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saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …
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Books for BASICIs there any godo books out there to learn BASIC ? I want to go from begininer to advanced really even though back in the day I used to write games …
... books out there to learn BASIC ?
I want to ... would still like to use BASIC as well.
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AND,XOR,OR,BIT,RES,SET,CPL,NEG,RLC,RRC,SLA,SRL,RL, RR,SRA for BASICAs this was drifting away from the original INKEY$ thread I thought that I'd create a new one. So here's a routine to provide all of the above mentio…
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BASIC menus for PlusD discsIs it possible to use BASIC to code custom autoloader menus for PlusD discs? For instance, I can make a disc copy of Dizzy Collection and could make…
Is it possible to use BASIC to code custom autoloader menus for PlusD discs?
For instance, I can make a disc copy of Dizzy Collection and could make a menu to load the programs..
How feasable would it be?
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How to use Spectaculator 7.01 for BASIC ?It does not work for me. Problems with the keyboard - in 48 and 128 Mode. Nor can I move downwards with the "Down-Arrow" from: 128 TAPE LOADER 128 BA…
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128 BASIC
CALCULATOR
48 BASIC
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Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …
... ;stack function parameters passed from BASIC by:
;PRINT USR stack ... character
pop hl ;HL=string pointer
djnz SSNEXT1 ; ... /> NOSPACE:pop hl ;HL=string pointer
jr SSNEXT1
Can someone shorten this line of BASIC for me?I think if Sinclair Basic had a modulo operation this line could be a lot shorter:[CODE]PRINT AT cy,cx; PAPER 7-((cx/2=INT (cx/2))*(cy/2=INT (cy/2)))…
I think if Sinclair Basic had a modulo operation this ...Indirect Variable AssignmentHere's another wacky routine. This allows assignment of values to variables where the source & destination variables can themselves be defined in var…
... evaluated in advance by the BASIC interpreter; choosing whether or ... "Parameter error" or "Nonsense in BASIC".
It works ... own for assigning values to BASIC variables from machine code. ... ;evaluating to a (number or string) variable name.
;The ...BASIC: Find the nearestHello guys) A few days ago I found oldie ?Jeux et casse-tete a Programmer? by Jacques Arsac (Paris?85) and suggested my nephew to try a few in Basic…
... to try a few in Basic. He chose Game #8: Shadok ...Undefine functionHere's a routine to selectively remove variables from the VARS area and reclaim the space. This can be done partially from BASIC already by assigning…
... BASIC already by assigning a null value to a string ...
jr z,STRARR ;string or any array
< ... /> jr CHKNXT
;string or any array
STRARR ... ,(hl) ;BC=length of string or any array
...A z88dk + sp1 demo (with source)Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how e…
Since nowadays people are still wondering about how difficult it is to make something in z88dk, I thought I just put a very simple demo to show how easy it actually is. (Actually I've already published this one some time ago, but this time the source is ...storing machine code in BASICA couple of years ago I posted a routine for storing machine code between PROG & VARS, based on an idea in Toni Baker's "Mastering Machine Code". Thi…
... saved & loaded with the BASIC, as if it was in ... after the last line of BASIC, even though the m/c ... and doesn't need any BASIC to be typed other than ...Beta/Sam/Master basic as spectrum ROMWith emulators being trivial to use to insert new ROMs into - and even in the physical world, RAM in place of ROM by use of a modified multiface or s…
... be to get an improved basic into that first 16k? Obviosuly ... been minor tweaks to sinclair basic.
