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  • 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…

    ... single 48K video page with RAM relocated to the ROM space ... "Normal" video screen and variables/basic area that typically sit from ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk October 2021 Hardware
  • BASIC Bug: DEF FN after REMHello all, Having mused the Spectrum ROM disassembly by Drs Logan ad O'Hara, I wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF FN when call…

    ... wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF ... FN a()=10
    20 PRINT FN a()
    [/code]
    20 PRINT FN a()
    [/code]
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2022 BASIC
  • Built a ZX Spectrum that works, but can't get the upper RAM to work?Like the title says I finished my Spectrum 3B board, and it boots, but it doesn't see the upper 32k of RAM. When it boots, the lower 16k works f…

    ... programs and even run a RAM diagnostic. Basically, tells me ... all the associated logic, and RAM chips, with no effect. I ... direct connections between the upper RAM and associated logic, and I ... before and after the swap, PRINT PEEK 23733 returns 128 instead ...
    DistantStar001 DistantStar001 June 2022 Hardware
  • PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …

    ... beginners picked it up. Feel free to skip this!
    ...
    2) Also feel free to knock holes in this ... I thought I'd better print it. Okay, Mr Bond? ... 5 seconds until you get Basic. Now you can type ... the program has not overwritten BASIC, or protected it with ...
    Ed Ed February 2002 Games
  • PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…

    ... at EXTVEC from the BASIC before you start the ... need some 128k pages free to store the graphic ... ; point to start of 16k RAM
    LD B,A ; ...
    This is a very basic rountine that is inflexable and ... start...
    Anyway the basic idea is to take the ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WANTED: tape replacement for +2?Any tape replacement possible for a +2? My +2 works wonderfully but the incorporated datacorder is simply worn out and won't load ANYTHING. Dirty sig…

    ... ,BIN 11101111
    20 PRINT IN 254
    30 ... ,BIN 11111111
    40 PRINT IN 254
    50 ... because, as PRINT IN 254 is typed at a BASIC prompt, ... with the lower 16K of RAM, and the processor with ... the upper 32K RAM and 16K ROM are ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2001 Sales
  • new speccy game here!!You may remember a while ago I posted a demo of a game I was making on this forum, and I asked at the time whether or not anyone knew of any software…

    ... myself an assembler in Visual Basic that editted an emulator snapshot ... at making one, please feel free, I'd be interested to ... I still had plenty of RAM left for a hundred or ...
    david_pegg david_pegg July 2002 Games
  • TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…

    ... also had extra general BASIC commands like FREE to get the amount ... copy the function dispatcher to RAM. However, the special cartridge or ... RAM. Timex encouraged coders to make BASIC AROS code have as much BASIC ...
    Sparky Sparky December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... it ???
    Maybe to start BASIC from out MC

    RST 16 ; PRINT A
    JP 8108 ; run BASIC program!

    basic prog. together with mc (whole RAM memory saved) and than run basic ...
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... hand because i feel more free ( note: if yo ulook at ... 450mhz 384 mb ram. i hope it works, dark basic and db ...
    Amigo Amigo March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... There's a simple basic one for beginners which displays ... game and return to BASIC. This is so you ... own title screen maybe in BASIC, wait for the relevant ... remaining 32k of usable RAM for the game and ... free, so you could use it for title screens, music, BASIC ...
    jonathan jonathan April 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... addresses. There's a simple basic one for beginners which displays ... the remaining 32k of usable RAM for the game and this ... be free, so you could use it for title screens, music, BASIC ... exciting. could even use compiled basic.

    okay, but ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • AssemblersOk, two quick questions for you guys: 1) Can anyone give me a link to the Prometheus Assembler ? 2) Does anyone know of an assembler that satisfies …

    ... /> * Can be downloaded for free
    * Has full instructions ... can also be downloaded for free

    Any ... = Back to BASIC

    In BASIC is a menu ... simple printroutine
    ; start with PRINT USR 5E4
    ;-------------------------------
    ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... which will redefine the PRINT grid to 42 columns of ... characters 5x6 with a free row top and bottom, ... and a column of free space on the right. ... ; saving a stand-alone BASIC program to redefine capitals, ... file containing a short BASIC loader and the character ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... for a machine with 48k Ram and a Z80 3MHz processor ... dissent).
    [/quote]

    Basic is all about mystery code ... there? Neither is there a "PRINT" function. There's plenty of ... links:

    Learn Sinclair Basic:

    [url="http://www ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous 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…

    ... my guns however, yes, learn Basic. Next

    10 FOR ... ,201

    RUN
    PRINT USR 32768

    65535 ... />
    Voila, in the limited basic above I have wrote a ... using 26 bytes of work RAM is completely manageable to me ...
    GBNvK GBNvK 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…

    ... library feature is rare among free z80 assemblers. Here's ... and text strings) and RAM data. With these items ... to ROM from the RAM data which should not ... and will lie in RAM at some other address.< ... an extended grammar with new basic commands, with an ability ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
  • Print 'n' Plotter SPRITE MACHINEJust got this from an ebay seller this afternoon. I just TZXd it and sent it to the Steve at the vault, yet it might be a while before it gets put up…

    ... . one of them was HiSoft Basic for +3. i don't ... .

