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  • Basic Compilers and My Compressor CodeAs I mentioned in another thread I'm currently writing a set of compression routines for saving +3 disk space. I've done the first stage (write the …

    Thanks Dunny, that running fast mode has really helped ... in "m/c like" basic, now just a simple job ... instructions as well as the basic stuff, you know, a ... , how about a nicer basic editor (like the window ... when you steo through the basic code).

    I ...
    BuzzinRich BuzzinRich September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... 's present. Using a real BASIC compiler in a real Spectrum ... compiled code always runs out fast. The sollutions provided back then ...
    na_th_an na_th_an September 2003 Development
  • Compilersaside from SE Basic Compilers, what are some other good ones? Personally im afetr HISOFT Compiler for 128k, but if theres any others it would be nice…

    ... :
    I think a basic compiler would be a wonderful ... for that two minute calculation, Basic will get you the answer ... go fast or use a modular, structured approach to the problem, Basic ... br />
    Nevertheless, a good Basic cross compiler would make things ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2003 Sinclair Basic
  • Who is your favourite Software House ?? and why ??So which games company was your favourite and why ?? and come to think of it .. who did you think was pants. my fave has to be Ultimate I can remem…

    ... , (look suspiciously like compiled Basic), but were fast, frenzied, with cool sound ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers November 2003 Games
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... if you want anything remotely fast you are going to have ... games are fairly crap in BASIC.

    So in short ...
    cyborg cyborg January 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... approach, while OK for making BASIC+MC business/math programs, ... ROM routines or using the BASIC calculator routines*).

    ... , but without knowing the basic operation of the VIC and ... SID, I'd get nowhere fast with game programming. Fortunately (?), ...
    GOC GOC January 2004 Development
  • ebook on graphicsi would like to learn coding about sinclair graphics in machine code. is there any scanned ebooks about it on a site?

    ... have to extract the BASIC/DATA from the resulting ... quite slow .... Faster than BASIC - but because it's ... ll get faster when the basic compilation is done, and ... It'll never be as fast as an integer compiler - ... So there's that, a BASIC editor (which will end ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2004 Development
  • New Speccy Image EditorHi, This is my first time in the forums at WoS. So 'Hello all'. I have written a little image editor over the christmas break, last 12 days or so. …

    ... that cannot be done from Basic unless you know all Window ... is supported very well and fast, as most of the operations ... it should run well and fast also on Win95 with DirectX ... managed to write a very fast system without need of DirectX ...
    LCD LCD January 2004 Development
  • i want to start writing my own gamesi want to start writing my own games but have no idea how. is there any downloadable dummys guides or some software that teaches u how. the only expe…

    ... Compiled C is as fast as you can get on ... he has worked with is Basic? (Dr. Evil smugness ... br /> [/quote]

    Basic is all about mystery code ... into the ROM, yet Basic was touted as an ... links:

    Learn Sinclair Basic:

    [url="http ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2004 Development
  • emuzwinyeah i ran my game and i can't get back to the programming screen bit! when i used to have a speccy i'd just bang the keyboard a few times and it'd …

    ... try the SHIFT-BREAK very fast.

    Alternately, if there ... code that takes over from BASIC when the game starts up ...
    Arjun Arjun February 2004 Emulators
  • Game Editor questionI'm currently updating my image utility - TommyGun and my old Map editor, which I haven't released on WoS yet. My question is this. Would people li…

    ... of Sinclair BASIC - however the only difference currently is the FAST and ... .

    Of course, the BASIC editor is changed, but you ...
    Dunny Dunny February 2004 Development
  • 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 :…

    ... reliable basic( like databases and graphics editors ) which was really fast and ... easy !
    I read that the C64 basic was ...
    Arm73 Arm73 February 2004 Games
  • emuzwinyeah i ran my game and i can't get back to the programming screen bit! when i used to have a speccy i'd just bang the keyboard a few times and it'd …

    ... main menu/toolbar fixed. Fast Disk mode loading fixed ... detects disk normally in Fast Disk Mode. Disk ... now much faster in Fast Disk mode when ... />
    [-] When "48 BASIC" menu item was selected in ... , following Reset were to 48 Basic again. Fixed.

    Vladimir Kladov Vladimir Kladov March 2004 Emulators
  • Print 'n' Plotter SPRITE MACHINEJust got this from an ebay seller this afternoon. I just TZXd it and sent it to the Steve at the vault, yet it might be a while before it gets put up…

    ... basic games.

    i think the screens decompress adequately fast ... routines done and executed in Basic ( which are slower than ... run much faster in compiled Basic and that includes calling ... .

    also, HiSoft Basic compiler is great, but it ...
    Sadako Sadako April 2004 Games
  • My first attempt at Gigascreen interlacingWonderful. Did some research on the port which controls memory paging and wrote a short BASIC programme to switch pages 5 and 7 in and out of the scr…

    ... into USR 0 mode (128 Basic, Type USR 0, Enter)

    Even Basic is fast enough, but if you can ...
    LCD LCD May 2004 Development
  • new programmer needs information hi , i have been learning c++ for a while and am trying to make games using windows but being 28 and nostalgic , i thought it would be fun try and f…

