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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…

    I think Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum was great, ... a hardware limitation, not a BASIC one.

    In fact ... /> Aside from that, the Spectrum BASIC language did everything I could ... and modify, had good error messages, and I loved the way ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…

    Stu: as you said, BASIC loaders are good for portability ... />
    Anyway - check the personal messages here...

    Best regards ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat January 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 (…

    Some old messages, but I have some comments ... for a while)... does the BASIC loader for a ZX game ...
    Paolo Ferraris Paolo Ferraris March 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... happens to be where the basic system stores the location ... set. On returning to basic all printed text would look ... it requires double width text messages to scroll across the bottom ... equal to", equivalent to "" in Basic. Other common C comparison operators ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • R: Tape loading error... R?What did the R: stand for? Retry? Ruined? Re-record not faid away? Always wanted to know this when I was a niper.

    ... muck, I preferred my error messages to have a bit more ... all had C Nonsense in BASIC a few times.

    Code Monkey Code Monkey July 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... event sequences with graphics and messages).

    In ... br /> is for constucting messages to be printed. The first ... ascii string (similar to basic's STR$) and ... string "s". The basic equivalent to this would ... random number generators like basic's RND and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Hidden messages whilst loading gamesHi all, Was having a chat with my mate about old speccy games and remembered that pausing the loading on some games and then printing gave strange m…

    ... .

    but.....
    the messages that i mean were quite ... were messages seen only when you attempted to break into the basic ... you tried to list the basic loader program as part of ... preventing you from seeing the basic program loader.
    FrankT FrankT July 2007 Games
  • Hidden messages whilst loading gamesHi all, Was having a chat with my mate about old speccy games and remembered that pausing the loading on some games and then printing gave strange m…

    ... .

    but.....
    the messages that i mean were quite ... Goblins, Scooby Doo) contain messages in the Basic loader. Some guy who ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan July 2007 Games
  • Hidden messages whilst loading gamesHi all, Was having a chat with my mate about old speccy games and remembered that pausing the loading on some games and then printing gave strange m…

    ... Goblins, Scooby Doo) contain messages in the Basic loader. Some guy who ...
    gasman gasman July 2007 Games
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... map for text and scrolling messages. I tentatively decided to place ... p_VisitMapCrossTwo()[/b]

    If basic is your only background, you ... something you could do in basic if so motivated (unlike most ... don't fit well with basic).

    There are ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2007 Development
  • Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …

    ... are some games with a BASIC listing inside the code, ... remembers any game that has BASIC listings (inside the game ... listings have REM statements with messages that are waiting to be ... /> 201 RET ;Go back to BASIC[/code]Hope it helps,
    Marcelo Marcelo August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... been a fascinating insight into BASIC code optimisation especially from DP ... these code changes in private messages and only post the finished ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... chance to read any error messages! Right now I can't ... file (ie one with a basic loader and rand usr) you ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • My idea for Spectrum game fansI remember the excitement of finding the new issue of Sinclair User on the newsagents? shelf and rushing home (after paying for it!) to check out the…

    ... help you with your first BASIC program :lol:
    How about ... , thats where I post my messages for help.
    rich_chandler rich_chandler October 2007 Games
  • 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…

    ... be invoked by setting a BASIC string variable, and then executing ... will start printing out ROM messages sideways down the screen. This ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Games
  • Starting on machine code - BASIC first?Howdy. If I wanted to start learning machine code for the speccy, from scratch, would you recommend I learn BASIC first or is it entirely possible to…

    ... through a study of Spectrum BASIC - particularly PEEK and POKE.
    BASIC. You can't just command ... . And there are no error-messages - only crashes and lock-ups ...
    andrewbroad andrewbroad November 2007 Development
  • OpenZXRom v2007-12-31 releasedI've just put out a new release of OpenZXRom, the freely licensed replacement for the Spectrum ROM rewritten from scratch with no Amstrad code: [url…

