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  • Protection against MERGEI remember using a routine to protect against using MERGE to break into a BASIC listing. It was along the lines of :- 1. Enter a random line e.g. 1 …

    ... stored in two forms, the string of digits that you can ... , so you can poke the string of digits to read something ... this. It appears a normal basic loader but the RANDOMIZE USR ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Is Joe Sat the guitar king or wot??!He played in Mumbai this Friday and I saw him play! 3 hours of pure guitar madness featuring some outstanding technique and trick-play. Not to mentio…

    ... the basic ones for the tonal on the 6th and 5th string ... the problem of the 1st string: you can get it to ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi May 2005 Chit chat
  • Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.

    ... lot of Splat is in BASIC, around 300 lines. All the ... movements are precalculated using BASIC into a string and then poked into ... and then drops back to BASIC when you die or finish ...
    Spooky Spooky June 2005 Games
  • Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.

    ... lot of Splat is in BASIC, around 300 lines. All ... are precalculated using BASIC into a string and then poked ... then drops back to BASIC when you die or ... the running for the best BASIC game ever... After Viking ... have a top 10 of basic games.

    ...
    {EVIL}CrommCruac {EVIL}CrommCruac June 2005 Games
  • udg collision detectionhow do I detect a collision between udgs in basic?

    ... set) will return an empty string from a SCREEN$ call.
    Damn, I must get this BASIC FAQ done :)

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Linking libaries with z88dk How do i link in the c string functions into my program? What library are they stored in? Thanks

    ... i link in the c string functions into my program? What ... every target machine's
    basic library so you don't ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2005 Development
  • Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …

    ... that if BASIC didn't have to do the linear string search ...
    GOC GOC September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …

    ... that if BASIC didn't have to do the linear string search ... will. Other versions of Basic (ie Microsoft Basic) didn't have this ... mean, at no notice, a Basic program could pause for seconds ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • horror text adventure scenario writer neededany outthere? I started to make program for text adventure [B]Mysterium Magnum[/B] on basis of ?multiple choice? which was project I wanted to make …

    ... programming :)

    in real Basic only ?two lines? long command ... Basin I can hide text string long through three screens into ... to be tested in real Basic, something can be only done ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup October 2005 Development
  • Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks

    ... 100s of bytes + the second string and a couple of Z80 ... wth compatibility when using SE Basic. There is quite a bit ... any future versions of SE Basic that I work on. As ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…

    ... long is a piece of string?

    3. What tools ... language do you use? (Asm, Basic, C etc)

    Object ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2006 Development
  • Games that crash because of contended memory.I find these are really annoying. You load up a game like Astro Marine Corps, Fantasy World Dizzy, Dizzy: Prince Of The Yolkfolk and so on (the init…

    ... ! In the 48/128/+2 BASIC ROM, 0x03FF always contains 0x986C ... points into the "2 KEYBOARD" string. So, LDIR it into the ...
    Jmk Jmk March 2006 Games
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... . The memory map holds the BASIC ROM, system variables, etc. while ... ?$? if it will return a string result.
    Each of the ... a ?$? if it is of string type. A user-defined function ...
    Blondin235 Blondin235 March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks

    ... of bytes + the second string and a couple of Z80 ... wth compatibility when using SE Basic. There is quite a ... any future versions of SE Basic that I work on. ... of all the basic languages, the spectrum basic is the best ... a line wrong then BASIC will tell you straight ...
    speccy8 speccy8 March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • how to pass arguments from Basic to MC ?can someone explain me (or give some link) how to pass arguments from basic to machine code? i mean something like this: PRINT USR xxxxx, arg1, arg2:…

    ... search for something like "zx basic rom calculator" may do it ... code somewhere which takes a string from A$ and does some ...
    icabod icabod April 2006 Development
  • +3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…

    ... , is there a way in basic to make it print this ... a way of checking the string is correct before I send ...
    guesser guesser April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • +3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…

    ... , is there a way in basic to make it print this ... a way of checking the string is correct before I send ...
    dasteph dasteph April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • +3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…

    ... to a string array, which is easier to handle in BASIC programs ... that was written to the string into the variable [B]l ... you can manipulate the string using standard string-splicing techniques.

    glancaster glancaster April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • When do you optimise?I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that?

    ... , very fast compared to the BASIC editor. It introduces it's ... is, now that BASin's BASIC editor is pretty much complete ... list rather than a single string. It would take months (possible ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2006 Development
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... get a "C Nonsense in Basic 20:1"

    I ... the text "TO" in a string. Programs saved with tokenised characters ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • How to put up a SCREEN$ - VB6 only.I'm making a little [B]Opus Discovery[/B] floppy image creator/viewer (thanks, [B]Obo[/B]!). It is made in... VB6 (sorry, don't know any "real" langu…

    ... [B][I]very[/I][/B] basic and crude, but I think ... File[/B] or [B]VB String[/B] with the SCR byte ...
    Marcelo Marcelo May 2006 Development
  • Development SurveyI was just wondering how many people are actually developing games or programs for the Speccy. I'm not talking about people who "plan" to write somet…

    ... long is a piece of string?

    3. What tools ... language do you use? (Asm, Basic, C etc)
    In general ... ? C, Basic, C#, ASM, Perl.

    xenomorph xenomorph May 2006 Development
  • Calling ROM routinesFirstly, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in, but I wasn?t quite sure under which heading is best fitted. I?m trying to figure out how…

    ... set the values of Basic integer and string variables from machine code ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Development
  • Calling ROM routinesFirstly, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in, but I wasn?t quite sure under which heading is best fitted. I?m trying to figure out how…

    ... ]

    then call from BASIC with a PRINT USR, it ... the mangled byte indicating a string variable?

    Edit: Ah ... have to actually store the string "A$" in the two bytes ... the location of the A$ string.
    :-)
    trellis trellis July 2006 Development
  • Calling ROM routinesFirstly, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in, but I wasn?t quite sure under which heading is best fitted. I?m trying to figure out how…

    ... set the values of Basic integer and string variables from machine code ... start address of the source string. Can't figure out what ...
    trellis trellis July 2006 Development
  • Calling ROM routinesFirstly, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in, but I wasn?t quite sure under which heading is best fitted. I?m trying to figure out how…

    ... ',"This is the b$ string, which nobody can deny...");
    string variable name and the ... points at a zero-terminated string.

    Another ... one will jump to a basic line (given line number) ... is executed in the basic program. Very nice.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Development
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