DOS Games Discussion

Larry Laffer · Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 3995 Location: Romania

Well, just as long as you're not against "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", I can live with senior censoros! Laughing

dosraider · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject:

GAMER · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:50 am Post subject:

Hahaha. Sorry bout the capital emmzee. I have a thing with capitalizing nouns. Tbbbbbth!

************!!

Why are you against the word? Tbbbbbth!

GAMER

Gamer_V · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 5:25 am Post subject:

************ (occasionally spelled onomatopœia) is a word, or occasionally, a grouping of words, that imitates the sound it is describing, and thus suggests its source object, such as “bang” or “click”, or animal such as “moo”, “oink”, “quack” or “meow”.

************ words exist in every language, although they are different in each. For example:

* In Latin, tuxtax was the equivalent of “bam” or “whack” and was meant to imitate the sound of blows landing.
* In Ancient Greek, koax was used as the sound of a frog croaking.
* In Dutch, kukeleku indicates the characteristic sound of cocks.
* In Korean, meong meong is ************ for the sound of a dog barking.
* In Chinese, wang wang is the sound of a dog barking.
* In Japanese, doki doki is used to indicate the (speeding up of the) beating of a heart (and thus excitement).
* Whereas in Hindi, dhadak (pronounced /ˈd̪əɖək/) is the word for a person's heartbeat, indicative of the sound of one single beat.
* In Haitian Creole, beep imitates the sound of a collision (ex. a car crash).
* In Turkish, hapşurmak is the verb for to sneeze, based on the sound "hapshoo" made by a person who sneezes.

Blocking so many meanings, what a shame. Sad

Down with the censor! :Angry:

GAMER · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:58 am Post subject:

Haha. I think it's great. Lol. Laughing

GAMER

2LT Worm · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject:

MWAHAHAHAHA

This is great.

dosraider · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject:

Abyss, about your question how to get the ZX emulator-games running:

abyss · Moloral Compass Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 762

I'm planning on playing only user made games and which spectrum emulator is that becasue mine is completely different than that one. I am using SPECEM. I have to push alt-escape to exit and not just escape. The text file is named SPECEM. I want to play manic miner 7 which is a user made game.

I only plan on playing usermade games.

dosraider · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject:

It is that emulator:
Z.com by Vladimir Kladov (107,066 bytes)
The smallest working emulator supporting both the 48K and 128K models (6Kb!)
The source code is available at his site as well. [08/11/03]

But Specem is also an exellent one.

abyss · Moloral Compass Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 762

Can you tell me how to use specem as i really don't like z

dosraider · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

Now, how to use SPECEM euuuuu did you read the SPECEM.DOC ?

Simply input:
SPECEM FILENAME.EXT

For the games included in the download it is:
specem batty.prg
specem destiny.prg
specem nrally.prg
specem mid_resy.prg

In the start screen of the games you can choose the numbers of players, the input device, best take the 'kemston' joystick as it uses the cursor keys and ALT for fire. If you take 'keyboard' input the keys are à-S-D-F-G-A-Z ( I'm on Belgian AZERTY keyboard, yours will be different! )

There are many many keystrokes if you use the ZX emulator without gamefile specified, it acts as a real ZX for code input, look at the specem.doc for them. You can load, save code......testrun....

Don't know what more to say, run the program and use it, take a good look at the specem.doc, maybe print it out.

There is also a dissassembler that works with QBasic, PDEX, that you can use .... it's also pretty good documented in the SPECEM.doc.

Keep in mind the SPECEM emulator is dosbased, and thus expect the user to know the basic inputs, maybe you would be better off with a Windows one ? Just a thought.

That's how to start the batty game: ( a breakout game):

Still can do it (meheh):

(and still a funny game)

abyss · Moloral Compass Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 762

Thanks for the help. I can finally play some usermade games. How do i get into spectrum basic though. I decided to use a windows spectrum emulator to play those user made games.

I am playing a usermade jet set willy game where willy is in space. I like how you can have infinite lives as i am always dying in the game. That's all i do with the emulator play usermade games.

Great usermade spectrum games and at the bottom their is a game called 4k race refueled which a very good game. I am fairly good at the game but that's because i play the atari 2600 game enduro a lot on my atari 2600.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/otto/spectrum/spectrum.html