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  • 48K BASIC to ZX81 BASIC conversion possible?Looking for an automated way of converting a BASIC program done on a 48K Spectrum to one for the ZX81. It's obvious that some things cannot be done o…

    ... automated way of converting a BASIC program done on a
    zxbruno zxbruno November 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • [Book] Elementary Basic (Missing UK version details)Hello. The book 'Elementary Basic': [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2001188"]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id…

    ... .

    The book 'Elementary Basic': [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... :

    Full title Elementary BASIC
    Year of release 1983 ...
    Lefty42 Lefty42 November 2009 Infoseek database
  • border graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…

    ... possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have ... "scroll ?" in the lower border?
    < ... , just curious because obv. the "scroll" seems to be in the ...
    fog fog December 2009 Development
  • ZX Basic Manual in PDFIs there any? I love to see that there is PDF scanned version of Introduction in archive: [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/books/ZXSp…

    ... nice scanned version of ZX Basic Manual?
    Uros Zupan Uros Zupan December 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…

    ... all the modifications in BASIC, fix the BASIC header using POKEs and ... . routine to save the modified BASIC listing.

    And ... ve never tried to compile BASIC listings that use VAL extensively ... tells me that non-compressed BASIC should be easier to ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Converting games from tap to dskHi to all from Greece, Being an old Speccy user and now owner of most models of Spectrum (48k , 48k+ , 128K, +2 grey and +3) , I desided to salvage m…

    ... 't seem to get basic to load the extra ... 128K VERSION
    50 poke 23388,17 : out 32765, ... glider.002" code
    60 poke 23388,20 : out 32765,20 ... .003" code
    70 poke 23388,16 : out 32765,16 ... and the screen appears the basic stack gets corrupted and ...
    batsilos batsilos January 2010 Emulators
  • Star Wars scroll/crawl/title effectI may have seen this type of scroll on a Speccy game before, but I've never seen it as a type-in or part of a cover tape. Does anyone know how to do …

    ... have seen this type of scroll on a Speccy game before ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Most impressive game you've ever seen which has been written in speccy BASIC?What's the most impressive speccy game you've ever seen that's been written solely in speccy BASIC? +3 Basic or 48k basic. No machine code routines…

    What's the most impressive speccy game you've ever seen that's been written solely in speccy BASIC?

    +3 Basic or 48k basic.

    No machine code routines utilised to help the program along.
    BigBadMick BigBadMick January 2010 Games
  • 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 ... this simple A.I. in Basic, or give me a general ...
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ... /> 1440 PRINT "THEN, WRITE YOUR BASIC LINES TO"
    1450 PRINT ...
    NRA NRA February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • ANN: SE Basic Beta 2Somewhat surprisingly, and 10 years after I started it, SE Basic is pretty much finished. [url]http://bit.ly/d64mo3[/url] The main selling point, a…

    ... after I started it, SE Basic is pretty much finished.
    chev chev February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Sound Basic 1.7Hi, I'm new here, anyone heard of Sound Basic 1.7 for Spectrum 48 ? The program can be found from WoS, it contains a manual/instructions/demos in t…

    ... here, anyone heard of Sound Basic 1.7 for Spectrum 48 ...
    jp48 jp48 February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • My first program - a vertical scrollerHi all, I'm new here. Nice to meet you all! A couple of weeks ago I decided to learn Z80 assembly language. I spent many hours in front of the Spec…

    ... I never really ventured beyond BASIC back then.

    Now ... the little man, SPACE to scroll (with acceleration).[/B]

    riv riv March 2010 Development
  • SCREEN$ and Sinclair Basic: Help Required !Two simple questions: 1) When saving SCREEN$, how can I avoid the bottom of the loading screen from being chopped off by the 'Start Tape & Press Any…

    ... />
    2) When writing a BASIC loader to load back a ...
    Hercules Hercules March 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • An update on ZX BASIC support for the SpectranetOne for zxbruno, I hope :-) So just an example of what now can be done with the network filesystem and BASIC. The following listing is of a program …

    ... with the network filesystem and BASIC. The following listing is of ... this on the Spectrum, using BASIC and streams:

    [code ... send data over ethernet from BASIC. You can PRINT # to that ... script that expands the ZX BASIC tokens.
    Winston Winston March 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX BASIC (Boriel's Compiler) - LibrariesWell, we have a nascent option on a sprite library coming together, thanks to na_th_an's fourspriter being retooled for the job. It's not general pur…