    ... of-death diagnostic error messages) so that we ...
    Alien8 - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xdc
    Amaurote ... Works
    Aquaplane - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xf5
    Athena - ... 48k - Unsupported BASIC command: 0xf5
    Automania - ...
    Fred Fred January 2008 Development
  • Z88DK fun and gamesHi, I was wondering if anyone here uses Z88DK with TommyGun and knew about how to link the two together (e.g. how do I use a screen, sprite or map e…

    ... /> -vn means be quiet with messages (verbose no)
    -o selects ... generates a tap file with basic loader, compiled code and RAND ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2008 Development
  • Massively Multiplayer Spectrum Games?If there was any spectrum game that could be updated played online, what would it be? I'll leave out the obvious ones like Elite, but what about Mult…

    ... -peer messages like shouts. It was an unholy mess of BBC BASIC ...
    Winston Winston March 2008 Games
  • New utility - Arcade Game DesignerNo income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee... In advance of SEUD's release I thought I'd release AGD to get people in the mood for game maki…

    ... in, AGD goes back to basic instead of to the menu ... and AGD crashes back to basic and won't restart with ... I could always return to BASIC with the address of this ... big IF statement and different messages for 1, 2 and 3 ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2008 Development
  • Porting C64 text adventures to ZX Spectrum?I would like to port some of my text adventures from the C64 on over to the ZX Spectrum. Is this easy to do? Can someone with knowledge of the Spectr…

    ... data required (location descriptions, text messages, locations map, etc) in an ... to wade through your original BASIC program. :)
    Arjun Arjun May 2008 Games
  • Changing the way SCREEN$ is loadedThe way the speccy loads in a SCREEN$ is interesting - top two-thirds first, then middle and finally the bottom, which is due to the way the speccy d…

    ... it can be done in BASIC when you load line by ... way to prevent the 'Bytes:' messages from scrolling the screen away ... routines available from a stock Basic environment are the ones in ... to roll your own in Basic at the IN/OUT level ...
    gasman gasman October 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What computing platforms do you have in the house?Just took delivery of my first Mac so now in our house we have: Study: HP Compaq desktop running XP Living room: Dell laptop running Vista (spit)…

    ... me, typed in a simple BASIC lunar lander game from a ... tunes, and the on screen messages, and ship UDGs.
    thx1138 thx1138 November 2008 Chit chat
  • MIA: Sir GawainAs previously announced, here's the release of Sir Gawain, a Microhobby type-in program. Included in the archive is the .TZX with the generated bina…

    ... , you can use Basin for basic, and [url=http://espectrum.speccy ... correct them.[/QUOTE]

    Basic is error-free I think ... (So I cannot understand all messages, Espaniol?), but maybe NaMcO can ...
    LCD LCD December 2008 Games
  • 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…

    ... a "wrapper program" written in BASIC, providing a menu for useful ... ).

    6. The error messages are hillariously condescending. e.g ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn January 2009 Games
  • Their Finest Hour - manualHi all ! Any chances to see instructions for this game? 'Shorten' or full, in txt or jpg, pdf,...

    ... you are aiming at its basic number) sent to the present ... (damages), and in the basic case aerial, the number and ... You will be indicating the basic number (from 0 to 9 ... PAGE 18 ............................

    13. MESSAGES From time to time through ...
    Mevweb Mevweb April 2009 Games
  • "POPIE" Spectrum Game from 1984While trying out some old microdrive carts on my real Speccy I came across this game which I had written on the loading menu as "never released". It…

    ... , in the first BASIC block and supress screen messages. Also add a ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker April 2009 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …

    ... />
    [word] Number of String Messages in String Data (can be ... )
    LD B, 0 ; For BASIC!
    LD C, A ; For ... BASIC!
    POP IX
    RET< ... 'A' (also in BC for BASIC programmers). A return code of ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2009 Development
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