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  • How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…

    ... point
    ret ;return to BASIC

    dat defb 22 ... /> Don't use DEFW for strings that's for DEFine Word ... /> Also don't use ' for strings, use "

    Other than ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler February 2014 Development
  • A "generic" loader for +3(e)I've made this loader for 128k games in +3DOS. [CODE]dos_open equ 262 dos_close equ 265 dos_abandon equ 268 dos_read equ 274 dos_write equ 277 dos_s…

    ... well. A file created in BASIC (with SAVE) will always have ... disk, and then compress and concatenate to make a bigger file ...
    Zup Zup February 2014 Development
  • A "generic" loader for +3(e)I've made this loader for 128k games in +3DOS. [CODE]dos_open equ 262 dos_close equ 265 dos_abandon equ 268 dos_read equ 274 dos_write equ 277 dos_s…

    ... well. A file created in BASIC (with SAVE) will always have ... disk, and then compress and concatenate to make a bigger file ...
    Speccy_James Speccy_James February 2014 Development
  • quick RAM copy using LET in BASICI'm in the process of reviewing, revising and refining all the programming tips & utility routines which I've posted on this forum over the last eigh…

    ... the first version and the BASIC listing is a pleasingly coincidental ... slices the same as DIMensioned strings, in that they both get ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • eVALuating $ in +3 BasicHi all, I was very interested in the thread below about re-starting Basic, and remember reasonable amounts from zx81 and early Spectrums. But I now h…

    ... /> There's a routine "Editing strings with INPUT LINE" in the ... editor. (TXT2EMU is for loading BASIC programs, so each line is ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Learning a programming language from scratchSome advice please... At work I use an Excel/Calc spreadsheet of my own making to get address information from various csv/txt files I download ever…

    ... at pattern-matching and manipulating strings of text.

    But ... entirely in the semi-visual-BASIC that can run in the ... worse development environment. And Visual Basic proper ties you in to ...
    joefish joefish March 2014 Chit chat
  • quick RAM copy using LET in BASICI'm in the process of reviewing, revising and refining all the programming tips & utility routines which I've posted on this forum over the last eigh…

    ... file is loaded as a BASIC program into the emulator.
    BASIC" error at the end, but ... characters, or put tokens in strings (eg. in a recursive DEF ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • How much would you pay for this FPGA clone?...given that a mint 128 goes for around ?125. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/chloe280seboxed.jpg[/img] Features: [list] [*]100%…

    ... you poured into the SE Basic part of it... I ... in 2012 there was SE Basic IV. Many people have ... Wright (author of Beta BASIC and the SAM Coupe firmware ... ', the Chloe logo, 'SE Basic', and '280SE', in much the ... with no messy legal strings attached might have been ...
    chev chev May 2014 Hardware
  • BIN2TAP: a new utility for converting binary files into *.tap imagesI just knocked together a simple command line program to convert binary files into ZX Spectrum tape (*.tap) images. There is an old program BINTAP wh…

    ... I needed to create my BASIC loader directly in assembler. This ... that. Now, creating such BASIC program is not too hard ... *.tap file with an appropriate (BASIC) header. Neither BINTAP, nor ... code portion with bin2tape and concatenate the various bits together heh ...
    guesser guesser May 2014 Development
  • Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …

    ... do that if printed from BASIC; they just print a '?'; and ... quicker way than that from BASIC.

    A game I ... the positions as 3-byte strings CHR$ 22+row+col and ... the printing is done from BASIC (although keeping track of all ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic program malfunctionHello. Please does anyone know why this basic program 10 LET x=0 20 LET x=x+0.1 30 print x 40 if x<>1 then goto 20 50 STOP does not properly work o…

    [QUOTE=Battle Bunny;776002]What I think was meant was: ABS (x-1) < 0.000001; ie. the difference between the actual (x) and the required (1) final value is < 0.000001 .
    [/quote]

    No, I was copying the sense of the original compare ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... is being constructed from smaller strings or characters, the LET holds ... have 2800 bytes free for BASIC.

    Once the problem ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX-Modules app reportZX-Modules app report If You are interested, I want to report about the state and progress about my ZX-Modules programs. I would like to report at l…

    ... SNA reader now recognizes the BASIC program and variables area, as ... (occurs on data sections or strings), like that:

    [IMG ...
    clausjahn clausjahn July 2014 Emulators
  • Why no PLOT, etc. on bottom two lines?I was pondering if there was any way to get PLOT, etc. to address the full screen from BASIC without having to write a few lines of assembler to bypa…

    ... a lot.

