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  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... you defining the UDGs in BASIC first?

    This code ... /> ret ; back to basic


    ; Print text on screen
    Kotek Kotek June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... /> ret ; back to basic


    ; Print text on screen
    print anything the ROM routines can ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... range 0-23 before you print the first character then. 32 ... /> I don't know whether basic PRINT AT command handles that.
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 Development
  • multi-scroll m/c subroutine for BASICArising from recent posts, here's a scrolling routine that will manage multiple left/right scrollings for any (sensible) line width or step; (ie. whe…

    Arising from recent posts, here's a scrolling routine that will manage multiple left/right scrollings for any (sensible) line width or step; (ie. where width is
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Print routine for BASIC (or BASin)For anyone interested there's a crappy binary here to print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import the binary at 60000, USR 60000 to initia…

    ... crappy binary here to print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import ... to initialise the stream, then PRINT #4; AT y,x; etc ...
    Woody Woody October 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Disabling scroll? at the bottom of the screen.Everyone must have written something similar to: 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GO TO 10 at some point in their lives. But when you get to the bottom of the s…

    ... similar to:

    10 PRINT "HELLO"
    20 GO TO ... in Sinclair BASIC, it asks you if you want to scroll. How ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington September 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Printing in 64 columns, from Basic?Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any known machine code utility that allows something similar to PRINT AT that can be called fr…

    Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there ... similar to PRINT AT that can be called from Basic but ...
    I'm creating small Basic programs that allow me to ... having to print lists of numbers and having to scroll to ... easy to call from Basic? Thanks!
    zxbruno zxbruno October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Basic 1.2.5 - a BASIC CompilerWell, my old post about ZX BASIC seems to be gone (maybe this phorum purges old threads?), so I started a new one. After more than 6 month, I've fin…

    ... , my old post about ZX BASIC seems to be gone (maybe ... a new version of ZX BASIC. It's a free compiler ... the least, a 42 column PRINT routine (ripped from somewere, and ... ) has been included. More routines (scroll, sprites, etc...) will be added ...
    boriel boriel March 2010 Development
  • "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 …

    ... they do not. Obviously, BASIC was the tool of choice ... 1
    360 REM prevent Scroll? message
    370 POKE 23692 ... ;" (";r/t*100;"%)"
    400 PRINT "Swap: ";s;" of ";t;" ... br /> 420 REM print the doors
    430 PRINT d$(1);":";d ... in my logic or BASIC?
    mroshaw mroshaw April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial) [b]How to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling game[/b] In this tutorial, we will be talking about how to write a simple BASIC* horizont…

    ... how to write a simple BASIC* horizontal scrolling* game.

    I assume you can enter BASIC easily, for example using Basin ... scroll 8 pixels to the left, and Line 300, where we print ... (y,3)... Remember the spectrum basic has its Y coordinate first ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2020 Development
  • A silly BASIC programming challenge for you all..This is a very, very sily idea. So only read if you are bored. I use E-bay a lot. (my user id is thx1138ebn) edit: it's now retro-technology :edit…

    ... message.

    So, what BASIC program can you write in ... far is;

    10 PRINT "Good E-Bayer" : 20 GOTO ... me this;

    10 PRINT FLASH 1; "Good buyer",FLASH ...
    thx1138 thx1138 July 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASIC code challengeWrite a program in BASIC as short as possible that will continue after KEY-RELEASED. The program must be fully relocatable (so it must be programmed …

    Write a program in BASIC as short as possible that ... on KEYPRESSED

    10 PRINT "PRESS A KEY" : PAUSE 0 ... : PRINT "KEYPRESSED"

    But now ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic compiler for PC?I know we all can use BASin to play for a while in a little window. But... What about creating a 80x86 EXE program from scratch using Sinclair Basic…

    ... program from scratch using Sinclair Basic? You know, the ATTR(), LET ... /> 10 INPUT b
    20 PRINT b

    You could ... plan to do) any Sinclair BASIC compiler for the '86 range ...
    Marcelo Marcelo September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • 42 column text, Sinclair Print Utilities, etcI'm currently developing the next of the ZXIF text adventures - "43 Minutes" and, as a side issue, I'm really interested in 42 column text for this g…

    ... for ideas - mainly towards short BASIC and/or m/c routines ... travels I have come across 'Print Utilities,' a release from the ... text. I've studied the BASIC part of this for a ...
    woodcock88 woodcock88 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…

    ... sprites would work from compiled basic, so results will be even ... USA.

    stuff like Print 'n' Plotter ART o' Matic ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Games
  • Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…

