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Loading arrays in BASin...Hi Folks, I have been playing with loading and saving arrays from BASIC in BASin. By trapping the SAVE command the DATA can be saved to a .TAP file…
... with loading and saving arrays from BASIC in BASin. By trapping the ... I can reload the array from the .TAP file but not ... -
Is converting Microdrive formats possible???Hi. First post. I'm a long-time Speccy owner, was lost, but found my way home! :D I have a Disciple as well... Now to my question, but first the …
... -formats and their uses. Also, from my pre-amble with the ... OPENTYPE file-formats, at least from BASIC.
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What memory pages are being used in a +3DOS disk operation?To make a long story short: what pages are in use by +3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive? Now, for the details, for those interest…
... 3DOS while doing read operations from the disk drive?
... pages is really straightforward: from BASIC a POKE 23388,16 ... 2), and then, from machine code and interrupts disabled ... contents of page 7 from the part loaded ... main block is loaded from 25340, up to the ... -
New tool: SnapToTap R2it's basically a gui update to VSC. But it's now simpler to convert sna files into tap files. what is special about SnapToTap? it converts snapshots…
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Utility or routine to save/display imagesLet's assume I have an image or sprite at coordinates x,y with w witdh and h height. If I were to store this image, which storage method would allow …
... would be specified with POKEs from Basic. I know how to do ... character by character data storage from Basic, but it would be too ... -
Can anyone explain why my wife's driving instructor says...My wife is learning to drive (with the Storm driving school here in the UK) and the instructor is teaching her a few things that seem really odd to m…
... move off when the lights change. Fine, perhaps, if the ... lights are about to change, but he expects this when ... 4 minutes as the lights change. Madness!?
(2) Approaching ... approach a roundabout and not change down from fourth or fifth grear ... -
I might try building a barebones PC.Our Packard Bell iMedia 5077 is literally on its last legs. Every time it is switched on something doesn't work, usually it is the sound, sometimes i…
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Ah yes, RAM, I was going to stick ... one stick of 4GB, Value RAM from Ebuyer to be going on ... anti static kit and toolkit from Misco) is to attempt a ... -
A standard emulator "hardware" for console outputAlmost every day, I want to copy text from zx spectrum format, yet, without peeking in the memory spending a lot of time, or typing it by hand, it is…
... , I want to copy text from zx spectrum format, yet, without ... possibilites? How to communicate it from basic, or m/c? Maybe it ... -
Spectrum 8bit IDE adaptersHello there my fellow WoS'ers Today I am pleased to (finally) release these little adapters into the wilde [URL="http://postimage.org/image/1aceto6…
... [B]save[/B] programs from basic input or from tape or even floppy ... 48k and 128k snapshots files from hard disk device.
< ... to the hard disk device from the spectrum, which is something ... to initially pick up some basic commands.
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Keys redefine routine and key check.I have written some asm code which allows me to redefine keys (for a game etc.), and also allows me to be able to check any keypresses for the redefi…
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It can be used from BASIC, err, well, if you know ... anyone wants to use it from BASIC
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The zxodus engineI've been playing around with this for a couple of days now. Its one of the best things I've seen for sinclair basic, and I've seen nothing about it …
... I've seen for sinclair basic, and I've seen ... in interrupts, that allows control from basic, and also gives the ... tiles, while carrying on with basic editing, is one of ... not restricted to use with basic, and I think a ... we have come to expect from Chev.
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The Sqijer v1.0This is just a quick'n'dirty utility to convert png to self-printing graphics in assembly which you can easily use from BASIC (or from whatever you w…
... which you can easily use from BASIC (or from whatever you want).
changing ispright ive been on pipex as long as i can remember, its crap generally but its unrestricted and stable. BUT theyve been taken over by talktalk and fro…
... taken over by talktalk and from the 7th of november it ... /> everything looks like it doesnt change.........apart from one thing, instead of ...Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …
... subroutine
FETCHS: equ $2bf1 ;from calculator stack: AEDCB
FPTOBC ... : equ $2da2 ;from calculator stack: BC
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;stack function parameters passed from BASIC by:
;PRINT USR stack ...Undefine functionHere's a routine to selectively remove variables from the VARS area and reclaim the space. This can be done partially from BASIC already by assigning…
... This can be done partially from BASIC already by assigning a null ... to just use the sloppy BASIC method, so it may ... VARS) rather than in the BASIC area, so catering for that ... />
;stack function parameters passed from BASIC by:
;PRINT USR undefine ...Facebook scriptFacebook have their Initial Public Offering (IPO) today. I wonder if Rupert Murdoch has any change left from his venture into MySpace. Facebook are…
... if Rupert Murdoch has any change left from his venture into MySpace ...Reading interface 2 using the IN commandHow do you read using the IN command from BASIC? You can read multiple keys at once, but I cant remember the values...
