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  • Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …

    What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info.

    The ATTR function works well for getting decimal number from the flags on the cell (documented ...
    Dock Dock June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…

    ... "moving box" program from "Fast and easy read/write of attributes?" with more animation ... direction key is being pressed and the frame toggle. It ... animate4.tap]TAP file[/url] and [url=http://www.users. ... animate4.bas]BASIC listing[/url] and [url=http://www.users. ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • binutils questionSince there's a few people using binutils these days I thought I'd give it a go and see whether it solves my hunt for a replacement assembler/librari…

    ... have to declare sections read or write only and in reality the ... only enforcement of a read only ... (an ldir, eg) and it should write the constants into the ... proper initialized data. This is fast and easy (no inserted code prior to ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2011 Development
  • Were the full Sinclair Loki specs ever actually known?I was just curious. A lot was leaked to the media, but the exact specs seem different depending on source. Some say it could support up to 512x256 an…

    ... that hard, but requires fast ROM and fast RAM
    > ... serial data. Otherwise still easy, but requires an ... />
    UARTS are surprisingly easy and cheap to build with discrete ... .5 MHz too, and have read/write and read/read/write operations. From what ...
    cj7hawk cj7hawk August 2021 Hardware
  • Best "Quick and Easy " Games for JoystickYes I know , the immediate reaction to this is that it must have been covered here loads of times before . And yes , of course , there are loads of …

    ... here loads of times before . And yes , of course , there ... find any that covered "quick and easy" and good for old style JOYSTICK ... but found relatively few quick and easy (fun type) joystick games . ... that were quick and easy to set up and play for a ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio July 2021 Games
  • whats your second favourite retro computerOk i'm going to assume that for most of us here the speccy is our favourite number 1 retro computer,its the best home computer in the world etc etc :…

    ... plus smooth scrolling, exellent sound and 3.5 floppy disk drive ... ) which was really fast and easy !
    I read that the C64 basic ... was just a rushed and uncomplete ... I never bought one though, and only recently, beeing able to ...
    Arm73 Arm73 February 2004 Games
  • Forum Non-usersLeading on from a previous thread about registered users who never post, do you realise that there are people who have been registered users for over…

    ... , so you can automate this fast and easy). Since I edited the software ... parameter on initial account creation (and denying the account creation if ... a forum, even just to read.

    I'm looking ...
    mheide mheide March 2005 Chit chat
  • The Programmers Development System (PDS)Hi everybody, I recall this system has been mentioned several times on WoS forums. Last time was, I think, when those sources from Maz Spork (Buggy …

    ... BAUD rates. It was so easy to hack games. The 2 ... Tatsujin) controls the game mode. Easy!!! I would personally recommend using ... the fact that you cannot read/write words or longs to odd ... the register you wish to read/write and then read/write the data one word ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Emulator for PandoraAny Pandora users here? I want to know how good is ZX Spectrum emulator on it, and how is it compared to emulator on another handhelds like the aweso…

    ... :
    - can read several files inside zip
    - fast and easy to remap keyboard ... to d-pad and face buttons, and saving ... because it's so expensive and I am not a rich ...
    danabnormal9000 danabnormal9000 March 2014 Emulators
  • Emulator for PandoraAny Pandora users here? I want to know how good is ZX Spectrum emulator on it, and how is it compared to emulator on another handhelds like the aweso…

    ... I got mine - ?200! And yes, proper 50Hz display mode ... /> - can read several files inside zip
    - fast and easy to remap keyboard ... to d-pad and face buttons, and saving ... called the DragonBox Pyra, and it can be found here ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2014 Emulators
  • Paging for 64Kb of Video Ram??? What is the best way to page this?Hi all, I'm just putting together a concept card for a "Loki" style of video card, which supports shadow ( so it fits a normal Speccy ) and also t…

    ... would make it easy to address a particular pixel; write the Y ... , X into L and 0x3c into H and then read/write to HL. It ... with a different paging register and you could LDIR a scanline ...
    i love the z80s i love the z80s October 2021 Hardware
  • Tracker RecommendationsAny musicians/demosceners here? I would like to know which programs do you use for composing music. I would like to have something in Impulse Tracker…

    ... in Impulse Tracker style for fast and easy composing, but Impulse Tracker is ... a little bit obsolete and the author no longer supports ...
    Dynamite Dan Dynamite Dan April 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • *The* Sinclair Knowledge baseOk, get ready for a long post. :p Let's consider a few facts: -The WOS ftp has thousands of important files, but it can be difficult to find what w…

    ... projects, schematics, technical info and repair info (for e.g ... /> -Such site should be fast and easy to navigate. I imagine it ... files and web-optimized pictures, it would be easy to have ... everything that has been discussed and explained in forums, newsgroups, ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • I am currently reading...Haven't noticed one of these threads, so here goes... I'm currently reading (depending on my mood...!): - [B]The Jesus Papers[/B] - Michael Baigent…

    ... a look at the life and times of Jesus Christ, separating ... this book is an interesting, and easy, read.

