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CRASH called it "One of the best all-round music add-ons"!and from Sinclair User: "Its pedigree is interesting, too. The Music Machine has been developed by a group of ex-Sinclair employees - calling themse…
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Speeding up BasicHi, Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic? What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 5…
Hi,
Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic?
What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 50000,100?
Thanks
Derek -
loading up my old tapeshey there people, perhaps you can help me out with a (not so) little problem i'm having.... I'm trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventur…
... trying to transfer an old basic-coded text adventure my brother ... seems to work (but came up with a "break" message on ... then save it out of basic as a TAP or TZX ... really speccy wouldnt pick it up. i also tried mucking around ... -
Shoot-em-up Development UpdateHi Folks, I am still working away at my horizontal scroller. Here is a link to let you see progress. I have re-written the scrolling routine to make…
... faster - and added a power-up which gives increased fire-power ... to make the pod rotate round the player's ship.
John Gibson InterviewThought some of you might be interested in this, just found it on some old zip disks: Please find below an incomplete John Gibson interview I conduc…
... bored programming it in Basic but when I eventually ... Receiver appointed to wind up Imagine Ltd). It didn ... However, he did come round to the idea eventually and ... after the team was set up?
Yes, ... Dentons would simply pick up where Imagine left off. ...Games with ball-/round-shaped characters?Kinda odd request, let me elaborate a bit. I got some unfinished pic (pencil lineart) here depicting some lass rummaging around a sort of attic (no …
... of attic (no arrow messing up the rest of her world ... sacks filled with small balls/round-shaped objects and one of ... list some more or less round-shaped characters/protagonists/heroes from ...Basic games Compo? Nathan ?Is there any chance of you running another competition for new games again? I remember there being quite a few good games, and the thread was interes…
... the thread was interesting bringing up Basic games.
I meant ... to enter the Basic part but failed due to ... catogories available, like SAM Coupe Basic (obviously), QL SuperBasic etc etc ...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…
... might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing ... mode? I am coding the BASIC program in a Text Editor ... (TextMate with a Sinclar Basic plugin).
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up where the pointer is pointing ...Help required using DivIDE / SE BASICHi, Like others of you, I have pre-ordered a [b]DivIDE Plus[/b] from rwap services but I am trying to get to grips with some of the firmware that ha…
... standard instruction manual on Extended BASIC commands and their function anywhere ... the "family tree" of SE BASIC, ResiDos, etc.. would be ... I am sure that Extended BASIC commands have "evolved"
< ... guys will probably be most up on this.
...The Non Randomness of Sam BasicHows about this for weird. Hardly ever bothered with such simple stuff before but this is what I just did on the Sam ( as in a real one now I've got …
... or so and you end up with solid diagonal stripes of ... this a factor of how BASIC generates random numbers?
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…
... with basic) will be able to pick up on ... continue producing MULEs, the basic workhorse of plot developments. ... the end of each round so everyone knows their ... explained, even for the basic people. The code ... strtok() works, look it up under the strings library. ...I woke up this morning and wanted it sooo bad!I woke up this morning next to my girlfriend and the first thing that came into my mind was.... "I wanna play R-Type II on the Spectr…
I woke up this morning next to my ... other than a bit of basic back in the day (don ...Did you have a morning paper round?The comic thread got me thinking about the little 3 or 4 frame cartoons you used to get on the back of newspapers. When I was a kid, I had a paperou…
... years, I got promoted to "round marker upper" and started at ... LOL) opened the shop up, and marked up half of the rounds ... evening and did the evening round. I also delievered free papers ...Denmark cartoons round #2As if Denmark didn't make enough headlines the first time round, we're approaching round 2. Last week, police apprehended 3 suspects. The 3 suspect…
... headlines the first time round, we're approaching round 2.
Again, this sillyness is brewing up again and I don't ...Went to buy some wine, ending up putting fire outWent to local store just now to buy some wine and as we were leaving we noticed that the bin was smoldering at the entrance to the store. Turned rou…
... the store.
Turned round and told staff and waited ... ....
Flames now building up and no sign of staff ... spotty member of staff turned up with a big bucket of ...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=…
... of this is that the BASIC debugging windows are available whilst ... into memory or translated into BASIC. It can import as DATA ... the original line remains in BASIC memory. This may break other ... the backspace key would end up corrupting the program. (Arjun)
Understanding extensions to the BASIC parserFor a while, I've had a rather 'rinkety dink' extension to BASIC via an RST 8 trap in hardware, just so that I can send stuff to a Spectrum over ethe…
... rather 'rinkety dink' extension to BASIC via an RST 8 trap ... something I'm not setting up right either when entering or ...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…
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Current games & future games rendering question: RaytracingI have been trying to read up on some of the excitement of the future of games with raytracing but I just cant get my head around it as its new to me…
... have been trying to read up on some of the excitement ... head round how it is different. I just thought of Quake. Basic ...Changing BASIC loader in Chuckie Egg 2Hi, My aim is to include "PAUSE 0" event at the end of the loading of the Chuckie Egg 2 game. The reason is that I use emulator to load the game and…
... to actually edit the loading BASIC program somehow. I have found ... can see, there are 2 "BASIC" blocks, the first one (Program ... Blockeditor.
The second "BASIC" block at the end of ... to build a new BASIC loader that loads up the screen, then ...48k disk basicWhen trying to use the CP/M colossal cave adventure .DSK file at [URL="http://www.alchemistresearch.co.uk/"]the CP/M section of this site[/URL] I got…
... disk. It comes up as "48K Disk BASIC IMC 1985/88", which ... quite surprised by how many BASIC extension programs are on WoS ...How to claim back the border space in basic?Hey, I'm wondering if there is a way to reclaim the space the border usually occupies in BASIC? I am sure I have hit BREAK on some games and ended up…
... the border usually occupies in BASIC? I am sure I have ... some games and ended up back in +2 basic and noticing they ...Science Explained (Finally)!We believe that all the main physics principles can be explained away by the existence of tiny gnomes. Electricity: Inside cables there are hundreds…
... , and this is where the basic theory for gravity comes from ... this festive time the gatherings round the north and south of ... />
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Gnomes make up everything, including food. When we ... a sandwich the gnomes making up the sandwich are digested and ...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…
I've come up with a few patches to ... under 32K is available for BASIC
the shadow screen is ... almost a full 48K for BASIC programs. On the other hand ...Attention Arjun (and people interested in BASIC games programming).I've been looking at the games created by [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=^EP+Software$&model=spectrum"]Angel Ortega/EP S…
... playable but lacking certain "cleaning up" to make them more enjoyable ... it goes straight to the BASIC listing.
I accidentally ... easy to get into their BASIC listings.
So ... if you are interested in BASIC programming then you might learn ...Maze: a Spectrum-oriented build system[url]http://matt.west.co.tt/demoscene/ninja-milkman-conspiracy/[/url] Finally got round to sharing the source code of this demo from August, and mor…
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Finally got round to sharing the source code ... , the build system I came up with to put it together ... .tap' do |tap|
tap.basic :source => 'ninja_milkman.bas', :as ... have to explicitly set them up as dependencies in the build ...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…
... picking his lotto numbers (tearing up 49 pieces of paper with ... word wrapping) and fire it up. Who knows - you just might ... I've succeeded in Speccy BASIC, I think I might just ...Lets liven things up a bit eh!!!WOS has been a bit down in the dumps of late. :( So what better way to liven it up than with a [B][FONT="Arial Black"][color="#eedd33"]CHEEZY DISCO!…
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Right then who's round is it first?Memory and BasicQuestions 1. How much memory is available for Basic Progs? 2. How do I check how much is left? 3. How much memory does an array take up?
Questions
1. How much memory is available for Basic Progs?
2. How do I check how much is left?
3. How much memory does an array take up?err, I like wrote this years ago, and just found it archived.[b]read it, and say it's crap if you want, but do not go on about the technical side, cos it was bullshit, we all know it, and the end makes no sense…
... behind him groaned, Tex span round. Too late! A zombie which ... into life, the PC powered up and automatically connected to the ... was visually more pleasing, but BASIC worked better with a listening ... Her bike was a tricked up streetfighter, that had started life ...
