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  • checking bits in BASICThe question of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this [thread=35728]Keys redefine routine and key check[/thread] thread. I s…

    ... of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this ... for ease of handling from BASIC, with a little loop to ... binary digit character strings in BASIC for bit manipulation, but the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • hisoft basic compiler - saveAnd yet another question. I'm sure spamming forums a lot hehe :) Is there anyone expirienced with hisoft basic compiler? I'm working on small program…

    ... there anyone expirienced with hisoft basic compiler?
    I'm working ... save it.
    Unfortunately hisoft basic will not compile save command ...
    rikokun rikokun September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • JHCon Basic GOTO-less CompoHi there, I've just announced a ZX Spectrum 16/48K Basic compo for JH-Con party in December, with some rules. For details and rules, please visit my …

    ... a ZX Spectrum 16/48K Basic compo for JH-Con party ...
    Factor6 Factor6 September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …

    ... to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Multi-screen mazes?Well, it's been decades since I last mucked about with speccy BASIC, so over the last couple of weeks I've been starting out as a newbie learning a b…

    ... last mucked about with speccy BASIC, so over the last couple ... I want to do the following:

    (1) allow the ... has some good suggestions for basic AI. But do I need ...
    Morkin Morkin October 2011 Development
  • Books for BASICIs there any godo books out there to learn BASIC ? I want to go from begininer to advanced really even though back in the day I used to write games …

    ... books out there to learn BASIC ?

    I want to ... would still like to use BASIC as well.

    thanks
    morcar morcar October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • AND,XOR,OR,BIT,RES,SET,CPL,NEG,RLC,RRC,SLA,SRL,RL, RR,SRA for BASICAs this was drifting away from the original INKEY$ thread I thought that I'd create a new one. So here's a routine to provide all of the above mentio…

    ... the above mentioned operations from BASIC. Syntax is explained in the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Requesting a little help to identify the purpose of this 'add-on' to my Issue 2Hi everyone First of all it's my first post here so please go easy on me! I'm grateful to be accepted into your fine little club :smile: I probabl…

    ... bottom of the CPU and, following the trace on underside, goes ... to the left of IC21. Following the trace on the underside ... when just playing around in basic but if I try to ...
    cmonkey cmonkey October 2011 Hardware
  • Divide and Divide Plus issue'sHi, After about a year of inactivity I brought out my Spectrum +3 the other day and plugged in my Divide plus. The result was constant crashing on t…

    ... FAT16. I now get the following

    On the +3 ... plus goes straight into 48k basic wit the copyright message. And ...
    acsi acsi October 2011 Hardware
  • Find-Fill-Copy functions for BASICThere's not much going on here, so here's three m/code routines to provide some data manipulation functions which are otherwise slow to do from BASIC…

    ... otherwise slow to do from BASIC.

    * find array 'a ... can be calculated by the BASIC program; see lines 15 & ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • BASIC menus for PlusD discsIs it possible to use BASIC to code custom autoloader menus for PlusD discs? For instance, I can make a disc copy of Dizzy Collection and could make…

    Is it possible to use BASIC to code custom autoloader menus for PlusD discs?

    For instance, I can make a disc copy of Dizzy Collection and could make a menu to load the programs..

    How feasable would it be?

    Thanks.
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Thank you, WOSThanks, WoS, for putting all these great games online, which I started accessing back in the heady days of ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/sinclair or whatever i…

    ... half-dozen of us started following that 100 Push-Ups programme ... dad wrote for me in BASIC in 1983, running both on ...
    Danforth Danforth November 2011 Chit chat
  • How to use Spectaculator 7.01 for BASIC ?It does not work for me. Problems with the keyboard - in 48 and 128 Mode. Nor can I move downwards with the "Down-Arrow" from: 128 TAPE LOADER 128 BA…

    ... LOADER
    128 BASIC
    CALCULATOR
    48 BASIC
    My prime ... use my registered Spectaculator for BASIC programming, but it seems to ...
    Tommy F-H Tommy F-H December 2011 Emulators
  • How to join 2 basic programs? having no luck with basinHow do you join two programs together to save writing it up again. Here's my problem... I'm trying to add pictures I have made to a basic text base…

    ... I have made to a basic text based game i am ...
    rustyredline rustyredline December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum+ Keyboard problemI got a ZX Spectrum+ recently. This thing is never used and is in excellent condition. The previous owner told me he never used it and stored it in h…

    ... started my Spectrum experience by following the original user guide but ... probably the wrong topic, "Sinclair Basic". Sorry. I hope a moderator ...
    alba007 alba007 December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Trying to remember an old text based game I used to play...Hi all, hope u had a nice Christmas.. I've been scratching my head for some time now trying to remember the name of an old game I used to play on my …

