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  • BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…

    ... .. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window ... text to my box but basic seems to position text in ... should be in the Spectrum Basic section.. I didnt see it ...
    javaguy javaguy August 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Programming MC : first stepsIsn't nice to collect all kinds of short routines to help making the first steps into MC for everyone who never touched MC? What I mean is mostly th…

    ... programs you make are more BASIC-based (PRINT AT) and therefore ... /> Printing text (with controlcharacters)
    Routine to print a score on ... print
    ret ; Back to BASIC

    random push hl ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2005 Development
  • screen$I'm wanting to create a game which is written mostly is Basic, due to lack of MC skills but i need a MC routine if someone would kindly supply it I…

    ... which is written mostly is Basic, due to lack of MC ... /> but i need a MC routine if someone would kindly supply ... what i need is a routine to move this data from ... to have an old mc routine back in the day which ...
    chop983 chop983 August 2005 Development
  • Manic Miner Basic Source?Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making…

    Is there any sinclair basic source for Manic Miner going around on the net? also does anyone have any good guides which can get one started on making basic games for the speccy?
    Whitesnake Whitesnake September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Cronosoft 'Cassette 50'I'm currently looking to start work on putting together a 'CASCADE CASSETTE 50' compilation. Admittedly, I might not get 50 games submitted, so if t…

    ... say time consuming, as I copy the tapes manually) - so it ... ones - they can be in BASIC or M/Code - complex or ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2005 Games
  • Games wanted for Cronosoft 'CASSETTE 50' I'm currently looking to start work on putting together a 'CASCADE CASSETTE 50' compilation. Admittedly, I might not get 50 games submitted, so if…

    ... say time consuming, as I copy the tapes manually) - so it ... ones - they can be in BASIC or M/Code - complex or ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IN command in BASIC to read keyboardThis weekend on a Sinclair meeting we had some BASIC-games using IN to control the character. The maker of the game assumed that the result of an IN …

    ... Sinclair meeting we had some BASIC-games using IN to control ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…

    How can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC?
    If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and the last two lines are destroyed!
    wilko0070 wilko0070 September 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Spec-Morse...MIA ??I have a copy of a program called "Spec Morse". It is on a standard C15 and is a Morse Code program (which doesn't work very well!) written in BASI…

    I have a copy of a program called "Spec ... work very well!) written in BASIC. It comes with what appears ...
    Ginger Ginger September 2005 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Hard drive and Multiface problemsI recently read about the Spectrum +3e, and thought to myself - "I'll give that a try, and I'll build the Hard drive Interface while I'm at it". So,…

    ... this was so I could copy all my multiface 3 snapshots ... ? I tried saving a simple basic program to the hard drive ...
    jagman5994 jagman5994 October 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spin / Emuzwin and reading keys with IN in BasicIt's just a bit of a quirk I've found really, but here goes... Some of the Basic programes and games I've encountered lately , use IN to read the ke…

    ... ...

    Some of the Basic programes and games I've ... , it's possible that these Basic games were not programmed with ...
    mulder mulder October 2005 Emulators
  • Compiling BASIC programs using Hi-Soft CompilerThis might get me nowhere, but it's worth a try... I'm writing a game in Spectrum BASIC - hopefully, for Simon's CD compilation, if he'll have it - …

    ... writing a game in Spectrum BASIC - hopefully, for Simon's ... Spectaculator/SPIN running Hi-Soft BASIC compiler. I've been testing ... until the size of the BASIC program crept above 14K and ... test the compiled program whilst BASIC program and compiler were still ...
    woodcock88 woodcock88 November 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Optimisation Needed! Is this the Fastest way to copy bytes from screen and back again?I have the screen address (say 0,0 i.e 16384) I want to copy 4 bytes wide by 32 bytes high from the screen to an area of memory. I then want to cop…

    ... fastest code (4433 TStates to copy from screen to store)
    call drawblock


    ; Copy 4x32 (128) to store
    ldir

    ; Copy from store to the screen ...
    robpearmain robpearmain November 2005 Development
  • Convert Screen to TAPHow do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one …

    How do I take the screen display and save it as a tap (I am basically trying to create 3 taps, one for the basic loader, one for the screen, and one for memory and then copy them all together into one tap file)

    Many thanks
    robpearmain robpearmain December 2005 Development
  • Tap files - exact specsThe FAQ says... [quote] TAP Format The .tap files contain blocks of tape-saved data. All blocks start with two bytes specifying how many bytes will…

