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  • Probing the variables in 128K modeHello again! Briefly, I'm writing an m/c routine to read some BASIC variables. So, before I start, I try to get an idea for the structure of how var…

    ... made the pagination routine in BASIC yesterday, but it was way ... type the magazine page text strings into DATA statements without worrying ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... sure. We would have to compare both versions to find out ... very slow operation in Sinclair BASIC.
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... sure. We would have to compare both versions to find out ... very slow operation in Sinclair BASIC.[/QUOTE]

    I agree ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Development
  • CPU question about various emulators for and on various machinesRight, you know how nowadays the latest CPUs seem to be dual (or more) core 2.4GHz (or whatever speed) as opposed to, say, single core 5.8GHz? Now I …

    ... it'll only be a basic one, going by what I ... /> [quote]
    You can't compare clock speeds of different CPU ...
    ewgf ewgf March 2008 Emulators
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    [QUOTE=bigjon;256767]I started to think about doing a lightforce-style scroller[/QUOTE]

    Looks promising!

    Notice that instead of this:

    [CODE]
    s-(IN 64510
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... 's own set of CODE strings, and the door drawing loop ... the screen when DRAWing in BASIC, so this room is slightly ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... scroll game implemented 100% in BASIC and it's reasonably fast ... (see Skier);

    c) Compare with specific enemy coordinates (see ...
    bigjon bigjon April 2008 Development
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... Z80 instruction [B]CP %[/B] (compare). It all becomes clear now ... to manually modify all the BASIC programs... Any ResiDOS software that ...
    glancaster glancaster April 2008 Development
  • MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…

    ... Z80 instruction [B]CP %[/B] (compare). It all becomes clear now ... to manually modify all the BASIC programs... Any ResiDOS software that ... typing form command line in BASIC. Because I am used to ...
    Hood Hood April 2008 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…

    ... the screen. It understands several basic formatting commands such as move ... . This little aggravation causes text strings to be a lot longer ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2008 Development
  • Advice needed please!Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of this question but I'm programming a simple adventure game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple …

    ... , you can store them as strings and just PRINT them.
    strings, and send them to BASIC for you. It ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Specdrum 3 W.I.PIts a new app so i needed a new thread sorry :) I am sorry i have been neglecting this site and i have been working hard on Specdrum 3 Honest i hav…

    ... converting them to play"xxxxx" strings which is what the spectrum ... that this is written in basic and then compiled

    basic , i use blitzmax basic for the pc
    wadfm wadfm April 2008 Announcements
  • Classical music on the Speccy?While I was watching CVP409 videos on YT, I found a few movie scores and it made me start yet another topic about the AY chip. I know the beeper and…

    ... /> [QUOTE=gasman;272439]Adagio for Strings - that one could be a ... great. I compare the Moonlight Sonata to Adagio for Strings, not because ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Trying to read in a list of items from DATA statementsThus far I have: data "cherry","apple","banana","grape","orange" But when I read it in using this: FOR X=1 TO 5: READ n$(X): NEXT X It only reads…

    ... right. The handling of strings in Sinclair BASIC is non-standard.
    strings in other BASIC dialects refers to single ... array of fixed length strings in Sinclair basic. (or alternatively a 2D ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... in rare circumstances since ZX Basic can automatically promote ints to ... strings code. It's a good idea to use it but basic ... programs using subroutines from C, Basic and asm linked together to ... could be linked into the basic compiler (in particular sprite code ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2008 Development
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... in rare circumstances since ZX Basic can automatically promote ints to ... strings code. It's a good idea to use it but basic ... using subroutines from C, Basic and asm linked together to ... from both sides (currently ZX Basic only uses __CALLER__ and __FASTCALL__ ...
    boriel boriel June 2008 Development
  • 48K games that don't work on a +2Not sure if there is already a thread about this but recently I've noticed some old 48K games will not run on my +2 - even in 48K mode. Examples are…

    ... " at the top of a BASIC program).
    [I]On a ... is different between the two! Compare LOAD !"quick" SCREEN$ with LOAD ... " SCREEN$. This will only affect BASIC programs.

