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  • Best way to have multiple characters in AGDHi Guys Can someone please tell me if you can have 2 playable characters in game at anytime that span multiple screen sort of like the way Enigma Fo…

    ... you can have 2 playable characters in game at anytime that span ... to.

    If both characters are on the same screen ...
    trw_mavrik trw_mavrik September 2014 Development
  • Speccy characters in Comic form.From a recent discussion about comics, several peeps said they'd like to see their favourite characters in comic form. We've already had Wally, thank…

    ... like to see their favourite characters in comic form. We've already ... Lunar Jetman thanks to Crash, in the past. So I got ...
    Luny Luny May 2016 Chit chat
  • How to insert special characters in Basic and ASM ?Look the next picture. [IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9479/scode.jpg[/IMG] I dont know how to insert these black and diagonal characters. No…

    ... black and diagonal characters. Not in basic, and not in ASM. For example ... in asm with the follow definition ... /> Also, in this url we can see some special characters but not ...
    arfgh arfgh June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • SpecBAS 0.830 Released!Hi guys - A new official release of SpecBAS has been released. The full changelog is below, but for now here's the download: [url]https://sites.goo…

    ... Previously, UDGs were two characters in size; CHR$(1) followed ... fonts were 512 characters in size, and made string handling more ... searching "string" for "substr" at position "start"
    CHANGE: UDGs ... /> A small bug in string slice assigns that caused ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Tutorial: Using UDGs in SpecBASSpecBAS is capable of using graphics mode, in a similar manner to the original Spectrum. Like most things though, the extended nature of SPecBAS's ab…

    ... normal typing characters.

    The second will stay in graphics ...
    The font in bank 1 contains mono characters that are 8 ...
    so to redefine "a", change line 10 to:

    characters in your code turn to boxes ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... substrings delimited by characters in the string "\n" (in this case just ... of the characters in the string "special". The "special" string is declared ... the following two characters in the string are taken as the ... -zero then we do change colour of the character ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Is there a ROM modification (48K) for load without typing LOAD""?The target is to play with 48K machines with keyboard broken, or an alternative solution for new clones like Superfo instead of making a new keyboard…

    ... syntax.
    end of change

    ... signal null string.

    change code to ... string in BC.
    ; start of string in DE.
    end of change ... more than ten characters in length or the null string.
    ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2012 Development
  • Compiler conventions for passing args/return valuesI've been mulling over this for a while, but I can't spot it covered anywhere. There are various methods for passing args and return values between …

    ... ]

    You can't change the calling convention without informing ... does not contain any characters from the string stop. C only returns ... /> ; de = address of terminating NUL in string
    ; carry reset no errors ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2013 Development
  • SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…

    ... character
    call str_alter ; change stream?
    jr c, list_1 ... /> out (c), a ; change speed
    ret ; end ... />
    ; THE 'PRINTING CHARACTERS IN A BASIC LINE' SUBROUTINE
    string or array variable?
    jr ...
    chev chev October 2013 Development
  • SCREEN$ bug fixI've been using the SCREEN$() function recently for reading data off the screen rather than taking up space with an array and I got fed up with the s…

    ... /> jr z,Stack0 ;if no characters in selected set
    call $254f ... z,Matched
    xor $0f ;change to graphic inverse code
    string
    ;becomes the output from ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…

    ... , 3x3 objects with just one string.

    You can ... you write characters directly to the backup in order to change it, or ... defined characters, and including CHR$ codes of 0-31 in a string ... them directly (e.g. "!" in a string to clear the screen, instead ...
    joefish joefish March 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…

    ... browser to look around or change to a new directory. Once ... it ends in ".bas". If it doesn't you can change the ... wildcard matching zero or more characters in the name. ".find . -name *batman ... command "cd" which requires a string argument although it does the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2021 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Question about the "Color" function of the number keysI'm very new to Spectrum. What was the purpose of the color function of the number keys?

    ... PRINT string and they will change the colour of the characters in that string.
    Luny Luny September 2022 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…

    ... cause a scroll while inserting characters in the middle of the buffer ... a switch so you can change cursor up/cursor down to ... printable characters (can't use CHR 0 since that's the string ... could use all 256 characters if every string stored a length instead ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Development
  • XLR-8 Mastering utils: quick heads-upFirstly, only do this using an emulated 48K rubberkey at this stage because that's all it was ever tested on. "LOADER MAKER" - "First decrypter" - p…

    ... need to put the control characters in yourself. Once it's done ... use O and P to change the ink colour to what ... , and Q and A to change the paper colour, then press ... , there is NO ERROR TRAPPING in this because it was only ...
    JonNorth JonNorth December 2005 Development
  • One Liner - Machine CodeHi Dr. BEEP, Digital Prawn, et. al., I think that what you guys have achieved with the one liner contest is absolutely amazing. It brought about wh…

    ... format
    3) the "length" (in bytes) of the machine code ... [B]machine in ASCII format[/B] is a long string. Each byte ... is represented by two characters in a Hex ... length of the machine code string in ASCII format.

