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  • 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…

    ... /> I'm purely a Sinclair BASIC programmer, nothing more. I'm ... together) could be handled as strings, and many of these other ... you wrote it in Sinclair Basic, that would be quite something ... the writing of the PLAY strings... Sounds nice in theory of ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil September 2009 Development
  • Dim commandI try o find a BASIC COMPILER for ZX SPECTRUM 128 that use DIM command with two or more letter as 10 DIM AB(10) instead of 10 DIM A(10) Any iforma…

    ... feel is missing from Sinclair BASIC?[/QUOTE]
    I play with ... size depending on number of strings that follow plus the length ...
    roko roko December 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…

    ... there was a thing to compress basic programs to take smaller space ... asm on c64 because the basic was "aggh" compared to the ...
    fog fog January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…

    ... few utils that can make basic smaller - vals in particular - hell ... myself, in m/c and basic, that would make vals - but ... expand basic again, no afraid not - as i wrote something to compress ...
    nuggetreggae nuggetreggae January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…

    ... school. I used it to compress the MUD client I had ... make changes to the compressed BASIC program. It was not a ...
    Winston Winston January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…

    ... school. I used it to compress the MUD client I had ... make changes to the compressed BASIC program. It was not a ...
    guesser guesser January 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Random access, file sizes and more.A few days ago Aowen mentioned that random access to saved data is not a problem. Here are my thoughts, doubts and suggestions regarding this subject…

    ... a machine code routine from BASIC to handle these type of ... -stop, instead of trying to compress it and make it fit ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2010 Development
  • SkoolKit 1.0A new release of the Skool Disassemblies is available. This time, besides the traditional [url="http://pyskool.ca/disassemblies/"]online version[/ur…

    ... used to generate (via some basic static code analysis) a control ... make it easier to spot strings.
    SkoolKid SkoolKid February 2010 Development
  • Vector font in BASiCHi guys) Some fifteen years ago I saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate a vector font with size/ thickness/ italicization params. I remem…

    ... , but how one can 'draw' strings most efficiently, I wonder?
    BASIC only) then share please.
    NRA NRA February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • OR in a IFHi guys, I have a string that is defined by the user. I want to have an IF that does something like IF string<> a OR b OR c THEN goto 10 Hope that m…

    ... integer and real values; even strings seem to work fine (as ... fine for me. Anyway, Spectrum BASiC is pretty tricky IMO.
    NRA NRA February 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …

    ... is one of three (initially) basic types; ASCII text, binary data ... />
    C2. It should then compress each file, or each defined ...
    joefish joefish February 2010 Development
  • Z80 compressorIs there one available? Is it any good? Peeps have been suggesting we should look into this, so here's a new thread! I'd do the compressor on the …

    ... large games I would say compress all levels/screens and only ... from all kinds of repeating strings (i.e INK 7, PAPER ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP February 2010 Development
  • BEEP pitch values for key of G?I've been transcribing a listing which is supposed to include a DATA statement with the pitch values for the key of G. What it's got is: DATA 5,7,9,…

    ... never knew you could mix strings and numeric values in an ... used an array. However, the basic manual doesn't explain how ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • I want to see if a file exists. in CIs this what they call a lockfile? I'm trying to write some software that translates from one language to another (as some of you probably know, I …

    ... interpreted. Just like your old BASIC example, an interpreter will read ... it goes. Unlike your old BASIC example, things have moved on ... very good at messing with strings. You will be hard pushed ...
    JamesW JamesW April 2010 Chit chat
  • Learning C for z88dkI've never gone much beyond basic, a little bit of z80 assembler, and some Delphi which I had lots of help with. I've forgotten 99% of what I learne…

    ... quite so self explanatory as Basic.
    [/quote]

    As ... of Spectrum functionality to call BASIC from C code as well ... octal or decimal numbers in strings, try this:

    printf ...
    dom dom April 2010 Development
  • How to insert special characters in Basic and ASM ?Look the next picture. [IMG]http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9479/scode.jpg[/IMG] I dont know how to insert these black and diagonal characters. No…

