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by bobs
Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:24 am
Forum: GAMES
Topic: What's happened to revival studios?
Replies: 7
Views: 596

Re: What's happened to revival studios?

GCHarder wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:51 pm If your not aware, some of the best games for the ZX81 are by Bob Smith.

https://bobs-stuff.itch.io/

Regards;

Greg
Why thank you kind Sir!
by bobs
Wed Mar 22, 2023 12:41 pm
Forum: ZX BASIC
Topic: Silly Questions
Replies: 19
Views: 2358

Re: Silly Questions

No, you won’t. LIST will show the BASIC program as it is in memory. For example, the first two bytes you give in your example - 0, 10 - is the line number “10”. The machine code instructions are never stored anywhere, the BASIC is interpreted line by-line as the program is ran. This is completely di...
by bobs
Wed Mar 22, 2023 12:04 pm
Forum: ZX BASIC
Topic: Silly Questions
Replies: 19
Views: 2358

Re: Silly Questions

BASIC is interpreted on-the-fly, not compiled, so you won’t ever see the actual assembly call in the listing.

For more details look at chapter 27 in the ZX81 manual
by bobs
Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:41 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: ZX-WESPI - add a cheap wifi-enabled fileserver to your Zeddy!
Replies: 169
Views: 45638

Re: WESPI - add a cheap wifi-enabled fileserver to your Zeddy!

patters wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 9:28 pm
mikeh_nz wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 2:21 am I think you had a filename like onelittleghost.p - renaming it to onelg.p would allow it to load fine.
Brilliant, thanks for the fix!
I’m so glad that a solution was found for that! 8-)
by bobs
Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:37 pm
Forum: ZX BASIC
Topic: Personal challenge: Writing a text adventure in 1k for the zx80
Replies: 7
Views: 1602

Re: Personal challenge: Writing a text adventure in 1k for the zx80

Machine code, and 16k. You can do a lot in 1k, but I don’t think an adventure would be right for it, especially as you want to include graphics.
by bobs
Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:31 pm
Forum: ZX BASIC
Topic: The hidden program on a blank tape...
Replies: 2
Views: 1773

Re: The hidden program on a blank tape...

I remember these from back in the day, I had quite a few. You’d be kinda curious about the program, but knew it wouldn’t amount to much as the type-in listings in the magazines and books of the day would be much longer to produce anything of merit.
by bobs
Sat Dec 10, 2022 6:10 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: How to fully use the 1K ZX81
Replies: 10
Views: 2909

Re: How to fully use the 1K ZX81

Yes, but 655536? Should be 65536, one too many digits.
by bobs
Sat Dec 10, 2022 8:12 am
Forum: Development
Topic: How to fully use the 1K ZX81
Replies: 10
Views: 2909

Re: How to fully use the 1K ZX81

I’ve just started reading this. Although we both code the Zeddy for very different types of game styles I’m sure it will be interesting. I have noticed an error though on page 2, where you state that 2 bytes will be needed to store values up to 655536… There’s another further down in the Scoring sec...
by bobs
Thu Oct 27, 2022 11:11 am
Forum: GAMES
Topic: new game ZX81 - TERRA 81
Replies: 12
Views: 3570

Re: new game ZX81 - TERRA 81

Curious to know what happens to this project, as the kickstarter has now finished and the project wasn’t funded?
by bobs
Sat Oct 01, 2022 7:37 pm
Forum: GAMES
Topic: Pool or Snooker on ZX81???
Replies: 5
Views: 1648

Re: Pool or Snooker on ZX81???

It would be quite a fun thing to write 8-)