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  • +D/Disciple games archive?Hi all, Having finally got my disciple to work, I'm starting to have a look at hacking multiload games. Is there any archive on the web with games t…

    ... Eg in "R1.sna" a basic loader is saved with 'SAVE ... which was all that was available at that time. Line 30 ... name I used in the basic loader in R1.sna< ... next level in the disk RAM. This takes 6 bytes, ... ram code in the file "$rtype", which was loaded by the Basic ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Idea about improving EmulatorHi, I got a bright idea today how to improve such excellent emulators a bit more. Okay, disassemblers are available in nearly every one new released …

    ... that the editor will allow Basic ( anything you want really ... could be. though this Basic environment with all these ... simple high level language, Basic, and all the sound, ... dont think it will be available for a while. a ... . i only have 384MB Ram, and a P2 mmx ...
    Sadako Sadako June 2004 Emulators
  • AmericaI've been wondering, was the Spectrum released in America? Was it popular? Are there Spectrum games that were made in America? There must be a few A…

    ... misprint. Although it was never available, the BEU (bus expansion unit ... contains 16K rom and 48K ram as in the Spectrum, the ... could be RAM, ROM or a smart peripheral. The Basic system enumerated ... the ROM supported 48K Spectrum basic + a few more commands ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2004 Games
  • RGB values for Spectrum colorsDoes anybody know the true rgb color values for the spectrums 15 colors. I'll assume that black is 0,0,0 White is probably 255,255,255 But what are t…

    ... get over this dislike for Basic, haha[/quote]

    Nice ... ! "He's done *what* in BASIC?!" was the response I got ... -Basic for is the calendar, events etc, although soon to be RAM ... , but I have 1.7r available if you want it. IIRC ...
    obo obo August 2004 Development
  • How will be the (real) new Speccy "thing"?I read about hundreds of cool and wacky ideas to get Speccy bring to new life. I know (and I adore) this new era of the speccy - new magazines, new g…

    ... is a +3 with unlimited RAM/ROM. I want ridiculously humungous ... the Speccy could have whatever RAM your PC/MAC has? ... problematic because of how Basic/assembly addresses the RAM ... but there are ... /> The ZXCF is already available with 1Mb of RAM. Given you want ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... other, then, could you compile basic code using a 128k machine ... the full total of 48k ram available? (EG compiler can sit comfortable ... allowing more free space for basic code, upto say the 48k ... you could write anything with basic and still convert it with ...
    AD-RS1600i AD-RS1600i January 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Speccy vs C64 loading screen artHi everybody, Don't know if someone post this before, but i never see it and was just nice to appreciate. Check this: [url="http://www.lemon64.com/…

    ... lot of the C64's RAM taken-up by the system ... ]

    From BASIC there's 39K available, but from machine code ... if you include the colour RAM (which is nybbles rather than ...
    TMR TMR February 2005 Games
  • Speccy vs C64 loading screen artHi everybody, Don't know if someone post this before, but i never see it and was just nice to appreciate. Check this: [url="http://www.lemon64.com/…

    ... wrote:
    From BASIC there's 39K available, but from machine code ... if you include the colour RAM (which is nybbles rather than ...
    robert@fm robert@fm February 2005 Games
  • Speccy vs C64 loading screen artHi everybody, Don't know if someone post this before, but i never see it and was just nice to appreciate. Check this: [url="http://www.lemon64.com/…

    ... wrote:
    From BASIC there's 39K available, but from machine code ... if you include the colour RAM (which is nybbles rather than ... [/quote]

    The colour RAM sits $d800 to $dbe8 and ... [/I] it in the main RAM can be used for graphics ...
    TMR TMR February 2005 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first two ... ]

    ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * Place ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... /> Which just goes to show Commodore realised the mistake of ... recorder... Speccy basic WAS better than c64 basic..but again..this ... to the disk drives available to the Spectrum, which ... colour, proper keyboards were available and there were more peripherals ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler July 2005 Games
  • "Sinclair Zx Spectrum: Absolutely Better Than Commodore 64"Did you ever read this? [url="http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html"]http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/fztsmo.html[/url]

    ... /> Which just goes to show Commodore realised the mistake of ... recorder... Speccy basic WAS better than c64 basic..but again..this ... to the disk drives available to the Spectrum, which ... colour, proper keyboards were available and there were more peripherals ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler July 2005 Games
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... page, and this must be available when (and only when) sp_UpdateNow ... model: you have 48k RAM during gameplay but you use ... things to and from other ram pages.

    Anyway ... experience more like programming in BASIC than assembler, where many projects ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2005 Development
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... may be an improved lib available too.

