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  • Must be missing the point - machine code... Hi Folks, Trying my hand at machine code again but falling at the first hurdle. I hand crafted the following to run at address 62000 and the co…

    ... you're poking it from BASIC, I'd suggest using decimal ... for a big program, hex strings can save memory over numbers ... , but then use longer strings of multiple hex bytes to ... me not to think in BASIC terms.

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2016 Development
  • Must be missing the point - machine code... Hi Folks, Trying my hand at machine code again but falling at the first hurdle. I hand crafted the following to run at address 62000 and the co…

    ... code block or as a BASIC loader followed by your code ... my head what the command strings are to assign to the ...
    joefish joefish September 2016 Development
  • Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…

    ... method I suggested above. The BASIC is not optimised but rather ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • The state of source level debuggingI was just wondering if we can put on a table everything we collectively know about source level debugging for ZX Spectrum to get an overview of curr…

    ... a linked list of strings with instructions). Does something ... ROM starts and Sinclair Basic initializes, everything works as ... ends up in Sinclair ROM BASIC (from ROM Dissasembly):
    basic
    push hl ; ...
    tstih tstih November 2016 Development
  • Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…

    ... HeroQuest or something!
    My BASIC attempt rather quickly ran out ... many UDGs, custom fonts, DIMs, strings, and DATA, overkilled with RESTORE ... , because of snippets from other BASIC dialects, however the real nerve ...
    NRA NRA January 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Web dev trainingright, i know a few of you are into this sort of thing so i thought id ask here. just been on job sites looking at job vacancies and one came up for …

    ... give you the basic tools free of charge, no strings, for a ...
    thricenightly thricenightly March 2017 Chit chat
  • Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly​ I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…

    ... no need for the slow BASIC interpreter to do anything between ... logically inside a 20 chars strings, which had the background, and ... printed the two strings in each loop.

    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2017 BASIC
  • endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …

    ... are very fluent in ZX Basic. You will wonder why there ... more, why there are no strings, why there are only 10 ... you do master it like BASIC, you can use them together ...
    Timmy Timmy May 2017 Development
  • Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly​ I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…

    It's not ... entirely BASIC. There's some neat tricks ... of it is just PRINTing strings of UDGs.

    The ... of what's possible in BASIC.
    Dunny Dunny June 2017 BASIC
  • Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly​ I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…

    ... ;910417"]It's not ... entirely BASIC. There's some neat tricks ... of it is just PRINTing strings of UDGs.[/quote]

    BASIC, I presume, as the 128K ... demo [i]is[/i] entirely BASIC. Whether it’s spectacular or ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore June 2017 BASIC
  • z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …

    ... was thinking of having 3 strings -
    [code]
    U$ ... search - as doing this via BASIC is uncomfortably slow.
    < ... there maybe some fettling as BASIC and STRINGS can be unconventional)
    BASIC.

    Now if ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 June 2017 Development
  • z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …

    ...
    Setting the value of basic string variables can be done ... z88dk/blob/master/libsrc/spectrum/basic/zx_setstr_callee.asm"]zx_set_str()[/url] ... fallback is to write the strings to a fixed address ... time and appending to a basic string initialized to "" (which ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…

    ... , type it in as a BASIC program and find the limits ... RAM disk to save extra strings, or multiload, or both. Programming ...
    textvoyage textvoyage July 2017 Chit chat
  • Is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of fileHi, is there a way to suppress error R Tape Loading Error in Basic when trying to load only part of file. E.g.: I have a Tape-Code-File Start f…

    ... onto m/c stack from BASIC?

