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Copying Files in +3e BASIC (not using COPY command)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Yet again I find myself in need of guidance, I am sooo close to getting my prototype up. I am writing my own byte cop…
... PRINT "End of file "; count;" Bytes Copied" : STOP
1060 ... LET count = count + 1 // INCREASE BYTES COPIED
1090 GOT0 1020 ... something like this under +3e basic?
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More RAM for BASIC (ZXSE required)Ok, here it is: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/48KBASICSE.zip[/url] Use it as an IF2 ROM with a ZX Spectrum SE. It's a version of the 80x2…
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space available in bytes - questionHi, question: - if i create a *.txt file in pee cee: if empty it will show 0 bytes if i put text "abcde" it will show 5 bytes if i put texte (in 2 l…
... empty it will show 0 bytes
if i put text ... "abcde" it will show 5 bytes
if i put texte ...
it will show 7 bytes.... i count 5, what are ... of it is for the basic commands, they have to me ... "
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appending data while saving to tapeBefore trying to do this I just wanted to check if there's a possibility that it might actually work. I have a number of string arrays which I want t…
... a modified version of SA-BYTES would work, whereby when DE ... the combined length of data + headers. The string data would be interspersed ... -
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 is -
A Miscellany of Dangerous TipsHere's a selection of ideas for using some of the more obscure system variables which I've found handy on occasion. They can be very convenient if us…
... with the BASIC. If using the space for code or data, [b ... which, in blocks of three bytes ending with the inscrutable rune ... are not otherwise possible from BASIC alone.
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Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…
... here we select the partition [ Data-003 ] on the left ... A.2" it is 6912 bytes - this is exactly the ... is most likely a SCREEN$ data file.
Data-003 partition. I have ... statements to save my basic programs, usually these are ... -
Getting Unit CHS detail in +3e BASICHello there my fellow WoS'ers I would like to know if there are system VARS or PEEK's that I could use to get the CHS info within BASIC at the mome…
... get the CHS info within BASIC
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Biturbo 2 turbo loader now available for general useAfter tinkering with its code, extracted from a TZX of one of the infamous Italian S.I.P.E. "tape magazines" which published hacked games for the Spe…
... Spectrum data you must first load it and then POKE the bytes ... it returns to the following BASIC command by calling the CHECK ... BTvalues;
[*]write a simple BASIC program to load, first of ... 65338 command;
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Screens and BasicA question about the ZX screens. I am using software to convert my own art and drawings to the ZX Spectrum. I have some tools to change .jpg files in…
... files the speccy finds a "Bytes: so and so" and so ... you know any trick in BASIC to load such a "byte ... -
New Game: Advanced Premiership SimulatorHi Friends, I discovered BASin last Saturday, and I've found it rather fun to play with. I ended up producing this; It's basically (no pun intended)…
... where you can guess the basic result (home win, away ... 300 bytes free. The game's about 16k of BASIC and ... 25k of machine code and data. There ... was really fun writing in BASIC again, I hadn't ... things, but writing tight BASIC programs seems to be an ... -
Spectranet firmware update: TAP file loading fixArchie Robins discovered a problem whereby interrups were being erroneously enabled on the return from a tape trap (that is, when TAP files are being…
... is executed to load the data block (so instead of ... ). Once the block of data is loaded, execution needs ... called LD-BYTES. This may be the BASIC ROM itself ... running in the ZX BASIC sysvars area and expects ... address from the LD-BYTES routine, so the address ... -
Fastest redraw of screen from UDGsHere's a question for everyone, to generate a bit of code to be used in games: On a standard 48K Spectrum, what's the fastest way to redraw the scre…
... its most basic we have a 2K block of data that defines ... stored as 256x8 bytes, or 8x256 bytes (i.e. 8 bytes at a ... , if you prefer, store two bytes per character to give a ... -
SPECTRA - RGB SCART Interface for 48K SpectrumSince the launch of the SPECTRA interface back in June 2012, some discussion of it has appeared in the forums in the past (mainly [URL="http://www.wo…
... [*] The ability to extend Spectrum BASIC via a ZX Interface 1 ... offering the potential to extend BASIC with new commands to control ... achieved by re-interpreting the data bytes written to the Spectrum?s ... , emulator support, an extension BASIC ROM and at least one ... -
Optimised Lemmings ideaHi, [b]Note: For anyone picking up this thread late, it looks like a TR-DOS version was made for the Russian clones that packed the entire game into…
... following:
8192 bytes for the level data (1-bit bitmap, ... uncompressed)
213 bytes for level ... meaning a level data usage of 504,300 bytes.
