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  • compatibility between ZX computers?Hey all, I'm new here :) I was wondering about compatibility between ZX computers. Is it possible to run a game made for ZX80 on a ZX Spectrum? Or a …

    ... BASIC programs on a Speccy.

    Maybe it's my memory ... that would scan a zx81 Basic program and intelligently find commands ... non-existent in spectrum basic and replace them with an ... or examine yourself. but only Basic listings of course :)
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: ZXF Issue 5 now availableWhat better way to spend a day of this summer swelter than to chill out in the sun with a copy of the latest issue of ZXF? :) Yes folks, ZXF05 is he…

    ... into memory. for now ill have to write it in basic, i ... two thirds so thatll save memory ) and when loaded at the ... and "compressed" ( again to save memory ) but in one code file ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... ?

    The annoyance with Basic compilers is that you have ... fit compiler, source basic and resulting code in memory all at once ...
    Gedlion Gedlion August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... br />
    The annoyance with Basic compilers is that you have ... fit compiler, source basic and resulting code in memory all at once ... think someone should make a basic cross compiler. if i could ... asm a decent knowledge of basic is great ... unless i ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Unknown Games For ZX-Spectrum For Spectrum in period from 1980 to 1993 was made more 15000! games ...Where other 9000?(Don't check info) Also i find Names of very good games fo…

    ... numbers, it was a vague memory of a discussion in a ... they made of pong in basic 15 years ago when they ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Sync-buzzer, interrupts and general confusionBeen wittering on about this in the Misc group, but thought it was best discussed here. Basically been trying to recreate the Sid-Sound effect from A…

    ... the first 256 bytes of memory. This is not used in ... is the mode that Spectrum Basic normally operates in. The code ... interrupt. 17 cycles is from memory as I can't find ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Development
  • New gameHello. I've just started developing a new game for the 128K spectrum. In fact, its the first thing I've ever programmed on a Spectrum (i'll admit, I…

    ... ), load the binary directly into memory using an emulator option, then ... so you can create a basic loader, tack on a SCREEN ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Development
  • BASin's BASIC Editor! Suggestions?Hi all! I'm just starting BASin's BASIC editor now - and it's finalised as a resizeable window that uses the spectrum font. Kind of like Notepad mee…

    ... of independant of the main memory model - you can edit your ... " back to the ROM's memory space. This may or may ... .

    It's one BASIC statement per line - typing a ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2003 Development
  • 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…

    ... well; saving a stand-alone BASIC program to redefine capitals, lower ... TZX file containing a short BASIC loader and the character set ... use the same area of memory as in Defender, with the ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Games
  • BASin's BASIC Editor! Suggestions?Hi all! I'm just starting BASin's BASIC editor now - and it's finalised as a resizeable window that uses the spectrum font. Kind of like Notepad mee…

    ... program. Hence when exporting to BASIC you could have each statement ... generate a line numbered minimal BASIC program - which may or may ... 'd fill 9999 lines of BASIC without first running out of memory).
    cyborg cyborg October 2003 Development
  • Need_Help...*.SCR TO *.TAPPLEASE...NEED HELP... HOW MADE STANDART 6912 BYTES ZX-SPECTRUM SCREENBLOCK (.TAP OR .TZX),FROM .Z80 OR .SCR(.GIF) FILE??? In 'Taper' convert .z80…

    ... />
    SNAtoTAP can save both BASIC files and CODE files as ... of memory you're trying to save (e.g. the BASIC loader ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad October 2003 Games
  • Vic-20s ARE CRAP! (And a few other ramblings from 1984)There was a great rivalry between myself and some of my computer owning chums in the early/mid eighties. The thread title was a phrase I made good us…

    ... not got a lot of memory, but otherwise, it's not ... , and multi channel sound. The BASIC-G language looks like one ... of the best versions of BASIC I've seen, with labels ... sprites and keyboard handling from BASIC, and windows. With it's ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers November 2003 Games
  • Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…

    ... target data (viewed in the Memory panel) was corrupted with some ... the program breaks up with BASIC from line 1. It does ... not access any BASIC feature, it disables interrupts and ... not designed to return to BASIC.