    * USR 1788 ($06FC ... = 1). This is promising, as BASIC can address the calculator stack ... start then length
    for strings: LET a$=(strexp+STR$ USR ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... "]Jerri is technically right: BASIC doesn't lend itself well ... something like this, or any BASIC programming, is usually the planning ... perhaps already come across a BASIC message scroller program at some ... store whole screens in ugd strings and putting them on the ...
    digital digital January 2018 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... store whole screens in ugd strings and putting them on the ... the whole screen as UDG strings is not a good way ... . You could use a BASIC array to store a load ... can use arrays in BASIC to store strings that draw blocks of ... or DIM an array in BASIC to store a map ...
    joefish joefish January 2018 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... the roughly 40K available to BASIC and that's going to ... store things in great big strings.
    AndyC AndyC January 2018 Development
  • Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…

    ... justification, pixel width measurements of strings or buffers, print styles (or ... usual control codes found in basic. And then there's the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2018 Development
  • Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…

    ... loads of Basic with the first loading the text from strings in ... in the second load of Basic by using the LOAD command ... limited the memory of Spectrum Basic was!
    TidusRenegade TidusRenegade March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…

    ... compression, and doing it in BASIC -- compression costs time and adds ... about 25K to use for BASIC programs (but I never tried ... , the Spectrum you can save strings in separate loads but it ...
    Timmy Timmy March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…

    ... all of the text in strings (LET a$="..." etc) as I ... of the programme in Speccy Basic) to display the text and ... to interlink that with a Basic programme? A non-advanced tutorial ... understand the boundaries of Speccy Basic - which is what I need ...
    TidusRenegade TidusRenegade March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…

    ... all of the text in strings (LET a$="..." etc) as I ... of the programme in Speccy Basic) to display the text and ... adventure consists of a few basic (no pun intended) text components ... descriptions, objects and messages. Most BASIC text adventures would put them ...
    Arjun Arjun March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Okay so can you save text as a data array ?So I was playing with this but I'm obviously not doing this correctly. [code] 10 INPUT "Enter some text: ";a$ 20 PRINT a$ RUN [/code] Now i'm…

    ... cause your strings to be fixed length though, because Sinclair BASIC doesn ...
    AndyC AndyC April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Okay so can you save text as a data array ?So I was playing with this but I'm obviously not doing this correctly. [code] 10 INPUT "Enter some text: ";a$ 20 PRINT a$ RUN [/code] Now i'm…

    ... , it's not something Sinclair BASIC has support for. Now you ... in the manual about how BASIC stores strings to achieve this, but ...
    AndyC AndyC April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Seas of Blood - "not working solution"...Obviously (?) no one tried it, or something is wrong with all (3) of mine emulators :)) ehm, what's wrong: In solution, it says: "SAIL EAST (three …

    ... one of those old slow BASIC adventures you use to get ... ones as the BASIC was very quick with strings. Of course the ... something about those home grown BASIC ones, they had an originality ...
    Luny Luny May 2018 Games
  • Are there any games/apps developed in Pascal or others?After talking to a friend of mine about a Hi-Soft Pascal I now wonder whether there are Speccy software pieces made [i]NOT [/i]in Basic, C, nor edito…

    ... from high level languages have strings that can be identified (i ... 've seen those strings from some parser adventures and BASIC interpreters, but ...
    Zup Zup May 2018 Development
  • how do i read the screen in sections. with or without the scroll command?heres what i have so far http://pasteall.org/pic/efccc10f2f796d382dabb21ad76c640a https://www.pastefile.com/V7demX i want to store the cat l…

    ... 's pretty straightforward.

    Strings are just stored in memory ... tried writing directly into a BASIC string, but I know the ...
    colonel32 colonel32 May 2018 Development
  • Have I got a mystery for you!All morning I worked on this set of 12 UDG's to draw a better looking tank. I created the UDG's and wrote the program in Basic using BASin for Beginn…

    ... any BASin files saved in Basic as .BAS files. So to ... up the tank as two strings making it easier to manipulated ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... remember where unfortunately) that Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum will still ... statements for all the various strings? I can see you are ...
    patters patters April 2019 Brand new software
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... every single byte counts in BASIC, for memory. In ... where unfortunately) that Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum will still ... statements for all the various strings? I can see you ... be avoided in the BASIC list. That is why ... up the use of strings that are stored at ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
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