    ... stringing them together, for example COPY /B FILE1.TAP + FILE2.TAP ... />
    First there is the BASIC loader program on tape. The ... believed) 19 bytes of the BASIC header, of which there are ... is also a 0 (meaning BASIC program), but then there is ...
    mulder mulder December 2005 Development
  • Anyone know how you copy a microdrive cartridgeThis may seem a dumb question but does anyone know how you copy the contents of a microdrive cartridge onto another microdrive cartridge to make a ba…

    ... does anyone know how you copy the contents of a microdrive ...
    BruceNorton BruceNorton December 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ANN: Sam Revival issue 13 out now! [Sam CoupIssue 13 of 'Sam Revival' magazine is now out! Kicking off issue 13 of Sam Revival is a 14 page news section to give a lowdown on what's happening i…

    ... request for a machine code routine for palette changes using line ... developed to use it from BASIC via the Comms Interface. In ...
    Quazar Quazar December 2005 Announcements
  • BASIC 2005 Competition - a lot of games for downloadA lot of BASIC games in Bytemaniacos competition, all in spanish for download now: [url="http://www.bytemaniacos.com/html/basic2005.html"]http://www…

    A lot of BASIC games in Bytemaniacos competition, all ...
    radastan radastan January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Sinclair Extended BASIC...Sinclair Extended BASIC is on hold, pending the completion of the Open82 project.

    Sinclair Extended BASIC is on hold, pending the completion of the Open82 project.
    chev chev January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • speccy-basic compilerHi everybody! i'd like to compile spectrum basic programs to z80 asm to make them work faster. I've tryed a lot of compilers running on speccy but i …

    ... 'd like to compile spectrum basic programs to z80 asm to ... program that I type a basic program and it compile and ...
    paolo z paolo z January 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • problems with preserving tapes, pls, helpthis question was here many, many times..but here it goes again: I?ve encountered probs with preserving my original tapes - I used to create tzx thr…

    ... to create tzx through Mr.Copy (load the pgm from audiosource ... pgm in Spectaculator).
    Mr. Copy is rather old and simple ... /> Other copy programs aren?t using speccy?s SAVE routine so there ...
    de Vandemar Croup de Vandemar Croup January 2006 MIA/STP/SDP
  • more than basic gamesHi, I was wondering if profession games were programmed by using software beyond basic, because in this forum people are saying you can only do …

    ... programmed by using software beyond basic, because in this forum people ... any way of saving your basic program, half half way through ...
    somewherecheap somewherecheap January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Detecting TR-DOS from BASICIs there a simple (or contrived :D ) way to detect the presence of a TR-DOS/Betadisk interface from BASIC? For fairly obvious reasons this can't rel…

    ... TR-DOS/Betadisk interface from BASIC?

    For fairly obvious ...
    pissedbob pissedbob January 2006 Development
  • Toobin'I just took a look at this game for the first time. It got kind of mixed reviews, and I can see why. Quite a good idea, but a bit too frantic and unp…

    ... did program a sprite routine in compiled BASIC for a 16x16 pixel ...
    Gwyn Gwyn January 2006 Games
  • Mess around with basicIf you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used? thanks

    If you have a game that was written in basic, e.g Football Manager, how do you look at the code that was used?
    thanks
    somewherecheap somewherecheap January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • ROM paging questionAssuming the Spectrum 128 memory map and port addresses, but two custom ROMs in place of the normal Editor and BASIC, what is the most efficient way …

    ... BASIC, what is the most efficient way of calling a routine ... so that when the routine in ROM-1 executes ... control is returned to the routine that called it?
    ... the address of the routine in ROM-1, which ... RAM part of the paging routine should live at 23296, ...
    chev chev January 2006 Development
  • GUI in sinclair basic.Can anyone point me to any existing subroutines or functions or library to be called whithin sinclair basic to create visual command like messageboxe…

    Can anyone point me to any existing subroutines or functions or library to be called whithin sinclair basic to create visual command like messageboxes, listboxes, editboxes, or something similar?
    Thanks in advance
    carmack carmack January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    Are there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc?

    The Spectrum BASIC manual only glosses over them without going into a lot of detail.

    Necros.
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton January 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • BASin Release 13 is now availableI'm still at it. BASin is now in it's 13th incarnation (disregarding the inter-version updates) and is now available at [url="http://homepage.ntlw…

    ... that you can create your BASIC programs with consummate ease.
    copy/paste.

    The rest ... "THEN". This allows you to copy/paste code examples from the ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2006 Emulators
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