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  • Laser BasicDid anyone else out there buy Laser Basic and Laser Compiler? I just noticed Laser Basic while I was looking thru a website, and it reminded me about…

    ... ?
    I just noticed Laser Basic while I was looking thru a ... could write programs in Laser Basic, but if you wanted to ...
    Neil^P Neil^P July 2002 Games
  • SE Basic IV 4.1 Buffy previewSE Basic IV 4.0 Anya was released back in December 2012. You can read about it here: [url]http://cheveron.github.io/sebasic4/[/url] But here's some …

    ...
    * A fork of OpenSE BASIC.
    * Supplied with FUSE (> ... closer to the Minimal BASIC 78 standard. It still ... characteristics of OpenSE BASIC.

    While Anya was essentially ... OpenSE BASIC with an 80-column ...
    chev chev July 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • BITWISE operators...Hi Folks, Another question - is there a way (fast) to do bitwise operations in Sinclair BASIC? Many thanks Paddy

    ... have been good in Sinclair BASIC...

    Bitwise operators - ...
    REPEAT/UNTIL and/or WHILE/WEND
    Numeric data types e ... degree e.g. BBC BASIC, Amstrad BASIC so it could be done ... see this as the ultimate BASIC.

    Anyone noticed ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • BITWISE operators...Hi Folks, Another question - is there a way (fast) to do bitwise operations in Sinclair BASIC? Many thanks Paddy

    ... have been good in Sinclair BASIC...[/quote]

    * ...
    * REPEAT/UNTIL and/or WHILE/WEND
    [code]start
    DO ... degree e.g. BBC BASIC, Amstrad BASIC so it could be ... The SE Basic ROM, BetaBasic, HiSoft BASIC, YS MegaBASIC, BBC BASIC (Z80).
    chev chev August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... SORT program to Amstrad CPC6128 BASIC. Overall results are:

    Sinclair BASIC ... ~12 seconds (Z80)
    BBC ... .g. change Spectrum GOTOs to WHILE/WEND etc.

    Interesting...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... with its 16K ROM. ZX BASIC can be rather slow and ... the nicer features in BBC BASIC, Amstrad BASIC etc. but it has ... /THEN/ELSE, REPEAT/UNTIL or WHILE/WEND, real time clock and integer ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2012 Hardware
  • Good Beginners Basic BookMy 10 year old son would like to learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that would help? There are a lot in the archive a…

    ... goals.[/i]

    While ZX Spectrum Basic is rather simple, it ... ) IF-THEN-ELSE
    2) WHILE-WEND
    3) REPEAT-UNTIL
    7) GOTO.

    While one can run user-friendly ... for Speccy or even not Basic precisely. Perhaps, for a ...
    NRA NRA February 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • Assistance with IM2 routineI subsequently got a working IM2 routine.

    ... do an IN 255 from BASIC while the IM2 routine is running ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Development
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... to MAKE-ROOM screws up BASIC while you're at it? ;)[/quote ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2008 Games
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... /DI interrupts
    * Procedures
    * WHILE/WEND or REPEAT/UNTIL
    * Bitwise ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Time Gal - laser game for Russian Spectrums?Some time ago I came across a web page about what seems to be a conversion for the ATM-Turbo and Pentagon of an old Taito laser game, [I]Time Gal.[/I…

    ... gives me "c nonsense in basic" while trying to load.
    WhenIWasCruel WhenIWasCruel December 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…

    ... I had to use HiSoft BASIC (with the requiered modifications/ ... ugly code, but that Sinclair BASIC executes correctly):

    ... the biggest subset of Sinclair BASIC while being relatively fast (at ... absolutely nothing beats Boriel ZX Basic. It's fast, and ...
    na_th_an na_th_an February 2011 Development
  • Renegade (the hit squad)Hi fellow spectrum peeps,nice to meet you all!,and what a great site you have here!. I have been given a spectrum +2 which didn't load tapes,until i…

    ... As na_th_an says, normal 48K Basic mode will disable the extra ... same effect as selecting 48K Basic from the menu.
    ... drop you in to 48K Basic, while still leaving the 128K ... loaders like Speedlock, which bypass Basic functions completely...)

