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  • Li'l help?I'm making a video-sketch-show thing, and I plan on putting some speccy code in somewhere, (as well as a comic strip on the inlay case) but I can onl…

    ... you can always use BETA BASIC with routines like PLOT 100 ... ".

    With some simple BASIC you could make a SINUS ... Message was edited by: dr beep on 2002-07-31 13 ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The funniest thing we made with the spectrumHello. The funniest thing i made with the spectrum were championships with my buddy francisco on a game called 3d stunt car racer, i think that was t…

    ... gasping the basics of BASIC (man, this sounds kinda nice), I had ... programm that would capture any BASIC runtime error and display ... programm consisted of only one BASIC part, containing my ASM ... started it. After that the BASIC programm deleted itselt (NEW). ...
    NicAdi NicAdi August 2002 Games
  • Spectrum ROMI downloaded some text files (they are actually the spectrum ROM files but in text) which can be compiled using TASM (or soemthing). I read on WOS th…

    ... 's and print them in BASIC and when you move them ... Message was edited by: dr beep on 2002-08-07 07 ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…

    ... Dr.Beep , but I just know nothing about addresses and memory.. basic ... to 0" instructions and some beep f*0.5,20.. I ...
    Javier Alca?iz Javier Alca?iz September 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Memory usageBrowsing the online documentation for the Spectrum I came across a peculiar discrepency. As we all know the start of the RAM is at 16384 which is whe…

    ... -11-12 14:35, Dr BEEP wrote:
    I can't ... title screen ontop of the BASIC listing.

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why the Spectrum?Of all the 8-bit [I]microcomputers[/I] that were around in the 80's, why did you choose the Spectrum and not another one?

    ... , of exotic sounds like "randomize" or "gosub", or my favorite: "beep" (that ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi November 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • did anybody program games for their spectrum?did anybody make games for their spectrum and have you still got them in tap/z80 format. i once attempted to make a side scrolling game but it didn…

    Beep, really neat coding! Wish I ... was an easier way in BASIC, I wouldn't have bothered ...
    Arjun Arjun December 2002 Games
  • which is the best pc remake of a spectrum game?which is the best remake of a spectrum game for the pc?

    ... was my own silly little BASIC game and the competition closed ... a "demake".
    [/quote]
    :) Sounds good to me! I really ...
    Chris Cowley Chris Cowley December 2002 Games
  • what should i do with ZX81 tapes?Hi people, So I have a few rare ZX81 tapes (DK Tronics mainly) and none of them are available on the web as .p files. There must be other people who…

    ... VOC files though? The visual basic ZX81 emulator is neat but ... success with the method Dr BEEP suggested....not sure i hve ...
    pigdog pigdog December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... he can do that as Basic is inherently a linear system ... not the expert on SE Basic so he might have improved ... a simple USR call from basic (every 1/50th of a ... want to use PLAY style sounds then I don't have ... to develop a game in BASIC. Hence I would suggest the ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • ANN: Write Spectrum Games in C with speclib121 Announcing the sprite pack C library for the z88dk C cross compiler available from: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/main.htm"]http://justme895.tr…

    Sounds interesting. I've never tried ... wishing to progress from Sinclair BASIC. If I can find the ...
    jonathan jonathan January 2003 Announcements
  • ANN: Write Spectrum Games in C with speclib121 Announcing the sprite pack C library for the z88dk C cross compiler available from: [url="http://justme895.tripod.com/main.htm"]http://justme895.tr…

    ... 01:48, jonathan wrote:
    Sounds interesting. I've never tried ... wishing to progress from Sinclair BASIC. If I can find the ... disk access, tape loading and basic graphics primitives (circle, draw, plot ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2003 Announcements
  • Newer name of the gameI can't find out the name of my old favourite game. This was a Boulder Dash style game, but no scrolling screen. I think you had to collect ?beer? or…

    ... 2 channel beeper music or sounds during the game!!!

    basic program. :)))

    If you ...
    edy.wss edy.wss February 2003 Games
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... work like that - the 128k BASIC play routines are not designed ... .

    [quote] Is it beep music? [/quote]

    THAT ... - although this is a fairly basic one. The actual interrupt routine ...
    cyborg cyborg February 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... work like that - the 128k BASIC play routines are not designed ... /> [quote]
    [quote] Is it beep music? [/quote]

    THAT ... ]

    Not really. Change beep notes to AY notes. Done ... .

