World of Spectrum
  • Categories
  • Discussions
  • FAQ
  • Sign In
Home › Search
Title Search
@title beer Word 'beer' in title
User Search
  • @user admin Only posts by Admin
Text Search
  • @body beer Word 'beer' in the text
Phrase Search
"Hello World" Exact phrase match
Exclude Terms
  • car -red Search cars that are not red
"Or" Searches
  • honda | bmw 'honda' or 'bmw' results
Multi-Field
@(title,body) hello Both contain 'hello'
WildCard
  • hond* civ* Match all with an astrix
Combination
  • @title bmw @user admin
See more supported syntax examples
Search Again :: Adv Search 1000 results in 0.017s
<1…28293031323334>
  • 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…

    ... actual Spectrum screen (in the border areas)?

    A sub ... have the chanse to re-draw it in the new place ... on the sprite, and then draw the new sprite on top ... />
    [CODE]xor a ; black border[/CODE]

    I have ...
    Rickard Rickard May 2007 Development
  • Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…

    ... happens to be where the basic system stores the location of ... character set. On returning to basic all printed text would look ... characters from the string to draw. We may want to print ... equal to", equivalent to "" in Basic. Other common C comparison operators ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2007 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…

    ... main loop

    sp1_UpdateNow(); // draw screen now

    for ... a draw function of RB type (right border). RB draw functions ... are blank columns that only draw portions ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2007 Development
  • Poorly Spectrum + Fault diagnosis help needed!Hi, I've got a Spectrum+. Sometime in the past I broke it and sent it off to be fixed. It came back working good as new, but with an issue 2 board i…

    ... it go black paper/white border, and dark red vertical lines ... the black paper and white border, it's more than likely ... get M RAMTOP no good BASIC errors for 48K programs.
    Winston Winston July 2007 Hardware
  • 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…

    ... too much space on the BASIC listing. So if you are ... to make room for the BORDER/PAPER/INK commands after all ... 6 characters of BASIC listing. Finally

    BORDER 0: PAPER 0 ... look, with 2 chars of BASIC line space remaining.
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn July 2007 Development
  • Favourite Gaming moment of the last 25 yearsin a continuation of the 25 years thread what's you favourite moment it could be anything a sprite, a soundbite a loading screen anything mime is w…

    ... out how to turn the border different colours. I seriously thought ... in the first place, and BORDER is probably one of the ... I progressed much further in BASIC after that anyway, lol)
    def chris def chris July 2007 Games
  • graphics on the speccy...how?I'm curious, coming from a background in computer graphics, what was the drawing app of choice for speccy graphics in the game industry? how did arti…

    ... modified version of Melborne Draw (called 'Ocean Draw' - it had a sprite ... simple sprite designer - written in BASIC by Nigel Alderton.

    frobush frobush July 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …

    ... of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program ... some games with a BASIC listing inside the code, ... any game that has BASIC listings (inside the game ... ,201
    20 BORDER 0:PAPER 0:INK 7 ... RET ;Go back to BASIC[/code]Hope it helps,
    Marcelo Marcelo August 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…

    ... you have enough positions to draw the island, but I'm ... /> I took the liberty to draw the island myself, I hope ... of the island. (2) The BASIC listing is now exactly the ... have a hint for posting BASIC listings on these forums
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • How can I view code from a game?Hi All, I had a Spectrum years ago and it is what started my love for playing games. I have recently been playing some of the old games I used to pl…

    ... "144",VAL "147": DRAW -VAL "135",NOT PI: DRAW VAL "124",-VAL ... "140": DRAW VAL "122",NOT ... "160",VAL "130": DRAW -VAL "40",NOT PI: DRAW VAL "87",-VAL ... to get past the short BASIC "loader" program).

