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  • 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…

    ... =Matt_B;171187]As for a DRAW routine that could manage arbitrary ... could easily interface it with BASIC programs.[/QUOTE]
    I didn ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • Who wrote Nightshade?The October section of: [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/24/lloyd85.htm[/url] (a Crash yearly round up) says about Nightshade - "It also wasn't mis…

    But it IS BASIC.

    I remember looking ... something like:

    10 BORDER 0; PAPER 0; INK 0 ...
    Bad Horsey Bad Horsey February 2007 Games
  • Who wrote Nightshade?The October section of: [url]http://www.crashonline.org.uk/24/lloyd85.htm[/url] (a Crash yearly round up) says about Nightshade - "It also wasn't mis…

    ... Horsey;172030]But it IS BASIC.

    I remember looking ... something like:

    10 BORDER 0; PAPER 0; INK 0 ...
    liamenikufesin liamenikufesin February 2007 Games
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... feels like freedom compared to Basic and Pascal to me. I ... to print to the screen, draw a line, etc. *That's ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... lifts will be problematic in BASIC, so I am thinking of ... .
    [/QUOTE]
    I could draw new lift graphics that are ... top lift, your program could draw the lower one with a ...
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    [QUOTE=FrankT;173915]I could draw new lift graphics that are ... top lift, your program could draw the lower one with a ... displaying the lifts when the "draw screen" routine redisplays a previously ... . Both will be slow in BASIC.
    3/ additional problems if ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Development
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... the first bit of basic after your screen. This ... />
    [code]
    15 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 0 ... that the bit of basic immediately after the screen ... You have replaced that basic file with your own version ... tool to remove that basic program from the tape. ...
    mulder mulder March 2007 Development
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... so my TZX loads my basic block, the SCR$, the ... CLEAR 29856 in the basic I do not know. ... this new basic loader....

    [code]
    15 BORDER 0: ... your TZX and running this basic program...

    [ ... "t:" in +2A / +3 Basic and playing your tzx.
    mulder mulder March 2007 Development
  • Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?

    ... the more powerful version of BASIC (although it used to crash ... quite frequently - try doing a DRAW TO command with three parameters ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Spritual successor to the Speccy1988-1995 - Atari ST/STe/Falcon 1995-2000 - ? hmmm ? 2000-2006 - Playstation 2 with a keyboard 2007- ?

    ... the more powerful version of BASIC (although it used to crash ... quite frequently - try doing a DRAW TO command with three parameters ... standard.[/QUOTE]

    Yeah, DRAW TO was bugged with the ...
    Quazar Quazar March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Screen$ disappearanceGreetings to all developers :D As you know, I have been playing around with Professional Adventure Writer and was making a few tests in the adventur…

    ... />
    Mulder, thx for the Basic load fixing :)

    FrankT ... this:

    [quote]15 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 0 ...
    alban lusitanae alban lusitanae March 2007 Development
  • Image convert: bmp - TAP - wav: help!(cross posted to css, too!) 'ello all! I've been asked to give someone a hand converting images into a format suitable for loading into a *real* sp…

    ... looking for a basic program.

    10 BORDER 0 : CLS
    FrankT FrankT March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Image convert: bmp - TAP - wav: help!(cross posted to css, too!) 'ello all! I've been asked to give someone a hand converting images into a format suitable for loading into a *real* sp…

    ... looking for a basic program.

    10 BORDER 0 : CLS
    j00ce j00ce March 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Multiface ResidentI'm thinking about adapting some existing code to be Multiface "resident"... but being perfectly honest I'm not quite sure where to start. Any top t…

    ... red button will make the border turn yellow temporarily.
    [code ... turn the
    ;border yellow temporarily, then return to BASIC

    ;RET to BASIC


    in a ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous March 2007 Development
  • It's fitting...... that in the very month that the 25th anniversary of the Speccy falls on, I'm just finishing up making my first ever Spectrum peripheral. It's a …

    ... part properly with a replacement BASIC ROM image (The Gosh Wonderful ... the other one with a BASIC OUT command (since the two ... . Basically sequence through checking the border colours set OK, colour attributes ...
    Winston Winston April 2007 Hardware
  • SoundHi Could someone explain how to "decode" the spectrum sound?(the beeper). I'm guessing its an out port? Cheers /Jimmy

    ... that it is a very basic circuit. Making bit 4 high ... assembly code/machine code as BASIC is too slow to toggle ... programs.

