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Leading Zeroes on a Score in BASICI'm trying to print the score with leading zeroes such that it's always 6 characters wide, i.e.: 000010, 000150, 006100 etc. I quickly knocked thi…
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Phwoar! That's science right there! :)
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Leading Zeroes on a Score in BASICI'm trying to print the score with leading zeroes such that it's always 6 characters wide, i.e.: 000010, 000150, 006100 etc. I quickly knocked thi…
Wow, I'm shocked at that result as well!
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Leading Zeroes on a Score in BASICI'm trying to print the score with leading zeroes such that it's always 6 characters wide, i.e.: 000010, 000150, 006100 etc. I quickly knocked thi…
... night with it! Thanks again BB. It's more involved than ... -
Leading Zeroes on a Score in BASICI'm trying to print the score with leading zeroes such that it's always 6 characters wide, i.e.: 000010, 000150, 006100 etc. I quickly knocked thi…
Ah well, it was just a quick idea - interesting while it lasted. :-)
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Speeding up programs by hacking the SysVarsPositively pleased to properly discover this area of the forum! I have a couple of recent tricks that might be of interest - they're probably old hat…
This is a fantastic trick - well done Robsoft.
BB - can you expand/give an example of how you would have multiple copies of the same variable name?
Many thanks
Paddy -
Speeding up programs by hacking the SysVarsPositively pleased to properly discover this area of the forum! I have a couple of recent tricks that might be of interest - they're probably old hat…
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Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…
Hi BB,
You could even store a complete drawing in a string by adding a value 4 to the first byte indicating a PLOT. You would then step through the string PLOTting or DRAWing as you go (hope that makes sense).
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Authors of unreleased/MIA games?Browsing through my few remaining physical issues of YS, I came across much late-Speccy-era activity by Beyond Belief. Now a YS article notes they ha…
... the Spectrum - Shove Off - which BB were going to publish. The ... -
2016 Games ListHi, this is the thread I use for the 2016 Games List. Note: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found some…
... from basic to C. Then BB who is a basic guru ... are different versions, for example BB's version does not allow ... -
2016 Games ListHi, this is the thread I use for the 2016 Games List. Note: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found some…
... from basic to C. Then BB who is a basic guru ... are different versions, for example BB's version does not allow ... -
What are your favourite music videos?I can't remember the last time I saw a really good music video, or the last time I actually watched a music video. Anywho, here are my all-time favo…
... of life, I remember when BB's like these used to ... -
2016 Games ListHi, this is the thread I use for the 2016 Games List. Note: Due to forum update policies, the latest version of the list will always be found some…
I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... for the Souls games but BB is probably my all-time ...flash in a stringhi, is it possible to store flash in a string? u can store colours, bright, etc.
That looks pretty much on the money BB!
Congrats - although I'm not in a position to try it just now....User defined function in Sinclair BASICI'm looking to create a user defined function in Sinclair BASIC to add up numbers being input. This is the program without a user defined function be…
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Thanks BB but this didn't work ...Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…
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db %01000001;line BB ;line 64 (41)
db ...Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…
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db %01000001;line BB ;line 64 (41)
db ...Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…
Here's the listing:
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1 POKE 23674,0: POKE 23673,0: POKE 23672,0: POKE 65281,0: FOR q=0 TO l-1: RESTORE 130+t(q+1): READ w: FOR e=1 TO w: READ r,c: LET n=q*320+r
2 LET f1=PEEK 23672: LET f2=PEEK 23673: LET f3=PEEK ...Is it possible to add a listing to a screen?I made this picture (see next message for link) deliberately in the bottom half of the screen hoping to be able to have another display in the upper …
Great BB! Thankyou - that'll be worth seeing and I can change the text. Was going to try for a startup screen with the talking head saying the name of the game. Then switch to text pages to tell the story.