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Something completely different (new game tech-demo)Since finishing Stranded 2.5 (available soon from Cronosoft - plug!) I've been playing with the idea of doing an attribute-based, rather than pixel-b…
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After the initial setup pause (a couple of seconds), the ... right-hand side, and a basic "radar" along the top & ... -
ZX80 Space InvadersI wonder if anyone managed to get this ZX80 game on the following page working? [url]http://home.micros.users.btopenworld.com/zx80/zx80software.html…
... , which I think is RETURN without GOSUB
I saved ... -click on "spaceinv.z81" and "Save as" to download it).
+3 sound cureHi all, As most of us know the Spectrum+3A has this sound problem, distortion. The +3B had this problem fixed. I done some looking at the circuitry l…
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I tried the save to tape, no problems, load ... nice.
I tried in basic the beep and Play commands ...super-quick games in BASIC?do you think, games written in BASIC could run flawlessly at high speed when run in a speccy emulator at, say, 1000% speed? (i wonder, speccy is rare…
do you think, games written in BASIC could run flawlessly at high speed when run in a speccy emulator at, say, 1000% speed?
(i wonder, speccy is rarely used in this way - it's even more platform independent then JAVA! :-))) )Sinclair +2 to VGA without VGA boxA few days ago someone in a Spanish forum mentioned that his friend claimed to have built a cable to connect his Sinclair +2 to a VGA monitor without…
... +2 to a VGA monitor without a VGA box. The only ...Amaurote & Zub -- missing TZXs?With reference to [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=209176&postcount=11]this post[/url], the TZX of Amaurote at WoS is of the…
... dedicated 128K version, as the BASIC loader doesn't check to ... "AMAUROTE 128K" message and uses SAVE ! and LOAD ! to hide the ... machine code embedded in the BASIC loader which it executes before ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
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2) What did Spectrum BASIC lack that might have been ... regarding a BBC vs. Spectrum BASIC comparison, I'd have to ... to write a few very basic BASIC programs for Computer Studies.spectrum basic documentationhi. once, i programmed in spectrum basic, yet, i forgot almost everything already. is there a downloadable text which would help me to refresh my the…
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once, i programmed in spectrum basic, yet, i forgot almost everything already. is there a downloadable text which would help me to refresh my the syntax in my memory?
TIASpeech In BASICIs it possible to produce any speech in just Spectrum BASIC?
Is it possible to produce any speech in just Spectrum BASIC?How Spectrum changed our livesHave you ever thought about how Speccy changed your lives? Just imagine all of us in our youth age without Manic Miner or Knight Lore, without that…
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without that lot of time spent in typing in BASIC magazine ...A vexatious questionThis is kind of a follow-up to a question about RST #8 and hardware that I wrote in the development forum a while ago. To summarize that: certain ha…
... work - at least not without some manual configuration to tell ... use the interface 1's BASIC extension vectors instead of ... to work, at least not without some configuration (for example, it ... handling of commands that neither BASIC nor Interface 1 understands. But ...Blok*Load on Multiface 128Spinning this off into a new thread to avoid cluttering up the original: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17999&page=7[/u…
... to save a snapshot at any time and load it back (without ... "128K Load" and doesn't save programs in blocks)
One Liner - Machine CodeHi Dr. BEEP, Digital Prawn, et. al., I think that what you guys have achieved with the one liner contest is absolutely amazing. It brought about wh…
... whole new concepts in ZX BASIC that no one could have ... ) keys. You can return to BASIC by pressing "a" (quit).
save two chars.
The ...How could you hear if loading BASIC or MC?When loading a Spectrum program from tape you could usually hear from the sound if it is a BASIC or is some machine code program *. My question is, w…
... sound if it is a BASIC or is some machine code ... the differens?
In BASIC I assume that the keyword ... command, so should not a Basic program in memory (and to ... sounds hard and tight, and BASIC more light and open. :smile ...Antique Toy 2007Hi all. The guys of the Antique Toy 2007 competition have asked me to make a TAP version of their program that shows off all the competition entries…
... final .TAP version which has SAVE functionality disabled).
The ... mode (type USR0 in 128k Basic).You can vote for all ...It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
... asserted. (All executions of 0x0000 without a reset result in no ... of interpreting the line of BASIC at CH_ADD. As a result ... that's normally illegal in BASIC into a program.
How to add basic commands like "!command"Hi all, is there some where in the forums a thread dealind with the topic how to add basic commands? How are the commands for example of Basic+ are …
... the topic how to add basic commands?
How are the ... commands for example of Basic+ are added? Usual they are ...OpenZXRom v2007-12-31 releasedI've just put out a new release of OpenZXRom, the freely licensed replacement for the Spectrum ROM rewritten from scratch with no Amstrad code: [url…
... the essential components of a Basic loader (namely CLEAR, LOAD, RANDOMIZE ... parents' house with dialup and without a massive collection of TZX ...ZX +3 Disk Drive Problems!Hello! I Picked up a +3 a couple of weeks ago in a shop for 10 quid, I was very pleased with myself. I realised that this thing was a disk drive thin…
... but when I try and save anything on the disks it ... baby! but cant do anything without a storage mendium :( also dont ...Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Basic Programming BookSinclair ZX Spectrum - Basic Programming Book Good, clean, unsoiled condition. A must have item for any Sinclair Spectrum Fan. [URL="http://cgi.eb…
Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Basic Programming Book
Good, ...Some more questions on various subjectsSome more questions that occur to me (mainly when I can't sleep). 1. Do DVD discs have PAL/NTSC formats? If so, how come I could play DVD regio…
... , but I'd be dubious without seeing proof myself. Great program ... extra chips on them (to save data or add extra graphical ... was only drawn partway to save processor time, and considering Peter ...2 part game in an emulator questionThis question is just theoretical... Lets say you have an adventure that loads in 2 parts (I think Mindshadow would be an example but of course I ca…
... one you are prompted to save to tape so that you ... just before the prompt to save to tape and also of ... you save to a virtual tape (ie on a laptop without a ...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…
... game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and ... the end of the wormhole without being slowed down by the ...ZXSpin conks out when saving :-(So, my other problem is this: I go to save a game but sometimes (rarely, sometimes often) it just does a clean exit without a reason as soon as I hav…
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I go to save a game but sometimes (rarely ... exit without a reason as soon as I have clicked Save ... Snapshot.
I say "without a reason ... as soon as I hit SAVE it exits (though that ... I've learned to save early and very often ...Stop Win XP Auto Re-Booting!For the third day in a row I am working past 3AM.:mad: :cry: However, I go to make my self a cup of tea and come back to find my Win XP pc shutting…
... stop it doing that, I save regularly and have only lost ... the updates rebooting the machine without my permission??
Jesus ...Can someone ID this Basic listingthe basic is on [url=http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/review_soundcard.html]this page[/url] at the bottom, I think it could from an Oric? Never having …
the basic is on [url=http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/review_soundcard.html]this page[/url] at the bottom, I think it could from an Oric?
Never having an Oric I would not know for sure, or what BASIC it is from.
many thanks!If you've got a real working MF128,IF1, and MDR combo can I ask a favour?So, if you do have a real Multiface 128, Interface 1, Microdrive and, oh yeah, a Spectrum (48k or 128k) that are all working, can I ask a favour...? …
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exx ; save return to basic address
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exx ; restore return to basic address
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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…
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