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TAP files for the TS 2068Hi, just recently bought a TS 2068 and found "Taper" on the web. Downloaded it and began to use it only to discover that it would not open TS 2068 fi…
... a ROM routine or function. Other improvements were for basic support of ... the cassette routines and to copy the function dispatcher to ... variables. The OS would copy a single line of code ... standard and unmodified TS2068, BASIC code from Spectrum machines was ... -
Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…
... your BREAK-routine (MC) and you return to BASIC through the ... NEXT-STATEMENT ROUTINE!
... PRINTREADY:
LD HL,(.....) ; IN BASIC LAST LINE EXECUTED 23621????
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Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…
... your BREAK-routine (MC) and you return to BASIC through the ... NEXT-STATEMENT ROUTINE!
LD HL,(.....) ; IN BASIC LAST LINE EXECUTED 23621????
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Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…
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well, i ... these it's best to copy the links and paste them ... thinking about rewriting Gasman?s routine a bit and make a ... . i hope it works, dark basic and db pro just dont ... -
Fake screenshots? No - now it's REAL screenshotsOk then. A few weeks ago I said I will show You the new gfx-mode of Speccy and - here it is: [url="http://republika.pl/hooy_prg/hprg.zip"]http://rep…
... the last sequence of the copy routine, when the attributer are transfered ... Pro is written in Dark Basic Pro, so it will work ... DithvIDE program from C to Basic, please contact me. -
Advice about drawing sprites on spectrum I've coded sprite drawing before and know all the theory about masks from a long time ago (microhobby rules! ;), but since I did it on Amiga with ha…
... in an alternative sprite draw routine for drawing sprites without any ... a frame to perform the copy. Positives: flicker issues are ... coding by typing DATA into BASIC ;)
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Cross ... save it to tape from BASIC.
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Tough paging questionOK... Take this: 1. We have a program compiled and run from within GENS under a Pentagon 128K environment. 2. The program works perfectly. 3. We sav…
... page 3 sometimes seem to copy their coordinates from another sprite ... break-pointed the sprite-putting routine just before it changed pages ... It does not access any BASIC feature, it disables interrupts and ... not designed to return to BASIC.
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new programmer needs information hi , i have been learning c++ for a while and am trying to make games using windows but being 28 and nostalgic , i thought it would be fun try and f…
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;routine to set up permanent screen ... ;return to BASIC
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InterruptsA small piece intended for the FAQ. Comments, corrections, additions welcome. Notably: * How long does the 48K ULA hold /INT low? * What happens i…
... LD A,R (which copy IFF2 to the P ... (as used by Spectrum BASIC), the processor simply executes ... to your 'real' interrupt routine. However, this doesn't ... tstates to reach the interrupt routine:
* M1: ... have a short interrupt routine, it is possible that ... -
games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…
... was a complimentary demo copy) the rotate routine didn't work.? Hardly ... misnamed, it was actually a BASIC compiler), but this was another ... -
Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... standard [I]ROM[/I] loader routine!
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It ... 's pretty trivial though: copy out the loader routine, fix up the ... I'd need is a BASIC loader somewhere along these lines ... -
Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... 'd need is a BASIC loader somewhere along these ... I made a copy of the ROM routine, then changed the ... to yellow. The loader routine specifies the first colour ... to recall that the routine merely reduces the value ... modify the ROM save routine; change the timings to ... -
Interesting Custom LoadersHi everyone, I was just thinking about custom loaders on the spectrum and I thought I'd ask you all what you thought was the best one. I'd have to …
... I'd need is a BASIC loader somewhere along these lines ... ' program which made a copy of the ROM routine, mucked about with ... -
New Turbo-Load version of Tales From A Parallel UniverseNot very interesting to most, but I know some of you still use 'real' Spectrums. While fiddling around with a program I created ages ago to build c…
... WOS. If you check the BASIC loader you'll see I ... second block and returns to BASIC at line 30 once loading ... 32768 there is the 'decompress' routine for the main game, which ... 's just a copy of the ROM loader routine which has been ... -
Weird loaders; 1) Why? 2) How? (Curiosity question)Hello again. Sorry to be asking/posting so much today, but I've just arrived here and am plumbing the depths of nearly 22 years of making cups of te…
... 're loading and saving from Basic, you're stuck with the ... possible to write your own routine to do the same job ... /> Copy protection - yes. Because it's using a non-standard routine, it ... -
The incredible shrinking screendumpIn this topic I stated that I would be impressed if the screendump could be smaller than 37 bytes. [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewt…
... if I understand what this routine is doing.
