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What is the best way to detect CAPS LOCK?Hi Folks, Not sure what the correct behaviour is here as I do not have access to a real Spectrum. Under BASin, when you press CAPS LOCK on the PC k…
... again. Any keyboard reading from within a BASIC program reflects this.
BASIC program but not from within one (e ... way to detect CAPS LOCK from BASIC? When I run the following ... -
Moar TR-DOS to tape conversions!I have posted three lame disk-to-tape conversions through snapshotting before, now (I guess) it's time to bring the rest of my complete collection he…
... 20128K%29.zip"]Barbarian - 128K Remix[/URL][/B] - A ... it works only under 128K of memory. In English.
... Russian so well... 128K mode includes tons of ... 20128K%29.zip"]Imperia 3 128K - Mission 1[/URL][/B ... 20128K%29.zip"]Imperia 3 128K - Mission 2[/URL][/B] ... -
Disabling the +3 disk buffer; yes, but how?I would like to disable the +3 disk buffer in order to retrieve those 4K from the machine's RAMdisk. By reading the computer manual and some posts on…
... order to retrieve those 4K from the machine's RAMdisk. By ... how to call +3DOS routines from BASIC. I guess I should use ... even know where to start from, except that simply calling the ... -
Getting PC into HLHello, here's a conundrum for you... Is there a way to obtain the value of the PC register (say into HL) without using absolute addressing such as C…
... moment except that when calling from BASIC the BC register appears to ... in it (well, in 48K BASIC at least). Still this is ... -
720K Amstrad PCW8512 drive B: as drive A: on a Spectrum +3 ?Hi Spec-chums. I happen to have a 720K drive from an Amstrad PCW8512 which i got off ebay, and i was wondering if it is possible to use it as drive …
... to have a 720K drive from an Amstrad PCW8512 which i ... 't format diskettes to 720K from BASIC, but need to run a ... -
ZX-Assembler in progress...Dear readers, I just want to announce that ZX-Assembler is not longer only an idea in my mind. It's just alive. Unfortunately, it's too early to mak…
... contains all functions you know from BASIC and SJASM.
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display file addressing; screen slicingWhile working on this Compendium I'm updating or rewriting a lot of stuff. One thing I eventually came to appreciate was the simple & clever way in w…
... .asm[/url]
and BASIC:
[url]http://www ... address is appreciated. The BASIC version is not unreasonably ... easily (although rather more sedately) from BASIC as from assembler.
... br /> I wrote a quicker BASIC version which minimised the number ... -
ZSpeak - another speech synthesizerYep, it's just another beeper speech synthesizer. Absolutely nothing special, it just outputs vowel and consonant samples; and sounds crap, like all …
... . It can probably be used from BASIC as well, but I'm ... -
IF EXIST?In MS-DOS scripting, there is an IF EXIST command that lets you check wether a file exists in disk or not. There are any way to check it out from BA…
In MS-DOS scripting, there is an IF EXIST command that lets you check wether a file exists in disk or not.
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+3 Disk drive motorHi, I'm creating a disk file menu selector. I was wondering how to turn off the +3 drive motor and the motor timeout check from Basic (poking the co…
... and the motor timeout check from Basic (poking the correct addresses?) after ... -
Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …
... way to launch .z80 files from the "hard disk", ideally I ... possible to load .z80 file from BASIC? And from assembler?
Does this ... -
Drawing a dotted line...Hi Folks, I cannot be the first person to want this (?) so here goes! Does anyone have a MC routine that does the same as the BASIC DRAW command bu…
... does the same as the BASIC DRAW command but with a ... be able to use it from BASIC.
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Why no PLOT, etc. on bottom two lines?I was pondering if there was any way to get PLOT, etc. to address the full screen from BASIC without having to write a few lines of assembler to bypa…
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ZX rom type detectionHere is routine for fast detection of zx rom / computer model. [URL="http://velesoft.speccy.cz/other/ZXROMDETECT.zip"]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/othe…
... /> Routine read only some bytes from fixed address in zx48 rom ... for unknown zx rom.
From basic can be code used via ... for detect zx rom type from 48basic rom.
I compare ... 48rom pages from all original zx roms. Only ... -
Wes Craven RIPwe all remember Freddie etc .. another memory from my teen years. and we watched Elm street at end of term one year at school hehe http://www.bbc.…
we all remember Freddie etc .. another memory from my teen years. and we watched Elm street at end of term one year at school hehe
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Calling machine codeOccasionally I see on ZX computers (mostly the spectrum, but I think also the '80 and '81), how someone made their machine code and wrote the bytes i…
... wrote the bytes into some memory which BASIC doesn't touch. Then ... -
Floored of the Rings (A Micro Adventurer puzzle)A Sunday puzzle: [url="https://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/magazines/MicroAdventurer/Issue17/Pages/MicroAdventurer1700042.jpg"]Floored of the Ring…
... more details, read the page itself from the link above.)
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Additionally, you must move from a circle to an adjacent ... 3 non-overlapping paths from the bottom to all three ... -
Which game had a 'Lord Kitchener Wants You' style loading/title screenI have this very vivid memory from my younger days of waiting for a Spectrum game to load and having a finger pointing at me on the title/loading scr…
I have this very vivid memory from my younger days of waiting ... Lord Kitchener Wants You posters from the first world war.
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Talk about time consuming!This is an aside, not a request or a grump, just an observation. Yesterday I cut and pasted all the messages from BASIC relating to my struggl…
... and pasted all the messages from BASIC relating to my struggle with ... be possible whereas in Sinclair Basic on Fuse it would run ... -
zx spectrum soundtracker compiler problemwhen i try to load a song, it doesnt come up with set delay rate. then it defaults to a ridiculous number and only plays the first note when you run …
... note when you run it from basic. what is going on? there ... -
Vega Spectrum KeymapsHi everybody, I am new on here, so apologise if this is int the wrong category. I have searched the forums and can find some keymaps for the vega …
... 've seen a 2/3 page document from the company produced detailing ... and a clip on youtube from someone detailing what to do ... -
hi res udgs on a zx81iv tried to use the software farm hi res program to re create a sprite. unfortunately, it looks nothing like the original. it only has 128 possible b…
... rather something i can access from basic like the software farm program ... -
How to store and recall a "window"?I would like to memorize and then restore a rectangular portion of a screen, pixels and attributes. To make things easier, this "window" would be sit…
... Assembly routine to be recalled from BASIC - [url=https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io ... /en/latest/]ZX-BASIC[/url] to be precise.
HELP ! What was the game ?Hi I'm new to the spec emulator and loving the return of retro . Iv'e managed to identify and retrieve a number of games I once had but one I cannot …
From your description it definitely sounds ... by David Whittaker (best 128k music apart from Stormbringer (also by Whittaker ... /> A good cheat for the 128k version is to order the ...Some \"newbie\" questions about the Spectrum +2I bought a +2 last week. I had never owned any of the 128k Spectrums before, nor seen them in action. I have a couple of questions; 1) Do all 128k …
... +2 (I own the original 128K+ machine), I think there's ... , should be loaded in 128K mode. Memory bank swithing is not possible ...My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... d written your BIOS in basic and then compiled to ... z80 asm. BASIC just doesn't have the ... but due to compiler performance from BASIC to z80, I'd be ... salt is written in asm - BASIC won't cut it for ... the machine you're porting from, and the same about ...Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... he can do that as Basic is inherently a linear ... do need a dedicated routine from an interupt. Of course ... not the expert on SE Basic so he might have ... with a simple USR call from basic (every 1/50th of a ... from the stand point of trying to develop a game in BASIC ...
