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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…
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In the meantime, could you please ... all those references to different files and BASIC-pseudo-MC loading ( ... an actual "tape magazine" in 2013 by Alessandro Grussu
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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…
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[CODE]C Nonsense in BASIC, 210: 1[/CODE]
commands: should they work?
I ... way of getting 128 BASIC to work in ESXDOS, I had to ... course, if it supports MIDI commands.
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New game: PYROMANIA-TRIED BY FIREWell this has been already annouced by R-tape. I posted this just to help people making the 2013 game list [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/foru…
... noticed, the game would gain in strategy besides keeping your reflexes ... it contains code of games in basic and some of the characters ... issues you mention do happen in these games. Using some ... to attack enemies approaching from different paths, the goal is to ... -
New game: PYROMANIA-TRIED BY FIREWell this has been already annouced by R-tape. I posted this just to help people making the 2013 game list [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/foru…
... them both however and for different reasons)
As ... , the game would gain in strategy besides keeping your reflexes ... it contains code of games in basic and some of the characters ... to attack enemies approaching from different paths, the goal is to ... -
Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …
... /> Spanish: a running calculator in BASIC. UK: standalone calculator (not ... usable with BASIC).
Spanish: full screen ... Spanish: Embedded codes supported in 128 BASIC. UK: No support for ... having a few extra commands to drive the new ... -
A new full-screen bicolor engine called NIRVANA[I]OK, there's something I need to clarify first: Nowadays if you write [B]"multicolor"[/B] everyone assumes it refers to "multicolor 8x1" (an attri…
... demo earlier had a somewhat different loader in which I've relocated ... to do the printing in BASIC rather than in C :))
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Mountains of Ket - Written in Basic?Was Mountains of Ket written in Basic? And if so is there any way to break into it? The parser's pretty impressive, I want to see how it was done.
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IF1bis vs SpectranetSince I will shortly have access to both an IF1bis (which I've bought) and a Spectranet (thanks to a loan from cmonkey), I will be in a position to g…
... TCP/IP stack, from scratch, in PIC18 assembly, is not everybody ... , is more interested in playing rather than typing-in BASIC commands.
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Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
... BREAK only works in BASIC. If we only ... of the many different SHROM versions that ... a return to BASIC are done as ... /> OUT (255),A ;page in IF1
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Getting aquainted with the IF1bisToday, fifteen days after dispatch, the IF1bis arrived at my door. In perfect order. No customs, no TVA and no handling fee involved. The arrival of …
... help me. Looking around in the SH-ROM revealed ... the border colour in fact is stored in 3 bits only ... A cable to 'Audio In' on my monitor confirmed ... the OUT (254),x commands in ROM. The slideshow now ... in ROM can be made by means of simple BASIC commands.Andromeda and MCoderI came across "Andromeda" by PSS written "in BASIC for MCODER" by A. Tobias 1983. Unfortunately the ANDROMED.TAP file always failed with R Tape Loadi…
... "Andromeda" by PSS written "in BASIC for MCODER" by A. Tobias ... I couldn't find it in Infoseek, but it looks ... (same author and publisher, but different year)
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... Andromeda" appearing twice quite prominently in the intro text, FWIW. Possibly ...Which Emulator supports Betadisk48?Hi out there and happy new year, I'm looking for an emulator to run with my vision1.7 trdos-rom in 48 mode. Unfortunately most emus only support Bet…
... of commands in direct mode.
15363 (3C03h) - Call to DOS BASIC ... br /> 31 (1FH) - Register commands from the controller (see manual ... uses 112 bytes of RAM in BASIC variables (23734 to 23845) + ... uses *133 bytes of RAM in BASIC variables (23734 to 23866) + ...DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…
... the RANDOMISE USR number - in this case 32768 - it ... it before you RUN the BASIC program (rather than just ... the "USR" from the BASIC program it seems to run ... checked the number in basic (an address in memory I'm ... the hang of the commands for a single keystroke ...DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…
... up (if you look in the left column you ... just by sticking them in the main body of code ... TO" in BASIC, when you're jumping around to different lines in assembly ... you use labels you've stuck in ... it being laid out in that way, and I ...DIM DATA and the likeSo...I'm trying to work out arrays in BASIC a bit more and have knocked up the following quick test bed to fiddle about with before trying anything m…
... TO" in BASIC, when you're jumping around to different lines in assembly ... you use labels you've stuck in ... more answers if you posted in the development forum... :-o ... like calling a subroutine in visual basic - all nice n ...Graphics questionHello. I was wondering, does anybody here know of a method to display a large (as in, the better part of the screen) bitmap/raster image using ZX Sp…
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As ... as the RAMpage settings are different between the SAVE & ... possible to do it purely in BASIC. It might need something ... in SaveLoad.TXT - but the CODE files created would be different ...BASIC games.I remember back in the day, there was a way you could read through the BASIC of certain games, such as Football Manager or Johnny Reb. I can't rememb…
... was partly or wholly written in BASIC. Sometimes it works, sometimes it ... describe it, it sounds completely different from machine code. That's ... know whether there was any BASIC in a game or not.SAMPLE-TRACKER vast INSTRUCTION with screensHi, I wrote it mainly for CrashNicker and other 1-bit / Beeper users, but I suppose it could be also useful for every lo-fi musician (YM/AY chip, Co…
... use any specific AY commands. The only thing it ... have to convert any AY commands. For the beeper, ... uses specific other AY-commands because you'd have ... it, you can have different notes in the engine. The most ... uses the AY volume commands to play songs. Anything ...How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…
... characters that can be defined in udgs? The documentations says the ... replaced by two new BASIC keywords.[/QUOTE]
In BASIC it's 21 ... ; 164 are replaced by the commands SPECTRUM & PLAY.