    13) The ...
    Jimmy Jimmy June 2008 Games
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... -size blocks with C strings implemented in procrustean manner ... memory usage pattern in Basic is different -- strings are regularly tossed ... away and reassigned with new strings of very different lengths. ... saying you also handle strings in a procrustean way ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2008 Development
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... -size blocks with C strings implemented in procrustean manner ... usage pattern in Basic is different -- strings are regularly tossed ... and reassigned with new strings of very different lengths. ... this is for BASIC-oriented programmers, strings can also be passed ...
    boriel boriel June 2008 Development
  • ANN: Spud v0.7...won't be ready for a very long time :razz:

    ... +code) or PLAY comamnds and strings when such conversion is possible ... also going to suggest a Basic compiler for Basin, so that ... mess with Mcoder and Hisoft Basic, but since Boriel released his ... might not be needed. A Basic compiler that doesn't need ...
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2008 Emulators
  • ANN: Spud v0.7...won't be ready for a very long time :razz:

    ... +code) or PLAY comamnds and strings when such conversion is possible ... also going to suggest a Basic compiler for Basin, so that ... mess with Mcoder and Hisoft Basic, but since Boriel released his ... limited the size of the Basic program.[/QUOTE]

    hey ...
    mel the bell mel the bell June 2008 Emulators
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... still thinking in Sinclair Basic terms! DATA strings don't need quotes ... around them in "real Basic" variants ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Games
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... still thinking in Sinclair Basic terms! DATA strings don't need quotes ... around them in "real Basic" variants ... have very much a "Sinclair BASIC" mindset at the moment, I ... need to "Think in VIC BASIC" to optimise this one.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Games
  • CSSCGC 2008 has now officially begunFor coming last in the 2007 crap game compo, I have the honour and privilege of hosting CSSCGC 2008! I have now put up the CSSCGC 2008 website at …

    ... still thinking in Sinclair Basic terms! DATA strings don't need quotes ... around them in "real Basic" variants ... with having spaces in your strings without needing the quotes.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2008 Games
  • Bresenham's line algorithmHelp - I really am struggling to get my head around this algorithm. I don't know why, I coped with Cordic (SIN/COS) and integer divide routines (/10 …

    ... were pulled there is a BASIC program in the ZX81 manual ... work for me. I did compare it with the Bresenham algorithm ...
    Geoff Geoff August 2008 Development
  • Whoa - someone gave Match Day 50% on release![url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairPrograms/Issue8502/Pages/SinclairPrograms850200017.jpg]Sinclair Programs review[/url]. M…

    [quote=Nonsense in BASIC;314825]Yes, but that doesn' ... comments.
    And you can compare a Taito dedicated games machine ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler November 2008 Games
  • BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…

    ... . It's the translation of BASIC to z80 - the best way ... ? Currently they're accessible from BASIC even after your program has ... the compiled code - expansion of strings will be fun with this ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2008 Emulators
  • BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…

    ... you'll get "nonsense in BASIC" at line 20 after the ... when it reports "nonsense in basic" at line 20.
    [/quote ... :-)

    This affects strings, not BASIC text. I can fix this ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2008 Emulators
  • I've been wondering...The Spectrum, CPC, and Apple II had no hardware sprites, so what were those 2D objects in their games?

    ... will want to use to compare with others... unless you give ... !) of CPU RAM! The users BASIC program and data is actually ... a time.

    The BASIC interpreter is not written in ... power. For example, the Extended Basic cartridge allows your programs to ...
    Mark Wills Mark Wills December 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Trouble compiling my BASIC programI've been trying to get a compiled BASIC version of Swift Turtle with no luck so far! I first tried MCoder 3 and it [i]seemed[/i] to compile the prog…

    ... how to READ in multiple strings for a variable declared as ... /> It certainly works in Sinclair BASIC, although your mileage may vary ...
    Matt_B Matt_B January 2009 Sinclair Basic
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