    ... text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like ... the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and ... multiple action descriptions, but BASIC will only let me ... part, otherwise it'll print an 'Invalid Action' message ... axe" THEN INK 2: PRINT: PRINT "Invalid Command": PAUSE 50: ...
    pottyboy pottyboy November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • New release and new web site of Blassic, the classic BasicHello. I have launched the release 0.10.0 of Blassic, a Basic interpreter '80 style multiplatform. There is also a new web site: [url="http://blas…

    ... .10.0 of Blassic, a Basic interpreter '80 style multiplatform.
    SCROLL instructions, string slicing Sinclair style ...
    NotFound NotFound February 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…

    ... .. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window ... text to my box but basic seems to position text in ... ,100) to the figures in PRINT AT? So then I can ... should be in the Spectrum Basic section.. I didnt see it ...
    javaguy javaguy August 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • how to pass arguments from Basic to MC ?can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this: PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2:…

    can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this:
    PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2: ...
    or so...
    Fikee Fikee April 2006 Development
  • Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […

    ... : an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a ... instructions: +, -, *, peek, usr, rem, list, print, goto, run, poke, if, and ... so on)

    LINE PRINT
    Like TRON in other ...
    NotFound NotFound November 2006 Development
  • Little BASIC gameTry to make all standard BASIC-errors and tell us how you did it. Not allowed i.e. : PRINT USR 1362 D - Break cont-repeats but ok 10 GO TO 10 RU…

    Try to make all standard BASIC-errors and tell us how you did it.
    Not allowed i.e. :

    PRINT USR 1362
    D - Break cont-repeats

    but ok
    10 GO TO 10
    RUN and press BREAK
    D - Break cont-repeats
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP January 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Help with Visual Basic 6.0 vs Visual Basic.netI have a program that auto generates VB.Net code..... I know VB.net syntax and am happy with the code generated. However, I have been asked to have …

    ... generate code compatible with visual basic 6.0.

    I ... ] console.WriteLine(x)[/b] to print x out to a console ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk February 2007 Chit chat
  • Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…

    ... mode? I am coding the BASIC program in a Text Editor ... (TextMate with a Sinclar Basic plugin).

    EDIT:
    PRINT CHR$ 32 with PRINT " " correct? In ... , CHR$33
    or
    PRINT " !" ?

    Now, another problem ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... (even those only familiar with basic) will be able to pick ... to continue producing MULEs, the basic workhorse of plot developments. No ... the need to print double width text and scroll double width text ... s explained, even for the basic people. The code will only ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • How could you hear if loading BASIC or MC?When loading a Spectrum program from tape you could usually hear from the sound if it is a BASIC or is some machine code program *. My question is, w…

    ... sound if it is a BASIC or is some machine code ... /> In BASIC I assume that the keyword commands (e.g. PRINT) was ... command, so should not a Basic program in memory (and to ... sounds hard and tight, and BASIC more light and open. :smile ...
    Rickard Rickard November 2007 Development
  • BASIC Keyword ReferenceRealised that the Sinclair Basic section would be a better place for discussion of BASIC keywords, so for reference the old thread is in [thread=2005…

    ... />
    [CODE]
    SINCLAIR BASIC Keyword Reference

    The ... : O
    COS : E : W PRINT : K : P
    DATA : E ... colours within strings in a BASIC listing.

    Break ...
    icabod icabod March 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 ... 0xc000 by default
    the print buffer is moved to 0xdb00 ... almost a full 48K for BASIC programs. On the other hand ...
    chev chev October 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Just wrote my first useful working Speccy BASIC program in years...A nice UK National Lottery number generator. And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replace…

    ... I've succeeded in Speccy BASIC, I think I might just ... NEXT c
    400 REM print the lines of randomly picked ... =1 TO 8
    415 PRINT "LINE ";f;": ";
    420 FOR ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick November 2008 Development
  • New for 2009 - mc onelinersI found the limit of one line and one screen's worth of program really useful in (re-)learning BASIC, so I've decided to carry the format over into m…

    ... really useful in (re-)learning BASIC, so I've decided to ... : POKE j,b: NEXT j: PRINT AT 0,6;USR 33001 ... ;print car
    ld (hl),a
    ld hl,23263 ;scroll road ... road posn
    xor a ;print new road
    ld (hl ...
    bigjon bigjon December 2008 Development
  • ZXDS & Sinclair basicIs it posible to save basic code with ZXDS emulator 10 print 87 save "abc.bas" and the load it?

    Is it posible to save basic code with ZXDS emulator

    10 print 87

    save "abc.bas"

    and the load it?
    mhanias mhanias March 2009 Emulators
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