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  • IN or INKEY ?just curious which is better to use.. I have a menu done.. and use 6/7 to go up down it + space to cycle thru the options (using inkey).. obv. if I w…

    ... result?[/QUOTE]

    A Basic syntax must be found that ... routines for 16 bits & strings in ROM
    roko roko October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • IN or INKEY ?just curious which is better to use.. I have a menu done.. and use 6/7 to go up down it + space to cycle thru the options (using inkey).. obv. if I w…

    ... pair.

    Numbers in strings don't have the hidden ... would return "C Nonsense in BASIC".

    It won't ... variants aren't useful for BASIC). It just needs a little ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • AND,XOR,OR,BIT,RES,SET,CPL,NEG,RLC,RRC,SLA,SRL,RL, RR,SRA for BASICAs this was drifting away from the original INKEY$ thread I thought that I'd create a new one. So here's a routine to provide all of the above mentio…

    ... .Beep's idea of providing BASIC bitwise functions with the syntax ... . This is because numbers in strings don't have the hidden ... would have liked, although the BASIC syntax is simple enough. Otherwise ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • The SAM CoupeDoes anyone own one of these? I remember being jealous of a friend who bought one of these machines which had a disk that made the system compatible …

    ... fine machine with excellent BASIC which lacks only a ... for SAM is missing strings which is important for ... a disc, and the BASIC dialects that came with the ... scroll command. Atari ST BASIC was not very good too ... (I have now FaST BASIC-Module and STOS). So ...
    LCD LCD November 2011 Hardware
  • Mazes and Tremaux's AlgorithmI've done a version of Tremaux's maze solving algorithm which solves my current test maze with 400 junctions and 715 connections in a reasonably quic…

    ... the two key points.
    * Compress (remove redundant loops) & save ... . I did it all in BASIC first to get the logic ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2011 Development
  • Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …

    ... /> ;stack function parameters passed from BASIC by:
    ;PRINT USR stack ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …

    ... /> ;stack function parameters passed from BASIC by:
    ;PRINT USR stack ...
    Dunny Dunny December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Procrustean PrintingHere's a short routine to manage printing of text with command tokens, to avoid messing up the screen when they are expanded. It just prints as many …

    ... establish a fixed length, and strings are printed to fit that ... of from the original Sinclair BASIC manual (in the bit on ...
    AndyC AndyC December 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • SnapToTap R2.3I've added z80 file support and raw binary exporting options to snaptotap. it's still 48k only though. [url]http://arda.kisafilm.org/fish/SnaptoTap…

    ... spectrum *and* start it from basic. Adding 128k is almost impossible ... without writing custom loaders, as basic cannot page 128k ram. If ... 48k games with 128k sound compress much better, between 26k-38k ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay January 2012 Announcements
  • space optimisation algorithm neededScenario: * An adventure game consists of a series of locations, each of which may or may not have some text and/or graphics associated with it. * A…

    ... good idea to tokenise and compress your text in some ... It will then need to compress each location description separately but ... Smaller graphics are hard to compress unless they're particularly crude ... might be to define some basic UDGs (such as diagonal ...
    joefish joefish January 2012 Development
  • DATA vs PRINT and OVERjust messing about and came across this alternative way of drawing a map....now before I start mucking about with my actual program.....is there any …

    ... map in BASIC is to have a matrix of N strings, where ... . As string matrices in ZX BASIC cannot be of different sizes ... /> You can even have two BASIC programs: the first one fills ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • DATA vs PRINT and OVERjust messing about and came across this alternative way of drawing a map....now before I start mucking about with my actual program.....is there any …

    ... slower than straight PRINTs. Having strings in DATA statements does have ... potential to write self-modifying BASIC, as the DATA lines can ... find the address of any BASIC line. I used this when ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • type-ins in zmakebas formati were about coding some type-ins from MicroHobby magazine, and found that there are 'semanal' tape series available at http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... br /> // RUNTIME VARIABLES SAVED WITH BASIC //

    To specify ... variable saved with the BASIC at runtime, there is ... />
    Strings would be Quote (") delimited, with normal BASIC quote-in ... \ char.

    // BASIC LINES AND LABELS

    Dunny Dunny March 2012 Support files
  • 2 new games - Brian Vs the Bullies & BlitzIn case you've missed it in this thread ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38962[/url]) I've uploaded 2 games to celebrate …

    ... part of the screen and basic (it also overwrites the printer ... ). The compressor I used to compress the game only compresses from ...
    pottyboy pottyboy April 2012 Announcements
  • Turn UDG to Attrribute blocksI'm trying to enlarge my UDG's to 8 x 8 character blocks per pixel, but struggling, is there any subroutine/program for enlarging UDG's x 8?

