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  • Game of Life.Last year (I think) or maybe the year before, I entered a Game of Life simulator into the CSS CGC compo but for the Sinclair ZX81. I decided to port…

    ... has a variant of Microsoft BASIC, so I thought I ... make it happen on Sinclair BASIC as well.
    [code ... />
    Because of the speed, I made some assumptions, that ... much in one line of BASIC as possible, and so ... there aren't any BASIC speed-up tips that'll ...
    Shaun.Bebbington Shaun.Bebbington September 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... in the 2-3 minute BASIC speed test, but every little helps ... miss out on the extra speed from the lack of memory ...
    obo obo August 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... in the 2-3 minute BASIC speed test, but every little helps ... expecting such an increase in speed (>10%). I'll be ...
    Jimmy Jimmy September 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BUG in zxspin and SpecEmu - read Loading speed in WAV fileI'm created a new save, but it can run at 44.1 KHz, to test it, i make a new file from WAV 44.1 KHz to 88.2 KHz. Load this file in a emulator zx-spin…

    ... /> My loading scheme (the speed i need test)
    ... or less speed.

    The max speed is OLTA fast ... slowly.
    The min speed is standard ROM - 1. ... and 600 Hz (at basic speed), it is not a ... bytes)

    All basic loading scheme encode 4 bits ...
    Z80user Z80user April 2012 Emulators
  • What is this???? :OLooking in ebay, I found this!: [url]http://www.ebay.it/itm/Simulatore-di-Spectrum-per-Commodore-64-128-Retrocomputer-cassetta-/290861910864?pt=Retr…

    ... quite useless to emulate worse Basic than the spectrum one.< ... machine language.
    Spectrum Basic is natively slower than c64 ... about 70% of original spectrum basic speed, with lots of useful ... on this thread the Spectrum basic was pretty good.
    ...
    Pegaz Pegaz February 2013 Games
  • Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …

    ... you are just interested in BASIC. It doesn't necessary ... faster than another.
    Atari BASIC is notoriously slow, but recent ... fast.
    Plus/4 BASIC is horribly slow, it's ... interpreter works.
    So... yeah... BASIC speed is only as good as ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2019 Hardware
  • The Rant Thread.A thread to rant and ramble about stuff that makes you mad: 1) Why can't women say things in only a few words.Instead of a simple yes, no, we…

    ... again.

    With a speed set, +/- just let you nudge ... is stop the car gathering speed downhill (though that may ... inclined to slip over a speed limit, better positioned to ... not having to concentrate on basic speed management or the physicality of ...
    Antiriad2097 Antiriad2097 June 2021 Chit chat
  • Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…

    ... sophisticated user. Just having the Basic commands visible was a tremendous ... manual every five minutes.
    BASIC speed of execution never really entered ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Speed comparison of BASIC CommandsHi everyone, I reactivated my account (thanks Lee!) due to starting to code some BASIC with my daughter. In the tips and tricks thread there is a …

    ... to starting to code some BASIC with my daughter.
    < ... to perform routine tasks in BASIC.

    However, after searching ... about how much time each BASIC command takes to run.
    speed-wise?

    Cheers, ...
    48K 48K July 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Games that benefit from a change in speed.Has anybody tried playing games on an emulator at different speeds? I've found that certain games are more playable with a slight speed tweak. Obvio…

    ... with a slight speed tweak. Obviously programs written in basic and text ... a 10-20% reduction in speed.

    On the other ...
    Martyh! Martyh! June 2002 Games
  • New Functions for Sinclair BasicA total of 52 new functions can be added to Sinclair BASIC; 26 numeric functions (A-Z) and 26 string functions (A$-Z$). Owing to the internal structu…

    ... the internal structure of Sinclair BASIC, the best place to ... also gives the maximum possible speed (on a standard Spectrum ... partially compatible with their Beta BASIC equivalents. Some of the ... to permit compilation with HiSoft BASIC.

    [code]
    ...
    chev chev November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…

    ... I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by ... it faster, or the same speed to PRINT a UDG in ... mode? I am coding the BASIC program in a Text Editor ... (TextMate with a Sinclar Basic plugin).

    EDIT:
    48K 48K March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • super-quick games in BASIC?do you think, games written in BASIC could run flawlessly at high speed when run in a speccy emulator at, say, 1000% speed? (i wonder, speccy is rare…

    do you think, games written in BASIC could run flawlessly at high speed when run in a speccy emulator at, say, 1000% speed?
    (i wonder, speccy is rarely used in this way - it's even more platform independent then JAVA! :-))) )
    cichlasoma cichlasoma August 2007 Games
  • help in making a tzx file from standard speedIn short, I want to create a tzx file from the original Navy Moves & Army Moves compilation, giving that the one in WOS archive has an error on Army …

    ... (it gives C Nonsense in BASIC, 50:3) and I have ... . The recording is in standard speed, so in theory it should ... utility report the very first basic header as a turbo loading ... version of the very first basic header & program).

    secarica secarica November 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Flight - flight simulator (Basic)Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old tape. Obviously this is a my type-in from an old ex-Yugoslavian magazine from mid 80s. I did …

    Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old ... also mostly done in the basic), we can say that this ... spectrum Basic is pretty slow for this kind of program, where speed ...
    Pegaz Pegaz November 2010 Games
  • Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…

    ... have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy ... was thinking about how to speed them up without completely write ...
    Speccyman Speccyman February 2011 Development
  • Interesting speed increase...Hi Folks, You may already know the following but I found it "interesting". I have been developing a model railway timetable program in BASin for th…

    ... data population left. The main BASIC program is 17.1K in ... very little difference in execution speed despite the extra free memory ... a significant improvement in running speed.

