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Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
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Speccy Vs Amstrad CPC Vs C64I hope no one minds me posting this here as well as in the announcements section. I'll delete it if there is a problem. It's childish fun but can I …
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Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program ... a BASIC listing inside the code, especially if the whole ram ... some games use all the available ram and overwrite the system variables ... remembers any game that has BASIC listings (inside the game of ... -
Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in ... the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing can't be too ... compile [U]any[/U] Sinclair BASIC listing as long as it ... final compiled code fits the available ram?
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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…
... would load a BASIC listing in high RAM, and then ... a routine in BASIC (yeah, ... the modifications in BASIC, fix the BASIC header using ... routine to save the modified BASIC listing.
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New Manic Miner Remake written in AGK Basic and available on Mac OS X and Windows.<div style="font-weight: normal;">Hi,</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">I've released a re-write of …
... Miner.
This one is available for OS X and windows ... loading screen, the game will show you how to complete it ... enough lives remaining it will show you how to complete a ... -
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 ... updates also include BBC BASIC runnable in RAM and colour mapping extended ... -
The BASIC ISRFirst of all, excuse me if my blatant ignorance about this topic makes me write some nonsense :) The thing is that I'm finishing a game in mixed BAS…
... Compiled BASIC (the pure BASIC part is to manage stuff in the RAM ... disk back and forth, the Compiled BASIC part is ... need to stay in BASIC (for the RAM disk stuff) - I know ... that BASIC has a ISR which ... -
Win2003 tweaking to make better use of lotsa RAM ?I have a server running Win2003. This machine is fitted with 4 GB of RAM, which is far more than strictly required. It only runs a few apps, and is …
... fitted with 4 GB of RAM, which is far more than ... "sacrifice" 2 GB of the available RAM without losing any steam.
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The Hobbit, Empire, and an interviewHi all, I've got a little article on the making of The Hobbit in the latest issue of Empire magazine (we've run a huge feature on the film). I inte…
... fit so much into the available RAM? As I recall, there was ... only around 42k available after the video memory was ... to be written in interpreted Basic, with all possible actions hard ... game with such limited capabilities available that you lose when the ... -
The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…
... one - we already have hardware available, why not use it? ... the adlib or soundblaster card available would make a nice little ... course, with the interpreted BASIC being available from boot up you've ... protected mode and exposes the RAM, with the VGA frame buffer ... -
16k Spectrum.How come emulator's in 16k mode don't provide 32 ram-pack support.
... the Spectrum SE's sideways RAM comes in handy. It is ... external ROM and a modified BASIC ROM available at the same time ... -
Testing RAM Chips After RemovalHi I am going to use Winstons Hot Air Gun method of removing the RAM chips from a 4S circuit board. I wish to check the RAM chips, I have a Logic Pr…
... ROM I "published" (well, made available) a few years ago...
which will show up RAM errors in the lower part ... 32K and the bank-switched RAM. And you just burn it ... press the red button. Bingo RAM and ULA I/O diagnostic ... -
Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... a BASIC listing inside the code, especially if the whole ram ... some games use all the available ram and overwrite the system ... remembers any game that has BASIC listings (inside the game ... 201 RET ;Go back to BASIC[/code]Hope it helps,
Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
... since I'm just a Basic programmer, I guess I ... m.c. routine from Basic that will playback the . ... do these things from Basic with a simple Randomize ... is the dream of every Basic user.
... to fit everything into the available ram. Now the sky's ...New BASin features - what do you want?Ok, this poll is just a quick method of gaining the measure of what you lot expect from BASin. Go vote! Which ever gets the most votes at the end of…
... can run comfortably in the available RAM. A compiler has to co ... the case. Blast BASIC and HiSoft BASIC already both allow you ... compiler that turns any Sinclair BASIC program into something that' ... with similar limitations to HiSoft BASIC ought to be achievable. ...Cro S2008Hi everybody!!! I hope this is right thread? :-) I want to share with you my new project. I call it ?S2008?? The idea was to build Spectrum48K clo…
... thing to fit in the available ram. Oh well... :/[/QUOTE]
BASIC support (via channels) is planned ...Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... compile [U]any[/U] Sinclair BASIC listing as long as it ... final compiled code fits the available ram?[/quote]
[list=1 ...Tape and Disk breakpointsIs it possible to set a breakpoint on a .TAP, .TZX or .DSK file so that the debugger pops up when loading finishes? I'm talking about a breakpoint wi…
... hard. I'm just a BASIC user who knows a little ... overwrites(?) the rest of the available ram. I was also able to ... create a simple, non-protected Basic loader (m.c. would only ...Tape and Disk breakpointsIs it possible to set a breakpoint on a .TAP, .TZX or .DSK file so that the debugger pops up when loading finishes? I'm talking about a breakpoint wi…
... overwrites(?) the rest of the available ram. I was also able to ... create a simple, non-protected Basic loader (m.c. would only ...Some C64 questionsI've been playing around on a C64 emulator recently, and I have the following questions that I was going to post on Lemon 64, but I thought that sinc…
... on Youtube or similar to show this loading speed of a ... going to use all the available RAM though, and higher data transfer ...Interface One - New FunctionalityAs you may (or may not) be aware the Interface One is a pretty powerful piece of kit. One of it's greatest features is being able to easily extended …
... ROM promptly overwrites all of RAM as soon as you start ... code to the top of RAM that will handle the installation ... into RAM and page out your ROM making the BASIC ROM available. You ... place with most of the RAM still available.
Two peripherals ...Interface One - New FunctionalityAs you may (or may not) be aware the Interface One is a pretty powerful piece of kit. One of it's greatest features is being able to easily extended …
... into RAM and page out your ROM making the BASIC ROM available. You ... place with most of the RAM still available.
Two ... place its channel stubs in RAM, using the main ROM routines ... whereby a callback into the BASIC ROM can be made returning ...Arcade Game Designer 2.0 releasedI know dozens of you downloaded the previous version of AGD. Well, you can put it away now because I've made some major improvements to that version…
... version 2.1 is now available to download from here:
- Return to BASIC no longer crashes
- Fixed ... and reduces the amount of available RAM for your game, and this ...Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…
... program in HiSoft BASIC that uses all the available RAM.
Ok ...ZX Demos and the wow factorI remember reading a few comments in the past 3 years regarding demos. Some comments included how boring it was to see this or that effect again, how…
... the whole point actually, to show off :) That's why there ... it probably uses all the RAM available. The real skill would be ... do you want to leave available ram empty? (I'm sure you ...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"…
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The Dan Dare series show what could have been done ... had less than 10K of available RAM once you factor in the ... RAM used by the screen. It' ...BITWISE operators...Hi Folks, Another question - is there a way (fast) to do bitwise operations in Sinclair BASIC? Many thanks Paddy
... of extending the original BASIC without going past the ... in more than any other BASIC.
[ ... techniques when coding in ZX BASIC. However, it is ... user friendly BASIC into a functional ZX BASIC. I'm ... the extreme edge of available RAM to get to that ...ZX Spectrum 16k or 48kHey all, Quick question, is there a simple way to see if my ZX is the 16k or 48k version? Many thanks
There is system variable P_RAMT (23732, 2 bytes), which shows amount of physically available RAM. So PRINT PEEK 23733 will show 127 for 16K and 255 for 48K.Japanese computers and consolesThere some really nice ones out there if you can find them on yahoo auctions japan or ebay,now i think parts and the annoyance of using the stepdown …
Although it got a UK release by CGL, the Sord M5 is a personal favourite of mine.
Apart from the lack of available RAM, it's a very powerful 8-bit, and the "BASIC-G" programming language is fantastic.
