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  • +3 soundhello there, just a quick-fire question today. i'm kinda keen on the idea of using my +3 quite a bit, particularly if i bother to to actually sort …

    ... ]

    There's some tips and photos [URL="http://www ... /soldering.html"]here[/URL] about basic soldering technique you may find ...
    DEATH DEATH July 2006 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... had a strong version of basic (better that anything offered by ... a beginner. The version of basic was excellent and I found ... to pick up a few tricks or learn a little. This ... a really weak version of basic. The disk system was the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Adventure Books....Anybody remember the books where you just copied the program language word for word..and play the adventure game after? It was when I was a kid...I …

    ... one that used some neat tricks in BASIC.

    You'll ...
    Arjun Arjun 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…

    ... me on some tricks to speed things in Sinclair Basic:

    piters piters September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Speccy graphics on CBM64The recent "Starquake" thread had me browsing through Steve Crow's portfolio of games and I was quite surprised when following the links to the CBM64…

    ... sorts of raster-line / interlace tricks they do, but nothing like ... simulator for the c64? full basic emulator, and loads tapes directly ...
    netraider netraider November 2006 Games
  • Problem with SPIN assemblerCan anybody tell me why the following machine code program doesn't assemble in the SPIN assembler? ; my first machine code program ld bc, 5 ret Any…

    ... /> D.[/QUOTE]

    Great tips guys. I'm using whitespace ... program now? Go into +3 BASIC in SPIN and PRINT USR ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick January 2007 Development
  • Problem with SPIN assemblerCan anybody tell me why the following machine code program doesn't assemble in the SPIN assembler? ; my first machine code program ld bc, 5 ret Any…

    [quote=BigBadMick]Great tips guys. I'm using whitespace ... program now? Go into +3 BASIC in SPIN and PRINT USR ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler January 2007 Development
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... forgot most of the tricks, pokes and BASIC programming I knew. 15 ... I had pride in cracking basic loaders and doing my own ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... forgot most of the tricks, pokes and BASIC programming I knew. 15 ... I had pride in cracking basic loaders and doing my own ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan January 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... ! You're no longer a BASIC virgin ... feel like a man ... a nice lil repository of tips has appeared, I think I ... thinking of adapting a Blitz Basic game of mine. Now, like ...
    Graz Graz June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... I'm no longer a basic Virgin!:) I think ive got ... can pick up some more tips:-D

    Does anyone ...
    +2MAN +2MAN June 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • A challenge thats probably impossiblehere's a challenge for all you coders. Given a snapshot, is it possible to create a program to sniff out the original start address for the game that…

    ... load game loader written in Basic, which then loads game machine ... part of memory where this Basic loader is stored (it is ... loaders, copy protection and other tricks.
    Ralf Ralf June 2007 Development
  • New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…

    ... do these things, ie Extended Basic, extra ram is simply another ... machine. But no matter what tricks people make it pull, I ...
    Graz Graz July 2007 Hardware
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... too much space on the BASIC listing. So if you are ... /> I did learn some further tricks though by starting the above ... a further 6 characters of BASIC listing. Finally

    BORDER ... look, with 2 chars of BASIC line space remaining.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... in this version - to save BASIC space)

    To ... so am doing all BASIC dabbling in ZX SPIN ... data naturally fits a ZX BASIC string array (i.e ... use some further space saving tricks. All positions of pacman ... row and a half of BASIC code overall.

    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... have to say the ZX BASIC tricks I've learnt from this ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • 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 …

    ... since we're talking about BASIC, I would like to ask ... a few more questions about BASIC loaders, instead of creating a ... .

    I'm keeping BASIC loaders in address 43756, because ... someone share some of the tricks used to hide listings and ...
    zxbruno zxbruno August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…

    ... over Spectrum BASIC.

    [quote]BBC Basic had procedures.( ... to full BASIC add-ons, such as Laser Basic, Beta Basic and YS ... Mega Basic (the latter I ... other tricks would have helped, but wasn't the Spectrum BASIC ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... learnt a huge amount of tips and tricks over the last few ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • Interface rom - Need help to dump itHi, I have temporarily an interface that is similar to a multiface. It has an NMI button and displays a menu where states can be saved and pokes ent…

    ... could kill a Spectrum from basic, no matter what devices are ... Spectrum died or was the basic program responsible?
    Scary...
    tricks.

    Can someone write ...
    odious odious October 2007 Hardware
  • One Liner - Machine CodeHi Dr. BEEP, Digital Prawn, et. al., I think that what you guys have achieved with the one liner contest is absolutely amazing. It brought about wh…

    ... more than I can help BASIC coders in the 1-liner ... much better at squeezing tricks out of BASIC than I am and ... I'm in awe of the tricks ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz November 2007 Development
  • line editing in emulatorhi, it's been a very very long time since i messed around in basic on the speccy.. wrote a couple of games back then on the original machine.. and w…

    ... there are other tricks you could play with the Basic listing to ...
    gasman gasman November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Poke 23739,111So, I'm looking at some of my old loaders (BASIC stuff) to work out how I got the display to not corrupt on loading code. It's the old POKE 23739,111…

    ... unless my memory's playing tricks on me, Cookie (and possibly ... fiddle around with Cookie's Basic loader...
    gasman gasman November 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Arti've decided to paint pictures and flog them to art cafes, and also online, mostly on ebay. i only did basic art at school, i can't really draw and …

    ... .

    i only did basic art at school, i can ... was there.

    any tips?[/QUOTE]

    Put the ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk January 2008 Chit chat
  • Game EditorsWell as the title says, this is a query about game editors, specifically the ones for Gremlin games... Many moons ago, Your Sinclair published (I th…

    ... of corrections required to the basic program, it was now too ... /Robin Candy's Playing Tips.tzx]'Playing Tips' TZX[/url] back fully ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous January 2008 Games
  • Game EditorsWell as the title says, this is a query about game editors, specifically the ones for Gremlin games... Many moons ago, Your Sinclair published (I th…

    ... of corrections required to the basic program, it was now too ... /Robin Candy's Playing Tips.tzx]'Playing Tips' TZX[/url] back fully ...
    jp jp January 2008 Games
  • Turntable recommedationsI'd like to buy a good turntable for old records I've got. I've just been listening to crackly ol' "Who's Next" and I want to hear Roger Adultery's f…

    ... here are a few neat tricks to make any format sound ... />

    Just a few tips that really don't cost ...
    beanz beanz January 2008 Chit chat
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