    A glitch in ...
    GOC GOC November 2003 Development
  • Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…

    ... as you don't use BASIC or +3DOS page 7 will ... getting GENS data in your memory where you don't expect ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2003 Development
  • So who plays PS2, Xbox & GameCube games?I'm still into gaming in a big way, how about you guys?

    ... reason. I dont have a memory card so leabing a game ... even arcade games written in Basic! theyre that much fun. Though ...
    Sadako Sadako December 2003 Games
  • [NEW]: Spectaculator 6.0Spectaculator is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for PCs running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000 and XP. Spectaculator emulates the 16K/48K/128K/+2/+…

    ... quick test):

    Your Memory contention is way off, if ... at accurate emulation, and proper memory contention is a real CPU ... /> Your AY emulation is very basic, and nowhere near accurate. Also ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2004 Emulators
  • ebook on graphicsi would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there any scanned ebooks about it on a site?

    ... of the +2, mainly extra memory Ram pages and AY, among ... . books 1 and 2 teach Basic. I didn't get much ...
    Sadako Sadako January 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... br />
    z80 asm, C, Basic | Delphi, Java, C++
    < ... instantiate an internet class. Have memory leaks? Not if you're ... questions. I can set you basic programming assignments if you < ... d quickly become familiar with Basic. To learn programming in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ...
    If you understand the basic programming concepts they translate across ... how objects are stored in memory, the sequence of actions ... ++ constantly allocates and deallocates memory to create and destroy objects ... is laid out in memory or how data structures ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2004 Development
  • clueless spectrum usersI was quite young when I owned a speccy and didn't know much about how it worked. When I loaded games via the tape recorder it said in the manual so…

    ... /> I saw that each ZX81 BASIC statement had an ASCII code ... a machine code program in BASIC by substituting the letters, numbers ... their ASCII codes straight into memory:

    for example:
    chaosmongers chaosmongers January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... would be to start with BASIC, really. Then progress to Z80 ... a touch difficult thanks to memory constraints.

    If you ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... live in the Spectrum's memory, as does the source program ... he has worked with is Basic? (Dr. Evil smugness with ... dissent).
    [/quote]

    Basic is all about mystery code ... links:

    Learn Sinclair Basic:

    [url="http://www ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... assemble into a scattered memory map, but this ... , you specify where in memory these segments lie.
    ... be used in C, Basic, Forth, whatever and ... means for extending the Basic language by third parties. ... extended grammar with new basic commands, with an ability ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
  • Hisoft Basic Compiler ManualCongrats to Lloyd Garland who typed up this and submitted it, however it appears appendix 4 is missing, and that's the bit which tells you how to com…

    ... up... The author of HiSoft Basic did this job much earlier ... :
    *x
    if the memory serves me right.
    LCD LCD February 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • colouring inexample: 10 CIRCLE 45,30,15 wot do i type after it to colour it in red?

    ... can easily run out of memory).

    Other than that ... , short answer - no, not from BASIC and quickly :-)

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2004 Development
  • colouring inexample: 10 CIRCLE 45,30,15 wot do i type after it to colour it in red?

    ... can easily run out of memory).

    Other than that ... , short answer - no, not from BASIC and quickly :)

    D ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2004 Development
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... it suffered from lack of memory, but otherwise, it was pretty ... , and with a version of BASIC far better than any I ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... (caused by the lack of memory to store detailed sprites ??). In ... talking about a computer whose BASIC doesn't even have a ...
    GOC GOC February 2004 Games
  • Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??

    ... option of adding more memory would have been nice ... The Z80s nowadays have two basic addressing flavours - those with ... you refer to the BASIC way of scrolling then ... it seems moot because BASIC is slow - done ... no different to INK. BASIC is slow - that's ...
    cyborg cyborg March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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