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  • BASIC Bug: DEF FN after REMHello all, Having mused the Spectrum ROM disassembly by Drs Logan ad O'Hara, I wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF FN when call…

    ... wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2022 BASIC
  • How to return to basic properly from ASMI am messing around with a fast stack copying routine. But I am getting "A: Invalid argument" error when I later return to basic. I know you h…

    ... when I later return to basic.

    I know you ... IY register before returning to basic but my code at the ... as IY when returning to basic. I think one of the ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • Here's a christmas present for you!SE Basic is no longer being developed.

    ... going to be a simple BASIC interpreter back then.

    vars, you can't really justify ... the problems that the 128k BASIC editor had to get around ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2002 Sinclair Basic
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... it ???
    Maybe to start BASIC from out MC

    JP 8108 ; run BASIC program!

    [/quote]
    Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    ... parameters before calling BASIC interpreter, to POKE some sys vars?

    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Extract files from Plus D IMG files ?Hi folks, I've recently dumped a load of +D/Disciple disks for someone and they have a number of MIA titles on them. Does anyone know of a utility t…

    ... one at a time from BASIC (if they don't autostart ... $ and stuff that overwrites system vars).

    _________________
    GAME ...
    GOC GOC July 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    POKE 23756,0 (and 23755) only work on a 48K Standard machine. If you use IF1 you need to poke another adress. You need to find start of BASIC first, which is different due to more SYSTEM VARS.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2003 Games
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... "

    .segment RAMDATA
    vars:
    defs 100

    Basic, Forth, whatever and such an ... a means for extending the Basic language by third parties. Eg ... an extended grammar with new basic commands, with an ability to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
  • colouring inexample: 10 CIRCLE 45,30,15 wot do i type after it to colour it in red?

    ... 's my try at a BASIC filled circle routine, probably slightly ... =radius
    4 REM used vars: A,B,H
    5 ...
    GOC GOC February 2004 Development
  • BASin CompilerAm I right in thinking that it isn't a fully-working one yet? Just a couple of obvious suggestions anyway... 1-Could you add an ORG command to the …

    ... close to 100% compatible with BASIC as possible - which means floats ... will compile, as will any vars except for arrays. Slicers don ... about 5-7x faster than BASIC - due to the floating point ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2004 Development
  • Program sizeI am typing a basic program into a ZX and I need to find out exactly how much memory it is using. Is there a way to calculate this? :confused:

    ... +256*peek 23636
    let vars=peek 23627+256*peek 23628 ...
    print vars-prog; " bytes"

    which ... PROG and VARS, pointing to the start of the BASIC program and ... . Since, according to the ZX BASIC manual, the variables follow the ...
    J?rg Pleumann J?rg Pleumann August 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • loading techniques I never worked outFirstly, how do games that load with LOAD "" CODE autorun? Secondly, how do you save a basic program as a CODE file (but not as BASIC compiled into …

    ... Chapters 24/25 of the BASIC manual for details):

    BASIC program+variables, and the relevant ... comes one byte after the vars) will be saved.

    Dunny Dunny November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • MemoryI am writing a game for the Spectrum and need to store a lot of map data. What is the lowest address I can start to store the data at ?

    ... /> 23552 - 24063 System variabels and BASIC-program to load ZX81games even ... />
    When you need a BASIC-program to load from you ... the data with the BASIC-code , storing the BASIC in the buffer ... first address after the sytem vars (23755)
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2004 Development
  • About z88dk and autoexecsThis weekend I was playing a little with z88dk C cross Compiler. Amazing tool! I have three questions: 1- Does anybody know how to change the initia…

    ...

    This is the basic char output routine that stdio ... 't be using the system vars to store print position, attr ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... machines: search in VARS for start
    of BASIC and POKE the ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2005 Development
  • 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…

    ... machines: search in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first ... br />
    ====================

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

    * Place ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • Speeding up BasicHi, Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic? What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 5…

    ... various ways to speed up BASIC, however using variables
    > ... /> The Spectrum only has one VARS pointer but the BBC has ...
    Geoff Geoff July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 …

    ... turns up.

    The basic idea is this -

    VARS space.

    then you ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 …

    ... are machine code, and not basic, so do they work on ... do a SAVE "name" CODE VARS, 65536-VARS : RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx or ...
    mulder mulder October 2005 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:…

    ... hl...
    ret

    BASIC:
    10 poke 30000, 10 ... for a list of sys vars.

    hope this helps ...
    Kiwi Kiwi April 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…

    ... small hacks that involve sys vars, such as:

    - Accessing ... you think of that C** BASIC rubbish, where, IIRC, you have ...
    GOC GOC July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... very helpful when messing with basic games/programs.
    [/quote]
    vars. May I suggest in the ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2006 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... do not use a single VARS pointer but have separate pointers ... .
    I often type in BASIC programs intended for Atari and ...
    Geoff Geoff September 2006 Development
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... Ie POKE address,data in Basic. All Basic variables, all C variables ... up 5 bytes in Sinclair basic and some math libraries ... C implementations. Strings in basic consist of a length followed ... local and global variables (all vars in Basic are global, ie visible ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2007 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 …

    ... currently trying to optimise some BASIC routines, so thought I'd ... links to simple steps for BASIC optimisation is much appreciated.[/QUOTE ... to the top of the vars area. This is documented somewhere ... full explanation on how the BASIC variables are stored in the ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... are stripped off as in basic when INT() is used (C ... ; // make these available in global vars
    g_uchar1 = attr_mask;
    sp1_IterateUpdateRect ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
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