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SCREEN$ and Sinclair Basic: Help Required !Two simple questions: 1) When saving SCREEN$, how can I avoid the bottom of the loading screen from being chopped off by the 'Start Tape & Press Any…
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Machine Code for BeginnersHi folks. [sort of] newbie alert. Not new to Spectrum - been there since getting first rubber key 48k in 84 and a regular visitor to WoS for many y…
... kid I never got beyond BASIC. Did a fair amount with ... the direction of a good book, software etc that I can ... -
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 ... -
An update on ZX BASIC support for the SpectranetOne for zxbruno, I hope :-) So just an example of what now can be done with the network filesystem and BASIC. The following listing is of a program …
... with the network filesystem and BASIC. The following listing is of ... this on the Spectrum, using BASIC and streams:
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The Spectrum Pocket Book by PhippsSeems we don't have the inlay to this. Should [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0013386"]machine code tools[/URL] be called The …
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Book scanning questionWe're rather lucky to see the large amount of books that have been fully scanned over the years. There are other volunteers to scan yet more books. …
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C&VG Book of Maps broken linksThe Infoseek links for these SPOT entries are incorrect: [code] KNIGHTLORE M CV 8511 905.0 Book of Maps DUNDARACH M CV 8511 …
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ZX BASIC (Boriel's Compiler) - LibrariesWell, we have a nascent option on a sprite library coming together, thanks to na_th_an's fourspriter being retooled for the job. It's not general pur…
... is simultaneously almost completely sinclair basic compatible (It even allows ... easy fix to a Sinclair Basic Program) and a very ... able to write in basic and make M/C ... you're still using Hisoft Basic, it's time to ... -in functions for the basic compiler to make it ... -
Playing AY sounds with BASIC.Is it possible? If so how? I've seen in one forum a while back mention of using interrupts to play but AFAIK this is machine code only. The goal of …
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Looking for a ZX81 gameHi all, I'm trying to find the name of a ZX81 game. It was a sort of maze / adventure game. There would be a maze on the screen, with something like…
... published in a magazine or book somewhere. And events would unfold ... the whole thing was a BASIC program.
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The ZX spectrum basic manual (big orange book)was just glancing throught he one i got a bit ago mine says first published 1982 second edition 1983 third edition 1983 anybody got a first edition…
was just glancing throught he one i got a bit ago
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first published 1982
second edition 1983
third edition 1983
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The Hisoft BASIC v1.2 Plus 3I am trying to compile a basic program with the [B]Hisoft BASIC v1.2 Plus 3[/B]. When i read the instructions to prepare the program to be compiled b…
... am trying to compile a basic program with the [B]Hisoft ... BASIC v1.2 Plus 3[/B].< ... -
How to insert special characters in Basic and ASM ?Look the next picture. [IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9479/scode.jpg[/IMG] I dont know how to insert these black and diagonal characters. No…
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Getting back into Spectrum BasicAfter a LONG break from Spectrum Basic, have discovered BASIN and starting to do some old school programs. Then I can run them on Nintendo DS using t…
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A few ZX Spectrum books.Programming your ZX SPECTRUM Tim Hartnell and Dilwyn Jones (tutorial in BASIC) The Spectrum book of games Mike James, S. M. Gee and Kay Ewbank (that…
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The ZX Spectrum Years bookHi there, Anyone know the possible value of one of the 100 signed copies of Andrew Rolling's book "The ZX Spectrum Years 1982-199x"? Cheers
Hi there, Anyone know the possible value of one of the 100 signed copies of Andrew Rolling's book "The ZX Spectrum Years 1982-199x"? Cheers -
Extended Basic InstructionsThis is the first time I send on this forum. First of all I send you a friendly "Hello" from Belgium, and I hope that you'll excuse my bad english..…
+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?storing machine code in BASICApart from putting m/c above RAMTOP, which means that it has to be POKEd or LOADed separately after the BASIC program; or putting it in a REM, which …
... or LOADed separately after the BASIC program; or putting it in ... code between the end of BASIC and the beginning of VARS ...Z80 Machine Code Question...Hi Folks, I know not strictly a BASIC question but I have started to learn Z80 machine code - 25 years too late! :smile: I have been reading a book…
... /> I know not strictly a BASIC question but I have started ... /> I have been reading a book on the subject but I ... /> Am I missing something? My book simply states that it will ...decoding speech in Creature of HavocI've been looking at the Fighting Fantasy gamebook "Creature of Havoc" for the first time, since it was mentioned yesterday in another place, and hav…
... that are given in the book (location 283) are for [b ... it? Was there such a basic blunder made in the encoding ...ULA BookI've just had an email stating that my ULA book is "in the post" - yay! Well done Mr Smith for all the hard work on this.
I've just had an email stating that my ULA book is "in the post" - yay! Well done Mr Smith for all the hard work on this.Free Basic coding book for kids if you want itI bought it in a charity shop yonks ago out of nostalgia, a lack of ability to let some retro rot in a charity shop and it was super cheap. Anyway, …
I bought it in a charity shop yonks ago out of nostalgia, a lack of ability to let some retro rot in a charity shop and it was super cheap.
Anyway, I've never used it but I can't bring myself to just recycle it (and I don't think it'd sell in ...Help with a basic programI'm doing a very small basic program which I know is bloated, but it works. (I have limited basic knowledge compared to most on here). I just wondere…
... 'm doing a very small basic program which I know is ... it works. (I have limited basic knowledge compared to most on ...DRAW x,y,a Algorithm - how does the ROM do it?Hi all, Getting on with SpecOS, and one of the things I would love to do is to preserve the original ROM's behaviour when drawing Arcs. This is don…
... the DRAW command implemented in BASIC - but not the arc drawing ... pages 119 onwards of said book, but cannot get the hang ... 'd love to see a BASIC (or C, or Pascal!) implementation ...Booting with a programIf you ever had a VTX-5000, you'll remember it booted to a menu. The menu itself was written in BASIC. When the Spectrum initialized, this BASIC prog…
... menu itself was written in BASIC. When the Spectrum initialized, ... the initialization routines finish, BASIC starts somewhere where it'll ... a command typed into the BASIC editor.
However, ... the flags themselves, the Orange Book doesn't have them ( ...ula bookula book is here: [url]http://www.zxdesign.info/book/[/url] can i post sam coupe stuff here - she kind of is a speccy if you stuff the speccy rom i…
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was readinfg the ula book and this is not described ...Return to +3 BASIC from 48K mode.Hello Spec-Chums! I don't know if this trick has been posted before, if it has, i apologise, but i have not been able to find it. Anyway, here goes…
... SPECTRUM command to enter 48K BASIC mode, there is no way ... back to +3 BASIC; however, i have found that ... colour control codes in the basic program, or if you need ... any way back to 128K BASIC on the earlier 128K machines ...Advice about creative writing, book reviews and online jobsMy girlfriend has started blogging not so long ago. She has just finished a few years at Uni doing creative writing. She has a talent for writing. T…
... have any advice for writing, book reviews and online jobs? It ... review books for a major book chain or something and work ...
