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  • New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…

    ... that would break its Sinclair BASIC compatibility - which is not good ... .
    eg.
    90 REM draw some background characters
    91 ... anding (NOT AVAILABLE IN SINCLAIR BASIC!!!)
    100 AND 1
    129 REM draw the sprite, masked with the ...
    Kiwi Kiwi April 2006 Emulators
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... />
    ._sprdrawftbl ; table of sprite draw functions indexed by type

    There are five basic sprite types: MASK, OR, XOR ... "sprdrawftbl[]" that contained the corresponding draw function. This table must end ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... specific character square just like Basic's "PRINT AT". These ... we called sp1_UpdateNow() to draw the screen BEFORE the character ... struct_sp1_updates) to SP1's draw list so that those character ... ensuring that SP1 will *not* draw those character cells.
    < ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... of update structs queued for draw (MSB = 0 if none)
    draw sprites and tiles are always ... /> in_Inkey() works like inkey$ in Basic: it returns the ascii code ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... This is the mode Spectrum Basic runs in and the ROM ... Europe). Under normal operation the Basic System is in "im 1 ... a constant rate.
    [*] The Basic system's interrupt routine at ... /> ; * d4f5 - d4f6 SP1.LIB sprite draw function table (indexed by type ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... of the IY register and Basic's interrupt service routine assumes ... sp1_AddColSpr() specifying the normal mask draw function. Since each column's ... />
    sp1_PutTiles() is used to draw all four fans. The struct_sp1_Rects ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…

    [QUOTE=48K]1/ Random number generator: I've started using a ld a,r command to grab a number from the memory refresh counter. Only problem is that if I do this in quick succession, the numbers are obviously not very random at all.
    [/quote]

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • OpenZXRom v2006-05-17 releasedJust knocked out a new release of OpenZXRom last night - a GPL licensed functional replacement for the original Spectrum ROM. [url]http://matt.west.…

    ... enhancing Basic's capabilities, but if we can optimise things like Draw ... intention of incorporating an actual Basic editor, so it won' ... an attractive platform for general Basic fiddling. You never know ... because it's embedded in BASIC programs and all) so it ...
    gasman gasman June 2006 Development
  • did 128k machines dominate ZX market?I have a question about 128k Spectrums. Did they dominate the ZX market in late 80's / early 90's? I mean where there more 128k users than 48k users …

    ... CRL Group PLC
    Beta Basic 4 Betasoft
    Beverly Hills ... , A Leisure Genius
    Quick Draw McGraw Hi-Tec Software Ltd ...
    ADJB ADJB July 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 …

    ... wasn't designed to run (basic) games, then why does it ... in large maps with long draw distances, the frame rate is ... many bots and a large draw distance. Oh, and I never ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2006 Chit chat
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... to use.
    4) the basic. I like much the zx ... basic in comparation with the poor ... c6a basic.
    5) graphic commands as PLOT or DRAW.
    basic.
    cpc664 was very lately ...
    zx_if1 zx_if1 August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... keyboard on the ATMOS, decent BASIC, although slower processor, bugged ROM ... , Zzoom ... they were a big draw in 1984, and more than ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers August 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... make up an object and draw lines between them. This way ... point 1 time and then draw lines between the points ... a mode where you could draw to one buffer and ... display it and you can draw to the other and ... Tandy Color Computer even in BASIC and it's pretty nice ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... a mode where you could draw to one buffer and then ... display it and you can draw to the other and then ... Tandy Color Computer even in BASIC and it's pretty nice ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • You know how the 128K was faster than the 48K Spectrum?Regarding how the Spectrum 128K ran at 3.54 MHz rather than the 48K's 3.5MHz, was this difference enough to be an advantage? If not, then surely Sinc…

    ... the idea of Assembler and BASIC programs clocked at [B]21 ... [B]CIRCLE [/B]and [B]DRAW[/B] (with three arguments) commands ...
    Marcelo Marcelo September 2006 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... 'd used (any version of) BASIC.

