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Have I got a mystery for you!All morning I worked on this set of 12 UDG's to draw a better looking tank. I created the UDG's and wrote the program in Basic using BASin for Beginn…
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Kempston Mouse DriverHi Folks, Does anyone know the email of Chris Cowley who wrote the Kempston Mouse Driver in the WOS Archive? Many thanks Paddy
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Features that never made it into the SpectrumAlthough kind of a Hardware question (a kind moderator might want to move it, I was 50/50 on where to post it, I don't mind) , I was thinking about t…
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Efficient comparision of several valuesHi all Let's say we have an array of six values, like {2,1,1,1,3,2} Using BASIC or ASM, what's the most efficient way to find 3 consecutive posi…
Another thing, if you store the 'array' as a string in basic, then you can also compare using:
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10 LET A$="321110"
20 LET X=3
30 IF A$(X TO X+2)="111" THEN PRINT "YES"
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Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …
... using a program written in BASIC again) on BEEBEM emulator ... very careful using BASIC to compare different machines. BBC BASIC is one of ... screen, graphics and sound). Compare this to the ZX Spectrum ... .
The Locomotive BASIC on the Amstrad CPC is ... -
Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …
... comparison of BBC vs ZX Basic as mentioned is not quite ... architecture of the machines, BBC Basic is very fast really (generally ... will try some tests to compare it to the Speccy as ... -
Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …
Using BASIC to compare two machines is okay, ... are just interested in BASIC. It doesn't necessary ... another.
Atari BASIC is notoriously slow, but recent ... .
So... yeah... BASIC speed is only as good ... code, but you can compare a few machines in ... -
Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... remember where unfortunately) that Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum will still ... statements for all the various strings? I can see you are ... -
Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... every single byte counts in BASIC, for memory. In ... where unfortunately) that Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum will still ... statements for all the various strings? I can see you ... be avoided in the BASIC list. That is why ... up the use of strings that are stored at ... -
Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…
... bloody good game especially for Basic, Ivan. Decent graphics, good compromise ... management, and the use of strings for the big sprite- were ... -
Adding command to BASICI am looking for an article about adding commands via software to sinclair basic. I know there was one published and to the best of my knowledge it w…
... to call some assembly from BASIC, one fairly simple option is ... to obtain passed numbers and strings, and return a result via ... -
How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…
... take up much BASIC) to the strings within his BASIC program or else ... save string arrays in Spectrum BASIC.
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SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…
... are space characters or empty strings (which would signal an invalid ... Spectrum - although 95% of Speccy BASIC code will work, you have ... -
Chequered Flag - What a Great Game for 1983I decided to record a "Let's Play" of this classic game by Psion, it has certainly paved the way for racing games on the home systems, several years …
... ) like it was either Basic or compiled Basic somehow. I do realise ... wonder how well they will compare as they look vaguely similar ... -
binary mirroring in basicsame as last question, really. only this time i want to mirror an 8 bit decimal number
... an 8-bit number in BASIC.
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Any love for Cholo?I remember really wanting this, but seeing very little coverage on it... so I bought it, and loved it. I always wonder why it never got any covera…
... function (like OVER 1 in BASIC), such that where bits of ... you'd use it in BASIC is to be able to ... , any line you plot must compare itself with that screen record ... -
Understanding tape edgesI've never done any tape reading code. But I've read about these "edges" on multiple occasions. Trouble is I don't understand what they heck they are…
... ’s auto-synchronizing, too. The basic algorithm is as follows. You ... , you leave the loop and compare the timer with a preset ... in with 1. When you compare your actual timer value with ... -
Will be away for at least a week.Just signing in for one hour, and typing this up in advance, hopefully i will be able to get it posted and do anything else I need, because one hour …
... careful how you hold it. Compare the handset of an ordinary ... , and my phone is a basic numerical button phone. I tried ... -
The Best ZX Spectrum FRUIT MACHINE Simulator title There are loads of Spectrum Fruit Machine Simulator games and titles . But it hard to pack out the best one . How could this be done? There are pe…
... , and they quickly developed from basic one-armed bandits to quite ... don't really like to compare newer software from that back ... -
Best compiled Basic game ?I was thinking about this before I posted the topic about Melbourne House's excellent Penetrator scrolly but held off, however a kind [url="https://w…
... game I know) be compiled Basic? Any clues?[/quote]
You ... a cursory look for text strings within I could not see ... ascii does quite look like Basic in a way :/ -
Speed comparison of BASIC CommandsHi everyone, I reactivated my account (thanks Lee!) due to starting to code some BASIC with my daughter. In the tips and tricks thread there is a …
... you have a suitable emulator, compare the speed on a ZX81 ... /infoseekid.cgi?id=0008254"]HiSoft BASIC COLT Compiler[/url] to speed ... up your BASIC programs or even [url="https ... /en/latest/archive/"]Boriel ZX BASIC[/url].
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Halnziye HY610 thermal grease - Anybody used this before?Just wondered if any of you pc tinkerer guys have used this before or know of this thermal grease, and how you rate it. :-?
... couple of minutes with just basic web browsing. Youtube videos became ... 't a technical test to compare temps before and after, or ...Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...
... . I had quite a few BASIC ones on the Vic and ... we are talking about a BASIC game in 16k / 48k, so ... limited in the number of strings it can store. But I ...Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…
... around things like numbers and strings and how IF work on ... I was learning computing and BASIC. Keep posting.[/i]"!
Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…
... no other home machines to compare it with, at least none ... my purposes and considering my Basic illiteracy, (like not knowing the ...Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…
... the third characters. Variables holding strings end in $ as in a ... $. The computer compares strings one symbol at a time ... other comments, NextBASIC extends Sinclair basic with things like named procedures ... should going through standard spectrum basic first.
