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  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?
    ZnorXman ZnorXman March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • compilerI am currently developing a sudoku game for the old faithful speccy. My idea is to write the code in basic and then compile it to m/c because i suck …

    ... going to be much faster than compiled BASIC if at all, ... to functions that read the keyboard,
    pretty much any ... in speed to a Basic compiled PRINT (probably faster) but then PRINTing ... /> but still many times faster than Basic). There are screen functions ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2006 Development
  • Idiots Guide......To machine code, or assembler language...whatever the appropriate term is Basically at this stage I want to fiddle about and try and get used to…

    ... C as an substitute for BASIC than for assembly. They' ... Just like some BASIC/assembly hybrid games uses BASIC for the boring ... that it's a lot faster than BASIC, and using libraries within ... background, a library to handle keyboard and joysticks, (and nowadays ...
    Timmy Timmy January 2014 Development
  • Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly​ I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…

    ... reading the keyboard in a language as slow as BASIC is essential ... number of tricks, such as faster keyboard routines, placing any code that ... start of the program for faster line number lookups etc all ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2017 BASIC
  • Help with adding graphicsHi, After like 20 years or so I started playing again with Spectrum stuff, especially programming. I tried to dig into machine code, but apart f…

    ... I'd play around with BASIC using BASin because of the ... for this? Also anything easier/faster for BASIC coding than BASin?
    sfg sfg November 2017 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?

    ... *is* a fair measure faster then BASIC, so I'm happy with ...
    Dunny Dunny 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 ... it's quite slow .... Faster than BASIC - but because it' ... s fully BASIC compatible at first, ... . It'll get faster when the basic compilation is done, ... So there's that, a BASIC editor (which will end ...
    Dunny Dunny January 2004 Development
  • BASin CompilerAm I right in thinking that it isn't a fully-working one yet? Just a couple of obvious suggestions anyway... 1-Could you add an ORG command to the …

    ... close to 100% compatible with BASIC as possible - which means floats ... ended up about 5-7x faster than BASIC - due to the floating ...
    Dunny Dunny June 2004 Development
  • Announce: Crap Game Competition 2004The comp.sys.sinclair Crap Game Competition 2004 is now officially open! :roll: [url="http://www.speccyspoilers.co.uk/cgc2004"]www.speccyspoilers.co…

    ... ?...
    What? The game runs faster if compiled or run at ... of that?! Machine code is faster than BASIC? It's possible to ...
    jil jil September 2004 Games
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... about 100 times faster interpreted than the original ZX BASIC does compiled ... />
    Sure, assembler is faster, but BASIC writes like a person thinks ... coded in BASIC than assembler. Although the assembler version is faster and ...
    Sparky Sparky March 2005 Development
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... a Speccy, a compiled Basic, or straight to assembler are ... [quote]Sure, assembler is faster, but BASIC writes like a person thinks ... BASIC.

    [quote]Although the assembler version is faster ... and took much longer to write, the BASIC version ...
    cyborg cyborg March 2005 Development
  • SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…

    ... USR 65368 from within your BASIC program. The routine copies BC ... HL(32768) and returns to BASIC. Basically it copies your screen ... memory.

    Then, from BASIC,

    SAVE "name" CODE ... helps, and it's wayyyyy faster than BASIC
    Lloyd Lloyd October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • SAVE the complete screen in BASICHow can I save the COMPLETE screen (with the last two lines) in BASIC? If I type SAVE "XXXX" SCREEN$, then comes the message "Start tape, ..." and th…

    ... USR 65368 from within your BASIC program. The routine copies BC ... HL(32768) and returns to BASIC. Basically it copies your screen ... about this - it's pure BASIC, folks:

    10 ... helps, and it's wayyyyy faster than BASIC
    [/quote]

    Dunny Dunny October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • The New SPIN releases ThreadOk, as I'm now working on SPIN again full-time, and as a very wise man once said, "Release Early, Release Often"[1]... I'm going to release new SPIN…

    ... to use RAD, I prefer basic (maybe because I'm a ... starter language and it's faster than basic. But --hey, I dont ...
    Arda Arda November 2006 Emulators
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... is binary compatibility. Modifying basic code and intoducing new codes ... game)
    Are compiled BASIC programs larger or smaller than ... with large BASIC programs.

