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Anybody got a hack for PAW'd games?Has anybody got a hack to browse the text in PAW'd games?
... unscramble the text using a Basic program, please let me know ... for familiar/often used words or parts of words (and, the, is ... /> You can use a little BASIC program like this for text ...
70 IF x31 THEN PRINT CHR$ a;
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Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... call a function, some words on what each function does ... not really intended to provide basic computer science education, if ... around to it some basic installation instructions should be ... interprets certain escape sequences as PRINT AT (effectively) among other ... -
Hypothetically....If you were putting together a "Spectrum +4" what presently available hardware would you include. My criteria would be total comparability (or as ne…
... same as making a cut or a print line at a single ... pass.
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Seeking alternatives to DATA statementsAnyone know of any memory saving alternatives to storing a list of numbers, other than using DATA statements or poking data into addresses?... Im ti…
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I was doing a cut and paste of BloodBaz's ... way that allows you to print and recopy it (ie: what ... stuff)
4) Its pure BASIC (even more so than some ... expect if they opt for BASIC over assembly?!?!? -
Seeking alternatives to DATA statementsAnyone know of any memory saving alternatives to storing a list of numbers, other than using DATA statements or poking data into addresses?... Im ti…
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I was doing a cut and paste of BloodBaz's ... way that allows you to print and recopy it (ie: what ... stuff)
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SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
... a listing, anytime original Sinclair Basic is wanted by the coder ... =1 to 50
30 print at int (rnd*21), int ... option (to copy, cut and paste the Basic listing at will)
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SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
... a listing, anytime original Sinclair Basic is wanted by the coder ... =1 to 50
30 print at int (rnd*21), int ... option (to copy, cut and paste the Basic listing at will)
Basic. This feature wouldn't be ... -
SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
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10 print AT 10,20;"Stuff":REM ... Column,Row
20 print LOCATION 150,30;"More Stuff ... /> 30 LOCATE 150,30:print "Alternate Stuff":REM an alternate ... to 50
30 print at int (rnd*21), ... (to copy, cut and paste the Basic listing at will)< ... -
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…
... Chapter 1 is a basic guide for new users.< ... array of 256*256 words of ARGB1555 or ARGB4444.< ... Master green componant, 0x00 cut / 0x80 normal / 0xFF ... Master green componant, 0x00 cut / 0x80 normal / 0xFF ... Master green componant, 0x00 cut / 0x80 normal / 0xFF ... -
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…
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; BASIC ROM call addresses (source: The ... br /> call PR_STRING ; Call text print
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Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…
... ' (and friends) syscall, in other words, it works with whatever the ... the specified stream to it. BASIC doesn't care what that ... stream points at, and the BASIC streams code is *not* trapped ... file on the filesystem, and print the contents:
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Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
[QUOTE=zxbruno;513505]In other words, none of the mentioned compilers ... compiled:
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10 PRINT "PRESS A KEY": PAUSE 0 ... br /> Unlike other BASICs, Sinclair BASIC treated DATA as [b]anonymous ... -
Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…
[QUOTE=NRA;590712]Hello Jonathan)
I've played a little and think that 'charset' is ok, but I personally find no use for 'palette' tab yet. No nagging, just IMO.
Ok, so now I can sacrifice an unused letter as a 8x8 UDG instead of 16x16 ... -
Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…
... background UDGs using a 'supertile' print system written by nathan that ... . If you are familiar with basic, background tiles are exactly UDGs ... , eg, but I wouldn't cut corners until you've actually ... -
Abbaye des morts[url]http://www.locomalito.com/juegos_abbaye_des_morts.php[/url] Looks like Spectrum, sounds like Spectrum, but it's not a Spectrum ('cause no colou…
... background UDGs using a 'supertile' print system written by nathan that ... . If you are familiar with basic, background tiles are exactly UDGs ... , eg, but I wouldn't cut corners until you've actually ... -
Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure? I used to quite enjoy tapping them in, seeing how …
... I was already advanced in BASIC programming and they were pretty ... those days they'd literally cut and paste paper to produce ... they later used some other print out (not the ZX character ... -
Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure? I used to quite enjoy tapping them in, seeing how …
... that each 'token' such as PRINT or LEN or RETURN took ... a difference when programming in BASIC.
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Is there life on Maaarrrrssss???[url]http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/nasa-makes-mars-discovery-for-the-history-books-1114544[/url]
... my earlier post containing the words.
[QUOTE ... they have typed in, cut and paste it into ... up someone's else's words.[/QUOTE]
... the context of your own words. Still, that explains ... to be contradictory. Your basic grasp of English here ... -
Is there life on Maaarrrrssss???[url]http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/nasa-makes-mars-discovery-for-the-history-books-1114544[/url]
... my earlier post containing the words.[/QUOTE]
I never ... what they have typed in, cut and paste it into Google ... their posts, maybe some key words and do the same...[/QUOTE ... have to be contradictory. Your basic grasp of English here is ... -
Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…
... coding so it can print to a normal printer ... best can do is cut and paste into a ... amazing development environment, specifically for basic.
If ... porting utilities of ZX Basic to any of these ... br /> Dunny's PC based basic (SpecBas) is of course another ... -
Newbie Spectrum developer advice ....Hi, Im new to the site and to spectrum developing - well, not quite, I wrote Spectrum programmes in Basic 30 years ago but then went off into the wo…
... I just.
need to cut and paste it all into ... look at Boriel's ZX Basic.
You can start ... in Sinclair basic with almost no changes:
10 Print "Hello ... printThis (thingToPrint as STRING)
PRINT thingToPrint
END SUB
SpectranetHi all, I just bought a spectranet card and have a couple of questions I hope someone can answer for me. I have played around with it on both a +3 …
... have cut/paste the input file and have typed in the basic ... 3 lines at a time, print them to the screen, ...
Regards.
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10 %fopen ... b$;c$
50 print a$:print b$:print c$:print "***"
60 pause ...Problem with DIY Kempston Joystick InterfaceHello, Decided to try out Yarek's Kempston joystick interface: [img]http://8bit.yarek.pl/hardware/zx.joystick/kjschem.gif[/img] Having a few issues.…
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The basic design has been copied from ... that all tracks are actually cut where needed. The resistors shown ... from BASIC by using:
10 CLS
20 PRINT AT ...The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... refresher course... not programmed ZX Basic since 1988 lol.
How do you print to the bottom 2 lines ... , maybe even some scissors that cut your snake in half as ... and harder than yours (100% BASIC edition)" for a working title?Modern printer with the ZX SpectrumJust curious: If for some reason I wanted to use a printer with my Spectrum, are there any modern printers that would work with it?
... (certainly HP ones) will print plain text (without it needing ... from ZX BASIC, and sending what you want to print down the ... newly opened BASIC stream. In other words, something ... ,"ip.of.printer",9100
PRINT #4;"Hello, world!"
...SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…
Answers to problems in SE Basic:
[QUOTE]print all the ASCII characters ... ]FOR i=32 TO 127:PRINT CHR$ i;" ";~i;" ";i:NEXT ... ]count the number of unique words in some text: C++ or ... AND s$(i)=" "):NEXT i:PRINT w AND s$""[/code]
Mountains of Ket - Written in Basic?Was Mountains of Ket written in Basic? And if so is there any way to break into it? The parser's pretty impressive, I want to see how it was done.
... code:
[CODE]8210 PRINT '" What shall we do? ";: BEEP ... .01,40: INPUT LINE c$: PRINT INK c2;c$
8220 ... />
The MC for searching words itself is pretty small, about ... the commands is entirely in BASIC though.
