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Games that crash because of contended memory.I find these are really annoying. You load up a game like Astro Marine Corps, Fantasy World Dizzy, Dizzy: Prince Of The Yolkfolk and so on (the init…
... BASIC ROM, 0x03FF always contains 0x986C, which points into the "2 KEYBOARD ... and cause the interrupt to read from 0x03?? instead).
Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.
... jumping to the ROM to read the keyboard, have you messed with ... RST56 as the end of Basic's interrupt routine reenables interrupts ...How powerful were the Moon-landing computers?I've meant to ask this before, but I got sidetracked; does anyone know how powerful the computer(s) NASA used in the 1969 Moon landings were, in comp…
... a '1' would be read. If a wire bypassed ... a '0' would be read. To change the software ... In order to use the keyboard, the astronauts (or ... a basic display and a 'DSKY' keyboard. This keyboard was a ... by a number. The keyboard and display weighed another ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... . This is the mode Spectrum Basic runs in and the ROM ... address 0x38 does things like read the keyboard and update the timer ... Europe). Under normal operation the Basic System is in "im 1 ... a constant rate.
[*] The Basic system's interrupt routine at ...ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
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keys ... point, otherwise the keyboard joysick is read to effect movement ... in_Inkey() needs to read the entire keyboard to make sure exactly ...What should I get??I want to add a Spectrum to my collection but having come from the Atari/Commodore/TI/Apple world, I am a little unsure what to get? Something that …
... software, it has the best keyboard of all Spectrums, and if ... . True, it has the same keyboard as the +3, but the ... case the internal drive would read any particular cassettes. I can ... lose the keyboard legends (telling you what keys produce what BASIC key ...The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... the menus in fullscreen, the basic ones are enough: load/save ... emu: if you choose the keyboard map html help, it simply ... be possible to open and read)compilerI am currently developing a sudoku game for the old faithful speccy. My idea is to write the code in basic and then compile it to m/c because i suck …
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machine-codified Basic and is instead a collection ... be bigger. But only might. Basic compilers often attach an
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pretty much ... still many times faster than Basic). There are screen functions ...z88dkHello. I'm an spanish user of spectrum (and naturaly of this page). I have a question. I want to start to program games with z88dk, but I need a goo…
... Basic interrupt routine to scan the keyboard and write the key read ... means that the keyboard is only read once each interrupt ... is because Basic's interrupt routine scanned the keyboard and stored ...
Or you can read the keyboard port directly with a call ...The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... here. Once you have a keyboard where you can touch type ... I'd definitely keep the basic keywords printed on the keys ... as a youngster -- I rarely read the manual and instead wondered ...From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…
... had a poor calculator style keyboard, beeper sound and only 8 ... 15 colours, not 8; the keyboard was poor for word processing ... than the C64, had better BASIC and faster loading, and the ... heard it in documentaries, and read it in WWW sites or ...From a book about commodore.."In April 1982, Sinclair released an improved computer called the ZX Spectrum. Compared to the C64, the Spectrum had few technical advantages. It ha…
... had a poor calculator style keyboard, beeper sound and only 8 ... learn than the c64. Speccy basic was almost but not quite ... as good as BBC basic.
As for the ... truly cannot believe everything you read in books.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. …
... of the tricks, pokes and BASIC programming I knew. 15 years ... I had pride in cracking basic loaders and doing my own ... $.[/QUOTE]
Not for the keyboard, but for reading the Kempston ... IN 31. This will also read diagonal movements.Spectrum Noob! Please Help!!!i just bought my spectrum with 3 games and was realy looking forward to playing on it but i cant seem to load any games!!! i have the zx spectrum +3…
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i can now read my discs, but unfortunately i ... cant seem to use the keyboard when the joystick is plugged ... u can select loader, +3 basic etc...)
any thoughts ...Speccy emulator on a Nintendo DS, with M3 cartridgeAny recommendations for a good Speccy emulator on a Nintendo DS (using a M3 cartridge)?
