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User-friendly UDG banks/sheetsHello, retro-colleagues) Sometimes I still play Speccyal games and try funny things in BASIC, but one thing keeps me slow: [b]sprites[/b]. Alright…
... re-assemble in the BASIC, because in the BASIC the actual graphics ... if typing in the normal font. The graphic items have different ... -
Memory questionsQuestion 1: PRINT PEEK 23732+256*PEEK 23733 returns 65535 for a 48K Spectrum and 32767 for a 16K Spectrum. PRINT PEEK 16388+256*PEEK 16389 return…
... /> There was no equivalent RAMTOP BASIC system variable on the ZX80 ... . However, since the BASIC ROM sets the stack pointer ... music, 2x2 UDGs and a font I'd ripped from Mario ... -
Project: ZX OpusHello my friends, I have been in need of a push lately so I thought if I post some of the work for this project here you guys (and gals) can help me …
... routine and a bit of BASIC using INS command. I have ... what I need is a font that works visually at 5 ... -
Xmas present from Hood:))Dear MB-02+ users, on my site[url="http://hood.speccy.cz"] http://hood.speccy.cz[/url] I have made quite significant update in download section. B…
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- fixed: run file. If BASIC programme was present in the ... was impossible to run another BASIC file, because stack pointer was ... OK.
- added: key N. Font change. Place the fonts into ... -
8bit ASCII for Slavic languagesWhat is the 8bit standard for Cyrillic characters? And what did people tend to do on the Speccy? The Russian games I've looked at are storing thi…
... often in Polish Basic programs people used standard font plus UGD graphics ... -
The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…
... desktop picture, change the system font to that of the Spectrum ... area of programming—but then, BASIC was never meant to be ... .PDF"]famous criticism of teaching BASIC[/url] in another thread some ... have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are ... -
How do you cut and paste into Fuse?I cant figure out why I cant cut and paste into and from Fuse. There must be a way, please help me. I cant find any docs either.
... use the LLIST command in BASIC. The listing of your program ... , basic text conversion is carried out using the Spectrum ROM font, so ... to use than the original BASIC editor and has debugging tools ... -
z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…
... bit too much like the Basic font,
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z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…
... bit too much like the Basic font,
does it have ... each character definition in the font.
You ... z88dk/tree/master/libsrc/_DEVELOPMENT/font/font_8x8"]few in the ... char font_8x8_bbc_system[]; // linker loads font into memory and we access ... -
z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…
... preserve A-Z for a font,
Do i look up ... to have "make" and some basic unix utilities to build the ... -
How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…
... in ROM and used by Basic.
We can assume ... that 99% of Basic games and some assebler games ... code. And they can have font stored anywhere.
A ... try visually to find the font.
Some emulators allow that ... -
How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…
Nippy = fast . Basic functions are not fast. If ... all the characters from a font ( above piccy for Knightlore does ... . If you are dependent on basic functions what happens if the ... -
How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…
... uses a fancy variable width font or something like 6x8 then ... reasons really. Besides being slow, BASIC relies on stuff like IM1 ... -
Speeding up PRINT code in ROMHi Folks, I seem to recall that someone stated the PRINT command is rather slow because it has to handle screen and printer printing - is this cor…
From BASIC or machine code? You could ... , optimised to use their own font, and not waste time checking ... -
how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic?how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic? i know there r only supposed to be 21 but is there a way of getting more in basic? i know its doable…
Redefine the font.
For instance, you ... an UDG, then change the font, print characters corresponding to the ... want, then change back the font:
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30 ... can search WoS archive for BASIC games I created in the ... -
how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic?how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic? i know there r only supposed to be 21 but is there a way of getting more in basic? i know its doable…
... the highest address that the BASIC system can use. It needs ... as using an alternative font in Spectrum BASIC. It can be frustrating ... numbers right especially when the font changes and you can't ... /50721/new-game-wordblaster , a BASIC game I wrote that uses ... -
how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic?how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic? i know there r only supposed to be 21 but is there a way of getting more in basic? i know its doable…
... as using an alternative font in Spectrum BASIC. It can be frustrating ... numbers right especially when the font changes and you can't ... -
Tatung Einstein FontSome more ripping... [img]http://www.drumfu.com/TatungEinsteinFont.png[/img] Can be downloaded [url="http://www.drumfu.com/TatungEinsteinFont.z…
... 's a pic of the font in that Manic Miner 'Final ... Barrier' topic of this font in use) , I can only ... said that the BBC Micro font in Mode7 (teletext mode) also ... viewing in Basic.
Its not actually a bad font at ... -
Tatung Einstein FontSome more ripping... [img]http://www.drumfu.com/TatungEinsteinFont.png[/img] Can be downloaded [url="http://www.drumfu.com/TatungEinsteinFont.z…
... here: http://mdfs.net/Apps/Font/img/SysFonts/
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BASIC' project that i'm working ... and use them directly from BASIC with the help of some ... new BASIC commands.
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Speccy in IndiaAlways was wondering was zx spetrum whidespread there since 1982 to 1992 and untill nowadays ? India is a multi-million country and there clearly wer…
I've seen evidence of a zx Spectrum in India.
One of the "unofficial" cable TV resellers was using one to hand type out a service announcement. In Sinclair BASIC with the distinctive font and cursor. This was around 1993. -
How do I convert a .z80 snapshot to a tape file?I've been fiddling with this for a while but can't get it to work reliably. I use Marvin to write short BASIC and assembly programs that uses .z80 in…
... execute the SAVE command in BASIC, then choose Save As from ... few lines of code in BASIC dedicated to just that. The ... SAVE "Loader" LINE 10: SAVE "font" CODE 50000,768[/code]
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Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
... the bold font defined by the game (or more BASIC keywords, or ... -
Why can't you make a BASIC program as big as you want?Let me rephrase that. Is it possible using BASIC to write a program that can be multi part? In other words one that can LOAD lets say a story, in se…
Hi Mike. There you have another open source game
http://zonadepruebas.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=8206&p=77969#p77967
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Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... found in basic. And then there's the windows font editor and ... -
Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... compression, and doing it in BASIC -- compression costs time and adds ... about 25K to use for BASIC programs (but I never tried ... if you want a fancy font to show your texts (there ... -
How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
... one plane is trivial in BASIC, it just requires more UDGs ... redefine the character set - the font - but that's a more ... -
Are there any games/apps developed in Pascal or others?After talking to a friend of mine about a Hi-Soft Pascal I now wonder whether there are Speccy software pieces made [i]NOT [/i]in Basic, C, nor edito…
... the spectrum community are very basic and cannot create libraries so ... , tritone music, beeper effects, proportional font printing and so on. In ... -
How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
... moves them around. Your BASIC code is free to do ... to do this in Sinclair BASIC at all. Load a ... higher than anything that Sinclair BASIC can do, that's ... features like sprites (which Sinclair BASIC doesn't even have) ... they're part of the font. I can show you ...
