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  • New Game - Cuboid CaptorWell, here it is, the (somewhat underwhelming) Cuboid Captor! This game was written for the ZX DEV 2015 competition and (to my knowledge) was the …

    ... so keen on having to tap a key every move, ... and having to redefine each time, especially ... straight in and 'K' tends to be the first key ... game 'A quick way to destroy your keyboard membrane' ... unfortunately there was little time to fix it.

    PROSM PROSM March 2016 Brand new software
  • bin to tap with basicI have compiled some machine code to binary. How I can convert it to tap (or tzx, doesn't matter) with custom basic part? Of course, I can create …

    ... usually best for you to define your own BASIC loader, so that ... define my own BASIC loader, save it as TAP, then with a ... allowed us to provide a TXT file with the BASIC loader text ... content, and then convert it to TAP :)
    RMartins RMartins August 2016 Development
  • bin to tap with basicI have compiled some machine code to binary. How I can convert it to tap (or tzx, doesn't matter) with custom basic part? Of course, I can create …

    [quote="RMartins;873331"]
    NOTE: this tool would be even better, if it allowed us to provide a TXT file with the BASIC loader text content, and then convert it to TAP :)
    [/quote]

    ZMAKEBAS can do this.
    John Elliott John Elliott August 2016 Development
  • New game: Sam Mallard - The Case of the Missing Swan[img]http://i66.tinypic.com/o8z6vd.png[/img] [code] Sam Mallard – The Case of the Missing Swan. Version 1.0 by Ersh in 2016 The clock had tur…

    very nice concept - good graphics!

    however, far far too short and easy; can be finished in about 10 minutes. This would be great expanded to 128 K with many more locations and puzzles.
    weesam weesam August 2016 Brand new software
  • Change JPs by JRsIs there any (easy) way to replace all long jumps with relative ones in assembler code? Of course, I can replace all in text editor, and then place …

    ... ;880599"]I'd like it to output ".tap" or similar directly but ... /> When .bin was converted to .tap, there was basic part added:
    [img ...
    Bedazzle Bedazzle September 2016 Development
  • So it occurred to me; "Why bother with going into 48K BASIC when you can just....wrap the machine code calls inside a 'RST #28;DEFW addr:RET'?" Of course, you DO need a small M/C routine to do that, and ta-daaa, here it is: [cod…

    I thought all of the 48K ROM routines were accessible from 128 basic?

    Only difference being SPECTRUM and PLAY replacing 'T' and 'U' in the UDG set.

    I'm looking for a way to do the reverse i.e. 48K basic to 128K.
    daveysludge daveysludge October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • So it occurred to me; "Why bother with going into 48K BASIC when you can just....wrap the machine code calls inside a 'RST #28;DEFW addr:RET'?" Of course, you DO need a small M/C routine to do that, and ta-daaa, here it is: [cod…

    ... ROM routines were accessible from 128 basic?[/quote]

    They are ... so on a 128 machine you need to make sure the correct ... the reverse i.e. 48K basic to 128K.[/quote]

    It ... will return the machine back to 128 Basic as long as paging is ...
    AndyC AndyC October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…

    ... 3
    404 FOR k=N TO wpc:
    DRAW ... =s+2:
    NEXT k
    409 LET s ... code]
    with a call to a USR routine:
    [code ...
    [/code]
    The BASIC display loop uses DATA line ... the BASIC program, the BASIC loop took 12.66 seconds to ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Text file to BASICHi, Is there anything available for Windows or Linux which lets me enter BASIC in a text file and convert to a .TAP file. I seem to recall somethi…

    ... /11/16/create-zx-spectrum-basic-program-tap-file-from-text-source ... a modified version of Zmakebas to support the ZX81 as well ...
    hikoki hikoki January 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX-Uno moddingStarting with ZX-Uno case modding I have not yet received my ZX-Uno yet (it is in the post) but I know that I will have to do at least one mod …