    4 ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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…

    ... never thought of using Sinclair BASIC in this way.[/QUOTE]
    Yes, the problem of ZX-BASIC insisting on the LET keyword ... . data processing
    2. print/draw to the screen
    3 ... is only possible because ZX-BASIC allows evaluation of arbitrary string ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn August 2007 Development
  • ex-YU Homepage Updated !Hey All... This will probably be interesting only for the people here that are from ex-Yugoslav countries, but it might be interesting for everyone …

    ... ... GREAT one (partially written in Basic - who would know ;-) ).
    SpecMan ... good Intro makers, some with border effects !
    A bunch of ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat August 2007 Announcements
  • Nelson Mandela statueNow i dont mean to be controversial BUT is it just me ? Why have we got a statue of Mandela being unveiled today and everyone going crazy about it ?…

    ... symbol of the struggle for basic human rights and human dignity ... gone amiss (although I'd draw the line at him dressed ...
    Zagreb Zagreb August 2007 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... , but it seems in ZX-BASIC that "0 OR -1" evaluates ... (maybe the same as the BORDER, maybe not). This way, we ... same PAPER colour as the BORDER. The colours which seem to ... blend in with the magenta border.

    [QUOTE]
    This ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • 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[…

    The basic colour working it all out ... scheme). So that means the 'basic' table is 858c-859a (as ... one of thread). I say basic table as I haven't ... started with
    ;(discounting big border)
    or #40 ;set bright ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous September 2007 Development
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…

    ... at all, just like Sinclair BASIC. Support for different hardware graphics ... . You can't MOVE or DRAW in MODE 7. Why is ... access these with commands in BASIC.

    Wikipedia:
    [ ... unnecessary distinction to say BBC Basic has no graphics modes. You ...
    ghbearman ghbearman September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…

    ... The nice thing about BBC BASIC (this may have been ... MOS rather than the BASIC itself) was that every ... you wrote a program to draw graphics in MODE 0, ... to the MOS and BASIC, so a much higher ... but given that frees the BASIC programmer from having to write ...
    Winston Winston September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…

    ... The nice thing about BBC BASIC (this may have been ... underlying MOS rather than the BASIC itself) was that every ... you wrote a program to draw graphics in MODE 0, ... />
    Nice. SAM BASIC had a similar idea ? it ... in assembler... but OTOH, BASIC on the Beeb does ...
    zub zub September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • plotting and rotating wireframesCan anyone point me to an example of plotting a (2d) shape and rotating it in basic. Unfortunately my trig was never that good and I want to get a h…

    ... was time to write a basic program again. Here's an ... global translation (tx,ty) to draw it in the middle of ... /> 880 RETURN
    899 REM draw line segments
    900 READ ... )
    960 PLOT x0,y0: DRAW x1-x0,y1-y0
    NotANumber NotANumber September 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • plotting and rotating wireframesCan anyone point me to an example of plotting a (2d) shape and rotating it in basic. Unfortunately my trig was never that good and I want to get a h…

    ... rom drawing functions used by basic are too slow. Machine code ... drawn as connected segments the draw function could just look like ... =v(p,2)
    960 DRAW x1-x0,y1-y0
    NotANumber NotANumber September 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…

    ... />
    I have changed the BORDER from red to green during ... gameplay, so that when the border changes to red at the ... program, where you simply execute BORDER 3-r. I think that ... end of the game, the BORDER changes to red or blue ... have to result in a draw!).
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... ;215703]I have changed the BORDER from red to green during ... gameplay, so that when the border changes to red at the ... other gameplay colors. I think BORDER 3 would look better.
    draw!).[/QUOTE]

    Not really ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas September 2007 Development
  • 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…

    ... /> NEXT a:
    [/code]
    Draw the game board, including the ... play.

    [code]
    BORDER p:
    [/code]
    Set ... the BORDER to blue for human player ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2007 Development
  • Death Pit PreservationClive Townsend has found his Death Pit tape and cassette inlay.... He also had a microdrive cartridge apparently containing the game... What's the b…

    ... do it once ;-).

    BASIC now looks like this in ... TZX I have:
    1 BORDER NOT PI: PAPER NOT PI ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker October 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Death Pit PreservationClive Townsend has found his Death Pit tape and cassette inlay.... He also had a microdrive cartridge apparently containing the game... What's the b…

    [QUOTE=Andrew Barker;218485]BORDER NOT PI: PAPER NOT PI[/QUOTE]

    Remind me what that bit of BASIC does? BORDER n and PAPER n I'm of course familiar with.

    EDIT: It can't be just a way of saying BORDER 0, can it?!
    NickH NickH October 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Death Pit PreservationClive Townsend has found his Death Pit tape and cassette inlay.... He also had a microdrive cartridge apparently containing the game... What's the b…

    [QUOTE=NickH;218501]Remind me what that bit of BASIC does? BORDER n and PAPER n I'm of course familiar with.

