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  • Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…

    ... the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on ... any other aspects of spectrum BASIC that were better than other ... BASIC variants on home micros? Was ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... . It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program ... Adventure Game frameworks written in BASIC. Also any commercial adventure games ... written in BASIC, back in the day?
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • BASIC Bug: DEF FN after REMHello all, Having mused the Spectrum ROM disassembly by Drs Logan ad O'Hara, I wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF FN when call…

    ... wondered about how good ZX BASIC was at locating the DEF ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2022 BASIC
  • How to return to basic properly from ASMI am messing around with a fast stack copying routine. But I am getting "A: Invalid argument" error when I later return to basic. I know you h…

    ... when I later return to basic.

    I know you ... IY register before returning to basic but my code at the ... as IY when returning to basic. I think one of the ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2022 Development
  • Games that would make good moviesHey, guys. With the trend of adapting videogames into movies (thanks, Super Mario Brothers and Mortal Kombat), I've been thinking: which Spectrum …

    ... Rider[/b]
    Take the basic idea of [i]Death Race ... of an existing film to compare it to... maybe [i]Legend ...
    Swevicus Swevicus August 2022 Games
  • crashHi , anyone got a particular favourite issue of the superb magazine crash , mines issue 13 , just brings memories of xmas back and a cool review of m…

    ... see how anyone can even compare sinclair user as anywhere near ... other half was filled with basic programming techniques , i have every ...
    sirclive1 sirclive1 November 2002 Games
  • crashHi , anyone got a particular favourite issue of the superb magazine crash , mines issue 13 , just brings memories of xmas back and a cool review of m…

    ... see how anyone can even compare sinclair user as anywhere near ... other half was filled with basic programming techniques,
    [/quote]
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu November 2002 Games
  • SE BasicSE Basic is no longer being developed.

    ... is fantasic. will the basic compiler improve the speed of ... basic programs after compiled into ... machine code? the other basic compilers ive tried dont improve ... se basic compare to older extended basic programs like laser basic/megabasic/ ...
    Amigo Amigo December 2002 Announcements
  • Basic and AY musicis it possible to play an ay-music in background while a basic program is running?

    ... work like that - the 128k BASIC play routines are not designed ... the ROM to interpret PLAY strings for them.

    [quote ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum v Amiga : The Final starts.The final has begun, just in case you didn't know. The old Speccy is getting a bit of a kicking at the moment, so get those votes in!

    ... and maybe at least a basic understand of how your speccy ... computer. ridiculous. you can't compare specs [I]( no pun int ... it would be unfair to compare it to higher end Amigas ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... using an extended/modified Sam Basic to program the game ( ... on Sam in Spectrum Basic and it worked quite ... so I think Sam Basic shouldn't be hard ... except I dont know what Basic commands have changed! ie. ... afterall )? I'd like to compare.

    Thanks ...
    Amigo Amigo April 2003 Games
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... a fair comparison? why not compare it to a 128k or ... always enjoyed brown love. The BASIC stunk. And it's true ...
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Tales of hate and despair in 8-bitsThis topic seeks to shed some light on one of the most obscure questions a spectrum user can ask. Why do we hate Commodore?

    ... music vs instruction set vs basic vs keyboard vs games vs ... why again, i liked the basic better, think it is much ... to get into than C64 Basic, and you can ask why ... sprites etc. when trying to compare it to something I see ...
    Amigo Amigo May 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Let a=val "1"I see some basic programs which use Let a=val "1" instead of let a=1 syntax. what is the difference between val "1" and 1? is it an effect of some …

    If only needed in a FOR NEXT LOOP you could use
    FOR X = SGN PI TO SQR PI

    even in strings you can use it since BASIC will take the closest integer to SQR PI, hence 2.

