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ANNOUNCE: Manic Miner: Ma jolie [Special Edition 2009]I am delighted to announce the release of another Special Edition of my 2003 Manic Miner game: [i]Ma jolie[/i] (the lower-case 'j' is important to me…
... you have to collect up to five items from each ... 7 when you jump up off the top of ... of the chimney and going round again, you are now ... beloved manoeuvre of jumping up against the Earth-cell ...
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ZX80 Snapshot queryDoes anyone know why Z80 snapshots store some data as different values? I was initially trying to print the Outlet magazine Outdex files from Master…
... ) from RealSpectrum but eventually gave up as nothing I tried seemed ... the info wanted. Beers all round. Self congrats in order.
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Extreme Close-Up TetrisWhile reading through the brand new issue of Retro Gamer that's just arrived today, there is a feature on the 10 best versions of Tetris you've never…
... , it was the large blown up graphics that caught my eye ... scrollable and yet the same basic rules of tetris apply. It ... how your blocks are built up at the bottom. -
So what about ethernet and ZX BASIC?Well, as of about 5 minutes ago, ZX BASIC for the first time properly wrote some packets to the network! OK, so it isn't perhaps 100% what Andrew Ow…
... 5 minutes ago, ZX BASIC for the first time ... know how to use ZX BASIC.
At ...
Then the standard Spectrum BASIC keywords can be used for ... character, or the buffer filling up. (Once I've got ... twitter client for ZX BASIC moves ever closer . . . -
Writing internet servers in ZX BASICNew Spectranet news! I have just finished adding the code to allow listening sockets to be used from BASIC. A simple example: [code] 10 %listen #4,…
... sockets to be used from BASIC. A simple example:
up to 4 sockets. A more ... write a web server in BASIC now :-) -
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…
Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any ... that can be called from Basic but uses 64 or maybe ... />
I'm creating small Basic programs that allow me to ... as grids that can be up to 15 x 15 in ... 's easy to call from Basic? Thanks! -
Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…
... cleaning up that needs to be done before returning to BASIC
round its principal loop.
At ... , ld (hl),a. The brackets round hl mean the load will ... ;retrieve score'
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giving up caffeineI would never have said I was addicted to caffeine - until I gave up. and it's pretty harsh. I wasn't drinking excessive amounts or anything, maybe 4…
... to caffeine - until I gave up. and it's pretty harsh ... waking up pretty much craving a coffee every morning. wandering round ASDA ... -
"Up to 80% of violent criminals turned to crime because computer games"According to China (that well known bastion of openness and human rights), or at least the official China news people: [[COLOR=Red]Note: if you can'…
... of human rights or even basic considerations. No. Online computer gaming ... equipment in an online game. Up to 80 percent of the ... way to keep their energy up during all-night gaming marathons ... before computer gaming, there were up to 80% less prisoners in ... -
A.I. in a Pacman game made in BasicA few years ago I tried to make my own Pacman game in Sinclair Basic. The map, UDGs and the whole game was completed and was working with just one gh…
... own Pacman game in Sinclair Basic. The map, UDGs and the ... walls! All I could come up with was this: If ghost ... this simple A.I. in Basic, or give me a general ... -
Vector font in BASiCHi guys) Some fifteen years ago I saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate a vector font with size/ thickness/ italicization params. I remem…
... I saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate a ... a'la vector font in BASiC.
I've got ... /> 800 PRINT "1 = RIGHT WAY UP, READING L TO R"
1440 PRINT "THEN, WRITE YOUR BASIC LINES TO"
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4 Matches, Round Robin, Chess Tournament - COMPLETED !!Soon, you'll read here, on Forum, about my work on making Database with rattings for Speccy games... while I work on that huge 'project', I encounter…
... time for me to speak up...
In the next ... matches, 7 made to the Round-Robin Tournament!
* few screenshots ... all, and results from 1st Round in next mail.
storing machine code in BASICApart from putting m/c above RAMTOP, which means that it has to be POKEd or LOADed separately after the BASIC program; or putting it in a REM, which …
... or LOADed separately after the BASIC program; or putting it in ... a REM, which messes up LIST and is cumbersome for ... code between the end of BASIC and the beginning of VARS ...compressing basicI thought I'd ask here instead of the basic forum.. in the sense of giving me 1 command line, and NOT the whole listing joined up etc. and it uncom…
... ask here instead of the basic forum..
