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  • I need ONE 'Crash' mag. Swap anyone?I retrieved my old Crash mags from the attic at the weekend. I have all thee ones I bought from number 1 up to the early 90s when I lost interest EXC…

    ... anyone got a spare to swap?

    I have a ... 1985 (Friday The 13th) Middle page has come loose but still ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones July 2007 Wanted
  • Can someone ID this Basic listingthe basic is on [url=http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/review_soundcard.html]this page[/url] at the bottom, I think it could from an Oric? Never having …

    the basic is on [url=http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/review_soundcard.html]this page[/url] at the bottom, I think it could from an Oric?

    Never having an Oric I would not know for sure, or what BASIC it is from.

    many thanks!
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) February 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Looking for an extended BASIC graphics routine from mid- to late-80sHello all, This is my first post here so please go easy. This is basically a cut-and-paste job from comp.sys.sinclair where I've had no luck with an…

    ... small BASIC program that makes use of both 'fill' and 'colour swap ... ' commands from a typed-in BASIC extender program. Alas ... one I'm after. Most BASIC command additions used * or . before ...
    denali denali May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • alternate BASIC ROMI've come up with a few patches to the standard ROM to make it use the 128 shadow screen by default. The ROM is reorganised as follows: RAMTOP is se…

    ... under 32K is available for BASIC
    the shadow screen is ... 't take much to only page in the screen when it ... almost a full 48K for BASIC programs. On the other hand ...
    chev chev October 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • So what about ethernet and ZX BASIC?Well, as of about 5 minutes ago, ZX BASIC for the first time properly wrote some packets to the network! OK, so it isn't perhaps 100% what Andrew Ow…

    ... about 5 minutes ago, ZX BASIC for the first time properly ... know how to use ZX BASIC.

    At the moment ... />
    Then the standard Spectrum BASIC keywords can be used for ... 256 byte buffer in a page of Spectranet SRAM which accumulates ...
    Winston Winston July 2009 Hardware
  • 128k RAM paging from BASICI'd always thought that OUT had to be used to page RAM, which from BASIC would be an "OUT 32765,ddd" command, although I don't know if just doing tha…

    ... to be used to page RAM, which from BASIC would be an ... system variable) will switch in page 'n'. I suppose that means ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... let you draw a title page for the game. Idea is ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • OpenSE BASIC disassembly?The [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]OpenSE BASIC[/URL] page provides a source code listing, however it doesn't really…

    ... cgi?id=0027510"]OpenSE BASIC[/URL] page provides a source code ... support the contention that OpenSE BASIC is a derivative work [...] ... a commented disassembly for OpenSE BASIC, putting together the references ... a properly commented OpenSE BASIC source code from a ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2012 Development
  • BASIC TKThe Brazilian book series "BASIC TK" is a trilogy, however only the [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2001110"]first volume[/URL…

    The Brazilian book series "BASIC TK" is a trilogy, however ... /view?id=409704"]author's page[/URL]:

    [I]"A ... publication in Portuguese, explaining the BASIC programming language for computers, using ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 2012 Infoseek database
  • Questions about BasicHi everyone, I am Max, student of media studies in berlin, and I have to do a little project on the spectrum. I am working on a sinclair zx spectrum…

    ... and we are basicly learning basic BASIC programming in order to get ... questions, examples for differences in basic language. Maybe you can ... written in the original manual (page 66) but doesnt work properly ... like DEG and RAD in Basic...

    5. finally, ...
    lomax030 lomax030 December 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Problem with Page 7I've been experimenting with running code in page 7 (+3) from BASIC and I seemed to have got it sorted out but then it all went wrong. Firstly, I tr…

    ... with running code in page 7 (+3) from BASIC and I seemed ... "LD BC,$ffff : RET" in page 7

    So then ... in "LoadCODE" were now in page 7 starting at 65368 (ie ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2013 Development
  • Full 16*16-digit BASIC multiplicationI liked Andre Adrian's 32-bit long multiplication routine so much that I decided to a decimal version. After all, 2^63 is only 9223372036854775808, a…

    ... approximations. The URL for the page with the assembler version is ... />
    I've done this BASIC version, which follows the original ... probably do the other three basic arithmetical operations as well.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Programmer Cursus BASIC (Kluwer Technische Boeken)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014639"]Programmer Cursus BASIC (Kluwer Technische Boeken)[/URL] Only an unidentified TZX in…

    ... .cgi?id=0014639"]Programmer Cursus BASIC (Kluwer Technische Boeken)[/URL]

    Comes with a 200 page book, not sure if I ...
    Hairy Hairy January 2014 MIA/STP/SDP
  • eVALuating $ in +3 BasicHi all, I was very interested in the thread below about re-starting Basic, and remember reasonable amounts from zx81 and early Spectrums. But I now h…

    ... thread below about re-starting Basic, and remember reasonable amounts from ... example which draws a full page -ve and +ve x and ... works of course in 48K Basic etc. but returns missing vars ...
    sliderules sliderules March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • The history of ESXDOS, the DivMMC and the DivMMC EnJOY![img]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/divmmc_history/1%20esxdos.jpg[/img] These are the stories behind esxDOS, the most popular operating system e…

