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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 …
Some changes which would reduce the amount of processing per cycle:
* delete lines 290 & 300
* move line 310 after line 320
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BORDER colours...Hi Folks, As a matter of interest, why can't the Spectrum make the BORDER colour BRIGHT? Is this just a BASIC limitation of is there are hardware r…
... about how much worse colour attribute clash would have been with 'bright ... -
Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …
... was unable to sell on Sinclair Market, so UK never heard ... was not on Sinclair market, it was Sinclair that asked for help ... to use Timex FDD with Sinclair Basic. CP/M worked on a ... -
Fuse: what do you want to see?An open brainstorm. If you had a team of programmers working on [url=http://fuse-emulator.sf.net/]Fuse[/url], what would you tell them to work on? …
[QUOTE=kgmcneil;547059]So this FDD system was essentially a computer without video or keyboard, requiring a spectrum/timex/or other computer/console to act as a keyboard and provide the processing for the video output?..[/QUOTE]
Yes and... no ... -
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…
All Spectrum emulators contain the Spectrum ROM (its operating system) which also contains the Sinclair Basic editor/interpreter. When you read that you can now use Basic on Spectaculator on the iPod, it means you can enter your own programs, nothing else. -
Can anyone see a way to speed up the following line of code?Hi Folks, Been looking at bottle necks in my code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well the 2nd LET statement) is somewhat slow. [COD…
... are slowing it down. Sadly, Sinclair BASIC doesn't provide shift right ... -
Manic Miner review and WOS mention on the register[url]http://www.reghardware.com/2011/07/07/antique_code_show_manic_miner_game/[/url] Interesting address for the ftp "mirror".
And there's no attribute clash on Willy's head in Central Cavern? Three colours per attribute square?? -
Birthday PlotsHello all; When browsing the web, I stumbled across an oddity known as Birthday Plots. In effect somebody enters a numeric date and the computer prin…
... to convert this listing to Sinclair Basic? All help much appreciated.[/QUOTE ... -
Birthday PlotsHello all; When browsing the web, I stumbled across an oddity known as Birthday Plots. In effect somebody enters a numeric date and the computer prin…
... the corresponding DRAW command in Sinclair BASIC.
Moreover, the relative ... -
List of existing games that needs a port to zx spectrumPlease post here the games that exist in other platform(s) but does not exist in speccy. Please keep in mind this is not a to-do list, so don't hesti…
... critical programs, precisely because the Sinclair BASIC calculator stack just isn't ... -
List of existing games that needs a port to zx spectrumPlease post here the games that exist in other platform(s) but does not exist in speccy. Please keep in mind this is not a to-do list, so don't hesti…
... critical programs, precisely because the Sinclair BASIC calculator stack just isn't ... -
Sneak Peak...Hi Folks, A sneak peak of the application I have been writing over the last few months (with a lot of help from this group, BASin and recently ZXDS)…
... is not "standard" Spectrum 128K BASIC (well apart from the Proportional ... shown me is how good Sinclair BASIC is/was and how much ... -
Sneak Peak...Hi Folks, A sneak peak of the application I have been writing over the last few months (with a lot of help from this group, BASin and recently ZXDS)…
... performance. I chose to use Sinclair BASIC (rather than a modern tool ... -
Frank N SteinThis one > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001849[/url] Always seems to crash about level 7 (maybe a bit more) or so with an …
... as V1, V2, V3 etc.. Sinclair BASIC won't allow 'V5' as ... -
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
Cybernoid 1 & 2 (Hewson)
Savage (Firebird)
Dan Dare 1 & 2 (Clever use of sprite masking routines to minimise attribute clash whilst attaining lots of colour). -
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... would give annoying colour bleed (attribute clash) if the sprites were differently ... -
Most colourful games?I just played [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001563]Earth Shaker[/url] and am fairly dazzled by the overload use of colour (t…
... would give annoying colour bleed (attribute clash) if the sprites were differently ... -
Speccy OriginalityJust for fun, I was trying to think of a modern game (on any platform, inc Android etc...) for which there *isn't* something comparable on the Speccy…
[QUOTE=SteveSmith;553509][url]http://nevanda.deviantart.com/art/Guitar-Hero-ZX-Spectrum-151831839[/url][/QUOTE]
Attribute clash is overrated anyway. -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... is stretching the performance of Sinclair BASIC. :smile:
As always ... -
RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... previous routine, just like in Sinclair BASIC, for instance:
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Sinclair BASIC. Although this method is slower ... -
machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…
... then able to get into Sinclair BASIC and wrote a program to ... -
Worst Collision Detection & Colour Clash in gamesSorry if this as been mentioned before but i did do a search ;) In a recent discussion with a friend we talked about probs with the older games such…
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A plethora of colour clash (it was really bad !), but ... it brainache coz the gaudy attribute clash gave you a headache, and ... -
Sneak Peak...Hi Folks, A sneak peak of the application I have been writing over the last few months (with a lot of help from this group, BASin and recently ZXDS)…
... much about the Spectrum and Sinclair BASIC. Also using BASin has been ... -
Another video of specbas doing silly things!Here's SpecBAS again, doing some texture mapping. Note that this isn't using any specialised commands other than POKEing to display memory, and build…
... based on / compatible with Sinclair BASIC, than can be run / installed ... -
Othello/Reversi Validate and Make MovesI'm working an Othello/Reversi game The board is represented as a 2d array 8*8 ie: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00012000 00021000 00000000 00000000 000…
line, plot and circle in whole 256x192 displayhi! are there some way to draw lines, or whatever, in the whole 256x192 display, than just the above 256x176 part? (this is the msx1 version i made o…
Boriel's Sinclair Basic compiler has support for full screen drawings.
As it is written with python and z80 asm, you may take a look at his drawing routines. They are easy enough to understand.line, plot and circle in whole 256x192 displayhi! are there some way to draw lines, or whatever, in the whole 256x192 display, than just the above 256x176 part? (this is the msx1 version i made o…
... the full screen area from BASIC? Just don't BREAK into ... /> [QUOTE=Arda;566514]Boriel's Sinclair Basic compiler has support for full ... .boriel.com/software/the-zx-basic-compiler/?lang=en [/url] - i ...Is it a must...Since this ZX Evolution thing I have been wanting another ZX Spectrum but with the ros and an ide device. Well yesterday I was very lucky as I had a …
Well, it depends on what you want to do. If, for example, you want to code in standard, interpreted Sinclair BASIC, BasIn is an integrated IDE with many tools of good use. There's plenty of BasIn enthusiasts around, they may give better advice than I :-)