in RAM and pointing to it ...How to print logo onto screen at chosen coordinates?Hi, I've just got back into zx spectrum games after all these years and after seeing some of the great games on here I would like to start learning p…
[QUOTE=karingal;751275]In BASIC it's 21 characters ... ; 164 are replaced by the commands SPECTRUM & PLAY.
... own 768 byte font in RAM and pointing to ... There's a method described in the compendium to redefine ... 23606/23607 to my font in ram.
...Animated attribute revealA new challenge to solve next. I would like to create an animated attribute reveal in machine code by having my 768 byte attributes held in ram whic…
... a random block effort done in BASIC 30 years ago for a ... load attribute and copy" but in the end I decided (probably ... enhance it or do a different one if I encounter any ... /> add hl,de ;next row in column
djnz REV2 ;done ...What's wrong with this code?[code]10 LET X=1+INT (RND*99999999): LET Y=1+INT (RND*99999999) 20 INK 4 30 PAPER 0 40 PRINT "Quest for ye flask!" 50 PRINT "?2014 Yoshiatom" 60 PRIN…
Well, in BASIC, it doesn't really matter ... name you store a number in. So
LET randomname ... /> So try to use a different name for your flask coordinates ...Is ESXDOS flexible enough to incorporate e.g. Spectranet commands?I was just discussing the idea with someone about the wish some people have to be able to combine interfaces such as DivIDE (Plus) / DivMMC EnJOY! wi…
... 'B' are wrapped as dot-commands in ESXDOS.
- When the ... the 'B'-routine returns to BASIC, the ESXDOS rom is ... used to page in when needed again
... routines, and is only paged in when the 'B'-ROM ... is paged in.
Maybe 'A'-RAM ...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…
... 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 1500:3" error after the ... 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 22:1" error after the ... in BASIC" error due to 128/+2 RAM disk commands implemented in ... the two small BASIC management programs. ...Learning a programming language from scratchSome advice please... At work I use an Excel/Calc spreadsheet of my own making to get address information from various csv/txt files I download ever…
... had any formal education in computer science. But ... I'm using has built in Python support.
< ... a limited amount of commands I was already able ... on many different levels.
In my experience ... are not very proficient in programming languages. I ...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…
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It's written in basic with the plot routines from ... br />
I wrote the basic part by refrencing this pseudocode ... /> switching between any of the different screens or any combination of ... first. That way the basic rom plot routine can be ...dumping protected BASIC loadersI wrote this a few weeks ago but forgot to post it. It will load & list from tape/TAP/TZX any BASIC program which has been saved with SAVE, including…
... referring to is that ZX basic is incredibly forgiving over what ... program and run something completely different. I'm not just talking ... or numbers here, but different lines and different commands altogether. Since there is ...How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…
... on a +2, tinkering in BASIC... I got as far ... as writing games in BASIC, but machine code was ... .. Using the built in Assemblers in Spin or EmuZWin ( ... join a couple of different routines together to attempt ... some basics at least in hacking the routines together ...How did you learn to code on the Spectrum?Got to be honest, as much as I wish I did, I don't know anything about programming. I had a Spectrum (+2 and then +2B) when I was a kid, and my prog…
... of 10, and I typed in BASIC listings from magazines. Then we ... coding on the BBC Micro in BASIC (the pinnacle of the language ... bit on the Amiga in a fast compilable BASIC that I forget ... /> We all understand information in slightly different ways, I know at school ...1984-2014here I will account for my journey through games released thirty years ago, just like last year for 1983 games, and you can do the same.
... org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/in-game/m/Mission1-ProjectVolcano. ... The graphics are the most basic possible. Is it of any ... of the classic cardinal point commands. In this case, nothing to worry ... that they're substituted by commands like "forward" and others. ...
