Adam

Given a lie-in and told “I know you like to watch your old computer videos on Saturday morning” which feels like the nicest thing ever and has somehow become a thing but now fully caught up

YouTube video by Animated ALex POOR MAN'S FROGGER - ZX Spectrum BASIC code share.

POOR MAN'S FROGGER - BASIC CODE Type in. Enjoy! 😎
youtu.be/cy-5ZEdmhJs

I’ve had that app for years and did not know you can write basic in it that’s amazing!

#FollowFriday 🍹🏖️📲

@ambientcoder.com
@whathosnorkers.bsky.social
@jimblimey.com
@breakspace.bsky.social
@fuzzweed.co.uk

#ZXSpectrum #BASIC

Nice! And thanks!

Whenever I see MiSTer capitalised like that it makes me think of some kid in town emphasising it like “here MiSTer lend us a quid”

Thanks I think so, just getting it working is pretty satisfying and wondering what else to do with it

Thanks! It still continues to work when returning to BASIC although not 128k. So I was wondering about playing some kind of beeper tune to augment a type-in but it would be 16k/48k only

Added some very basic interrupt code to my #zxspectrum 16k game of life implementation to cycle the border colour every 100 ticks (so 2 seconds PAL) regardless of how busy or slow the screen is, which is pretty cool #happyfriday github.com/adambient/zx...

Black Hole RX by Jim Blimey A fiendishly tricky puzzle game for the Sega Master System

If you like puzzle games and you like the Sega Master System maybe you'll like Black Hole RX, a game adapted by me from an old ZX80 listing.

jimblimey.itch.io/black-hole-rx

MSX - YouTube

I’ve made a lot of videos about MSX computers - here they are in a handy dandy playlist #RetroComputing youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I've read and reviewed Next Tech: Get the Best from your ZX Spectrum Next by Simon N Goodwin. It is excellent. Go and buy it if you are interested in the work @specnext.com is doing.

gld.mcphail.uk/posts/book-r...

#RetroComputing

It does this with a few things - using inline asm and explaining what that’s doing rather than over abstracting with libs (e.g. interrupts), which makes it a useful book imho

The boriel book has a great explanation of 128k bank switching which is easily applied to #sinclairbasic and #z80 which until now has felt like forbidden knowledge

This works but you might have to change your PS/2 mode (I did - space on startup then space to edit options then space on PS2 setting until it says Keyb.) and you might have to swap the keyboard and mouse cables to the splitter (I did) #spectrumnext

YouTube video by Ambient Coder Blitz

This is the version (the original I think) that I based a #sinclairbasic implementation on. A few more colours and higher resolution but I got a bit lazy with the buildings youtu.be/TVF1JuqYlLw?...

Some pylons

Went for a woodland walk last night which was eerily quiet (like the “dark forest”) apart from these giant pylons emitting an almighty Hum. They don’t seem out of place though, just a bit strange like modern folklore #thehum

Ordered a ps/2 keyboard and splitter to go with my mouse for the #spectrumnext with the idea that I’ll worry less about breaking it and spend more time working on it directly

It’s definitely a tentacle now, which feels EPIC

Thanks! You and Snorkers are an inspiration

B-TYPE by Animated ALex ZX Spectrum Sinclair BASIC

"B-TYPE" is one of my proudest game developments to date so far, unfortunately I may have posted it at the wrong time on itch as it didn't get much attention.
animatedal.itch.io/b-type

YouTube video by Ambient Coder Break Space Hero - fan fiction / tribute Snorkification

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RES...

Some fantastic Snorkification here by Ambient Coder!

Thanks! I was actually thinking it was a grey commodore cloud but I like your interpretation better

YouTube video by Ambient Coder Break Space Hero - fan fiction / tribute Snorkification

Hi Snorkers I just wanted to let you know I've given it a go and have uploaded my attempt www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RES.... Source code still available as above, and I've tried to give credit for everything I've stolen. Hard to know when to stop but it was fun so thanks for everything!

GitHub - adambient/breakspace-hero: Minor Snorkification of Snorkers' excellent type-in for BreakSpace issue 2 https://breakspace.itch.io/issue-2 Minor Snorkification of Snorkers' excellent type-in for BreakSpace issue 2 https://breakspace.itch.io/issue-2 - adambient/breakspace-hero

Thanks! I used one of your routines to find character addresses so double thanks. I’ve linked to it (and other things I’ve used) from the README I hope that’s ok github.com/adambient/br...

Thanks!

Thanks! It's quite good fun cobbling together bits of code from others and trying to get creative

The speccy rainbow now chases away some commodore clouds thanks to a fast circle routine that was posted to the #zxspectrum discord #breakspacehero (fan fiction/tribute snorkification)

We used to love games for things like “shadow effects”. Looks amazing!

Animated ALex Welcome to Animated ALex, On the channel - Learning to program in Sinclair BASIC. Recreating classic ZX Spectrum games using only Sinclair BASIC. plus other stuff on the channel, includes animatio...

Learning BASIC on The Spectrum YouTube series
If you're unfamiliar with my channel series, i try my best to explain Sinclair BASIC programming,
Plus, I try to recreate classic ZX Spectrum games, like, Manic Miner, Death Chase, currently I'm working on a JetPac style game.
youtube.com/@animatedal?...