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  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... of the standard (and a book) I'd call it a ... can be boiled down to basic operations on a Turing machine ... , I wouldn't bother with Basic at all. Why? It's ... pursuing it in the future, Basic would probably be my first ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A Rare First EditionFor twenty years I've been searching for a rare first edition of the Orange Spectrum manual. This had typos and goodness knows what but the corrected…

    ... destroyed.
    The 1982 book "Exploring Spectrum BASIC by Mike Lord even ...
    Geoff Geoff September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... structure and more power then BASIC. Back in the 1980s Steven ... he co-wrote a programming book "Reasoned Programming" which costs about ...
    Geoff Geoff September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Seventh Harry Potter book?What will this be called? My guess is [i]Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Codex[/i]. :D

    ... of HP and my book together. The basic plot is that some ... characters from my book have time ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 October 2006 Chit chat
  • Easy one first, Tai Panby Mikro Gen Steve and me has one

    ... over the lists:
    - Advanced BASIC Programming On The Sinclair ZX ... : did this come with a book as well?
    - The [URL ...
    mheide mheide October 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Floating point representationI'm planning on picking up the [url=http://matt.west.co.tt/category/spectrum/openzxrom/]OpenZXRom[/url] project from where I left off a few months ba…

    ... disassembly, try downloading the book 'Microsoft Basic Decoded and Other Mysteries' from ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Development
  • Firefox (new thoughts)Maybe more people would use Firefox if there was a version for the Speccy! [code] 10 PRINT AT 2, 2; "Press F for Firefox or I for M$IE" 20 LET K$=IN…

    ... ?t=10744"][B]Lesser used BASIC commands[/B][/URL]
    Views ... ]
    Obviously I mean the book by Adams. Why do you ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler November 2006 Chit chat
  • Help where do i startIm thinking of writing a game or two for the speccy. At the moment Im not sure what type. But Im after some general info. I know laguages like Basi…

    ... - you can write a short BASIC program to poke values at ... " (I think that was the book's name) contained an assembly ...
    Winston Winston November 2006 Development
  • Rubber Keyed SpeccyHi All Just bought myself a rubber keyed 48k Spectrum, thought I would have a trip down memory lane. Now thing is over the years the old brain cel…

    ... A

    PS: I book marked your website, looks very ... the Introductory manual and the BASIC programming manual, but has already ...
    rwap rwap November 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... />
    Tile Editor?! Written in Basic?!
    :o NINJA STUFF!
    book TS2068 Beginners/Intermediate guide by ...
    Paulo Kathanni Paulo Kathanni December 2006 Games
  • From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…

    ... than the C64, had better BASIC and faster loading, and the ... that, though, the book is remarkably accurate. Which book is it?
    ewgf ewgf December 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…

    ... 're going to write a book on any subject the first ... had a better built-in BASIC, and I seem to recall ...
    jonathan jonathan December 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…

    ... even an excerpt from your book!) that the commodore engineers would ... had -- a decent version of basic for home users, which is ... and a good version of basic was present. When the home ... z80s), a poor version of basic (when I purchased I was ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • "The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […

    ... of the film, but the book explains it (and expands upon ... the basic story was his, but some author wrote the book and ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2007 Chit chat
  • New: Freeware/PD title informationAnother important change has been made to the Infoseek engine: listing all games that were published as Freeware or Public Domain (PD). Update: a thi…

    ... :

    1) Do crap basic games that I wrote count ... and Dash-it written in BASIC by me can be classified ... ) I converted 2 type-in BASIC programs from books to QUILLed ... original type-ins in the book are meant to be freeware ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2007 Infoseek database
  • New: Freeware/PD title informationAnother important change has been made to the Infoseek engine: listing all games that were published as Freeware or Public Domain (PD). Update: a thi…

    ... :

    1) Do crap basic games that I wrote count ... and Dash-it written in BASIC by me can be classified ... ) I converted 2 type-in BASIC programs from books to QUILLed ... original type-ins in the book are meant to be freeware ...
    DEATH DEATH February 2007 Infoseek database
  • New: Freeware/PD title informationAnother important change has been made to the Infoseek engine: listing all games that were published as Freeware or Public Domain (PD). Update: a thi…

    ... /> The original programs were in BASIC. I merely transfered them to ... were published in a magazine/book, perhaps the conversions should be ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2007 Infoseek database
  • Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?

    ... needed to buy it in book form or subscribe to C ... to just do the most basic things ( apart from in Exec ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?

    ... needed to buy it in book form or subscribe to C ... to just do the most basic things ( apart from in Exec ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler February 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…

    ... along those lines in the book [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... could easily interface it with BASIC programs.
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Development
  • Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…

    ... along those lines in the book [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... could easily interface it with BASIC programs.[/QUOTE]
    I didn ... see a download for the book, anyone have the code?
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • help needed...Hi there, i'm trying to figure out a possible typo in William Tang's 'Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner' on page 23 there's a prog…

    ... of the book, and although I'm a total BASIC novice with ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Question about Type-ins and OCR.Hi guys. I've never used OCR software before (yep, I've been living in a cave). What software do you guys use when you want to send something to Arj…

    ... perhaps the guys from the book preservation team can?

    Basic programs to Basin, transfer huge ... it work. Again, perhaps the book preservation team could shed some ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2007 Support files
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... got given a Visual Basic CD and Book about 8 years ago ... was a massive package and book to let you do the ...
    CKay CKay February 2007 Development
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... feels like freedom compared to Basic and Pascal to me. I ... . The back of my C book has 17 pages describing these ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Question about Type-ins and OCR.Hi guys. I've never used OCR software before (yep, I've been living in a cave). What software do you guys use when you want to send something to Arj…

    ... an updated pdf of that book with bookmarks.
    ... also copy & paste the BASIC listing to BASIN.
    ...

    The next book I'm doing is "The ... Times Book of Puzzles for the speccy ... hold of Toni Bakers book and other Melbourne House ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) March 2007 Support files
  • Fun accountancy question of the week!!!Just for the fun of it, I thought I'd share my latest tax problem with all my spec-chums on World of Sinclair. Read this and be thankful you aren't …

    ... rate: 1 - 2150 10%
    Basic rate: 2151 - 33300 22%
    At basic rate (22% x ?24930) 5485 ... the book, is the portion of bank interest falling within the basic ...
    Spector Spector March 2007 Chit chat
  • Are you a serious programmer of the Spectrum?A statement at the back of "The complete Spectrum ROM disassembly". [quote] The "Complete Spectrum ROM disassembly" is a must for all serious progra…

    ... owned a copy of the book, although I do have the ... essential for gurus of Spectrum BASIC as it offers much insight ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Database + web programming queryI was thinking of the best way to implement the a book type-ins database thingy, and I thought something along these lines would be nice and simple: …

    ... :
    type-in name|author|book title|archival status

    book titles, sort them, and ... to "/the_second_script.php?title=the+book+title"). The second script would ... less the same as the basic plain-text approach, except that ...
    gasman gasman March 2007 Chit chat
  • The Beautiful GameNo, not Head Over Heels. Or Stonkers hehe. Football. No thread here specifically for the beautiful game, so tell us who you support, why you suppo…

    ... for you this is his basic football stats.

    Six ... /> Not bad in anyones scrap book i reckon , id be happy ...
    sirclive1 sirclive1 March 2007 Chit chat
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