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  • Spectrum to Amiga emulationIs there an emulator I can install on my Amiga that will play tzx and tap files from the WOS archive? I cannot find one but wonder if anyone here can…

    [QUOTE=Nonsense in BASIC;283659]No, AMOS Pro didn' ... . I have somewhere a polish book about AMOS Pro with all ...
    LCD LCD July 2008 Emulators
  • Good, free chess game?I have taken Vista Ultimate off my desktop PC because I was not happy with it. One thing I will miss is the decent chess game that came with Vista. …

    ... (the one in the Guiness Book of Records, who can recite ... wonder what any future SE BASIC Commands will be like. Instead ...
    ewgf ewgf July 2008 Chit chat
  • Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …

    ... the original "Complete ROM disassembly" book. (Geoff - perhaps you can update ... 're kind enough to include BASIC examples in the appendices, so ... algorithm is described in the book as : [QUOTE]The algorithm starts ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …

    ... the original "Complete ROM disassembly" book. (Geoff - perhaps you can update ... of the Logan/O'Hara book and I left DRAW-LINE ... were pulled there is a BASIC program in the ZX81 manual ...
    Geoff Geoff August 2008 Development
  • Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…

    ... by Andrew Rollings great book i wanted more and more ... br />
    Set up a basic website...

    [url ... ve done two books already, Book 1 (1982-1984 - ... 270 pages) and Book 2 (1985-1986 - 370 pages ... people.

    Book 4 (1989-1990) will be ...
    psj3809 psj3809 September 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bresenhams circle algorithmI post here my final circle code to replace, if you want, the one in the ROM. It only uses integer math and runs very fast and is very compact. It is…

    ... code in BASIC with you (taken from some Polish book)

    Ralf Ralf September 2008 Development
  • Bresenhams circle algorithmI post here my final circle code to replace, if you want, the one in the ROM. It only uses integer math and runs very fast and is very compact. It is…

    ... code in BASIC with you (taken from some Polish book)

    Fikee Fikee September 2008 Development
  • help making a gameive decided to make a game for the speccy but i have no idea where to start. i think i'd like to make a text adventure, i saw the 'build your own' pr…

    ... up in BASIC
    try a look at this book

    Basic
    chop983 chop983 September 2008 Development
  • help making a gameive decided to make a game for the speccy but i have no idea where to start. i think i'd like to make a text adventure, i saw the 'build your own' pr…

    ... up in BASIC
    try a look at this book

    Basic[/QUOTE]

    cheers i ...
    mile mile September 2008 Development
  • Announce: BASin r14b availableHere's the fix mentioned earlier for those of you that either are too lazy to update your OS (XP SP2 has been out aaaaages, Arjun!) or even junk that…

    ... "USR 0" ;) However, in my book, an address exception is always ... mutually exclusive in the Sinclair BASIC world. Let's face it ... speed don't use Sinclair BASIC !! It's friendly and ... struggle with BASIC? Comparing BBC Z80 BASIC and BBC 6502 BASIC gives some ...
    Jimmy Jimmy September 2008 Emulators
  • Arse. I just killed an Acorn Electron.Not for the first time either. :( This one rescued from a neigbhours loft after more than a decade. Left for 24 hours to get to room temp. Set it…

    Thanks again to Scottie UK! I've been messing about with the Acorn this evening, and it all works fine. :D

    In fact...... drumroll.... I'm going to work through the 30 Hour BASIC Electron edition book now. :)
    thx1138 thx1138 September 2008 Chit chat
  • Minigame compo 2008What happened to the compo site 2007 and the pre-announcement 2008? The site seems to be down.

    ... lot of slack. Even batari BASIC is a fair bit harder ... first listing in many a book of type-ins I've ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2008 Development
  • Goldeneye (N64) can still surprise!After eleven years, I thought I'd seen and done everything Goldeneye on the N64 has to offer, but I've found this video: [url]http://uk.youtube.com/…

    ... a character from a different book, or a non-Bond film ... driving levels. AUF is very basic, NF is better. TWINE, on ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Chit chat
  • Spectrum AssemblyHi All, Thanks for letting me in... lol Over the last couple of days I started playing my spectrum emu again and then I started thinking about lear…

    ... programming BASIC. It's a full IDE with the entire orange book ...
    Shadow Maker Shadow Maker October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games in basicIs there a definitive list of published games written in Basic, I'm particularly interested in Text adventures.

