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  • Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…

    ... /> If you want a simple, BASIC only, codge. And don't ... it afterwards, using the colour attributes, but not quite instantly.
    BASIC - which allows you to copy ... trivial to implement, and makes BASIC on the Spectrum massively more ...
    p13z p13z September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…

    OK, when BASIC is running, it's actually ... ROM that is running - the BASIC interpreter. It's programmed to ... the memory that contains the BASIC program, interpret it as different ... at 18432) and ignore the attributes. You can obviously fit more ...
    joefish joefish September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…

    ... graphic is identified by four attributes, the distance to the object ... are the line numbers of BASIC executed when that particular attribute ... example executes 16 lines of BASIC in order to work out ... -9 always use the same basic graphics data as distance 1 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…

    ... can be addressed directly in BASIC by making it part of ... the lower screen's colour attributes, which shares its PAPER colour ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Best place to start learning assembly on WOS ?So I'm pretty new at this forum but not the Speccy so my BASIC is pretty good. I can see lots of resources on WOS for doing machine code/assembly but…

    ... BASIC and using decimal numbers. Because I know the screen and attributes ...
    joefish joefish October 2016 Development
  • Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…

    ... can be addressed directly in BASIC by making it part of ... the lower screen's colour attributes, which shares its PAPER colour ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Graphics program in AssemblyHi so I think I'm getting the hang of this so I've done this program. It writes directly to the screen. I'm using ZX Spin. [code] LD HL,16384 LD B,…

    ... , if you do not need attributes

    ld (hl), 170 ... tried to load this from BASIC by POKEING the DATA values ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2016 Assembler
  • Help with Snake type game...any ideas ?Hi all I've attached me trying to write a snake type game. My first concern is me not writing over the System variables area. I'm pretty happy what i…

    ... start and end of the attributes - not the screen edges. You ... for the end of the attributes.

    That takes care ... . That's not easy in BASIC, and I'd be interested ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Fast way to clear the screen ?So I was wondering fastest way to clear the screen. I've tried this and this works but is it better than CLS ? LD HL,16384 LD BC, 6144 Loop…

    ... it in
    Boriel ZX Basic[/quote]
    Considerably faster, although ... need (like checking for inline attributes, non-integer co-ordinates and ...
    GReW GReW December 2016 Assembler
  • New Game - Pietro Bros [z88dk/Nirvana+][b]PIETRO BROS[/b] Pietro and Luizo were transported to pipe world after eating some rancid mushrooms on his pizza. Help them to escape from th…

    ... misses a frame and regular attributes are shown for that one ... />
    ; Load main loader over basic area

    ld ix ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2016 Brand new software
  • What should your speccy have come with ?:) I was thinking about this earlier. What changes should of been made to the Speccy when you purchased yours ? Realistically this topic really…

    ... 32×192 Hi-Colour 8x1 attributes and monochrome 512×192 mode ... ULA and ROMs with extended BASIC. This would be based on ... Andrew Owen's OpenSE BASIC and ULA+

    - Industry ...
    retrogod retrogod January 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • flash in a stringhi, is it possible to store flash in a string? u can store colours, bright, etc.

    ... can persuade the (48k Spectrum) BASIC editor to insert attribute modifier ... .

    Flash and Bright attributes can be set using -9 ... game I'm writing in BASIC. I had hoped that;
    Georgeo Georgeo January 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Comp.Sys.Sinclair Crap Games Competition 2017As the creator of the second-least crap game in last year's competition (and the only mug stupid enough to agree to host it this year) I am proud/ash…

    ... . Attributes only though.

    This is the 'Sinclair BASIC Attribute ... the screen. The buffered attributes will be scrolled down, ... b] then the buffered attributes are copied to the screen ... data directly to the buffered attributes, either to add/clear ...
    joefish joefish January 2017 Games
  • c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!!c64 .sid player coming soon to specy 128!!! the first old version uses only square waves, 4 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKt9noxA7s…

    ... be to make loader from BASIC, so that everyone can adapt ... s idea follows:

    BASIC loader could look like this ... will be covered by white attributes)
    - music data then ... interrupt
    - return correctly to BASIC, so it will continue with ...
    Hood Hood March 2017 Announcements
  • 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. …

    ... FRAMES, yet is there in BASIC a less intrusive approach, I ... -PRINT attributes only, but not sure whether it was a pure BASIC ...
    NRA NRA March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Interupt service routinehas anyone set up a interupt service routing with pasmo? this one I tried resets the speccy EDIt- I placed the code after the END directive, I fi…

