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Printing in 64 columns, from Basic?Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any known machine code utility that allows something similar to PRINT AT that can be called fr…
Hmmm, found some of these (including the Timex high- ... everything I tried effects the BASIC editor as well. -
Operation Wolf Erbe edition, incompatibility with +2A?I was playing this game on my +2A today and suddenly the game crashed when I was shooting an enemy in the 4th level. I tried some years before the Hi…
... you get from choosing 48K Basic on the menu. You need ... ' where you have the 48K Basic editor, but the 128K paging mechanism ... to type 'usr0' in 128K Basic.)
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Real 3D (using 3D glasses) on existing PC games?You know those "3D glasses" they have in cinemas sometimes, and for watching some TV programs, or some magazine articles? Where each "lense" is a dif…
... is set to a neutral colour setting, usually called the ... should be able to change all of these settings through the ... once and bought a bottle of wine. It was rancid ... I'm getting the wiff of battery acid, summer park ... toilets and dog piss off of nettles. In a ba ... -
More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.
... /> Being able to cue a colour change and have it affect the ... OUTs to make a palette change instead of one for a border ... worth a bit of effort, surely? You could have colour bars right ... different papers at the problem of sky gradients and have different ... -
Randomize usrHi, I've often wondered why/how they came up with RANDOMIZE USR <memory address> to invoke machine code couldn't they have used a better keyword (e…
... 't. That's the remains of the running calculator from the ... original Spanish version of the 128 ROM that's ... not like the 128 Basic (because of the editor) and almost never used ... -
Randomize usrHi, I've often wondered why/how they came up with RANDOMIZE USR <memory address> to invoke machine code couldn't they have used a better keyword (e…
... not like the 128 Basic (because of the editor) and almost never ... BASIC is pretty nippy as it keeps a copy of ... the commands in the editor ROM so ... to constantly page in the BASIC ROM. And the keypad ... However, the UK version of the ROM was a backwards ... -
The Chuntey InitiativeIt's the start of a new year and with it brings a new wave of optimism and hope! :) In light of the relative success of twitter/speccynews (in the s…
Arjun, the upper$ and lower$ functions only return the first letter of the string capitalized. Something like this will do the whole word:
DEF FN u$(s$)=VAL$ "CHR$ ((CODE s$)-(32 AND CODE s$>96 AND CODE s$ -
The Chuntey InitiativeIt's the start of a new year and with it brings a new wave of optimism and hope! :) In light of the relative success of twitter/speccynews (in the s…
... only return the first letter of the string capitalized. Something like ... -
Urgent!!!! Need help with saveHi guys, This is URGANT! I am making a turning moment program that uses many arrays. Each array is of size 500 and there are about 6 of them. The c…
... program;
- six arrays of 500 numbers works out at ... a number in Spectrum Basic is stored as a 5 ... beep was a lot of empty space being saved, ... of the low-pitched tone you sometimes get within the Basic editor ... with 15000 bytes worth of arrays on a 16K ... -
Changing the look of the 48K editor cursor?I've read many books and mags since 1987 but never saw it done, and a wos forum search revealed nothing. If I wanted to customize the cursor and, let…
... that inside ROM the discrimination of 'MODE's (modi?) is based ... the BASIC editor. The "M" that I wanted (for MACRO....) was out of ... possible use I can think of is poking 23617, but my ... ....
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Shogun[URL]http://www.flickr.com/photos/jondresner/3502560230/[/URL] Couldn't find much more info, mostly you get another SHOGUN-game. I have it at h…
... (a nice border in the colour of the winner)
No ... are needed to return to BASIC and can be skipped when ... -
Playing AY sounds with BASIC.Is it possible? If so how? I've seen in one forum a while back mention of using interrupts to play but AFAIK this is machine code only. The goal of …
... probably have some sort of basic sequencer display to arrange ...
Playing AY music from BASIC interpreter - with interrupts - is ... -channels digital music from BASIC interpreter however it takes ... Your music on any good editor (Sound-Tracker, SQ-Tracker ... -
Beepola v1.01A new version of Beepoa, v1.01, is now available for download from:- [URL]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/Beepola_v1.01.00.zip[/URL] (650KiB) …
... changes duration and sound of the drums, this makes ... AY players has no Sinclair BASIC ROM, so the only ... FX player ~500 bytes of the ROM data should ... bytes, because this will change sound of the drums and can ... design flaw, they (developers of the format) had to ... -
Merlin has risen from the grave!Those of you following the Merlin saga [thread=29902]over here[/thread] might be slightly interested to know that the program is now available in the…
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After spending a couple of weeks working through the machine ... version was unfinished, as four of the five levels are impossible ... of the graphics look a bit dubious as well. The platform editor ... 'm preparing a new selection of BASIC type-ins from HCW at ... -
Colour or Monochrome?The release of the game [B]Cheril Perils [/B]at: [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30403[/URL] made me voice my preferenc…
... black and have them change into the colour of the objects in the ... was never really a fan of the Wally games so for ... -
Did the average Spectrum programmer really even try?I've been thinking about this recently, I'm always hearing Amstrad, and MSX users moaning about how unfair it was that they got "lazy Spectrum ports"…
... of one would inherit the colour from the other. Bubbles would change colour ... error with is the background colour, I'm thinking that ... as sprite masking and colour priority need your further ... the game differently...with colour clash? Of course they could have ... -
Developing on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)Ok, so I decided to install Ubuntu as my main OS, but keep XP as a bootable partition just in case I err mess up Ubuntu, :) I also have XP VM in Virt…
... There's a Mac version of SevenUp so I guess ... ]
That's very kind of you.
