Games like Barcode Battle (ZX Spectrum) by Matthew Begg

--= ZX STOCK EXCHANGE =-- System Requirements: Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16k/48k/+/128k/+2/+3/Next  Written by Matthew Begg for the 2025 BASIC 10-Liner Competition (PUR-80 category) Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Players: 1 --= INTRODUCTION =-- It is July 1982. Welcome to the frenetic trading floor of the ZX Stock Exchange. The air crackles with the buzz of hurried transactions and the staccato rhythm of …

--= CASSETTE 10 =-- System Requirements: Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k/+/128k/+2/+3/Next  Written by Matthew Begg for the 2026 BASIC 10-Liner Competition (EXTREME-256 category) Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 Players: 1 --= INTRODUCTION =-- 10 games. 10 lines. 1 homage. In 1983, CASSETTE 50 filled a whole tape with questionable code and grand promises. In 2026, we’ve mastered the squeeze. CASSETTE 10 ta…

ZXFM ==== Written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Begg (licence: CC BY-SA 4.0) Compatible with Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16k/48k/+/128k/+2/+3/Next Players: 1 Controls: Keyboard INTRODUCTION ZXFM is a football management simulator for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum written in just 10 lines of BASIC! Play an entire season as manager of a team from your favourite league, or create your own leagues and teams. Ma…

  INSTRUCTIONS Ten Liner Teletext for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Begg   Introduction Remember teletext? The simple information retrieval system broadcast to televisions around the world during the 1980s and 1990s? Well now you can relive the glory days of three-digit page numbers and blocky graphics as we bring you Ten Liner Teletext – a teletext simulator for the ZX Spectrum.…

Entry for the PUR-80 category of the 2021 BASIC 10 Liner. (For Mattel Aquarius - MattPilz.com - @MattPilz - YouTube) FOREWARD One of my earliest memories in video gaming history was playing Cosmic Ark for the Atari 2600. The sounds and visuals of that game are still etched in my mind all these decades later. I recently became immersed in the world of Mattel Aquarius, a decidedly underpowered …

Entry for the PUR-80 category of the 2021 BASIC 10 Liner. (For Mattel Aquarius - MattPilz.com - @MattPilz - YouTube) FOREWARD One of my earliest memories in video gaming history was playing Cosmic Ark for the Atari 2600. The sounds and visuals of that game are still etched in my mind all these decades later. I recently became immersed in the world of Mattel Aquarius, a decidedly underpowered disc…

This is an esoteric programming language based on lolcode only with graphics. All codes must begin with the line HAI to specify which version of lolgraphics you are running. Then you need to write "IM IN UR CODE EXECUTIN UR KOMANDZ". At the end of the code, you need to write "IM OUTTA UR CODE". If you find any bugs, please report them in the comments below (if possible, with a detailed explanatio…

HARDWARE HUSTLE ======== ====== Written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Begg (licence: CC BY-SA 4.0) From the original roll-and-write game by Oskitone (licence: CC BY-SA 4.0) Compatible with Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k/+/128k/+2/+3/Next Players: 1 or more Controls: number keys and ENTER How to start the game: LOAD "" or LOAD "HH". The game will auto-start. INTRODUCTION Buy, make, sell, and research yo…

BimMobiles ========== Written by Matthew Begg for the 2023 BASIC 10-liner competition. From an original concept by Matthew Begg and Richard Begg. Description =========== The red car and the blue car had a race. Except these 'cars' are BimMobiles from the planet Bim. It is the year 3456, and the Bimmers are at war again. Their planet is exactly one half red, one half blue. The two factions battle …

ZXFont ====== Written by Matthew Begg for the 2023 BASIC 10-liner competition Description =========== The Sinclair Spectrum has a fixed font stored in ROM, but there is a trick that allows the computer to use custom fonts. This is a font editor written in just ten lines of BASIC code that lets the user create their own fonts and save them to tape for use in their own BASIC programs. Usage ===== To…