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Arrays in Spectrum basicHi everyone, I've recently begun learning to programme in Spectrum and want to write a text adventure. Could someone give me an example or help me o…
... are quite confusing and I'm not sure how to use ... my needs.
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Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…
... night and came across the disk reader... I`ll be happy ... out for ya` and I`m sure it`ll come in ... are MC coders whereas I`m a Basic coder so don`t ... -
ZX-Sketch 2.0 and preview of VU3D AnimatorDear Spectrum fans, I have placed ZX-Sketch 2.0 (including assembler dump) ready for download on [URL="http://www.zxmodules.de"]my homepage[/URL] in…
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I'm glad to say that my ... be hardware-independant, I'm calling BASIC from Machinecode :-) to save the ... to tape, to disk etc. should work with normal BASIC commands.
Timex Floppy Disk Drive emulation discussionI feel embarrassed for starting this topic because I can't contribute with actual code, but this is a new attempt to simplify and present what the Ti…
... the FDD. When using CP/M with a TT3000, the ... operation on a single disk system (as basic setup) or to avoid ... very similar to the CP/M one. John, if you ... couple dozen disks and I'm still going through the files ... from other file systems. I'm sure that it would be ...Timex Floppy Disk Drive emulation discussionI feel embarrassed for starting this topic because I can't contribute with actual code, but this is a new attempt to simplify and present what the Ti…
... of other coders, I'm trying to stay away from ... believe we should leave cp/m emulation out of the topic ... operation on a single disk system (as basic setup) or to avoid ... it. I'm going to check all the TOS disk images I ... here that says Timex CP/M 2.2, but the ...Need help transferring a file to a Spectrum .dsk fileHello, I was wondering if anyone can help me transfer a file that I have into a spectrum *.dsk file? The background to this request is that I have r…
... new program disk. Note also that I'm still using ... select the new program disk
* In +3 BASIC, format "a:", ... br /> * insert destination disk (your new program disk); prepares that
... /> * insert destination disk (your new program disk) again; writes that ...machine code loadercan someone have a look at this loader and break down what its actually doing and also how i can stop it from executing the 2 loads of headerless blo…
... to load without using a m/code routine using ROM ... when transferred to PlusD disk, I used BASIC from machine code as ... ORG $5B00
LD HL,BASIC
LD (23641),HL ;E_LINE ... .
So a m/code routine can be bunged ...Varios +3(e)DOS questions?I'm converting tape games to disk, for being used in my +3e. I'm trying to convert them to standard BASIC loaders, so files could be copied using BAS…
... commercial loaders. Because I'm being unable to crack some ... "SAVE..." are where I'm saving the BIN files. ... on the original disk, the new BASIC loader resolved into ... 26000:
LET a=m*m+k: LET b=a+k ... br /> FOR y=l TO m:
READ d$: LET ...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…
... differences between "true" 48 BASIC mode, 48 BASIC via typing SPECTRUM, 48 ... 48 BASIC via typing OUT 32765,23, etc. etc.? I'm interested ... 48K and + models.
48 BASIC via typing SPECTRUM - First introduced ... 7 to the RAM disk, which 48 BASIC can't use anyway ...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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Hi, I'm reading through your Compendium, really ... m interested in making use of "SAVE-ing SCREEN$ & BASIC ... on a +3 disk with a basic program. I ... code running under original Spectrum Basic?
[ ... 40 CLS : PRINT "I'm back!": STOP
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... ]I'm interested in making use of "SAVE-ing SCREEN$ & BASIC ... together on a +3 disk with a basic program. I have a ... code running under original Spectrum Basic?[/QUOTE]
As mentioned ... syntax on the +3 is "M:filename" and "A:filename" for ...Mercenary 1+2 CompendiumDear all users of +3 disks, I am an eager fan of Mercenary game, in which I made a good deal of progress years ago. I was looking for some standart …
... have a Mercenary 1 disk loader (using BASIC), so it may be ... has tree blocks:
- A BASIC loader.
- Screen$.
- CODE ... ,41036
In the BASIC loader, I put CLEAR 24400 ... 44897.
