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  • BIN shorter than NOT PI?Some time ago I checked many loaders and want to ask why coders are using BIN and not NOT PI? NOT PI is only 2 Bytes, BIN would be better if it would…

    ... why coders are using BIN and not NOT PI?
    NOT PI is only 2 Bytes ... , BIN would be better if ... it (Afaik Spectrum BASIC treats it as BIN 0) uses 5 Bytes ... But memory saving is not possible with BIN.
    I tested it ...
    LCD LCD June 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Changing BASIC loader in Chuckie Egg 2Hi, My aim is to include "PAUSE 0" event at the end of the loading of the Chuckie Egg 2 game. The reason is that I use emulator to load the game and…

    ... to actually edit the loading BASIC program somehow. I have ... managed to build a new BASIC loader that loads up the ... it. Because I could not import the other game blocks ... new TAP file. Do not know why. It just ... did not work.



    maiki maiki March 2008 Emulators
  • multiface basic loaderdoes anyone know how I can see whats in the basic loader of the multiface 1 and 128 basic loaders and how I could convert a tape save from the 1 and…

    does anyone know how I can see whats in the basic loader of the multiface 1 and 128 basic loaders
    and how I could convert a tape save from the 1 and 128 to work with a floppy system like opus discovery?
    caver99 caver99 December 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Adding TAP file contents to a Spectrum +3e DOS PartitionHello my fellow WoS'ers, This thread is a companion to a great little guide from a fellow AmiBayer [B]mnjnurney[/B] you can view his thread by [URL…

    ... getdir.sh
    -------------------------------
    #!/bin/sh
    mkdir $2
    -------------------------------
    #!/bin/sh
    for p in ... /> example, get all .BIN files from the "games" ... decoding of a BASIC loader is not a feature of ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix January 2013 Games
  • Why nothing will ever beat a real SpeccyI believe that one of the reasons that Speccy games were so good was because you had to wait so long for them to load! I remember sitting in front o…

    Indeed, it's of relevance. If the BASIC loader was not the bog standard loader, you could be forgiven for thinking that the game itself would have some extra effort behind it! Sadly, it was not always the case! :)
    Arjun Arjun September 2005 Games
  • DivIDE+ and 128K HeatsinkI got my DivIDE+ yesterday and i tried it on a 48K+ at first, it worked marvelously on it, no problems at all. Today i desided to try it on my 128 H…

    ... something the program does and not the DivIDE Plus. Wonder ... doesn't work with 128k Basic ROMs paged in.
    ... parts are done because the basic loader is not written correctly (it reports ... NONSENSE IN BASIC)... but all parts ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat February 2008 Hardware
  • DivIDE+ and 128K HeatsinkI got my DivIDE+ yesterday and i tried it on a 48K+ at first, it worked marvelously on it, no problems at all. Today i desided to try it on my 128 H…

    ... doesn't work with 128k Basic ROMs paged in.
    About ... parts are done because the basic loader is not written correctly (it reports ... NONSENSE IN BASIC)... but all parts work ...
    gtsamour gtsamour February 2008 Hardware
  • Official CSSCGC 2010 Competition ThreadDear Wossers, As 'loser' of the 2009 competition, I am now obliged to host the 2010 competition. I have created a site which will provide a hub for …

    ... unlike ManicMiner, all rooms are not a fixes size in memory ... br /> value that it is not getting (noise) because the I2 ...
    game. But this has not been checked.

    The ... be getting "zeros" because the BASIC loader does not register
    "jsw1" as ...
    Joe the Iceman Joe the Iceman January 2011 Games
  • BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…

    ... file, so the same loader can be used for all ... , with & without extended BASIC commands, and with & ... The If.1 extended BASIC commands are not supported in the 128k ... ATTR (b,c): POKE 12345,BIN 01010101: LET a$=CHR$ ... c
    33 LET a=PI: LET b=POINT (5, ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Varios +3(e)DOS questions?I'm converting tape games to disk, for being used in my +3e. I'm trying to convert them to standard BASIC loaders, so files could be copied using BAS…

