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  • BASin - Wow!Hi Folks, I know I have said this before but I have to take my hat off to Dunny (Paul) and the other folks who were involved in writing BASin. It r…

    ... good IDE is. Yes ZX BASIC is limited (structures, data types ... it up using REM FAST/SLOW.

    So I must ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman December 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • A fast DRAW routineI was investigating how to speed up the line drawing for the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20225"]BASIC compiler[/URL]…

    ... /forums/showthread.php?t=20225"]BASIC compiler[/URL], and finally end ... ) system variable. This is rather slow, and useless. Only the last ...
    boriel boriel December 2010 Development
  • Converting TRD-Dos into TapHello, there are still many programs appearing on TRD-Dos or SCL format and users of normal Spectrum cannot run them. Of course I know about emulator…

    ... programs there isn?t a BASIC and then CODE-file, but ... which includes the Basic start and code in REM lines. The code ... not work and even the Basic is unreadable when I MERGE ...
    Speccyman Speccyman January 2011 Development
  • Best way for programming in BASIC?New to the ZX Spectrum, and fixing up ccowley's vbSpec emulator. Aside from that, I would also like to try programming a game or two in BASIC. What's…

    New to the ZX Spectrum, and fixing up ccowley's vbSpec emulator. Aside from that, I would also like to try programming a game or two in BASIC. What's the fastest way to program in BASIC in a Windows environment?
    olaf olaf January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclair BASIC manual cover artHello, dose anyone out there have any information or links regarding the art work on the 48k's Sinclair BASIC cover ?, I've always thought it was rea…

    ... on the 48k's Sinclair BASIC cover ?, I've always thought ...
    Mikie48k Mikie48k January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASIC Listing for loading screens then gameCould someone explain the code required to load a screen image followed by the game file please? I've lost my notes on loading the game (which I thin…

    Could someone explain the code required to load a screen image followed by the game file please? I've lost my notes on loading the game (which I think was CHAIN "") from a BASIC listing..

    Thank you..
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 March 2011 Development
  • Drawing 3D grids in Basic...This is probably very simple for someone who feels comfortable with Math, but it's driving me crazy... Let's say I want to draw a grid of 16 by 16 s…

    ... . The distance between the two lines (on screen) is 88 pixels ... . Drawing the 16 vertical lines was very easy:

    lines? How do I calculate the ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Utility or routine to save/display imagesLet's assume I have an image or sprite at coordinates x,y with w witdh and h height. If I were to store this image, which storage method would allow …

    ... be specified with POKEs from Basic. I know how to do ... data storage from Basic, but it would be too slow. I also ...
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A type-in BASIC platformer that's worth a goWorking on some type-ins for TTFn, from Games Computing, I came across [url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/patpostman.zip]The Adve…

    ... that's written entirely in BASIC. I've shown a few ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2011 Games
  • SE Basic Type-ins^Pete suggested creating a sticky thread for SE Basic discussion. I thought a Type-ins thread might also be useful. Up to the mods if they want to ma…

    ^Pete suggested creating a sticky thread for SE Basic discussion. I thought a Type-ins thread might also be useful. Up to the mods if they want to make it sticky or not (although this used to be the SE Basic forum and I used to be its owner).
    chev chev April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • SE Basic questionsI've got a 128k heatsink machine which I'm working on modding to include a proper keyboard and built in DivIDE+.. Was I right in reading that the S…

    ... in reading that the SE BASIC ROM can be plugged into ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... ]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really ... segment of memory) in ZX BASIC without resorting to a tedious ... using only standard ZX Spectrum BASIC - and it's not an ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Name of game needed - sort of robot wars...Well, I reckon this one's a tricky one. Can't quite remember the year, maybe mid-eighties. Have tried WOS searching to no avail. It was: - a 2 pl…

    ... very small. The gameplay was slow.

    I think one ... BASIC game, or at least partly in BASIC as it was quite slow ...
    Morkin Morkin April 2011 Games
  • Jet Set Willy Turbo edition!Improve the speed of the game with just a few pokes! Do the standard CLEAR 32767 : LOAD "" CODE to get at the BASIC loader (see Your Spectrum issue …

    ... "" CODE to get at the BASIC loader (see Your Spectrum issue ... help), then add the following lines:
    [CODE]31 FOR i ...
    Jimmy Jimmy May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Computer graphics packageAnyone recommend a piece of software that will allow me to draw a house in 3d? I was thinking along the lines of vector graphics which would allow m…

    ... ? I was thinking along the lines of vector graphics which would ... use so I suppose a basic one will be ok, but ...
    urbanupstart urbanupstart May 2011 Chit chat
  • Best Basic games ?Any thoughts on what are (were) good games purely written in basic ? Any type be it adventure / platform / whatever. Nothing compiled although tiny…

    ... ) good games purely written in basic ?

