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Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... easy to learn almost as basic, more available RAM for programming ... is even faster but a large number of games works in ... -
What is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega and what does it mean?Just stumbled upon this Indiegogo page following a tweet from SpeccyNews [url]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sinclair-zx-spectrum-vega[/url] it…
... payment (one off only, or large first payment followed by say ... up with 1000 newly written BASIC games :lol:
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Did Sinclair pioneer 'tiny' computers?Most computers of the time were fairly large-ish The Atari 8-bit, the Apple II, The c64 looks at least twice the size of the rubber key speccy. Th…
... the zx81 sold in very large numbers and had computing features ... more expensive machines (floating point basic, z80 cpu even in slow ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... coloured. If you have a large font and print a lowercase ... be neat to write a basic e-reader program when the ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... that z88dk still generate rather large code even for simple routine ... code isn't actually too large -- the main contributor is the ... to keep it simpler. The basic putc function can't really ... can be shrunk much. The basic write/puts functions are only ... -
Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
... of a very basic emulation layer. That's a large chunk of ... -
GameBaddie's Art project...Hi Guys, I've recently revived my old 48k for a (just-for-fun) art project. I have about 4 weeks of spare time to accomplish my goal, and the plan i…
... in the center of the large circle (see image above)?[/QUOTE ... -space into the border, using BASIC?[/QUOTE]
Here, i'm ... /> To sum it up, using BASIC only, you're limited to ... -
Best Z80 Assembler for PC?There's probably already a thread for this so if somebody could please point me at it I'd appreciate it. If there isn't then please respond here wit…
... doesn't work with large programs that eat into the BASIC area. -
Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…
I think BASIC would be too slow for large area scrolling but a small MC routine called from BASIC could work. -
Grammar-based data compressionI'm working on a game for the 48k Spectrum but want a way to compress a lot of screens into a small space, so I'm looking into data compression. Each…
... define a few screens as basic common layouts, with a particular ... work best where there are large multi-character graphical objects that ... -
BASIC to Python - bringing a modern view on an 80's obsession...Howdy! I don't know how relevant this will be here, but I've just finished up a 3-part overview on my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic pr…
... disagree that Python, although like BASIC in many ways, is ... modification of the original BASIC into Sinclair BASIC for PCs:
< ... would mitigate it to a large extent. Inserting a delay into ... shortcuts the delay in Sinclair BASIC, so a different strategy ... -
BASIC to Python - bringing a modern view on an 80's obsession...Howdy! I don't know how relevant this will be here, but I've just finished up a 3-part overview on my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic pr…
... code].
Python and BASIC are basically two different beasts ... functions (GOSUB/DEF FN) than BASIC.
As for ... currently using Python and not BASIC for writing simple code ... Python's abilities to handle (large) lists and data. For ... -
BASIC to Python - bringing a modern view on an 80's obsession...Howdy! I don't know how relevant this will be here, but I've just finished up a 3-part overview on my blog where I convert an old 1K ZX81 basic pr…
... Python's abilities for handling large datasets quite so fluidly - you ... a translation from the ZX81 BASIC code, with workarounds for the ... -
Floating Point Package Math48<br>I came across a neat little floating point package for the z80 and I'm adapting it now to work with z88dk and sdcc. There is an interesting…
... it is possible to very large coverage of the operation of ... that there should be some basic effort to understand how parts ... that people should have some basic concept of whatever the h ... -
Which games would you remake? Or like to see a mockup of?We all have a list of titles that we know or felt was not good enough or simply rushed to market without thought or effort. So which titles would you…
... a full colour game with large sprints.