    You mean 64K Ram Disc? i had a similar ... some space in Ram would have to be free to load these ... would all fit in normal Ram there'd be no need ... first then saving it to ram disc to begin with.
    Sadako Sadako May 2004 Games
  • Memory Available for 16k and 48kAm I right in thinking that if I am writing a 16k Game, I have 8k available for the machine code prog 6000h to 8000h, and for a 48k game I have 40K a…

    ... 5B00h, loaded in and did PRINT USR 23296 and reset/attribute ... know if some of that ram was used for system variables ... at 30000, first CLEAR 30000. Basic will move itself out of ... to a certain address, Basic can't contain itself in ... make use of that extra RAM.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2004 Development
  • AmericaI've been wondering, was the Spectrum released in America? Was it popular? Are there Spectrum games that were made in America? There must be a few A…

    ... 16K rom and 48K ram as in the Spectrum, ... be RAM, ROM or a smart peripheral. The Basic system ... enumerated the expansion memory and would use print#, ... the ROM supported 48K Spectrum basic + a few more ... 't have the 128k RAM. I'm not sure ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2004 Games
  • An emulator(another on of my projects) Does anyone know how to write an emulator? The emulated computer is very simple (a MK14, infact -also by Sir Clive) and a…

    ... problems with doing it in Basic... but will need some ... to be able to print text at anywhere on ... for pure speed of development Basic suits me... ok, so ... 512K (-100K for Rom, basic vars, screen memory etc) ... Ram Disk...

    That`s heaven to a basic ...
    CKay CKay August 2004 Development
  • An emulator(another on of my projects) Does anyone know how to write an emulator? The emulated computer is very simple (a MK14, infact -also by Sir Clive) and a…

    ... problems with doing it in Basic... but will need some little ... for pure speed of development Basic suits me... ok, so compared ... MegaByte Ram Disk...

    That`s heaven to a basic coder ... ) to print at any pixel position rather than cell- from Basic. It ...
    Sadako Sadako August 2004 Development
  • PokesDoes anyone know where I can find a list of Pokes for my Speccy games? I am trying to find some for On the Bench ! Thanks

    ... commands to view/hack the BASIC listing after all, and no ... to browse all of the BASIC listing. (There are many ... finished hacking away at the BASIC code (e.g. altered ... s just an attempt to free up a little memory or ... 22: INPUT T$(A,B): PRINT A;"-";B;"-";T$(A,B ...
    jil jil September 2004 Games
  • jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c (oh, even more horrors!!!!!!!!)what about jet set willy in b.a.s.i.c ? is anyone doing that? i think it's a really bad idea, but it's sure is a funny one! oh yes, i do know a littl…

    ... it's area as the print function didn't have a ... since I actually coded in BASIC). That would go for all ... all.
    [/quote]

    PRINT OVER 1; ;)

    Okay ... off CLEARing a chunk of ram and the PEEKing and POKEing ...
    AndyC AndyC October 2004 Games
  • Dixons - and the "death of the video"MIKE: Right. That's it. "Your video is now ready for use. Insert cassette, rewind to beginning of tape, and press play. Happy viewing!" VYVYAN: Ha h…

    ... rip-offs, 1 year interest free offers - they are designed to ... over the 12 month interest free period.

    [2] ... correctly - Thank god for the Print Screen button and web browser ... /> _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • There's a bug in my Speccy, Dear Liza, Dear Liza...Hi guys, Just me being annoying again - Can anyone out there in 'Internetland' help me with ideas about what could be causing a bug in my Speccy em…

    ... old mad characters instead of PRINT or NEW commands as usual ... /> So then I rewrote the basic, one byte type instruction side ... HEX editor it'll be free, free as the birds, and the ...
    Speculator Speculator December 2004 Development
  • 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…

    ... other, then, could you compile basic code using a 128k machine ... ram available? (EG compiler can sit comfortable in 128k allowing more free ... space for basic code, upto say the ... you could write anything with basic and still convert it ...
    AD-RS1600i AD-RS1600i January 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclair branded softwareI am very interested in the Sinclair branded range of software and plan on creating a website on this at some point in the future. First I need to d…

    ... - MusicMaster
    E8/S - Beyond Basic
    E9/S - Chess Tutor ... & Disassembler
    L5/S - Print Utilities
    L6/S - Logo ... Mathematics
    ? - General Statistics
    ? - Free Sample Programs

    C2 ...
    RichB RichB February 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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