    This BASIC routine can "PLOT" (using POKE ... *8 byte array of BIN strings from "00000000" to "11111111". 'bit ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX-Assembler file handling concept[QUOTE=clausjahn;777075]Dear readers, At this time, it's a good time to ask you, the future users, how to implement the file usage. Let's suggest so…

    ... contain code to read, write basic, code, strings, erase files, rename files ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2014 Emulators
  • Best Z80 Assembler for PC?There's probably already a thread for this so if somebody could please point me at it I'd appreciate it. If there isn't then please respond here wit…

    ... files that include a short BASIC loader followed by the compiled ... key could do something to concatenate the .TAP that PASMO just ...
    joefish joefish February 2015 Development
  • Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…

    I made BASIC games with the illusion of ... screen. They were stored in strings and scrolled using the ( TO ...
    na_th_an na_th_an March 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…

    ... decided to dabble in Speccy Basic again and this masterwork, a ... think one or 2 scrolling strings is about as good as ... 's gonna get in Speccy Basic if you want a reasonable ...
    Muig Muig March 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…

    ... think one or 2 scrolling strings is about as good as ... 's gonna get in Speccy Basic if you want a reasonable ... .[/QUOTE]

    See "Quick BASIC RAM copy" in QuickCopy.TXT ... end, using LET to copy strings to the screen quickly. I ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny March 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…

    ... =Battle Bunny;821484]See "Quick BASIC RAM copy" in QuickCopy.TXT ... end, using LET to copy strings to the screen quickly. I ...
    Muig Muig March 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • assembler emulator or cross platformHi I have another question about cross compiling speccy assembly code. So using Pasmo as an example. If I was assembling code in Zxspin I can asse…

    ... ; assemble it (with or without BASIC loader) using Pasmo; load the ... ASCII data to ZX81 format strings.
    [*]Column mode editor (mainly ...
    GReW GReW March 2015 Development
  • assembler emulator or cross platformHi I have another question about cross compiling speccy assembly code. So using Pasmo as an example. If I was assembling code in Zxspin I can asse…

    ... ; assemble it (with or without BASIC loader) using Pasmo; load the ... ASCII data to ZX81 format strings.
    [*]Column mode editor (mainly ...
    Marko Marko March 2015 Development
  • More SpecBAS funHere's a neat little effect I lifted from a thread about displaylists and stuff from an Amiga forum - although SpecBAS has no hardware to assist, it …

    ... the "pic$" into "pic" variables (strings to variables), and I don ... [/url], and also a nice BASIC forum that I didn't ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil March 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • I'm writing an Operating SystemOkay this might seem like a bait thread, but I am legitamately interested in figuring out how to write a multi-process system for the ZX Spectrum (no…

    ... types, small ip, and some basic gui functions.  This is designed ... containers, object oriented stdio, stdlib, strings, math libraries and so on ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2015 Development
  • Double height text...<p>Is here any good routines for printing a font double height?</p><p>I've concocted this ridiculous routine but I'm sure it can be done much better.…

    If a purely BASIC approach is required, one could ... . Then you just print two strings, one below the other, one ...
    joefish joefish June 2015 Development
  • Need some AY music for my new game.I'm finishing off my new game but need a tune that plays in the background. At the moment I'm using a tune ripped from the "Gems" game that comes wit…

    ... na_th_an said, you need a BASIC loader to call the machine ... , then concatenate all three tap files, the one with the BASIC goes ...
    utz utz July 2015 Development
  • Buddy 0.1 demo[url="http://wischner.co.uk/downloads/app.tap"]The tape is here[/url]. Load it, then enable kempston mouse emulation, then reload it. [url="https://g…

    ... in pixels to which fzx strings are clipped. It also defines ... on top.

    The basic fzx driver does paper window ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2015 Development
  • Removal of "reset on break" protection (old basic program)Hi, Long time lurker, here! This is hopefully quite simple but there's an old basic game in the I'd like to bring up to date / take a look at …

    ... easier way to dump a basic program into a text file ... file. If you need to concatenate multi-line program lines into ...
    GReW GReW August 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • RFC: 64 column font codeIn BASIC, type CLEAR 49999 then import the code at 50000. Then type RANDOMIZE USR 50000. This will create a new channel and attach stream #4 to it. A…

    ... current screen location,
    ;* print strings @ a specific screen location, line ... 2 ; Print @ location like Microsoft BASIC
    row rmb 1 ;
    BASIC
    ;* prntat contains @ location
    JamesD JamesD September 2015 Development
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