For me ... looking sprites which are very large. Properly drawing them would look ... one character, and basic but well drawn backgrounds. Large sprites and limited ... -
Hungarian notation for asm - Yes or No ?There is thing called hungarian notation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation Basically it is all about using prefixed indetifier to i…
... 've found essential in a large project.[/quote]
Exactly ... in my z88dk or ZX BASIC interface libraries have prefix "BIFROST ... -
Trial version of CharAde graphics engine for Sinclair BASICA trial version of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">CharAde</span> graphics engine for Sinclair BASIC is now available. It consists of a block of …
... quicker for the BASIC interpreter to parse the LPRINT command, rather than ... . But fundamentally it's Sinclair BASIC, so you have to plan ... the likes of [i]LASER BASIC[/i] just let you draw ... bigger objects than ordinary BASIC, where you'd be limited ... -
Basic SAVE and ZX Printer supportIs there a list of emulators that support any of these two features (basic SAVE and print to printer port)? Is there a emulator comparison some wh…
... to a tape image from BASIC, that's pretty simple. As ... could trap the ROM's LPRINT routine and extract the text ... -
Basic SAVE and ZX Printer supportIs there a list of emulators that support any of these two features (basic SAVE and print to printer port)? Is there a emulator comparison some wh…
... communicated with it, via a BASIC stream, you open it and ... regular stream (OPEN, CLOSE and LPRINT).
The ROM stream ... -
Basic SAVE and ZX Printer supportIs there a list of emulators that support any of these two features (basic SAVE and print to printer port)? Is there a emulator comparison some wh…
... communicated with it, via a BASIC stream, you open it and ... regular stream (OPEN, CLOSE and LPRINT).
The ROM stream ... -
Basic SAVE and ZX Printer supportIs there a list of emulators that support any of these two features (basic SAVE and print to printer port)? Is there a emulator comparison some wh…
... could trap the ROM's LPRINT routine and extract the text ... /> [/quote]
Yes, hooking LPRINT is what I had in ... useful, for example to extract BASIC program listings or assembly listings. -
Basic SAVE and ZX Printer supportIs there a list of emulators that support any of these two features (basic SAVE and print to printer port)? Is there a emulator comparison some wh…
... without intense study for a large program. You can get a ... printing.
ZEUS relies on BASIC SAVE command to save assembly ... -
Basic SAVE and ZX Printer supportIs there a list of emulators that support any of these two features (basic SAVE and print to printer port)? Is there a emulator comparison some wh…
... any emulators that can trap LPRINT to save a snapshot (uncompressed ... I can save it in BASIC), and just DUMP the date ... ] (which is then saved by BASIC)[b] in some encoded form ... -
1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... game. The Maze is a large 3d line-drawn maze you ... (a lot simpler tho, almost basic-like), it's a bit ... -
Minor updateWhilst there is nothing major to announce, be assured that a lot of work is being carried out 'behind the scenes'. We now have 3 developers workin…
... /professional/inhouse solutions. The most basic site (i.e. the vast ... is very varied. A very large site can still successfully use ... -
Full-screen 32 columns bicolor engine NIRVANA+I'm glad to announce the release of [b]NIRVANA+ ENGINE[/b], providing support for bicolor graphics (multicolor 8x2) in 32 columns for all standard Sp…
... languages like C and compiled BASIC where we don't have ... z88dk and Boriel's ZX BASIC interfaces.[/quote]
Yes ... off almost 600 bytes from large programs because the clib calls ... -
New Game: COSMIC COMMERCE[i]Disclaimer: This is not really a new game, but it's actually a new English translation of an old (err... I mean "classic"!) game that I originally…
... (for instance due to a large asteroid
or solar storm ... current release only contains the basic core functionality.
Nowadays ... -
May the "How to do it" bullet pointing commence!"You Tube" does not cover everything ZX Spectrum realted There are now so many ways to use ZX Spectrum related stuff. And therefore therefore ther…
... for higher nos in the basic mono "camp" rather than the ... " separates camp and by a large multiple , say 5 or 6 ... -
Internet enabling a SpectrumHi, Yonks ago, I floated the idea of using one of these: http://www.mycal.net/old/wsweb/img/s7600a.pdf ..to Internet enable a Spectrum. I d…
... avoid having to use a large expensive CPLD, and now have ... of sticking with the same basic design and just doing some ... -
Just games or also "serious stuff"?Hi guys :) When a ZX48K entered our home in 1986, i started programming for it but mainly i used it for games. No other use was accomplished: no a…
... bit, doing some stuff in Basic and drawing pictures (which got ... Art Studio). I did find Basic a bit tricky on the ... = 1 to 100
20 Lprint "I must not talk in ...
