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Death Valley
Hello! Welcome back to my blog all about converting BASIC games into machine code (often the ones published as listings in books, for instance the Usborne series). I hope this series will be useful for beginners to machine code who are well versed in BASIC. That’s the only requirement for reading this blog. As usual…
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Searchlight
Do you like fun? And a challenge? And Usborne programming books from the ’80s (like the ones pictured)? Well, if so, READ ON! In this series of posts I’m going to explain how I converted a BASIC game from the Usborne book series into Z80 machine code. I have chosen the game ‘Searchlight’ (pictured) to…
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Welcome
Welcome to this blog, the focus of which will be nothing but documenting my conversions of BASIC listings (from books and magazines) into Z80 machine code. I hope this will be useful to someone. The machine I’m personally writing machine code on is the Sharp MZ-80A which is a Z80-based machine. Throughout my documentation I…