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  • More memoryHi all... can anyone help, Is it possible to get more memory for basic pref' in Basin.... 40 odd k is just not enough !

    ... only applies to "complete simple strings" where the space allocated to ... />
    Here's a little BASIC routine which locates variables; just ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Machine code RST10 problemHello! After 27 years of playing with Spectrums I'm starting to look into doing assembly language properly. All went swimmingly well until I wrote …

    ... a lot of BASIC and/or some large strings or arrays taking ... must be embedded in the BASIC somewhere, unless you have no ... BASIC at all.

    As ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2012 Development
  • Project on ZX Spectrum in UniversityHi everyone, I am Max, student of media studies in berlin, and I have to do a little project on the spectrum. I am working on a sinclair zx spectrum…

    ... . This will work in 128 BASIC:

    10 LET a ... will consider when reading music strings.
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2012 Announcements
  • Altera CPLD vs Xylinx FPGAI will dig into the world of FPGA's, mainly to find something that can replace one or more GALs for my current and new projects. And it's never bad t…

    ... allow you to understand the basic principles of the language I ... />
    It's a very basic device: a multi-protocol joystick ... see.
    { } is used to concatenate bits to form multibit data ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix January 2013 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... start from scratch with your BASIC loader using the "turboBASIC.szx ... 0 code into the current BASIC program. "boombotmaster.szx" is ... to turbo load/save from BASIC with "turbobot.csw" being ... supported. They must be empty strings ;)

    The loading/ ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker February 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Screens and BasicA question about the ZX screens. I am using software to convert my own art and drawings to the ZX Spectrum. I have some tools to change .jpg files in…

    ... example using the (very) quick BASIC technique mentioned by Dr.BEEP ... location pointer into s$(). Both strings would be set up separately ... be displayed instantaneously just using BASIC.

    [code]
    2 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • BIFROST* ENGINE 1.2 released!Another improved version of the BIFROST* ENGINE is now available! Download it here: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027405[/u…

    ... a $tring and then connect strings to see if they form ... Assembly, standard Sinclair BASIC, compiled Boriel's ZX BASIC, and z88dk (although ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2013 Brand new software
  • Font hack that was used in a lot of early gamesThere was a little hack for changing the fonts on a spectrum and I remember it being used in a couple of old games on the 48k, it was a sort of ye od…

    ... one in the ROM. Then BASIC and the ROM routines would ... would be hard to program strings of text if the codes ...
    joefish joefish April 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Keyboard scanning routines / techniques?What keyboard scanning routines or techniques do people use? I'm looking to write something which doesn't rely on the ROM-based keyboard scanner, an…

    ... /d/u formats), char and strings.
    5) Write a program ... shell. It's a bit basic at the moment...
    7 ...
    u6c87 u6c87 May 2013 Development
  • ZX-Assembler in progress...Dear readers, I just want to announce that ZX-Assembler is not longer only an idea in my mind. It's just alive. Unfortunately, it's too early to mak…

    ... made in ZX-Editor for BASIC.

    [QUOTE=Ralf] ... while data would be .BYTE strings.[/QUOTE]

    Yes, ... /> a single string
    several strings separated by value X (default ... are very often split into strings, data and maybe graphics.
    clausjahn clausjahn May 2013 Emulators
  • The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…

    ... that arrays of variables (not strings) are 5 bytes per element ... all super easy. If only Basic had pointers...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter July 2013 Games
  • SAM Revival issue 24 now out![url=http://www.samcoupe.com] [img]http://www.samcoupe.com/2013/24.jpg[/img] [/url] It's about time... Yes, it's back! Yes, it's been a long time! S…

    [QUOTE=Gott;712220]Is a BASIC compiler available for it, which ... , and use more then 32K BASIC?[/QUOTE]
    I got a ... compiler, but it cannot handle strings. I guess, you must wait ... write good games in SAM BASIC too.
    LCD LCD July 2013 Announcements
  • Full 16*16-digit BASIC multiplicationI liked Andre Adrian's 32-bit long multiplication routine so much that I decided to a decimal version. After all, 2^63 is only 9223372036854775808, a…

    ... are entered as numbers or strings. The variable names can ... STRINGS statements; but they must be declared sequentially in the BASIC ... SAVEHL),hl
    ld de,STRINGS
    call FIND
    ... S:W:D:E:"
    STRINGS:defm "C$():E$():"
    ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Can a guy that traveled on the short bus learn machine code...Hmmm So after some soul searching I figured it was time to finaly nail spectrum machine code. Its so frustrating to sit infront of a basic listing w…

    ... enable me to use lables, strings but also let me just ... they all support the same basic feature set. A simple pattern ...
    u6c87 u6c87 September 2013 Development
  • Serious SpectrumHas anyone here used their Spectrum for anything other than gaming and programming back in the eighties? I see all these business and productivity ap…

