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Speccy games programmingI've got a question. Where games written in pure machine code or was it a level higher with Assembly language being the choice? I always thought it…
... it to save and load from my disk system which ... native basic compilers (hisoft, colt et al) go directly to machine code which ... Boriel's basic, z88dk, etc) can generate assembler output from which you ... library routines or your own machine code routines to do the ... -
POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
... use in Speccy BASIC.
When writing in machine code you can ... /> Here's the font set from Saucer.
The big ... -
POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
... by Basic, because they have to correspond to PRINTable characters - but machine-code ... to get more custom characters from Basic - you can POKE the system ... -
POKING graphicsI remember using binary code (in BASIC) to POKE graphics (thanks Input magazine!) Using a FOR..NEXT loop you would POKE each square in the 8X8 charac…
... use in Speccy BASIC.
When writing in machine code you can ... /> Here's the font set from Saucer.
The big ... -
Memory concerns with z88dkI've retaken my old spectrum project and sadly I've reached a dead end very fast. I'll try to explain my worst problem in a few lines. I'm not a vet…
... an object file, which is machine code but with external references not ... to find a global name from one of the source files ... ! I,ll post again with basic memory layout info for sp1 ... -
Spectrum Review Book is all systems go ![url]http://www.spectrumgamesbible.co.uk/[/url] We've created a small website for the series of books we are looking to create for the Speccy featur…
... , even the ones written in BASIC and chose to concentrate on ... saying "it's written in BASIC therefore it's shite" :lol ... />
Some of the newer machine code games however did not escape ... I had've bought them from a shop when I was ... -
Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…
... just 48k ram in which basic source code, the resulting binary, the ... and in facto is 100% machine code as you say.
I ... "CONTINUE FOR" is somewhat borrowed from C. C uses "continue" to ... :). You will not get away from the ENDIF though, because of ... -
Sinclair ZXC3 FLASH ROM CartridgeI recently received mail about the new ZXC3 PCB which provides the unique ability to program it directly from the Spectrum without the need for an EP…
... ability to program it directly from the Spectrum without the need ... . All the standard Interface 1 BASIC commands can be used to ... , erase, etc, and even many machine code programs will operate correctly with ... -
Programing books for the spectrum.Can anyone shout out some good programming books that are readily available to buy.
... from second-hand sources.
Advanced Spectrum Machine ... Introducing Spectrum Machine Code (Ian Sinclair)
Mastering Machine Code on Your ... Dickens)
Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute ... /> ZX Spectrum BASIC Programming (Steven Vickers) -
Programing books for the spectrum.Can anyone shout out some good programming books that are readily available to buy.
... few BASIC and Machine Code books available in .PDF and .txt form from WoS ... -
ANN: EsxDos 0.73 released (third party - not mine)Papaya Dezign have finally released their firmware/OS for the DivIDE interface. Go get it from [url]http://www.esxdos.org/files/esxdos073.zip[/url]…
... TAPE emulator supports reading/writing from/to .TAP files. Can ... , chdir, unlink...
* BASIC command integration using +3DOS headers ... seamless IM2 loading/saving, from BASIC and machine code.
* Possibility ... can also exit to BASIC with a custom error ... -
What Z80 development tools do you use? What books?Hi. I've been meaning to do it for over 25 years, but.. better late than never :) I'm starting to learn machine code and am trying to get a developme…
... Basic Manual (has an index of op-codes) and Introducing Spectrum Machine Code ... this, to work in 'real machine code' is wonderful :)
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Also looping HL down from 60,000, each loop changing ... [I]woow, the power of machine code[/I] :-o I doubt my ... -
What Z80 development tools do you use? What books?Hi. I've been meaning to do it for over 25 years, but.. better late than never :) I'm starting to learn machine code and am trying to get a developme…
... processing each instruction) from within your code should become second nature ... already) zeroed [B]A[/B] from above. Sinclair ROM aficionados will ... /> I suppose at the moment machine code seems to be just so ... re used to working in BASIC and all those bitty ... -
What Z80 development tools do you use? What books?Hi. I've been meaning to do it for over 25 years, but.. better late than never :) I'm starting to learn machine code and am trying to get a developme…
... (already) zeroed [B]A[/B] from above. Sinclair ROM aficionados will ... [$1A1B] preserves most registers apart from the main BC pair which ... first 6683 is printed in machine code as BC holds the argument ... [65536 -10] is printed by BASIC as the returned value of ... -
ZX81 more powerful than the Speccy?I have been reading ?The ZX Spectrum Book 1982 - 199x? by Andrew Rollings (thanks again, Andrew - it?s a great read!). There are some comments in the…
... , machine code was called a low level language on the Speccy and BASIC ... there is little to gain from doing it (maybe the last ... -
ANN: EsxDos 0.73 released (third party - not mine)Papaya Dezign have finally released their firmware/OS for the DivIDE interface. Go get it from [url]http://www.esxdos.org/files/esxdos073.zip[/url]…
... TAPE emulator supports reading/writing from/to .TAP files. Can ... , chdir, unlink...
