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It's fitting...... that in the very month that the 25th anniversary of the Speccy falls on, I'm just finishing up making my first ever Spectrum peripheral. It's a …
... part properly with a replacement BASIC ROM image (The Gosh Wonderful ... ROM). It was kind of cool to be able to switch ... the other one with a BASIC OUT command (since the two ... -
List of POKEs and PEEKs/cool memory addressesI was wondering if there was a list of cool memory addresses to POKE and/or PEEK. For example, I know that PEEK 23674 tells you how long a Speccy has…
... forum search yet, but most 'cool' pokes are actually pokes that ... variables or something in a Basic program. The spectrum manual shows ... -
ZXSpin 0.62 Available nowAs promised (and only a [i]little[/i] past the deadline) here is the latest version of ZXSpin. Many bugs have been fixed, and a few new features add…
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Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... prefer). Then use the following BASIC program to load it all ... be enabled if loading from BASIC anyway). However this definitely loads ... Stu, that would be very cool indeed.
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Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…
... something to compile, which was cool, but its broken my game ... you take written something in basic then trying to convert it ... so it runs ok in basic
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Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…
... something to compile, which was cool, but its broken my game ... /> MCoder3 can compile almost every basic program, it's very compatible ... -
Marshall Cavendish Input magazinesHi every one, I have the complete set of Input magazines in folders from a long way back. I am wandering if I typed them in (or at least as many as I…
... and still is, an amazingly cool and informative publication. My Dad ... taught me a lot about BASIC. Still read it from time ... -
A challenge thats probably impossiblehere's a challenge for all you coders. Given a snapshot, is it possible to create a program to sniff out the original start address for the game that…
... load game loader written in Basic, which then loads game machine ... part of memory where this Basic loader is stored (it is ... loaders, copy protection and other tricks. -
Orange Intro Sinclair book + Subliminal Message = ???I've had [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=2000512"]this book[/URL] for over 20 years now ... and I just noticed* less than 5 mi…
... /> On the other hand, the BASIC manual cover is very similar ... picture, just split in half. Cool stuff, eh.
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Blitz Basic questionHello my saucy lil code-kippers... I'm crap at making games. Sorry but I am, but it doesn't stop me from trying. Oh, actually, it has! You see,…
... =DEATH;199658]Isn't Blitz Basic an Amiga program?
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Blitz Basic questionHello my saucy lil code-kippers... I'm crap at making games. Sorry but I am, but it doesn't stop me from trying. Oh, actually, it has! You see,…
... 's actually a pretty darn cool cross platform (Win/Mac/Linux ... is cross platform but Blitz Basic, Blitz 3D and Blitz+ are ... -
New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…
... do these things, ie Extended Basic, extra ram is simply another ... machine. But no matter what tricks people make it pull, I ... -
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... too much space on the BASIC listing. So if you are ... /> I did learn some further tricks though by starting the above ... a further 6 characters of BASIC listing. Finally
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Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... in this version - to save BASIC space)
To ... so am doing all BASIC dabbling in ZX SPIN ... data naturally fits a ZX BASIC string array (i.e ... use some further space saving tricks. All positions of pacman ... row and a half of BASIC code overall.
Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... since we're talking about BASIC, I would like to ask ... a few more questions about BASIC loaders, instead of creating a ... .
I'm keeping BASIC loaders in address 43756, because ... someone share some of the tricks used to hide listings and ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... tidied up the plain-text BASIC listings on the site, as ... enough. Also it would be cool to redesign it so the ...Leave AY Chip alone guysWould you have a go at a child with down syndrome? No, thought not. AY has Asberge Syndrome, it's a form of Autism - think of that please before y…
... , since it's deffo not cool to claim you have an ... to shut up simply because basic social skills are not in ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
[QUOTE=na_th_an;215209]Sinclair BASIC is awesome, but IMHO it ... /> So in other words, SAM BASIC is "perfect". Cool. 8)What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... a genuine advantage over Spectrum BASIC.
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the ... a Spectrum, like all the cool kids, instead of this ****ing ... the program and see the basic source, having the assembler instructions ... 's in the basic program.
BBC basic itself is pretty ...Interface rom - Need help to dump itHi, I have temporarily an interface that is similar to a multiface. It has an NMI button and displays a menu where states can be saved and pokes ent…
... could kill a Spectrum from basic, no matter what devices are ... Spectrum died or was the basic program responsible?
Scary...
tricks.
Can someone write ...Where will Microsoft go after Vista ?If i were Microsoft, i would develop a media center only OS with no backwards compatability that would be able to be used on a Dual Booted pc running…
... to keep fetching and updating basic software. I wondered why the ... time when it was somehow cool or better to write a ...Where will Microsoft go after Vista ?If i were Microsoft, i would develop a media center only OS with no backwards compatability that would be able to be used on a Dual Booted pc running…
... to keep fetching and updating basic software.
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cool or better to write a ... />
It has NEVER been cool to use 'side effects' of ... C standard library as a basic library. As for kernel functions ...One Liner - Machine CodeHi Dr. BEEP, Digital Prawn, et. al., I think that what you guys have achieved with the one liner contest is absolutely amazing. It brought about wh…
... more than I can help BASIC coders in the 1-liner ... much better at squeezing tricks out of BASIC than I am and ... I'm in awe of the tricks ...line editing in emulatorhi, it's been a very very long time since i messed around in basic on the speccy.. wrote a couple of games back then on the original machine.. and w…
... there are other tricks you could play with the Basic listing to ...IDE-media only Spectrum games?A similar discussion is taking place at Speccy.org's forums, but I thought it was worth to start the topic here. Now that we have several IDE interfa…
... a cool feature mind.
If implementing such features through extended basic ... not be important (from a BASIC PoV).Poke 23739,111So, I'm looking at some of my old loaders (BASIC stuff) to work out how I got the display to not corrupt on loading code. It's the old POKE 23739,111…
... unless my memory's playing tricks on me, Cookie (and possibly ... fiddle around with Cookie's Basic loader...Cronosoft gets it's first FATWA issued against it.I've just heard from Andy from the Crap Games Competition, that our crap game 'MANIC MUSLIM' has received a complaint. Here's the complaint... [qu…
... and depression and are absolutely basic to the solution of this ... alone in total privacy. Take cool brief showers.
13 ...Cronosoft gets it's first FATWA issued against it.I've just heard from Andy from the Crap Games Competition, that our crap game 'MANIC MUSLIM' has received a complaint. Here's the complaint... [qu…
... and depression and are absolutely basic to the solution of this ... alone in total privacy. Take cool brief showers.
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