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updated Fatware - keyboard patchHi! I work with Fatware code and already prepare keyboard patch for original version 0.12. Now it's possible to operate disk browser with keys: 1) c…
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Q - Exit to Basic 128 ROM
W - Exit ... 5 seconds
M - change playing mode:
.linear, not ... -
How do you work with fonts on speccy?just curious really.. I know c64 workings, and obv. the spec you draw direct to screen.. on 64 , you'd make what would be equivalent to UDG.. and sa…
... you want to work with Basic or assembler.
In ... Basic there are 21 UGD characters - ... character set. If you store new letters somewhere in memory and change ... -
Machine code issue...Hi Folks, My trials with MCODE continue and I am stuck. I wrote the following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute byte in to a "box" on th…
... sub for boriel's zx basic; but it's basically assembly ... * 256 = 22528 - start of attributes. Change this if you are working ... /> LD (HL),a ; paint a character
INC L ; Move to ... -
ccompletly baffeled machine codeHi everyone, BEFORE you ask i have not asked help for loads of problems i have recently now encountered and i figured the problems out myself, hones…
... instantly change into a Space Invader. There is no Character Map ... AT 0,0;"A" in BASIC) you could use:
... address - 1st byte of "character" 0,0
ld ... de ;get next byte of Character "A"
inc h ... -
Help with loaderHelp! I have been racking my brains for too long, and so it?s time to ask for help. Kyd Cadet II is about 98% complete now and I am trying to put to…
... say, the options you select change the resulting code length. Having ... still get a message about size and author - even though I ... it with a basic loader produces slightly different code size.
All ... -
Help with loaderHelp! I have been racking my brains for too long, and so it?s time to ask for help. Kyd Cadet II is about 98% complete now and I am trying to put to…
... say, the options you select change the resulting code length. Having ... still get a message about size and author - even though I ... it with a basic loader produces slightly different code size.
All ... -
Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
... =JamesD;484055]So 40000/float size should give you the maximum ... array size you could use if you ... .[/QUOTE]
Correct. Sinclair BASIC uses 5 bytes for each ... memory required for the programs change very little depending on the ... -
ForthTrying to search for FORTH programs and FORTH articles within the forum is proving to be a complete nightmare!! If I search for FORTH in Infoseek I …
... 'm trying to translate some BASIC programs into an equivalent FORTH ... Dutch!
[B][CENTER][SIZE="4"]I can't believe ... software IS NOT IN WOS![/SIZE][/CENTER][/B]
The ... are 32x32, not a 64x16 character arrangement and you can use ... -
Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
... =Einar Saukas;485653]After this change, your statements can simply refer ... [B]b$[/B] with 1 character long) instead of [B]b ... )[/B] (i.e. the 1st character of [B]b$[/B]). Again ... in the latter case the BASIC interpreter doesn't need to ... -
Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…
... br />
ret ; Back to BASIC!
; --------------------------------------------------------------------------< ... Must disable interrupts for SP change
ld (stack ... and a,11111000b ; Calculate X character offset
rrca ;
Hacking the O.C.P Full Screen Editor/AssemblerIf you have been reading my posts recently then you will know that I am eager to have the sourcecode I wrote for the Spectrum during the period 1988 …
... that there was a character count before each string ... starting with a one BYTE character count. A blank line ... The labels have a maximum size of six characters. There ... code). I also put BASIC to sleep and used IM2 ... into memory by a BASIC stub loader. I removed ...Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…
... /> 6. Click save. (do not change any other parameters)
basic to somewhere safe, load ... game data from basic, and execute game from basic by copying ... reside somewhere. Note that this size is not very optimized. ...Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…
... br />
ret ; Back to BASIC!
; --------------------------------------------------------------------------< ... Must disable interrupts for SP change
ld (stack ... and a,11111000b ; Calculate X character offset
rrca ;
Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…
... br />
ret ; Back to BASIC!
; ... Must disable interrupts for SP change
ld (stack ... /> and 11111000b ; Calculate X character offset
rrca ;
...Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... .
