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  • Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…

    ... that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or ... was used to draw lines and the DRAW statement was ... position isn't updated after draw)
    B = blank ... don't draw)

    "U8R8D8L8" would draw a square 8 pixels ... 3D animation to a BASIC program.
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…

    ... command was used to draw lines and the DRAW statement was completely ... .

    "U8R8D8L8" would draw a square 8 pixels wide by 8 ... a lot faster than Sinclair BASIC even in my humble 486 ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2007 Development
  • Drawing ovals...Hi Folks, Is it possible to draw an oval using the Sinclar BASIC DRAW commend and the 3rd parameter? I have been trying (and failing). Many thanks…

    Hi Folks,

    Is it possible to draw an oval using the Sinclar BASIC DRAW commend and the 3rd parameter? I have been trying (and failing).

    Many thanks

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman March 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Drawing a dotted line...Hi Folks, I cannot be the first person to want this (?) so here goes! Does anyone have a MC routine that does the same as the BASIC DRAW command bu…

    ... does the same as the BASIC DRAW command but with a dotted ... able to use it from BASIC.

    As always thank ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman July 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Did anybody have a QL?When I was at school in the mid 80's our computer department decided to buy a QL. I remember using one of those 'Turtle' type programmes where you w…

    ... , R10, D10, L10' to draw a square. Was there ever any good ...
    stupidget stupidget September 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Packing numbers in as least memory as possibleI am writing some code for drawing vector lines etc. on the screen. These need to be stored in memory and I want to pack them in a smaller area as po…

    ... from any point you can draw into 4 directions (-x,-y ... that.

    The DRAW-command in BASIC is translated to MC ... you can call the BASIC DRAW from MC to DRAW a line from ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Development
  • How works the Line-Draw ROM routine ?The 'complete spectrum rom dissasembly.pdf' show info related to the draw rom subroutine. The Line-Draw require two sets of parameters: X,Y coordinat…

    ... ]

    this is supossely "Draw 10,10". But, what i ... ZXSpin debugger when executed a basic "draw 10,10", i see how ...
    arfgh arfgh June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • How works the Line-Draw ROM routine ?The 'complete spectrum rom dissasembly.pdf' show info related to the draw rom subroutine. The Line-Draw require two sets of parameters: X,Y coordinat…

    ... />

    this is supossely "Draw 10,10". But, what i ... ZXSpin debugger when executed a basic "draw 10,10", i see how ... :P[/QUOTE]


    DRAW is done from the last ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • How works the Line-Draw ROM routine ?The 'complete spectrum rom dissasembly.pdf' show info related to the draw rom subroutine. The Line-Draw require two sets of parameters: X,Y coordinat…

    ... to do a "draw 10,10" as in Basic.
    I think ... that this Line-Draw routine works ... said when i do a Basic 'draw 10,10' i placed a ... DE registers dont contains the draw parameters. Is it possible that ...
    arfgh arfgh June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Official CSSCGC 2011 Competition ThreadHello fellas. The site is up and running. We are already accepting submissions. [url]http://www.mojontwins.com/csscgc2011/[/url] Rules, info, and e…

    We need more draw-based games in this compo. I may give it a go. But cheating, I've heard Boriel's ZX Basic DRAW functions are pretty fast :P
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2011 Games
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... square, then move a new sprite over the square, sp1 will only draw ... the square once despite ... two changes having been made to the square ... at two different times. Most draw-it-all ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2012 Development
  • Screen routinesHello. For my games I?m using the sprites routine method of a screen buffer and when I finish to print all the sprites I dump all the buffer in the …

    ... square, then move a new sprite over the square, sp1 will only draw ... the square once despite ... two changes having been made to the square ... at two different times. Most draw-it-all ...
    climacus climacus January 2012 Development
  • Drawing ovals...Hi Folks, Is it possible to draw an oval using the Sinclar BASIC DRAW commend and the 3rd parameter? I have been trying (and failing). Many thanks…

    ... it possible to draw an oval using the Sinclar BASIC DRAW commend and ... have two centerpoints and the DRAW is working with 1 centerpoint ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Your latest gaming purchase.Okay, so we've got an, "I am currently playing......" thread, but what I wanna know is what you've just gone and bought y'self. If you're like me, y…

    Sky Destroyer After Burner with A WW Bomber, Exerion like Galaxy force written in BASIC, and Star Soldier, like any Galaga type game, but shooting lots of pink robot mice (At least I think that's what they were supposed to be?) :))
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek December 2015 Chit chat
  • Using BASIC from Machine CodeHi Folks, Came across a very interesting article by Toni Baker in Your Spectrum: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr11/yr11_66.htm …

    ... text needs to be tokenised BASIC e.g.


