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  • Need some help making a BASIC gameI'm creating a text adventure in 128 BASIC (I don't like using the 'keywords' in 48 BASIC - It's slow and annoying!) called "The Legend of The Red Dr…

    ... have multiple action descriptions, but BASIC will only let me use ... the input words to the strings in this array and then ...
    cyborg cyborg November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • 15th Birthday of the Sam CoupWell, December 2004 see's the 15th Birthday of the Sam Coupe! Throughout December i am putting up some special offers on the main Quazar website ([ur…

    ... know I needed it to compare the code between your working ... enter them for you into Basic, Line by line... If I ... the `Keyin` command in SAM Basic can be a bit funny..
    CKay CKay December 2004 Announcements
  • The average salaryHow much is the average salary in your country? The average salary in the Czech Republic is 18000 Czech crowns = 600 Euro. The salary of 2/3 of peop…

    ... I still belive in the basic role the market powers.
    compare this time variations of the ...
    pomgotor pomgotor February 2005 Chit chat
  • What's happened... have I become lazy?I remember playing Lord of the Rings as a child and being all excited at the prospect of maping it, seeing a world unfold on the paper as I explored …

    ... Spectrum graphics were crude and basic (compared to todays PS2 games ... version of GTA3 and then compare it to the PS2 version ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler March 2005 Games
  • linux*peeks in using linux for the very first time* :) W00T

    ... had to compile it to compare the binaries. I [I]could ... example, just looking at the strings in a binary can give ... quickly resolve whether any "suspicious" strings are legitimate or not.
    AndyC AndyC March 2005 Chit chat
  • Mikro - Gen : "The Game"Me again !! I've got a Mikro Gen cassette labelled simply as "The Game". Unfortunatley there is no inlay. I've loaded it and the program name is "…

    Try and compare it with the Laserwarp(different).tzx file on WOS. This has a loading screen that just says Mikro Gen, and the basic loader is just named GAME.
    Frankie Frankie April 2005 MIA/STP/SDP
  • What was the first game/program you wrote?Mine: ZX81 - a centipede clone with just one piece to shoot at - I called it Monopede :D Spectrum - a Basic game co-designed with a friend. I prog…

    ... slew of crap stuff in Basic - all of which should be ... you say? Pfff. Couldn't compare to what I did on ...
    cyborg cyborg May 2005 Games
  • Is Joe Sat the guitar king or wot??!He played in Mumbai this Friday and I saw him play! 3 hours of pure guitar madness featuring some outstanding technique and trick-play. Not to mentio…

    Those 2 forms are the basic ones for the tonal on ... ) finger to bar the three strings. That only leaves the problem ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi May 2005 Chit chat
  • Speeding up BasicHi, Does anyone know whether it is faster to use variables than numbers in Sinclair basic? What I mean for example, is Poke A,D quicker than Poke 5…

    ... various ways to speed up BASIC, however using variables
    > ... pointers for integers, floats and strings and separate pointers for each ...
    Geoff Geoff July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Shed Issue 1[url="http://www.sinclair-heaven.net/sinclair_magazines/zx_shed/Issue_1.pdf"]http://www.sinclair-heaven.net/sinclair_magazines/zx_shed/Issue_1.pdf[/u…

    ... /> [quote]
    Please don't compare us to ZXF :)
    The ... to continue. Although I did compare you in a fairly negative ... time to update the Sinclair BASIC section of this very site ... in :) Seeing listings of Speccy BASIC and Hex codes brings back ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2005 ZX Shed
  • Starglider 128k TZXNow I would if I could, but I simply don't have a copy of the game on tape handy, but is there any possibility that someone could upload a working ve…

    ... have anyone technical enough to compare a Z80 and see if ... /> I couldn't see any BASIC in the Z80 with ZX ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2005 Games
  • z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…

    ... large tiles from sp_PrintString strings. These strings can contain control codes ... print these "large tile" strings at any point on screen ... tiles to build these tile strings from...

    - Use ... I discovered yesterday that the BASIC trick of "switch to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2005 Development
  • Emulation Feedback** Extended RTM sessions could over-tax the CPU.

