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  • Celebrity Deathmatch- Manic Miner vs Jet Set WillySince the two games have come up in this forum recently, it has made me think back to how imaginative they were, and how much fun they were to simply…

    ... cursor
    - A message like 'scroll?'
    - A system report like ... input command in basic
    - The use of PRINT #1

    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan December 2002 Games
  • 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…

    ... have a whole Basic routine, or an entire Basic program for that ... remember learning this but my basic has gotten very rusty over ... be better off compiling your basic program - but this has worked ... print on the screen. Like say you want the screen to scroll ...
    Amigo Amigo July 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 ... LET A$="ABCDEFG"
    20 PRINT A$
    30 LET A ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers December 2003 Games
  • Splat!how many levels does it feckin' have? ive been playing it and saving snapshots after every level, so far ive done 1-7 then the level stays on 7 but …

    ... to the start, and then scroll slightly faster.
    This happened ... game is written in Speccy Basic with varoous pokes, so you ... at the time do a print out on my Speccy printer ... have (the printer and the print out that is).
    The ...
    mpaulj mpaulj August 2004 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... 10 REM START AFTER REM : PRINT "HELLO"

    ...
    ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * Place ... REM COLLISION
    20 PRINT AT Y,X;"*": LET ... *PEEK 23614
    20 PRINT PEEK A; TAB 10; ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • 5th International Sinclair & Sam Days, Urmond NLTook a trip to Urmond (NL) on Saturday to check out the 5th International Sinclair & Sam meeting. It proved to be an interesting afternoon, spent wit…

    ... . Direct after the foto the BASIC-program crashed. After starting the ... commands were altered. PRINT gave PLOT, NEW gave SCROLL but the commands ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 5th International Sinclair & Sam Days, Urmond NLTook a trip to Urmond (NL) on Saturday to check out the 5th International Sinclair & Sam meeting. It proved to be an interesting afternoon, spent wit…

    ... . Direct after the foto the BASIC-program crashed. After starting the ... commands were altered. PRINT gave PLOT, NEW gave SCROLL but the commands ...
    Dave_C Dave_C April 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Scrolling Loader CounterPlease can someone help me with writing a scrolling counter for a loading system. I like the Hewson counter so i`ve taken the font from zynaps loade…

    ... thing.

    you can print one digit on char position ... quickly try this BASIC
    [code]
    10 print at 0,0 ... will leads that after we scroll "null" up slowly the "9 ...
    Fikee Fikee November 2006 Development
  • Wich key of a rubber Key Spectrum get used least??I'm wondering of all the Keys on a rubber key ZX Spectrum on average wich one do you reccon gets used the least?? I have played with the idea whilst…

    ... kind of "feature" that invoke "scroll?" message when you use CAT ... use CLS in BASIC programs that need to print directory on the ...
    ellvis ellvis November 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... , but msx scrollers tend to scroll by character amounts or perform ... to work with sprites in basic?
    [/quote]

    Not ... with almost no effort from basic.

    On the spectrum ... around can be done with PRINT statements and UDGs (user defined ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
  • 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: […

    ... Ms-Dos:

    10 print "a"
    20 goto 10 ... a's, but with no scroll? message, and if you break ... :

    C Nonsense in BASIC 7450:1

    7450 ...
    Arda Arda December 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: […

    [QUOTE=Arda]
    10 print "a"
    20 goto 10< ... a's, but with no scroll? message, and if you break ... :

    C Nonsense in BASIC 7450:1

    7450 ... mention that there are no scroll control, in the Spectrum it ...
    NotFound NotFound December 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... formatting
    // s = string to print
    // n = max number ... of chars of s to print
    // buf = destination address ... double width text messages to scroll across the bottom of ... to", equivalent to "" in Basic. Other common C comparison operators ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... of the message for the scroll. Is there an equivalent in ... Basic"
    20 for n=1 to (256-32)
    30 print ...
    mulder mulder July 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... Basic"
    20 for n=1 to (256-32)
    30 print ... were* doing the equivalent :) The basic string slice operation creates a ... functions.

