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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. …

    ... ! I tried moving a 2x2 character, and replacing the 4 squares ... tile character is too much for BASIC.[/quote]
    Using PRINT with ... POKING. What slows PRINT down is printing a character at a time ... string and print it all at once it's quite fast.
    chev chev June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • 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. …

    ... ! I tried moving a 2x2 character, and replacing the 4 squares ... speed. Perhaps a 4 tile character is too much for BASIC ... and it's probably still fast enough. But add another sprite ... Y=Y+1
    100 PRINT AT OY,OX;c$;AT ... +1,OX;C$
    101 PRINT AT Y,X;a$;AT ...
    R-Tape R-Tape June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Simple text scrolling routine...I'm having trouble writing a very simple text scroller, the idea is to use the ROM printer routine to print 32 characters each time the routine is ca…

    ... as otherwise it's too fast to read. (I think ... ,(de)
    rst $10 ;print next character
    inc de
    ... /> ld (23688),bc ;the print position one row DOWN
    character ..
    ld hl,dat2+ ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2014 Development
  • Interface 1bis RAM Drive modificationAll Interface 1bis users I hope I am not interfering with Dan, but I saw on his site that he has a RAM Drive upgrade/modification for the Interface …

    ... to store data frequently and fast ( like memory swapping, but not ... ) only for the character-oriented instructions: OPEN#, CLOSE#, PRINT#, INPUT# and INKEY ...
    Dan Antohi Dan Antohi October 2014 Hardware
  • Bomb Munchies - preview releaseBomb Munchies Preview release Version 12th Jan 2014 [URL=http://s979.photobucket.com/user/MatGubbins/media/bmsix_zpsc33279a2.gif.html][IMG]http://i…

    ... buffer around and watching how fast things scrolled - it wasn't ... /> This will print a SP graphic instead of a / character when 9 ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins January 2015 Brand new software
  • Scrolling in BASICI remember a few BASIC typeins for other machines that claimed to be scrolling the screen. Obviously vertically its not too difficult - once you dis…

    ... on a character-mapped screen, then do a fast render of ... draw some scenery as a character map, back it up ... time. You can then print some sprite-characters over it ... it'll replace the character set of 96 defined characters ... a portion of the character set to use as ...
    joefish joefish March 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 40 Column Printing RoutineI've written a 40 column printing routine, which I'd like to share... It's my first piece of 'public' code so go easy on me! I don't think it is a…

    ... ; Designed to be drawn as fast as possible to allow for ... each character is 5 bytes
    jr c, Prt64Low ; carry = print right ... side of character
    ; draw the character on the ...
    Kiwi Kiwi September 2015 Development
  • So I did a thing...And it's nearly ready for release: [img]http://s18.postimg.org/4453ayo5j/Screen_Shot_2016_03_30_at_16_18_17.png[/img] Apologies for the enormou…

    ... You can now use the ";" character to repeat a keyword with ... the editor so that fast typing isn't lost< ... now be used instead of PRINT
    Due to ... in Linux versions
    PRINT and TEXT could cause a ... by referencing the 0th character of an empty string< ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Proportional fontsI've been doing some proportional font drawing, purely on C level at the moment, but it's orders of magnitude slower than I'd want it to be. It's sti…

    ... just print it, then return. Interesting to see how fast it gets ... !

    I've a few other character ... codes to change character set mid scroll or print without too much ...
    jamorski jamorski October 2016 Development
  • Can I name a subroutine and then call it by name?No thats not really exactly the problem. I wrote 4 lines of Basic that draws an 8x8 square and then told it to check x,y and subtract 4 from x or y t…

    ... On).

    Although PRINT OVER SQUARE has invalid syntax ... to use an alternative character set to define the ... and then PRINT the required 1,2 or 4 character elements ... . I'm seeing how fast I can get a horizontal ... held in an alternative character set.
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny May 2017 BASIC
  • 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…

    ... best choice if you want fast printing like for scores ... point the tiles at each character definition in the font.
    print a string, it will expect ... subroutine that uses sp1_PrintAtInv() to print individual characters of a string ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • SORCERESS: new AGD gameFrom the creator of CYBERMANIA! I've written a new game, SORCERESS - an AGD maze shooter/adventure. It was quite an ordeal, as I ended up having to w…

    ... nice, but it's very fast.
    Maybe it's due ... /running is lacking.
    Main character should received some extra TLC ... short, probably due to the fast pace of the game.
    print the intro to the story ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins July 2017 Brand new software
  • Go to, gosub or something different?I'm going to write an arcade game in basic. May compile it. In both basic and compiled basic would a goto or gosub be faster? Also if I stored …

    ... collision detection, e.g. PRINT your character, PRINT the enemies, then check the ... attribute colour of your character hasn ... it's not running as fast as it could.