    ... ) for BASin to support ZX81 BASIC, to support the use of ... controls with "{ink x}" INSIDE STRINGS! (shudder), and other such insanities ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2005 Emulators
  • Emulation Feedback** Extended RTM sessions could over-tax the CPU.

    ... ) for BASin to support ZX81 BASIC, to support the use of ... controls with "{ink x}" INSIDE STRINGS! (shudder), and other such insanities ...
    ADJB ADJB October 2005 Emulators
  • horror text adventure scenario writer neededany outthere? I started to make program for text adventure [B]Mysterium Magnum[/B] on basis of ?multiple choice? which was project I wanted to make …

    ... programming :)

    in real Basic only ?two lines? long command ... line numbers for long text strings ;)
    They can be easily ... to be tested in real Basic, something can be only done ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup October 2005 Development
  • Pocket Clive - 2 QuestionsHello, I've just started using Pocket Clive on my iPaq pocket PC, excellent emulator BTW. 1. I have just wrote a small BASIC program to randomly pi…

    ... the lottery number-picker ZX BASIC program, caused by running it ... ?

    A. Yes, Please compare the code snippets below:-
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn December 2005 Emulators
  • Machine Code QuestionHi All Not sure if this is the right place for this but it seems closest. Am starting to read the Toni Baker Intro to Machine Code book and its ver…

    ... /> [/quote]

    Yeah. The strings of bytes is what the ... loading tap files with a basic loader that automatically loads the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Creating a loading screen in 80'sToday painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loa…

    ... .jpg"]pen and paper[/url] ... compare this hand drawn [url="ftp ... translated it onto the Spectrum. Basic laziness really.

    With ...
    Mark R. Jones Mark R. Jones February 2006 Games
  • Codies help? Werewolves of LondonHi All, never one for shying away from the deep end, having only just dipped my toe in to the world of machine code I find myself trying to find out …

    ... in the context of a Basic operating system which means it ... it is part of the Basic operating system. And, naturally, there ... for creating space within the basic workspace, something totally useless to ... game was running fine and compare the contents of the I ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.

    ... consider a game "written in BASIC" if the main portions ... of it are written in BASIC, i.e., the main ... t make the game "less BASIC". That's the case ... main loop written in pure BASIC which use M/C ... loop was actually written in BASIC; compare with, say, Mined Out ...
    Matt_B Matt_B March 2006 Games
  • +3e file manager program/projectFirstly let's get one thing sorted. This program/project is written entirely in basic, as I am a lamo who doesnt know enough M/C. It really Is'nt th…

    ... make the input statements accept strings insted of numbers only to ... , is there a way in basic to make it print this ...
    guesser guesser April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • When do you optimise?I was just wondering when people here optimise their code. Do they wait till it is all done or do they code a routine and then optimise that?

    ... works on a list of strings, each representing a line. It ... , very fast compared to the BASIC editor. It introduces it's ... is, now that BASin's BASIC editor is pretty much complete ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2006 Development
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    ... get a "C Nonsense in Basic 20:1"

    I ... number of functions used inside strings, and they need to be ... tokenisation doesn't occur in strings - the user might have wanted ... saved with tokenised characters inside strings will retain the tokens, so ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... like C, Pascal, Fortran and Basic were king. A language is ... must supply a compare function that can compare items in the heap ... and insodoing the compare function determines whether the heap ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... other computers couldn't compare to the Spectrum's ... It had a first class BASIC, a great (or horrible ... 't enter an incorrect BASIC line, and I've ... by the easy to learn BASIC. Most soon lost interest, ... it, (generally) realised that BASIC wasn't fast enough for ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…

    ... such as integers, pointers to strings, etc.

    Heapsort is ... descending order depending on the compare function provided. This is the ... size elements and user supplied compare function).

    As GOC ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2006 Development
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... 26% share of the market. Compare this to Texas Instruments, Commodore ... had a strong version of basic (better that anything offered by ... a beginner. The version of basic was excellent and I found ... a really weak version of basic. The disk system was the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... recall seeing speed comparisons for basic. Are you sure that wasn ... a notoriously slow version of Basic...

    [quote]
    It ... changed the sense of the compare so that I can get ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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