    ... of database and later in strings: one line per participant in ... on a laptop with Q-basic 6.0, what took a ... Windows 98 because otherwise Q-basic does not work.
    I ...
    bverstee bverstee September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Machine code optimisationI'm geting back into z80 coding and wonder what the best way of showing how efficient the code is. I've got Rodney Zaks book and see there are timin…

    ... to machine code" and "Updating BASIC variables from assembler" sections. There ... of how to pass strings (or pointers to strings) to & from ... a method for updating a BASIC number array from assembler; you ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2013 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Type-in BASIC contest on Reddit.Not sure how WOS-legal it is to mention/link to other forums, but Reddit is having a contest on r/retrobattlestations, asking readers to type a speci…

    ... as Sinclair BASIC keywords but instead just as normal strings. You will ...
    Arjun Arjun October 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • SoftPLAY: Use the PLAY command from 48 BASICNow you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B]PLAY[/B] command. Just use [B]PRINT #8;[/B] instead. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/So…

    ... br /> [CODE]C Nonsense in BASIC, 210: 1[/CODE]
    ... error.
    Are the empty strings not allowed?

    BASIC with the +DivIDE firmware ... way of getting 128 BASIC to work in ESXDOS, ... in ESXDOS to get 128 BASIC support.
    But ...
    bverstee bverstee October 2013 Brand new software
  • SoftPLAY: Use the PLAY command from 48 BASICNow you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B]PLAY[/B] command. Just use [B]PRINT #8;[/B] instead. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/So…

    ... is converting the null strings to carriage returns so ... to play MIDI notes from BASIC with the +DivIDE firmware, ... any way of getting 128 BASIC to work in ESXDOS, ... good idea to run 128 BASIC with divIDE. There's ... in ESXDOS to get 128 BASIC support. But recently I ...
    chev chev October 2013 Brand new software
  • SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…

    [code]; --- BASIC LINE AND COMMAND INTERPRETATION -----------------------------------
    < ... /> ; THE 'MAIN PARSER' OF THE BASIC INTERPRETER
    org 0x1b17
    strings
    ld (hl), a ; update ...
    chev chev October 2013 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... sizes of individual characters or strings of characters and I'm ... a function that prints C strings built-in.[/quote]
    ... it simple to use from BASIC. A small modification of the ... it to handle zero terminated strings directly. Probably worth mentioning that ...
    chev chev November 2013 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... it to handle zero terminated strings directly. Probably worth mentioning that ... removing the error reporting to basic, removing the ROM call to ... pixel. The driver is using basic's origin at bottom left ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2013 Development
  • FZX Driver for z88dkAn fzx library for z88dk can be downloaded [URL="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XhJJ33xpOWM2hWNjAxMVkxaEk/edit?usp=sharing"]here[/URL]. The libr…

    ... in-line commands available from BASIC to add more control to ... fix the kern bug for strings and if I do that ...
    chev chev November 2013 Announcements
  • Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…

    ... just extract the foreign character strings.

    So, if I ... it to other languages? The basic Finders Keepers text is about ...
    David Jones David Jones December 2013 Development
  • The Spectrum Show Episode 24Welcome to The Spectrum Show Christmas Special. The show dedicated to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It?s that time of year again, the time of drinking t…

    ... is the fix for your basic program:

    [CODE]
    Timmy Timmy December 2013 Announcements
  • Spectrum Utility Routines Compendium (pending)I couldn't make up my mind into which section to put this, so it's ended up here for some tenuous reason. I haven't forgotten about this. I've been …

    ... , ROM, ROM-routines, SaveLoad, Storing_Mcode, Strings, TXT2EMU, Variables

    The ...
    ** Full 16*16-digit BASIC multiplication
    ** Print a large ... a given length into a BASIC program
    ** SCREEN$ bug fix ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Announcements
  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... DIMmed numeric arrays and DIMmed strings/arrays. It's of no ... use for simple strings as for them a LET ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Writing faster BASICIn terms of structuring BASIC programs, what are the best ways allocate variables, functions, arrays? Any tips. I remember INPUT mag had some suggest…

    ... DIMmed numeric arrays and DIMmed strings/arrays. It's of no ... use for simple strings as for them a LET ... , how to work with the BASIC ROM rather than against it ...
    dmsmith dmsmith December 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • Idiots Guide......To machine code, or assembler language...whatever the appropriate term is Basically at this stage I want to fiddle about and try and get used to…

    ... it smaller than assembly or basic, and the operators it supplies ... /> or a
    ret z ; basic might complain if some exx ... functions to generate numbers from strings if that's what you ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2014 Development
  • hash function permutation tableI'm using a simple Pearson hash function to generate keys for a $(103,6) array using a 256-byte permutation table. How do I arrange the entries in th…

    ... the Spectrum BASIC keywords:

    [code]
    char *strings[] = {
    "BEEP ...
    Kweepa Kweepa January 2014 Development
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