Category: Programming
Kick Assembler is the combination of an assembler for 6510 machine code and a high level script language. Read more about the many features in the manual. Latest release (v4.19) Performance tuned nodelists. Updated the numberoperators <, >, &, |, ^,<< and >> so they will work on dwords (4 byte values). Updated the print library functions toHexString, toIntString, toOctalString…
Planeta Sinclair, a great Portuguese-speaking website about the ZX Spectrum, has just announced the winners of its poll trying to find the best ZX-Dev Conversion. Two highly acclaimed conversions that we have already covered, Mighty Final Fight and Ninja Gaiden Shadow Warriors have nabbed the first and second place, respectively. There were a total of 173 votes, and Mighty Final Fight took…
Castle of Sorrow is a new Spanish platform adventure game by ZXMan48k. This is his first game and was created using the Arcade Game Designer engine. The story is short and simple: “Help our hero Constantin to avenge the death of his beloved, go into the castle and discover the mystery that lies within it.” Your adventure begins within an intricate…
Welcome to part 4 of a multi-part series on simple things you can do to speed up Microsoft BASIC on the Radio Shack Color Computer. These tips may be applicable to other systems with Microsoft (or other) BASICs. See also: Introduction, part 1 , part 2 and part 3. Part 4 – GOTO and GOSUB Unless you are writing a program that…
John W. Linville, the omnipresent CoCo advocate and host of the CoCo Crew Podcast, just published on his Retro Tinker blog that the Infocom’s Z Interpreter source code for the Color Computer has been recovered and it is available on the Color Computer Archive. For those not familiar, the Z Interpreter (or Z Machine) was developed by Infocom allowing them…
A few days ago we posted the complete list of the ZX-Dev Conversions games and we hope you have tried at least some of them. Although the best games will be chosen by an official panel, the Planeta Sinclair website has the post a widget (on the top right side of the site) allowing you to pick one and vote. It…
If you haven’t noticed yet, the retro computing scene is alive and more active than ever! What better proof of that than a brand new language that can only be used on 30+-year-old computers! After a few beta releases in the past couple months, PLASMA (Proto Language AsSeMbler for Apple) 1.0 is finally officially out. PLASMA is a medium level…
Info Guide is a Russian e-zine dedicated to the ZX Spectrum. For all of us that don’t speak Russian, the issue #12 is not fully translated to English. It includes: a large collection of new beeper engines city history collected by many people, with the photos of old papers, books, and catalogs several articles about 3D effects the internals of some games…
What programmers debated in the old days Nowadays people argue about object-oriented versus functional programming or dynamic versus static typing. But back in the day, it was all about structured programming. The brouhaha started with a letter E.W. Dijkstra wrote and which was published in Communications of the ACM in March of 1968 under the title “Go To Statement Considered Harmful“….
Welcome to part 3 of a multi-part series on simple things you can do to speed up Microsoft BASIC on the Radio Shack Color Computer. These tips may be applicable to other systems with Microsoft (or other) BASICs. See also: Introduction, part 1 and part 2. Part 3 – Variables Previously, we took a look at FOR/NEXT and numbers, and…
