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Having trouble with some type-insI'm trying to enter some type-ins into BASin but I get into errors I can't handle. Since both type-ins are coming from the same book, it becomes a li…
Spectrum + keyboard issueMy Spectrum+ seems to have some trouble on Space Key. Sorry for all "seem" in the following text. But it's hard to understand if it's a real steady t…
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the Space (CHR$ 32) has difficult to be ...An update on ZX BASIC support for the SpectranetOne for zxbruno, I hope :-) So just an example of what now can be done with the network filesystem and BASIC. The following listing is of a program …
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1035 PRINT INK 5;CHR$ (i-1+CODE "A");"....";INK ...A tidy loader for minigamesThe minigame competition doesn't permit the use of separate loaders like [code]10 LOAD "": RAND USR 32768[/code] The loader must be included in the b…
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[code]Chr$ Token Asm Ouch 1 2 ...Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
... TO 50: LET p$(a)=CHR$ (65+RND*25): NEXT a ... TO 50: LET p$(a)=CHR$ (65+RND*25): NEXT a ...A bug in BASin?Hi Folks, Have I found another bug in BASin? I wrote the following small program: [CODE]10 PRINT AT 0,0;CHR$ PEEK 23556;" " 20 GO TO 10[/CODE] …
... ]10 PRINT AT 0,0;CHR$ PEEK 23556;" "
20 GO ...General purpose full screen input routineHi Folks, One of the things that annoyed me back in the 1980s with most BASICs was the lack of a full screen "formatted" input function. You could …
Hi Folks,
One of the things that annoyed me back in the 1980s with most BASICs was the lack of a full screen "formatted" input function. You could accept strings and numerics but there was no ability to limit input length etc.
So ...A little program to set the time...Hi Folks, OK, I have amended the program so you now have four routines/functions you can use in your own programs: TIME: GET - Reads the current va…
Hi Folks,
OK, I have amended the program so you now have four routines/functions you can use in your own programs:
TIME: GET - Reads the current value from FRAMES and stores it in HH,MM and SS
TIME: SET - Sets FRAMES to the ...SpecBAS 0.628 now availableFor Windows and Linux (Pandora port coming soon!): [url]http://www.zxspectrum4.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28[/url] Quick list of what's new: [c…
... now scrolls properly with trailing CHR$ 13's.
Filename handling ...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: […
... faster than using the "Hello"+chr$ 32+"there!" method, as there ...Drawing a "window"...Hi Folks, I want to display a blank window over an existing screen. It then draws a border around it but that is not the point of my question. Ini…
... /> [CODE]100 LET m$=CHR$ 17+CHR$ 0:
FOR a ... :
LET m$=m$+CHR$ 22+CHR$ a+CHR$ 7+" ":
NEXT ... LET a$=CHR$ 17+CHR$ 7+CHR$ 6+CHR$ 6+CHR$ 17+CHR$ 5+CHR$ 6+CHR$ 6 ... /> NEXT a:
LET c$=CHR$ 19+CHR$ 1+c$
140 ...Can anyone see a way to speed up the following line of code?Hi Folks, Been looking at bottle necks in my code using BASin's Profiler and the following line (well the 2nd LET statement) is somewhat slow. [COD…
... )+("DP" AND z$(a,o)=CHR$ 10)+STR$ ((CODE z$(a ...Streams - File HandlingHello there my fellow WoS'ers I am attempting to write a Z80 / Snapshot Launching program that is based on a category of files # - Z whereby each f…
... ; 128 THE LET a$=a$+ CHR$ c
60 REM PRINT ...New Tool: CheqEdit[b]CheqEdit[/b] it's a simple and small program that helps you to draw 64x48 graphics on screen in GRAPHICS MODE. Program can output as text in CHR$ …
... can output as text in CHR$ format, control codes format, a ...saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …
... c$(68): LET h$(1)=CHR$ 0: LET fg=256
CHR$ FN g(l)+CHR$ FN h(l ... /> LET h$(12 TO )=l$+CHR$ 0+CHR$ 128+l$
9994 ... /> LET c$((s+1)/2)=CHR$ FN b(c$(s TO ...Indirect Variable AssignmentHere's another wacky routine. This allows assignment of values to variables where the source & destination variables can themselves be defined in var…
... /> 10 PRINT USR id,"val"+CHR$ (a+64),"=",v;
11 ... id,v$,"=",v+VAL ("val"+CHR$ (a+64));
20 NEXT ...storing machine code in BASICA couple of years ago I posted a routine for storing machine code between PROG & VARS, based on an idea in Toni Baker's "Mastering Machine Code". Thi…
... $,n)=l$+CHR$ 14+CHR$ 0+CHR$ 0+CHR$ FN g(n)+CHR$ FN h ... (n)+CHR$ 0+",":
BOB the Screen BuilderHere's my first attempt to use that tokenising idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p…
... with non-readable control codes (CHR$ 16, CHR$ 17, etc.). I'll ...stuck on recursive functionI want this function to PEEK 'l' bytes from memory starting at 's' and return them as a string, but however much I fiddle about with quoting and pare…
... /> DEF FN j$(s,l)=CHR$ PEEK (s)+VAL$ "FN j ...Shaded Desktop...Hi Folks, As part of some BASin testing I thought I would create a little program that creates a shaded desktop. In this case it goes from solid bl…
... LET b$=CHR$ 17+CHR$ 0+CHR$ 16+CHR$ 1+CHR$ 22+CHR$ 0+CHR$ 0
CHR$ 143: NEXT a
180 ... TO 160: LET b$=b$+CHR$ 144: NEXT a
200 ... TO 160: LET b$=b$+CHR$ 145: NEXT a
220 ... TO 160: LET b$=b$+CHR$ 146: NEXT a
240 ...64x48 full colour graphicsHow feasible is this? Could an interrupt-driven routine be used to, for example, fill the top two thirds with a 64x32 blocky picture and leave the bo…
... to fill the screen with CHR$ 0x85 then change attributes every ...Best books & Sugested reading..Hi i was trying to search the forum but couldnt find it. Looking at WOS there is a number of books on BASIC, programming, machine code ect.. I mess…
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10 LET A$=CHR$ 16+CHR$ 2+"INPUT SOMTHING:"
20 ...40 Column Printing RoutineI've written a 40 column printing routine, which I'd like to share... It's my first piece of 'public' code so go easy on me! I don't think it is a…
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foundat ; chr$22 can be used for ...
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foundcr ; chr$13 can be used for ...Ideas for speeding up this BASIC routine?This loop can take up to 2 minutes to run, depending upon the content of the screen being scanned, about 70% of that time being taken up by lines 105…
This loop can take up to 2 minutes to run, depending upon the content of the screen being scanned, about 70% of that time being taken up by lines 1055 (50 secs) & 1075 (35 secs). Any suggestions on how to speed up those two parts (other than rewriting ...
