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FOR 1 TO 0 - Execute "no times"?I checked a couple of basic variations, and generally a for loop executes at least once, even if you create a negative loop without step -1. But in s…
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FOR 1 TO 0 - Execute "no times"?I checked a couple of basic variations, and generally a for loop executes at least once, even if you create a negative loop without step -1. But in s…
... been trying to find an online copy of the full BASIC standard, just ... 1968 - the specification that Sinclair BASIC itself is based upon:
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Boriels ZX CompilerI'm trying to compile a very simple program and I keep getting the error: unexpected end of file. Here's my code: [CODE]10 cls 20: let n=0 22 do 2…
... "I don't like BASIC" rather than "BASIC is an awful language".
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The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
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Things your head knows aren't there but your heart believes in still...So there we were, in the pub, and the conversation got a little weird. Apropos of nothing, one of the group tells us that he harbours a belief that …
... 's so shockingly idiotic you find yourself screaming at the TV ... away with some footage of an animal, shouting to each other 'Oh ... local fisherman have repawded seeing an aquoddick beast in the wodder ... -
Completely free games?Hi, I would like to know if there are any open source or completely free games for ZX Spectrum. Or at least some other free programs without any lin…
... I quickly re-purposed to an identical DirectDraw one the ... offered technical advice on writing an accurate emulator. I found ... find an easy way to restructure the original source (which was laughably basic ... The sound routine was anyways an original one as the C ... -
New Z88 owner, but what now?Just scored a Z88 off eBay for something like ?36. It's working, has a 32k RAM pack and a "SpellMaster" cartridge. I bought it out of curiosity as I …
... thing is, I can't find an active forum or other place ... with mine was write a basic program where it asked a ... -
Learning Machine Code the +2a wayHello again all, I thought I'd ask in this forum as the other categories seem less relevant. I keep re-reading the thread below with the advice given…
... generally though, I invested in an AY board for the zx81 ... then connect the Spec to an amplifier. I could then jack ... 'd then be running from BASIC to an amp to a keyboard ... steeper (vertical) climb and I find the Speccy much more helpful ... -
Several software titles, maybe interesting for preservation purposes?I don't know if this is an appropriate post in the appropriate forum, but this is my question. I have about 40 ZX Spectrum games and other software …
... the files? I couldn't find an option to attach them to ... 'Leer programmeren in BASIC', unless I can find a book scanner somewhere ... -
Dock's ZX Maze gameI'm hoping to finish a simple maze game in ZX Spectrum BASIC this week, as part of the Ludumdare Retro challenge. I used to dabble in speccy basic on…
... expander, just write it as an asm library. In that form ... , C compilers, Boriel basic, ...
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Any Examples of player controlled masked sprite over flip screen tilemapped rooms?Please does anyone kindly have any z80 code examples of a flip screens tile map with a masked character sprite that you can control via keyboard, ie …
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Remaking Special Operations - some thoughts and questions.(Edit: Sorry - long one!) Special Operations is one of my favourite titles and, despite them being very different, is up there with Halls of the T…
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You can find an awesome IZX icons editor here ... to use IZX from Sinclair BASIC or directly from Assembly. If ... -
Usefullness of program listings in magazinesEarly computing magazines had printouts of program listings. I always felt this was a nice thing in that you might read the code and learn something,…
... that didnt really help you find an error. Or were just flat ... for publishing. At least with BASIC it was easier to spot ... -
Any love for Ranarama?I reviewed Ranarama this week for ChinnyVision and just got sucked straight into it again. Doesn't seem to be a game with alot of love for it though …
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Pseudocode for CIRCLE algorithm?Can anyone provide me with the pseudocode for the Spectrum's CIRCLE algorithm? My machine code knowledge isn't up to reading the ROM routine. I'm try…
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Joe's Drink StandThis is about this German prog . The link here refers:- [url="https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/57301/elusive-strategy-games-done-by-t…
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Celebrity deaths...How about putting them all in one thread? In a sticky? As it seems to be a weekly thing at the moment? Save a bit of space and we can all do without …
... his way to find a place that wasn't an animal shelter to ... want to put them in an animal shelter, that would've been ... -
Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…
... PC) all the strings and find the longest substrings between common ... of processing power (especially in BASIC) on an 8 bit machine. Use ... -
Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…
... PC) all the strings and find the longest substrings between common ... of processing power (especially in BASIC) on an 8 bit machine. Use ... can get something together in BASIC. -
.$b Russian formatsI cannot find an emulator which supports the .$b games. Does anybody know of an emulator which runs these or if they're another recognisable format …
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TAPI can't find an emulator that runs .TAP files
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games games gamesi have dear memories for a specy game, but i cant remember whats its called. All i can remember is at the end you had to find an ORB for some King???…
i have dear memories for a specy game, but i cant remember whats its called. All i can remember is at the end you had to find an ORB for some King???? It was an adventure game set in space -
Solution for overwritten stack in 48k SNA filesIt has been known for quite some time now that the 48k SNA file format has one serious fault, which is described in the file formats section on the W…
... a snapshot is loaded into an emulator. It is possible that ... the stack is full when an emulator makes a snapshot, so ... since I was unable to find an existing solution (except that one ... 't know if there is an emulator that would check the ... -
i'm a first time user - PLEASE HELP!!!i just want to play elite, ranarama and some of my other old faves. i've downloaded zx32 and spin emulators, as well as a few games but i can't get t…
... tells me it can't find an expander file. zx32 keeps prompting ... your assistance as if addressing an elderly neighbour or a dim ... -
HELP ABOUT "UNDERWURLDE"Hello to all. I have found in the galleries the arc and are gone back, killing the minotauro. Now i have the arc, the sling and the knife, but nobo…
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Manic Miner 2I used to play Manic Miner 2 when I first discovered Spectrum emulation years ago on a friends Amiga and I thought it was pretty good. When I try to …
... it now though, I cannot find an image that will let you ... know where you canb get an image of this that doesn ... -
The need for multiple versions of the same gameWhile looking through the TZX Vault I was struck by how many multiple versions of the same game there are, and I wondered whether there really was an…
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My obsession...Trying to remember quite what I did in the 80's and when I did it is quite hard, as I was a way little tyke and it's all a blur. But I was really sur…
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I want to spice up my Speccies. RecommendationsOK, since I got more speccies than I ever wanted (ok, there's never enough old computers in here :D), I want to upgrade some of them. Here are my mac…
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Index register subtractionHi, Just wondering if there a way to perform SBC HL,BC on the IX or IY registers. I can't find an op code for it, and my assembler doesn't recognise…
... IY registers. I can't find an op code for it, and ...