    EDIT: It can't be just a way of saying BORDER 0, can it?![/QUOTE]

    Yes (it saves memory).
    mjwilson mjwilson October 2007 MIA/STP/SDP
  • MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]

    ... + 1T write = 4T for one border "slot". I must use 4T ... #FE work too, but ULA draw border only each 4T and you ...
    velesoft velesoft October 2007 Hardware
  • MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]

    ... + 1T write = 4T for one border "slot". I must use 4T ... #FE work too, but ULA draw border only each 4T and you ...
    velesoft velesoft October 2007 Hardware
  • MULTITECH pictures[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/data-gear.htm[/url]

    ... 1 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 29752,146 ... 2 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 32067,146 ... 3 - before RAND.USR in basic loader insert POKE 33614,146 ... it's all in the border, so no /WAIT issue there ...
    LaesQ LaesQ October 2007 Hardware
<1…28293031323334>

Latest Posts

  • Happy 40th Birthday to the Amstrad CPC464!
    Luny on 5:14PM
  • Your Favorite Magazine Cover Tapes.
    dm_boozefreek on 4:45PM
  • "Late Entries"
    harriusherbartio on 4:00PM
  • How Do You Categorize Your Speccy Software and Games?
    harriusherbartio on 1:34PM
  • Simple Sprite Routine
    dmsmith on 1:25AM
  • I am currently watching.....
    zx1 on April 11
  • Today's BASIC program: visit attribute cells I am interested in, in pseudorandom order
    Paradigm Shifter on April 11
  • How do you share programs online?
    firelord on April 11
  • Celebrity deaths...
    Ælita on April 11
  • Who Has Got The Earliest ZX Spectrum Software?
    harriusherbartio on April 11

HitBox

Word Docs Hits
draw 5.6K 8.5K
basic 24.7K 39K
border 5.2K 8.7K

Related Threads

  • Switch from 128k BASIC to 48k BasicHello,<br /> <br /> Is there a way to start off running a program in 128k basic (so that you can use the ramdisk facilities) but then switch back dow…
  • (Basic) Sinclair BASIC mode for EmacsI saw this [URL=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=14622]post[/URL] regarding a Sinclair BASIC editing mode along with some Fuse …
  • Help with Visual Basic 6.0 vs Visual Basic.netI have a program that auto generates VB.Net code..... I know VB.net syntax and am happy with the code generated.<br /> <br /> However, I have been as…
  • What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
  • How to claim back the border space in basic?Hey, I'm wondering if there is a way to reclaim the space the border usually occupies in BASIC? I am sure I have hit BREAK on some games and ended up…
  • 48K BASIC to ZX81 BASIC conversion possible?Looking for an automated way of converting a BASIC program done on a<br /> 48K Spectrum to one for the ZX81. It's obvious that some things cannot<br …
  • ZX Basic 1.2.5 - a BASIC CompilerWell, my old post about ZX BASIC seems to be gone (maybe this phorum purges old threads?), so I started a new one.<br /> <br /> After more than 6 mon…
  • Basic BASIC help needed RNDHi all,<br /> <br /> I have recently re-discovered an old program I wrote in the early 90s which would do generate random lottery numbers.<br /> <br …
  • Star BASIC or *BASIC??? Anyone heard of this?Does anyone remember a thing called Star Basic or *basic?<br /> <br /> It was a tape that extended the BASIC instruction set and from memory you put …
  • Loading basic from basic?Hi Guys,<br /> <br /> Could you please help me. I want to create a menu on my plus 3 disks. If I use the line below I just get "c nonsense in basic…

Related Searches

  • rst8 return to basic
  • rst8 basic
  • return to basic
  • basic tips tricks
  • draw test screen basic
  • border basic
  • draw a tree basic
  • draw basic third variable
  • draw a solid circle basic
  • basic draw star square hexagon
  • draw lines fast basic
  • draw basic margins
  • draw basic
  • draw off screen basic
  • basic loader border bin
  • adding vectors draw basic
  • border basic effect
  • border effects basic
  • draw border
  • draw on border

Copyright © 2024 World of Spectrum