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My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... didn't know the Data on the Spectrum went through ... 1986) but I have read hardware info on the ... blame Sinclaircomputers.com as I read their document. Another piece ... that I couldn't read 48k Spellbound in TZX ... it was written in Basic and translated other to Z80 ... -
My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …
... didn't know the Data on the Spectrum went through ... it was written in Basic and translated other to Z80 ... programming tip to compile from BASIC!??! I'll stick to ... if you'd just read what I have been ... re writing your software in BASIC and then compiling it... ... -
Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
... BASIC statements to play music. For example data could be read ... straight from the BASIC area of ... memory from DATA ... various line numbers for each data stream required, instruments, ornaments ... -
Spectrum problemHi I've just been trying to resurrect my 48k spectrum. I'm having some problems loading some of my games, but if it does completely load, it crashe…
... fault which a basic 1's / 0's write read test will ... than the actual data - and this simple basic routine may just not ... -
Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…
... is the mode that Spectrum Basic normally operates in. The code ... routine addresses. The Z80 will read the subroutine address from this ... However, since nothing drives the data bus when the Z80 is ... on the data bus means the Z80 will consistently read '255' as ... -
Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…
... as if they've read the wrong data (sprites whose coordinates are ... the program breaks up with BASIC from line 1. It does ... not access any BASIC feature, it disables interrupts and ... not designed to return to BASIC.
A glitch in ... -
AY-3-8912 help !Hi all. Happy new yeay. I'm new to spectrum programming, and am interested in writing some music for the +2 AY chip. The problem is...I cant find …
... use when writing music data...I'm thinking mainly ... wrting a data line per access, ie data for every ... a kind of delayed data stream that only really ... a 128K Spectrum, select 128 Basic from the menu, enter ... read or write to the former to get / put data ... -
i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
... my guns however, yes, learn Basic. Next
10 FOR ... READ V:POKE A,V
30 NEXT A
40 DATA ... />
Voila, in the limited basic above I have wrote a ... -
i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…
... look up a table to read that?[/quote]
No ... it would even return to BASIC.
(Actually it would ... I find is easier to read.[/quote]
Easy for ... /> Also writing your code in DATA statements is harder to debug ... -
Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…
... adding any AMOS or basic style coding to TommyGun, ... TommyGun to provide the data requirements for a game ... will alway support exporting data as source code because ... awhile ago exports can export data to 48K .sna snapshots ... and from I've read here, you guys seem ... -
Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…
... will the IM2 stuff, abstract data types, etc.
The ... for free. New Basic keywords could be invented to read joysticks, mice ... ) the ability to declare program / data segments, it could well be ... nice way to export the data in a variety of formats ... -
Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…
... py) to the routine from BASIC? In my code, "dir" is ... the beginning of each screen data.
3.- The "print ... (as far as I can read assembly) does the print for ... -
Why Hex in place of Denary?Ok - most MC books / tutorials advocate the use of hex instead of denary. But the Speccy doesn't actually have a Hex converter so you need to write …
... :
here's the BASIC MC loader listing:
40 READ a
50 IF a ... GO TO 40
100 DATA 6,0,58,48,117 ... ,79,201
110 DATA -1
1000 PRINT USR ... of which are opcodes, others data.
the program ... -
+D/Disciple games archive?Hi all, Having finally got my disciple to work, I'm starting to have a look at hacking multiload games. Is there any archive on the web with games t…
... spectrum hacking. I'll read through again slowly.
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;if loading data block, actually load the level ... in "R1.sna" a basic loader is saved with 'SAVE ... I used in the basic loader in R1.sna ... which was loaded by the Basic loader program. You can ... -
InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
... 1 (as used by Spectrum BASIC), the processor simply executes an ... unexpanded Spectrum, the byte read from the data bus in IM 2 ... , the Z80 will read an opcode from the data bus an execute ... 'nnnn' from data bus.
* M3: 4 tstates: read high byte of ... -
Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …
... understand by this: the data from the video memory< ... /right border) ULA try read memory page (16384-32767}. ... if CPU try read the same page (that ... means write to memory, read memory or just execute instruction ... br /> this is only basic info (for zx48)but ... -
IM2 Machine Code Sprites Example Code Using Char Based SystemFurther to my earlier post, here are sprites running using char method with IM2 driving it Note, for 48k spectrum using TASM [code] ; ***********…
... except it is easier to read)
I have also ... 56 ;for smooth return to Basic
; **** START INTERRUPT ... IX,sprites ; Point to sprite data
LD B,TOTALSPRITES ; And ... -
Screen$Is there a quick way to get pictures off a PC e.g. from MS Paint, onto the spectrum without having to type in each individual pixel before saving the…
... have to be in BASIC this means that screens ... have to be loaded as BASIC would od so.
... loaders might load the data for the screen in ... example, loading the attribute data in a fancy way).
data on tape lumped together and then read it ... -
UDG/sprite HelpRestore 5: For N=20 To 21: Read G$: For R=0 To 7: Read B: Poke Usr G$+r,b: Next R: Next N
... following BASIC:
05 RESTORE 5: FOR N=20 TO 21: READ ... $: FOR R=0 TO 7: READ B: POKE USR G$+R ... : NEXT N
10>DATA "T",255,255,255,127 ... -
Basic info about platformers...I have run a search for an answer to this question and haven't found quite what I was looking for so I thought I would pop a post on here... What ar…
... collision detection problem. I used Basic, and my first try was ... an ATTR function which could read colors from screen. So I ... using DATA operators with numbers - that was so hard to read and ... -
New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…
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* General BASIC tips
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* ... making it possible to read UDG as characters. You ... where the appropriate return data lies. Try calling ... to see what return data actually consists of.
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. …
... mind is concerning tables or data held in memory, now I ... them frequently but what about Basic?
If you have ... increment the area to be read next? I don`t know ... `d be worth it in Basic, but I`ve always liked ...Fast MDR creation...Hi, I still have a load of Microdrives I want to get into mdr files so I can erase them and put better stuff on (like Sabre Wulf) and also to preser…
... even if 90% of the data is still good?
< ... Spectrum can dump raw data to the RS232 on ... read a block from the MD to memory. On return to BASIC ... , the BASIC program would just dump ... be useful for recovering data of dead MDRs too....Saving BASIC code as CODE... can't start programHi guys! I'm trying to create an adventure game for the Speccy in BASIC, called The Legend Of The Red Dragon. I'm using the excellent BASin to code…
... suggest you go back and read up on CODE cos I ... /> will load 5000 bytes of data (the machine code) starting at ... /> You can't 'hide' a BASIC program, any Speccy hacker worth ...GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…
... .wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas"]http://www. ... = 1 to 10
read a$, c
print ...
data "Hexagono", 260
data "Cuadrado", 405
data "Cuadrado", ... 436
data "Triangulo", 481 ...ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
... gives a 'C Nonsense in Basic' error. It does not matter ... : FOR A=1 TO 2: READ B,C: FOR D=B ... : READ C: POKE D,C: NEXT D: NEXT A
50 DATA ... ,237,176,201
60 DATA 50011,1,201
70 ...z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... easy to design map data and place the baddies ... to open files for read/write in a floppy ... nothing with the 128's Basic RAMdisk. A RAMdisk is ... here is that some data compression functions will be ... specify where the compressed data begins and then call ...z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
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inc hl ; read the header self-modifying the ... br /> inc hl ; skip useless data
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