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  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... can use arrays from BASIC but the other data ... not familiar with Speccy BASIC. I know it worked ... /> Instead of swapping long strings, you just swap indexes. With ... And with float, the BASIC has to convert to ... depending on where your BASIC starts arrays and max ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... linked list etc. Alas Spectrum BASIC is not the quickest so ... data file to get the strings/data to compare... but you ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • variable variable names with VAL$It's possible to make the RH-side variable names in a LET statement be themselves variable by using VAL$. Thus, if v$ holds the [b]name[/b] of anothe…

    You need BBC BASIC V, then you can do:< ... />
    Common use with BBC BASIC is setting territory-specific content ... the program is initialised the strings are set by reading them ... />
    Doing it with Sinclair BASIC is likely to be doable ...
    Jonathan Harston Jonathan Harston October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... the CLEAR command providing your BASIC program is small enough - ... avoiding the system variables and BASIC area.

    It ... it would be possible to compress the image and store some ... url]

    The following BASIC program will boot Cybernoid:
    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... /> I used to know the BASIC tricks when I was a ... . It seems that you could compress the whole game but you ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Arrays in Spectrum basicHi everyone, I've recently begun learning to programme in Spectrum and want to write a text adventure. Could someone give me an example or help me o…

    ... found on all machines with BASIC and the main difference between ... Sinclair BASIC and others is that other ... of the string.
    Sinclair BASIC arrays are best viewed as ... ,8 ) a 8x8 array of strings of variable length, usually 255 ...
    Geoff Geoff November 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Arrays in Spectrum basicHi everyone, I've recently begun learning to programme in Spectrum and want to write a text adventure. Could someone give me an example or help me o…

    ... you do want to use BASIC arrays that preallocate the total ... /> Alternatively looks at ways to compress your data within the array ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman November 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…

    ... does not compress at all, so no space for basic to run ...
    Arda Arda November 2010 Announcements
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... br /> if your game cannot compress well, you can use compressionless ... generated enough space to run basic. You can find this ... move game data which overlaps basic to somewhere safe, load ... game data from basic, and execute game from basic by copying overlapping ...
    Arda Arda November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best way for programming in BASIC?New to the ZX Spectrum, and fixing up ccowley's vbSpec emulator. Aside from that, I would also like to try programming a game or two in BASIC. What's…

    ... Paul is adding to ZX BASIC via SpecBAS but until it ... all RATE commands to use strings to specify rates (eg. RATE ...
    ASH-II ASH-II January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Platformer BAS file?Does anyone have an example of a platformer in BASIC? Specifically one that uses drawn sprites, etc.

    ... to make it friendlier for Basic programmers, so that they can ... enormous faff to keep assembling strings by hand to use them ... probably just drop back to Basic to do that.

    gasman gasman January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... them as an array of strings of bytes?

    You ... , I've not tried your BASIC yet.
    joefish joefish January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... them as an array of strings of bytes?
    [/quote]
    BASIC yet.[/QUOTE]

    They ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • SpecBAS: Request for comment - SpritesHi all - Having been slaving away at the new SpecBAS release, I've decided to finally bite the bullet and implement a sprite engine. I've got a nice…

    ... are stored as bytes in strings (A$.MyStructElement style).
    ... a "remake" of sinclair BASIC. It's available here:< ... , but it's Sinclair BASIC at heart. It's ... able to allow a BASIC programmer to create an ... .

    The BASIC editor needs some work, as ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…

    ... stored the way Sinclair's BASIC does. Variables are static memory ... br />
    ZX BASIC VAL only converts strings to numbers (or 0 ... is allowing as much Sinclair BASIC syntax as possible to ... br /> Unlike other BASICs, Sinclair BASIC treated DATA as [b]anonymous ...
    boriel boriel February 2011 Development
  • A LOAD of old site!If there was a website that released distinctly retro styled games to play online or download them for free but only a small amount of the game was i…

    ... bottom. You program in Sinclair BASIC just like you would on ... , turtle graphics (by executing strings of BASIC code at runtime), bezier curves ... easy as coding in Sinclair BASIC, just shedloads faster. [i]Really ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2011 Chit chat
  • An alternative method of input...Does anyone know of any software for the PC that will take text from its keyboard and output tones from the sound-card that are recognisable to the c…

