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  • Retargetting the Z88dkWell, I'm asking here because it's come up before, and I assume someone here might know the answer... I'm trying to retarget the Z88DK for the Z80 b…

    ... few bugfixes to the peephole optimization rules. Nevertheless, even if you ... (search for cpc) is still basic so it's a good ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous 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…

    ... smart enough to make this optimization all by itself (and modern ... 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
  • 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…

    ... to find later that more BASIC space could indeed be recovered ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2007 Development
  • Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…

    ... to leave enough space for BASIC?
    [/QUOTE]

    z88dk ... (echo commands) and switch on optimization
    #
    # (Leave alone!) [Recommended ... pattern fill and return to basic

    .DOLINE

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2007 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... to three characters in a BASIC listing by using the exponetiation ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... in Sinclair BASIC, thus I suggest not using this optimization unless we ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... .
    There might be further optimization, but I think it is ... . Well, it is fast for BASIC. :D

    If there ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn May 2008 Development
  • QL and gamesWell,I am bit off topic but I cannot understand why the QL had no arcade games made for it and if it had, would they be vastly technically superior t…

    ... ]Errrm. There are a few basic or application "demos", but it ... require a lot of speed optimization and routine unrolling. IMHO, QL ...
    omega omega September 2008 Hardware
  • Wireframe GraphicsI'm trying to get my head round 3d / wireframe graphics and not really having much luck. I've had a good look on google, but mostly come up with wir…

    ... is even possible under ZX BASIC - it doesn't differentiate between ... use precalculated tables even in BASIC. Maybe something along the lines ... there are all sorts of optimization tricks, precalculated tables and so ...
    baze baze January 2009 Development
  • Minor Update to Gasman's Midi2BEEPDon't know whether this is worthy an announcement, but for those of you who enjoyed Gasman's midi2BEEP utility, a new variant has been made called mi…

    ... out Assembly listing rather than BASIC, and can handle larger files ... /> I suppose that's just optimization for the sake of it ...
    ccowley ccowley May 2010 Announcements
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... />
    FWIW, I believe Microsoft BASIC stores the INT form whenever ... , it could be a valuable optimization given what it did for ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…

    ... started using the SP for optimization so stack pushing and poping ... didn't seem worth losing basic functionally that even the Z80 ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Learning Assembly LanguageHow easy would it be to learn assembly language for someone who has a decent grasp of Basic? I mean how long do you think it would take before I coul…

    ... plenty of room for optimization, I'm sure you ... !

    ret ; Back to BASIC!


    ; --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ei ; Must enable interrupts for BASIC
    ret

    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • ZX Flight - flight simulator (Basic)Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old tape. Obviously this is a my type-in from an old ex-Yugoslavian magazine from mid 80s. I did …

    I've ported to ZX BASIC:
    [LIST]
    [*]Every IF ... compile this program with -O3 optimization, [url="http://www.boriel.com ...
    boriel boriel December 2010 Games
  • ZX Flight - flight simulator (Basic)Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old tape. Obviously this is a my type-in from an old ex-Yugoslavian magazine from mid 80s. I did …

    ... ]I've ported to ZX BASIC:
    [LIST]
    [*]Every IF ... compile this program with -O3 optimization, [url="http://www.boriel.com ...
    Pegaz Pegaz December 2010 Games
  • RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…

    ... it's not a conventional optimization method to examine the ROM ... that be true in 128 Basic editor?[/QUOTE]

    Yes ... , I tested in 128K BASIC mode and it worked.
    optimization should be abandoned.

    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2011 Development
  • Fairlight's use of LDIRYS, comparing Fairlight and Nightshade, said: [quote]Fairlight is much more interesting even though the techniques that Bo Jangeborg uses for screen…

    ... plenty of room for space optimization at the cost of a ... interrupts
    ret ; return to BASIC

    org 0xc39a

    jp 56 ; exit via BASIC interrupt handler

    blit ...
    p13z p13z January 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • In Java for ZXHi All I am glad to notify you that I have opened the sources of my J2Z80 translator (0.1 version) which allows to use Java toolchain to generate Z8…

    ... I don't make any optimization of the result asm code ... to the standard ZX-Spectrum BASIC ROM. All sources for examples ...
    Raydac Raydac March 2012 Development
  • Byte-order backbufferThis is a tool for Z80 coders who wish the Spectrum screen had a serial layout. It runs as an interrupt mode 2 service routine and uses POP and PUSH …

    ... plenty of room for space optimization at the cost of a ... interrupts
    ret ; return to BASIC

    org 0xc39a

    jp 56 ; exit via BASIC interrupt handler

    blit ...
    R-Tape R-Tape April 2012 Development
  • Boriels ZX CompilerI'm trying to compile a very simple program and I keep getting the error: unexpected end of file. Here's my code: [CODE]10 cls 20: let n=0 22 do 2…

    ... mess.[/QUOTE]

    The BASIC is particularly.


    BASIC as a language. :p
    optimization syndrome", it will surely keep ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay November 2012 Development
  • Asking for help: ZXBC to ASM routine translationHallo, In order to save some bytes and gain speed, I'm asking for translation of a very simple ZXBC routine to Assembler [code] sub light(x as uinteg…

    ... loads.

    A further optimization is that the first load ... helped me to save this BASIC at exit too:
    [code ...
    LCD LCD November 2012 Development
  • ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …

    ... )[/QUOTE]

    some optimization in the basic

    RANDOMIZE x ...
    goodboy goodboy January 2013 Brand new software
  • ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …

    [QUOTE=goodboy;675704]some optimization in the basic

    RANDOMIZE x
    antoniovillena antoniovillena January 2013 Brand new software
  • ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …

    ... z88dk and Boriel's ZX BASIC! In practice, it means ... , or in compiled BASIC using Boriel's ZX BASIC, you can simply ... "[/B] (for Boriel's ZX BASIC)

    Afterwards, if ... Boriel's ZX BASIC, you better activate compiler optimization (for instance compile ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2013 Brand new software
  • ZSpeak - another speech synthesizerYep, it's just another beeper speech synthesizer. Absolutely nothing special, it just outputs vowel and consonant samples; and sounds crap, like all …

    ... I'll make a simple BASIC interface once I've figured ... a fair bit of manual optimization for most letters.
    utz utz August 2013 Brand new software
  • Looking for some bog standard soundspreferably using PLAY command.... example 10 LET a$="the sound code" 20 PLAY a$ ideally I'm looking for noises for 1) A space ship engine, pref…

    [QUOTE=AndyC;722804]Sinclair BASIC is painfully slow at pretty ... 's more responsive than MS Basic on several platforms (notably the ... 't leave any time for optimization. SE Basic is somewhat faster while ...
    chev chev September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • FUSE serial communication sample anyone?Hi, in [URL="http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/fuse.1.html"]FUSE man pages[/URL] one finds switches for serial comms. By using --inte…

    ...
    push af

    ;; optimization for later ... hl to top ... (*vmem++);

    /* back to basic */
    return 0;
    }[/CODE]
    tstih tstih July 2014 Development
  • llvm-z80 statusFew months ago I read about efforts to produce llvm back-end for the Z80 (even perhaps as part of new z88dk). Any update on that? I found [URL="htt…

    ... variables, incorrect generation, and no optimization so just a start. The ... allocation for the most nested basic blocks first and then working ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2014 Development
  • List of games with speech?Has there been a thread yet, listing all the games with speech ? (without Currah) I can remember how impressed I was the first time I heard my Spect…

    ... the day, first using the BASIC commands IN (to record) and ... sound.

    With no optimization or compression I could only ...
    Gwyn Gwyn August 2015 Games
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