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Font hack that was used in a lot of early gamesThere was a little hack for changing the fonts on a spectrum and I remember it being used in a couple of old games on the 48k, it was a sort of ye od…
... . Even correcting the line length in the auto-run line, as ... example, will fail with "Nonsense in BASIC". For why, I'll explain ... line, at $1BBF LINE_USE, held in 23637-8 NXTLIN. So, on ... "Nonsense in BASIC" error. Attempting to auto-run from a different line won ... -
Circumspect - A Spectrum Emulator for learningThis is a project that I have been playing around with for a while. It must be said, I tend to have problems getting things finished where hobbies a…
... scratch, when targeting a different language, in cases where direct porting of ... like when written in Spectrum (and perhaps BBC) BASIC might be ... just 808 lines of BBC BASIC[/URL]. I imagine the ... followed by the discovery that BASIC was printing every numeric ... -
128k Basic used much ?Hi - I was wondering if there were many,if any, games programmed in 128k basic? I was also thinking of doing one myself as I wish to make a text heav…
Football Director II 128 was written in BASIC and used RAMDisk a lot, but 128/+2 has a different syntax than +2A/+3 for RAMDisc. -
Timex undocumented video modesHi people. Please check my assumption about the functioning of the Timex in undocumented video modes: D2D1D0 wr #FF 0 0 0 - ZX color mode, the base …
... column bytes, so in this mode the BASIC displays condensed characters with ... line with only 32 used in BASIC unless you use different PRINT routine. -
Timex undocumented video modesHi people. Please check my assumption about the functioning of the Timex in undocumented video modes: D2D1D0 wr #FF 0 0 0 - ZX color mode, the base …
... column bytes, so in this mode the BASIC displays condensed characters with ... with only 32 used in BASIC unless you use different PRINT routine.[/QUOTE ... -
File comparitorI thought Taper might do it but its not quite what I was after. Unless I misunderstood that shows if tapes are identical or not but not the differenc…
... external GOSUBs refer to routines in my [url=http://www ... . It's too slow in BASIC, but it gives an example ... . The full listing is in the [url=http://www. ... top of the other if different, or skipped if not; ... a compressed hex byte. In the example picture the end ... -
First polyphonic beeper tuneWhat was the first game on the 48k Speccy to have a polyphonic tune? By this I mean a proper 2 (or more) channel tune, not the "lots of really fast …
... put two note harmonies in. The sound note loop ... triggered. It sounded different on different Spectrums. In the end I ... pink noise and faked speech in some cases ?[/QUOTE]
... Tim Follin used samples in his tunes, hence the ... not as good, obviously) in BASIC. -
128k Basic used much ?Hi - I was wondering if there were many,if any, games programmed in 128k basic? I was also thinking of doing one myself as I wish to make a text heav…
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128k Basic used much ?Hi - I was wondering if there were many,if any, games programmed in 128k basic? I was also thinking of doing one myself as I wish to make a text heav…
... Here's what I use in [url=http://www.users.globalnet ... doesn't explicitly distinguish every different Spectrum model, but it ... as it's not available in earlier models it can' ... written in BASIC fairly easily. To reference a particular bit 'n' in BASIC:
New game: Funky FungusHappy Easter folks! What's better to do during these Spring holidays than playing some new game on our Spectrums? ;-) And lo, here is... [center] [y…
... (Presentation screen, and return to basic 48k as soon as I ... this firmware : there are 3 different tap versions for the +2 ... , but if I type something in basic 128, as soon as I ...New game: Funky FungusHappy Easter folks! What's better to do during these Spring holidays than playing some new game on our Spectrums? ;-) And lo, here is... [center] [y…
... , there are no more PLAY commands in the BASIC listing, yet the game ... could get those emulated DivIDEs in Spin or SpecEmu to work ...Getting a few errors in CPCDiskXPHello, I found some pretty cool compilations someone did (13 or so). They added about 14 games in one .DSK file per compilation. I gues I'll start o…
... ! Just worth trying a different one, in case of a dud...
in magnetic sensitivity. At best it ... load it into Speccy RAM in an emulator and export out ... you could write your own BASIC loader to prompt for a ...ZXDev - powerful environment for development in four languages is ready for testingXDev/ZXDev is open and free set of compilers, additional tools, libraries and design patterns for target platform ZX Spectrum 48K in different progra…
... and so I wrote this commands in "ZXDev/Obj/LaserDemo.bat" ... what you has changed in bin2trd sources, because I ... Linux does not accept '$' in a file name? Try ... to TRD, all others provided in TAP format.