    Current BASIC compilers get ... who used to be faster in BASIC than the speccy... you ...
    JamesD JamesD February 2007 Development
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?[/quote]

    Since ... ROM routines will already be faster since the interpreting is ... even skip floatingpoint notation from BASIC and work with integers ... or 0-65535 which calculate faster than 5 bytes FP- ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Quick q. on MC vs. BASIC (boring question)No matter how long or tedious the programming/testing may be ... Is Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?

    ... Machine Code [B]ALWAYS[/B] faster than BASIC?[/QUOTE]

    To ... it ends up slower than BASIC's implementation using [url= ... in machine code. But Spectrum BASIC doesn't provide a sort ... br />
    That said... Spectrum BASIC is optimised for size rather ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • VIC 20 emulation on the SpectrumI'm sure most people are aware of the my attempt at bringing the full Commodore experience to Sinclair users with the "Twenty Commodes" program. It e…

    ... , making the emulator now run faster. (Keyboard routine exits immediately if no ...
    Digital Prawn Digital Prawn September 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Z80 Machine Code Question...Hi Folks, I know not strictly a BASIC question but I have started to learn Z80 machine code - 25 years too late! :smile: I have been reading a book…

    ... MC programs to run faster.
    In BASIC, the FOR instruction is ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... loop it should be faster. If Sinclair BASIC supports ELSE, and the ... on one line and keep BASIC from having to search for ...
    JamesD JamesD October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Sorting an array...Hi Folks, Over the weekend I had a play with sorting algorithms - takes me back to my student days! :-o My first try was with the good old Bubble S…

    ... loop it should be faster. If Sinclair BASIC supports ELSE, and the ... on one line and keep BASIC from having to search for ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Disable interrupts?Well, I've read the bits from the David Webb book about interrupt modes and (vaguely) appreciate the principles behind having a vector table, after r…

    ... /C is soooo much faster than BASIC that the little bit of ... time lost in the BASIC ISR isn't too big ...
    AndyC AndyC February 2012 Development
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... with an array whats faster for basic to work with a array ...
    WibbleBibble WibbleBibble September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …

    ... ]So with an array whats faster for basic to work with a ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • z80 assembly helpEver since I was a child I wanted to program my zx81 then my zx spectrum + 2. However, it was such a mystical beast and I only ever used BASIC not kn…

    ... , (b) it's still much faster than BASIC and (c) doesn't ...
    Morkin Morkin September 2015 Development
  • Why don't the variables print where I told them too?I wrote the following program to experiment with creating sounds using 3 notes of BEEP and having the ability to change the notes up or down one at a…

    ... /> Anyway, in a nutshell - Sinclair BASIC takes your program in token ... mandelbrot set renderer in Sinclair BASIC which took about 11 ... That's 31,000 times faster than the Sinclair interpreter and ... account, still 30+ times faster than BASIC if both were run on ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2017 BASIC
  • Headerless tape loading blocksIs there any way to convert headerless machine code blocks to regular headed blocks? I imagine it involves Taper. I ask because now that I know I'…

    ... on the screen that runs faster than BASIC.

    [quote]Fortunately ... a tape in Spectaculator. The BASIC loader just has bare LOAD ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone November 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Have you got a project or are doing anything interesting during lock down?I’m “having” “fun” cutting shapes in wall tiles to fit around the electrical switches, sockets and heating/boiler control box in the utility room. …

    ... from 1997.

    Better, faster, more options.

    BETTER ... LOT QUICKER in the emulation, faster keyboard response.

    MORE OPTIONS ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP April 2020 Chit chat
  • Not bored with the Boards.Going through some old tapes stored rather badly I came across an unlikely item that that I must have stored away quickly with other low grade items …

    ... /det/12269/LMT-68FX2-Keyboard-for-the-Spectrum/"]computinghistory. ...
    The implemtation of the Keyboard BASIC is also a bit different ... and visible. .The DK Keyboard is more conventional and ... bored" currently with this LMT keyboard , but the original owner ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio August 2021 Hardware
  • OpenSE BASIC 3.1.1The eagle-eyed will have noticed that [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027510"]SE BASIC[/url] got an update last week. As a te…

    ... (this requires replacing the BASIC ROM and patching the editor ... by mistake on the Spectrum+ keyboard) and replaced with a ... the screen printing routines much faster. It would still be ... . For most operations SE BASIC is generally faster.

    * All ...
    chev chev May 2012 Sinclair Basic
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