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Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... I think exist in the Sinclair BASIC).
Some less obvious ... -
Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... of the reasons I chose "Basic compiler" when Dunny had a ... in [U]any[/U] [U]Sinclair Basic[/U] listing and convert it ... -
Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... compile your sources. Sinclair BASIC is heavily based upon ... doesn't accept everything Sinclair BASIC accepts. I had ... extremely ugly code, but that Sinclair BASIC executes correctly):
Sinclair BASIC while being relatively fast ... -
Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... [U]any[/U] [U]Sinclair Basic[/U] listing and convert it ... make it clear:
Sinclair BASIC is a Dynamic language (very ... is allowing as much Sinclair BASIC syntax as possible to ... [/code]
Unlike other BASICs, Sinclair BASIC treated DATA as [b]anonymous ... -
Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... program into a new Basic. But I will forward ... sinclair-spectrum.de[/url] . Nice new games, but all in Basic ... s say it's a Sinclair BASIC "dialect", which also allows ... (the same format ROM Basic does) and it's ... , bug-by-bug compatible BASIC, better stick to the ... -
Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... which is able to compile Sinclair BASIC "as is", as the language ... bet is Boriel's ZX BASIC (where you have to adjust ... goes faster) followed by Hisoft BASIC 1.2 for +3. -
A LOAD of old site!If there was a website that released distinctly retro styled games to play online or download them for free but only a small amount of the game was i…
... the bottom. You program in Sinclair BASIC just like you would on ... graphics (by executing strings of BASIC code at runtime), bezier curves ... as easy as coding in Sinclair BASIC, just shedloads faster. [i]Really ... -
Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... 's say it's a Sinclair BASIC "dialect", which also allows complex ... -
Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... not supported the way Sinclair BASIC does for the reason ... explained above. Like VAL, Sinclair INPUT also accepts arithmetic ... so ZX BASIC does.
ZX BAsic implements FreeBasic ... you get to the original Sinclair BASIC, the slower (and much ... -
yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…
... on microdrive etc? using the sinclair basic filetypes and filesystem or implementing ... -
Turn OCR-ed listings into Speccy filesHi! I do not know whether I have posted this in the proper subforum... If not, I am sorry. We have a site that we scan/preserve Greek computer maga…
With Abbyy Finereader you can specify BASIC as a language (though not specifically Sinclair BASIC) -
Turn OCR-ed listings into Speccy filesHi! I do not know whether I have posted this in the proper subforum... If not, I am sorry. We have a site that we scan/preserve Greek computer maga…
[QUOTE=Turkwel;518650]With Abbyy Finereader you can specify BASIC as a language (though not specifically Sinclair BASIC)[/QUOTE]
Nice to know about it as I use this program since a short time ago. -
Specific memories attached to certain gamesThought it might be interesting to share a few memories attached to certain games. For me a few spring to mind... [B]Agent X[/B] One morning I had …
... an analogue clock programmed in Sinclair basic :)
1987(ish) Finally ... -
Fast LogsAnyone know of a fast ln function I can steal? The ROM function seems to be hideously slow. I wrote a look-up table dirty and less accurate sin func…
... on, ahhh my excellence in Sinclair BASIC (NOT!)... :p -
Fast LogsAnyone know of a fast ln function I can steal? The ROM function seems to be hideously slow. I wrote a look-up table dirty and less accurate sin func…
I tested SE Basic in a 100 loop of let l=ln n
Sinclair basic was about 7.75 seconds. SE basic was about 7.5 seconds. There's a small improvement, but not much :sad: -
Fast LogsAnyone know of a fast ln function I can steal? The ROM function seems to be hideously slow. I wrote a look-up table dirty and less accurate sin func…
... =Gedlion;519847]I tested SE Basic in a 100 loop of ... l=ln n
Sinclair basic was about 7.75 seconds ... . SE basic was about 7.5 seconds ... -
Zynaps great qualitiesIm enjoying a bit of spare time, and been enjoying good 1987.1988 speccy arcade games.. the best era imho. Ive been playing [b]Marauder[/b] and have …
... shooters are not cheaply made basic lookalikes where your sprite jumps ... grasshoper. Sorry, this is not Sinclair Basic league. So good noone mentions ... -
New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
... they are compressed to keep Sinclair Basic running. But decompressing these blocks ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... behind the foreground, to avoid attribute clash.
(b) was pixel-masked ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... behind the foreground, to avoid attribute clash.
(b) was pixel-masked ... technique, without flickering or colour clash. -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... chunks so as to avoid attribute clash. And it still just squeezes ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... behind the foreground, to avoid attribute clash.
(b) was pixel-masked ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... chunks so as to avoid attribute clash. And it still just squeezes ... easier to avoid the color clash.
But this your new ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... attributes pop along and colour-clash with the background. It doesn ... the blue background, and the attribute clash really stands out. But in ... dark cyan so that the clash is less glaring. It's ... -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... -colour sprite without worrying about attribute clash. -
50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel scrolling on a 128K Speccy50Hurts - Full-screen 50Hz 1-pixel horizontal scrolling on a 128K Speccy. Graphics are an obvious nod to Joffa, whose games and banter were a big ins…
... -colour sprite without worrying about attribute clash.[/QUOTE]
Or, I could ... resolution locally to avoid any clash. 4x should do it; no ... -
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…
This is the coolest trick ever found in the Sinclair basic world. -
ZX SPIN (P and newer) issue.Why, oh, why doesn't Spin work ... (Let's just leave it at that, shall we. -Ed) Anywho ... I extracted it (P and later S) into a folder and then mov…
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-Standalone Screen Editor
-Sinclair BASIC compiler
Yes, I ... -
Games You Still Hate to This Day Like...Dream Warrior... I can't even understant what's the dam point of the game... and why did they have to chose those horrible colours???
... . The games graphics had horrendous attribute clash and small sprites. A total ... -
Games You Still Hate to This Day Like...Dream Warrior... I can't even understant what's the dam point of the game... and why did they have to chose those horrible colours???
... . The games graphics had horrendous attribute clash and small sprites. A total ...
