Nice quiz. I scored rubbish too, only about half. I had to do this sort of quiz on C when interviewing for a job. Lots of stuff on there that you don't need to know too!
"What is the mistake in this piece of code?"
"The mistake is sitting here staring at it when you could be running it through a compiler or giving it a quick test. Why am I even doing a computer test with pencil and paper FFS?"
10/20. But I am not worried. There is nothing wrong with LOAD 64000, many bytes. I used it many times to catch the 'tail' of a protected prog via the screen. But that was long before this quiz was invented.....
10/20. But I am not worried. There is nothing wrong with LOAD 64000, many bytes. I used it many times to catch the 'tail' of a protected prog via the screen. But that was long before this quiz was invented.....
I used the ROM and the screen to load a 48K protected game like POLE POSITION to load all data but SCREEN$ and then save the data without SCREEN$ to get it into copyprograms.
I used the ROM and the screen to load a 48K protected game like POLE POSITION to load all data but SCREEN$ and then save the data without SCREEN$ to get it into copyprograms.
Indeed we knew how to do it, and we did it. Let's not worry about this quiz which in fact is just a test for Alzheimer disease and no more. We can't help Captain Offensive noticing that too late.... 5/10 is significant, is'nt it Dr.B?
18/20, I completely don't know how the hell VAL$ work and never will, and I was misguided in the SPECTRUM keyword question (it replaces U and T, but those are not predefined block graphics characteres, I must had read it better!)
I got 15/20, not sure how. I've not done much ZX programming in over 20 years, and never programmed a 128!
One of the ones I got wrong was the FOR loop one. The right answer implies that you can use FOR x=1 to (condition) ... NEXT x to simulate a multi-line IF statement. I'd have loved to have known that when I was trying to write stuff in Speccy BASIC.
11/20 Since the closest I've been to sinclair basic in 20 years is seeing '(c) 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd' when I startup ZXSpin, I'm not too disappointed with that score. I was most chuffed with remembering the colour codes in getting #19 right.
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Made several silly errors there. I'm cross with myself.
Great quiz! I'm just happy I beat Dr. BEEP! :D
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
Paddy
Granted I haven't properly used ZX Basic in well over a decade, but I thought I'd do better than that. :cry:
but some of them were really hard and I have no need to know them and I,ve not been well, and it's raining outside.
FLASH 8 (bollox so I checked it out....Oh yeah....never ever used that one....)
I knew there was a reason why I've never written a program that uses VAL$.
No one has ever used VAL$ :-P
"What is the mistake in this piece of code?"
"The mistake is sitting here staring at it when you could be running it through a compiler or giving it a quick test. Why am I even doing a computer test with pencil and paper FFS?"
- IONIAN-GAMES.com -
I suppose you have to use it if you want recursive string functions, but I can't say I've ever tried to use them either.
10 print "Captain Offensive is skill"
20 goto 10
Though. And i can do
LOAD ""
GOTO is GO TO on the ZX Spectrum (On the ZX81 it is GOTO)
:-)
I used the ROM and the screen to load a 48K protected game like POLE POSITION to load all data but SCREEN$ and then save the data without SCREEN$ to get it into copyprograms.
:-)
One of the ones I got wrong was the FOR loop one. The right answer implies that you can use FOR x=1 to (condition) ... NEXT x to simulate a multi-line IF statement. I'd have loved to have known that when I was trying to write stuff in Speccy BASIC.
Also, the CAPSLOCK question depends on if you've got a toggle-shift ROM installed, such as the JGH-ROM. ;)
Yes, they're not predefined, they are fixed. Predefined explies you can redefine them.