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  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... shunting it into the next string in order to avoid the ... padding out the messages with CHR$ 9 instead of spaces?
    jonathan jonathan June 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... padding out the messages with CHR$ 9 instead of spaces?[/QUOTE ... /> I just tried it with CHR$ 9 in the test snapshot ... well be though some other control character which would not crash ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn June 2009 Games
  • Interface One - New FunctionalityAs you may (or may not) be aware the Interface One is a pretty powerful piece of kit. One of it's greatest features is being able to easily extended …

    ... are somewhat broken for remote control, but you could use an ... do by sending a command string to a channel, and have ... the channel parse the string. You can call the built ...
    chev chev July 2009 Development
  • DVD regions, why?Why do we have to put up with DVD region encoding? I mean, I know why they were invented (so the DVD companies could control the market, and incident…

    ... (so the DVD companies could control the market, and incidentally give ... already in another region, the codes were put in place.
    The Starglider The Starglider July 2009 Chit chat
  • DVD regions, why?Why do we have to put up with DVD region encoding? I mean, I know why they were invented (so the DVD companies could control the market, and incident…

    ... be hacked via the remote control. They will all need to ... more sites did have Toshiba codes but they completely ignored the ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman July 2009 Chit chat
  • BASin Loading ScreensHi all, I've got a code for a program from the 2nd Issue of INPUT magazine and I wanted to create a loading screen for it. I've tried making the scre…

    ... all.

    You can control where that line appears using ... ..
    If I use colour codes then it messes up the ...
    speccyfan1945 speccyfan1945 July 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... to print at.
    y$= string to be printed.
    xx ... THEN PRINT AT x,xx;CHR$ (cc): GO TO 2090
    CHR$ (cc-32): GO TO 2090 ... THEN PRINT AT x,xx;CHR$ (cc): GO TO 2090
    CHR$ (cc+32): GO TO 2090 ...
    Arda Arda October 2009 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Solar power?According to: [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8386460.stm[/URL] solar panels are becoming ever cheaper. If these worked well, then of cour…

    ... run my outside lights (a string of LEDs at ground level ... it to charge my radio control helicopter batteries - because there is ...
    Winston Winston December 2009 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... use a string dimension and use the CODE and CHR functions to ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP December 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... the length of the longest string. A highlighted bar can be ... your strings as a single string. You can hook a function ... w(0,0,a$+CHR$ 0+b$+CHR$0)
    [/code]
    chev chev December 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • border graphics / text tricks ?just curious if it was possible.. I mean in basic, when you scroll a program you have "scroll ?" in the lower border? is there trickery that you can…

    ... /> [CODE]
    let a$=chr$ 16+chr$ 2 + "RED INK": save ... /> [code]
    let a$=chr$ 22+chr$ 15 + chr$ 12 + "AT CHAR":save ... the second example uses AT control code to place text at ... over "Program:". there are other control characters, check zx spectrum manual ...
    Fikee Fikee December 2009 Development
  • 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$
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... the first letter of the string capitalized. Something like this will ... /> DEF FN u$(s$)=VAL$ "CHR$ ((CODE s$)-(32 AND CODE ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Print text somewhere elseHi guys How do i make text come up somewhere else. For example, instead of this FFFFF GGGG I want this FFFFF GGGGG

    (yup, he has to read the manual as dr.kendal says.)

    and if he is so lazy, he can use PRINT ' ' ' ' ' to insert a line, or use PRINT AT Y,X;"... or he can use corresponding control code with CHR$.
    Arda Arda February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …

    ... \n will be replaced by CHR$(13) in the compressed data ... GUI could have a tree control, and you group like files ...
    joefish joefish February 2010 Development
  • Easy way to print text in machine code?Please? It sounds so simple, but I've never done it. At the moment I'm grabbing the start address for each letter then printing them out one at a t…

    ... defb 16, 7, 17, 0 ; CHR$ codes INK7/PAPER0
    defb 22 ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2010 Development
  • 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…