    ... 2

    ; Return to BASIC:
    ei
    ret
    attributes in the corners of the ... , if you're returning to BASIC on a 128K machine, you ... in and out by the BASIC interpreter. Also your interrupt routine ...
    joefish joefish April 2017 Development
  • 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. …

    To change attributes from BASIC, use OVER 1 and print a space:

    [code]
    10 CLS
    20 PRINT "A"
    30 PAUSE 100
    40 PRINT OVER 1;INK 7; PAPER 1; AT 0,0; " "
    [/code]
    Oktup Oktup April 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • 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. …

    [quote="Oktup;905845"]To change attributes from BASIC, use OVER 1 and print ...
    GReW GReW April 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... [/i] software made for [i]basic[/i] Spectrum :P
    [/quote ... requires creating graphics (at least attributes) specifically for it and code ... clash using logical operators on attributes, you have to be very ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... clear on is the HiSoft Basic compiler which was written by ... the ts2068. Soon after HiSoft Basic for the spectrum appeared but ... screen data, this is spectrum attributes, etc). When I say "dma ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 128K memory bank selection to avoid contention issuesI'm currently developing a game and I'm trying to get my head around the memory contention issues of the various 128K/+2/+2A/+3 spectrum models in or…

    ... . Note that the screen bitmap/attributes must not be equal to ... the detection code immediately after basic, run it to set up ...
    introspec introspec June 2017 Development
  • Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …

    ... language, we're using special attributes for each compiler to help ... read because it will be basic C. But I think it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • Is it possible to add a listing to a screen?I made this picture (see next message for link) deliberately in the bottom half of the screen hoping to be able to have another display in the upper …

    ... to align with the Spectrum attributes grid.

    [img]http ... screen very quickly, just using BASIC. (The "LET d$=s$" in ... ", "sc3". The other lines of BASIC in the demo have to ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2017 BASIC
  • im looking for a horizontal scroll routinehi, im looking for a horizontal scroll routine. i read somewhere that you can do it with at 'to' statement, somewhere in a print routine. althoug…

    ... , which is quite quick for BASIC:

    [IMG]http://www ... .co.uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/tunnel-basic-scroller32.gif[/IMG]

    attributes) add up to 30,720 ... isn't supported by ZX BASIC, so I've had to ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • How to improve my program using oversized numbersI'd like my dice program to print out the number four times bigger than normal if possible. Anyone know how to do this? Or I could write a sub rou…

    ... , pointing to address 22592 (screen attributes)


    [code]
    attributes change in BASIC games.

    (Sorry ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic July 2017 BASIC
  • Gandalf - A ZX Spectrum platformer that looks rather nice indeed![img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BuVmuvmRXfg/WYhRw0z0lMI/AAAAAAAAisA/LFKD4SipiSkm3x0FsCNjJCRsCnHgE6W6gCLcBGAs/s640/GandalfZX.jpg[/img] [quote]As ma…

    ... by re-writing the screen attributes whilst the TV is trying ... to do all this from BASIC? With the multicolour engine running ... must, use Boriel's ZX BASIC with the Bifrost engine plug ...
    joefish joefish August 2017 Development
  • Speeding up PRINT code in ROMHi Folks, I seem to recall that someone stated the PRINT command is rather slow because it has to handle screen and printer printing - is this cor…

    ... is needed to call from BASIC, e.g. from a ... /> ATTRIB_CHECK:
    pop bc ; Restore attributes
    ld a,b
    ret z ; Exit if no attributes to update

    COLOUR_IT ... /> ld (hl),c ; And update attributes

    ret
    ...
    Georgeo Georgeo August 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • The aliens who built Stonehenge must be laughing at how stupid we humans areSome rapper is looking to crowd fund 'research' whereby he intends to prove that the Earth is flat. He intends to raise $200,000 (£150,000) to launch…

    ... 'theory' go against so many basic scientific laws (and common sense ... depends on physics or physical attributes of the Earth.

    ewgf ewgf September 2017 Chit chat
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    ... so on.

    In Basic this is going to be ... a question of reviewing the (attributes?) of any given frame before ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch November 2017 Development
  • Please, convert your game to EP128The Enterprise is a Zilog Z80-based home computer first produced in 1985. It can simulate the specy screen, so most of the EP128 game is specy conver…

    ... documentation. Printing to the screen, basic collision detection etc.

    attributes have to be changed, I ...
    Geco Geco January 2018 Brand new software
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