    DB KWRDPRINT, '"', "Hello", '"', 13 ; BASIC PRINT token 245 $F5
    TEXT:
    DB KWRDDRAW ; BASIC DRAW token 252 $FC
    DB ...
    dbolli dbolli August 2017 Development
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... to you experts this is basic stuff but I am learning ... /> ret ; Return to BASIC

    ; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ; Draw the Desktop

    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • The R-Tape loading Era. An Easter story?R-Tape loading era Nostalgia's a funny thing you know. You might remember what at the time seemed a damn nuisance, only to recall it much later…

    ... about. We had it draw a spiral hexagon on the floor using ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk March 2018 Chit chat
  • Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…

    ... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas[/URL]
    Load ... CLS : PRINT "Square"
    22 PLOT 40,110: DRAW .00001,.00001,252 ... CLS : PRINT "Hexagon"
    42 PLOT 120,140: DRAW .000005,0,252 ... "7 Pointed Star"
    72 PLOT 120,120: DRAW .000009,0, ...
    Marcelo Marcelo February 2007 Development
  • Vector font in BASiCHi guys) Some fifteen years ago I saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate a vector font with size/ thickness/ italicization params. I remem…

    ... I saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate ... a'la vector font in BASiC.

    I've ... 210 PLOT 20,165: DRAW 0,-145: DRAW 225,0
    220 ... CLS
    340 LET a$="STAR": LET y=159: LET x ... 1440 PRINT "THEN, WRITE YOUR BASIC LINES TO"
    1450 PRINT ...
    NRA NRA February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Star BASIC or *BASIC??? Anyone heard of this?Does anyone remember a thing called Star Basic or *basic? It was a tape that extended the BASIC instruction set and from memory you put a * in front…

    ... anyone remember a thing called Star Basic or *basic?

    It was ... a tape that extended the BASIC instruction set and from memory ...
    SteveINtheUKok SteveINtheUKok April 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Where's my green square? Basic & m/c question.I'm going mad here - can anyone tell me why my little basic program isn't displaying a green square at the top of the screen? I've checked the num…

    ... my little basic program isn't displaying a green square at the ... I don't think the basic is overwriting the M/C ... work and displays the green square no problem. I've peeked ... should be ...just no green square!

    What am I ...
    Tobo Tobo June 2017 Development
  • How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…

    ... how to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling* game.
    BASIC easily, for example using ... br /> First, we will draw a player on screen:
    basic has its Y coordinate ... if the player hits a star.

    ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2020 Development
  • ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…

    ... slightly hard to use Super Draw program from Sinclair Programs all ... . For instance, if a red square was drawn from (0,0 ... ,2,4 fills the red square with yellow
    PAINT 50 ... fills the area outside the square with yellow
    PAINT 50 ... way to do this in BASIC?
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone August 2003 Games
  • "TommyGun" gets a complete MAKEOVER for next release ...From the author, Tony Thompson ... """""""""""""""""""""""""" [B][I] I hadn't worked on the TommyGun editor for while. But when I got sick (about …

    ... I have plugins that can draw Spectrum and C64 4 color ... basic ones that will be released by me are Free draw, line draw, square ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Development
  • BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…

    ... write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW commands ... text to my box but basic seems to position text in ... should be in the Spectrum Basic section.. I didnt see it ...
    javaguy javaguy August 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Speccy stuff for free - you collect from SW18Hi chaps, Righto, all my Speccy stuff has to go but I can't post it (sorry Craig!), it's far too much hassle. If you want all of the below, feel fre…

    ... (boxed/PSU/Introduction and BASIC programming manual)
    Upright ... / Melbourne House
    Star Wars / Domark
    ... copies)
    48k Melbourne Draw / Melbourne House
    Survival ... br /> Boulderdash 2 / First Star
    Supersnails / Games Machine ...
    Vertigo Vertigo July 2006 Sales
  • Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.

    What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic.




    Andrew.
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk October 2006 Development
  • Games for sale including rare utilitiesAll in good and complete condition unless otherwise stated. Postage not included but typically 50p-100p per item. The more you order, the lower the p…

    ... /> PiMania (Automata) ? 2
    Five Star Games III (BeauJolly) ? 2
    30 Hour Basic (Microtrust) - 4
    Rebelstar Raiders ... /> Underwurlde (Ultimate) ? 3
    Melbourne Draw (Melbourne House) (Front cover torn ...
    wadsterboy wadsterboy January 2007 Sales
  • BASIC Keyword ReferenceRealised that the Sinclair Basic section would be a better place for discussion of BASIC keywords, so for reference the old thread is in [thread=2005…

    ... />
    [CODE]
    SINCLAIR BASIC Keyword Reference

    The ... D REM : K : E
    DRAW : K : W RESTORE : E : ... colours within strings in a BASIC listing.

    ...
    icabod icabod March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... run a BBC BASIC program. You currently can't draw to the ... pixel accurate rather than character square sized. I did see one ... be based on a character square location. If I intend to ... being aligned to a character square.

    [*]More graphics support ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
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