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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…

    ... '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
  • 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
  • IF2 Rom snapshot creationHi, is it possible convert a Speccy 16k snapshot to a Interface 2 Rom file? I've the original Ultimate Pssst, Cookie, Trans-am and Jetpac tapes and …

    ... prmsg
    DEFM "Looking for BASIC header"
    DEFB $0D+$ ... br /> CALL prmsg
    DEFM "BASIC program decoded."
    DEFB $0D ... br />
    ;the code to compress screen$ should go here
    BASIC decoder
    reloc3:
    ...
    Jimmy Jimmy April 2008 Emulators
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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…

    ... /> It certainly works in Sinclair BASIC, although your mileage may vary ... array that requires variable length strings to be handled during runtime ... you can't see the BASIC listing anymore!

    ... I've always associated with BASIC type-ins). On the other ...
    Arjun Arjun January 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Commodore AmigaJust downloaded a Commodore Amiga emulator. What are the top ten games for Commodore Amiga? My fav types of game are dizzy type games, rpgs and shm…

    ... a couple of versions of BASIC, and within a few months ... the very same ones (HiSoft BASIC, Devpac, STOS/AMOS, etc.) that ... of groups who would crack, compress and compile all the software ...
    Matt_B Matt_B April 2009 Chit chat
  • Simple text compressionI just checked one idea about text compression. Do not take it as recomendation but rather as info which can you save some time when you are solving …

    ... ; ------------------------------------------------
    ; API for reading strings from a Huffman Encoded String ... /> LD B, 0 ; For BASIC!
    LD C, A ; ... For BASIC!
    POP IX
    ... (also in BC for BASIC programmers). A return code of ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2009 Development
  • DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…

    ... I have code that generates BASIC thus (excerpt):

    [CODE ... runs out. I need to compress approx 15200 lines of code ...
    brownb2 brownb2 May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…

    ... "insert" stuff very easily (in BASIC you add extra DATA lines ... the whitespace. You can then compress all the fragments at a ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... basic).

    It contains the result of running the (UNIX) "strings ... definitive (final) versions of the strings are only in the snapshot ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn May 2009 Games
  • Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…

    ... +2A/+3 machines. Bad basic loader ? +3 basic need load pages 6 ... :
    Better idea is to compress the blocks so I have ...
    FrankT FrankT June 2009 Games
  • How to use MGT disks on the emulatorDear readers, you may think I'm a bit silly, but I can't get the emulator (Spectaculator for instance) working with MGT image files. I have had a r…

    ... />
    I also tried bigger strings and I see the file ... border stripes appear), but the BASIC does not return back and ...
    clausjahn clausjahn August 2009 Emulators
  • New BUZZSAW+ Demo, No.2OK everybody, here's the latest demo of [I]Buzzsaw[/I]. This includes the title screen I wrote in Corfu with control selection, some new sprites and…

    ... 's not much I can compress and decompress selectively. Maybe the ... the 1.5K of the BASIC area that's present on ... over the system variables and BASIC and re-allocate the space ...
    joefish joefish August 2009 Development
  • MIDI-out disassembly?Does anyone have the disassembly of the MIDI-out routine or understands how text strings in PLAY commands are converted to a MIDI stream? I'm assumin…

    ... with Play commands in BASIC constructed from strings data derived from the ... other tools around to turn strings into BASIC, BIN or other formats ... doing this project, given my basic skills (ie: Im not a ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil September 2009 Development
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