    [code]
    #include ... I started programming in Sinclair BASIC), I would have given up ... with piters - I think Sinclair BASIC is an excellent language for ... create pretty pictures using PLOT, DRAW, INK as well! :D
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    ... . My second program would obviously draw the contents from this array ... program is all written in BASIC, I've poked M/C ... Peek & Draw routine). I still believe Conventional BASIC is capable, just ...
    CP/M User CP/M User September 2006 Development
  • You know how the 128K was faster than the 48K Spectrum?Regarding how the Spectrum 128K ran at 3.54 MHz rather than the 48K's 3.5MHz, was this difference enough to be an advantage? If not, then surely Sinc…

    ... the idea of Assembler and BASIC programs clocked at [B]21 ... [B]CIRCLE [/B]and [B]DRAW[/B] (with three arguments) commands ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2006 Hardware
  • Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…

    Try to draw grid lines with displacement multiple ... ) pixel pos is possible in Basic - with PLOT for instance (very ... with some PEEK/POKE may draw standard characters from ROM to ... machine code than in Sinclair Basic.
    piters piters October 2006 Development
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... DRAW, PLOT, etc. ? is there any workaround?[/QUOTE]

    Basic ... will always draw to the main display ... you can use with the Basic ROM is this:
    ... 7ffd,...)
    2. Use Basic to draw into hidden main display #1 ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... gotta find a way to draw into another memory area, then ... buffer.

    I thought basic only draws selected screen buffer ... wrong, as AA says, basic will always draw to the main display ... . I'm working on the basic code, I'll paste it ...
    Arda Arda November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    ... gotta find a way to draw into another memory area, then ... ]

    The idea was: draw in main screen, save it ... do double buffering using only Basic instructions, and maybe at speed ...
    NotFound NotFound November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…

    [QUOTE=NotFound]The idea was: draw in main screen, save it ... Double buffering is impossible with basic commands, as there is no ... can detect a vbl under basic. it's too slow to ...
    Arda Arda November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Looking for 'Your Computer' gravity simulation type inHi, In one of the old Your Computer mags, in the type in progs section near the back, there was a Speccy program which simulated interaction between…

    ... 'll test it on visual basic to see it on a ...
    310 PLOT x1,y1: DRAW s1x,s1y: PLOT x2,y2 ... : DRAW s2x,s2y: PLOT x3,y3: DRAW s3x,s3y
    Matt_B Matt_B November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • 3D CAD symbolsNot sure if this is the right place for this but...... Does anybody know of a good site to get hold of 3D CAD symbols (Cells, blocks ect, I will con…

    ... Moby and give me a basic layout (which is basically clipart ... />
    I am doing the basic model in Autocad and will ... PS2 Keyboard / Mouse. I can draw them but its a lot ... I end up having to draw the less chance of it ...
    ADJB ADJB December 2006 Development
  • 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: […

    so your basic interpreter will not be able to support DRAW/LINE/PLOT commands for CP/M, for it's only text based.

    Will they give any error or they will just do nothing?
    Arda Arda December 2006 Development
  • 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: […

    ... ]so your basic interpreter will not be able to support DRAW/LINE ... operators fails with "Nonsense in Basic" report, except LOAD, SAVE and ...
    NotFound NotFound December 2006 Development
  • 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 ... I was also partly using BASIC as a debugging tool. From ... the ROM area, where my BASIC needed to be, so I ...
    Quazar Quazar December 2006 Development
  • Multiple loading screens[i]Action Biker[/i] suffers from having to endure multiple loading screens. Any other games that have this annoying "feature"?

    ... .org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Color+Draw$]Color Draw[/url] by Nop is ... I had something like Colour Draw back then. When I did ... a primitive paint program in basic which allowed me to move ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG January 2007 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…

    ... a third parameter in the DRAW command.[/QUOTE]
    The ... other BASIC.
    It's a simple way to draw sprites ... , screens for adventure games, simple 3D animation from BASIC ... lot of individual LINE, DRAW or PLOT (Applesoft BASIC) statements.
    ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
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