    ... MP3 files... I can even compress the data to create a ... curious emulator specifically designed around BASIC programming - although it also ... loaded into a spectrum from Basic, or into a format that ... .Tap file that contains your BASIC listing: Found at: [url] ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil March 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... function using this BASIC "swift copy" technique to copy strings to/from ... (B$ right) respectively. Any real strings called A$ or B$ will ... by assignments to the dummy strings, as their locations will be ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Copying a SCREEN$ in ZX BASIC in 1 second?!Following on from the revived "[thread=20207]Saving a complete SCREEN$ in BASIC[/thread]" thread (although Arjun really only needed a suitable POKE i…

    ... that, as well as simple strings, it is also possible to ... =30618]"storing machine code in BASIC"[/thread] from last August).
    BASIC"/regular BASIC timing comparison by writing a ... for copying free RAM as strings it took 8 seconds; using ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • New platform game: Sid SpannersHi all, here is my Christmas present. A new platform game (well, more of a mini-game really). [url=http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/homepage/staff/cmspc…

    ... , since after I learnt to compress the level maps down to ... I can't overwrite the BASIC loader with C code or ... overwrite the system variables and BASIC loader without any problem. As ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2011 Brand new software
  • Jet Set Willy (AKA + more)[URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002589&loadpics=3"]Jet Set Willy[/URL] * JetSet Willy as per the loading screen. [img]http:…

    ... ]

    It uses very basic sorting at the moment; any ... splits the aliases into separate strings, among others.

    [quote ...
    mheide mheide April 2011 Infoseek database
  • Loader help please (and a suggestion)I posted in my "Wicker Woman" thread that I was having problems creating a loader, but I think this is a more appropriate place to post. I've had go…

    ... =Fikee;540490]or even better, compress loading image with pressor V ... 'm still trying to remember Basic here lol.

    [QUOTE ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie June 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • binutils questionSince there's a few people using binutils these days I thought I'd give it a go and see whether it solves my hunt for a replacement assembler/librari…

    ... the program, exit to basic and then run the program ... merge strings together if some strings are substrings of longer strings. ...
    [code]
    char **strings = {
    "make it so",
    printf(""%s %c", strings[2], strings[2][3]);
    [/code]
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2011 Development
  • Z80 Assembler for MicrocassettesDoes anyone know of any assembler that can generate .mcr microcassette binaries? Pasmo only generates regular cassettes, and since i am going to try …

    ... putting snapshots onto microdrives... They compress the snaps in such a ... for accessing the microdrive in BASIC for anyone who wishes ... 496 bytes with the following BASIC header for microdrives:
    < ... media) or auto execute a basic header like above.
    ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil July 2011 Development
  • z88dk hates me =(Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Under the power of darkness I was about to settle in and play with some SP1 sprite handling (as printf is simply NOT f…

    ... rather than rely on the basic ISR to do it (getch ... looking at the stdlib and strings code instead -- itoa, strcat, etc ... -- to form text strings. I saw you were using ... delimited strings so strtok may be useful ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2011 Development
  • Inlay Project DiscussionAll, It's time this project was actually started in anger. The aim of this thread is to find out what every wants from it and the standards that sh…

    ... potentially just start doing more basic adjustments (e.g. crop and ... the 600 dpi images down, compress them and upload them. They ...
    Bangstick Bangstick September 2011 Support files
  • checking bits in BASICThe question of manipulating bit patterns in BASIC was raised recently in this [thread=35728]Keys redefine routine and key check[/thread] thread. I s…

    ... ;563447]I focused on handling strings by means of USR, I ... a byte-file separate from basic program.
    _M.
    mattsteel mattsteel September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • SP1 library questionsI'm working on my first game. I've not written a game since the late 1980s and that was a text based multiuser dungeon for BBC Micros with econet... …

    ... menus.

    sp1_PrintString prints strings with control codes in it ... attribute detection as in many Basic programs. You can investigate the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous October 2011 Development
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