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machine IDs for .z80 snapshotsHi, is there s.o. officially in charge for the .z80 file format? while upgrading zxsp's save_z80 routine i added new machine IDs for the Specci vari…
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
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4,3,2,1,0,1,2,3 ... ,4,
4,3,2,2,3 ... ,2,2,3 ... something you could do in basic if so motivated (unlike ...
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How can I view code from a game?Hi All, I had a Spectrum years ago and it is what started my love for playing games. I have recently been playing some of the old games I used to pl…
... It is written largely in basic. (with some m/c ... have the listing in plain-text in front of me.< ... emulator.
3. I started to play the ... to get past the short BASIC "loader" program).
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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…
... menu screen output)
3) The game is probably still ... $(3 TO ) on whitespace, after inputting u$ as a string (Nonsense in BASIC ... . I'm still occasionally thinking in BBC Basic, where a comma causes ... -
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…
... -liner utility to renumber programs in BASIC, it's called ZX-LINE ... +9:
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Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... logic only allows 3 mountains in a plot but ... are stripped off as in basic when INT() is used ... 41, gfx_potentialMask[g_uchar0], 6, 3); // AND production mask into ... gfx_potentialMask[g_uchar0] + 6, 6, 3);
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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=ghbearman;215060]BBC Basic had a built in assembler.[/quote]
... away with single key entry (in 128K mode). The BBC's ... 't enter an invalid line in Sinclair BASIC).[/quote]
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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…
... something that's too slow in basic but simple at an assembly ... away with single key entry (in 128K mode). The BBC's single ... the assembler are mixed together in the BASIC listing? I've never ... if it's in the basic program.
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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…
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OK, so there are differences too, but the point is ... libraries - they're not in the 'spirit of BASIC'.
... common method, and in most instances in BASIC the programmer will say ... Decimal type with built-in Visual Basic functionality is extremely ... -
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... natural companion of Z80 CPU. In fact, not only ZX ... stops while the dma is in progress. So it can ... example, it is necessary in a 3.5MHz z80 system if you ... the sole reason it exists in the MB02? You could ... you have only 48k or 128k of RAM?
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... stops while the dma is in progress. [/quote]
In byte mode DMA releases bus ... example, it is necessary in a 3.5MHz z80 system if ... the sole reason it exists in the MB02? [/quote]Yes. ... have only 48k or 128k of RAM?[/quote]You ... -
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... 1 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 29752,146 ... 2 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 32067,146 ... /> DMA DEMO LEVEL 3 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 33614 ...
Original DMA sequences in DMA demos by BUSYSOFT:
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... - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 29752, ... - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 32067, ... DMA DEMO LEVEL 3 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE ... on +2a/+3 you get 255's in random places, ... signals, then using it in this mode should be ...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…
... /> Article #1: One-liner techniques in BASIC Sinclair
1. " ... variable assignments, etc.
3. "Call to Arms": Invite more ... /> 2 draw board
3 IF match has not finished ...
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3. "AI": Explain how the simplistic ...Blok*Load on Multiface 128Spinning this off into a new thread to avoid cluttering up the original: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17999&page=7[/u…
... program that improves 48K compatability in the +3, for the topic poster ... over the Multiface's built in save routines?
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* Yes, I prefered the 128K for it's unique look ... port (built as described in an article in Crash or Your Sinclair ...Loading ScreensWhat method of revealling loading screens can be achieved in BASIC or is the only one which can be done the one which reveals it line by line over an…
If talking about loading screens in Basic how is it possible to ... change the ink in two lowest lines of the ... BORDER n makes the ink in two bottom lines white for ... n=0..3 and black for n=4 ...Blok*Load on Multiface 128Spinning this off into a new thread to avoid cluttering up the original: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17999&page=7[/u…
... program that improves 48K compatability in the +3, for the topic poster ... over the Multiface's built in save routines?
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* Yes, I prefered the 128K for it's unique look ... port (built as described in an article in Crash or Your Sinclair ...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…
... for valid moves in advance eliminates the ... need to check all 3 end game conditions).
Checking moves in advance is not viable in BASIC, but that's ... the way I would have done it in ... bytes than checking those 3 end game conditions ( ...Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
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The accuracy of Speccy BASIC isn't bad, random usually ... the time beats standard Atari BASIC by over 2 minutes and ... completing it in around 31 seconds. The best compiled BASIC so far ... the same MHz depending on differences in the BASICs.
A 64180 ...Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... it in around 31 seconds. The best compiled BASIC so ... Z80... but the CoCo BASIC doesn't support integers so ... the same MHz depending on differences in the BASICs.
[/quote ... different processors based on their basic interpretters' performance is very ...+2A, are they all this incompatible?My +2A does not seem to be faulty but the number of games that don't run on it are silly. Scooby Doo(Elite), Crazy Cars , Turbo Outrun, Vindicator(im…
... to enter the +3 (probably in +2A too) built in diagnostic program? (While ... you're in the color testing ... all the keys work fine in basic(either version). What gives?New tape releases - 128K only?As Jon's new Egg-Head game is 128K only, and splATTR has also evolved into a 128K only game - both due to memory constraints - I was wondering if the…
... models but +2A and +3. Then it checks if ... fix for +2A and +3 on July 26th, 1994[/quote ... which doesn't work in +2A/+3 'cause of the different ... routine and it worked fine in 48 BASIC mode.
... target the 128 models in our releases (ComputerEmuZone Games ...New Spectrum game - Isotopia by OctocomOctocom, the guys who made BASIC programmed games such as Pandemia or Insert Coins, released yesterday their very first compiled BASIC game: Isotopia…
[QUOTE=na_th_an;231522]The BASIC commands to access the ... disk use different syntax. In the 128/+2 you do ... something like that, and in +2A/+3 you use the new ... uses some kind of pure BASIC setting to load stuff ... considered using the ram-disk in a game, but that ...DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…
... the screen in 32x32 or 64x32 resolution from BASIC, and ... (extracted from an old 3" disc) the general way ... to look at address stored in the DEFADD (23563) ... to the DEF FN function in use.
... memory as they would appear in BASIC, then load the address ...Print to text file? (ZX Printer)Are there any emulators that allow the zx printer output to be directed to an ASCII text file? I've been hacking some Brian Howarth adventures and a…
In (WIN-)Z80 you can redirect RS232 output to a file.
In BASIC select a machine with IF1.
Type OPEN #3;"t"
then all LPRINT will go to the file.splib2 from ROMI'm trying to generate IF2 ROM games for ZX Spectrum 16K using z88dk + splib2. So far I've managed to create a new crt0 file and to generate valid RO…
... Sprite definitions are in ROM.
3.- Tile definitions are in ROM, and ... just to write to sp_TileArray (in RAM) accordingly.
[/quote]< ... table will have to be in RAM. In this case maybe it ... of the Sinclair char set in the basic ROM.
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