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  • 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…

    ... or something). they worked from BASIC and allowed you to put ... call the routine. it would print out the text in either ...
    icabod icabod October 2003 Games
  • 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 ... 6x8, so that PRINT AT 0,41; would ... ; saving a stand-alone BASIC program to redefine capitals, ... file containing a short BASIC loader and the character ... routine for the revised PRINT grid before or after ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... the new character set, in BASIC form.

    [url="http ... to use statements such as PRINT AT 0,41; for the ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone October 2003 Games
  • POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…

    ... $=CHR$ (PEEK N)
    30 PRINT N,PEEK N;" ";
    40 ... PEEK N>=32 THEN PRINT B$
    50 IF PEEK ... N>32 THEN PRINT
    60 NEXT N
    basic ascii and the two bytes ... normally hold the start of BASIC but this can be changed ...
    dave_beer_uk dave_beer_uk October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • POKE, PEEK and RANDOMIZE USRAnyone got a store of useful POKES, or RANDOMIZE USR statements with interesting effects? As a start, try anything from RANDOMIZE USR 1216 to RANDOM…

    ... address 32000 and stop the basic auto running.

    You ... PEEK N>=32 THEN PRINT CHR$ (PEEK N)
    30 ... print out the ascii and you can quickly find the basic starts ...
    dave_beer_uk dave_beer_uk October 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Converting Final Fantasy 1 to the Speccy...Hi all! Although I've not been at Spectrum BASIC for a long, long time (and so have forgotten a lot as well as most of the important memory addresse…

    ... do such a thing in BASIC. It seems this job would ... than someone who only knows BASIC (seeing as you're planning ... on using BASIC on the PC as well ... lately...

    _________________
    scroll?

    [ This Message was ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi November 2003 Games
  • Who is your favourite Software House ?? and why ??So which games company was your favourite and why ?? and come to think of it .. who did you think was pants. my fave has to be Ultimate I can remem…

    ... , and with the guts to print the screenshots on the cover ... good, (look suspiciously like compiled Basic), but were fast, frenzied, with ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers November 2003 Games
  • Scrolling string variablesCan anyone help me with this for a program I'm writing on the spectrum. There was a command in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variab…

    ... command in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variable ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone December 2003 Games
  • scroll?Hey guys! Great website! Is there anyway I can make my 128 not say "scroll?" and just make it scroll automatically?

    ... />
    The POKE stops the scroll? prompt but to make the ... screen scroll (in a similar manner to ... the ZX81 SCROLL command) do

    10 PRINT AT 10 ... POKE 23692,255
    30 PRINT AT 21,31''

    SCROLL command.
    Geoff Geoff January 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... pleanty of mathmatical things and PRINT USR xxxxx to get BC ... approach, while OK for making BASIC+MC business/math programs, won ... ROM routines or using the BASIC calculator routines*).

    ... easily, but without knowing the basic operation of the VIC and ...
    GOC GOC January 2004 Development
  • clueless spectrum usersI was quite young when I owned a speccy and didn't know much about how it worked. When I loaded games via the tape recorder it said in the manual so…

    ... each ZX81 BASIC statement had an ASCII code ... e.g. PRINT is ... a machine code program in BASIC by substituting the letters, numbers ... /> for example:

    10 PRINT "HELLO"
    20 GOTO 10 ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers January 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... he has worked with is Basic? (Dr. Evil smugness with ... 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 ...
    GBNvK GBNvK 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…

    ... to see something from a PRINT USR statement that's actually ... /> If you asked me what PRINT USR 32760 would display I ... it would even return to BASIC.

    (Actually it would ...
    cyborg cyborg 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…

    ... addresses, BASIC is just a big program running, and PRINT USR just ... write a HEX converter in BASIC, and then change my method ... small program would run in BASIC, just type it out and ...
    GBNvK GBNvK 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…

    ... addresses, BASIC is just a big program running, and PRINT USR just ... know. By choosing to use BASIC and decimal you're really ... small program would run in BASIC, just type it out and ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2004 Development
  • scroll?Hey guys! Great website! Is there anyway I can make my 128 not say "scroll?" and just make it scroll automatically?

