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ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
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ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next
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Why don't the variables print where I told them too?I wrote the following program to experiment with creating sounds using 3 notes of BEEP and having the ability to change the notes up or down one at a…
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In Sinclair BASIC, a line of code looks ... tells the BASIC to add something, the = tells it to compare and ... 're really doing (and the BASIC interpreter is doing) is this ... for a variable "key" to compare it to. If there is ... -
endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …
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Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…
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Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…
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z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …
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z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …
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Setting the value of basic string variables can be done ... z88dk/blob/master/libsrc/spectrum/basic/zx_setstr_callee.asm"]zx_set_str()[/url] ... fallback is to write the strings to a fixed address ... time and appending to a basic string initialized to "" (which ... -
The point of IX+1 IX+2 ?the numbers that you can add-on to IX and IY seem hardcoded, so I dont see the use of that feature? any examples of the use of IX and IY plus number…
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Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…
... , type it in as a BASIC program and find the limits ... RAM disk to save extra strings, or multiload, or both. Programming ...Serious facts about the ZX Spectrum Serious fact Number 1: It is a business machine. From an article about and interview with Sir Clive ( by Mike Cowley) Sir Clive says here:-"Nor…
... ZX80, ZX81 and ZX Spectrum BASIC inline syntax checking was (and ... br /> As was the Spectrum BASIC string slicing :D
The ... /> Other good BASICs were BBC BASIC, SuperBASIC on the QL, GFA ... this into context, compare the ZX Spectrum BASIC to the other BASICs ...Recreated Spectrum .What do we get for the "now" (Aug 2017) best retail price of around £35?Well best/ cheapest retail prices can vary a bit so I thought it best to be specific. At this £35 price ,is it a good deal and what do we get ? A…
... AMAZON were raving about its BASIC potential but what were they ... joystick . I will have to compare its performance with that of ...Is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of fileHi, is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of file. E.g.: I have a Tape-Code-File Start f…
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for strings: LET a$=(strexp+STR$ USR ...How can I make a UDG rotate?I designed a set of UDG's that can be used for making shapes or letters. Trouble is that my circle - for example - consists of 4 pieces and it would…
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...i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... "]Jerri is technically right: BASIC doesn't lend itself well ... something like this, or any BASIC programming, is usually the planning ... perhaps already come across a BASIC message scroller program at some ... store whole screens in ugd strings and putting them on the ...i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... store whole screens in ugd strings and putting them on the ... the whole screen as UDG strings is not a good way ... . You could use a BASIC array to store a load ... can use arrays in BASIC to store strings that draw blocks of ... or DIM an array in BASIC to store a map ...i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…
... the roughly 40K available to BASIC and that's going to ... store things in great big strings.Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... justification, pixel width measurements of strings or buffers, print styles (or ... usual control codes found in basic. And then there's the ...IN instruction on emulatorsHi everyone I wrote: 10 PAUSE 0 20 PRINT IN 63486 If i press 1, result is 190 instead of 254 (i used FUSE and Spin) If i press 2, 189 (253) i…
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Now compare that with the BASIC listing in the first ... reset the unwanted bits in BASIC (it’s trivial in assembly ...Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... loads of Basic with the first loading the text from strings in ... in the second load of Basic by using the LOAD command ... limited the memory of Spectrum Basic was!Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... compression, and doing it in BASIC -- compression costs time and adds ... about 25K to use for BASIC programs (but I never tried ... , the Spectrum you can save strings in separate loads but it ...Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... all of the text in strings (LET a$="..." etc) as I ... of the programme in Speccy Basic) to display the text and ... to interlink that with a Basic programme? A non-advanced tutorial ... understand the boundaries of Speccy Basic - which is what I need ...Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... all of the text in strings (LET a$="..." etc) as I ... of the programme in Speccy Basic) to display the text and ... adventure consists of a few basic (no pun intended) text components ... descriptions, objects and messages. Most BASIC text adventures would put them ...Okay so can you save text as a data array ?So I was playing with this but I'm obviously not doing this correctly. [code] 10 INPUT "Enter some text: ";a$ 20 PRINT a$ RUN [/code] Now i'm…
... cause your strings to be fixed length though, because Sinclair BASIC doesn ...Okay so can you save text as a data array ?So I was playing with this but I'm obviously not doing this correctly. [code] 10 INPUT "Enter some text: ";a$ 20 PRINT a$ RUN [/code] Now i'm…
... , it's not something Sinclair BASIC has support for. Now you ... in the manual about how BASIC stores strings to achieve this, but ...Seas of Blood - "not working solution"...Obviously (?) no one tried it, or something is wrong with all (3) of mine emulators :)) ehm, what's wrong: In solution, it says: "SAIL EAST (three …
... one of those old slow BASIC adventures you use to get ... ones as the BASIC was very quick with strings. Of course the ... something about those home grown BASIC ones, they had an originality ...Are there any games/apps developed in Pascal or others?After talking to a friend of mine about a Hi-Soft Pascal I now wonder whether there are Speccy software pieces made [i]NOT [/i]in Basic, C, nor edito…
... from high level languages have strings that can be identified (i ... 've seen those strings from some parser adventures and BASIC interpreters, but ...how do i read the screen in sections. with or without the scroll command?heres what i have so far http://pasteall.org/pic/efccc10f2f796d382dabb21ad76c640a https://www.pastefile.com/V7demX i want to store the cat l…
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Strings are just stored in memory ... tried writing directly into a BASIC string, but I know the ...