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It is a printscreenroutine like COPY (only full screen) for non ... />
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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…
... who just stuck with BASIC and only ever learnt ... BASIC as well? E.g, sprite printing routine, tile printing routine ... etc. Hmm, maybe they require a different thread in the Basic ... forum?
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z88dk+splib2 sprites question.I'm creating a game and I have several "states" for my main sprite, such as jump, facing left, facing right, etcetera. All those states require a dif…
... or you could have a copy of it in every ram ... paged in when the interrupt routine runs.
All these ... updated" in the interrupt service routine ... In moggy, I used Wham ... experience more like programming in BASIC than assembler, where many projects ... -
divIDE issuesI discovered a few issues with the divIDE hardware and FATware software that may be of interest to some people. 1. ROM paging If your Spectrum is a…
... loading. The IM2 detection routine is mistakenly overwitten by the ... features and so). Good BASIC loaders for Ultimate games MUST ... using dd or similar block-copy utility. Goot fs formatters ... measuring the delay of ROM-routine execution time, no software ... -
How do you customize loading stripe colours?Is there a program or something that can let me change the colours of those loading stripes or whatever they are called, like when Bomb Jack loads? …
Not in BASIC, that's for sure.
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+3 disc imaging (idea + SDP)Following a bit of research, which you can probably see in the "old code" thread, I had an idea for a bit of software that may be useful (for me, and…
... utility disks (Megadisk WILL copy these disks). I know because ... error during the copy process, rendering the copy unuseable - Maybe ... the Spectrum's). Return to BASIC, peek the variables out ... calling the +3DOS read track routine, dumps the track contents ... -
Currah MicrosourceHi Anyone here got a Currah Microsource ? I have one, its one of the original eval units complete with 'draft' manual. Just interested to see how …
... /> The code I used to copy the MicroSource ROM to RAM ... a,(c)
55 REM Copy
60 REM ! ld hl ... /> CALL 1366 ; Call Spectrum Load routine
JR NC, start ...
ret ; Return to BASIC
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Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... into another memory area, then copy that area into screen buffer ... do double buffering using only Basic instructions, and maybe at speed ... with a short machine code routine, but that way is not ...Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... 175 has information about the basic STICK command. This command can ... editor on your PC, then copy and paste it into Basin ... For music and sound effects, Basic does offer the SOUND command ... machine code routine that will play music while your basic program runs ...Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…
... ), as does the interrupt routine -- these two things are ... of the basic line from your machine code routine. Eg:< ... whether we started from BASIC or directly (so i ... 3 specifics, but Sinclair basic in general expects you not ... you might have to copy part of it to ...How to call plus3dos from high ram?Hello. I'm working in basizx disk access in spectrum version. The problem is tha basizx code is loaded in addresses above C000h, and plus3dos must b…
... arbitrary address without risking overwriting basic areas. Someone have a good ... MAKE_ROOM routine in the ROM when you initialize basizx? Then just copy ... a small routine there to do the ...Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... ]. It made my very slow basic mapdata compressor program a bit ... of optimising the screen display routine - but which are faster: IF ... it complete with the hacked copy of Cybernoid as a .tap ... of $2B causes the demolition routine to go haywire:
