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Just wrote my first useful working Speccy BASIC program in years...A nice UK National Lottery number generator. And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replace…
... g=1 TO 8: PRINT AT g-1,0;"Line ";STR$ (g);":": FOR ... =1+INT (RND*LEN a$): PRINT AT g-1,8+((f-1 ... -
BASIC: Fast way of filling a string?Recently I decided to use string slicing to extract random numbers from a sequence in the one-liner Lottery picker: [quote] 20 RANDOMIZE : LET a$=""…
Here's my latest:
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10 RANDOMIZE : LET a$=" !""#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;?\*ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ": FOR g=1 TO 8: PRINT AT g,0;"Line ";STR$ (g);":": FOR f=1 TO 6: LET b=1+INT (RND*LEN a$): PRINT AT g,5+f*3;" "( TO CODE a$(b)-32 -
Screen access in assemblerI am again troubled by the unusal screen design of the Spectrum. :) If I want to do something with, say, a 16x16 bit block of the screen (in the sam…
... the next characterline ( like the PRINT AT-position).
16384 = ... H=64, L=0
Next pixel line = H ... =65, L=0
This goes on until ... H=71, L=0
Then the next ... 72 then AND 7 gives 0 knowing that you are ... -
Abadia del crimen laThanks to someone voting the score 1 for other games such as manic miner , skool daze , head over heels etc , the Adadia game has finally made it to …
... reasonable one, such as 7.0 and keep the voting locked ... being displayed on the top-100 list at all. -
Abadia del crimen laThanks to someone voting the score 1 for other games such as manic miner , skool daze , head over heels etc , the Adadia game has finally made it to …
... reasonable one, such as 7.0 and keep the voting locked ... being displayed on the top-100 list at all.[/QUOTE]
at random from the archive. If ... -
BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... get "nonsense in BASIC" at line 20 after the notes ... , but return to normal at the end when it reports ... "nonsense in basic" at line 20.
... try something else like "PRINT 1/0" then you'll get ... commands that don't work at this point. PLAY for ... -
BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... get "nonsense in BASIC" at line 20 after the notes ... but return to normal at the end when it reports ... "nonsense in basic" at line 20.
[/quote]< ... try something else like "PRINT 1/0" then you'll get ... commands that don't work at this point. PLAY for ... -
BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... you try something else like "PRINT 1/0" then you'll get ... other commands like "CLS" or "PRINT" will work just fine. It ... commands that don't work at this point. PLAY for example ... -
So you want to make a cardgame......but you haven't got a good deck to display. Well here is a fully relocatable routine that will do the job for you. Place the code anywhere in me…
... LD (23659),A ; allow PRINT AT 22,0
LD HL,chars ... CALL 1008 ; CALL (IX) = PRINT AT
JR NC,again ; out ... of screen, end print
LD A,H ... -
faster bitwise operators?well, sinclair basic lacks bitwise operators and I searched "basic forum" with keyword "bitwise" and only 3 thread came up. So the forum also lacks b…
... ). It stores these 5 bytes at the location [B]SaveLoc[/B ... Scan (09876)
SaveLoc: defb 0,0,0,0,0; Place in memory to dump ... /> 20 IF PEEK 23316 THEN PRINT "Fire (0)";
30 IF PEEK ... PEEK 23320 THEN PRINT "Left (6)";
70 PRINT
80 GO ... -
Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…
... ,#004A4
BORDER 0:PAPER 0:INK 7:CLS
LOAD ... :FOR Z=1 TO 6:PRINT AT Z+6,13;PAPER 1 ... Z=TF TO TF+5:PRINT AT P,15;PAPER 1;INK ... -
Rainbow Generator for 48K Spectrum using PUSHThis is what I came up with from [B]gasman[/B]'s suggestions. It's stable in ZXSpin and ZX32 simulating a 48K Speccy. Anyone like to try it on the …
... ColorPRINT-48
; version 1.0
; Copyright (c) 2009 ... with PRINT #4 CHR$ n (where n is 0 to ... To print at a specific co-ordiante use
; PRINT AT y, ... />
; select MODE 0
org 52000
...
sp_cache
defw 0
; im2 ... -
Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
... played through the game to 100% completion and my current snapshot ... [/b] which are effectively the "PRINT AT" control code parameters. I've ... -
Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
... , 32[/CODE]
22 means 'print at' and the next two numbers ... the above means,
[CODE]PRINT AT 13,5; INK 6; "RUMMAGING ... in a single load. Banks 0, 1, 3, 4, 6 are ... for loading the game. Banks 0, 2, 5, 7 are needed ... -
Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
... already altered many of the "PRINT AT" control codes in the game ... the adjacent string, before the "PRINT AT" control codes and therefore will ... does not start with a "PRINT AT" sequence.
