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Is it me or is the +2 manual nowhere as good as the original?I think it's probably as much to do with my ageing brain as the bloody manual for the Spectrum +2 from Amstrad but the explanations don't make as muc…
... by topic eg: Graphics and then the topics aren't ... at all, it seems sketchy and the arrangement is not logical ... including the info about using draw and plot along with the chart that ... screen coordinates for both PRINT and PLOT.
Then again, ... -
ZX Flight - flight simulator (Basic)Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old tape. Obviously this is a my type-in from an old ex-Yugoslavian magazine from mid 80s. I did …
... sort of did the quick and dirty stuff to make it ... the if's, tweaked the draw and plot, and sorted incompatible statements like input ... with ZX Basic's faster draw routines over Sinclair basic's ... could be used as integers, and changed their definition in the ... -
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…
... the print character routine and the plot routine. This is ... It is now possible to draw and plot in full colour, every ... colour using standard sinclair basic plot, draw and circle commands.
... which uses the ROM plot routine, and it works with the ... -
Bug fixed ROMHi Folks, Is there a bug fixed 48K ROM that is totally compatible with the original? I have searched the internet but the ROMs I have found all s…
... you for the heads up and I will keep an eye ... far I have made CIRCLE, DRAW and PLOT use the full screen, changed ... font, modified the startup colours and copyright message. All these seem ... -
OpenGL - how to install it and whatever?How do you actually install OpenGL, if it needs installing at all? I seem to remember for Quake 3, when it came out in 1999, that I had to install a …
... , that was with Win95 and a 12MB Voodoo 2. ... t recognise the mode, and crashes if I force the ... OpenGL mode, and Spin (latest version from ... two display choices (Direct Draw and GDI) work fine in ... does run fine under Metal and Direct3D - I just want ... -
"The Last Question" by Isaac AsimovBelow is an amazing short SF story I first read a few years ago. I recently rediscovered it and if you've got a spare few minutes, have a read... […
... helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled ... , if we wanted to draw on it, to melt ... we could ever use, forever and forever and forever."
Jerrodd, Jerrodine, and Jerrodette I and II watched the starry ... -
Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…
... to store that data and the fastest way to ... ] and [I]y[/I] would be the coordinates for PLOT, and ... [I]a[/I] and [I]b[/ ... I] would be the parameters for DRAW. Since PLOT ... routine would skip PLOT, DRAW a,b and jump to the ... -
How were game loading screens composed back in the day?I've often wondered while waiting for loading screen to materialise line by line how these were actually made prior to saving them as code or screen$…
... can create and run a BASIC program to draw lines and plot points to ... make a simple drawing and then ... far too complex for that and just wondered how they were ... designed and coded back in the 80s ... -
Better arrangement for video memory?While doing some documentation work for the ZX-Uno project, I compared the advantages of the weird layout of the ZX Spectrum against a linear layout.…
... often, except maybe for the PLOT, DRAW and CIRCLE routines, which compute ... or a background colour, and an attribute (containing a ... but a totally different one, and character oriented too: the first ... ,Y coordinates to be shorter and faster:
[ ... -
Live and learn and be thankful for the opportunityOver at the SpecNext Facebook page there's a video from Kim - forget the last name - about the covertape wars which is yet another facet of Speccy lo…
... a mensh to 'Batty' and 'Bobby Yaz' and 'Hyperactive' so I came ... by making it easier to draw and paint thus encouraging you to ... it along with BASIN and selected games
and demos all set ... its capabilities with both hardware and software, to realize what an ... -
your favourite adventureWe all must have played text adventures on our speccys,i loved them even tho i only ever finished about 3 in my life. Anyway what was your favorite t…
... with a clever use of PLOT and DRAW and a second part featuring a ... such gems as [I]Perseus and Andromeda, The Hobbit, Kentilla, ... speed, using both hands and without looking at the keyboard ... than a typewriting training course, and certainly funnier, I must ... -
What childhood toy from the 80's are you?[url="http://www.quizilla.com/users/littlelilly/quizzes/What%20childhood%20toy%20from%20the%2080s%20are%20you%3F"]http://www.quizilla.com/users/littl…
... about who is which toy, and plot a pie chart! Us ... Speak and Spells will have the ... ll write a program to draw this pie chart on ... proud of.
