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About z88dk and autoexecsThis weekend I was playing a little with z88dk C cross Compiler. Amazing tool! I have three questions: 1- Does anybody know how to change the initia…
... - I believe the -zorg=[address in decimal] command line parameter does ... a TAP file with a BASIC loader which loads and runs the ... -
Earth ShakerIm stuck on a level. Can anyone help me if i tell you the level number/name?
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Earth Shaker Editor in .TAP format.
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this will load in the BASIC program but will not run ... "Save As..." and save the in-memory virtual tape contents to ... -
Protection against MERGEI remember using a routine to protect against using MERGE to break into a BASIC listing. It was along the lines of :- 1. Enter a random line e.g. 1 …
... line, any numbers get stored in two forms, the string of ... this. It appears a normal basic loader but the RANDOMIZE USR to ... -
saving to asmMy another question... I know I can save part of Spectrum memory to .bin file. However I would like to save it (or convert .bin file)into .txt file w…
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Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... br /> It was a BASIC program with machine code routines ... what the ratio of BASIC to machine code was? ... purposes of the "best BASIC game" question, I'm ... programs have at least a BASIC loader.
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Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
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It was a BASIC program with machine code routines ... the purposes of the "best BASIC game" question, I'm ... programs have at least a BASIC loader.
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Best Speccy game written in BASICHopefully this has not been done before, but anyhoo. My vote is the sublime VIKING RAIDERS.
... programs have at least a BASIC loader.
Another game ... certainly a fair bit of BASIC in that, as well as ... was mostly BASIC, certainly all the game logic was in BASIC. The menu ... screen was in machine code and ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
... in Spin didn't work in Basin, although it worked in ... it into Basin in the wrong way. ... in the snapshot as well as the UDGs and Basic ... purposes of ripping a BASIC loader from an Ultimate game ... in an undefined state.
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Cronosoft 'Cassette 50'I'm currently looking to start work on putting together a 'CASCADE CASSETTE 50' compilation. Admittedly, I might not get 50 games submitted, so if t…
... use a simple headerless turbo loader that loads the screen and ... utility once to save a loader in a rem statement, you just ... then saved a Basic loader to tape, the entire basic loader was between approx ... to save with a turbo loader, although I still have version ... -
Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
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Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
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The loader is a program in basic that might look something ... [/B] is the number location in RAM where you want your ... loaded to. in this case 32768
the Basic loader at the ... -
Some thoughts about emulationWhile discussing about 'real tape loaders' I just thinked about wat is total emulation (most complete, perfect). Some authors prefer for example loa…
... Piters: Thats one really nice loader there (which loads the Everyone ... In extrema case, I can write it again - when you have loader ... proggy which draws preloaded pic in same way, with some ... emu), just need to rewrite Basic loader and control to be usable ... -
Draft specs for TZX v1.20Hi all! In the attempt to restart the development of the TZX format, I've put online the first version of the draft document [1]. At the moment ther…
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The basic loader for XLR-8 decrypts and ... grateful!! Anyway the actual loader itself is based on ... being nothing like the ROM loader.
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SoftRom emulation possible?Hello. Quick question to all emulator developers: How easy would it be to emulate a SoftRom? The mastering utilites for my protection system XLR-8 a…
... out of range error in one of the BASIC programs, fixed what ... it saved wasn't a BASIC loader at all but something that ... normal ROM speed).
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If it wasn't for Uncle Clive...ISTR that until the Speccy came out, the C64 was ?350 (or something ridiculous like that) in the UK, and the Speccy's release was held to be directly…
I used to love writing games of my own in basic on the speccy. You`s write it out and it would take you weeks to do. I even put my own loader and loading screen ..... good days those were and i still get a buzz even now thinking about it -
Machine Code QuestionHi All Not sure if this is the right place for this but it seems closest. Am starting to read the Toni Baker Intro to Machine Code book and its ver…
... folk say something was written in assembler they are talking ... expression evaluation (you can put in '5*4+3'), labels ... loading tap files with a basic loader that automatically loads the binary ... snapshots with the binary embedded in them.
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Development advice I was an user of the Spectrum 48K in the old days. I arribed to learn a lot of BASIC, and a bit of assembler. The time have passed, and now I am …
... /DSK files in order to be able to inject my Basic loader, Screen ... lot yet besides the documentation in {z88dk}/docs. There is a ... files. The sound in both programs were done in assembler.
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What should be the base address to set for my codeHi, I am new here and I have a simple question but one which I have not found an answer to. When I am developming my programs what should I set th…
... with a basic loader. I am planning on doing everything else in assembler ... becomes how big is the loader used by PASMO (I guess ... -
XLR-8 mastering utilities - help wanted!!Hello. Ironic I know given I wrote them! I can't for the life of me get the XLR-8 mastering utilities to work under emulation. It goes through the m…
... and Softrom back in the day) - testing the basic loader overwrites the whole ... . Also I was still thinking in the same mindset as having ... encrypted the game with it in place, whereas of course it ... -
incbin in z80asmUsing z80asm (as shipped with Z88DK) is it possible to include binary files (i.e. incbin)? If so how?
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z80asm is documented in [URL="http://z88dk.cvs.sourceforge ... binary at a specific point in memory using BINARY. There can ... either using the basic loader or the tape routines in z88dk.
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Disk image utility for USB disksI make simple utility programm for copy physical disk content to image files. It can work with USB disks, or memory cards attached via some card read…
... is packed, depacker is usually in Basic REM line 1, at address ... snapshots, but most is Basic loader (and depacker in REM) + CODE.
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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…
... the subprograms ready: i.e. basic loader, font, loading screen$, music and ... ]File/New... name.tzx[/I] (in Spectaculator), press the save button ... copy program.
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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…
... blind, was trying that also in basin, but obviously from File ... played a bit with the basic loader, didn?t try the [I ... ... thought it could handle only basic files, forgot it has assembler ... -
Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... use the 128k models built-in RAM disk using z88dk ;) I ... to call a specific subroutine in the BASIC loader which loads new level ... -
Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…
... call a specific subroutine in the BASIC loader which loads new level ... C program, not the associated basic program).
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Keep in mind that Basic expects the IY register ... , for example). Also some basic commands will mess with the ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... blocks of code, some gfx, basic loader, lookup tables, even music. ... into PC and continue development in the emulator without much ... whole process. ZXLFN could help in such stuations. It's ... "circumstances" (commonly used filesystems). In the world of pure PC ... -
ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... super-mega-hyper idea (second in this thread) : we need ... placed in directory, and nothing else. You may see whole Basic from ... on their beginning.
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Prince of Persia in an actual Spectrum?Prince of Persia is one the best games programmed for our Speccy in the last 10 years, but I think originally was written for TR Dos, although there …
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Prince of Persia in an actual Spectrum?Prince of Persia is one the best games programmed for our Speccy in the last 10 years, but I think originally was written for TR Dos, although there …
... put a rather simple credit in the BASIC loader.
Anyway, I ...