Hope all ... runs fine in SPIN 0.62 & 0.66 if emulating a ... -
BASin Loading ScreensHi all, I've got a code for a program from the 2nd Issue of INPUT magazine and I wanted to create a loading screen for it. I've tried making the scre…
... on your screen at a known coordinate - say, 10,0. Make a ... note of the paper colour at that point ... - I'll assume it's black (colour 0 ... extra:
25 INK 0: PRINT AT 10,0;
Which will ... -
BASin Loading ScreensHi all, I've got a code for a program from the 2nd Issue of INPUT magazine and I wanted to create a loading screen for it. I've tried making the scre…
... on your screen at a known coordinate - say, 10,0. Make a ... note of the paper colour at that point ... - I'll assume it's black (colour 0 ... extra:
25 INK 0: PRINT AT 10,0;
Which will ... -
BASin Loading ScreensHi all, I've got a code for a program from the 2nd Issue of INPUT magazine and I wanted to create a loading screen for it. I've tried making the scre…
... colour of your empty area at line 10. if area ... example). if it's black=0. red=2 etc.
< ... line appears, it will shown at first line of the computer ... it won't show up at all.
You ... using print at. eg. add this line to above loader: 15 PRINT AT X ... -
BASin Loading ScreensHi all, I've got a code for a program from the 2nd Issue of INPUT magazine and I wanted to create a loading screen for it. I've tried making the scre…
... colour of your empty area at line 10. if area ... example). if it's black=0. red=2 etc.
< ... line appears, it will shown at first line of the computer ... it won't show up at all.
You ... using print at. eg. add this line to above loader: 15 PRINT AT X ... -
Problem with loopingHi all, I'm looking for a way to code a loop into my program and then allow the computer to come out of that loop by itself. Is such a thing possibl…
... TO)+A$(1)
30 PRINT AT 10,1;A$(1 TO ... that it leaves the loop at the press of a key ... THEN GOTO 50
30 PRINT AT 10,1;A$(1 TO ... -
Problem with loopingHi all, I'm looking for a way to code a loop into my program and then allow the computer to come out of that loop by itself. Is such a thing possibl…
... PRINT ".";
20 IF RND < 0.01 THEN GO TO 100
30 GO TO 10
100 PRINT ... -
Bak 2 SkoolI'm wondering where the alias "Bak 2 Skool" came from, considering the game is called "[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000362…
... 0 + CHR 0 the message is set AT 0,0
Try some PRINT commands ... you will see the text AT 0,0 -
The Goldfinch updates thread([url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25034]original announcement thread here[/url] - I figured it was worth starting a new to…
... capacitor charges, the voltage at reset out rises. ... Z80 probably starts going at 0.5t on the graph ... Spectranet, I estimate at least thousands of T ... directly stops it from functioning at all).
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What Z80 development tools do you use? What books?Hi. I've been meaning to do it for over 25 years, but.. better late than never :) I'm starting to learn machine code and am trying to get a developme…
... byte at end of string you mean..
str defm "print ...
str defm "print - damnyou",0
or what exactly ... -
How do you start?ok just humour me, ive always wanted to code but never got round to it apart from the real basics ie:- 10 print "hello" 20 print 30 goto 10 i coul…
... bit makes the A start at 0 then it moves 1 pixel ... how it goes.
PRINT AT in Spectrum BASIC is character ... subroutine for displaying the 'UDG' at whatever the current coordinates are ... for clearing the 'UDG' at whatever the current coordinates are ... -
Tape loading question...I'm getting back into BASIC after some 20 odd years away from it and i've started saving stuff to tape. How do I go about making a loaded program aut…
poke 23659,0 i think... does summat to the input lines at the bottom of the screen... turns them off i think, then when basic tries to print at the input lines it causes the system to crash...