[ ... you're after a fast BASIC editor. It's not as ... original ROM in terms of speed and ease of use.
... be wholly accurate, development of SpecEmu is not officially dead ... -
Developing on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)Ok, so I decided to install Ubuntu as my main OS, but keep XP as a bootable partition just in case I err mess up Ubuntu, :) I also have XP VM in Virt…
... itself, and a font editor with support for proportional and ... I use SE Basic as my BASIC editor of choice most of the time, not ... that I write a lot of BASIC ... editor makes a huge difference. Vortex is my tracker of ... -
+3 assembler questionI was wondering if anyone could give any suggestions as to how to get this bit of code working on the +2A/+3 in 128k mode. It works on the +128k/+2 i…
... Bunny;462819]Bit 4 of FLAGS is unused on the ... 't find an explanation of its use in the ... ROM 3 is the '48 BASIC' ROM and is virtually identical ... 7 along with some of the editor and DOS variables. Page ... is running 48 BASIC or +3 BASIC. When 48 BASIC is selected ... -
Issue 65 of Scene+As I understand that some programmers wants to be informed if their programs were distributed on our disk magazine, here is a list what will be on ne…
... not even the publisher of this magazine, it is ... system. We usually change just the basic loaders and this we ... to contact every author of a game before we ... can archieve our goal of a real healthy Spectrum ... list with e-mail adresses of authors. Maybe somebody got ... -
Issue 65 of Scene+As I understand that some programmers wants to be informed if their programs were distributed on our disk magazine, here is a list what will be on ne…
... disk system. We usually change just the basic loaders and this we ... we can archieve our goal of a real healthy Spectrum community ... list with e-mail adresses of authors. Maybe somebody got already ... and are neutral. Small amount of people have problems, but it ... -
Using the stack to copy memory blocksA [b]PUSH[/b] and a [b]POP[/b] instruction together take less time than two [b]LDI[/b], so long [b]POP/PUSH[/b] sequences are sometimes used to copy …
... change the colours of alternate columns, so each column only changed colour ... the left/right halves of the sprites change colour on alternate lines.< ... put a seperate colour on each line of the whole 12 ... no problem with those sorts of clashes. Most flicker-free ... -
New beeper song[url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/oldsite/cantslowdown.tap]Can't Slow Down TAP[/url]. [url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498358/oldsite/sources/cantslo…
... any existing at present editor bipernoy music for computer ... by basic-loader for easy reproduction and distribution of work ... name and version number of the editor, in which he performed ... information for communication in case of possible emergencies.
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New Version of BeepolaA new version of Beepoa, v1.05, is now available for download from:- [URL]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/[/URL] (806KiB download) It's a fair…
Thought of a possible useful feature ... #, where the 1st half of the pattern stays where it ... 0-3 are marked Major. Change scale option would allow to ... transpose the scale to one of the 7 standard modes, ... />
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TIMEX 2048: anybody can convert GIGASCREEN?Hi. Timex 2048 has stable GigaScreen (no flickering at all). I know there are several big TC2048 fans on the Forum. Could anybody write a viewe…
... , but presumably system variables and BASIC start in the same place ... more than a few lines of BASIC you'll be putting funny ... similar) you can see your BASIC listing appear on screen in ... wrote a little demo of the hi-colour mode when I added ... -
SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
... its not just a form of BASIC, and not just an OS ... be more than about BASIC, but your choice of BASIC and tools to ... ideas concerning your new version of BASIC... AMOS was never just a ... detection commands
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SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
Just a couple of questions, if you have the ... ),
2) Will the BASIC have a single key option ... like 48K BASIC? Oh, and also a syntax ... line) built in to their BASIC editor.
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Derren Brown fiascoPlease, please, please, don`t anyone believe that this show was for real, I have been a Magician for 40 years or so and I really take offence at this…
... shot which makes the ball change colour, then change shape on the next ... that
but yeah, of course it can all be ...