How do you read using the IN command from BASIC?
You can read multiple keys at once, but I cant remember the values...ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…
... /> * Provides extended BASIC commands
* BASIC files integration using + ... seamless IM2 loading/saving, from BASIC and machine code
... * System commands loaded from /BIN dir of system ... TAPE emulator supports reading/writing from/to TAP files. TAP ...+3 DOS questionHey all, Is it possible to catalogue a +3 disk to a variable somehow from BASIC? I'm looking at extending my Snapshot to Microdrive utility, so it s…
... disk to a variable somehow from BASIC? I'm looking at extending ... , I have a BASIC programme (with some machine code from a book ... lets you launch multiple snapshots from the same cartridge.
Question about 2-channel beeper musicI confess I haven't tried all the available beeper utilities and software. I always found music software confusing and trackers are not for me. I kno…
... use the good old beeper from BASIC and want to play two ... music without having to leave BASIC. Let's say I ... I may want to do from BASIC like for example key detection ... . How to return to BASIC after one note in one ... able to compose music in BASIC as I always did, ...Restore HL' to?It is probably a simple question, but it's been escaping me for quite some time now. Is there an 'universal' value you should restore HL' to if your…
... ] is expected to return to BASIC after it has finished execution ... hold whenever stuff gets called from BASIC. However, say when I try ... open an SjASM snapshot created from my code, the value in ... still seem to return to BASIC without errors.
While ...My Issue 2 spectrum"IT'S ALIVE!!!!!" - Dr Frankenstein I got my issue 2 spectrum up and running, colours and all. I borrowed socketed lower ram from my issue 3 that is…
... I borrowed socketed lower ram from my issue 3 that is ... can not find its upper ram. It is quite possible ... lives with new keyboard membrane from RWAP, an new low ... (Nec 780008C), memory borrowed from my Issue 3S (to be ... a whole lot of help from this forum, and sheer ...A "bit" of a curiosityHaving to use a bit of m/code to do the AND in that key check function, I was prompted to revisit the "AND,XOR,OR,...for BASIC" topic and came up wit…
... the "AND,XOR,OR,...for BASIC" topic and came up with ... m/code routines called from BASIC, but entirely in BASIC. It's inevitably ...A small thoughtexperiment.Hi. Let's say that i have a 48K Issue 3b spectrum, and i want to be able to disable the top 32K ram from an external interface. This interface would…
... to disable the top 32K ram from an external interface. This interface ... would have its own ram that would occupy the 32K ... mode and thereby disabling the ram.
The plan is ... between the interface and the RAM enable/disable pins on the ...What is the best way to detect CAPS LOCK?Hi Folks, Not sure what the correct behaviour is here as I do not have access to a real Spectrum. Under BASin, when you press CAPS LOCK on the PC k…
... again. Any keyboard reading from within a BASIC program reflects this.
BASIC program but not from within one (e ... way to detect CAPS LOCK from BASIC? When I run the following ...Converting games to disk: difficult loadersThis thread has an spanish version in foro speccy, but I haven't gathered enough information to overcome my problems. I've been converting some game…
... the loading routine. Jumping from code block to code block ...
- [b]Some special loaders from Dinamic (Astro Marine Corps, Freddy ... they use standard BASIC loaders (to use it from floppy or ... 128k), I've loaded everything from BASIC, and then disabled that ...Problem with Page 7I've been experimenting with running code in page 7 (+3) from BASIC and I seemed to have got it sorted out but then it all went wrong. Firstly, I tr…
... code in page 7 (+3) from BASIC and I seemed to have ... . (Note that I'm loading from tape.)
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30 ... tried doing the same thing from disk and it crashed all ...Disabling the +3 disk buffer; yes, but how?I would like to disable the +3 disk buffer in order to retrieve those 4K from the machine's RAMdisk. By reading the computer manual and some posts on…
... order to retrieve those 4K from the machine's RAMdisk. By ... how to call +3DOS routines from BASIC. I guess I should use ... even know where to start from, except that simply calling the ...Getting PC into HLHello, here's a conundrum for you... Is there a way to obtain the value of the PC register (say into HL) without using absolute addressing such as C…
... moment except that when calling from BASIC the BC register appears to ... in it (well, in 48K BASIC at least). Still this is ...