And if that doesn't establish ... my Speak and Spell credentials, nothing will! ... -
BASIC question (in both ways)hi, im fairly new to spectrum stuff.. I bought one a couple of days ago.. im trying to write a basic program that opens a window (drawn with DRAW com…
... resolution grid (used by PLOT and DRAW) and the low resolution used ... limited to 256x176) and the lowres runs to ... is that you can PLOT to 100,100 - ... PLOT X,Y: DRAW 50,0: DRAW 0,50: DRAW -50,0: DRAW ... the granularity of your PLOT/DRAW coordinates to multiples of ... -
Spectrum Basic InterpreterHello. I started this days a strange project: an interpreter of the Spectrum Basic that can run in a Spectrum. Here is a very preliminar version: […
... not be able to support DRAW/LINE/PLOT commands for CP/M ... currently is only for text and I have no plans to ... />
All unimplemented instructions and functions and operators fails with "Nonsense in ... Basic" report, except LOAD, SAVE and CAT that are ignored in ... -
Developing the Spectrum ROMI'm working on some Z80 assembler for a Z80-based single board computer that I'm building. For the things that don't poke my hardware, I'm using a Sp…
... graphics routines, such as PLOT, DRAW and CIRCLE, and wrote to 24K of ... able to run my routines and they worked as they ... heart of the Coup? interpreter and the simulated screen memory. ... interpreter depended on Spectrum subroutines, and I was also partly using ... -
Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…
... parameter in the DRAW command.[/QUOTE]
The CoCo and GWBasic used ... a lot of individual LINE, DRAW or PLOT (Applesoft BASIC) statements.
and draws faster since there is ... -
Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…
... string sequence. DRAW is just a different PLOT number. Therefore ... and just scale accordingly. MOVE 0,0: DRAW 1279,0: DRAW 0,1023: DRAW ... be to get basic PLOT/DRAW and LOAD/SAVE routines working ... have to 'plot' characters anyway to support windowing and VDU5 ( ... -
alternate BASIC ROMI've come up with a few patches to the standard ROM to make it use the 128 shadow screen by default. The ROM is reorganised as follows: RAMTOP is se…
... did you mean by "including PLOT"?)[/quote]
For most ... to 0xc0s and various 0x5xs need changing to 0xDxs. The PLOT routine ... on the other hand (which is also used by DRAW and ... to store additional system variables and uses RAM page 7 as ... -
SpecOS progressOk, As you can all see, I'm back - and I've been working away on SpecOS for a while now. There's a few videos, which you can see on my blog: [url]h…
... RETURN STOP IF PLOT PAUSE DRAW
And the following functions ... CHR$, NOT, OR, AND, MOD
And of course all the ... (, =, =, ). You can PRINT AT and PRINT MOVE - the latter puts ... , for text and graphics commands.
And you can test ... -
Speccy screen display novice: What am I missing?[deleted]
... instructions, whre you can't PLOT and DRAW and which take the color of ... can imagine them as black and white picture is is latter ... -
PLOT and DRAW in machine codeHow do you go about it? If I posted a really simple BASIC instruction could someone do a machine code routine so I could learn from it? I wouldnt k…
... /modified a load of fast PLOT, DRAW and CIRCLE type routines for that ... -
PLOT and DRAW in machine codeHow do you go about it? If I posted a really simple BASIC instruction could someone do a machine code routine so I could learn from it? I wouldnt k…
... /modified a load of fast PLOT, DRAW and CIRCLE type routines for that ... faster plot/draw routines. I was just thinking "things like starion and dark ... star MUST have had some amazing plot/draw routines ... -
The Curlicue FractalSpotted a couple of fractal listings, that are new to me, over at [URL="http://oolong.co.uk/curlicue.htm"]http://oolong.co.uk/curlicue.htm[/URL] The …
... much faster, with an optimised plot, draw and fSin from the library; perhaps ... -
80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... up to 85 column channel and plot/draw/circle for hi-res mode ... fully integrated with the ROM and you can do almost anything ... can only have 1 paper and 1 ink colors active at ... anytime.
FLASH and BRIGHT doesn't work.
80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... to 85 column channel and plot/draw/circle for hi-res ... . BASIC64 and Zebra OS only let you draw with co ... happy with either routine, and of course BASIC80's ... In SE BASIC the draw commands will only work ... palette.
[quote]FLASH and BRIGHT doesn't work. [/ ...NOW look at what SpecBAS can do![img]https://sites.google.com/site/pauldunn/specbas_32.png[/img] Here's the code: [code] 10 WINDOW NEW w,0,0,SCRw,SCRh BPP 32 20 FOR f=1 TO 512 30 …
... with the TRANSPARENT parameter, and enable per-pixel alpha-blending ... with all the options working and PLOT, DRAW, CIRCLE, ELLIPSE, CURVE all ... is being PRINTed on, and also FONT banks will have ... font banks will be incompatible and also graphics banks that ...Help needed with calculating screen addressesCan anyone help me finally crack Jonathan Cauldwell's screen addressing calculator and, more to the point, is the reason I'm struggling because this …
... ) the screencoordinates like PRINT AT and PLOT in the same uppercorner.
PLOT/DRAW I used is to copy the LINE command to ROM and ... PIT PAT game used the DRAW routine to calculate the direction ... , the old position was cleared and the new position placed.
A couple of random questions......because, why not? (1) USR0 mode on the +3/+2A/B I know of its existence, I know how it's used, and I have some games that require it to work o…
... limited the use of READ and DATA somewhat. Possibly they could ... keep DRAW intact and put a third value in each statement - say, PLOT ... x,y,1 for regular PLOT and PLOT x,y,0 ...