    [ ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz November 2007 Development
  • VI for XP?I've been using the same PC/VI editor program for 20 years, which has worked with every MS OS from DOS 3 upwards, but it doesn't work quite right wit…

    ... full regular expression implementation in search/replace, equivalent ... , particularly in the handling of special characters in replacement strings ... /> 27,$-5s/\(bill\).*\(ben\)/change & to \2 and ... "change bill[anytext]ben to ben and bill", in the ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2009 Chit chat
  • Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…

    ... I hope to bring in a multilingual option (could ... 26 - Press 'C' to change name
    27 - Enter new ... for names of the characters in a foreign language. All ... will have space to change what Boy Wander writes ... of the current work in progress. Currently I'm ...
    Jimmy Jimmy July 2009 Development
  • Jumping the sharkBored again, so "inspired" by a post on a forum I read last week (can't find the link, I'm at work now), here's a list of programs that I think have …

    ... Ross and Rachael were just characters in a TV program, if ... that whereas in Coupling the characters were adults, in Friends the characters were ... a lot of interest in the characters too. It's like ... remember being disgusted over a change in a TV program. They ...
    ewgf ewgf May 2010 Chit chat
  • Double Dragon Forever - Beta version releasedNot strictly Speccy related but I hope no one minds me posting this... Double Dragon Forver, which has been in development forever has reached it's …

    ... Dragon Forver, which has been in development forever has reached it ... through walls.
    You can change characters on continue.
    Better enemy ...
    Swainy Swainy August 2010 Announcements
  • SpecBAS 0.646 now available.Yay! Here's another round of bugfixes and additions to the Program. Not so much of the extract coding features, but more back-to-basics this time: […

    ... put it into the specified string variable.
    The ITEM ... , 1 - number, 2 - string).
    The FPEEK function and ... memory banks.
    Inline ascii characters in strings - represented by the # ...
    Will assign the string "Hello there!" to a$. This ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Trying to remember an old text based game I used to play...Hi all, hope u had a nice Christmas.. I've been scratching my head for some time now trying to remember the name of an old game I used to play on my …

    ... , i.e. they didn't change from game to game.
    characters in the game, or to find ... /> I do recall that the characters were not a fixed element ... I had control of numerous characters and the screen would read ...
    RetroGamerUK RetroGamerUK December 2011 Games
  • Interview with VERONIKA MEGLER ("The Hobbit" programmer)This interview with Veronika Megler (The Hobbit) has been published by elmundodelspectrum.com in Spanish, I copy it here for you all in its original …

    ... , the objects, the characters, how the characters played the game, what ... has so much cooperation between characters in it, it drove the concept ... of being able to tell characters in the game what you ... of actions as a ?character change?. There was one character ( ...
    jmvbok jmvbok March 2012 Games
  • Speccy characters in plastic anyone?Browsing the brilliant HackaDay website, I stumbled across this nice prog for those who want to recreate some 8-bit nostalgia in plastic glory - i.e.…

    ... recreate some 8-bit nostalgia in plastic glory - i.e. Hama ...
    aktiv8 aktiv8 June 2012 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • FZX Driver for z88dkAn fzx library for z88dk can be downloaded [URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWM2hWNjAxMVkxaEk/edit?usp=sharing"]here[/URL]. The libr…

    ... );[/B]
    Output zero terminated string.

    [B]int ... , uint len);[/B]
    Output characters in buffer.

    All ... inside the string s such that the previous characters have width ... chars if they are contained in the string.

    [B ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Announcements
  • Fat characters in ZX Spectrum gamesHi all, I'm trying to think of some games that had heroes who were quite fat. Now there are some obvious ones, like Monty Mole, Wally Week, Henhouse…

    ... you suggest any properly famous characters who had fat sprites? I ...
    fahrenheit1987 fahrenheit1987 July 2014 Games
  • 'Ocean Draw' instructionsHere are the instructions for the screen and sprite editor used in-house at Ocean Software, possibly typed up by Joffa Smifff (as the 2 of the sprite…

    ... /> ***** SPRITE MENU *****

    M -CHANGE TO CHARACTER MODE

    ****** CHAR MENU *************

    M -CHANGE TO SPRITE MODE

    CHARACTERS
    IN MDRAW TEXT MODE ARE ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones September 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Code structureHi all, I'd be interested in opinions on the neatest way to do this. I've got a print string routine in which 0-31 are reserved for control codes, …

    ... 've got a print string routine in which 0-31 are ... reserved for control codes, stop, newline, change ... /> print_string ;ix pointing at string
    ld a,(ix+0 ... c,control_code
    ...print char in string
    jr print_string
    ...
    R-Tape R-Tape August 2015 Development
  • SpecBAS 0.905 Released...I said I shouldn't have done it, so now I have to release an update to fix the bugs I missed but that my valiant testers discovered! Here's what's…

    ... are used in the edit line outside of string literals< ... a weird bug where shifted characters (&, £, $ etc) would ... that result in a string with non-ascii characters in them, such ...
    Fixed flag preservation in inserting lines
    Fixed ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2017 Sinclair Basic
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