What if one ... went for beta basic (or its progeny) instead? Reckon ...joining lines of BASICDue to overwhelming demand - well, one demand - well, more of a suggestion, really - here's a routine to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical c…
... to join together lines of BASIC. The vertical cursor motion code ... include a "dividing lines of BASIC" option as well - edit a ...What is the (hypothetically) largest 9999 lines BASIC program possible?If the Speccy had infinite amounts of memory, what is the largest 9999 line BASIC program that could be made? (in K and amount of instructions) (Yet…
... is the largest 9999 line BASIC program that could be made ...more on storing mazesPrompted by Wookiee's escapades, I've been pondering on how to use DATA statements directly for displaying background graphics, thus avoiding the dup…
... once in situ (done in BASIC here, but in practice it ... order to locate each graphics string;
* to print a background ... anywhere, even in a DATA string within the program code).
Minimal BASICAndrew Owen has just uploaded [B]Standard ECMA-55: Minimal BASIC [/B]to the Full Books archive on WOS. Thanks! [url]ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pu…
... [B]Standard ECMA-55: Minimal BASIC [/B]to the Full Books ... the ANSI Minimal standard for BASIC.
The two standards are ... in the origins of Sinclair BASIC which adhered closely to the ... no ON GOTO in Sinclair BASIC (a good substitute exists) but ...BOB the Screen BuilderHere's my first attempt to use that tokenising idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p…
... encoded as a single DATA string with a mixture of printable ... selected ranges of lines from BASIC programs; it can also save ...Using Boriel's ZX Basic to learn assemblyI wrote a small guide. Hopefully some people will find my gibberish useful - especially people looking at first steps in machine code, where I think …
... -inline-assembly-functions-into-zx-basic-t729.html[/url]editing strings with INPUT LINEHere's the latest in my unpredictable series of utility routines. This one I needed for the SAGE game editor; it emulates INPUT LINE l$ but with the …
... normal action. Any simple string can be used; just ... string).
The vertical cursor enhancement from "joining lines of BASIC ... need altering as the BASIC editor uses the E_LINE ... res 6,(iy+$37) ;FLAGX: "string result"
set 5,(iy ...stuck on recursive functionI want this function to PEEK 'l' bytes from memory starting at 's' and return them as a string, but however much I fiddle about with quoting and pare…
... ' and return them as a string, but however much I fiddle ... of memory" or "Nonsense in BASIC". How can I get it ...Poking a string to memory...I'm looking to poke a string of characters including colour control codes to memory, I'm currently doing it by hand: 16,2,19,1,22,1,1,144 That equa…
... 'm looking to poke a string of characters including colour control ... do it by poking a string such as A$?BASIC compilerI'm looking for a basic compiler that actually works, tried all the ones on the WOS archive and none of them seem to work... I'm only wanting to co…
I'm looking for a basic compiler that actually works, tried ...Basic BASIC help needed RNDHi all, I have recently re-discovered an old program I wrote in the early 90s which would do generate random lottery numbers. I know little now, an…
... then, when it comes to BASIC programming and I'm after ...Games written in BASICHi all, I've been racking my brain trying to think of a game which was definitely written in BASIC (ie not in assembler). The only thing that I can …
... which was definitely written in BASIC (ie not in assembler). The ... favourites which were written in BASIC? There were certainly a few ... Martha might have been in BASIC (IIRC) and I enjoyed that ...Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC programming manual...Hi Folks, Does anyone know how many editions of the Spectrum BASIC programming manual were released (the orange one that came with the 48K)? I seem…
... many editions of the Spectrum BASIC programming manual were released (the ...zx81: is there a 16kb ram limit for basic?first of all, sorry to all about posting a question about zx81 in a forum mostly about zx-spectrum - i didn't want to offtopic questions here anyway,…
... the 16kb barrier, the zx81 basic editor on rom, when turning ...Authored with z88dk or Boriel's ZX BASIC?It would be useful to be able to search somehow for games authored with either z88dk or Boriel's ZX BASIC. This was [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.…
... z88dk or Boriel's ZX BASIC. This was [URL="http://www ...Overflow Detection while Scanning a Number from a StringI've got some strange behaviour from a subroutine that reads a number from a string and converts it to a 32-bit long. It's C's strtol if it helps to…
... reads a number from a string and converts it to a ...
