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TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... , it is lack of Sinclair Basic - such functions are present in ... never wrote a BASIC program that was too large for the Speccy ... to write them in Sinclair BASIC, albeit a *lot* slower than ... bit manipulation, but surely no BASIC in the early/mid eighties ... -
Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
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Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…
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Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…
... .e. if it's a large image it might use lots ... and use VARPTR (if Sinclair BASIC supports it) to get the ... -
Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…
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Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…
... the screen resolution availiable in BASIC to 10, both ways, in ... resize the grid so the font gets in place, I'd ... -
Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.
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Graphics in Basic??What is the fastest way to draw high rez graphics in Basic. Andrew.
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Totally unrelated to Speccies...But fun, nevertheless. [url]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/Letters.rar[/url] Have a go, lemme know if there's any ways you can think of to…
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Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
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Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... be able to program in basic in the 512x192 mode. You ... fonts. I tried a 4x8 font once which comes out to ... -
From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…
... also Sinclair allready had a large user base of ZX81 users ... learn than the c64. Speccy basic was almost but not quite ... as good as BBC basic.
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Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…
... perhaps write a program (in BASIC perhaps) which loads the ... writing it anyway.[/FONT]
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From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…
... had -- a decent version of basic for home users, which is ... once volume reached a certain large minimum level. Adding sprite hardware ... and a good version of basic was present. When the home ... z80s), a poor version of basic (when I purchased I was ... -
funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... disk access for swapping the large amounts of location data. Also ... , the +3 disk commands in BASIC are unequal to the task ... -
DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... to work from within 128K BASIC - the original divIDE patches ... support for 128K BASIC altogether although 128K BASIC users are the ... most if they develop a large program !!
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DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…
... support for 128K BASIC altogether although 128K BASIC users are the ... develop a large program !![/QUOTE]
128K BASIC doesn't ... write larger programs than 48K BASIC (it just seems so, ... Plus Board to select 128K BASIC compatability (not ideal really ... -
Little BASIC gameTry to make all standard BASIC-errors and tell us how you did it. Not allowed i.e. : PRINT USR 1362 D - Break cont-repeats but ok 10 GO TO 10 RU…
... often printed labels with Speccy BASIC errors on them and stuck ... 'd installed that Speccy TrueType font on the computer I was ... -
Monitor/debugger that doesn't use the Speccy ROM?Was there ever a Spectrum monitor/debugger released that didn't use the ROM, for key input and character output routines? The reason I ask is that i…
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Monitor/debugger that doesn't use the Speccy ROM?Was there ever a Spectrum monitor/debugger released that didn't use the ROM, for key input and character output routines? The reason I ask is that i…
... screen memory with its own font. It is 2K of code ... utils drive. A little bit basic for my debugging needs (I ... -
basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…
... is binary compatibility. Modifying basic code and intoducing new codes ... select which version of BASIC you want on startup ... game)
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Death of the Computer Science DepartmentRead this article on the death of the computer science department in universities by Neil McBride from De Montfort. It makes very interesting (and wo…
... " are not equivalent to a basic Turing machine, I'd love ... that is O(n) for large values of n, whatever the ... -
If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…
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Question about digitized sound and videoI searched the forums and couldn't find the answer, so here it goes. Regarding digitized sound: I remember reading an article long ago about a vid…
... Tracker which comes with a large number of sampled instruments and ... for a simple hybrid program (basic+m.c.) that would allow ... sampled data on ram. The BASIC program should ask for the ... -
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…
... weird effects by specifying a large value for the third parameter ... could easily interface it with BASIC programs.