    [quote]
    RAM as a RAM disk to copy stuff ... do the same in the RAM disk.
    [/quote]

    Basic RAMdisk. A RAMdisk is very ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2005 Development
  • TLOTRD - compiling problemsOk guys! A new demo for 'The Legend Of The Red Dragon' is nearly finished (just need my bro to draw some artwork as I'm using sample images from the …

    Yup, I suggest HiSoft BASIC. If your BASIC code is 14K in size ... it will fit in the available memory you have.

    available. It operates using the RAM disk so you ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Remastering Speccy GamesHas anyone ever thought about designing remastered versions of Spectrum games for consoles like the Master System / Mega Drive? I can not code very …

    ... palette of 64 (can also show 64 simultaneous colors using programming ... Japanese Master System
    o available as plug-in module for ... built-in game
    * Main RAM: 64 kbit (8 kB)
    * Video RAM: 128 kbit (16 kB)
    na_th_an na_th_an November 2005 Games
  • What software do I need so I can transfer tape games to disk?What utility would I need so I can save tape based games onto specci disks? Can I download something of the web or is there something available to bu…

    ... Jon North's excellent articles available on WoS - or indeed ask ... +D interface will save a RAM image out to disk for ... to be "proper" - as in, BASIC loader, SCREEN$ and then a ...
    DEATH DEATH December 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • BASin Release 13 is now availableI'm still at it. BASin is now in it's 13th incarnation (disregarding the inter-version updates) and is now available at [url="http://homepage.ntlw…

    ... the AY and the extra RAM emulated (I'm thinking mainly ... the RAM/ROM paging and the "lock out" of 48 BASIC.
    available (I've not searched for ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2006 Emulators
  • MINIGAME COMPO 2006[url="http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/"]http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/[/url] it could be nice to meet you there :)

    ... you want. With the remaining ram available, simulate 1000 monkeys on Spectrums ... you might have something to show for next year's compo ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Development
  • MINIGAME COMPO 2006[url="http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/"]http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/[/url] it could be nice to meet you there :)

    ... you want. With the remaining ram available, simulate 1000 monkeys on Spectrums ... you might have something to show for next year's compo ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler March 2006 Development
  • MINIGAME COMPO 2006[url="http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/"]http://www.ffd2.com/minigame/[/url] it could be nice to meet you there :)

    ... you want. With the remaining ram available, simulate 1000 monkeys on Spectrums ... you might have something to show for next year's compo ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 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…

    ... the IY register. Unfortunately, Basic assumes it has a monopoly ... to pretty random locations in RAM. This means a CRASH ... queues to empty (no memory available). Recall that earlier we ... 0xc000-0x8000 = 16384 bytes available to our program (z88dk compiles ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…

    ... in those days (besides the basic of course). Compilers for any ... go of it. The 48k RAM restriction was a serious impediment ... only primitive library ("SDK") support available so that it wouldn't ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Development
  • What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…

    ... jobs, qualifications. In particular C, BASIC and Pascal.

    ... versions of C, Pascal, etc available was pretty amazing really for ... called C-Warp. Having disk available, source files can be spread ... itself into and out of RAM so that the 48k restriction ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Development
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... a strong version of basic (better that anything offered ... people who started to show up in 1984 or ... having the software to show off to potential buyers ... it had the software available in Europe. The out ... other would-bes; having available games was quite important ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... and LED bar graphs to show optimal tape signal
    [QUOTE ... a much better version of BASIC than the C64, had a ... , and also educational software available. Only Acorns Basic at the time was ...
    BruceNorton BruceNorton September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... I believe z80s were available at at least 8MHz ... when the 10MHz part became available).[/quote]
    I ... a circuit that adds RAM for page 0 and ... then the 6502 version with RAM would have been expensive. ...
    The CoCo had BASIC functions for blitting but they ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... , and that would have reduced available memory even further.
    < ... the BASIC is far superior to pretty much anything else available at ... the time - excusing BBC BASIC, which I ... d probably need 128K of RAM to make it work really ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    ... to escape memory contention in BASIC. You can't. ... the bottom 16K of RAM and gets clobbered by ... ]Also, which is quickest for BASIC maths operations

    available (you know PI; INT ... usually the quickest way. BASIC stores them in both ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Development
  • VB Emulator UpgradeHas anyone upgraded the VB 6.0 open source of either VBspec or VB81 to the free VB Express 2005 Edition? [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expr…

    ... />
    This walkthrough requires Visual Basic 6.0 to be installed ... />
    To create the Visual Basic 6.0 application
    Open ... Visual Basic 6.0. On the File ... and the Caption property to Show Image.

    Add an ...
    dalmudlee dalmudlee October 2006 Emulators
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