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  • 128k Screen Flipping - Sample Code PleaseI know this has been covered before, but I cannot find out code to do the following: On a 128k Spectrum tell the speccy to display from address 4915…

    ... that I can display one screen, draw to the other and ...
    robpearmain robpearmain February 2006 Development
  • Screen effects in MCAs I see there is still interest for MC programming on Speccy. So, I made little presentation of screen or slideshow effects with source files, demon…

    ... , I made little presentation of screen or slideshow effects with source ...
    piters piters February 2006 Development
  • Loading screen made of Hama beadsOK, so not your usual approach to preservation, but I thought people might be interested in my attempt to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama…

    ... to render a Spectrum loading screen using Hama beads.

    hldswrth hldswrth February 2006 Support files
  • Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…

    ... should learn to program in Basic, or machine code? Any help ... should concentrate my efforts. Learn Basic first? Then MC, or just ...
    Spadge Spadge March 2006 Development
  • Development advice I was an user of the Spectrum 48K in the old days. I arribed to learn a lot of BASIC, and a bit of assembler. The time have passed, and now I am …

    ... to learn a lot of BASIC, and a bit of assembler ... the classic MONS/GENS, Hisoft Basic, and Hisoft C, it seems ... /> I am able to create Screen$, the basic loader, and compile C ... be able to inject my Basic loader, Screen$, and compiled MC.
    jgutierrez jgutierrez March 2006 Development
  • 128 BASIC running in softwareIt is possible to run 128 BASIC in two paged RAM banks, but it's not very stable.

    It is possible to run 128 BASIC in two paged RAM banks, but it's not very stable.
    chev chev April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • how to pass arguments from Basic to MC ?can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this: PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2:…

    can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this:
    PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2: ...
    or so...
    Fikee Fikee April 2006 Development
  • Switching basic to 48k modeHi there, we all know that the SPECTRUM command of the 128k BASIC turns the BASIC to 48k mode. However, when executed in a program, the SPECTRUM …

    ... command of the 128k BASIC turns the BASIC to 48k mode. However ...
    Paolo Ferraris Paolo Ferraris April 2006 Development
  • 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…

    ... animated sprites and backgrounds on screen.

    It is ... if your only background is Basic, and for that reason ... is a great bridge between basic and asm, and even when ...
    - #defines for colours, border(), screen address calculations have been added ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • Getting attribute location from a screen coordinates (x,y)I am having trouble figuring out how to convert an x,y coordinate pair (pointing to a specific pixel) to the location of the attribute for the block …

    ... attributes but was in the screen.

    Does anyone know ... that once I understand the screen layout better then I will ... hopefully help me understand the screen layout better.
    Scrapheap Scrapheap April 2006 Development
  • creating UDGs in BASIC?I've been playing around with BASin, which is glorious, and my BASIC knowledge is flooding back but for the life of me I cant remember how to make UD…

    ... , which is glorious, and my BASIC knowledge is flooding back but ...
    Bluce_Ree Bluce_Ree April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum BASIC Programs listings MagazinesHi to all, I'm an Italian newbie of this forum, but i know this site since long time ago. I am an old BASIC Programming Magazines collector (and of …

    ... .
    I am an old BASIC Programming Magazines collector (and of ... course an old BASIC programmer :wink: ) and i ... have so many scans on BASIC programming magazine in the archive ... Magazine which has published many BASIC programs for Spectrum and others ...
    Bimbo72 Bimbo72 May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • How to put up a SCREEN$ - VB6 only.I'm making a little [B]Opus Discovery[/B] floppy image creator/viewer (thanks, [B]Obo[/B]!). It is made in... VB6 (sorry, don't know any "real" langu…

    ... like to add a [B]SCREEN$[/B] viewer.

    I ... way to display a Speccy screen, like in a picture box ... I tried to figure out screen handling in VBSpec, but the ...
    Marcelo Marcelo May 2006 Development
  • Switch from 128k BASIC to 48k BasicHello, Is there a way to start off running a program in 128k basic (so that you can use the ramdisk facilities) but then switch back down to 48k bas…

    ... running a program in 128k basic (so that you can ... switch back down to 48k basic before you run the ... like to do this within BASIC.

