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  • 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…

    ... is now possible to draw and plot in full colour, every ... colour using standard sinclair basic plot, draw and circle commands.

    command to save the display to the background at address #B9D5 and ... another command to display normal ...
    Basher Basher April 2014 Hardware
  • 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, ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch October 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ...
    Gedlion Gedlion December 2010 Games
  • 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 ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman October 2018 Hardware
  • BIFROST* Advanced Programming - part 4In previous posts I demonstrated how to move multicolor tiles up and down smoothly by a single pixel, and sideways by an entire char (8 pixels). Thi…

    ... choose a different tile to draw.

    In ... 255, just like the standard PLOT command. In this case, the ... );
    }

    // move and draw tiles
    for (f = 0 ... takes twice as long to draw;


    [*] If ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas August 2012 Development
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... This is a great book and I came across the section ... ROM routines which suggested using PLOT and DRAW. The description was simple so ... br /> CALL 8927 ; ROM PLOT Command

    DRAW:
    LD B,1 ... above is assembled in Basin and executed I get an ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2017 Development
  • Robocop 3 and Battle Command box scans requiredIf anyone has a copy of Robocop 3 and/or Battle Command could you please take a front facing photo of the top/side/Bottom/back of the box for me? …

    ... copy of Robocop 3 and/or Battle Command could you please take ... an emulation setup using Launchbox and would like to create a ...
    Horace Leaves A Message Horace Leaves A Message June 2018 Games
  • 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 circle ... draw sprites, screens for adventure games, simple 3D animation from BASIC and ... a lot of individual LINE, DRAW or PLOT (Applesoft BASIC) statements.
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... the existing walls. The PLOT command would have to accept ... three doors, and then an additional DRAW embedded in a ... also be needed, to draw the 9 lines of ... PLOT command is ever needed, and the INK colour never changes, and ... the letters in the DRAW CODE strings by 2 ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn March 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... idea to draw the walls at the beginning, and then draw the doors ... had it's own seperate PLOT command, and three DRAW commands.

    So ... if it is slower to draw the entire scene on each ... in m/c they could draw onto all of the 192 ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn April 2008 Development
  • Birthday PlotsHello all; When browsing the web, I stumbled across an oddity known as Birthday Plots. In effect somebody enters a numeric date and the computer prin…

    ... this is right and lines 70 and 80 seem to ... the relative DRAW command may accumulate rounding errors and eventually fall ... outside the screen, thus I added an explicit PLOT command ... before each DRAW so it will ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas July 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ... downloaded SMAX and keep getting things like

    Invalid command: DRAW
    Gedlion Gedlion April 2012 Development
  • 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- ... with all the options working and PLOT, DRAW, CIRCLE, ELLIPSE, CURVE all ... changes though - a PRINT command that contains embedded INK/PAPER ... banks will be incompatible and also graphics banks that ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • 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.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2014 Development
  • Sprites flickeringI am trying to write a Spectrum game in machine code. I am still a beginner in programming, however I did much progress recently, i believe. Now I am…

    ... do with screen refeshing, interrupts and HALT command, but I still dont ... /> 1. Store background
    2. Draw sprite into background
    3 ... . Delay loop
    4. Draw stored background into sprite
    and how to avoid it?
    Ralf Ralf October 2004 Development
  • ANN: Tipshop updated Sunday, 30 October 2005Sunday 30 October 2005 Crivvens! What an indecently massive load of stuff this month - a veritable feast of tips, maps, POKEs and complete solutions.…

    ... Escape, The , Gunpowder, Treason and Plot , Gyron Atrium ,
    ... Urban Upstart , Vindicator! , Vixen and Wizball.

    * ... Mini Adventure ,
    Missile Command Base , Molesworth , Monster , < ... Livingstone Supongo 2 and Lode Runner and POKEs for ...
    hackersanon hackersanon October 2005 Announcements
  • Speccy and LinuxI try to run Spectrum emulators under Linux (PCLinOS Mandriva based distribution, kernel 2.6.12), with Wine 0.9, but without much succes. Spectacula…

    ... works, with chopy animation and sound, and i dont know how to ... configure (with DIR prefix) and make command, he gives me bunch of ... errors and obviously isnt install ... br /> Becouse of that Fuse and fuse-util, refuse to continue ...
    Pegaz Pegaz May 2006 Emulators
  • 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 ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2006 Chit chat
  • "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 ...
    Daren Daren January 2007 Chit chat
  • 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 ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • 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 ...
    namtip namtip January 2014 Development
  • 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:

    [ ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2014 Development
  • 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 ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch December 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • A Sunday grumbleGIVE IN & DROP OUT OR WHAT? The following is not a sensible message meaning that I'm not necessarily going to act upon what the title suggests, I'…

    ... jiggery pokery with folders and path names and stuff.

    and characters to help you plot your positions ... when working out where to put a graphic and ... the inevitable PC and DOS command line stuff and finally Windows 95 ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch September 2020 Chit chat
  • ANN: Tipshop updated Saturday, 24 October 2020Saturday 24 October 2020 Hopefully it won't be another 6 months, he said. Joke about Corona still going, he said. Oh, blimey! * Yes, it's been a…

    ... of thanks to Lee Fogarty and David Lodge for getting Tipshop ... back up and running.
    Twice. When ... as transcribing ones from YS and Crash).
    When I ... /> characters. I did some digging, and discovered that they were ones ...
    hackersanon hackersanon October 2020 Announcements
  • 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 ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2004 Games
  • 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! ...
    monty.mole monty.mole July 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Beta Basic Manual 3 and 4?Hi all, The Beta Basic V3 manual is here in a pdf doc :- [url="ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/utils-info/BetaBasicV3.0.pdf"]ftp://ftp.w…

    ... downloaded them the other week and bemoaned the lack of English ... find the commands for grabbing and putting blocks of screen data ... Basic`s Get & Plot command for grabbing and putting blocks of screen ...
    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) July 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help me with something important here pleaseHello everybody, I was wondering if anybody could help me. I'm trying to load a "picture" from the real tape into emulator. I used to create many …

    ... 't work. And I didn't try the command CODE yet. ... the word screen$ and make it work. The command SCREEN$ is supposed ... some command being printed out right away, like PRINT, CLS, DRAW and etc. And ... that's where I can't find SCREEN$ command! ...
    speccyboy4ever speccyboy4ever March 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • RND not random?I recently wrote a simple Alien style game where the bad guys shoot you at random, it works fine, but after a while the Variable that is supposed to …

    ... any factor less than 885 and place the result into an ... or Y coordinate of a PLOT command)

    Try this:
    PLOT statement, it would be rounded ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2005 Sinclair Basic
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