    Any type be ... code are OK in the basic itself.

    I don ...
    spider spider May 2011 Games
  • Sinclair QL-Black and white lines displayCould be obtaining an QL soon,problem is according to seller it display black and white lines on screen,looking at service manual here- [url]http://w…

    ... it display black and white lines on screen,looking at service ...
    JACK98 JACK98 May 2011 Hardware
  • Speeding up select processing...Hi Folks, I have the following code in my program and it works fine but is rather "sluggish". I have even moved it to the beginning of the program …

    ... and moves up/down two lines if you press cursor up ... .e. 10 rows of 2 lines each.
    [*]one=a variable ... original attributes using the cool basic memory move routine and go ... memory used by the cool basic memory move routine to store ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Drawing a "window"...Hi Folks, I want to display a blank window over an existing screen. It then draws a border around it but that is not the point of my question. Ini…

    ... fine but is a bit slow. So I then changed the ... of alternating white and cyan lines. In this case I define ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum+ fault - lines on boot screen, freezesThe ZX Spectrum+ I bought in the car boot has a fault. When you boot it, it's displaying the Copyright screen, but each character position has a vert…

    ... at fault there), and the lines went!

    However, it ...
    Muzer Muzer June 2011 Hardware
  • Which BASIC commands/functions affect FRAMES?Hi Folks, Does someone have a definitive list of BASIC commands/functions that affect the FRAMES counter? The list I have so far: BEEP CAT (thanks…

    ... have a definitive list of BASIC commands/functions that affect the ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Spectrum Basic on IPOD ?A few days ago someone wrote that the I-POD was able to run ZX Spectrum BASIC. It may have been here or in the sinclair-newsgroup. I can't find the m…

    A few days ago someone wrote that the I-POD was able to run ZX Spectrum BASIC.
    It may have been here or in the sinclair-newsgroup.
    I can't find the message again.
    Have anybode seen it, too ?
    Regards
    Tommy
    Tommy F-H Tommy F-H July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Game Selection Menu for DivIDE (& others)I retro game on a few other machines and one of the common things is a menu front end on a hard disk to all the games/disc images stored on it. The m…

    ... skills to do something in basic but I suspect my efforts ... quite poor and the results slow. Does anybody fancy a go ...
    brownb2 brownb2 July 2011 New game ideas
  • HiSoft Basic +3 version and booksI have been summer cleaning and found a couple of old things that might interest some one: HiSoft Basic +3 version in original case with +3 disc and…

    ... some one:

    HiSoft Basic +3 version in original case ...
    JohnFante JohnFante July 2011 Sales
  • ZX81 Basic questionI just got a ZX81 off Ebay and when it arrived it has an Atari joystick hardwired into it. It does work as moving the joystick replicates certain key…

    ... really used PEEK commands when basic programming and would use the ... have been better in the Basic forum...
    beanz beanz August 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • 128k RAM paging from BASICI'd always thought that OUT had to be used to page RAM, which from BASIC would be an "OUT 32765,ddd" command, although I don't know if just doing tha…

    ... to page RAM, which from BASIC would be an "OUT 32765 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • "ZX" Spanish magazine type-ins and ZX BASIC projectI'm actually performing a complete list of all BASIC type-ins included in this Spanish magazine that haven't been added yet here (it's a huge list). …

    ... a complete list of all BASIC type-ins included in this ... I'm also updating my BASIC project with referees to most ... ="http://proyectobasiczx.wordpress.com/"]Proyecto BASIC ZX[/URL]", it could be ... 've really started with "ZX" BASIC programs. Also, somebody else is ...
    Neil Parsons Neil Parsons August 2011 MIA/STP/SDP
  • youtube's new player?seems like youtube is using a new player to play vids in since about a week ago or something. looks slightly different, with a black border on the pl…

    ... problems. get videos playing in slow motion, with no sound, flickering ... into a bunch of blocky lines etc...

    anyone else ...
    def chris def chris August 2011 Chit chat
  • Streams - File HandlingHello there my fellow WoS'ers I am attempting to write a Z80 / Snapshot Launching program that is based on a category of files # - Z whereby each f…

    ... proof the concept usingv+3e basic as a prototype - before I ... from there - its still very slow..

    My plan is ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 August 2011 Sinclair Basic
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