[quote]So SE Basic is the most optimised version ... standard then as you can change the ROMs in the original ... along the lines of Super BASIC?[/quote]
Yes, SE ... , the floating point, and the character printing routines. The community is ...Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... tension between code+data size and speed. In ... character square on screen. That's 7680 bytes for a full size ... of mapping each individual character to any spot on ... bytes instead of the full size 7680 bytes.
< ... the link above. To change the layout just edit ...Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... contributor is that the size of the sprite structures ... you can go -- the basic system does not need ... required, it will reduce code size and improve speed.
... (list, sp1_InvUpdateStruct); // invalidate all character cells in list
[/code ...Z88DK/SP1 library u_malloc() questionHi All, It may possibly be more appropriate for me to post this on the Z88DK forum, but I know quite a few WoSSers have used Z88DK, so here goes:- …
... graphics rather than allowing both character codes and absolute memory addresses ... other contributor is that the size of the sprite structures ... person who wants to achieve size perfection in a game. ... confusing us to their compiled basic community. I can tell ...SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…
... of bytes (width*height in size).
[quote]< ... to specifically move or change the sprite image, but ... if you just want to change the image?
... a way to specifically change the graphic though. Unless ... I've not tried your BASIC yet.[/QUOTE]
SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…
... "). That way I can change only the graphics without disturbing ... ) or a command to change a sprite's graphics. ... a generalised command to change any sprite's data ... up to 2GB in size. It plays sound samples ... PCs.
The BASIC editor needs some work, as ...Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
... The screen layout (not its size) is/was determined by ... bytes that comprises a character cell are consecutive in ... (in the same row) character (if you remember the ... of a ULA the size that Sinclair used, I ... to account why is Sinclair BASIC rather slow?
T/S 2068 & SpectrumBorrowing what you see below from the Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate Guide, by Fred Blechman. It appears the T/s 2068 was intended to be …
... One nice thing about ts2068 basic is that the interpretter doesn ... space, with the suggested page size being 8k. The 48k spectrum ... RAM, ROMs (interfacing with the basic system or taking it over ... they wanted to accomplish, a change in plan or some combination ...RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…
... Crisis and made a slight change so that multiplying by 7 ... channel must be created below basic
; so look at the ...
ld a, b ; restore character
atchk:
cp ...
ld a, b ; restore character
cp 24 ; greater than ...Help with custom loader neededAs people here became active recently about MakeTzx and tzx format in general, I have thought that I would post it here. I have some .wav recordings…
... the header, 9ms for the basic block, and around 20ms for ... /> - And finally, if the PZX size really bothered me, I could ... bytes, again without having to change anything.
[QUOTE]Also ...New game! Nanako in CJMC for ZX81!Yup, that's true. We've been busy in crafting a nice, small, simple library to code games in text mode (this is, standard, unexpanded) for the 16K ZX…
... with UDG and standard ROM-character to make display to the ... /> ds 2
; BASIC starts here.
; Again, change at your own ... See below.)
db 126 ; BASIC token. 5 byte FP number ... here.
; Again, don't change anything below this unless you ...Calculating free memory...Hi Folks, I am using the following method to calculate the amount of free memory available to BASIC: [CODE]PRINT 65536-USR 7962[/CODE] Is this the…
... is thus (RAMTOP)-(ERR_SP). The size of the GOSUB stack is ... determined from BASIC except by a USR call, which would change it ...Famous 8 x 8 graphicsHi All, Part of a game I'm writing involves collecting falling 8x8 graphics, one level will be fonts (got this bit sorted) and another will be 8x8 g…
... to see the real size next to the big ... grid but a 2x size preview would help me ... a UDG designer made in Basic with QAOP-Space, over ... preview in x1 and x2 size, but that program was ... enemies, Pacman, Abu Simbel Profanation character, Bugaboo the flea, Phantomas, ...Famous 8 x 8 graphicsHi All, Part of a game I'm writing involves collecting falling 8x8 graphics, one level will be fonts (got this bit sorted) and another will be 8x8 g…
... to see the real size next to the big ... grid but a 2x size preview would help me ... a UDG designer made in Basic with QAOP-Space, over ... preview in x1 and x2 size, but that program was ... enemies, Pacman, Abu Simbel Profanation character, Bugaboo the flea, Phantomas, ...