    ...
    gasman gasman June 2011 Games
  • ANN: SpudACE v0.302A new SpudACE is now available, either from [URL="http://bit.ly/wuIaI5"]here[/URL] or [URL="http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk"]www.jupiter-ace.co.uk[/URL]…

    ... of zombpot or astar in BASIC while a teenager?... Perhaps it takes ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil May 2012 Emulators
  • ANN: SpudACE v0.302A new SpudACE is now available, either from [URL="http://bit.ly/wuIaI5"]here[/URL] or [URL="http://www.jupiter-ace.co.uk"]www.jupiter-ace.co.uk[/URL]…

    ... of zombpot or astar in BASIC while a teenager?... Perhaps it takes ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler May 2012 Emulators
  • Confounded DEF FNCan anyone see why this is going wrong? I've been tinkering with it since tea time and got nowhere. [code] 2 DEF FN t$(n,t,d) =STR$ INT (n/t)…

    Rather than that unfathomable plethora of POKEs, the UDG area can be used to hold 21 single-letter variables which can be referenced in expressions and assigned values with LET, which is much easier.
    [code]
    10 DEF FN p(a)=PEEK a+256*PEEK (a+ ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…

    ... them into the BASIC.

    While I think about ... then convert it into BASIC DATA/POKEs and paste them ... the save as 'Export BASIC as .TAP' is a ... .TAP and recover the BASIC for editing? Or should ... separate text copy of the BASIC listing? You could have ...
    joefish joefish June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…

    ... pasted them into the BASIC.

    While I think about it ... assembly, then convert it into BASIC DATA/POKEs and paste them ... the .TAP and recover the BASIC for editing? Or should you ... />
    BASin can extract the BASIC from most forms of spectrum ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • HOW-TO ClassicsHi guyz'n'gerlz) Perhaps, there're similar questions, but I was checking out another BASIC version of Xonix (which instead of a flood-fill used st…

    ... to use Boriel's ZX Basic while programming this, I wanted it ... the basics of using ZX Basic ( http://www.boriel.com/forum ... -pac-man-clone-in-zx-basic-t748.html ) - The source code ...
    Gedlion Gedlion January 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Spectrum Z80 Development Environment on WindowsHi Folks, Just wondering what the recommendation is for a ZX Spectrum Z80 Development environment on Windows? Getting fed up with hand coding Z80…

    ... to [b]persist[/b] them while working on knotty test cases ...
    [*] for/next, repeat/until, while/wend [b]loops[/b] (at assembly ...
    colonel32 colonel32 August 2017 Development
  • Microdrive logic flow.Hi all, I've finally gotten my hands on an Interface 1 and Microdrive to continue my project, and have been analyzing the Microdrive with a logic …

    ... " woulnd't save the current basic to he file "*cd dir1 ... controls and commands accessible from BASIC, while maintaining full compatibility with older ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk June 2021 Hardware
  • GEDit syntax highlighting for Boriel's ZX BasicHi! I just tailored this syntax highlighting code and would like to share with he community. Suggestions are always welcome, though the file works w…

    ...
    val
    verify
    wend
    while
    xor

    pkersey pkersey February 2014 Development
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    is it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?
    Arda Arda January 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclair Basic compiler for PC?I know we all can use BASin to play for a while in a little window. But... What about creating a 80x86 EXE program from scratch using Sinclair Basic…

    ... BASin to play for a while in a little window.
    Basic? You know, the ATTR(), LET ... plan to do) any Sinclair BASIC compiler for the '86 range ...
    Marcelo Marcelo September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic Compilers and My Compressor CodeAs I mentioned in another thread I'm currently writing a set of compression routines for saving +3 disk space. I've done the first stage (write the …

    ... stage (write the things in basic to check the logic) and ... seems to be great except while the decompressor is quick, the ... I've written it in basic first rather than jumping straight ... the direction of a good basic compiler and give me some ...
    BuzzinRich BuzzinRich September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... internal structure of Sinclair BASIC, the best place to ... partially compatible with their Beta BASIC equivalents. Some of the ... numbers (0-255) while their Beta BASIC equivalents can handle 16 ... to permit compilation with HiSoft BASIC.

    [code]
    ...
    chev chev November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Understanding extensions to the BASIC parserFor a while, I've had a rather 'rinkety dink' extension to BASIC via an RST 8 trap in hardware, just so that I can send stuff to a Spectrum over ethe…

    ... a while, I've had a rather 'rinkety dink' extension to BASIC ...
    Winston Winston March 2008 Development
  • BASIC Keyword ReferenceRealised that the Sinclair Basic section would be a better place for discussion of BASIC keywords, so for reference the old thread is in [thread=2005…

    ... />
    [CODE]
    SINCLAIR BASIC Keyword Reference

    The ... Mode : Keypress

    Sinclair BASIC has several modes of entry ... to be
    entered while in a specific mode. Changing ... colours within strings in a BASIC listing.

    ...
    icabod icabod March 2008 Sinclair Basic
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