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Most difficult game to playThanks to Rickard's thread about Skulduggery (or however they wanted to interpret the English language) where you had to not only control your charac…
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POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…
... address 32000 and stop the basic auto running.
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Cascade 50 questionI remember playing on this around summer 1984. There was a game on this tape which was basically a 'W' shape made up of numbers and a moving line whi…
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…
... hard-coded values whenever THE basic AUTO-LIST is displayed, the LIST ...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…
... loading program
LD HL,BASIC
LD (23641),HL ... ;E_LINE=address of BASIC command
SET 7 ... RETURN: JP $D1EF
BASIC: DEFB $EF,"d","1" ;LOAD ... USR 23296 in a BASIC auto-run file and LOADed that ...List of useful POKEs?Hi all. :smile: Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of a thread/file somewhere here containing a list of useful POKEs? Stuff like POKEs to make …
To disable 'Scroll?' message when the screen is full (auto scroll):
POKE 23692, 255List of useful POKEs?Hi all. :smile: Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of a thread/file somewhere here containing a list of useful POKEs? Stuff like POKEs to make …
[QUOTE=Paul van der Laan;709326]To disable 'Scroll?' message when the screen is full (auto scroll):
POKE 23692, 255[/QUOTE]
I created a cgc entry around that poke!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…
... /> This is the 'Sinclair BASIC Attribute Scroll Mechanism', or [b]SBASM[/ ... br />
Then to scroll your display, call [b]USR ... br /> 30 REM Sinclair BASIC Attribute Scroll Mechanism
40 REM ... Example of Vertical Attribute Scroll
50 REM by ...z88dk multicolour enginesI've been trying to work out how the multicolour sprite engines have been implemented in z88dk. It's not obvious. Looking in the source, I found …
... user, supports Z88dk and Boriel Basic. No scroll nor multicolour though. I ...multi-scroll m/c subroutine for BASICArising from recent posts, here's a scrolling routine that will manage multiple left/right scrollings for any (sensible) line width or step; (ie. whe…
Arising from recent posts, here's a scrolling routine that will manage multiple left/right scrollings for any (sensible) line width or step; (ie. where width isNew release and new web site of Blassic, the classic BasicHello. I have launched the release 0.10.0 of Blassic, a Basic interpreter '80 style multiplatform. There is also a new web site: [url="http://blas…
... .10.0 of Blassic, a Basic interpreter '80 style multiplatform.
SCROLL instructions, string slicing Sinclair style ...Help with Visual Basic 6.0 vs Visual Basic.netI have a program that auto generates VB.Net code..... I know VB.net syntax and am happy with the code generated. However, I have been asked to have …
I have a program that auto generates VB.Net code..... I ... generate code compatible with visual basic 6.0.
I ...Disabling scroll? at the bottom of the screen.Everyone must have written something similar to: 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GO TO 10 at some point in their lives. But when you get to the bottom of the s…
... in Sinclair BASIC, it asks you if you want to scroll. How ...Printing in 64 columns, from Basic?Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any known machine code utility that allows something similar to PRINT AT that can be called fr…
Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any ... that can be called from Basic but uses 64 or maybe ... />
I'm creating small Basic programs that allow me to ... of numbers and having to scroll to see the rest of ... s easy to call from Basic? Thanks!ZX Basic 1.2.5 - a BASIC CompilerWell, my old post about ZX BASIC seems to be gone (maybe this phorum purges old threads?), so I started a new one. After more than 6 month, I've fin…
... , my old post about ZX BASIC seems to be gone (maybe ... a new version of ZX BASIC. It's a free compiler ... ) has been included. More routines (scroll, sprites, etc...) will be added ...+3 Basic QuestionBeing doing alot of programming in Basic on my +3 recently and was wondering if there is a way to get my Basic programs to auto boot from disk?
Being doing alot of programming in Basic on my +3 recently and was wondering if there is a way to get my Basic programs to auto boot from disk?bast, the Basic tapemaker for LinuxAnnouncing a new utility, [b]bast[/b], the BASIC Tapemaker. Now available: version 0.2.3 (alpha) for Linux. At: [url]http://github.com/ec429/bast/do…
... utility, [b]bast[/b], the BASIC Tapemaker.
Now available: version ... plain text files containing Sinclair BASIC source code, and produces a ... (only labels) and directed to auto-number it; it can also ... not only line-numbers of BASIC statements but also their ...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 ... out of editing mode to scroll up/down through the full ... />
Not being able to scroll through the listing while editing ... include a "dividing lines of BASIC" option as well - edit a ...Need to scroll one column using m.c.I've used many of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any direction, but I'm not being able to find one that would allow me to scro…
... of the available routines to scroll the entire screen in any ... that would allow me to scroll a specified column (1 x ... column and call it from BASIC.Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…
I remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that ... difficult - once you disable the 'Scroll?' prompt.
But I ... sure if its written in BASIC) on the Apple II, and ... this could be done in BASIC on the Spectrum using Arrays ...BASIC problem in SpectaculatorI have a piece of music written in +3 BASIC in spectaculator (using FOR LET, PLAY and NEXT) and when it auto loads (because of save "tune" LINE 10) i…
... of music written in +3 BASIC in spectaculator (using FOR LET ... and NEXT) and when it auto loads (because of save "tune ... after it has loaded and auto-played it plays perfectly.
auto-run on first load. A ..."Monty Hall" problem in Spectrum BasicFollowing a rather odd conversation with my wife regarding the probability puzzle "[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem"]The Monty …
... if they do not. Obviously, BASIC was the tool of choice ... +1
360 REM prevent Scroll? message
370 POKE 23692 ... flaw in my logic or BASIC?How to make fuse to auto boot into esxdos with loading tap file after esxdos bootFound this very interesting article from ub880d on: http://board.esxdos.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1009#p1009 Hi, regardless the fact that there is no…
... how to make fuse to auto boot into esxdos with loading ... fuse
5) prepare basic program to be loaded on ...How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…
... how to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling* game.
I assume you can enter BASIC easily, for example using Basin ... Line 100, where the screen scroll 8 pixels to the left ... (y,3)... Remember the spectrum basic has its Y coordinate first ...How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…
... space on the screen, a "scroll?" message appears that not only ... get rid of it in Basic, but I still don't ...New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
... in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first two ... ]
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* Place ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not ...Spectrum Serial Numbers Wanted!![b]This post updated Sept. 26, 2013[/b] As far as I know, the serial numbering system for the Spectrum has never been fully worked out. For the p…
... fact, if you get a Scroll prompt in a program and ... a 128 or NEW from BASIC. On opening it, it is ... ROM in and the game auto-starts with a flashing border ...What annoys you about SpecBAS?Ok, here's another direction for me to go in - I'm almost done with SpecBAS, there's very little left to add. So... What don't you like about it? Wh…
... its easier to port old basic programs.
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... further point, it should auto run from line 1, ... sure, it inserts an AUTO 1 in the ASCII code ... code+data for an auto-executable system, as no ... the command window, then scroll across to the bit you ...Computer pranksAnyone ever play a computer prank on a friend, or had one played on you? Here's a few which will make you laugh that I did back in the day... In 19…
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The BASIC was also pretty fast. A ... wrote a 'BBC Emulator' in BASIC that gave the impression of ... my friend's one started auto-launching itself when anyone logged ... ,A forever, making the border scroll stripes and shriek loudly, turned ...
