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  • 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…

    ... rewrote an old text based basic game for the VZ200/300 ... selective about which game to compare. When I pointed out Zaxxon ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... you wrote Basin in non-Basic... Very 'unexpected' - hahaha.

    Basic on multiGHz machine is really ... many in % is such in compare to hunderts of millions PC ...
    piters piters September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... you wrote Basin in non-Basic... Very 'unexpected' - hahaha.
    ... in % is such in compare to hunderts of millions PC ... anyone said that Sinclair BASIC is appropriate for development ... system available, which contained Sinclair BASIC.

    My ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... one very big downside in compare to PC (it was mentioned ... is about Pascal versus Sinclair Basic.
    torstum torstum September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…

    ... defining whether we started from BASIC or directly (so i know ... ; I like to terminate strings like C strings

    main:
    basic editor?
    [/quote]
    < ... about +3 specifics, but Sinclair basic in general expects you not ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2007 Development
  • Another dozy day...I can find the TZX Format documents but I seem to be having a mental fizz. Where are the .MGT Format documents? Cheers

    ... is why I want to compare the standards, at the end ... i just want to drop basic, screen$ and code from tzx ... probably also want to manipulate basic autorun lines and code start ...
    dekh dekh January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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. …

    ... the "New Functions for Sinclair Basic" sticky thread including a dec ... to grips with strings and functions back in my BASIC days.
    I actually did a Basic forum search for "hex", which ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • help needed...Hi there, i'm trying to figure out a possible typo in William Tang's 'Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner' on page 23 there's a prog…

    ... I'm a total BASIC novice with strings and functions, I wonder ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... Ie POKE address,data in Basic. All Basic variables, all C variables ... in Spectrum C implementations. Strings in basic consist of a length followed ... at some address. C strings are just a list of ... global variables (all vars in Basic are global, ie visible ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2007 Development
  • Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …

    ... currently trying to optimise some BASIC routines, so thought I' ... links to simple steps for BASIC optimisation is much appreciated.[/ ... of an optimisation issue then strings which are variable length.
    BASIC variables are stored in ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Speed of variables vs. POKE/PEEKGreetings, I'm sure I could probably find this out after careful study of the 48K ROM disassembly, but I was wondering whether someone already knew …

    ... (CTRL+ALT+V opens the BASIC variables table) and the following ... $, a$[/b] }

    Clearly, strings reorder (even if reassigning a ... are no scoping rules with BASIC variables - ones a variable is ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Speccy vs C64 vs Amstrad - Make your vote count![url]http://www.retrofusiononline.com/fusion/[/url] You know it makes sense. We're winning at the moment, too... D.

    ... ), but if you start to compare games...

    Outrun: Awful ... programmer (although I did use basic a hell of a lot ...
    TechnicianSi TechnicianSi March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Pause after blocksI've added a simple CRC routine to my app (thanks Gilby) to check for dupe TZX files and it was magical as I've located about two hundred of them tha…

    ... , but it still does not compare pauses into blocks (I've ... difficult to implement in viisual basic 6, and Gilby supplied a ... or 8 lines on spectrum basic that works ok in VB6 ...
    Juanma Juanma March 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • New version of k7zxHere it is version 3 of k7zx [url]http://personal.auna.com/casariche/k7zx/k7zx3.htm[/url] It supports 128k snapshots. It adds new loading methods …

    ... /> [QUOTE=Arda;180101]What a basic accelerator does? I guess it ... versions of k7zx always acelerated BASIC part. But some peoble had ... it is a table to compare methods and reliability:
    [url ...
    decicoder decicoder April 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... happens to be where the basic system stores the location ... character set. On returning to basic all printed text would look ... /wiki/doku.php/library:string"]strings[/URL] library; we'll ... equal to", equivalent to "" in Basic. Other common C comparison operators ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... (as in PRINT AT in basic), print centered text on a ... standard C function strtok() in strings.h should come to mind ... have now is several C strings contained inside the original string ... screen just before returning to basic. If you run the program ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... mess with LET, FN and strings is too much for me ... me many things about ZX BASIC I did not know only ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... -known function "memcpy()" from the strings.h library is used to ... that the template places seven basic time units into PTU, 0 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…

    ... definitely one of the better BASIC interpreters on machines at ... t abstracted in the BASIC. But BBC BASIC was better than ZX ... byte values, word values or strings.
    * Others have mentioned ... to write a program in BASIC for simplicity and maintainability, ...
    Winston Winston September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Where will Microsoft go after Vista ?If i were Microsoft, i would develop a media center only OS with no backwards compatability that would be able to be used on a Dual Booted pc running…

    ... to keep fetching and updating basic software. I wondered why the ... again...


    [quote]Compare it to Win32 some time ...
    Laser Laser October 2007 Chit chat
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... /> Saga Sprites Table
    Basic 64

    Problems ... binary compare).
    It also contains a small BASIC program ... interface ROM perhaps?). The BASIC programs contained within the snapshots ... 512x192 display mode. These BASIC extensions can be entered ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn October 2007 Games
  • Your help needed![FONT=Arial]there are [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/neededscreens.html"]a number of titles[/URL] (146) that still lack an in-game scre…

    ... screen. (Perhaps useful for debugging BASIC programs?).

    I have ... /> I have done a binary compare on "toolkit" and on all ... program can be used from BASIC.

    (2) On further ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn November 2007 Games
  • Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…

    ... million ways to write a basic interpretter and a million different ... a language interpretter, needs to compare apples to apples.[/QUOTE]
    * Amstrad CPC 6128 Plus Locomotive BASIC 1.1

    Accuracy ...
    JamesD JamesD December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... 32x32 or 64x32 resolution from BASIC, and that was via a ... provide socket library calls to BASIC. Although returning buffers would have ... since you can't return strings. However, socket/bind/send/accept ...
    Winston Winston December 2007 Development
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... provide socket library calls to BASIC. Although returning buffers would have ... since you can't return strings.[/QUOTE]
    Why not? You ...
    icabod icabod December 2007 Development
  • Changing the colour of the loading 'stripes'I was wondering if it were possible to alter the default colours of the standard ROM loading 'stripes' via BASIC, mabye a POKE command of some descri…

    ... the loader code in our basic programs? is loader code ... start from scratch with your BASIC loader using the "turboBASIC.szx ... 0 code into the current BASIC program. "boombotmaster.szx" is ... supported. They must be empty strings ;)

    The loading/ ...
    Woody Woody December 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…

    ... developing something similar in Basic and with some machine ... develop that tool for Basic users I see no ... are a lot of Basic programmers out there who ... that converts a screen to strings (which, combined with ... set of block graphic strings), or a separate block ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2008 Emulators
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…

    ... the SCREEN$ method) and builds strings from them. Any that aren ... out. The strings can then be send to BASIC as DATA statements ... .

    Colours are embedded into the strings ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2008 Emulators
  • ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…

    ... the SCREEN$ method) and builds strings from them. Any that aren ... out. The strings can then be send to BASIC as DATA statements ... .

    Colours are embedded into the strings ...
    mulder mulder March 2008 Emulators
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