    I think real beep music might be doable in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • University DissertationI'm in my second year of a Computer Software Development Degree, and have to produce over the next 13 weeks a mini-dissertation that leads in to my d…

    ... -02-20 08:00, Dr BEEP wrote:
    1) The machine ... can do this (see the BASIC-Spectrum emulator)
    [/quote]
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall February 2003 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... 03-04 12:38, Dr BEEP wrote:
    RUN goes ... it ???
    Maybe to start BASIC from out MC
    ... A
    JP 8108 ; run BASIC program!

    [/quote ... Thanks! I want to load basic prog. together with mc ( ... memory saved) and than run basic.

    I ...
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... 04 12:38, Dr BEEP wrote:
    RUN goes ... ???
    Maybe to start BASIC from out MC
    ...
    JP 8108 ; run BASIC program!

    [/ ... error message
    Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    BASIC interpreter, to POKE some ...
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... what I needed - start of BASIC program by RAND. USR call ... -03-05 08:01, Dr BEEP wrote:
    Prevent your BREAK ... (MC) and you return to BASIC through the NEXT-STATEMENT ROUTINE ... /> PRINTREADY:
    LD HL,(.....) ; IN BASIC LAST LINE EXECUTED 23621????
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... what I needed - start of BASIC program by RAND. USR call ... -03-05 08:01, Dr BEEP wrote:
    Prevent your BREAK ... (MC) and you return to BASIC through the NEXT-STATEMENT ROUTINE ... /> PRINTREADY:
    LD HL,(.....) ; IN BASIC LAST LINE EXECUTED 23621????
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How do you pronounce 'Speccy'?..since i've never heard the word spoken, just read it over here... I wonder if you guys read it as 'spexy' or rather as 'spetchi' or what else. eve…

    ... exotic terms as 'randomize', 'load', 'beep', 'poke'... Particularly when one tried ... try and write down the sounds we'd invent... :) ahhh, when ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…

    ... sprites.
    [/quote]

    Sounds possible for me. with 2 ... /> [/quote]

    That?s sounds like a conspiracy of aliens ... Pro is written in Dark Basic Pro, so it will work ... DithvIDE program from C to Basic, please contact me.
    LCD LCD March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... . There's a simple basic one for beginners which displays ... own title screen maybe in BASIC, wait for the relevant ... could do this, sounds exciting. could even use compiled basic.


    this one really sounds like a winner ...

    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Spectrum problemHi I've just been trying to resurrect my 48k spectrum. I'm having some problems loading some of my games, but if it does completely load, it crashe…

    ... will highlight it.

    sounds like a good 'un :) - best ... to locate one of the basic routines which you can type ...
    GP GP April 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • YS MegaBasicHas anyone got any other information on this utility apart from the YS articles published by Mike Leaman (which now seem to have gone missing)?

    ... Speccy BASIC for a long time [...]
    [/quote]

    Aha! Sounds ... like an opportunity... What, specifically, did you suffer with Speccy BASIC ... need to do that Speccy BASIC did not? Please, if ... or other things that the BASIC could not do... I'm ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2003 Games
  • YS MegaBasicHas anyone got any other information on this utility apart from the YS articles published by Mike Leaman (which now seem to have gone missing)?

    ... BASIC for a long time [...]
    [/quote]

    Aha! Sounds ... like an opportunity... What, specifically, did you suffer with Speccy BASIC ... need to do that Speccy BASIC did not? Please, if ... harsh :D I love Sinclair Basic dialect, the thing I ...
    na_th_an na_th_an May 2003 Games
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... tape player won't work. sounds like a certain company whose ... music vs instruction set vs basic vs keyboard vs games vs ... why again, i liked the basic better, think it is much ... to get into than C64 Basic, and you can ask why ...
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • OK... Another name the gameYeap... notorious bJohnnyBravo is back with the name the game :)... OK... here it goes... Should be very old(maybe written in basic)... all I can r…

    Sounds suspiciously like Jet Pac (that fuel thingy does anyway)! But it ain't in BASIC, it ain't UDG and u already know bout it methinks.

    Nope. I give up! Over to other specchums then....
    Arjun Arjun June 2003 Games
  • loading games the old fashioned wayhello everyone i'm back, my pc broke so i had to save and convince myself to buy a new one,which i did. Anyway i just got spectaculator since i now h…

    ... -07-18 21:06, Dr BEEP wrote:
    [quote]
    On ... .
    It loads like tape, sounds like tape but only last ... use an original machine, Dr BEEP. I never use an emulator ...
    Spector Spector July 2003 Games
  • 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…

    ... a whole Basic routine, or an entire Basic program for ... learning this but my basic has gotten very ... br /> 20 Randomize
    25 Beep .0010, INT ( RND*50 - ... n=0 To 5000: Randomize: Beep .0010, INT ( RND*50 ... better off compiling your basic program - but this ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
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