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Sinclair FontI'm searching for "Sinclair" font. NOT zx spectrum character font, that can be easily extracted from ROM, but instead the font used to make the "…
Apparently one is a payed font, the other is "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license".
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Peeking the contents on screen? How?You will have to forgive me for growing up on the C64, but I know I can peek the location of a character (1024 is top left from memory) and the peek …
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z80 assembly helpEver since I was a child I wanted to program my zx81 then my zx spectrum + 2. However, it was such a mystical beast and I only ever used BASIC not kn…
jonathan explains the x/y thing in [url="https://chuntey. ... BASIC convention of PRINT AT x,y; where x refers to the number ... is "PRINT AT x, y; where x is vertical and y is horizontal" instead ... it simply as "PRINT AT y, x".
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Elite - Galaxy Creator Pokes.So 8 meagre galaxies are not enough for you? Tired of visiting the same old 2048 planets over and over? Say no more, these "Galaxy Creator" pokes wil…
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uint16 rotatel(uint16 x) /* rotate 8 bit number leftwards */
/* (tried ... !) */
{ uint16 temp = x&128;
return (2*(x&127))+(temp ... twist(uint16 x)
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Leading Zeroes on a Score in BASICI'm trying to print the score with leading zeroes such that it's always 6 characters wide, i.e.: 000010, 000150, 006100 etc. I quickly knocked thi…
An interesting (but slow) way is:
[code]PRINT AT y,x-LN(score)/LN(10)+1;score[/code]
You could speed this up a bit by replacing LN(10) with 2.3025851.
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New Game - Cap'n Rescue: ReprisalHello, I'd just like to announce my new game Cap'n Rescue: Reprisal for the ZX Spectrum is almost complete. This is the third game in the series…
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Unofficial AGD ToolsHello, wondered if this toolkit I've written in Sinclair BASIC is any use to AGD 4.6 users? There's a text COLOUR calculator, ASM calcs, and a…
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Empire - port of trs80 basic programBack when I was a little kid, I had the opportunity to play around with a trs80 model 1 with level 2 basic. One of the games I often played was call…
... /> 3130 LET y$="12.34 56789.12 3.4": LET y=LEN y$: PRINT y$
3201 LET cz=k0: LET fz=k0: LET dz ... y=y TO k1 STEP -k1
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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…
... sequence of co-ordinates in y,x order, with the assumption that ... byte control codes with invalid y values, e.g. 254 for ... -
Can you run the same program on a Speccy and Amstrad CPC ?Both of these machines are Z80 based and I know many Amstrad CPC games were straight ports of the Speccy. Some of the CPC games I seen on YouTube loo…
... to implement to run usably, let alone run anything on an ... 8-bit system) I'd say ... -
Can you run the same program on a Speccy and Amstrad CPC ?Both of these machines are Z80 based and I know many Amstrad CPC games were straight ports of the Speccy. Some of the CPC games I seen on YouTube loo…
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Help with Snake type game...any ideas ?Hi all I've attached me trying to write a snake type game. My first concern is me not writing over the System variables area. I'm pretty happy what i…
... the tail:
x$+=DCHR$ x,y$+=DCHR$ y for each turn moved ... , and ox=DCODE x$,oy=DCODE y$,x$=x ... $(3 TO),y$=y$(3 TO)
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ROM PRINT routine issuesHi all, I am using the ROM print routines a lot in my assembly program and I'm experiencing issues. I am changing the system variable DF CC to po…
ROM PRINT routine issuesHi all, I am using the ROM print routines a lot in my assembly program and I'm experiencing issues. I am changing the system variable DF CC to po…
The 22, y, x somehow doesn't apply when using the print number routines only the strings...it seems to be ignored.Project: ZX OpusHello my friends, I have been in need of a push lately so I thought if I post some of the work for this project here you guys (and gals) can help me …
... /> LLL = vertical character y coord within a screen block ...
CCCCC = character x coord 0-31
... asm_zx_cyx2aaddr.asm" means "character Y,X to attribute address". The function ... "asm_zx_cyx2saddr.asm" means "character Y,X to screen address" (screen ...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…
One little trick sometimes I use is to print spaces before and after a character, e.g. if I have a single UDG that can move only left or right 1 character at a time, I'll print at y,x;" X "Jump AlgorithmAfternoon all, trying my hand at a liitle basic coding ( it's a quiet work day :) ) and wondered if anyone has coded a platformer type jumping routin…
... trajectories:
(y , x) initial position
(y-2 , x+1) first 'frame ...
(y-3 , x+3) third
(y-2 , x+4) fourth
(y , x+4 ...
(y-3 , x+2) second
(y-2 , x+3) third
(y , x+4 ...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); } …
thanks
i think there a couple of errors but it works now
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for (y=0; y!=24; ++y)
for (x=0; x!=32; ++x)
*zx_cyx2saddr(y,x)=255;
[/quote]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); } …
... "*zx_cxy2saddr(x,y)=255;" to "*zx_cyx2saddr(y,x)=255;". The order of x,y has been ... code generation. The future is x,y so best to update if ...im looking for a horizontal scroll routinehi, im looking for a horizontal scroll routine. i read somewhere that you can do it with at 'to' statement, somewhere in a print routine. althoug…
... f=1 TO 32: FOR x=1 TO 2
510 ... ,x,TO CODE t$(f,x,max))
521 IF x=1 THEN LET ... i$=v$(f,x)
522 IF x=2 THEN LET ... o$=v$(f,x)
530 NEXT x: NEXT ...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…
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* change "10*FN b(INT (a/2))+" in line 2 ... DEF FN b(a)=(a-INT (a/2)*2)+VAL (("10 ... *FN b(INT (a/2))+" AND a)+("0 ... $(8,8): DIM c$(1):
FOR k=33 TO 127:
LET ... )*8: DRAW 0,-10*8: PLOT (12-1)*8,(22-14)*8: DRAW 10*8 ...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…
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* change "10*FN b(INT (a/2))+" in line 2 ... DEF FN b(a)=(a-INT (a/2)*2)+VAL (("10 ... *FN b(INT (a/2))+" AND a)+("0 ... $(8,8): DIM c$(1):
FOR k=33 TO 127:
LET ... )*8: DRAW 0,-10*8: PLOT (12-1)*8,(22-14)*8: DRAW 10*8 ...z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
... bending to Sinclair's weird y,x order.
There's ... lead to worse code (eg int) and the smaller the better ...Anybody still use Firefox?Just asking the above question as they just updated to this amazing new fangled Firefox they've been gibbering about for months. I didn't even want i…
... its ninth birthday and OS X 10.8.5 is about the ... for anything older than OS X 10.10, which only leaves ...
