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  • 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…

    ... OUT are pretty useless in BASIC except for the aforemeantioned keyboard ... rate far faster than that BASIC can do anything with.
    BEEP can and yes you can ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Method to read byte as binary string rather than dec?Hi all Am fiddling around with the screen buffer and have written a routine to scan the screenbuffer into upper ram and then write it back in upside…

    ... -02-06 14:42, Dr BEEP wrote:
    ...
    Won't ... noticed this is in the BASIC forum, so of course my ...
    icabod icabod February 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Speccy 48K Sound EffectsHow did programmers of old get the more digitisy sounds out of the spectrum, specifically the 48K machine so no Yamaha sound chip to play with. They …

    It's not possible with BASIC, no. The speed needed for ... " commands is much higher than BASIC can manage.
    For a ... ="http://republika.pl/mister_beep/"]Mister Beep[/url] homepage - he's been ...
    icabod icabod February 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... ,my
    100 LET fx=mx-px: LET fy=my ... IF ABS fy>ABS fx THEN LET b=2< ... 1 THEN LET sx=SGN fx: LET sy=SGN fy* ... ABS (fy/fx)
    130 IF b= ... SGN fy: LET sx=SGN fx*ABS (fx/fy)
    200 LET ... the same principle as the BASIC routine.

    Obstacles, ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2006 Development
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... point is to covert the BASIC to M/c.
    ... /> The tricky parts of the BASIC are really the lines:
    fx THEN LET b=2 < ... 1 THEN LET sx=SGN fx: LET sy=SGN fy* ... ABS (fy/fx)
    130 IF b ... =SGN fy: LET sx=SGN fx*ABS (fx/fy)

    ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2006 Development
  • Homing missile routine - help neededI am attempting to write a routine which will allow a missile to home in on a player. Basically the sort of thing you see in most shoot-em-up games. …

    ... /> Here is my code in BASIC, it should be straightforward to ... mx,my
    100 LET fx=mx-px: LET fy=my ... -py
    110 IF fx>0 THEN LET sx ... =ve
    113 IF fx>0 THEN GO TO ... sy=-ve
    180 IF fx=0 THEN LET sx=0 ...
    rtunes rtunes March 2006 Development
  • Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…

    ... looking for a more equipped BASIC editor for OSX...
    [QUOTE ... great.

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP]Just use TORNADO in FUSE ... continue.[/QUOTE]
    Thanks, Dr Beep. I'll give TORNADO a ... also imagine conversion of simple BASIC programs that I write might ...
    48K 48K April 2006 Development
  • Wanted: Game Ideas!Ok then here goes nothing. I'm a reasonably good programmer, but I'm really no good at coming up with game ideas and graphics. So if any of you have…

    ... can supply some music and beep sound effects. hint hint :-)

    Great idea Dr. Beep.
    Its simple, easy to ... should write reasonable engine with basic physic. while doing this you ...
    Fikee Fikee April 2006 Development
  • Basic or Machine code?Hopefully the correct area of the site to post this question. Anyways, I have got hold of several books on programming my spectrum, and I was wonderi…

    [QUOTE=48K]Thanks, Dr Beep. I'll give TORNADO a ... " and "stop". This is how BASIC-oriented and as yet non ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan 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…

    ... a specific subroutine in the BASIC loader which loads new ... C program, not the associated basic program).

    Here ...
    Keep in mind that Basic expects the IY register and ... some basic commands will mess with the interrupt mode and state. BEEP ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... length of the keypress/error beep (PIP, RASP)
    - Changing typematic ... you think of that C** BASIC rubbish, where, IIRC, you have ...
    GOC GOC July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... for someone to customize the basic portion of a program so ... C program, not the associated basic program).

    Here ... />
    Keep in mind that Basic expects the IY register and ... some basic commands will mess with the interrupt mode and state. BEEP ...
    na_th_an na_th_an July 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…

    ... ) and got an syntax error beep, then I corrected the typo ... got a C NONSENSE in BASIC error. I think basin couldn ...
    Arda Arda October 2006 Emulators
  • Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…

    ... the 2068 overlaps with the basic program. I will have ... already did using the beep command, but the results ... nothing but all the beep command has to offer ... are also some pretty good beep composers about -- check ... while your program runs -- BEEP is a cpu-driven ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Games
  • Something I've been pondering on...... is why Spectrum BASIC includes both PRINT and LPRINT. Likewise, why include LIST and LLIST - When it appeared Sinclair were running out of space…

    ... of redundancy to make their Basic that little bit more usable ... other pitiful excuses for a Basic dialect which shall not be ... named, Sinclair Basic gives you PRINT AT rather ... and friends, it gives you BEEP rather than insisting on a ...
    gasman gasman November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX spectrum as a PC usb keyboard?One of my commodore brained friend showed me an interface which converts the keyboard of c64 to a standard usb keyboard. I quickly searched this for…

    [quote=Dr BEEP]Commodore AND friend AND brain ????[/ ... said [B]C Nonsense in Basic, 0:1[/B] when I ...
    Marcelo Marcelo December 2006 Hardware
  • 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. …

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP;166946][code]
    10 LET ... /2)
    In the first BASIC it should read LET A ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP 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. …

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP;169328]With a logical AND ... I occasionally write some ZX BASIC, I always end up [i ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz February 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • help needed...Hi there, i'm trying to figure out a possible typo in William Tang's 'Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner' on page 23 there's a prog…

    ... although I'm a total BASIC novice with strings and functions ... dec to hex converter, Dr Beep came up with a great ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP;173413]The syntax from BIN2REM ... me too. It seems that BASIC doesn't attempt to parse ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2007 Development
  • Galaksija emulator for ZX Spectrum +3/+2A(black)This is a NEW program/utility/game pack for ZX Spectrum. It is basically an emulator of an ex-Yugoslav computer "Galaksija" which is also Z80 based. …

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP;175313]No, but the Apple ... C64 you have a full BASIC Spectrum emulator, Quite good[/QUOTE ...
    obo obo March 2007 Emulators
  • Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…

    ... relocation.

    To Dr Beep:
    Regarding selecting the graphics ... text editor. It is dumb (BASIC-wise), and itself is just ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…

    ... !


    To Dr Beep:
    Regarding selecting the graphics ... text editor. It is dumb (BASIC-wise), and itself is just ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…

    Dr. Beep means typing characters in the basic editor that have character codes ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • SpeedloadersSince I read Lee Tonks' post about the speedloaded version of MM3 he did, I've been playing around with various speedload routines I found on TTFn & …

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP;51282]Why shouldn't it ... loader (a copy of the BASIC loader) located in lower 16K ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • WoS hits 500 permission statementsIt's been a while since I asked, but since we reached our 500th permission statement from individuals today, I thought I'd remind you all again: If …

    ... no loading screen (just a BASIC loader and the code), awful ... no sound (maybe the odd beep), and no options at all ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP;188621]Hello to you all, < ... make a program on 1 BASIC line.
    Here is the ...
    miskox miskox May 2007 Development
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... will remember that, but the basic code is a corking place ... Chaps.

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP;190645]20 Let N=1020 ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    ... will remember that, but the basic code is a corking place ... .[/QUOTE]

    Yeah, Dr Beep is a clever old scrote ...
    DEATH DEATH May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Sceen$ helpMost people have used screen$ at some time or another and for me what I want to do is use it or something like it as a start screen before the game p…

    Cheers guys,

    The beep man got it spot on. ... to feel that a simple basic arcade game was going to ...
    Toxitalk Toxitalk May 2007 Sinclair Basic
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