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  • +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…

    ... parts to the user input strings. Basicaly you should be able ... is easier to handle in BASIC programs. For example:

    glancaster glancaster 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
  • What should I get??I want to add a Spectrum to my collection but having come from the Atari/Commodore/TI/Apple world, I am a little unsure what to get? Something that …

    ... seem to recall), you could compress 48K and 128K games to ... you what keys produce what BASIC key words in 48K mode ...
    ewgf ewgf June 2006 Hardware
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... format. I`ve written a basic program that uncompresses the map ... to write a program to compress the data in Cybernoid 1 ...
    FrankT FrankT February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... format. I`ve written a basic program that uncompresses the map ... to write a program to compress the data in Cybernoid 1 ... .

    Here is the BASIC - it's probably pretty crumby ... :-):
    [code]
    5000 REM compress map data
    5010 LET ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Development
  • 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
  • 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…

    ... functions for converting numbers to strings, strings to numbers, generating random numbers ... and string variables. Sinclair basic hides the distinction between integer ... simply declare numbers with the basic interpretter automatically converting to integer ...
    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…

    ... 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
  • 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…

    ... (recall that in C all strings are sequences of ascii characters ... an ascii string (similar to basic's STR$) and writes the ... end of string "s". The basic equivalent to this would be ... of random number generators like basic's RND and C's ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • text routineI want to write an adventure in basic, and instead of a writing out a description for each location i want to use a kind of text compression routine …

    ... />
    IMHO, text compression with BASIC is not a good idea ... />
    another idea:
    48 basic has tokens in english, "FOR ... my point, Tasword does not compress text.

    There is ...
    DEATH DEATH August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • 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
  • Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…

    ... I had to convert the Basic-Loader (also add disk ... last time in pure Basic. Using TAPER I did ... from TAP File in Basic and SAVE to Disk ... work with it and exchange Basic Loaders.

    However ... "sneaky" ways - you can compress the whole program, then allow ...
    DEATH DEATH September 2007 Emulators
  • 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
  • SpeedloadersWhen was the first time they came out and who invented them. What was the general speccy user's and media reaction to them? Would be nice to have a …

    ... RAM by GRIG"). After the BASIC loader it always had the ... did compress blocks, but after loading them. Other nice features were BASIC ...
    0sAND1s 0sAND1s 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…

    ... and redefinitions. Sinclair basic maintains a clean variable ... basic makes this feature a lot less useful by only allowing strings ... to be fixed size when declared. Sinclair basic ... performs string slicing and allows variably sized strings.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous 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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