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Development choices, help!As a small part-time project I would like to convert my daily programming work (a workflow/bpel engine) to the Spectrum, purely for fun. I would like…
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Legend of Kyrandia - ZX Spectrum DemoI was browsing the ZX Open Source site [url]http://opensourcezx.untergrund.net/[/url] and I found an interesting tr-dos disk image of a playable demo…
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Need help transferring a file to a Spectrum .dsk fileHello, I was wondering if anyone can help me transfer a file that I have into a spectrum *.dsk file? The background to this request is that I have r…
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New WIP underway - 'Dingo'.Hi, Prepare for a long post. Perhaps I can even challenge ewgf here. :razz: Anyway, I've been meaning to get into Z80 programming and making a game…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Commodore 64 - First time trying - REVIEW & Pictures!Right, so the 2nd hand shop was selling this Commodore and accessories. So I decided to buy it, as I've never had a Commodore and this is my first ti…
... but I wish the size would be 1mm bigger, ... in multi colours, that change colours as its loading ... have to POKE memory to change colours! yaghgh!
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BUZZSAW+ Demo No. 3Right, another demo of BUZZSAW+. [URL="http://www.joefish.co.uk/speccy/Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap"]Joefish_Buzzsaw_Demo_3.tap[/URL] The default con…
... buffer, so I can either change the border colour to mark ... font down over the Sinclair BASIC RAM area to free up ... to a tenth of their size for the cost of a ... -
Better or Worst! Speccy vs C64Just wanted to see what games you all thought looked better or played better on the Speccy or the C64? I always thought that Renegade & Target Ren…
... foreground blocks out the sprites character-by-character?... To prefer it over ... to match the Speccy screen size. If you want jerky ... to notice things like the character square movement of the ... on youtube where artifacts may change how the game actually looks ... -
z88dk hates me =(Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Under the power of darkness I was about to settle in and play with some SP1 sprite handling (as printf is simply NOT f…
... and then restore it. To change colour of a rectangular area ... rather than rely on the basic ISR to do it (getch ... the library and maybe its size doesn't matter if your ... -
File size in 128K RAM diskHi Folks, Is there a way to get the size of a file stored in the 128K RAM disk from within a BASIC program? Many thanks Paddy
Just using BASIC there's only CAT, ... !" doesn't give the file size. On the +2A/+3 " ... m:"" does give the file size but getting at it is ... will give a "Nonsense in BASIC" error. (Concatenation with SCREEN$ ... $ stack bug, so each character has to be treated distinctly ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... I'm reading the existing character and disallowing movement with ...
You are erasing the character, then performing lots of tasks ... the character again. This is the reason for flickering.
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checking bits in BASICThe question of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this [thread=35728]Keys redefine routine and key check[/thread] thread. I s…
... manipulation is very slow in basic but very fast in assembler ... the address of the last character of the string "0000000000000000" inside ... DEF FN, so if you change it, you have to calculate ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... ;563269]You are erasing the character, then performing lots of tasks ... the character again. This is the reason for flickering.
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Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
... years ago, I wrote a BASIC version of the game "Fire ... sprites to share the same character cell. After applying colour, this ... in the attribute memory to change the ink and reveal the ... , so you can read the BASIC code:
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User Defined GraphicsCan someone please give some very simple code for a displaying a UDG at a location on screen? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely…
... " to "u" can be in basic signed with codes 144-164 ... $ 144)
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Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …
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Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …
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So easy to use.Back in the 90s I was off work for 3 months following an operation, anyway in my boredom I dusted off my old speccy+ and the manual, and got my head …
... luck, some characters in the basic were not displayed properly, the ... basic using this tool?
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Words of adviceHi all This is my first post on World of Spectrum and I'm gradually starting to discover the wonders of the machine. Just to give you a bit of bac…
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SpecBAS is Sinclair BASIC (found on speccies) ported to ... the "screen" can be any size, and supports 256 colours. ... etc! And why have character-square limitations on PRINT? ... pixel location, while AT retains character square resolution.
A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
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void u_free(void ...A new multicolor engine called BIFROST*I'm glad to announce the release of a new multicolor engine implemented by yours truly, including high quality 16x16 tiles designed by R-Tape: [IMG]…
... at any position (horizontally, to character precision; vertically, to pixel precision ... significant increase in the engine size;
[*] Re-implement the ... (obviously not an advantage for BASIC programs where it's better ...LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…
... takes 52secs and a same size text file takes 30secs. I ... bounds checks before doing the character check, then I realised I ... anyway, so I put the character check first which saved about ... ; plus there's a little BASIC program.LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…
... an assembler listing, a BASIC listing of the test runner ... already loaded. I had to change three parameters from assembled constants ... usage:
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27100 -> 33999 : (6900 ... at the location & size displayed at the end (that ...LZ77 en/decodingI've written an LZ77 en/decoding routine as I couldn't find one around for the Spectrum. Initially I'm just doing it in BASIC to get the logic right.…
... than the maximum possible size), for a file size of 6912 a ... of addresses for the first character of a match with a ... ; the code below is a BASIC version of a routine to ...Speed tip - "e" notationHi Folks, Whilst reading my "new" Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC manual I came across "e" notation again. In MRT I have the following line which is use…
... full and comprehensive version of BASIC (including error messages appropriate to ... plus the tape routines and character set and whatever else. By ... did nothing much, just a basic WIMP system (it didn't ... have been a basic WIMP system but given the size of Windows ...Scrolling a mapCan someone explain in idiots terms how you scroll a map. I'm not after code as such, just an explanation of how it can be done. I'd like to scroll…
... stuck. Basically (and using just BASIC :-P) I created a map ... get stuck? Two things: My character would flicker because it had ... that the only way to change that would be to create ... would be triggered only when character moved beyond what the scrolling ...Scrolling a mapCan someone explain in idiots terms how you scroll a map. I'm not after code as such, just an explanation of how it can be done. I'd like to scroll…
Here's a BASIC character-based map scroller which I ... statements READ in line 10. Change the six constants in line ...Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…
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