    ... is simultaneously almost completely sinclair basic compatible (It even allows ... easy fix to a Sinclair Basic Program) and a very ... able to write in basic and make M/C ... you're still using Hisoft Basic, it's time to ... -in functions for the basic compiler to make it ...
    Gedlion Gedlion May 2010 Development
  • Playing AY sounds with BASIC.Is it possible? If so how? I've seen in one forum a while back mention of using interrupts to play but AFAIK this is machine code only. The goal of …

    ... probably have some sort of basic sequencer display to arrange the ...
    brownb2 brownb2 May 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • The Hisoft BASIC v1.2 Plus 3I am trying to compile a basic program with the [B]Hisoft BASIC v1.2 Plus 3[/B]. When i read the instructions to prepare the program to be compiled b…

    ... am trying to compile a basic program with the [B]Hisoft ... BASIC v1.2 Plus 3[/B].< ...
    arfgh arfgh June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • How to insert special characters in Basic and ASM ?Look the next picture. [IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9479/scode.jpg[/IMG] I dont know how to insert these black and diagonal characters. No…

    ... and diagonal characters. Not in basic, and not in ASM. For ...
    arfgh arfgh June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Getting back into Spectrum BasicAfter a LONG break from Spectrum Basic, have discovered BASIN and starting to do some old school programs. Then I can run them on Nintendo DS using t…

    ... a LONG break from Spectrum Basic, have discovered BASIN and starting ...
    briant briant June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Extended Basic InstructionsThis is the first time I send on this forum. First of all I send you a friendly "Hello" from Belgium, and I hope that you'll excuse my bad english..…

    ... and I forgot some extended basic instructions as Format..

    Puma V?loce Puma V?loce July 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • +3 Basic QuestionBeing doing alot of programming in Basic on my +3 recently and was wondering if there is a way to get my Basic programs to auto boot from disk?

    Being doing alot of programming in Basic on my +3 recently and was wondering if there is a way to get my Basic programs to auto boot from disk?
    Spectrum +3 Spectrum +3 July 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…

    ... game doesn't need to scroll or anything :???:

    Here ... box, bright with bright or basic with basic, no mix, correct pixel ...
    jesus 666 jesus 666 July 2010 Games
  • Help with a basic programI'm doing a very small basic program which I know is bloated, but it works. (I have limited basic knowledge compared to most on here). I just wondere…

    ... 'm doing a very small basic program which I know is ... it works. (I have limited basic knowledge compared to most on ...
    Nonsense in BASIC Nonsense in BASIC August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Return to +3 BASIC from 48K mode.Hello Spec-Chums! I don't know if this trick has been posted before, if it has, i apologise, but i have not been able to find it. Anyway, here goes…

    ... SPECTRUM command to enter 48K BASIC mode, there is no way ... back to +3 BASIC; however, i have found that ... colour control codes in the basic program, or if you need ... any way back to 128K BASIC on the earlier 128K machines ...
    The_Bert The_Bert September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Machine code issue...Hi Folks, My trials with MCODE continue and I am stuck. I wrote the following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute byte in to a "box" on th…

    ... following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute byte ... is quite quick for BASIC if the box is ... 77 LOOP2 LD (HL),A ;POKE Address,ATTR
    23 ... br /> C9 RET ;RETURN to BASIC[/CODE]

    When ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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..

    ... can get it to compress basic.. and give you a ... it 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 ...
    fog fog September 2010 Development
  • Simultaneous key presses in BASICIs there a way to check for 2 simultaneous key presses in BASIC? I use if inkey$="z" then goto... but that only lets me check for 1 key press at a…

    Is there a way to check for 2 simultaneous key presses in BASIC?

    I use

    if inkey$="z" then goto...

    but that only lets me check for 1 key press at a time.
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Adventure games written in basic (commercial)This thread partly got me thinking > [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=31141[/url] But I'd like to know about adventure ga…

    ... or without graphics) written in Basic :) , I'm trying to exclude ... and main game should be Basic.

    I can quickly ...
    spider spider September 2010 Games
  • Looking for cursor routineIt's been a long time since I programmed a little bit in Basic, so I decided to create a simple cursor routine: [url]http://db.tt/SPnSdpx[/url] I k…

    ... />
    -Can be called from Basic
    -Relocatable
    -Ability to ... , maybe selectable via one simple POKE before calling it
    ... when the routine returns to Basic (maybe via PEEK?)
    ... keys could be assigned via POKE before launching the routine.< ...
    zxbruno zxbruno September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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