    ... getting it ready to ship out) to send it out ... the volumes are similar to those done by Romantic ... to have have one Zx-Uno for 48k and one 128 k ... expectation , nevertheless they appear to be adopting a "lowish ... have had the time to set it to 48k! (I know ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio January 2017 Hardware
  • "ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…

    ... to ensure the screen doesn't fill with junk in 128/+3 BASIC ... . (It's annoying, because I'd have liked to ... allows values up to 10^38 to be entered ( ... Spectrum's functions in BASIC, I've just made ... , this means the attempt to check for asymptotes in the ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... stuff for smart peripherals). The 128's banking mechanism is awful ... EXROM was hacked on to allow the basic to be split between a ... that was easy to do. What should the spectrum 128 have been ... rash the decision was to allow users to connect vintage peripheral ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly​ I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…

    ... 65281,0: FOR q=0 TO l-1: RESTORE 130+t ... ): READ w: FOR e=1 TO w: READ r,c: LET ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2017 BASIC
  • Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …

    ... to be very clean and easy to read because it will be basic ... C. But I think it's best to look ... anything in one line straight to tap or any other format. These ... compile line will compile anything to tap using zsdcc as compiler and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • Finished with my dice rolling programTook me all day but I'm rather proud of it, simple though it is. Its up at Dropbox if anyones interested https://www.dropbox.com/s/qdgtfc0zyy94hxm…

    ... "BIN" in line 40
    to CHR$ 196 (no "")
    [/ ... br /> FOR k=33 TO 127:
    LET c$=CHR$ k: LET bitsat ... br /> 25 FOR a=0 TO 7:
    LET n$= ... w$:
    LET u$=CHR$ (128+VAL ("BIN "+v$+w$)):
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2017 BASIC
  • How to improve my program using oversized numbersI'd like my dice program to print out the number four times bigger than normal if possible. Anyone know how to do this? Or I could write a sub rou…

    ... "BIN" in line 40
    to CHR$ 196 (no "")
    [/ ... br /> FOR k=33 TO 127:
    LET c$=CHR$ k: LET bitsat ... br /> 25 FOR a=0 TO 7:
    LET n$= ... w$:
    LET u$=CHR$ (128+VAL ("BIN "+v$+w$)):
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2017 BASIC
  • I think maybe I'll try my hand at making a game like Boggle next.Or maybe a sliding puzzle sort of thing? Although its a royal pain working out all those symbolic characters, its kind of rewarding when it works af…

    ... .
    If you are using Basic anyway, maybe it's worth ... at Boriel Basic, it runs on a PC and compiles to .TAP files ... and more capable than speccy Basic. Ohh - and if you did ... attribute graphics - would be able to make some great looking letter ...
    andrewvanbeck andrewvanbeck July 2017 BASIC
  • I think maybe I'll try my hand at making a game like Boggle next.Or maybe a sliding puzzle sort of thing? Although its a royal pain working out all those symbolic characters, its kind of rewarding when it works af…

    ... /> If you are using Basic anyway, maybe it's worth ... Boriel Basic, it runs on a PC and compiles to .TAP files ... and more capable than speccy Basic. Ohh - and if you ... graphics - would be able to make some great looking ... haven't been able to quite figure out what ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch July 2017 BASIC
  • Command line compiler?How do people compile their BASICs these days? I'm thinking of something along the lines of an ASM compiler. E.g. you have a file on your hdd named …

    ... translate a text file containing basic to a tap file that has the ... tokens expected by Sinclair basic. The command ... that's the latest version to deal with the few 128k ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Just watched Paul Jenkinsons's spectrum chanel and now want to write code againPlease assume for the purpose of this thread I know nothing... I want to look to write games on the spectrum but want to develop and test on my wi…

    Boriel Basic is pretty damn good ... own assembly libraries to call, it compiles to machine code, ... relies on Python and compiles to .TAP files.
    I' ... /en/software/the-zx-basic-compiler/"]https://boriel.com ... /en/software/the-zx-basic-compiler/[/url]

    andrewvanbeck andrewvanbeck August 2017 Development
  • Fix for the DEF FN bug of zmakebasSome months ago I discovered a bug in zmakebas: it does not include the 5 bytes required after every parameter of a DEF FN. By the time, the WoS f…