    ... ? And do you mean in BASIC?

    There's no ... could compromise by having 16 strings, four characters long each, representing ...
    joefish joefish May 2012 Development
  • Turn UDG to Attrribute blocksI'm trying to enlarge my UDG's to 8 x 8 character blocks per pixel, but struggling, is there any subroutine/program for enlarging UDG's x 8?

    ... "[/CODE]

    where the strings consist of spaces and solid ... . I haven't programmed any BASIC in ages though.
    joefish joefish May 2012 Development
  • Question about 2-channel beeper musicI confess I haven't tried all the available beeper utilities and software. I always found music software confusing and trackers are not for me. I kno…

    ... thus slow access. However, text strings are acceptable, it is possible ... beeper music is added into BASIC or code programs by saving ...
    Shiru Shiru May 2012 Development
  • Lame BASIC BEEPer editor - alphaI like music, like BASIC and find all current music utilities complicated. Since I enjoy Sinclair BASIC so much, I came up with a simple BEEPer edito…

    ... it a limitation of Sinclair BASIC? I haven't tested your ... with the Wolves", "Adagio for Strings"), pop songs (in real time ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • SUPER INPUTA couple days ago I searched for an "INPUT string" routine that I could use in Assembly programs and supported multiple lines, but I found none. Thus…

    ... one back in February - "editing strings with INPUT LINE" - although yours ... string. I use it from BASIC to edit blocks of descriptive ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2012 Development
  • SUPER INPUTA couple days ago I searched for an "INPUT string" routine that I could use in Assembly programs and supported multiple lines, but I found none. Thus…

    ... one back in February - "editing strings with INPUT LINE" - although yours ... when editing longer (multi-line) strings.

    Also the ... convenient place to input short strings, but it's more ... 632454]I use it from BASIC to edit blocks of descriptive ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas June 2012 Development
  • ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…

    ... i see here is evaluating Basic variables and expressions, as external ... executed from divide ram, zx basic is not accessible.[/quote]
    strings. I had considered creating a ... but because up to 8 strings are read in sequence (one ...
    chev chev July 2012 Announcements
  • ESXDOS v0.8.0 released (with NMI Browser)Hello, To celebrate the speccy's 30th birthday, here's the latest version of ESXDOS for DivIDE users. The full changelog is too long to post here, s…

    ... only dealing with comma separated strings. I had considered creating a ... , but because up to 8 strings are read in sequence (one ... have no big experience with BASIC parse/execute line routines. i ... />
    it's working with strings only, so there is needed ...
    ub880d ub880d July 2012 Announcements
  • Middle Age - Load 'n' RunFirstly, I like the way it's called Middle Age rather than Middle Ages. It makes it sound like it'll be a game about getting into your forties, buyin…

    ... appears to be compiled basic, all the strings are easy to change ... Google translate for these ingame strings.

    Anno
    Scudi ...
    FrankT FrankT July 2012 Games
  • Play command on divideHi, i thought I'd have a quick go on divide seeing as i had an afternoon spare.However,i can't seem to get the 'play' command on the screen?. It see…

    ... USR) to get to 48K Basic.
    So finnaly I 'rewrote ... up to BASIC or did you just send it strings of notes ...
    chev chev July 2012 Hardware
  • Play command on divideHi, i thought I'd have a quick go on divide seeing as i had an afternoon spare.However,i can't seem to get the 'play' command on the screen?. It see…

    ... up to BASIC or did you just send it strings of notes ...
    bverstee bverstee August 2012 Hardware
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... faster for basic to work with a array of strings or a ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... faster for basic to work with a array of strings or a ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Converting UDG to 2x2I've got a udg that I want to display in different sizes. Obviously I just print it for normal size, I can use the udg in bin format to display it ea…

    ... just put those graphics into strings already, and the OP seems ... to a routine that Sinclair Basic could use, if you didn ... to use Boriel's ZX Basic for which it's formatted ... for assembly - but using ZX BASIC to call them as part ...
    Gedlion Gedlion October 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Yumiko in the haunted MansionSo, here is the promised Halloween preview... Go to the zx section of my homepage to download it. [img]http://members.inode.at/838331/zx/YomikoInTheH…

    ... with this. I try to compress some more texts. Currently writting ... function for BorIDE to convert strings to ASCII. Maybe I will ...
    LCD LCD November 2012 Brand new software
  • Yumiko in the haunted MansionSo, here is the promised Halloween preview... Go to the zx section of my homepage to download it. [img]http://members.inode.at/838331/zx/YomikoInTheH…

    ... with this. I try to compress some more texts. Currently writting ... function for BorIDE to convert strings to ASCII. [B]Maybe I ...
    R-Tape R-Tape November 2012 Brand new software
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