    ... /> ;for Arcade Games and other Fast Spectrum
    ;Programs page 2 ... screen
    ret ;return to BASIC

    .end

    Steve(spt) Steve(spt) May 2004 Development
  • MameI know it's not speccy as such, but I used to have a load of roms for mame, and now the main site doesn't seem to host them. I've been playing a few…

    ... /> [1] you have a very fast PC to run more recent ... /> _________________
    C Nonsense in BASIC, 0:1

    [ This ...
    Refrenz Refrenz May 2004 Games
  • COVOX works?My Sprinter "simulates" a COVOX soundcard at port 4Fh, but I don't know how to use it! Can anyone explain to me the process of programming it? (To be…

    ... on precise timing. Basic is no where near fast enough nor precise ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2004 Development
  • COVOX works?My Sprinter "simulates" a COVOX soundcard at port 4Fh, but I don't know how to use it! Can anyone explain to me the process of programming it? (To be…

    ... sound routine from Cobra,Ping Pong,Terra Cresta ?
    [/quote]
    fast enough to quickly changing input ... and it can't respond fast enough. So the diaphragm will ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2004 Development
  • New utterly crap game!Inspired by Andy Herbert's crappy game I decided that I should try and produce a similar if not better (or worse depending on how you look at it) eff…

    ... ! Ok! I used Hi Soft Basic to compile it to machine ... !). The resultant programs is pretty fast, so much so that I ... [/url]

    The pure BASIC version continues to be available ...
    Arjun Arjun May 2004 Games
  • The Speccy Games Programming CompetitionFor those who weren't following the OT thread... We have the CGC and we have the Minigames competitions, but we don't have an actual Spectrum Games …

    ... 't make diferencies between BASIC and MC games. probably ... : what about BETA BASIC and MEGA BASIC? that are pretty ... things than even compilated BASIC can. kicking them out ... aimed to speed up BASIC.)
    in my ... gfx. ask people for fast MC routine (there is ...
    Fikee Fikee May 2004 Games
  • Type-ins for non-standard languagesDoes anyone know if there has ever been any type-in programs for non-standard languages e.g. Forth, Micro Prolog etc. I recently bought copies of tho…

    ... It's from the book, "BASIC & FORTH in Parallel" ... some' knowledge of BASIC ) as it takes BASIC examples and shows ... do that goes beyond BASIC. I happen to like ... almost as fast and sometimes nearly as fast as Machine ... for Forth either. My Basic got better. I don ...
    Sadako Sadako May 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin Release 10 releasedHi all, A quick note to let you know that BASin_r10 is out as of now. I've gone off on something of a tangent now with BASin, it's more like what …

    ... compatibility? Would the variables be BASIC compatible? Use ROM routines (and ... compiler, switchable to be a fast integer compiler. Not for a ... make the creation of new basic programs a little more ... commands I've added. "REM Fast" will put BASin into turbo ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2004 Emulators
  • Idea about improving EmulatorHi, I got a bright idea today how to improve such excellent emulators a bit more. Okay, disassemblers are available in nearly every one new released …

    ... that the editor will allow Basic ( anything you want really ) ... that could be. though this Basic environment with all these features ... a simple high level language, Basic, and all the sound, graphics ... runs great, sometimes even too fast. i only have 384MB Ram ...
    Sadako Sadako June 2004 Emulators
  • Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…

    ... know too much about SAM BASIC, and what the performance is ... . That should provide a relatively fast environment that wouldn't need ...
    monty.mole monty.mole June 2004 Development
  • Coder`s with time....How many coders are there who can program anything? i.e. Commercial quality games, full blown applications, utilities etc.... who can do the lot? I…

    ... Forever and Amithlon, which is FAST on my slow computer, too ... final official version of Blitz Basic because I heard it is ... . Now they only do Blitz Basic for Windows. Bah. Also got ...
    Sadako Sadako June 2004 Development
  • Sound problem in SpectaculatorHi, now that the site is up and working again, I was able to install Spectaculator on my new system but very oddly, while everything else is perfect…

    ... from the left which says ' basic acceleration ' , seems to give the ... /> And thanks for being so fast and give me a solution ...
    Arm73 Arm73 July 2004 Emulators
  • GP32 speccy emulators and other stuffI'm about to invest in a GP32 BLU as I have a long long long stay in hospital coming up and really want to know if anyone has one of these and can gi…

    ... />
    A few questions, how fast is SNES, GB, Genesis and ... the following systems ... Megadrive (very basic sound, frameskipping), SNES (Very jerky ...
    Refrenz Refrenz July 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Best scrolling everHi All - I've been lurking here for a while enjoying reminiscing about my magical 10 years of rubber-keyed fun back in my youth! What game featured …

    ... , the other 'defender' listed are basic programs... :) Don't care for ... scrolls, and it is very fast-paced. The whole game basically ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi July 2004 Games
  • Interrupts details questionSuppose I am writing a game and I want to use interrupts to measure time, draw the screen without flicker, maybe to poll keyboard etc. What kinds of …

    ... have 5-8 basic enemies you draw them by fast routines and ...
    Fikee Fikee August 2004 Development
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