    Updated link to zmakebas 1.5 due to Dropbox changing how public folder ... /11/16/create-zx-spectrum-basic-program-tap-file-from-text-source ... /11/16/create-zx-spectrum-basic-program-tap-file-from-text-source ...
    dbolli dbolli September 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Hardware description - BETA DISK interfaceExist more versions and clones of BETA DISK interface. Beta disk 48, beta disk 128, brasilian clones of beta disk 48, russian clones of beta disk 128…

    ... Disk 128 does not work in all situations especially not from Basic ... a known issue of the 128 k version of Beta Disk.
    ingo ingo September 2017 Hardware
  • Hardware description - BETA DISK interfaceExist more versions and clones of BETA DISK interface. Beta disk 48, beta disk 128, brasilian clones of beta disk 48, russian clones of beta disk 128…

    ... Disk 128 does not work in all situations especially not from Basic ... a known issue of the 128 k version of Beta Disk.
    velesoft velesoft September 2017 Hardware
  • How do I convert a .z80 snapshot to a tape file?I've been fiddling with this for a while but can't get it to work reliably. I use Marvin to write short BASIC and assembly programs that uses .z80 in…

    ... /> Z802TAP - Converts .Z80 file to .TAP file - (c) 1999 G. ... Z802TAP [options] inputfile[.Z80] [outputfile[.TAP]]

    Options are: ... '

    - The .TAP file created contains the snapshot ... into an ordinary Spectrum (128),
    but can of ...
    Luzie Luzie November 2017 Emulators
  • Headerless tape loading blocksIs there any way to convert headerless machine code blocks to regular headed blocks? I imagine it involves Taper. I ask because now that I know I'…

    ... extra steps of converting things to tap and back, and generally pratting ... this disc, edit the BASIC loader to get shot of the cheats ... all the individual blocks of BASIC and machine code onto the ... simpler case of loading the BASIC blocks into the +3, editing ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone November 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum keyboards : all and everything about them and how can the Speccy keyboard be improved? This discussion can include of all the main types of Spectrum keyboard from the past (inc addon / aftermarket) , their strengths and weaknesses , …

    ... /> [*]Commodore 64C
    [*]Commodore 128
    [*]Commodore 128D
    ... machines not having the BASIC keywords printed on the ... related to the expectation that users would use 128 BASIC where ... character by character... In 128 BASIC, to enter LOAD you press ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK November 2017 Hardware
  • Recreated Spectrum .What do we get for the "now" (Aug 2017) best retail price of around £35?Well best/ cheapest retail prices can vary a bit so I thought it best to be specific. At this £35 price ,is it a good deal and what do we get ? A…

    ...
    4) Go to go to tab "At a Glance")
    128 k Speccy menu appears. I "mouse" down to the ... appears including an option to unlock the keyboard. I ... "Set the Recreated ........... to LAYER B" I switch ... comes the instruction to switch it to LAYER B . ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio December 2017 Hardware
  • Please, convert your game to EP128The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80-based home computer first produced in 1985. It can simulate the specy screen, so most of the EP128 game is specy conver…

    ... a ZX BASIC program across from a ZX TAP file, to running ... , putting it to the Enterprise equivalent of a Tap or snapshot, ... There is a Speccy Basic to Enterprise Basic converter which was written in ... assembly on Enterprise, mixing Basic and machine code is bit ...
    Geco Geco January 2018 Brand new software
  • The I register pointing to $40–$7f causes ULA snow and a crash. Or does it?I have heard it from numerous sources, including a few members of this forum, that 128K/+2 machines crash if the I register points to a range of $40–…

    ... /> Perhaps he’s referring to the actual ULA [i]snow ... even though I is set to $f7, because the 128K ... is being executed, or a 128 EDITOR code). Bank 7 ... around. In order for it BASIC to run without crashing, the ... JP instruction must be copied to Bank 0, as well, ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore February 2018 Development
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