    [URL="http://www ... . It's still a belting read today but hard to get ...
    STeaM STeaM July 2009 Chit chat
  • Massive cloud!Been using Tencents 10TB cloud for a while now, and seems to be reliable, just the job for backing up all your retro stuff. Here's some handy links. …

    ... cloud for a while now, and seems to be reliable, just ... folders with this, using drag and drop. Fast and easy to use.
    The ...
    Moriarty Moriarty March 2014 Chit chat
  • Sinclair QL Italian Preservation: dumping process videos onlineI post recent "live" videos that I made on FB for let people see how it works the dumping process for preservation. https://www.youtube.com/c/Simo…

    ... only demostrations (mostly in Italian and/or mute), just for let ... let all being very fast and easy to do and most of all without ...
    ranma_simon ranma_simon May 2017 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…

    ... apart from ease of programming and avoidance of colour clash. Actually ... was no way judging direction and speed of for instance ... the spectrum", since using this fast and easy approach forced you to NOT ... gods sake, swallow your pride and accept this simple fact, ...
    Anonymous Anonymous November 2001 Games
  • create z80I want to Create z80 code and run it on an emulator for the 48k spectrum. I want it soo easy to use its a dream. I dont like dos based stuff.. Can a…

    ... together a toolkit that assembles and links several source files (using ... the WLA assembler system, and GNU make), and directly creates a 128Kb ... it does make development very fast and easy :)

    Once my game ...
    xeron xeron September 2003 Development
  • Machine CodeI would like to learn how to use it. Where do I start? Thanks.

    ... advantages.

    * Instant save and reload if your program crashed ... , if you're running Windows, fast and easy access to utilities to help ...
    GOC GOC October 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Where you jealous of Commodore 64 owners?I most definitely WAS! A sad admission, I know. I knew they had me beaten when I went round to a mate's house and saw 'The Way of the Exploding Fist'…

    ... disk-images - TRD, SCL and others, and for file-converting (even from ... PC format to ZX), AND - for read/write operations on ZX's diskettes ...
    Yerz Yerz March 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What software do I need so I can transfer tape games to disk?What utility would I need so I can save tape based games onto specci disks? Can I download something of the web or is there something available to bu…

    ... files, so it can't read or write +3 EDSK images.
    and which windows did you use ... works on W2K/XP/2003, and should read/write pretty much any +3 ...
    obo obo March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Post to UK only - Why oh why??It's hard to get Sinclair software, hardware and books when you don't live in the U.K. Most sellers don't want to ship their items worldwide, and tha…

    ... , it's still a convenient, fast and easy option for many people. If ... the money on his hands and [I]then[/I] ship the ... these books delivered to them and then shipped to me, so ... I'll go ahead and buy them. Thanks m8.
    zxbruno zxbruno March 2007 Wanted
  • How many different versions of the divIDE are there?So what gives with these interfaces? Some have thru ports, some have built in joystick interfaces - some are based upon one design, one is designed …

    ... extra facilities on DivIDE Plus and allows writing to the Compact ... like lots of PlusD disks and is read/write, but you cannot access ...
    rwap rwap October 2007 Hardware
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ...
    - For Fixed Point (Fast but imprecise decimals): 16.16 ...

    For strings management and evaluation I've implemented a ... free-block itself. They're fast and easy for little memory systems -e ... IX (this is a very fast POP) or not, depending ...
    boriel boriel April 2008 Development
  • Firefox vs Opera Fight, Fight, FightI believe a lot of us have migrated from IE to Firefox, but how many are now on Opera, is it any good. And please no Apple Zealots rattling on about…

    ... +T = New Tab. It's fast and easy and doesn't require the mouse ... Tab. Press it 12 times and it closes the last 12 ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz June 2008 Chit chat
  • 12-pixel-wide font on 512x192 screenThanks to Geoff I have a working prototype for displaying this font in BASIC. Machine code to follow.

    ... editing the font much easier and also means it doesn' ... way is also a very easy operation - take its ascii ... 8 bytes to define) and add to the base address ... data. Multiplying by 8 is fast and easy since it's a power ... to the proper bit positions and OR'd into the ...
    Winston Winston October 2008 Development
  • Photos from a 1987 Sinclair users meeting in the U.S.These pictures were sent to me by a fellow TS user who told me it was ok to share them online, so here they are: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/1…

    ... it wasn't quite as fast and easy to advertise. Although I would ... system popular in the 80s and early 90s amongst FidoNet nodes ...
    Winston Winston May 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... Windows 7 64bit. And yes, you can write to either side of ... can't write a number of CPC and +3 formats, and won't ... you pick an image file and having read/write buttons. Effective GUIs require ... a lot of work, and they' ...
    obo obo April 2011 Hardware
  • The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …

    ... 530170]I know it well, and it's definitely much nicer ... can't write a number of CPC and +3 formats, and won't ... you pick an image file and having read/write buttons. Effective GUIs require ... a lot of work, and they're ...
    orange orange May 2011 Hardware
  • Official release of new K-MOUSE 2008 interface[url]http://velesoft.speccy.cz/kmturbo2008-cz.htm[/url] This is official release of new K-MOUSE 2008 interface. New layout, design, new schematic. …

    ... QWERT[/B]
    - very fast and easy switching between joystick modes
    and GND signals for possibility connect ...
    WARNING - SINCLAIR and QWERT joystick modes can't ... only internal QWERT keyboard and internal joystick port ...
    velesoft velesoft August 2011 Hardware
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