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  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... a humble 27 year old basic programmer. When I was ... I just playing with zx basic to have fun and for ... I'm sure I can poke your ASM routines to memory ... machine code and run basic commands at the same ... command that it wont halt basic program while playing, it ...
    Arda Arda January 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... />
    Arda, cyborg is right. Basic is a linear system. So ... you're just writing a basic program to listen to ... start the music with a POKE and then every other line ... mode, or goto 128 basic type USR 0 and then ... REM statement of what to Poke to turn the music ...
    Amigo Amigo January 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • List of "funny" pokes?Hello! I'm looking for a list of "funny" pokes. Pokes that do strange things with my Speccy, like POKE 23607,0 scrambles up the keyboard. Regards …

    Enter a line of basic like
    10 REM This is a test

    and then

    POKE 23756,0

    Now you have the uneditable zero line in your basic listing!
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • List of "funny" pokes?Hello! I'm looking for a list of "funny" pokes. Pokes that do strange things with my Speccy, like POKE 23607,0 scrambles up the keyboard. Regards …

    10 for f=64 to 64+7: poke 23681,f: LPRINT "HELLO" : next f
    20 rem also possible with f=72 and f=80

    10 poke 23692,255 : PRINT AT 21,0;'' : REM SCROLL equivalent

    BTW: thanks for trying POKE 23607,0
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... it ???
    Maybe to start BASIC from out MC

    JP 8108 ; run BASIC program!

    [/quote]
    Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    It ... some parameters before calling BASIC interpreter, to POKE some sys vars?
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... /> In the vector-adress you poke the adress of your BREAK ... (MC) and you return to BASIC through the NEXT-STATEMENT ROUTINE ...
    in 60000/60001 you poke the adress 64000
    and ... /> PRINTREADY:
    LD HL,(.....) ; IN BASIC LAST LINE EXECUTED 23621????
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... /> In the vector-adress you poke the adress of your BREAK ... (MC) and you return to BASIC through the NEXT-STATEMENT ROUTINE ...
    in 60000/60001 you poke the adress 64000
    and ... /> PRINTREADY:
    LD HL,(.....) ; IN BASIC LAST LINE EXECUTED 23621????
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... /> In the vector-adress you poke the adress of your BREAK ... (MC) and you return to BASIC through the NEXT-STATEMENT ROUTINE ...
    in 60000/60001 you poke the adress 64000
    and ... /> PRINTREADY:
    LD HL,(.....) ; IN BASIC LAST LINE EXECUTED 23621????
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... load and autorewind oing a poke 23739,111 and looping a ... . i hope it works, dark basic and db pro just dont ...
    Amigo Amigo March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... Pro is written in Dark Basic Pro, so it will work ... you need DirectX drivers. I POKE the converted images directly into ... DithvIDE program from C to Basic, please contact me.
    LCD LCD March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... early nineties, I coded my BASIC games using an alternative charset ... switched using the famous POKE 23606,n / POKE 23607,m pair. I ... before the address where the BASIC code is compiled, right before ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... of those that are specialized basic or whatever with compiler arent ... more versatile.

    Laser Basic seems good but after what ... find it. HiSoft has a basic compiler but there was a ... when i make a screen scroll vertically and horizontally and get ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... level language but it isnt basic, and runs at comoparable speeds ... it's alot like using basic and the manual is pretty ... /> calculations to get a smooth scroll and is one of the ... . you can also use normal basic if youwant and is not ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... compiled spectrum basic, and this is not spectrum basic. spectrum basic appeals ... edit a loader to input poke cheats. learning another language ... deal with it, like spectrum basic, but something new is ... a high level language, like Basic ( but like i said ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... , but commodore programming (Even in BASIC) was the most ackward and ... could imagine; you had to poke your way to do almost ...
    Cambaccio Cambaccio May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... cant its a fucking smooth scroll.[/quote]

    woooooo! ... vs instruction set vs basic vs keyboard vs games ... again, i liked the basic better, think it is ... get into than C64 Basic, and you can ask ... strengths is its weakness. Scroll, custom sprites etc. when ...
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... keyboard attached.

    The Basic is non-existent, meaning it ... video game effects, like smooth scroll, to be possible. But because ... had a strong version of Basic. It was quirky. It featured ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Bug on Cronosoft's Dead or AliveI can't believe this wasn't spotted before... I was recently puzzled to read a couple of reports of a bug on Cronosoft's Dead or Alive and as the pr…

    Isn't there a Cassette 50 on the C64? He could be forced to play all the games on that instead. And look at the listings in basic and work out what all the POKE statements do.
    John H John H July 2003 Games
  • Writing your own text adventuresIts something ive always wanted to do, i dont want to write them with TADS i want to write them with "The Quill" or something similar, is it possible…

    ... know some basic at least, and understand how to poke, instructions are ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... like normal 0 because Sinclair Basic saves thinks that there is ... representation of 0.
    The POKE is 23756,0 or 23755 ...
    LCD LCD July 2003 Games
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    POKE 23756,0 (and 23755) only work on a 48K Standard machine. If you use IF1 you need to poke another adress. You need to find start of BASIC first, which is different due to more SYSTEM VARS.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2003 Games
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... if you POKE the length of the first basic-line 1 shorter ... /> Another option is to save BASIC as bytes
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2003 Games
  • Frog hopper questionThe 3 Frog hopper (by Walltone) tapes on the WOS archive all share a very interesting problem: when you load the game up and press I for info, you ca…

    ... .e. dropping down to 48k BASIC etc) and I see what ... fathom it out, perhaps a poke might fix it (ooer).
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker July 2003 Games
  • compatibility between ZX computers?Hey all, I'm new here :) I was wondering about compatibility between ZX computers. Is it possible to run a game made for ZX80 on a ZX Spectrum? Or a …

    ... /> [/quote]

    is that basic or is it in code ... zx80/81 MC to run. Basic would be different though as ... />

    _________________
    Just POKE 23607,0 !

    [ This ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…

    ... make a note of the poke:
    Bypass code = ... E91B,18H or POKE 59675,24

    ... guess the code which is POKE 59677,195 :)


    Scroll back a tad again and ... start of the program, you poke 59635,0 & 59967 ...
    BadBeard BadBeard August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Anyone for a hacking challenge ?I have to get the DSK version of Tomahawk to work. It uses the well-known Digital Integration "SECURITY CODE" lock just like in Bobsled, ATF, etc. Th…

    ... can make a tiny BASIC program to poke every possible initial code ...
    BadBeard BadBeard August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …

    ... back in on return to BASIC).
    [/quote]

    I ... tried to use OUT from BASIC to swap pages, but it ... 32767
    20 POKE 60000,0:REM Poke into bank 0
    40 POKE 60000,255:REM should poke into bank 6 ...
    trellis trellis August 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • which game would be the best remake?ive got a few remakes and the best of them is Head Over Heels. what do you think should be done? I want to see a more developed version of Dun Darach…

    ... actullay see a resemblance to basic. it's not as ... RET=Return ... etc etc. knowing basic helps cause you can kind ... to do this in basic it would be like ... is high level like Basic, and has a bunch ... pretty cool! easy to scroll background and have an independent ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Games
  • AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…

    ... /> [/quote]

    Hmmm... Just poke the registers with the correct ... 're not writing this in BASIC I hope !!! :D
    GOC GOC August 2003 Development
  • AssemblersProbably asked a question that's been asked a million times before... but... I've decided to do a bit of old Speccy machine coding again, after 20 y…

    ... mask and POKE away. You can even do it in BASIC if ...
    GOC GOC August 2003 Development
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