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  • a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…

    ... Psion contains some machinecode to print BIG TYPOGRAPHY. Like twice or ... and start digging in the basic. For instance, there should be ... can find everything in the basic of the keyboard trainer. Have ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 250,000 games on ebay - 2nd chance ??hi guys , thanks for all your help in the past few days , watching over the auction , it was quite exciting at the end ................until the winn…

    ... 10 FLASH 1
    20 PRINT AT 0,3; CHR$ 75 ...
    30 PRINT AT 0,0; CHR$ 70 ...
    40 PRINT AT 0,2; CHR$ 67 ...
    50 PRINT AT 0,1; CHR$ 85 ...
    60 PRINT AT 0,4;
    50 ... br />
    This Spectrum basic seems strange after using C ...
    Anonymous Anonymous November 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... text adventure game written in BASIC. First attempt. Helped by ... conversion of an original Basic adventure listing in a ...
    ad 2) See BASIC program added.
    [code]
    70 PRINT VALUE : IF X> ... THEN GOTO 30: REM Print value and take next ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2002 Games
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    ... some few very basic and uninteresting games, all in Basic.

    A car game with vertical scroll had to ... game

    A very basic AI game with my girlfriend ...
    FranciscoVasco FranciscoVasco December 2002 Games
  • Any new Spectrum games? I'm thinking of trying to program a very simple game on my Spectrum. Would anyone like to make games on thier own Spectrums and put on the web for e…

    ... esteemed forum.
    10 PRINT "Do you want to?"
    20 PRINT "A: Post a stupid ... message"
    30 PRINT "B: Attempt to write ... worse than TGSR"
    40 PRINT "C: Kill yourself"
    ... of a Maze game in BASIC and a 3D racing game ...
    Tkrap64 Tkrap64 December 2002 Games
  • Perfect RemakesIdea: Just convert Z80 source code to x86 source code! It might not work, but it's just a suggestion. It would be more of a realistic idea than my Z…

    ... Basic. No wait, it's already been done :-

    10 PRINT ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton December 2002 Games
  • New commands workingSE Basic is no longer being developed.

    ... , simply select 128 basic,
    and type
    10 print rnd
    Arda Arda January 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • List of "funny" pokes?Hello! I'm looking for a list of "funny" pokes. Pokes that do strange things with my Speccy, like POKE 23607,0 scrambles up the keyboard. Regards …

    10 for f=64 to 64+7: poke 23681,f: LPRINT "HELLO" : next f
    20 rem also possible with f=72 and f=80

    10 poke 23692,255 : PRINT AT 21,0;'' : REM SCROLL equivalent

    BTW: thanks for trying POKE 23607,0
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2003 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!
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2003 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 ... memory saved) and than run basic.

    I need that ...
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 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!

    Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    It ... set some parameters before calling BASIC interpreter, to POKE some sys ...
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • "New" Games in archive ?Just a query, will "new" games such as Hop 'n' Chop, Flash Beer, or the new Chronosoft titles (see other threads) be added to the archive? I know tha…

    ... little basic programs we did a long time ago like print "hello ...
    Amigo Amigo March 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…

    ... of those that are specialized basic or whatever with compiler arent ... more versatile.

    Laser Basic seems good but after what ... find it. HiSoft has a basic compiler but there was a ... when i make a screen scroll vertically and horizontally and get ...
    Amigo Amigo 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…

    ... level language but it isnt basic, and runs at comoparable speeds ... it's alot like using basic and the manual is pretty ... /> calculations to get a smooth scroll and is one of the ... . you can also use normal basic if youwant and is not ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Spectrum problemHi I've just been trying to resurrect my 48k spectrum. I'm having some problems loading some of my games, but if it does completely load, it crashe…

    ... - the bug with the double print apart, that means it was ... -20 mins to at least print something one way or the ... something like :

    25 PRINT AT 0,0;i
    BASIC :) )

    - it'll really ...
    GP GP May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Games Remaking Competition[url="http://www.remakes.org"]www.remakes.org[/url] are organising a cool remakes competition that will hopefully bring us lots of cool updated Spect…

    ... .

    I have a basic course board set up, and ... />

    _________________
    10 PRINT "TCK is cool!";
    20 ...
    caffeinekid caffeinekid May 2003 Games
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... cant its a fucking smooth scroll.[/quote]

    woooooo! ... vs instruction set vs basic vs keyboard vs games ... again, i liked the basic better, think it is ... get into than C64 Basic, and you can ask ... strengths is its weakness. Scroll, custom sprites etc. when ...
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... keyboard attached.

    The Basic is non-existent, meaning it ... video game effects, like smooth scroll, to be possible. But because ... had a strong version of Basic. It was quirky. It featured ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... price, and excellent (in comparison) BASIC. Seeing games like ATIC ATAC ... BBC has a great fast BASIC language and built in assembler ... and false comparisons the manufacturers print.


    However, to ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers June 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Let a=val "1"I see some basic programs which use Let a=val "1" instead of let a=1 syntax. what is the difference between val "1" and 1? is it an effect of some …

    If only needed in a FOR NEXT LOOP you could use
    FOR X = SGN PI TO SQR PI

    even in strings you can use it since BASIC will take the closest integer to SQR PI, hence 2.

    Try this
    PRINT "HELLO"(SQR PI)
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP June 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... /> [/quote]


    All BASIC-commands that uses integer values ... the nearest rounded integer.
    PRINT "HELlO"(PI) will give " ... L" where
    PRINT "HELLOHELLO"(PI*PI) will give ... space (and speed)
    PRINT "TEST"(PI) is faster than ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 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 …

    ... -cursor = Back to BASIC

    In BASIC is a menu for ... simple printroutine
    ; start with PRINT USR 5E4
    ;-------------------------------

    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…

    ... we can make a tiny BASIC program to poke every possible ... all the results compute and print out.

    Let's ...
    BadBeard BadBeard August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SevenuP and fontsIs it possible to use SevenuP to create replacement Spectrum fonts? If not, can anyone suggest a windows-based Speccy font editor? I've got plenty fo…

    ... scratch, you may create a BASIC program that prints all chars ... a new 256x24 graphic. The BASIC program can be this one ... =32 TO 127
    20 PRINT CHR$ n;
    30 NEXT ...
    Metalbrain Metalbrain August 2003 Development
  • 128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …

    ... back in on return to BASIC).
    [/quote]

    I ... tried to use OUT from BASIC to swap pages, but it ... 0 back in
    60 PRINT PEEK 60000:REM should give ...
    trellis trellis August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... actullay see a resemblance to basic. it's not as ... RET=Return ... etc etc. knowing basic helps cause you can kind ... to do this in basic it would be like ... is high level like Basic, and has a bunch ... pretty cool! easy to scroll background and have an independent ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • Old Spectrum Books Im not sure of the name, but once upon a time you could by hard-back books containing basic programming language that allowed you to create your own…

    ... !

    2000AD used to print basic programs. And I'm sure ...
    Mikal Mikal August 2003 Games
  • AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…

    ... "" CODE the same as Sinclair BASIC, but it allows you to ... execute the code with a PRINT USR, and if it screws ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2003 Development
  • 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…

    ... , then...

    $ perl -le 'print eval $_ while '

    Basic and spits an EXE.
    Marcelo Marcelo September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • ANARCHY v1.0 remake for PC releasedThanks to everyone's help here with pokes and other info for the original game, the remake is finally out after about 6 or 7 weeks of hard coding. I…

    ... , as I'm a Speccy Basic coder from the old days ... .

    _________________
    10 PRINT "TCK is cool!";
    20 ...
    caffeinekid caffeinekid September 2003 Games
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