* BASIC command integration using +3DOS headers ... seamless IM2 loading/saving, from BASIC and machine code.
* Possibility ... can also exit to BASIC with a custom error ... -
Matthew Smith's Delta Tau OneGoing through some old boxes I've managed to dig up some stuff on Matthew Smith's first commercially released game [B]Delta Tau One[/B]. I don't know…
... the graphics than the one from the catalogue. As you can ... BASIC.
I assume Delta Tau One was written in Machine Code ... rather than BASIC though? -
Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…
... be able to call a machine code routine from BASIC to handle these type ... in machine code, couldn't I read all the animation data from mass ... /> Doing:
LOAD "3dwireanim" CODE 16384 STEP 6144
CODE 16384 : NEXT F -
Converting games from tap to dskHi to all from Greece, Being an old Speccy user and now owner of most models of Spectrum (48k , 48k+ , 128K, +2 grey and +3) , I desided to salvage m…
... sideways RAM with a short machine-code program. So load the other ... /> LD HL,8000h ; copy 16k from 32768
LD DE,0C000h ... ) ; restore the memory paging that BASIC expects
LD BC,7FFDh ... course, once you start using machine code it can be easier just ... -
Double Dragon 128k - The graphicsAs you are all probably aware, I tried gathering a team of people together a few years back to make a totally re-programmed version of Double Dragon …
... where to go, tbh basic and machine code is foreign to me but ... [/QUOTE]
The original code was lost a long time ... seen on Youtube was taken from that but it crashed within ... . So we are totally starting from scratch and to be honest ... -
Most impressive game you've ever seen which has been written in speccy BASIC?What's the most impressive speccy game you've ever seen that's been written solely in speccy BASIC? +3 Basic or 48k basic. No machine code routines…
... BASIC or go the whole hog and do it in machine code ... ship the complete Laser Basic runtime with your program ... Doom [/I]entry from a couple of years ... />
That was in BASIC? Never realised!
BASIC, but BASIC none the less!
Microdrive Games CartridgeI've just noticed that Ant Attack on the microdrive [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014815"]Games Cartridge[/URL] (also bundl…
... some sectors missing from the main Ant Attack code file - called ... this seems to be the basic and code lumped together.
[/QUOTE ... often get copies of BASIC and machine code in the spare section ... Also 6K was trimmed from the BASIC by using variables for 0 ...Microdrive Games CartridgeI've just noticed that Ant Attack on the microdrive [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014815"]Games Cartridge[/URL] (also bundl…
... build a proper sector copy from an original cartridge.
We ... that for this cartridge the BASIC and machine code were drastically changed and ...Microdrive Games CartridgeI've just noticed that Ant Attack on the microdrive [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0014815"]Games Cartridge[/URL] (also bundl…
... 41K memory map including BASIC up to 65535. That ... replace zero in the substantial BASIC program.
Tape ... which loads the code from microdrive and then executes machine code. This among ... finished message it autostarts from false BASIC.
The graphics ...Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available!Image to ZX Spec 1.1 Now Freely Available! [IMG]http://mirror.viperfang.net/silentdevelopments/images/ent-preview1.1.zx.png[/IMG][IMG]http://mirror.…
... ASM/machine code I'm not sure how to write a BASIC program ... algorithms used :( I'm fully code documenting my Java source so ... in dos to create one from existing two images?)Midi out on a ZX SpectrumYears ago (may be over 15 years...) I soldered a small adapter that lets a keyboard or synthesizer connect to the ZX Spectrum 128K's midi/RS232 port.…
Well, there were several situations in the past that I wanted to use midi on the Spectrum with.
1. I used the Midi out port on a ZX Spectrum 128K heatsink model to send data to a Yamaha Cs1x for my first laserharp.
That laserharp had ten ...Some help needed, pretty please! :-)Hi there WOSsers! Long time no see! :-) I'm going through a process to get all my tape games (some real, some downloaded from here) onto +3 disk. I'…
... , so that it can load from and save to disk? I ... Dome to load properly from disk (works fine from tape). It should ... is to disassemble the games machine code loader. It should give you ... /> SPECTRUM
...in the basic loader (before the randomize usr ...address 23760 etc.Hi all, Where could I find Spectrum 48 addresses, what's in 23760 for instance ? Thanks for advance ! -jp
... REM statement containing the machine code that actually creates the ... be revealed by dissassembling the machine code program at 23760 (or ... quite separate from the memory space.
In BASIC terms, ... make a crude sound under BASIC try:-
...Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…
... machine code that can be called from a simple Basic program. From Basic ... all you can do is call the machine code ... tools and small Basic and machine code routines for some ... P I extract .PNGs from the video using VirtualDub, ...Real Spectrum screen flicker with SCREEN$I've written a basic loader to simply do a 'load "" screen$' based video from a divide+ however I'm finding the Spectrum can't render a screens and a…
... machine code that can be called from a simple Basic program. From Basic ... all you can do is call the machine code ... and small Basic and machine code routines for ... platform support, not machine specific codecs deliberately ...