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Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... correlate it to the LD-BYTES disassembly to see how all ... border colours; loading data backwards and forwards; loading data XORed with a ... don't have turboloaders. Really basic stuff, I know, but it ... and frequently derived from LD-BYTES anyway? Back in the day ... -
Copying data between memory banks in USR0 modeI am experimenting with Funky Fungus to load the majority of its data (levels, screens, music etc.) into memory banks 1, 3, 4, 6 and (partly) 7 by sw…
... load the majority of its data (levels, screens, music etc.) ... another, then recalling them from BASIC and "pouring" their contents ... />
I understand loading data into memory banks is easier ... I changed the addresses and data length and removed the parts ... -
JSW2 - Game Loader DifferencesThere are three official releases of JSW2. I'm not counting the 'JSW2-128' version here as far as I'm aware this was not in any way 'official' as it …
... of basic containing assembly to headerless load the game code (47416 bytes ... for myself after examining the basic itself I then decided to ... fake header to load the 'basic' at a higher address, and ... -
SkoolKit 3.6SkoolKit 3.6 has been released. In case you are unaware, SkoolKit is a set of command line utilities (written in Python) for disassembling Spectrum …
... /> [*]create hyperlinks between routines and data blocks that refer to each ... PNG/GIF images from graphic data in the snapshot
[*] ... , and with or without unused bytes removed
[*]produce a ' ... a TAP file containing a BASIC loader
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DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…
... to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have ... I am pretty happy that DATA is used to "fill up ... READ x(n)
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Using even ports for input?I've been looking for unused ports to use with my clashbasher interface. I understand that the spectrum only considers A0 when decoding its input p…
... spectrum I wrote a small basic loop to print the result ... 't interfere with my reading bytes from the cpld.
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Binary to REMHi, I'd like to convert binary data stored on tape into BASIC rem statements that I will then save to disk. Is there a utility to extract the files …
... to convert binary data stored on tape into BASIC rem statements that ... to get the actual binary bytes from the tape (minus the ... -
GEDit syntax highlighting for Boriel's ZX BasicHi! I just tailored this syntax highlighting code and would like to share with he community. Suggestions are always welcome, though the file works w…
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I just tailored this syntax highlighting code and would like to share with he community. Suggestions are always welcome, though the file works working very well for me at the moment. Thanks to Boriel for the excellent tool!
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Ghosts n' Goblins loaderI'm trying to put Ghosts n' Goblins onto a +3 disk but struggling to understand the mc loader. Basic loader [code] ink 7 : clear 25000 : load "" cod…
... the mc loader.
Basic loader
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ink ... loader "GOBLINS3" indicates CODE 65024,DATA 524. Wouldn't that load ... 65548?
The 6912 bytes loading picture and game code ... which has no header, the data length is 48896.
Loading data from 128 memoryAfter all these years I have come across the LOAD! in 128 basic for storing/restoring data in the 128 memory. How do I go about implementing this in…
After all these years I have come across the LOAD! in 128 basic for storing/restoring data in the 128 memory.
How do I go about implementing this in machine code?
Thanks in advance...TAPlist - the emulator versionI've got this working reasonably well; there's just a couple of small extra features which I want to add. (Recall that TAPlist writes a formatted lis…
... formatted listing of the BASIC program in memory to ... BASIC line is written out to a headerless tape data ... have an extra three bytes at the start and ... at the end, two bytes being the TAP block length ... uk/~jg27paw4/pourri/taplist.bas]BASIC listing[/url] and some ...ZX Alien Breed - WIPI'm sure a lot of you have seen the discussion in the New Game Ideas area about a Speccy version of the classic Amiga game Alien Breed. I've been dro…
... . My version is 108 bytes big and does the job ... an unpacked screen is 1280 bytes. The compression I use ... right, but all the sprite data is in RAM, so ... I can shift individual alien data into the routine and ... mc routines drop back into BASIC before the next one ...Read Data from memoryHi there. Not been on this scene for a long time. Does anyone know how to do a routine to read data from memory(peek..etc) rather than using lines of…
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50 data 1,2,3,4,5 ...SkoolKit 4.0SkoolKit 4.0 has been released. SkoolKit is a set of command line utilities for disassembling Spectrum software, into ASM format or into a bunch of …
... job of distinguishing code from data by using a profile, ... /> [*]create hyperlinks between routines and data blocks that refer to each ... , and with or without unused bytes removed
[*]produce a ' ... a TAP file containing a BASIC loader
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