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  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... #0 or #1
    in Basic you use the lower screen ... /> ret ; back to basic


    ; Print text on screen
    ;draw_ equ 0x24ba
    ;circle equ 0x232d
    ;arc equ ...
    Kotek Kotek June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... /> ret ; back to basic


    ; Print text on screen
    ;draw_ equ 0x24ba
    ;circle equ 0x232d
    ;arc equ ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... ret ; back to basic


    ; Print text on screen
    ;draw_ equ 0x24ba
    ;circle equ 0x232d
    ;arc equ ... ,1,ink,4,paper,2,"Text" ;my custom string
    Text"
    defb 255
    Kotek Kotek June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... you defining the UDGs in BASIC first?

    ... ; back to basic


    ; Print text on screen
    ;circle equ 0x232d
    ;arc equ ... ,ink,3,paper,6,"Second Text"
    defb 255
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... you defining the UDGs in BASIC first?

    ... ; back to basic


    ; Print text on screen
    ;circle equ 0x232d
    ;arc equ ... ,ink,3,paper,6,"Second Text"
    defb 255
    Kotek Kotek June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... ret ; back to basic


    ; Print text on screen
    ;circle equ 0x232d
    ;arc equ ... ,ink,3,paper,6,"Second Text"
    defb 255
    text going off the edge ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 Development
  • Games that benefit from a change in speed.Has anybody tried playing games on an emulator at different speeds? I've found that certain games are more playable with a slight speed tweak. Obvio…

    ... . Obviously programs written in basic and text adventure games are going to ...
    Martyh! Martyh! June 2002 Games
  • What games can you create?After hearing that you need machine code to create commercial quality speccy games, what sort of games can you create in +3 BASIC, except text advent…

    After hearing that you need machine code to create commercial quality speccy games, what sort of games can you create in +3 BASIC, except text adventures?
    sonic91 sonic91 October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • What games can you create?After hearing that you need machine code to create commercial quality speccy games, what sort of games can you create in +3 BASIC, except text advent…

    After hearing that you need machine code to create commercial quality speccy games, what sort of games can you create in +3 BASIC, except text adventures?
    sonic91 sonic91 October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • loading up my old tapeshey there people, perhaps you can help me out with a (not so) little problem i'm having.... I'm trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventur…

    ... trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventure my brother wrote ... then save it out of basic as a TAP or TZX ...
    Hungry Horace Hungry Horace March 2006 Emulators
  • Any interest in new low-cost mass-storage interface with 512K RAM?I've recently added support to ResiDOS and the +3e ROMs for SD/MMC card interfaces; in particular, ZXMMC (which has no onboard RAM and so is only sup…

    ... optional packages which can add BASIC commands, handle hook codes ... Alternative BASICs such as SE BASIC can be installed and used ... trapping commands and functions for BASIC
    [*]Some specially- ... disk I/O from BASIC and text windowing (as currently provided ...
    glancaster glancaster January 2007 Hardware
  • Flashing systems on DIVIDE interfacesSome peoples can't reflash eeprom chip in Divide interface (original Divide, Divide 2k11, Divide 57d2/57d3). EEPROM chip AT28C64B contain feature fo…

    ... DIVIDE PLUS and flash system. Basic contain text with help (show after ... and select your system from basic menu before flashing.
    velesoft velesoft June 2013 Hardware
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... cry!
    C NONSENSE IN BASIC! (The text of the (string) argument ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis September 2002 Games
  • BASin's BASIC Editor! Suggestions?Hi all! I'm just starting BASin's BASIC editor now - and it's finalised as a resizeable window that uses the spectrum font. Kind of like Notepad mee…

    ... seemlessly import and export from BASIC to text? Seeing as Delphi pretty ...
    cyborg cyborg September 2003 Development
  • 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: …

    ... ), I just used a plain text file as the backend, and ... is just as easy as Basic to pick up, incidentally, and ... less the same as the basic plain-text approach, except that rather ...
    gasman gasman March 2007 Chit chat
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... - Two further characters of BASIC program text saved, as per your comment ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... awesome power of the Sinclair basic CIRCLE command, it was finally all ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn February 2008 Development
  • They're here ! BASIC horror themed games[IMG]http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/q541/Rygarman/theyre_here.jpg[/IMG] Because its my birthday tomorrow (38 years young) I am making these ga…

    I must say I'm particularly impressed by Land of the Dead. Even in BASIC, and text only, it has such an atmosphere, and pretty fun to play as well.

