-
Help identifying hardware peripheralA few months ago someone gave me all their Speccy stuff. The Spectrum itself was broken, but I got with it quite a few useful peripherals. Among thes…
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;396718]1 switch with 9 ... />
Could be a programmable joystick interface.
1) Does ... -
ZX Spectrum emulator on EeePCAnyone familiar with compiling an emulator for a Asus EeePC? It runs with LINUX. Yes, I have downloaded a FUSE-package, but don't know if everyti…
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;414754]what am I doing ... HOWTO isn't to explain basic Debian system administration; if you ... -
Load "" code gamesastro blaster by quicksilva Transylvanian towers by richard shepard there must be loads more I guess ?
... =Dr BEEP;430817]Do you count the games that had a BASIC-loader ... -
Load "" code gamesastro blaster by quicksilva Transylvanian towers by richard shepard there must be loads more I guess ?
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;430967]As stated earlier, does ... ones where you had a basic loader etc.. before hand
[/QUOTE]
So any BASIC loaders does not "count" (in ... -
Vic 20 game better than Speccy version?Years ago, when I had my Vic 20 I had a game called Blitz, it was on the welcome tape in fact. Very simple game, but strangely addictive. For those t…
... /> During Dr BEEP's 2007 one-liner contest, I made a BASIC one ... only a single line of BASIC code, being such a simple ... -
Vic 20 game better than Speccy version?Years ago, when I had my Vic 20 I had a game called Blitz, it was on the welcome tape in fact. Very simple game, but strangely addictive. For those t…
... /> During Dr BEEP's 2007 one-liner contest, I made a BASIC one ... only a single line of BASIC code, being such a simple ... -
Vic 20 game better than Speccy version?Years ago, when I had my Vic 20 I had a game called Blitz, it was on the welcome tape in fact. Very simple game, but strangely addictive. For those t…
... /> During Dr BEEP's 2007 one-liner contest, I made a BASIC one ... only a single line of BASIC code, being such a simple ... -
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... using Machine Code equivalents for BASIC commands, but if it's ... not having a pop at Dr. Beep or his code - which has ... questioning the ide of emulating BASIC in Machine Code....by calling ... same slow ROM routines that BASIC uses anyway. :???: -
Machine Code Routine of the weekHow about a thread that has a routine each week that is in [B]assembly language[/B] and is also described in great detail what the hell is going on …
... using Machine Code equivalents for BASIC commands, but if it's ... not having a pop at Dr. Beep or his code - which has ... questioning the ide of emulating BASIC in Machine Code....by calling ... same slow ROM routines that BASIC uses anyway. :???:[/QUOTE]
The ... -
Obtuse One-LinerFollowing a request in another thread, this could almost be crammed into one line. It uses a simple ON ERR CONTINUE to give a continuous display. [c…
[QUOTE=Digital Prawn;440795][code]
1 POKE 23618,1:
INK RND*6:
POKE 23620,5-(RND -
Obtuse One-LinerFollowing a request in another thread, this could almost be crammed into one line. It uses a simple ON ERR CONTINUE to give a continuous display. [c…
... 't had any optimisation in BASIC for ages! I'll kick ... -
Obtuse One-LinerFollowing a request in another thread, this could almost be crammed into one line. It uses a simple ON ERR CONTINUE to give a continuous display. [c…
... =bigjon;440892]In any case Dr Beep can probably shave another 20 ... more focusing on MiniGames than BASIC last years (really, noboby noticed ... -
+3 how to detect if a file exist ?Need help. I am making a generic menu to my compilations over the spectrum +3. Exist some way programatically to detect if some file exists on the d…
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;446264]What about the printerbuffer?[/ ... put it? AFAIK the 128k BASIC uses that area during interrupts ... -
Minor Update to Gasman's Midi2BEEPDon't know whether this is worthy an announcement, but for those of you who enjoyed Gasman's midi2BEEP utility, a new variant has been made called mi…
... now, but in response to Dr Beep, yes, I find the whole ... this?:
;SET-UP Basic Unit of duration (5/255 ... people snippets of code regarding BEEP routine use from other forums ... for the fact that the beep routine in the rom already ... -
'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…
... , at least how to use basic asm (surely is faster than ... the basic). The example you posted was ... is welcome !
Also thx Dr Beep for this other example of ... -
'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…
[QUOTE=arfgh;447896]thx DR Beep. How you said to add ...
ret ready, back to basic
text defb 22,8 ... -
'Hello World' in ASM ?Can someone show how to make the classic 'Hello World' print with ASM code ? I cant figure at this moment how to insert and handle strings with the s…
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;448176][code]
ld a, ...
ret ready, back to basic
text defb 22,8 ... -
Building a menu in ASMWEll as probably some figured, i am learning asm at least to make the basic menu i did in basic. It is a menu where we can select games to be loaded.…
yesm in the basic menu the data is in ... to 'load "loader" '
Dr BEEP: i said that my actual ... -
Arrays in asm ?Just following the idea to make the menu entirely in asm, how can i handle arrays in asm to store the each game loader to be loaded ? thx in advance
Dr beep i think that you dont ... in an array. Example in basic i use 2 arrays, 1 ... -
Arrays in asm ?Just following the idea to make the menu entirely in asm, how can i handle arrays in asm to store the each game loader to be loaded ? thx in advance
[QUOTE=arfgh;448872]Dr beep i think that you dont ... in an array. Example in basic i use 2 arrays, 1 ... filename "alien"[/QUOTE]
Dr BEEP was talking about the concepts ... -
1K ZX81 "Chariddy" games competition mate..I'm trying to put together a Cronosoft 1K ZX81 gamestape in the style of the old "JK GREYE" 10 games tape that I remember owning about 28 years ago. …
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;457650]You could try the ... 's possible to write a BASIC program that can also be ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
Thanks Dr Beep and Shiru.
Always good to have options.
Still think my "trick" is a cool way of calculating the address from BASIC though. :smile:
Many thanks
Paddy -
Help with a basic programI'm doing a very small basic program which I know is bloated, but it works. (I have limited basic knowledge compared to most on here). I just wondere…
... ... not quite as clever as Dr BEEP's, but more straightforward (and ... - and I haven't written Basic for ages so bear with ... -
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
Hi Dr Beep,
Well ... is version 2 of the BASIC approach! :smile:
The first BASIC program actually POKEs the data ... double height characters. For BASIC it runs quite quickly ... who want to use only BASIC.
Enjoy.
Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;471388]Hi Dr Beep,
Well I have ... is version 2 of the BASIC approach! :smile:
....
BASIC.
Enjoy.
Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
Hi Dr. Beep,
Mmm, I see a QuickSort is recursive and/or stack based. Not sure Sinclair BASIC can support this or has sufficient memory - what do you think?
PaddySorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…
[QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;478524]Hi Dr. Beep,
Mmm, I see ... stack based. Not sure Sinclair BASIC can support this or has ...Mushroom ManNice to see that Mushroom Man has been such a popular new release coming in at [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/bestgames.html"]the top of the ch…
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;478874][URL="http://www.mediafire. ... yourself the code goes to BASIC.
Type RUN and restart ...logical operators and the calculator stackI was wondering if there was a utility which would provide the list of commands needed for the ROM calculator to evaluate a logical expression. For e…
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;479875]PRINT USR start,A$, ... make a safe return to BASIC.[/QUOTE]
You don't ...