    Your original scroll:

    [code]
    ... d_MyPrint(22, 0, alpos, 32); // print a max of 32 chars ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... player now never sees the scroll? message at the end of ... /> FIXED - Two further characters of BASIC program text saved, as per ... i=1 TO 3:
    PRINT AT y-1+2*i ... >y)*(bx)*(a" ":
    PRINT AT b+1,a;" ";AT ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ...
    // s = string to print
    // n = max number ... of chars of s to print
    // buf = destination ... 1, s_buffer+32, stride); // print one fat char at end ... scroll, scroll it
    asm("call\t56"); // call ROM isr so basic ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... a further 6 characters of BASIC listing. Finally

    ... br />
    to

    PRINT #1;s;

    but ... /> (Eventually causes the screen to scroll, if repeatedly printed to.)

    To print to that location in the ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... b]d_PrintDoubleW()[/b]. The pixel scroll routine requirement has changed (the ... used to print double width characters for the scroll. So a ... later on, after the new scroll routine is incorporated, I' ... anything normally done in Sinclair basic, but you should be ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • help sought with first foray into machine code - pixel scrolldownI have started to code my first machine code program, a simple roadrace game. I've based it around the pixel scrolldown routine in 40 Best Machine Co…

    ... having ground my teeth with BASIC and then been promised 'Once ... /> printroad
    ld (hl),a ;print left side on line1
    print
    ld (de),a ;??print a blank byte ... ;otherwise continue with another pixel scroll
    endroutine
    ret[/ ...
    bigjon bigjon February 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    [QUOTE=bigjon;256767]I started to think about doing a lightforce-style scroller[/QUOTE]

    Looks promising!

    Notice that instead of this:

    [CODE]
    s-(IN 64510
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... ] ), it's a scroll game implemented 100% in BASIC and it's ... doesn't work if I print whole lines with the same ... ,f: POKE a+1,g: PRINT r$(1 TO 32): READ ... f,g: PRINT OVER 1; INK 6;AT ...
    bigjon bigjon April 2008 Development
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... following program
    [CODE]10 PRINT "AND ON ";
    20 ... because my screen write and scroll routines are quicker than the ... Sinclair routines). However, Z80 BBC BASIC will blow my emulator away ... support windowing and VDU5 (print at graphics cursor) features.
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • Which emulator do you use?Note it's not a poll about which emulator you think is best*. Simply which emulator you tend to use. You can vote for multiple emulators if you, like…

    ... write a program in Sinclair BASIC that emulates a Windows PC ... , then print the POST screen.

    2 Beep. Partially scroll the ... Wait a few seconds then print either a Blue Screen of ...
    ewgf ewgf October 2008 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... 64 column print subroutine entirely written in basic by me, ... /> x= Row number to print at.
    y$= string to ... 2000

    30 PRINT "DONE."
    1999 STOP ... x>21 THEN PRINT #0;"Scroll?": PAUSE 0: CLS ... : LET x=0
    2009 PRINT ...
    Arda Arda October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • border graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…

    ... possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have ... "scroll ?" in the lower border?
    < ... those two lines from a BASIC program, you output to channel ... different areas clearly
    20 PRINT #1;AT 1,0;"Hello ...
    John Elliott John Elliott December 2009 Development
  • Spectrum Serial Numbers Wanted!![b]This post updated Sept. 26, 2013[/b] As far as I know, the serial numbering system for the Spectrum has never been fully worked out. For the p…

    ... fact, if you get a Scroll prompt in a program and ... a 128 or NEW from BASIC. On opening it, it is ... serial number is in red print and reads: 013-845162 and ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... trying to get numbes to scroll within a character cell (bottom ... is a bit flickery in BASIC, suspect this one needs MCODE ... 23607+CODE "0"*8:
    PRINT AT 5,5;:
    LET ... 23684+256*PEEK 23685:
    PRINT PAPER 7;"0":
    FOR ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... trying to get numbes to scroll within a character cell ( ... is a bit flickery in BASIC, suspect this one needs ... +CODE "0"*8:
    PRINT AT 5,5;:
    LET ... 23684+256*PEEK 23685:
    PRINT PAPER 7;"0":
    ... 23606,t
    30 print at 10,0;0
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2010 Sinclair Basic
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