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  • Seeking alternatives to DATA statementsAnyone know of any memory saving alternatives to storing a list of numbers, other than using DATA statements or poking data into addresses?... Im ti…

    ... stuff)
    4) Its pure BASIC (even more so than some ... the tune, then you have fast access pure 0..255 values ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Seeking alternatives to DATA statementsAnyone know of any memory saving alternatives to storing a list of numbers, other than using DATA statements or poking data into addresses?... Im ti…

    ... different approaches which would be fast and simple to implement:
    BASIC, but again, I would understand ... want to keep it 100% BASIC.
    BloodBaz BloodBaz August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • New Game: Climbing ManA few years ago I created a solo boardgame that simulated in a way, climbing a rock wall. It was roughly based on the rock climbing sections of the c…

    Well, fast and dirty BASIC program for reading keys 6- ... operations are pretty missing in BASIC.
    ellvis ellvis August 2010 Announcements
  • New Game: Climbing ManA few years ago I created a solo boardgame that simulated in a way, climbing a rock wall. It was roughly based on the rock climbing sections of the c…

    [QUOTE=ellvis;465654]Well, fast and dirty BASIC program for reading keys 6 ... operations are pretty missing in BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    Just so ...
    jonathan jonathan August 2010 Announcements
  • Z80 Machine Code Question...Hi Folks, I know not strictly a BASIC question but I have started to learn Z80 machine code - 25 years too late! :smile: I have been reading a book…

    ... quick compared to the BASIC program:

    BASIC - approx. 45 seconds ... of just how fast assembler is compared to interpreted BASIC.

    bobs bobs August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • TIMEX 2048: anybody can convert GIGASCREEN?Hi. Timex 2048 has stable GigaScreen (no flickering at all). I know there are several big TC2048 fans on the Forum. Could anybody write a viewe…

    ... and the cpu isn't fast enough to do certain things ... entry HunchBack '08 written in BASIC at [url]http://reptonix.awardspace ...
    Fred Fred August 2010 Development
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    -what i really miss in basic is support for structured programming ... , not a fast beast just something which speed up basic by 3 ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... , not a fast beast just something which speed up basic by 3 ... own OS. And is the BASIC not fast enough already?

    Dunny Dunny August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... own OS. And is the BASIC not fast enough already?

    Fikee Fikee August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... somewhat backwards compatible in the BASIC language, and totally incompatible at ... compatibility, then use BASin in FAST mode.

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... somewhat backwards compatible in the BASIC language, and totally incompatible at ... compatibility, then use BASin in FAST mode.

    D.[/QUOTE ...
    guesser guesser August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... play and boy is this fast. :smile:

    ok so ... uses a form of spectrum basic

    and if that ...
    ASH-II ASH-II August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... windows programs with a super fast spectrum basic tool would be pant ...
    ASH-II ASH-II August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Micro Command - voice recognition for the ZX SpectrumIt's an interface you might know about. This is it: [img]http://www.zxprojects.com/images/stories/microcommand/microcommand.jpg[/img] I've found som…

    ... in 808 lines of BBC BASIC, and the first examples were ... CPU - it was a simple, fast (for the time) method for ...
    Winston Winston August 2010 Hardware
  • 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. …

    ... wrote the routine in Sinclair BASIC to ensure I understood how ... double height character routine in BASIC that is as quick as ... the method used in BBC BASIC MODE 7 i.e. you ... . The only downside of the BASIC routine is that it uses ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... keyboard (SIC), more memory, advanced BASIC, printers and Microdrives! Wow, the ... bought a Microdrive and YS BASIC for my Spectrum but this ... I wanted to use - BBC BASIC (awesome) and an 80 column ... memory, processsors etc.) were falling fast and to limit the QL ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2010 Games
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... bbc basic was better than speccy basic... sorry.. speccy basic was ... also perhaps.. it was ms basic.[/QUOTE]

    BASIC is quite remarkable because ... have instead a reasonably fast processor (3.5MHz ... is about twice as fast as a 1MHz 6502 ...
    Winston Winston August 2010 Games
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... respect as well. Yes Sinclair BASIC lacks a lot of the ... features in BBC BASIC but it is clever and ... is so then why was BASIC on an Electron/BBC quicker ... why is Sinclair BASIC rather slow given its fast processor?

    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2010 Games
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... why is Sinclair BASIC rather slow given its fast processor?
    ... editor or when running BASIC applications that focus mainly ... .

    Finally, Sinclair BASIC and every aspect of the ... Compare and contrast with Locomotive BASIC on the Amstrad CPC for ...
    AndyC AndyC August 2010 Games
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... is so then why was BASIC on an Electron/BBC quicker ... and want it to be fast. Compare the difference between printing ...
    Winston Winston August 2010 Games
  • SpecBAS (SpecOS's BASIC interpreter) is updated - build 236Build 236 is up at [url]ftp://zxdunny.dyndns.org[/url] New for this release is the beginnings of a proper manual - all commands and functions docume…

    ... that their BASIC (though professionally produced) isn't as fast as SpecBAS ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecBAS (SpecOS's BASIC interpreter) is updated - build 236Build 236 is up at [url]ftp://zxdunny.dyndns.org[/url] New for this release is the beginnings of a proper manual - all commands and functions docume…

    ... that their BASIC (though professionally produced) isn't as fast as SpecBAS ... they use the similarities between BASIC and SmallBASIC is limited. It ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Microsoft really know how to sell their products![url]www.metro.co.uk/tech/842500-kinect-demands-a-tidy-room[/url]

    ... closest to melding SCR with fast gameplay that I've seen ... . Plus SCR now looks very basic indeed, in that strange way ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2010 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... to say that BBC BASIC and Amstrad BASIC are very good (as ... boy is the BBC Micro fast.

    To test performance ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]

    ... over again to do the basic requirements for you. You ... 06 - A set of fast memory copy and memory store ...
    07 - A fast clear screen routine using the ... size
    12 - A fast sprite routine, that is; ...
    20 - A fast screen address lookup routine, that ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]

    ... to display collision data areas, basic 3D, panel displays, eye candy ... : Invalid sprite dimensions".

    Fast sprite routines:

    NO ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Brand new Horace GameWe could think on how should the next Horace Game be, taking in account that the past three are mixtures of old, well established classic arcade game…

    ... don't. In the most basic level (means: the biggest audience ... /> >it'd load too fast with the divIDE for the ... idea is to load as fast as possible, without 10 minutes ...
    Mister Beep Mister Beep October 2010 New game ideas
  • 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…

    ... can use arrays from BASIC but the other data structures ... m not familiar with Speccy BASIC. I know it worked ... 'm not sure how fast it would be on other ... And with float, the BASIC has to convert to integers ... depending on where your BASIC starts arrays and max ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... linked list etc. Alas Spectrum BASIC is not the quickest so ... .

    Indexes/keys provide fast random access to data. Linked ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum coding on iPad?Hi there, A quick intro first. My names Adam, 33 years old, recently dug the +2 out and have been having a childhood Renaissance with Robocop and Op…

    ... tinkering and is certainly not fast enough on any mobile device ... to code in Spectrum Basic or use Spectrum Basic to poke machine ...
    takapa takapa October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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