    I ... I switch down to 48k basic the program stops executing. ... I would like my basic program to continue its operation ...
    saiwong saiwong May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic Programming Routine Needed . . . HELP!Hello there, I though i would try and redo an old classic (pacman) in basic . . . BUT . . . I can't remember how to write the code to see what chara…

    ... an old classic (pacman) in basic . . .
    BUT . . .
    I can ...
    DrewPee70 DrewPee70 June 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • I played DSpec on my DSlite!That's right, TheHiVE sent out a few copys of a pre-release version of DSpec and I was one of the luckiest fellers in the world to get one ! I't ver…

    ... />
    I't very basic at the moment, but you ... on the DS in full screen without resizing, crop or ... fits perfectly in the DS screen(minus borders), therefore there ... br /> On the bottom screen you can navigate menus, load ... the part of the screen that it had to ...
    Arm73 Arm73 June 2006 Emulators
  • Problems with my +2A DatacorderHey folks, Bought a speccy from ebay, but i think its fucked. What do you think? Basically it turns on fine, but when i try load a game nothing wor…

    ... loader of the 48k basic, either way the screen just waits while ...
    InsertFaveGameNameHere InsertFaveGameNameHere July 2006 Hardware
  • Restore Registers Returning to BASICI should really know this, but I've not written code that requires a return to BASIC for a loooong time. What registers need to be preserved / resto…

    ... that requires a return to BASIC for a loooong time.
    BASIC after calling machine code? I ...
    icabod icabod July 2006 Development
  • Problem with rotating procedureHi folks! I wrote a proc in z80 asm, based on: x' = x * cos (z) - y * sin (z) y' = x * sin (z) + y * cos (z) I used a precalculated table of sin a…

    ... suspect a circle on a screen, but it is not exactly ... cross-assembler and TAP with basic loader output.
    xor xor July 2006 Development
  • SimCoupe 1.0 released[size=-2](for those of you that don't read CSS)[/size] SimCoupe, the SAM Coup? emulator, has been updated to version 1.0. This major release adds ma…

    ... inserted at the start-up screen
    - Added delay to disk ... cursor up/down
    - Added basic Vista beta 2 support by ...
    obo obo July 2006 Emulators
  • Detect if program was loaded from tape or microdriveHow (if at all) can a BASIC program detect if it was loaded from tape or microdrive? This can be helpful to then load the screen or more machine code…

    ... (if at all) can a BASIC program detect if it was ... helpful to then load the screen or more machine code from ... />
    Any solution for this (BASIC or machine code)?

    UTom71 UTom71 July 2006 Development
  • ANN: Spectrum Host 0.40 for BBC BASICZXHost 0.40, the ZX Spectrum host for BBC BASIC now has working microdrive support. You can load, save and catalogue microdrives, and any other devic…

    ... ZX Spectrum host for BBC BASIC now has working microdrive support ... /> Recent updates also include BBC BASIC runnable in RAM and colour ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston July 2006 Development
  • Games that don't use loading screenI thought it would be helpful to start a new topic in which we can say what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don't use it, ju…

    ... what games (still without loading screen shot in the archive) don ...
    Ivanzx Ivanzx July 2006 Games
  • Help WW2 text adventure team game - what was it!Hi all - just getting into the whole retrogaming thing - after parting with my speccy 15 years ago at least! Slowly trawling the mind to bring bac…

    ... -

    it had pretty basic graphics and IIRC it was ... />
    You navigated around a screen sized map, which was blank ...
    TEXANTOMCAT TEXANTOMCAT August 2006 Games
  • Montana JonesJust recently discovered this game, looks quite good, quite basic gameplay but on screen 1 i just cant get the two items in the top right hand corner…

    ... quite good, quite basic gameplay but on screen 1 i just cant ...
    psj3809 psj3809 August 2006 Games
  • Plug in the TV Joystick Games Thingys (Spectrum one??)I brought a from a car boot one of those plug in the TV joystick games thingys for a pound. This one happened to be full with 20 or so Commodore 64…

    ... you back to the basic cyan and blue screen.

    Anyway ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Screen LoaderCouple days ago i find very interesting loader routine in ex Yugoslavia magazine "Svet Kompjutera" from january 1987. Authors of article, calls this …

    ... "bit-loader" and she load screen verticaly line by line, from ... of most impressive.
    Uncompressed screen must be at 49152, routine ...
    Pegaz Pegaz August 2006 Games
  • TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…

    ... onwards, respectively) and shove a BASIC loader in front of it ... /img453/8181/mutsunf0.png]loading screen[/url] with the one from ...
    StuBruise StuBruise September 2006 Games
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