    joefish joefish August 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • ive found an attr scrolling routine but i want to remove the smaller scroller within it, etc.https://pastebin.com/K4nG3xbX also i would like to be able to change the colours and not have a shadow. http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sin…

    Here's the fast version, just doing a plain ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny November 2017 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... in BASIC with a 1 character scrolling ground and maybe ceiling ... only, it would still be fast enough to resemble something playable ... bottom layer scroll half as fast as the one above ... move him, but only occasionally print animation frames over top periodically ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2018 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... in BASIC with a 1 character scrolling ground and maybe ceiling ... only, it would still be fast enough to resemble something playable ... bottom layer scroll half as fast as the one above ... move him, but only occasionally print animation frames over top periodically ...
    digital digital January 2018 Development
  • 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…

    ... -- not enough registers for reasonably fast and thread safe implementation, as ... , it will simply not print an individual character that will not entirely ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2018 Development
  • 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…

    ... initial question about moving a character without flickering:

    character movement by now.
    - ... for coordinates"
    2 "Print the sprite on its coordinates ... see how fast and easy you will move a character around ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic May 2018 BASIC
  • Fast Binary to Text DisplayI've done this thing that takes some memory contents and converts it to a Binary version of 0's and 1's on screen. However, I've no idea what to use …

    ... br />
    [code]
    ;Fast binary to text display
    character bytes
    ld (de ... a,06h ;make '0' character
    print:
    ld (de),a ... way of making it print the correct version of ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed July 2018 Development
  • Printing text, part MMXIIXI'm pretty sure there's been a zillion threads about this already, and I don't think it's the first one by myself either, but here goes. Proportiona…

    ... with 8 bytes per each character, which is like the font ... .e. you print a single line (byte) of a character and go ... based and [i]very[/i] fast, but they rely heavily on ... each line of a single character, which I think isn't ...
    Hikaru Hikaru December 2018 Development
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... (e.g. the Brain 8 character data)? Is it via inline ... $ variables. This is much fast that doing PRINT AT; INK; BRIGHT; etc ... game, type CLS, then type PRINT a$; for starting again the ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • 'Mike's' moon lander in SpecBAShttps://youtu.be/1mjwLD6juB8 As modified and turned into a video by Dunny. I put my name in single quotes because it really is only thanks to Dunn…

    ... too.
    3. Any font character (or UDG) can be placed ... PRINT AT, use PRINT MOVE to specify a pixel location instead of character ... pixel colours and SpecBAS is fast enough for you to test ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2019 Sinclair Basic
  • How to store and recall a "window"?I would like to memorize and then restore a rectangular portion of a screen, pixels and attributes. To make things easier, this "window" would be sit…

    ... memory will be ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS like character set

    then for ... of the image
    2) Print like normal printing characters (this ... of characters and your print can be as fast as this

    print at Y,X;"ABCDEF ...
    maeloterkim maeloterkim February 2020 Development
  • How to write a simple C+asm horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial, z88dk)[b]How to write a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b] [b]Note:[/b] This tutorial has multiple parts... I am still writing but this first pa…

    ... the game.
    Then we print the score right after scrolling ... C ends with a \0 character.



    [b ... mean, this function is only fast because it cuts corners? -- Ed ...
    Timmy Timmy September 2020 Development
  • Console frameworkStill working on Specotron, but at the point where working out the diagonal lines collision is not good at beer o'clock. In the meantime I've knoc…

    ... than 1 line - if you print out an 8 line string ... CLS (I'll do a fast version and a small one ... also easy to extend the character set to have 255 printable ... want to be able to print out strings longer than 256 ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Development
  • Character set variableCan anybody help me? I'm trying to find out where the pointer to the ascii character set is. I remember that if you wanted to change the font on the …

    ... the pointer to the ascii character set is.
    I remember ... spectrum where to find the character set, so that it pointed ...
    Neil^P Neil^P May 2002 Games
  • Quiz III - Further adventures of... Ok, 20 quick fire questions.. some cryptic - you`ll have un unravel the clues to get the game name, while others are description of the game. There …

    ... spaceship. 4 platforms, one evil fast moving alien.
    They`re ... special guest star from a character from onw of their previous ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins May 2002 Games
  • How to print with colour using DiscipleHi! I was wondering if there is any way of printing in colour using the Disciple. I am using an Epson Stylus 600 Printer with one of my +2s and I wo…

    ... I would really like to print some colours apart from greyscales ...
    Anestis Anestis August 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Great Mystification: A reflection upon the feebleness of the "distribution denied" policyThis argument has been debated several other times in this place, yet I have not expressed my thoughts about it, and I would like to hear comments by…

    ... book that is out of print, and the publishers have publicly ... photocopies of those out-of-print books and gives them for ... the book is out of print.

    Some Italian publishers ... , exploit the name of the character for my personal interests. But ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu November 2002 Games
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