    ... /> All I remember is the basic layout was that I could ... -graphical adventure/rpg...
    The aim was to search for and ...
    RetroGamerUK RetroGamerUK December 2011 Games
  • So easy to use.Back in the 90s I was off work for 3 months following an operation, anyway in my boredom I dusted off my old speccy+ and the manual, and got my head …

    ... off work for 3 months following an operation, anyway in my ... , and got my head around basic.
    It was surprisingly easy ...
    RetroGamerUK RetroGamerUK December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Can someone shorten this line of BASIC for me?I think if Sinclair Basic had a modulo operation this line could be a lot shorter:[CODE]PRINT AT cy,cx; PAPER 7-((cx/2=INT (cx/2))*(cy/2=INT (cy/2)))…

    I think if Sinclair Basic had a modulo operation this ...
    bigjon bigjon January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • BASIC: Find the nearestHello guys) A few days ago I found oldie ?Jeux et casse-tete a Programmer? by Jacques Arsac (Paris?85) and suggested my nephew to try a few in Basic…

    ... to try a few in Basic. He chose Game #8: Shadok ...
    NRA NRA January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Noob needs helpSorry gents but decided to have a play with basic...see if I could knock up a shonky as hell space invader type game I seem to have gotten myself co…

    ... to have a play with basic...see if I could knock ... not really done anything on BASIC since I was 8 or ... it split down into the following sections

    1) initial ... , this is done on a basic (RND*2) command which then ...
    Wookiee Wookiee January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Interesting speed increase...Hi Folks, You may already know the following but I found it "interesting". I have been developing a model railway timetable program in BASin for th…

    ... /> You may already know the following but I found it "interesting ... data population left. The main BASIC program is 17.1K in ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • MinnaMicroZ80 v0.21 - Z80 Snapshot to Microdrive converterMinnaMicroZ80 v0.21 - The Z80 to Microdrive Snapshot Converter -------------------------------------------------------------- Written by Rob Shepherd…

    ... />
    It also includes a BASIC loader utility that you should ... command line tool using the following arguments:

    MicroZ80. ... br />
    Then copy the BASIC loader from GenericLoader.tzx, and ... me how to clear a BASIC program from MC too!:
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay January 2012 Announcements
  • storing machine code in BASICA couple of years ago I posted a routine for storing machine code between PROG & VARS, based on an idea in Toni Baker's "Mastering Machine Code". Thi…

    ... saved & loaded with the BASIC, as if it was in ... after the last line of BASIC, even though the m/c ... and doesn't need any BASIC to be typed other than ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Beta/Sam/Master basic as spectrum ROMWith emulators being trivial to use to insert new ROMs into - and even in the physical world, RAM in place of ROM by use of a modified multiface or s…

    ... be to get an improved basic into that first 16k? Obviosuly ... been minor tweaks to sinclair basic.

    What if one ... went for beta basic (or its progeny) instead? Reckon ...
    Gedlion Gedlion February 2012 Hardware
  • joining lines of BASICDue to overwhelming demand - well, one demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical c…

    ... to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical cursor motion code ... include a "dividing lines of BASIC" option as well - edit a ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • What is the (hypothetically) largest 9999 lines BASIC program possible?If the Speccy had infinite amounts of memory, what is the largest 9999 line BASIC program that could be made? (in K and amount of instructions) (Yet…

    ... is the largest 9999 line BASIC program that could be made ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • more on storing mazesPrompted by Wookiee's escapades, I've been pondering on how to use DATA statements directly for displaying background graphics, thus avoiding the dup…

    ... their tokens;
    * numeric parameters following print controls use characters "?" to ... once in situ (done in BASIC here, but in practice it ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Minimal BASICAndrew Owen has just uploaded [B]Standard ECMA-55: Minimal BASIC [/B]to the Full Books archive on WOS. Thanks! [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pu…

    ... [B]Standard ECMA-55: Minimal BASIC [/B]to the Full Books ... the ANSI Minimal standard for BASIC.
    The two standards are ... in the origins of Sinclair BASIC which adhered closely to the ... no ON GOTO in Sinclair BASIC (a good substitute exists) but ...
    Geoff Geoff February 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Using Boriel's ZX Basic to learn assemblyI wrote a small guide. Hopefully some people will find my gibberish useful - especially people looking at first steps in machine code, where I think …

    ... -inline-assembly-functions-into-zx-basic-t729.html[/url]
    Gedlion Gedlion February 2012 Development
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