    ... etc. There is no codes in the string of the menu header ... , the string ends with two spaces. I' ...
    Shiru Shiru June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... etc. There is no codes in the string of the menu header ... , the string ends with two spaces. I' ...
    The Starglider The Starglider June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…

    ... routine to print a text string to screen memory.
    ; BC = address of the string
    ; D = Y-coordinate ... the next character from the string
    ret z ... ; It's a zero-terminated string

    ; ... to hold this loop's control variable,
    ; ...
    ajmoss ajmoss June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    UDG char codes are #90..#a2. You can print them using RST #10 only, because string print routine in the ROM uses bit 7 as end of string code, thus not allowing to print chars with codes >#7f.
    Shiru Shiru June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... />
    [QUOTE=shiru]UDG char codes are #90..#a2. You can ... using RST #10 only, because string print routine in the ROM ... of string code, thus not allowing to print chars with codes > ...
    arfgh arfgh June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Howto paint a squared zone of the screen ?You know what guys ? i begin to love this languaje. Cant understand why not put more effort on the 80's to learn it :( because it is really speedy. …

    ... address of the text string, and then you can ... br /> In case with text string it will be something like ... [code] ld bc,string
    ret
    string
    db "bla ... read 0 (end of the string). Something like this:
    ... STOP
    40 PRINT CHR$ c;
    50 LET ...
    Shiru Shiru June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • +3 how to detect if a file exist ?Need help. I am making a generic menu to my compilations over the spectrum +3. Exist some way programatically to detect if some file exists on the d…

    ... $(item): IF FN o(r$+CHR$ 255) THEN CLS : LOAD r ... ) USR 49050. The file name string referenced by DOS-OPEN has ... select an entry in a string array is also covered in ... sent the other day. Using string arrays defined outside of BASIC ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Seeking alternatives to DATA statementsAnyone know of any memory saving alternatives to storing a list of numbers, other than using DATA statements or poking data into addresses?... Im ti…

    ... characters from space (chr$(32)) to copyright (chr$(126)) is ... chr$(32) = 0
    ! = chr$(33) = 1
    " = chr$(34) = 2
    # = chr$( ... chr$(72+32) = 72

    To decode, read a data string ... of the character, READ another string. Space character = 0 ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • New RZX Block Type Suggestion -- AnnotationWho is maintaining the RZX specification at the moment? I'd like to ask for the feasability of the following request. Annotations embedded within th…

    ... display duration, the text string to display, and display options ... before rendering, each Text string is subjected to word wrapping ... and Subtitles. These types control the process how the Text ... br />
    Text String: The Text string is encoded in UTF ...
    Patrik Rak Patrik Rak August 2010 Emulators
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... sting is moved to a string array it becomes fixed length ... )
    130 LET b$(1)=CHR$(LEN a$)+a$
    140 ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • storing level datahi everyone im using arrays to store level data. its not working. just to set up the walls takes an array of size 92*2 is there a better way?

    ... is to use a character string array (if that feels more ... each value to its associated CHR$, for example:

    [CODE ...
    120 LET L$(10)=CHR$ L[/CODE]
    to access ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Development
  • Location of variableHi everyone When basic makes an array how to you find out the location in the ram of where the data is stored. :) Also, does it store the values in…

    ... REM DEF FN c$(a)=CHR$ (PEEK (a)-FN t ... br /> 9135 LET n$(i0)=CHR$ (PEEK v0-(INT (PEEK ... br /> 9185 LET n$(i0)=CHR$ (PEEK v0-INT (PEEK ... --------------------------
    9300 REM 2.STRING
    9305 LET t$="2 ... (v0+2)+3: REM ** STRING=LENGTH+HEADER(3)
    9315 ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]

    ... interrupt routines, that is; to control a process that executes at ... rate
    05 - Character and string printing routines
    06 - A ... possible
    08 - Number to string converting routines
    09 - A ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
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