    Try this
    PRINT "HELLO"(SQR PI)
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP June 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • More random questionsWay back in the mists of time I remember reading a couple of articles in an ancient copy of Sinclair User, ZX Computing or the like (can't remember w…

    ... have a whole Basic routine, or an entire Basic program for that ... those memory saving tricks and compare both you will notice the ... remember learning this but my basic has gotten very rusty over ... be better off compiling your basic program - but this has worked ...
    Amigo Amigo July 2003 Games
  • I just registered to ask one questionGive me 10 (or more reasons) about why is it exactly that it was better to have a Spectrum instead of a Commodore back in the eighties. And why do yo…

    ... the Spectrum's Beep in Basic is one thing ( and even ... don't even try to compare one to a sound card ...
    Amigo Amigo August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I just registered to ask one questionGive me 10 (or more reasons) about why is it exactly that it was better to have a Spectrum instead of a Commodore back in the eighties. And why do yo…

    ... the Spectrum's Beep in Basic is one thing ( and even ... don't even try to compare one to a sound card ...
    Yerz Yerz August 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • are the following (tzx) really missing ?On the list at [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/stp/games.html"]www.worldofspectrum.org/stp/games.html[/url] there are some existing items ages a…

    ... 48k and 128k in the BASIC block. Maybe it's just ... sides of the tape and compare just in case.

    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2003 MIA/STP/SDP
  • create z80I want to Create z80 code and run it on an emulator for the 48k spectrum. I want it soo easy to use its a dream. I dont like dos based stuff.. Can a…

    Option 1 sounds rather appetising indeed! A fully featured full screen BASIC editor would be really cool! And if you add assembly/disassembly tools to that, well... I can't think of anything that would compare to it!
    Arjun Arjun September 2003 Development
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... (eg certain constants and text strings) and RAM data. With these ... could be used in C, Basic, Forth, whatever and such an ... a means for extending the Basic language by third parties. Eg ... an extended grammar with new basic commands, with an ability to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... applications in the ultra reliable basic( like databases and graphics editors ... /> I read that the C64 basic was just a rushed and ... only recently, beeing able to compare different machines emulated on my ...
    Arm73 Arm73 February 2004 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... or even both were botched; compare [B]Salamander[/B] on the ... wrote:
    Overall the C64 BASIC seems to have been appalling ... about strengths being weaknesses, Sinclair BASIC was [I]too good[/I ... in the same way Commodore BASIC did.


    [ This ...
    TMR TMR February 2004 Games
  • The old days and improving the Spectrum experience.I was reminded of this recently, by a thread about Mask... Back in the day, I used to have a DISCiPLE interface and had to make do with snapshots of…

    ... that couldn't be converted. (Compare that with the +3... :) )
    BASIC loaders for convenience. :(

    Jmk Jmk May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spectrum 48k benchmark program/resultsIs there any program (basic or assembler) to test performance of a Spectrum 48k? Want to compare results in my FPGA Spectrum 48k with real hardware …

    Preferably some simple Basic code which tests either graphic ... same program as well and compare the results with my FPGA ...
    klingler klingler July 2004 Emulators
  • ZX in FPGA...Hmm..seems nobody is interested in a replacement PCB with FPGA...well..heading towards next FPGA projects then...C64 and others (o; [ This Messag…

    ... way is to modify SE Basic to include simple FAT16 support ... /> Have no other models to compare against...
    klingler klingler July 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Retro Gamer #7: The MegaTree / Matthew Smith interviewIssue Seven of Retro Gamer magazine has two items of interest to the Manic Miner & Jet Set Willy community: 1. The data from the MegaTree developmen…

    ... , partly because it's largely BASIC iirc, I think Andrew said ... , it'll be fun to compare the two editors - maybe I ...
    jil jil September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... /> Which one had the best basic and was easier to use ... an expanded one and to compare i think it's only ... fair to compare like with like; Stock C64 ...
    Sadako Sadako October 2004 Games
  • Cracking softwareIn the 80-ies I programmed a cracking program to crack exact 48K sized programs like POLE POSITION and A VIEW TO A KILL - CITY HALL. I still have it …

    ... mixture of BASIC and machine-code) was used to compare each block ... one block, then a (DOS) compare program.? Much quicker and easier ... use in working with the compare output...


    [ This ...
    robert@fm robert@fm October 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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