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  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... bloody good game especially for Basic, Ivan. Decent graphics, good compromise ... management, and the use of strings for the big sprite- were ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic May 2019 Brand new software
  • Adding command to BASICI am looking for an article about adding commands via software to sinclair basic. I know there was one published and to the best of my knowledge it w…

    ... to call some assembly from BASIC, one fairly simple option is ... to obtain passed numbers and strings, and return a result via ...
    Turtle_Quality Turtle_Quality August 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…

    ... take up much BASIC) to the strings within his BASIC program or else ... save string arrays in Spectrum BASIC.

    The text compression ...
    dmsmith dmsmith August 2019 BASIC
  • SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…

    ... are space characters or empty strings (which would signal an invalid ... Spectrum - although 95% of Speccy BASIC code will work, you have ...
    Dunny Dunny August 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • binary mirroring in basicsame as last question, really. only this time i want to mirror an 8 bit decimal number

    ... an 8-bit number in BASIC.

    -If the original ... ], it uses a$ and b$ strings to copy first on the ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic October 2019 Chit chat
  • Best compiled Basic game ?I was thinking about this before I posted the topic about Melbourne House's excellent Penetrator scrolly but held off, however a kind [url="https://w…

    ... game I know) be compiled Basic? Any clues?[/quote]
    You ... a cursory look for text strings within I could not see ... ascii does quite look like Basic in a way :/
    spider spider July 2020 Games
  • Its Saturday, my favourite day, and I'm going to celebrate by playing...[url="https://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi"]Yeti by Cybadyne, 1988[/url] I did a random pick and this is what I got...

    ... . I had quite a few BASIC ones on the Vic and ... we are talking about a BASIC game in 16k / 48k, so ... limited in the number of strings it can store. But I ...
    Luny Luny February 2021 Games
  • Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…

    You can't compare a string to a number. You need IF VAL N$ >= 6. IF N$ >= "6" might work as well.
    I think anyway... been a while and some dialects of BASIC allow you to coerce strings into numbers.
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2021 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…

    ... around things like numbers and strings and how IF work on ... I was learning computing and BASIC. Keep posting.[/i]"!

    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch September 2021 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…

    ... the third characters. Variables holding strings end in $ as in a ... $. The computer compares strings one symbol at a time ... other comments, NextBASIC extends Sinclair basic with things like named procedures ... should going through standard spectrum basic first.
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2021 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…

    ... never really convinced that Sinclair BASIC string splitting was better, it ... that a lot of other BASIC dialects lacked was handle ... editor) and also allowed long strings rather than having them capped ... when you look at Locomotive BASIC on the CPC range, which ...
    AndyC AndyC March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... fetchan
    ret ; back to basic


    ; Print text ... end of one of the strings but I think Crisis mentioned ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 Development
  • Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…

    ... /> Symbol shift + space: return to basic. Originally had this as caps ... only produce printable chars in basic in extended mode (they only ... can have carriage returns in strings though so it should not ... ", 0 ; have to null terminate strings

    ld hl, ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter August 2022 Development
  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    ... enough to do it in BASIC on a Spectrum though!
    strings and packing that as tokens ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    ... (on the PC) all the strings and find the longest substrings ... between common strings and assign them tokens > ... of processing power (especially in BASIC) on an 8 bit machine ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    ... (on the PC) all the strings and find the longest substrings ... between common strings and assign them tokens > ... of processing power (especially in BASIC) on an 8 bit machine ... can get something together in BASIC.
    dmsmith dmsmith September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    ... the longest shared substrings between strings. You can build a table ... is only shared by 2 strings, etc.)

    The best ... . Those will be slow in BASIC but the token method you ... fast enough, this is Sinclair BASIC we are talking about).
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    ... longest substrings within strings) are remotely viable in speccy basic though, but ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Text compression methodsI once typed in a Text compressor from INPUT magazine, it worked on a first and second most common following letters algorythm and reduced the binary…

    ... simple, which is why speccy basic encodes all the keywords as ... a buffer. Effectively all the strings are compressed all the time ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Currah MicroSourceThis is an interesting one for the experts to mull over. I've got (and love) a MicroSource interface from Currah which consisted of an 8K ROM provid…

    ... providing assembly (excellent), forth (v. basic) and debug facility.

    Chris Chris August 2001 Emulators
  • zx32: cursor keysAre the cursor keys emulated on zx32? I ask because i want to select the 128k Basic option from the opening menu in Spectrum 128 mode, but when I pre…

    ... want to select the 128k Basic option from the opening menu ... how do I select 128K basic in zx32?
    Spector Spector July 2001 Emulators
  • Idea about improving EmulatorHi, I got a bright idea today how to improve such excellent emulators a bit more. Okay, disassemblers are available in nearly every one new released …

    ... how about a build in Basic compiler (much like HiSoft Colt ... and bit-test, or HiSoft Basic 1.1)?
    In fact ... compiler. The extended basic could base on Beta Basic, Laser Basic (Laser Compiler ... was lame) or Mega Basic and can include extra commands ...
    LCD LCD April 2001 Emulators
  • How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…

    ... /4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite ... wasnt very good with speccy basic as well all this peek ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr January 2002 Games
  • Head Coach - where can i find it to download?Does anyone remember a game for the spectrum , called Head Coach? It was a very simple coaching american football game, and was very basic, and very…

    ... football game, and was very basic, and very addictable! I need ...
    Matt Matt December 2001 Games
  • inRetroSpectIf any1 is interested I have made my Speccy Database program (inRetroSpect) available to any1 who's interested!! It's available at: [url]http://www…

    ... /> It's at its most basic point for a release at ...
    Chris Chris December 2001 Games
  • Interface for PC ZXSee last entry of former TOPIC. I'm working on the interface. Info about it on MISCELLANEOUS Author: Arjun (---.bng.vsnl.net.in) Date: 08-13-01 …

    ... ever program was TI extended Basic on the TI99 4A...i ... that on pc,,,TI extended Basic language...any chance you could ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2001 Games
  • moneyWhen i was younger and writing speccy games in basic with the occasionaly machine code subroutine, i used to dream of writing a hit game and making a…

    ... and writing speccy games in basic with the occasionaly machine code ...
    neil neil September 2001 Games
  • What's this racing game?Hi 2 everyone who likes Spectrum. Does anyone know what was the name of this RACING game. It was 2 words i'm pretty sure. It used the ZX Spectrum ba…

    ... . It used the ZX Spectrum basic font (you know what i ...
    Martin Martin September 2001 Games
  • OmegaAnybody know where I can get a version of this game once played on Spectrum? White lines on blue background. Build your own Robots and send on task t…

    Anybody know where I can get a version of this game once played on Spectrum?
    White lines on blue background. Build your own Robots and send on task to disarm reactors on a ship. Basic but fun.
    Thanks
    Steve Newport Steve Newport September 2001 Games
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