    This is useful ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…

    ... with routines borrowed from SAM BASIC (thanks to Andrew Wright) ... (this requires replacing the BASIC ROM and patching the editor ... the permanent attribute), MOVE (BASIC wrapper for the LDIR block ... br />
    * Optimized for speed. The original ROM was mainly ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Ideas for speeding up this BASIC routine?This loop can take up to 2 minutes to run, depending upon the content of the screen being scanned, about 70% of that time being taken up by lines 105…

    ... ). Any suggestions on how to speed up those two parts (other ... time; it's just the BASIC that I'm asking about ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • multi-scroll m/c subroutine for BASICArising from recent posts, here's a scrolling routine that will manage multiple left/right scrollings for any (sensible) line width or step; (ie. whe…

    Arising from recent posts, here's a scrolling routine that will manage multiple left/right scrollings for any (sensible) line width or step; (ie. where width is
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • MOVE_M Object Movement Manager for BASICAs moving things around on the screen is usually the slowest part of a game written in BASIC, I've been pottering around with this routine to handle …

    ... do something to moderate the speed, the "roaming" type ... automatically call NOTRAP to restore BASIC:
    REM To ... ; MOVE_M moving object control for BASIC
    ; runs with interrupts ... ; exceptions are dealt with from BASIC
    ; object properties are ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • From RAM to dim v$() "video buffer" SPEED UP!Hi! This question is related to "quick RAM copy using LET in Basic" ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44296[/url]). Wel…

    ... RAM copy using LET in Basic" ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... ...

    Another methor for speed up?

    I try ...
    Hark0 Hark0 March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Alien-B: a simple invaders in Beta BASICIn 2011 I wrote a simple invaders game in Beta BASIC 4.0+D (for Spectrum 128 with the Plus D interface), just for fun and to try some of the graphic …

    ... simple invaders game in Beta BASIC 4.0+D (for Spectrum ... emulator at say 1500% the speed of the original machine, maybe ...
    programandala.net programandala.net September 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Empire - port of trs80 basic programBack when I was a little kid, I had the opportunity to play around with a trs80 model 1 with level 2 basic. One of the games I often played was call…

    ... model 1 with level 2 basic. One of the games I ... I came across the full basic source and decided to port ... it over in C. Basic being basic, there's a lot ... to speed up loading on a real machine.

    Original basic ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2016 Brand new software
  • Random Numbers, USR Return Values & Timing BASICI've been trying out Jon Ritman's random number routine, published in Your Sinclair Aug'87. Apart from a timing comparison I also did a frequency ana…

    ... more irregular. As far as speed goes, after deducting the test ... a random number function 3*speed of RND and with almost ... instances the required return to BASIC with a decimal fraction between ... return that value to the BASIC program.

    As well ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny January 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • are there any machine code to basic converters?i know it sounds stupid but for amature programmers like me it would be great. i could speed up the basic on an emulator and it would give me more of…

    i know it sounds stupid but for amature programmers like me it would be great. i could speed up the basic on an emulator and it would give me more of an ability to play around with games, etc.
    digital digital July 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... that i can view in basic to make each screen easier ... slow but i intend to speed it up in an emulator ...
    digital digital December 2017 Development
  • BASIC compo on our Facebook page - join in, win cash!1st - will receive £50 2nd - will receive £20 It's been a few years since our game competition, so I think its time for another! This time t…

    ... >>>>>speed game>>>> ... ;!

    What is a speed game?

    This is ... code must be 100% Sinclair BASIC no MC***

    You ...
    david_retro david_retro August 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Penetrator - Compiled Basic ?For clarity: The Melbourne House sideways scrolling 'shoot em up' game, a very good game for its time and it still plays relatively well today, with …

    ... well today, with regards to speed etc.

    Pretty sure ... I know) this was compiled Basic or part of it was ...
    spider spider July 2020 Games
  • BASIC games that could be better if compiled?I was looking [url=https://worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/57843/best-compiled-basic-game#latest]this thread[/url] and I was wondering is speed…

    ... -basic-game#latest]this thread[/url] and I was wondering is speed ... advantages using a compiled BASIC could make games ... I don't think compiled BASIC alone could work (instead of ... 7 MHz).

    What BASIC games do you think could ...
    Zup Zup July 2020 Games
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