Retro game coding

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Amateurs...

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starman

starman
using the beebem copy this . See what happens..
10 REM * Sprite example *
20 MODE 2
30 PROC_ASSEMBLE
40 FOR X%=10 TO 70 STEP 10
50 FOR Y%=10 TO 100 STEP 20
60 CALL sprite,X%,Y%,invader%
70 NEXT,
80 END

code removed naked assembly code worries some people..
 
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ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
AJW said:
Don't need to pretend. Anyone who hasn't written out Z80 assembly language on paper and then converted it to op-code bytes by hand using a copy of Programming the Z80 by Rodnay Zaks can't call themselves a real programmer... ;)
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My local library never had those books. It only had those usborne books, you remember those? With the robots

It used to be a nightmare trying to learn to code back then, no interwebs, no software downloads. You relied on what compiler stuff you could find in shops or magazines like INPUT. Many of the bedroom coders swapped coding tips at local clubs and school. There was no such thing where I lived. I was ok at BASIC but really struggled to get started with Z80 beyond the simple stuff. I do remember my brother getting hold of a copy of 'Programming the Z80' from somewhere but he wouldn't lend it to me. Maybe I was just a bit too young.

I switched to Blitz Basic on the Amiga that had some support for C structured stuff. Then went onto the high level stuff at University: ADA, Java, C, C++ and was dragged into the .Net era through my career.

While I was working at Codemasters around 2000 there was some guys that had just finished the Cannon Fodder gameboy colour game (including the Sensible software chaps that were still hanging around the Leamington studios) they were the last of the Z80 games programmers, it was astonishing what they got that system to do.
 

AJW

AJW
ZeeWolf said:
My local library never had those books. It only had those usborne books, you remember those? With the robots

It used to be a nightmare trying to learn to code back then, no interwebs, no software downloads. You relied on what compiler stuff you could find in shops or magazines like INPUT. Many of the bedroom coders swapped coding tips at local clubs and school. There was no such thing where I lived. I was ok at BASIC but really struggled to get started with Z80 beyond the simple stuff. I do remember my brother getting hold of a copy of 'Programming the Z80' from somewhere but he wouldn't lend it to me. Maybe I was just a bit too young.
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I was probably lucky in that I was living in a town with a couple of good bookshops that covered IT, probably because the local polytechnic (now a university) taught computer science, or whatever they called it in those days. As for the lack of the interwebs, that was probably what led me into programming in the first place. These days, it is usually far easier to find someone else's application than create anything for yourself.
 
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