    ... use this way to print strings...
    db $16,00,4 ... define this gdu from teh basic, how we can use it ...
    arfgh arfgh June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • 'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…

    ...
    ret ready, back to basic
    text defb 22,8 ... ]

    Printing null-terminated strings can be made slightly shorter ...
    Winston Winston June 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • unusable KEMPSTON JOYSTICK in gamesSome ZX games use bad routine for read kempston joystick port. For example game BLOOD VALLEY read kempston joy from port #DF ( BIN 11011111 ). This s…

    ... nice flight model, basic of ground physiscs like compress of nose wheel ...
    tomas tomas July 2010 Games
  • Developing on Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)Ok, so I decided to install Ubuntu as my main OS, but keep XP as a bootable partition just in case I err mess up Ubuntu, :) I also have XP VM in Virt…

    ... way to being both Sinclair Basic and Freebasic compatible.

    strings. - and I'm one of ...
    Gedlion Gedlion August 2010 Development
  • Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…

    ... , will have the possibility to compress 3-4 banks of 128K ... them as single file from BASIC and copy to correct locations ...
    LCD LCD August 2010 Development
  • BITWISE operators...Hi Folks, Another question - is there a way (fast) to do bitwise operations in Sinclair BASIC? Many thanks Paddy

    ... have been good in Sinclair BASIC...[/quote]

    * Bitwise ... functions for storing numbers as strings in the DEF FN ... degree e.g. BBC BASIC, Amstrad BASIC so it could be ... The SE Basic ROM, BetaBasic, HiSoft BASIC, YS MegaBASIC, BBC BASIC (Z80).
    chev chev August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…

    ... would like to see safe basic loader. something like:

    basic.
    has anyone proven solution ... that I was able to compress and transfer them to my ...
    LCD LCD August 2010 Development
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... to ensure that whatever BASIC your planning, likewise allows ... language - again, stored in strings). Sure, Id like the modern ... that would give speccy BASIC programmers a starting point ... way... Perhaps some included BASIC commands for generating similar menu ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil August 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Multi Dimension String Arrays.Ok so I've been playing with Sinclair Basic though BASIN and I'm wanting to use multi dimension string arrays, if it is possible. I know what when a…

    ... a a 10x10 array of strings, each of which is ten ... every other implementation in sinclair basic, they take some getting used ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Multi Dimension String Arrays.Ok so I've been playing with Sinclair Basic though BASIN and I'm wanting to use multi dimension string arrays, if it is possible. I know what when a…

    ... a a 10x10 array of strings, each of which is ten ... every other implementation in sinclair basic, they take some getting used ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Why was/is the ZX Spectrum so popular?Why? How? Even after all this time you have a website like this etc.... It's just amazing!

    ... is so then why was BASIC on an Electron/BBC quicker ... the difference between printing 1000 strings in MODE 4 with doing ...
    Winston Winston August 2010 Games
  • SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…

    ... the number itself.

    Strings are a string ID byte ... , much faster to execute than BASIC code. You need to use ... like that could offer a basic programmer, for designing something like ... fun with it as a BASIC programming toy.

    And ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • compressing basicI thought I'd ask here instead of the basic forum.. in the sense of giving me 1 command line, and NOT the whole listing joined up etc. and it uncom…

    ... ask here instead of the basic forum..

    ... you can get it to compress basic.. and give you a ... it runs.. obv. the basic is uncompressed and you ... is to stack some basic programs together and re- ... that uses bog standard basic, without any new commands ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2010 Development
  • SpecBAS (SpecOS's BASIC interpreter) is updated - build 236Build 236 is up at [url]ftp://zxdunny.dyndns.org[/url] New for this release is the beginnings of a proper manual - all commands and functions docume…

    ... inspiration for this variation of BASIC?... The Bank system reminds me ... DRAW command that uses logo strings like QBasic, incidently?)...

    kgmcneil kgmcneil September 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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