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  • Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…

    ... to leave enough space for BASIC?
    [/QUOTE]

    z88dk ... library
    # routines..boosting code size, but..may save in the ... are still being filled. The size I used in that example ... figure is the maximum necessary size for a completely blank screen ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • two identical games?would someone explain to me the story behind [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000327[/url] (Lunar Attack) and http://www.wo…

    ... lot of DATA statements!). The BASIC component is not very typo ... $"]Your Computer[/URL] [SIZE=-1][I](UK)[/I][/SIZE][/FONT]

    mheide mheide October 2007 Infoseek database
  • 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…

    ... size implementation to be used as a basis. Perhaps explain the basic ... readers without much knowledge of BASIC programming can understand most of ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 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…

    ... #1: One-liner techniques in BASIC Sinclair

    1. "Intro ... , and indicate the original full size implementation to be used as ... readers without much knowledge of BASIC programming can understand most of ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 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…

    ... is no 34th statement Spectrum BASIC sees the end of line ... certainly return to the double size board now. :)

    But ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Development
  • So I'm thinking of getting a PDAmainly for a bit of web browsing/ gaming (spec emu a must ;))/ video on the move. Anyone have one of these doohickeys and care to enlighten me on whi…

    ... given the unit's small size.
    [*]There are lots of ... it in mind, the screen size is too small for comfort ... support all but the most basic secure (WEP/WPA-PSK) networks ...
    Matt_B Matt_B October 2007 Chit chat
  • Fastest Baud Rate On A Loader ?Following on (sort of!) from the thread about the best loading.... Which game(s) had the fastest (highest baud rate) ? I seem to remember a couple …

    ... there using a basic calculation given the file size and time taken ...
    Vertigo Vertigo October 2007 Games
  • What was a Z80 computer capable of ?I have always wondered, and maybe the techy people on here could answer, with what you know about the Z80 processor, was the spectrum hampered by the…

    ... for your programs and your BASIC interpretter. In other words, impractical ... is with the large RAM size required by a high resolution ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2007 Hardware
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... for 'T' 57571
    Table Size 2000

    This ... read into memory fine under BASIC. The HiSoft Pascal manual ... The loader gives "Nonsense in BASIC". The main m/c program ... the game embedded within the BASIC listing. Three increasingly developed versions ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Games
  • A question about HTML.Why did the W3C depreciate the align attribute of the <DIV> tag. What replaces it? Is alighnment purely at CSS level now. Scottie_UK.

    ... common layouts is (jn its basic form):-

    * { ... Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 100.1%;
    color: ... /> margin: 0 auto;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    }
    ... size (and therefore expand to fit)

    So, the basic ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty November 2007 Chit chat
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... own code rather than BASIC you should set up ... would be if called from BASIC. As an example, say ... somewhere in memory by BASIC and DEFADD set to ... in the traditional BASIC format. To set an integer number, just ... and calling the FN from BASIC. Just look at the ...
    icabod icabod December 2007 Development
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... provide socket library calls to BASIC. Although returning buffers would have ... address (and another for buffer size), or you could have a ...
    icabod icabod December 2007 Development
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... pointers being available in ZX BASIC... but I suppose if you ... a string of a specified size you can just fill it ... be as pretty as extending BASIC itself.
    Winston Winston December 2007 Development
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... accident since its processor/display size ratio was enough for writing ... to be confusion between Microsoft Basic and CP/M, with the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2007 Games
  • another c64 vs. Speccy site...[url]http://c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] 25 years and we are still brawling.. ;)

    ... accident since its processor/display size ratio was enough for writing ... to be confusion between Microsoft Basic and CP/M, with the ...
    Dwayne Dibley Dwayne Dibley December 2007 Games
  • Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…

    ... must be counted in the size limit. Also, a rule says ... change the content of the BASIC command line.

