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GUI in sinclair basic.Can anyone point me to any existing subroutines or functions or library to be called whithin sinclair basic to create visual command like messageboxe…
The 3e ROM / Basic extensions have a new channel for windows. You can even specify the size of the text.
OPEN #5"w>0,0,24,32,3"
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rom switchhow could one go about building a rom switch, to switch between +3 roms and +3e roms.
... is the purpose of the ROM CS line - whichever one is active ... "Chip Enable" (The ROM CS stands for ROM Chip Select, same thing ... to tell you if the ROM CS line is active high or ... -
The whole denied games, abandonware and buying from eBay issue I understand that it's a software company or author's right to ban free distribution of their games on the Internet. This is a wider issue these da…
... the game somewhere along the line. If this is illegal then ... web address for one stop rom download for all spectrum games ... -
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. …
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Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks
... correctly without the original ROM in place so I ... am seriously considering a two ROM approach to any future ... it if the original ROM is present when any ... be called from the old ROM. The only thing necessary ... if ever you get a line wrong then BASIC will tell ... -
How do I robert@fm?Do I need a tinfoil hat? :lol:
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Sony's E3 ConferenceHere's the basic info... [quote]We will make PS3 available via a two-configuration plan. One with a 20GB HD. And the other with a 60GB hard drive. …
... . Since PS1 is essentially CD-ROM and PS2 is essentially DVD ... -ROM, I can't see any ... remember reading about it on-line somewhere. I could be wrong ... -
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…
... inverted, on the television at line x, column y."
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Loading schemes18 years ago I hated loading schemes like Alcatraz and Speedlock because they were a b*tch to copy and became unreliable when the tape got older. Now…
... up the screen one pixel line at a time and the ... blag that by copying the ROM loader and patching it. Incidentally ... a clone of the entire ROM load/save routines so it ... -
Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…
... since ZShell doesn't support ROM-random generator I converted
Disk image utility for USB disksI make simple utility programm for copy physical disk content to image files. It can work with USB disks, or memory cards attached via some card read…
... is usually in Basic REM line 1, at address 23760 - it ... packed, and inited via some ROM calls - Ant Attack for instance ...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…
... GL, its always a grey line above the top of the ... added to only flashload standard rom blocks, with turbo blocks loading ...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…
... calls directly into the 48K ROM so it probably needs to ... to work with the 128 ROM in 128k mode.
line number and the return value ...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…
... calls directly into the 48K ROM so it probably needs to ... to work with the 128 ROM in 128k mode.
line number and the return value ...ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... unless you modify the ROM to take an optional ... , which will be another ROM modification. Or you could ... start at the first line, and leave it up ... really any hardship, and the ROM already does this.
... real speccy? Again, without ROM modifications, you can't ...What would you pay for a brand new Spectrum?I wanted to know if there was a market for new hardware, like the DTV-64.
... RAM, shadowing 16KB or 32KB ROM (write-protect switchable)
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[*]An EAR and a Line-In connector for connecting my ... this!) with proper Phone and Line-Out jacks
[*]Some way ...+2 Test CardIs it possible to get this up on an emulator? This is the screen you got by pressing break and reset, the beepy thing with 1986s all over it. Where …
... the end of the Basic ROM. It is called from the ... Editor ROM. You can also call it ... right after you execute the line though, so it's easier ...tapper on xpdoes tapper work on xp? planning to convert tzx to voc to wav
... PlayTZX and it plays the rom out of your speakers. Connect ... on your PC to your line in on your spectrum and ...Loading from XP to a real spectrum.Is it possible using the output from a soundcard of an XP box to load programmes to a real spectrum?
... PlayTZX and it plays the rom out of your speakers. Connect ... on your PC to your line in on your spectrum and ...Loading from XP to a real spectrum.Is it possible using the output from a soundcard of an XP box to load programmes to a real spectrum?
[quote=rik007]There's a Windows program called PlayTZX and it plays the rom out of your speakers. Connect your speaker out on your PC to your line in on your spectrum and it works!
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Little pointless though?Questions from the new owner of a grey Spectrum +2I managed to pick up a grey Spectrum +2 off of ebay with cheap shipping (I'm in the US... it was $13 total and it has a Donkey Kong tape inside) and …
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[quote]The best ROM to put in your machine ... is the Spectrum SE ROM which will give you ... you might have about that ROM answered.[/quote]
Thanks ...Questions from the new owner of a grey Spectrum +2I managed to pick up a grey Spectrum +2 off of ebay with cheap shipping (I'm in the US... it was $13 total and it has a Donkey Kong tape inside) and …
... wire for the additional address line and some sort of additional ... interface, which provides +3-compatible ROM-switching. It also includes an ...CLEAR does not RESTORE the DATA pointer??According to the Spectrum manual, one of the things that a CLEAR command does RESTORE the DATA pointer. Either it doesn't actually do this, or some…
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1) "SAVE name LINE is equivalent to SAVE name ... LINE 1 so that when the < ...MP3 loading testsIn a previous thread, Spector says: "The loss of an mp3 file is nothing compared to the loss from an old audio cassette tape. " Dunny says: "Which i…
... to send anything other than ROM loaders out to our 48k ... them an advantage over PC line outs. If you don't ... works for me. Your PC line out has to be good ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... with a rewrite of the ROM routines, was still far too ... you couldn't enter a line with the wrong syntax, a ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... not going to utilise the ROM routines (and thus lose the ... /> Even if using lot of ROM calls MC is much faster ... , but you waste it on line numbers, line lenght, number-5 byte ...Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
BTW, I think most BASIC compilers still depend on the ROM routines so even if you compile it a slow ROM can result in slow code. Compiling a BASIC program does let it skip the parsing and searching for line numbers/variables which are very slow.replacement +3 psuok, who would be kind enough to help an idiot build a replacement PSU for the +3 / +2a , from a PC power supply? Guesser has already helped out a gr…
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The Grey PS ON line is something completely unfamiliar to ... now amongst my numerous CD ROM collection.The 128 plus 2 wasn't very goodHaving looked at the review in issue 33 of Crash of the Spectrum Plus 2, it strikes me as a bit odd, as if Simon Goodwin had to like it. I remember r…
... will disable the internal ROM. This was used for ... place of the paged out ROM.
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