BASIC loader)[/url]. I can ...Type in game with font generatorBack in the day I can remember a BASIC type in game that generated its own font by PLOTing extra pixels next to the PRINTed characters existing pixel…
... wrote a chararacter generator program in BASIC which used the joysick to ... it to define about 20 different fonts, from gothic to 1970 ...The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... are super-clever and draw different graphics for the head, tail ... and the 3 different possible turn directions as well ... . (ok, there are 4 different turn direction graphics but only ... /> EDIT2: Easiest thing to do in basic is probably just use a ...generating a pre-defined list in an un-defined sequenceI've decided to become a drunkard, to which end I've been drinking a whole bottle of beer in one day (whereas normally I'd make it last 2 or 3 days).…
... I had to put in an extra call there.
different numbers in the range 0-767 ... all the attributes, although in a different order each time. Is ... in 48k mode - I'm not sure why. When the BASIC ... ; the attributes are saved in 3-byte chunks, a ...Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... in BASIC error due to 128/+2 RAM disk commands implemented in ... the two small BASIC management programs.< ... them accordingly to +3 BASIC syntax. TZX and TAP ... firmware to implement 128 BASIC specific syntax and commands.)DivMMC EnJOY!Coming up... [IMG]http://benophetinternet.nl/hobby/vanmezelf/DivMMC_enjoy_first_render.jpg[/IMG]
... from tape ;)[/QUOTE]
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After power ... ".TAPEIN -c" in basic. All next LOAD/SAVE/VERIFY commands will use real ...How to get 720KB on Opus Discovery floppy (using PC drive)I upgraded an Opus Discovery yesterday with a PC drive, but I'm looking for the way to get a floppy formatted as 720KB. If I understand other topics…
As long as its in .OPD format, then SAMdisk has ... BASIC lines for loading from disk. Maybe theres better or different support in ... to recall a discussion here in the forums last year where ...best basic to useAs I like to do a bit of basic programming now and then what do you think is the best basic to work with? It's a pity the ramdisk can't be used on th…
... br /> Nonsense. There are BASIC extensions like BetaBASIC. There' ... Basic (Z80). There are alternate ROMs which wil run in ... BASIC compiler.[/quote]But be aware of the slightly different syntax in ... Boriel's BASIC and some ...best basic to useAs I like to do a bit of basic programming now and then what do you think is the best basic to work with? It's a pity the ramdisk can't be used on th…
... aware of the slightly different syntax in Boriel's BASIC[/QUOTE]
different syntax" in Boriel's BASIC. Where did he ... had to be 100% Sinclair BASIC compatible?
D ...best basic to useAs I like to do a bit of basic programming now and then what do you think is the best basic to work with? It's a pity the ramdisk can't be used on th…
... to beware of "sightly different syntax" in Boriel's BASIC. Where did he ... had to be 100% Sinclair BASIC compatible?[/QUOTE]
I ... be be aware. Boriel's BASIC is fantastic, but new users ...What games benifit from having a faster spectrum?I'm using Spectaulator atm and have been playing around with the mhz slider. Could real Spectrums be added to or altered to act this way? Could the…
... it being programmed in BASIC! :)[/QUOTE]
Anything written in BASIC will run ... marginally faster if you run it with SE Basic ... which, SE Basic IV includes FAST and SLOW commands for setting the ...The Pros and Cons of "alternative" assembler syntaxContinuing from [URL]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=720754&postcount=72[/URL] [QUOTE=u6c87;720754]But that wouldn't change if…
... to start listing all the commands in the standard version of the ... a mnemonic can operate on different registers then they should be ...Experimenting with turboloadersHello, My first post, having lurked here for a while. I'm a lifelong computer nerd, Spectrum fan since childhood in the eighties, and have recently…
... s menu/frontend is written in BASIC; my TZX files include ... turboloading of this BASIC block. As a side- ... and then returning to 128 BASIC. Therefore, the PLAY command ... ]; its BASIC housekeeping program does not use PLAY commands any more ...Clashbasher a new interface to reduce colour clashI've been working on this for a while now. [IMG]http://markamy.uwclub.net/cauldron.JPG[/IMG] Basicly its an add on for a 48k spectrum, which reinte…
... to maintain multiple directories with different copies in.
You ... made aware of a bug in the last working version, ... .
3) Built in issue/bug trackers and wiki ... above requires at least a basic understanding of using branches though ...SE BasicAfter 13 years of development I thought I'd run out of things to optimize, but it turns out I was wrong. However, I'm now running out of time to work…
... directly supported. From T/S2000 BASIC it supports ON ERROR, RESET ... subset of functions and commands from SAM BASIC and adds a new ... ]
Commands in blue must be typed in full. Functions in blue are ...New hardware for Spectrum from ShaosI have some ideas for new ZX-peripherals and quickly designed a prototyping board for experiments: [URL=http://nedocon.com/store/speccy/][IMG]http:/…
... tested TAP-version of Tomahawk in modified FUSE and it looks ... massively writes into ROM area different values in addresses from #0000 to ... ) after the board switched to BASIC to prevent switching back to ...Type-in BASIC contest on Reddit.Not sure how WOS-legal it is to mention/link to other forums, but Reddit is having a contest on r/retrobattlestations, asking readers to type a speci…
... zx PLAY" gives Unfortunately a different result then wanted :-([/QUOTE]
in July & Dec'92).< ... version of Halloween Boogaloo in which the animation is ... though it's still all in BASIC, but I basically rewrote ...SoftPLAY: Use the PLAY command from 48 BASICNow you don't need 128 BASIC to use the [B]PLAY[/B] command. Just use [B]PRINT #8;[/B] instead. [url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15659782/So…
... br /> Impressive feat there, both in concept and execution!!!...
< ... of this music format now in BASIC demos...!!!!...
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different was the very first one in the ... I actually prefer the difference in responsiveness and speed - its ...