... NOT the whole listing joined up etc. and it uncompress ... runs.. obv. the basic is uncompressed and you ... is to stack some basic programs together and re- ... that uses bog standard basic, without any new commands ...ZX Flight - flight simulator (Basic)Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old tape. Obviously this is a my type-in from an old ex-Yugoslavian magazine from mid 80s. I did …
Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old ... simple with QAOP buttons for up, down, left, right and F ... also mostly done in the basic), we can say that this ... worthy competitor.
Unfortunately spectrum Basic is pretty slow for this ...Best way for programming in BASIC?New to the ZX Spectrum, and fixing up ccowley's vbSpec emulator. Aside from that, I would also like to try programming a game or two in BASIC. What's…
New to the ZX Spectrum, and fixing up ccowley's vbSpec emulator. Aside from that, I would also like to try programming a game or two in BASIC. What's the fastest way to program in BASIC in a Windows environment?Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…
... have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy ... about how to speed them up without completely write them in ...SE Basic Type-ins^Pete suggested creating a sticky thread for SE Basic discussion. I thought a Type-ins thread might also be useful. Up to the mods if they want to ma…
^Pete suggested creating a sticky thread for SE Basic discussion. I thought a Type-ins thread might also be useful. Up to the mods if they want to make it sticky or not (although this used to be the SE Basic forum and I used to be its owner).Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…
... ]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really ... segment of memory) in ZX BASIC without resorting to a tedious ... using only standard ZX Spectrum BASIC - and it's not an ... searching VARS. So it sets up a dummy DEFADD area in ...Back to BASIC[U][B]Archaeology guide to programs compiled used MCODERII.d[/B][/U] After various people have been talking about "Frank'n'stein" I decided to finis…
... converting the code back to BASIC much easier.
... will notice there is some BASIC source code between addresses 50290 ... compiled code (not the original BASIC address). There are 2 end ... earlier example "hi_score") only take up 2 bytes each, and they ...Speeding up select processing...Hi Folks, I have the following code in my program and it works fine but is rather "sluggish". I have even moved it to the beginning of the program …
... lines if you press cursor up/down. If you press ... is not left/right/up/down and ENTER then ... [B]Line 310 [/B]- if up/down is pressed and the ... original attributes using the cool basic memory move routine and ... know to speed the code up.
Many thanks ...ZX81 Basic questionI just got a ZX81 off Ebay and when it arrived it has an Atari joystick hardwired into it. It does work as moving the joystick replicates certain key…
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basic programming and would use the ... have been better in the Basic forum...Souping up my Spectrum+ 128k ToastrackI wrote a small piece on the various things I've been doing to my ZX Spectrum+ 128k toastrack, primarily getting it working with the bright output an…
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I haven't put up step by step instructions, merely ... I did, it's such basic stuff I figure if you ...checking bits in BASICThe question of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this [thread=35728]Keys redefine routine and key check[/thread] thread. I s…
... of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this ... for ease of handling from BASIC, with a little loop to ... the possibility of displaying numbers up to 32 digits long in ... binary digit character strings in BASIC for bit manipulation, but the ...saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …
... to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that ...AND,XOR,OR,BIT,RES,SET,CPL,NEG,RLC,RRC,SLA,SRL,RL, RR,SRA for BASICAs this was drifting away from the original INKEY$ thread I thought that I'd create a new one. So here's a routine to provide all of the above mentio…
... the above mentioned operations from BASIC. Syntax is explained in the ... the second parameter actually ends up in C, as I was ...Find-Fill-Copy functions for BASICThere's not much going on here, so here's three m/code routines to provide some data manipulation functions which are otherwise slow to do from BASIC…
... otherwise slow to do from BASIC.
* find array 'a ... . it effectively does a shift up or down as appropriate.
BASIC program; see lines 15 & ...How to join 2 basic programs? having no luck with basinHow do you join two programs together to save writing it up again. Here's my problem... I'm trying to add pictures I have made to a basic text base…
... together to save writing it up again. Here's my problem ... I have made to a basic text based game i am ...storing machine code in BASICA couple of years ago I posted a routine for storing machine code between PROG & VARS, based on an idea in Toni Baker's "Mastering Machine Code". Thi…
... saved & loaded with the BASIC, as if it was in ... after the last line of BASIC, even though the m/c ... and doesn't need any BASIC to be typed other than ... if they had been set up for a DEF FN statement ... d,e
REM Shift up VARS to assign new CODE ...joining lines of BASICDue to overwhelming demand - well, one demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical c…
... to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical cursor motion ... br /> CP 11 ;cursor up
JR NZ,FINISH
jr z,JOINPREV ;cursor up : start of line : join ... A ;cursor left if cursor up
SET_K: LD ( ...