... to support tape files (fairly basic -- no acceleration and no manual ... no luck. will have to read the instructions properly to see ... was displayed was a very basic keyboard on the touch screen, i ...Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
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I know basic commands don't equate to ... then two lines of basic written in a different ... but you are reading the keyboard everytime with the INKEY$ ... /> Best way in Sinclair Basic:
Define DEF FN ... GO TO act faster (read less lines to get there ...Game OptimisationBelow is a section of code Im using for movement enermy display and collision detect. What happens is that you move the sight with ,.qa and space do…
... , but you are reading the keyboard everytime with the INKEY$ command ... .
Best way in Sinclair Basic:
Define DEF FN in ... makes GO TO act faster (read less lines to get there ... assume if I compile the basic the compiler will remove the ...New zx spectrum user (yes yawn)Sorry about this folks, bit of an uninteresting thread here, anyway firstly apologies if tis is in the wrong place, bu misc seemed about right. Anywa…
... /> Thank you to anybody who read this far and if this ... + has a hard plastic keyboard, it is however larger and ... BASIC progs. If you need more indepth things like Speccy keyboard ... layouts, and the meanings of BASIC commands and ...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 smaller than Sinclair Basic. There is something like ... in way to read input (eg from the keyboard) or write ... and string variables. Sinclair basic hides the distinction between ... declare numbers with the basic interpretter automatically converting to ...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…
... from the byte read in, actually as you read it in. The ... longer a coding worry in BASIC.
(2) Also as ... . Limitations of the speccy matrix keyboard I ask myself?? So that ... rightmost triplets on the ZX keyboard, as you mentioned you are ...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…
... are read in this version - to save BASIC space)< ... 48K keyboard layout again, so am doing all BASIC dabbling ... naturally fits a ZX BASIC string array (i.e ... row and a half of BASIC code overall.
keyboard. This can potentially save ...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…
... up the plain-text BASIC listings on the site, ... listings are still hard to read/understand.[/QUOTE]
read! However, I'll ... also really glad to read that you are going ...
(1) Make the keyboard and initial position alterations to ...A few questions about machine codeOh no... another noob. I'm giving my first steps in assembler (finally, after 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article explaining that if I wan…
... 20 years stuck in BASIC). I read a SU article ... here and I will read it, but if I ... I still see registers as BASIC variables, and I want ... return to basic with the interrupts disabled. The keyboard will not ... return control over to basic. EI will do this ...ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... Yes, I would go and read the manual now.
... to have two options of keyboard input available, or combine ... developing something similar in Basic and with some machine ... develop that tool for Basic users I see no ... are a lot of Basic programmers out there who ...CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …
... with Forth than bloody BBC basic - at least Forth is interestingly ... saddest thing you will ever read:-
I actually spent ... that the versions of BBC BASIC matched on both emulators.
keyboard for starters, and is still ...interesting russian gamesi start a new thread, as i don't know where to post it. here are some interesting ones i came across, perhaps i'll add more later, in every case i en…
... to read some basic Russian, and to type Russian on a UK keyboard ...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…
Handling RST8 on a +3Well, I've come to that bit of my project that I wasn't really looking forward to (because I don't understand enough about the ZX BASIC ROM) - extend…
... yet supported, and I doubt BASIC programmers will need it)
read the remainder all in one ... make sense to try and read data off it, and you ... that handles multiple connections and keyboard input simultaneously:
[url ...'orange' on a spectrumalways wondered why spectrums could never seem to achieve the colour orange? wasn't one of the default colours, and don't remember seeing anything th…
... the keyboard, then it didn't exist. With 128K BASIC, ... BASIC ROM, or at least a thorough re-read ... unless anyone knows any BASIC trick that I don' ... done well enough in BASIC for most applications I ... second screen using ordinary BASIC PRINT and graphics commands. ...VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…
... ]4) also when reading keyboard first read complete keyboard and return directly when ... in the 2-3 minute BASIC speed test, but every little ...
