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  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... and Leycester Whewell - gives the following information about IN and OUT ... . The memory map holds the BASIC ROM, system variables, etc. while ...
    Blondin235 Blondin235 March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • MINIGAME COMPO 2006[url="http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/"]http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/[/url] it could be nice to meet you there :)

    ... whole game fits in the basic program. If there is machine ... ""CODE statements, but imposed the following simpler rule:

    - the ... of the TAP format + the BASIC header, which should not be ... of the game. But the BASIC code itself counts.

    Paolo Ferraris Paolo Ferraris March 2006 Development
  • +3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…

    ... routines directly and has a BASIC control loop.
    ...
    To ... to consider implementing, my main aim being to get the images ...
    icabod icabod April 2006 Development
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... died.

    The following discussion is reprinted without any ... the unit to turn, take aim and shoot is
    ... be shown in
    the following example:

    Classic ... not have time to take aim and shoot before
    ...
    ant_222 ant_222 April 2006 Development
  • What should be the base address to set for my codeHi, I am new here and I have a simple question but one which I have not found an answer to. When I am developming my programs what should I set th…

    ... file (z80) with the following lines of basic:
    [code]
    10 ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan April 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... preceeding underscore). The embedded assembler following "sprdrawftbl[]"'s declaration contains that ... these sprite draw functions. The following "LIB ..." line tells z80asm that ... .

    There are five basic sprite types: MASK, OR, XOR ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... from part 1

    Following these details, the only difference ... specific character square just like Basic's "PRINT AT". These characters ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... is important to keep the following in mind so we can ... /> in_Inkey() works like inkey$ in Basic: it returns the ascii code ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... . This is the mode Spectrum Basic runs in and the ROM ... Europe). Under normal operation the Basic System is in "im 1 ... a constant rate.
    [*] The Basic system's interrupt routine at ... config file[/URL] suggests the following memory map:

    [code ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • M3 UnlockDoes anyone know where I can obtain a copy of "M3 Unlock"? Apparently it will allow the loading of Multiface 3 snapshots without having a multiface…

    ... managed to unlock a file following way:
    First ... still need to make the basic loader,
    load ... again and select 4 basic setup program
    ... finally you see the basic listing (just follow instructions ... to see files). Save basic loader to the disk ...
    Timppa Timppa May 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... like C, Pascal, Fortran and Basic were king. A language is ... a pointer to the item following it and the item preceeding ... only have pointers to the following item in the list.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • OpenZXRom v2006-05-17 releasedJust knocked out a new release of OpenZXRom last night - a GPL licensed functional replacement for the original Spectrum ROM. [url]http://matt.west.…

    ... .
    Besides, I think the aim is to make a replacement ... -code software - the aim isn't to replace BASIC as a whole ...
    icabod icabod June 2006 Development
  • Detect if program was loaded from tape or microdriveHow (if at all) can a BASIC program detect if it was loaded from tape or microdrive? This can be helpful to then load the screen or more machine code…

    ... line after all the bytes BASIC inserts (2 for line number ... proggie and typed in the following 4 numbers: [B]1[/B ... relocatable. You can try the BASIC above with and without the ...
    Marcelo Marcelo July 2006 Development
  • ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…

    ... loaded with any of the following commands:

    LOAD "blah ... as if it were a BASIC program then things will go ...
    glancaster glancaster July 2006 Emulators
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... how to do is convert basic comand PRINT AT 5,5 ... that the two-digit value following a "\x" must be in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2006 Development
  • z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…

    ... level functions to do basic input and output. You ... ll need to know the following.

    stdio ... it relies on the Basic interrupt routine to ... wanted to stop running Basic's interrupt routine and ... working. This is because Basic's interrupt routine scanned ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2006 Development
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... story article [/URL] mentions the following:

    "There is much ... had a strong version of basic (better that anything offered by ... a beginner. The version of basic was excellent and I found ... a really weak version of basic. The disk system was the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... really didn't intend to aim it at you but at ... rewrote an old text based basic game for the VZ200/300 ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SjASMPlus cross compiler of Z80 assembly languageHi! I want to present you cross-compiler of Z80 assembly language: [B]SjASMPlus[/B]. [SIZE="4"]Features:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]Z80/R800 documented and un…

    ... some problems so I have following questions:

    1) In ... expected it to run from BASIC, execute itself and return to ... BASIC after execution. However, it executed ... with white ink (instead of BASIC white screen with black ink ...
    Ralf Ralf September 2006 Development
  • SjASMPlus cross compiler of Z80 assembly languageHi! I want to present you cross-compiler of Z80 assembly language: [B]SjASMPlus[/B]. [SIZE="4"]Features:[/SIZE] [LIST] [*]Z80/R800 documented and un…

    ... some problems so I have following questions:

    ... it to run from BASIC, execute itself and return ... white ink (instead of BASIC white screen with black ... you can't return to BASIC, because his variables was ... If you want to use BASIC, you need to start ...
    aprisobal aprisobal September 2006 Development
  • state of education.what does everyone think about the state of education today. (please no posts about how short girls skirts are getting.)

    ... to count, tell the time, basic reading, the alphabet & how ... now 8 is the same. Following my problems in my youth ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 October 2006 Chit chat
  • VB Emulator UpgradeHas anyone upgraded the VB 6.0 open source of either VBspec or VB81 to the free VB Express 2005 Edition? [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expr…

    ... following dialog:
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    This walkthrough requires Visual Basic ... /> To create the Visual Basic 6.0 application
    Open ... Visual Basic 6.0. On the ... Code Editor, and enter the following code.

    ...
    dalmudlee dalmudlee October 2006 Emulators
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... just set up VortexTracker configuration following your instructions, thanks. The compatibility ... . If I right a siimple basic program on BASIC64 and save ...
    Paulo Kathanni Paulo Kathanni November 2006 Games
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... each. But from C, not basic :-)

    [quote]
    basic game I would forget ... program with song data following. The machine code updates ... for you while your basic program is running and ... CODE it when the basic program starts and then ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
  • Christmas in the 80'sIn the analogue TV thread I mentioned my old portable telly that's still going strong, together with memories of watching the BBC premiere of Indiana…

    ... could run some form of Basic on it and that`d ... works with the following languages


    Visual Basic,
    Java ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk November 2006 Chit chat
  • 3D CAD symbolsNot sure if this is the right place for this but...... Does anybody know of a good site to get hold of 3D CAD symbols (Cells, blocks ect, I will con…

    ... into an endless loop in basic and it would start altering ... the moment.

    The aim is two fold

    ADJB ADJB December 2006 Development
  • Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…

    ... support a common set of BASIC commands and the best features ... extends the functionality available to BASIC and machine-code programmers.

    Standardisation is a laudable aim in some respects, but it ...
    glancaster glancaster January 2007 Hardware
  • NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…

    ... /trainer of Batty in the following way (using RealSpectrum):
    ... TRD and convert the BASIC loader to a TAP ... is contained in the BASIC one so we need ... $66FF (26367) so our BASIC loader needs to CLEAR 26366 ... , we end up with a BASIC loader like this:
    ...
    StuBruise StuBruise January 2007 Games
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    [QUOTE=NotFound;169860]
    Spectrum Basic does not work that way. The line numbers arguments in instructions are numeric expressions.[/QUOTE]

    So can you do the following?
    GOTO A
    GOSUB B
    GOTO 127+A
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... ]So can you do the following?
    GOTO A
    GOSUB ... GOTO is implemented in Sinclair Basic like so:

    GOTO ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Development
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