    ... /> Full TR-DOS support from BASIC

    -------------------
    ... +3 except it uses page 7 so it suxx)
    - swap partition
    - virtual memory ... background player, key shortcuts for basic
    and system progs ...
    bverstee bverstee October 2015 Hardware
  • Basic Screen Shadow QuestionHello, I've been porting a game to the Spectrum from another platform. So far so good and I have per pixel screen scrolling working really nicely …

    ... ridiculously simple, as the following basic code doesn't work.
    ; b = Bits 0-2: RAM page (0-7) to map into ...
    pointblnk pointblnk August 2016 Development
  • A few questions about sound and keys in BASICIf I want sound in my BASIC game I have to use BEEP right ? It seems to lock up the CPU for far too long . On Arjun's page I found how to use CALL 94…

    ... I want sound in my BASIC game I have to use ... too long . On Arjun's page I found how to use ... routine and use it from BASIC but is this not the ... make something two player in BASIC since I use INPUT INKEY ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 December 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Short Sinclair BASIC tutorialsHello, if anyone is new to Sinclair BASIC (the built-in ROM one) or feeling the need for a refresh there are (currently eleven) quick 'Under 5 m…

    ... anyone is new to Sinclair BASIC (the built-in ROM one ... be found on the downloads page of the same website.
    LoadingScreech LoadingScreech July 2017 BASIC
  • "Monty Hall" problem in Spectrum BasicFollowing a rather odd conversation with my wife regarding the probability puzzle "[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem"]The Monty …

    ... a contestant who chooses to swap doors has a 2/3 ... if they do not. Obviously, BASIC was the tool of choice ... /> 50 REM initialise counts. S = Swap, R=Stick
    60 LET ... /t*100;"%)"
    400 PRINT "Swap: ";s;" of ";t;" (";s/t ... flaw in my logic or BASIC?
    mroshaw mroshaw April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • BASIC compo on our Facebook page - join in, win cash!1st - will receive £50 2nd - will receive £20 It's been a few years since our game competition, so I think its time for another! This time t…

    ... code must be 100% Sinclair BASIC no MC***

    You ...
    david_retro david_retro August 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Writing faster BASIC programsThere was an article in INPUT years ago, that I thought I'd share again some of the tips from it and link to the article, as it contains some good ad…

    ... on ways of writting your BASIC programs that they run faster ... ]https://archive.org/details/Input_Vol_3_No_30_1997_Marshall_Cavendish_GB/page/n1[/URL]


    dmsmith dmsmith October 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Paging for 64Kb of Video Ram??? What is the best way to page this?Hi all, I'm just putting together a concept card for a "Loki" style of video card, which supports shadow ( so it fits a normal Speccy ) and also t…

    ... chunk? A single 48K video page with RAM relocated to the ... 16K as it is, and page the other 48K into the ... "Normal" video screen and variables/basic area that typically sit from ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk October 2021 Hardware
  • My own Home Computer It's true. My company are planning to build a new Home Computer. It will use a Z80 CPU running at 6mhz, 128k Ram and will run all Spectrum and ZX81 …

    ... if the RAM1 is swopped. (Page 2 being normally resident in ... high res modes.
    The basic idea is that the default ... bits could be used to swap VRAM chips for extra colour ... halves that cotain each buffered page if in 320x200 mode and ...
    cyborg cyborg October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…

    ... of interest - how slow is BASIC for what I am doing ... listing years ago that could swap in blocks of code for ... /> For what you're doing, BASIC is very slow. It's ... 0 of the specific RAM page that resides at address 16384 ...
    icabod icabod February 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …

    ... it is part of the Basic operating system. And, naturally, ... is executed -- the hw could swap in the operating system's ... hw would make the memory page switch on spotting an instruction ... for creating space within the basic workspace, something totally useless to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • WTF is this???[url=http://cgi.ebay.es/Spectrum-128-Emulator-ZX-Interface-2-ROM-Cartridge_W0QQitemZ170254558796QQihZ007QQcategoryZ50223QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZ…

    ... RAM et al. merely 128K BASIC and the 128 menu and ... you can make the 128K BASIC editor work (paged in and ... ROM)

    See this page for how it's done ... only need logic that can swap between the IF2 ROM and ...
    Winston Winston August 2008 Hardware
  • updated Fatware - keyboard patchHi! I work with Fatware code and already prepare keyboard patch for original version 0.12. Now it's possible to operate disk browser with keys: 1) c…

    ... It's not only traditional BASIC loads that will suffer, but ... bytes) and 3584 bytes in page 1 will free.
    2 ... not the idea of memory swap that is the main ... . If it works without memory swap, bingo, who cares. If ... 't, let's consider swap as a viable option.
    baze baze January 2009 Development
  • The incredible shrinking screendumpIn this topic I stated that I would be impressed if the screendump could be smaller than 37 bytes. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewt…

    ... Beep,

    On your page you start with Helge's ... to MC' or 'CALL from Basic' which makes it understandeable again ... /> Yes, but the #22aa will swap the screen y position (0 ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2009 Development
  • 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…

    ... out of I suspect just basic ignorance wrote their own ... have just pushed out to swap what it wasn't ... buffer, a cache of 64 page table entries) for candidate ... Windows VMM simply couldn't swap out any of the ... it doesn't understand the basic concepts. They don't ...
    Winston Winston November 2010 Development
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