BTW, I'm very interested on those patches ...Mercenary 1+2 CompendiumDear all users of +3 disks, I am an eager fan of Mercenary game, in which I made a good deal of progress years ago. I was looking for some standart …
... a Mercenary 1 disk loader (using BASIC), so it may ... has tree blocks:
- A BASIC loader.
- Screen$.
In the BASIC loader, I put CLEAR 24400 ...
BTW, I'm very interested on those patches ... have names in the disk catalogue (unlike Driller, ...Frontend for the +3e projectHi, I have recently finished building the 8-bit simple interface and installed the +3e ROMs into my spectrum +2A (Back model) and it is working fine …
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I'm using the files from the ... is to crate the "DISK" file with BASIC and use it as ...Reading Disks via ASMI'm hoping to port my Amstrad game to the spectrum (See the link in my sig for info) I will be targeting the 128 and +3 - the game will not work on …
... are unusable except through basic. This is one example ... to be basic to feed commands to the disk system. ... do all their disk access in basic. When you call ... a short basic program that will perform whatever disk access ... for the games I'm trying to port... but ...New Utility to Transfer Z80 Snapshot to +3 DiskSince getting a Gotek for my +3 it has been my go to machine. The biggest downside however is the lack of older games on disk format with pretty much…
... loading screen
-m dump banks and compression ... be loaded via
basic which loads the code ... M/C loader routine, which you need, and a simple disk ... need a basic loader to launch the M/C anyway ... the same disk.
A simple basic loader ...Please help me complete this lil'programI'm editing Basic programs that were saved in Timex TOS discs, and every load command starts with LOAD *"filename". If I want to go through these pr…
I'm editing Basic programs that were saved in ... of the program, but I'm not sure how to calculate ... rather add two lines of Basic and let it 'fix' everything ...Space Invaders GamesWondered what's available. :) I'm talking basic 'invaders' type games such as Space Raiders (which I still enjoy the odd play on too) and Phoenix al…
... available. :)
I'm talking basic 'invaders' type games such as ...128 Memory PagingI'm having a problem getting my brain around paging. Well, actually the bit I don't understand is how reading I/O ports works! I hope the collective …
... as you leave the silicon disk alone.
Not 100 ... need to collapse the Ram Disk (M:) on these machines. This can ...New BASin (Alpha Release 9) upHi all, Since you're more interested in here about BASin, here's the new update announcement. There's no major changes to the way the system work…
Cheers! I'm a basic coder thru and thru so this is just up my street.. :)
/me clicks to download and check it outscroll?Hey guys! Great website! Is there anyway I can make my 128 not say "scroll?" and just make it scroll automatically?
... a wrapping effect but i'm talking basic basics.disk sizeWith SPIN emulating a +3, I can create the following disks 1 - 720k Double Sided 80 trk 2 - 360k Double Sided 40 trk 3 - 180k Single Sided 40 trk T…
... a 3.5" disk drive!
The basic +3 can only ... +3 would log in a disk as soon as it was ... lot! Did DSDD 720K per disk on a 3.5" floppy ...funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…
... +3 as it needed fast disk access for swapping the large ... . Also unfortunately, the +3 disk commands in BASIC are unequal to the ...Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... we're talking about BASIC, I would like to ... a few more questions about BASIC loaders, instead of creating ... how many bytes I'm supposed to expect between ... br />
I'm keeping BASIC loaders in address 43756, because ... (23756, etc.). I'm also trying to make a ...Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…
... disk system has same file names, I had to convert the Basic ... -Loader (also add disk loading command) ... last time in pure Basic. Using TAPER I ... in Basic and SAVE to Disk also in Basic. Any ... disk it can be difficult to work with it and exchange Basic ...Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…
... disk system has same file names, I had to convert the Basic ... -Loader (also add disk loading command) ... last time in pure Basic. Using TAPER I ... in Basic and SAVE to Disk also in Basic. Any ... disk it can be difficult to work with it and exchange Basic ...Opus emulationEightyOne supports Opus emulation and runs under Wine as well as Windows.
... problem, is that some disk might have basic copy protection and the ...Opus emulationEightyOne supports Opus emulation and runs under Wine as well as Windows.
... problem, is that some disk might have basic copy protection and the ...
