes Ok?

Explorer by the RamJam Corporation - an amazing game that's huge and full of adventure. Seriously addictive stuff - a cult classic. http://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/e/Explorer.gif Tried to get into it, but never properly managed it. Crash gave it 32% which is possibly a b...

I've jumped ship for this place, ever since the phrase "zxdb" was blocked on WoS. It's a shame, but I don't see the site surviving much longer now - but we really, really need a backup of all the files in the database. Quite a few of my scanned books are up there.

Crash here too. I really like YS when it was Your Spectrum, but when it transitioned into the comic that was Your Sinclair, I abandoned it and that left me with Crash magazine. Sinclair User was a great steaming pile of mutt's leavings to my teenage mind, so only bought one issue.

Explorer by the RamJam Corporation - an amazing game that's huge and full of adventure. Seriously addictive stuff - a cult classic.

Hi! I'm ZXDunny, and I'm fairly certain you all know who I am.