    ... error, and whatever character you print at column 31, it being ... last cell, you can only print one character cell. if it ... effect but i'm talking basic basics.
    Sadako Sadako February 2004 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…

    ... you look at the small basic proggy I tagged on you ... ="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bad_beard/Print.tap"]http://homepage.ntlworld.com ...
    BadBeard BadBeard February 2004 Development
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... br />
    2) Spectrum BASIC did help novices to migrate ... is a misrepresentation of facts. BASIC encouraged people to program, and ... and say, "Because Speccy BASIC was so good, MORE people ... should apply to all BASIC commands then, including PRINT!

    ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... , the Spectrum versions do not scroll as smoothly as their C64 ... , Arjun wrote:
    2) Spectrum BASIC did help novices to migrate ...
    TMR TMR February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... produced masterpieces that *appear* to scroll as smoothly as anything on ... . OK, so they don't scroll at 50 fps, but they ... Arjun rightfully says - the Spectrum BASIC [I]encourages[/I] people to ... by their dabblings with Sinclair BASIC all those years ago? :) (A ...
    monty.mole monty.mole February 2004 Games
  • Any Errors?Any errors you feel Sinclair Research or even Amstrad made with the speccy??

    ... />
    So therefore change the PRINT AT command to use pixels ... rather than character squares - PRINT AT 65, 89; "Hello World ... ROM to fit in a PRINT routine that worked by pixels ... could easily create routines in BASIC for a 42 character width ...
    monty.mole monty.mole March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…

    ... br />
    [code]9000 PRINT BRIGHT 1; PAPER 3; INK ... x;"$%": RETURN
    9002 PRINT BRIGHT 1; PAPER 7; ... amp;'": RETURN
    9003 PRINT BRIGHT 1; PAPER 7; ... x;",-": RETURN
    9004 PRINT BRIGHT 1; PAPER 7; ... is my routine. In BASIC it is slow as ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2004 Development
  • Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…

    ... py) to the routine from BASIC? In my code, "dir" is ... data.

    3.- The "print" procedure you provided (as far ... can read assembly) does the print for a tile? Or it ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2004 Development
  • Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…

    ... py) to the routine from BASIC?[/quote]

    Poke ... />
    It's essentially your BASIC code efficiently translated into machine ... 16 is the call for BASIC's print routines and uses the ... all the associated codes in BASIC (like INK, PAPER, BRIGHT, AT ...
    cyborg cyborg March 2004 Development
  • Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…

    ... />
    and call it from BASIC like this..

    RANDOMIZE ...

    and

    PRINT USR 50000 : PAUSE 0
    PRINT USR.)
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2004 Development
  • UDG/sprite HelpRestore 5: For N=20 To 21: Read G$: For R=0 To 7: Read B: Poke Usr G$+r,b: Next R: Next N

    ... to them in your BASIC so you can print them.

    cyborg cyborg March 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • UDG/sprite HelpRestore 5: For N=20 To 21: Read G$: For R=0 To 7: Read B: Poke Usr G$+r,b: Next R: Next N

    [quote]
    On 2004-03-30 03:05, cyborg wrote:
    Pretty simple really - you poke the UDG area with the bit patterns of your UDG's, go into graphic mode then use the letters corresponding to them in your BASIC so you can print them.
    dalmudlee dalmudlee March 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • UDG/sprite HelpRestore 5: For N=20 To 21: Read G$: For R=0 To 7: Read B: Poke Usr G$+r,b: Next R: Next N

    [quote]
    On 2004-03-30 03:05, cyborg wrote:
    Pretty simple really - you poke the UDG area with the bit patterns of your UDG's, go into graphic mode then use the letters corresponding to them in your BASIC so you can print them.
    dalmudlee dalmudlee March 2004 Sinclair Basic
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