    I've also seen the listing of it and I can only admire how you did it.
    Timmy Timmy December 2012 Brand new software
  • They're here ! BASIC horror themed games[IMG]http://i1163.photobucket.com/albums/q541/Rygarman/theyre_here.jpg[/IMG] Because its my birthday tomorrow (38 years young) I am making these ga…

    ... of the Dead. Even in BASIC, and text only, it has such ...
    retromad retromad December 2012 Brand new software
  • Hunt the WumpusI converted the "Hunt the Wumpus" game from Texas Instrumenst TI99/4 to ZX Spectrum (Wilko Schr?ter wrote a different text-only version some years ag…

    ... ![/QUOTE]There is a 1K BASIC version (Text) for ZX81, but I ...
    LCD LCD February 2013 Brand new software
  • Hunt the WumpusI converted the "Hunt the Wumpus" game from Texas Instrumenst TI99/4 to ZX Spectrum (Wilko Schr?ter wrote a different text-only version some years ag…

    [QUOTE=LCD;683716]There is a 1K BASIC version (Text) for ZX81, but I'm really curious if you can do it... (yes, if one can, its you).[/QUOTE]

    The BASIC version has a fixed maze?

    EDIT : Found a version, maze is fixed!
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2013 Brand new software
  • SAVE writing zeros after program?Hi there! I hope this is the right forum, but I didn't find any other more appropriate... I'm trying to recover some very old tapes with stuff I mad…

    I cant help you with the technical stuff, but good luck with recovering your old games, can you tell us more info? were they ASM games, BASIC games, text adventures...? :)
    Ivanzx Ivanzx February 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Flashing systems on DIVIDE interfacesSome peoples can't reflash eeprom chip in Divide interface (original Divide, Divide 2k11, Divide 57d2/57d3). EEPROM chip AT28C64B contain feature fo…

    ... DIVIDE PLUS and flash system. Basic contain text with help (show after ... and select your system from basic menu before flashing.[/QUOTE]
    TomD TomD June 2013 Hardware
  • writing incrementally to tape without leadersI want to be able to write intermittently & incrementally to some sequential medium which is supported on any Spectrum (emulator, ie. tape); eg. [cod…

    ... you just want to write BASIC as text to a file?

    Now in BASIC

    OPEN #3;"t ... />
    And the BASIC is sent as text to the file.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2014 Development
  • writing incrementally to tape without leadersI want to be able to write intermittently & incrementally to some sequential medium which is supported on any Spectrum (emulator, ie. tape); eg. [cod…

    ... you just want to write BASIC as text to a file?
    Now in BASIC

    OPEN #3;"t ... />
    And the BASIC is sent as text to the file.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2014 Development
  • CIRCLEHi, I'd like to draw a circle x,y,r using the BASIC-ROM subroutines. I've put x, y and r onto the calculator stack and used CALL #232D and RET. I g…

    ... 's a couple of fast circle routines on WoS which were ... YS. I timed them against BASIC for drawing 100 circles with ... =90, r=60:

    BASIC CIRCLE command = 90 seconds :cry:
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2014 Development
  • Ghostbusters - New Loader?[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002025"]Ghostbuster's[/URL] original loading screen was just a bunch of (c) credits and a mas…

    ... , but I wonder if the Basic Circle command can be utilised from ...
    Muig Muig May 2014 Games
  • New BBC iPlayerIts bloody awful! What's with the current fad of making sites tablet friendly? They should've made an alternative site for tablet users. So people…

    ... --refresh [--force]

    Basic Help: get_iplayer --basic-help
    Advanced Help ... help text
    --helpbasic, --usage Basic help text
    --helplong Advanced help text
    mel the bell mel the bell May 2014 Chit chat
  • The future of WoSDear readers, I'm not sure, but at the moment, the maintenance of WoS seems to be inactive. I would be the least who won't be pleased about Martijn's…

    ... with the square brackets for basic rich text. When you start getting ... own ways of using rich text.
    BloodBaz BloodBaz September 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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