    ... pretty good text adventures in BASIC that you will find in ... YS fame) from the excellent book "Exploring adventures on the spectrum ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • What do you use a Spectrum emulator for?I suspected most emulator users who expressed a preference were gamers.

    I still type in a few small BASIC programs from time to time, just for fun. Like those from The Spectrum Book of Games by Mike James. I remember sitting on the loungeroom floor in front of the TV typing those in :)
    avoidz avoidz October 2008 Emulators
  • Programming Books for Kids - Whats happened to programming?What has happened to Programming in the 00's :( I remember at the tender age of 9 exitedly going to my library to get one of them colourfull program…

    ... an even worse language than Basic for teaching beginners bad habits ... to write a php/mysql book for beginners but the publisher ... programming but started writing a book to teach programming to 9 ... who isn't into Sinclair Basic but still fancies having a ...
    sparkes sparkes October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…

    ... since I only have 1 book 4 review left I jumped ... attempt to make the final book a little larger.

    BASIC, and mostly seem to be ... my first few reviews for book 5 yet, but it's ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Interlace demoSorry to reference another thread like this, but in the thread: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?p=313428#post313428[/url] …

    ... documented this "feature" in my book (which is coming along nicely ... of NOR gates, the ULA basic gate type]

    [code ...
    csmith csmith November 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • About Chess games & BASICIs it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?

    ... certainly program Chess puzzles in BASIC.

    Here is my ... is the chess game the book is based upon


    Not very good BASIC but half (the good half ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • ZXSpectrum +3 - New SoftwareHello, This is my first post here on WOS, i'm very glad to be here and be a part of this community. To make this short, i've been programming on the…

    ... hybrid of machine-code and BASIC ;)
    One of the lightnings ... coding. Actually, I wrote a book about coding that is selling ...
    rui_mac rui_mac November 2008 Development
  • Assembly (getting my bearings)I wish the WoS book database was organized by theme and contained reviews :) I need your folks help. I'm interested in bringing my assembly into the…

    ... /> While not a Machine Code book by itself -- the author only ... where he can't use BASIC -- it describes in great detail ...
    rahtgaz rahtgaz December 2008 Development
  • 2008 Lookback/2009 Lookforward ThreadSo, what have we done this year? On the YS site, I've added the Virtual News Stand (the clickable double-page magazine spreads you see dotted around…

    ... some reviews for PJ's book.
    Will hopefully finish Miles ... try and re-learn some BASIC as I have almost completely ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…

    ... re-PRINT the data using BASIC! :)[/QUOTE]

    A ... you couldn't reprint in Basic. :)

    [QUOTE=Winston; ... way to go. In Basic I have so many letters ... I didn't find any book that would tell me how ... MC what I did in Basic.[/SIZE]

    So, ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…

    ... I didn't find any book that would tell me how ... MC what I did in Basic.
    [/QUOTE]

    Try ... m/c examples of many BASIC commands (although INPUT isn't ...
    Jimmy Jimmy January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Recommend a BASIC strategy game ...[deleted]

    ... curiosity, is Viking Raiders a BASIC game? I've tried loading ... Chess and Draughts in the book [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ...
    Matt_B Matt_B January 2009 Games
  • TAP filesI'm trying to figure out how to make TAP files and am none the wiser. Tried downloading Taper, got it working but it was one of the unfathomables. I …

    The book looks most interesting, I've ... file at last from a BASIC program, by SAVEing first, then ... programs in Z80 that are BASIC loaders with pre-loaded machine ... with a short bit of BASIC and the rest hidden away ...
    SteveP SteveP January 2009 Emulators
  • Having trouble with some type-insI'm trying to enter some type-ins into BASin but I get into errors I can't handle. Since both type-ins are coming from the same book, it becomes a li…

    ... years since I last used BASIC so... yeah ;)

    I ... of factual errors in this book. Nothing to do with code ...
    rahtgaz rahtgaz January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Other forums and why they piss me offI was on this site where you can download comics and ended up in the comicbook forum (my blame there) and all of a sudden just because I was giving m…

    ... saw nothing to contradict my basic assertions.

    [quote]
    book mark to.

    [quote ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2009 Chit chat
  • How many of you are game programmers?So, how many of you programmed a ZX Spectrum game? Was it released commercially? :)

    ... on the Amstrad CPC with BASIC including a version of Star ... my still unpublished and unfinished book) has been uploaded onto W ...
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 January 2009 Games
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