    EDIT ...
    Paolo Ferraris Paolo Ferraris January 2008 Development
  • Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…

    ... an autorun feature of Spectrum BASIC files, the requirement of the ... should be counted in the size of the submission. For ... block (file name, size of file, size of BASIC program (excluding variables), ... line 0, and
    2) size of the BASIC program = file ...
    Paolo Ferraris Paolo Ferraris January 2008 Development
  • Arti've decided to paint pictures and flog them to art cafes, and also online, mostly on ebay. i only did basic art at school, i can't really draw and …

    ... /> [quote]
    What, the position, size and colours of the labels ... music seems to be a basic property of being human. But ...
    Winston Winston January 2008 Chit chat
  • Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…

    ... , and
    2) size of the BASIC program = file size.[/QUOTE]


    When the Sinclair BASIC holds just 1 line of ... BASIC after the LINE 0 (autostart)< ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP January 2008 Development
  • Sir Clive Sinclair?Hi everybody, I'm new to this forum, this is my first post; I'm amazed by the site, nostalgia and all... (I'm 34 by the way) Can anyone tell me, wha…

    ... and stuff but its very basic.[/QUOTE]

    I see ... saw radios many times the size and price.
    bikes."[/quote ...
    robert@fm robert@fm January 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Trying to emulate the DivIDE on SpinI have this .iso image that's supposed to be used on a cf card: [url]ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/gasman/zx/divip_let_forever_be.zip[/url] Since …

    ... utility worked at last. Hurray! [SIZE="1"]Why didn't I ... think of this earlier?[/SIZE]

    But I'm ... do after going back to Basic. Load"" doesn't load anything ...
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2008 Emulators
  • New Spectrum GameAs some of you may be aware I've been busy working on a Shoot-Em-Up Designer utility for the past few weeks. As the program is pretty much there now…

    ... . It will automatically create the BASIC loader program for you, and ... the Crap Games Compo) :roll: ([SIZE="1"]and I'm too ... incompetence to mention this outloud[/SIZE])
    ZnorXman ZnorXman February 2008 Games
  • New ZXDS releaseHello, new ZXDS version is ready and will appear on [URL="http://zxds.raxoft.cz"]the site[/URL] in few hours time, so make sure you check back befor…

    ... last one is the block size. The one before that is ... line number in case of basic header, memory address in case ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak February 2008 Emulators
  • Dangerous Z80 Assembly CommandHave been reading Toni Bakers' "Mastering MC On Ya Speccy" book and came across the list of Z80 commands in the dictionary section. Page 102 "[b]IM…

    ... /> I started by learning Sinclair BASIC over the last couple of ... get an error message "block size exceds 16384 bytes" or something ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Probing the variables in 128K modeHello again! Briefly, I'm writing an m/c routine to read some BASIC variables. So, before I start, I try to get an idea for the structure of how var…

    ... made the pagination routine in BASIC yesterday, but it was way ... that it has grown in size, this was beginning to take ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Development
  • Announce: BASin r14a (Bugs fixed) AvailableOk, same as before, but this time I hope I've fixed all your bugs. Well, the ones that were reported. If you didn't report one, then it won't have …

    ... something to do with the size of line 1, but it ... issues never seen in "normal" BASIC programs!

    Cheers, DP
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Emulators
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?[/QUOTE]

    To ... it ends up slower than BASIC's implementation using [url=http ... in machine code. But Spectrum BASIC doesn't provide a sort ... /> That said... Spectrum BASIC is optimised for size rather than speed, so ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... it ends up slower than BASIC's implementation using [url= ... in machine code. But Spectrum BASIC doesn't provide a sort ... /> That said... Spectrum BASIC is optimised for size rather than speed, so ... to write something slower than BASIC :-)[/QUOTE]

    Does ...
    zxspecticle zxspecticle March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... it ends up slower than BASIC's implementation using [URL=" ... better example might be if BASIC provided a [URL="http:// ... That said... Spectrum BASIC is optimised for size rather than speed, so ... to write something slower than BASIC :-)[/quote]

    Well ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... it ends up slower than BASIC's implementation using [url= ... in machine code. But Spectrum BASIC doesn't provide a sort ... /> That said... Spectrum BASIC is optimised for size rather than speed, so ... to write something slower than BASIC :-)[/QUOTE]

    Bah, ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain March 2008 Sinclair Basic
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