    Finally, the BORDER colour is also affected by ... cannot [i]read[/i] the border colour on the spectrum but ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2007 Emulators
  • Bubble Bobble EditI thought I might have a go at editing Bubble Bobble myself after reading this... [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15452[…

    ... force the editor to re-draw the level.

    My ... , and the editor is very basic, but it mostly works :)
    mulder mulder April 2007 Development
  • Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …

    ... no reliable way to determine border colour. Basic will stick it in ... that will only work for basic programs. Funny the publishers didn ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2007 Hardware
  • mgt disk readeri started writing a program for the pc to read and disassemble the files in MGT image files, but i have not had the time to do much with it latley, s…

    ... of each and every selected BASIC file selected. This involves searching ... right noises and flashes the border properly. It doesn't seem ...
    DEATH DEATH April 2007 Development
  • Reading the border colorI am building a snap-button to my ZX-PC Interface. Is there a way to read the bordercolor which is set by an OUT-command. (and please don't tell me …

    ... will only be updated by BASIC programs).[/QUOTE]

    You ... which will therefore set the border back. Only time with a ... false border will be the time after ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2007 Hardware
  • Autorun BASIC programsIs it possible to write a basic program which will autorun after typing in LOAD ""? Thanks

    ... anti-merge and auto-run BASIC programs (most of them ... was to load the basic program as a code ... simple program to examine the BASIC listing and decimal contents ... routine which would LOAD the BASIC where it was supposed ... ,5,201
    20 BORDER 0:PAPER 0:INK 7 ...
    Marcelo Marcelo April 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Problems with TS2068sI bought 2 TS2068s, and this is what's happening: 1st computer: -The tv output doesn't work. The composite video output does* -The '7' key is dead.…

    ... little bit of flickering, the border doesn't include the top ... basic program that displays all the colours and a non-white border ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Hardware
  • Converting m$ to dataI created a maze using a matrix of 704 characters. In order to save memory, and since the maze it's just walls and spaces which could be interpreted …

    ... rightmost bit is tested to draw the leftmost wall in the ... byte. The reverse keeps the basic simple whilst plotting the wall ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…

    ... : POKE f,a: NEXT f: BORDER 0:
    PAPER 0: INK ... . The listing scrolls on 128K BASIC, but not on 48K.
    Matt_B Matt_B May 2007 Development
  • Reconditioned Sam Coup?, two drives + more...I've popped up a reconditioned Sam Coup&#233; on eBay as a Buy-It-Now listing. [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=11012902618…

    ... in the attic if the BASIC was more stable (ROM3) and ... has to be accessed to draw the screen which adds some ...
    Quazar Quazar May 2007 Sales
  • 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…

    ... see the changes in the basic test program you can ... type association table and the draw function table have been ... functions, you specify the actual draw function to use (SP1_DRAW_*). ... one can supply user defined draw functions for specialized sprites.< ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Development
  • question about RST 10hhow do you set the position of the text when using 'RST 10h' to print to screen?

    ... will work, your pointer in BASIC are still doing the RANDOMIZE ... screen and not to the border (lower screen) without printing the ...
    zx128k zx128k May 2007 Development
  • How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…

    ... (this includes left and right border, horizontal flyback and the actual ... flicker is to simply completely draw graphics into a second ... available so that you can draw into the currently invisible ... to organize your algorithm to draw complete(ish) pixel rows ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2007 Development
  • How does interrupts work?I am a little confused regarding the interrupts on the Spectrum. If I have some hundred bytes of machine code started with, say, [B]RANDOMIZE USR 300…

    ... applications is to change the border colour to (say) red ... /> ...
    ld a, 2 ; red border
    out (254), a
    draw the screen).

    4 ... ) Optimise the undraw and draw routines. If you KNOW your ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz May 2007 Development
  • Border emulationHow is the border emulated to do all the fancy little tricks such as in Aquaplane? I've got some basic border emulation working but it only displays…

    ... silly example - making "aquaplane" border effect in Basic :-D Later I discovered ...
    omega omega May 2007 Emulators
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