    ... from RAM to a BIN file. When I've ... . Then I construct a BASIC loader based on that. Here ... I'm saving the BIN files. The assembler fragments ... original disk, the new BASIC loader resolved into something quite simple ... br /> LET j=NOT PI: LET k=SGN PI: LET l=k ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2013 Development
  • Anyone Recognizes This Loader?Hi there! I live in Argentina. I have a -dead by now- CZ Spectrum (a ZX clone made by an argentinian company, Czerweny, which used to make... Excell…

    ... headers):

    A single BASIC loader (no assembly), which LOADs a ... . The last sentence in the BASIC loader was invariably RANDOMIZE USR 20140 ... means that the game was not only completely "decoded" in memory ...
    Marcelo Marcelo November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... /> I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum ... moment), and a minimalistic BASIC tokenizer to generate ZX ... .tzx file with a basic loader which loads an executes ... to other target architectures (not only Z80 ones). I ... :P (I regret not to have done it ...
    boriel boriel April 2008 Development
  • Important for Game/Demo DevelopersHello Spectrum-friends, I just finished our new Disc-Magazine SCENE+ with newest games, demos, graphics and sounds from the Spectrum Scene. However,…

    ... just try to make the Basic Loader as short as possible. You ... example PAPER 0) with NOT PI (so PAPER NOT PI)
    - exchange any ... one with SIGN PI, so INK ...
    3. Use filenames. Do not write something like LOAD "" CODE ...
    Speccyman Speccyman April 2008 Development
  • Z88DK tapfile creation questionHere's another question. The game I've just started working on (Sid Spanners 3), I'm concatenating the following tap files together, to make a big ta…

    ... c
    zcc +zx -osidspan3.bin -lndos -lmalloc -lim2 -lsp1 ... it still contains a second BASIC loader (the BASIC loader generated by the 'appmake ... "sidspan3.tap"). It's not needed in this situation (as ... .

    It's not a problem during development as ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2011 Development
  • The Sinclair ZX Microdrive Resurrection Project (long)Dear Spectrum fans! [Management summary: Download [url]http://www.bartheld.net/temp/mdv2img.zip[/url] and tell me what you think. All help very much…

    ... anything else but the BASIC loader saying "File not found.". If we can ... with a bunch of image01.bin, image02.bin, ... files. Use mdv2img.exe ... -i image##.bin -s to analyse them (mdv2img ... and mdv2img.exe -i image##.bin -r image##.mdr to repair ...
    Volker Volker March 2012 Emulators
  • dumping protected BASIC loadersI wrote this a few weeks ago but forgot to post it. It will load & list from tape/TAP/TZX any BASIC program which has been saved with SAVE, including…

    ... intended for dumping protected BASIC loaders, as was already ... br /> 5 PRINT "play BASIC loader": POKE mc+1,0: POKE ... PEEK bytes THEN PRINT "not a BASIC program header": STOP
    NOT bt: NEXT d:
    ... iv;PEEK d;: LET iv=NOT iv:
    NEXT d ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Creating a ZX Spectrum Development Environment on Mac OS XI’ve been using a Macbook for a while now and am so impressed with it I decided shift my ZX Spectrum development from PC. It took me a little while t…

    ... /> do shell script "/opt/local/bin/wine /Applications/SevenuP-v1/SevenUp ... the command line, or not use a basic loader, or whaterver. I am ... asm code.tap
    cat basic.tap maintitle.tap code.tap ... it autoruns. Pasmo can create basic loaders for you as well ...
    TomD TomD July 2015 Development
  • Automating creation of multi-part .tap filesI'm experimenting with Zeus (Windows cross-assembler not the native one) because it has source debugging. So far it looks very promising. Up unti…

    ... Zeus (Windows cross-assembler not the native one) because ... BASIC loader for me. Zeus however only saves .szx or .bin ... at $8000 (and is not yet very large), while ... it needs to be, not taking account of the ... a .tap file with this loader:


    ...
    colonel32 colonel32 December 2016 Development
  • New Utility ZXSTLC[b]New Utility ZX Spectrum Tape (& Disk) Loader Creator[/b] I made this utility to easily create tape and +3 disk loaders for my projects and have…

    ... above
    |
    | a basic command line will be:
    |
    | ZXSTLC -b MAIN.BIN LOAD START
    |
    | where ... -b MAIN.BIN LOAD START -1 PAGE1.BIN -3 PAGE3.BIN
    ... space will not increase the size of
    | the loader by ...
    TomD TomD August 2020 Brand new software
  • Computer Haiku (converted from C64)[url=https://archive.org/details/Computer_Haiku_1983_CES]Here's the original C64/PET program - "Computer Haiku" by Commodore Educational Software, 19…

    ... original program was written in BASIC, I thought I'd examine ... was discarded as the Bread Bin has no PRINT AT or ... ZX81 trick of using NOT PI, SGN PI, INT PI and a ton of ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone September 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    Wrong, BIN has same length like normal 0 because Sinclair Basic saves thinks ... that there is a number behind BIN. Check ... it out...
    NOT PI is the shortest ...
    LCD LCD July 2003 Games
  • Text compressionI'm sure I remember seeing a short machine code routine published in a (very random) multi-machine listings magazine way back in the mists of time, w…

    ... want to achieve. I was not looking for proportional spacing, just ... may need (say) BIN 11111100 instead of BIN 111111 for a ... well; saving a stand-alone BASIC program to redefine capitals, ... TZX file containing a short BASIC loader and the character set loading ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the ...
    ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * Place ... things like NOT PI for 0 or SGN PI for 1.< ... controlling the Basic system and generally should not be POKEd. ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • files on +3 discHello! I have question. As you know, when Spectrum +3 loads CODE file from tape, you can get by CAT command from audio header to which address it…

    ... a file called "main.bin" and the numbers say ... first number)
    LOAD "game.bin" CODE 24576

    SAVE "game.bin" CODE 24576,32768 saves ... come to save the BASIC loader, it's best to ... the filename in the loader BASIC does not match the name in ...
    DEATH DEATH May 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • incbin in z80asmUsing z80asm (as shipped with Z88DK) is it possible to include binary files (i.e. incbin)? If so how?

    ... /> ._bptr
    BINARY "file.bin"
    #endasm
    [/code ... file search path or not -- I believe z88dk ... there either using the basic loader or the tape routines ... z80 asm code writers (not binaries): z80asm is really ... operator symbols used are NOT the ones in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…

    ... PC
    (*.txt, *.gif, *.scr, *.bin, *.mod, *.mid, *.jed, *.htm, ... ... case of Spectrum executables (Basic or m/c) that ... "" SCREEN$ : PAUSE NOT PI : GOTO PI[/quote]
    the BASIC program could be ... If it supports loading BASIC programs from raw binary files ...
    gasman gasman July 2006 Emulators
  • How can I view code from a game?Hi All, I had a Spectrum years ago and it is what started my love for playing games. I have recently been playing some of the old games I used to pl…

    ... "147": DRAW -VAL "135",NOT PI: DRAW VAL "124",-VAL " ... 140": DRAW VAL "122",NOT PI
    50 PLOT VAL ... 130": DRAW -VAL "40",NOT PI: DRAW VAL "87",-VAL " ... 91": DRAW VAL "40",NOT PI
    60 CIRCLE VAL ... to get past the short BASIC "loader" program).

    ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... in c:/z88dk , so not in c:/program files/z88dk ... ]
    zcc +zx -oenigma.bin enigma.c -lndos

    where is the OUTPUT bin ????
    cant find it ... (ie one with a basic loader and rand usr) you ... /> [quote]
    GNU is not available from its OWN page ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…

    ... start from scratch with your BASIC loader using the "turboBASIC.szx" ... you can use the "inject.bin" binary file to create ... SCREEN$).

    Filenames are not supported. They must be empty ... />
    EDIT: if using "inject.bin".. load the binary file at ...
    Woody Woody December 2007 Sinclair Basic
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