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  • Best way to store vector images in Sinclair BASIC?Let's forget for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have a picture made entirely of vector images, what would be the best way to store that d…

    ... for a moment that Sinclair BASIC is slow. If I have ... ] was, for example, 256, the routine would skip PLOT, DRAW a ... BASIC.

    And I'm not planning on using a FILL routine ...
    zxbruno zxbruno May 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • Fastest fill m.c. routine ever?What is the fastest fill routine you've ever seen? Is there a listing somewhere? Most games and adventures that use fill routines were considered slo…

    What is the fastest fill routine you've ever seen? Is ... games and adventures that use fill routines were considered slow in ... .

    Example of slow fill routine: The one in 'The Hobbit ... . I searched the forums for 'fill routine'.[/SIZE]
    zxbruno zxbruno February 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Flood Fill IssueHi Folks, Came across the following Flood Fill routine by John Metcalf: [code]; scanline fill by John Metcalf ; call with d=x-coord, e=y-coo…

    ... Came across the following Flood Fill routine by John Metcalf:
    ... br />
    [code]; scanline fill by John Metcalf
    ; call ... ; save their coordinates to fill later if necessary
    ... entered it via the following BASIC program:

    < ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2017 Development
  • im looking for a colour fill routineall the other routines just fill in one colour, i.e white. i need to be able to change the fill color form basic. any ideas? i would prefer a tap fil…

    all the other routines just fill in one colour, i.e white. i need to be able to change the fill color form basic. any ideas? i would prefer a tap file if thats ok...
    digital digital July 2021 Updates
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... to run the real BASIC 4 ROM, but the ... type and run a BBC BASIC program. You currently can ... Does anybody have a windowing routine "they made earlier"? The ... anybody have a fill routine which can fill with an 8x8 bit ... typing in a BBC Basic program on a Spectrum. ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • Difficult to find upper RAM fault.I've recently repaired an issue 3B 48K Spectrum that had a tricky to diagnose upper RAM fault, so I thought I'd post a report of what I found here. …

    ... every case. I even left BASIC programs running for a whole ... initialise the rest of the BASIC environment.

    Given what ... any fault by testing from BASIC.

    I resorted to ... , as written by the RAM-FILL routine). Because the second DEC (HL ...
    Zorn Zorn April 2012 Hardware
  • im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.

    i know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.
    digital digital July 2018 Development
  • GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…

    ... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas"]http://www.wearmouth ... /> There is a nice short BASIC fill routine that comes with BASin. I ...
    Geoff Geoff July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • GraphicsI can't find this posted anywhere else, but how do you use graphics, other than circle, pixels and lines? For example, how do you draw a filled box o…

    ... ://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/BASIC/shapes.bas"]http://www.wearmouth ... /> There is a nice short BASIC fill routine that comes with BASin. I ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Any BBC aware Specchums out there?After the UK101 and VIC20 emulators I've moved my sights onto emulating a BBC computer. This emulator will be different though in that it will be a Z…

    ... as it was the only fill routine on the BBC B ... in the emulator as Sinclair BASIC can manage!! (I ... routines). However, Z80 BBC BASIC will blow my emulator ... />
    Every time BASIC wants to LOAD or SAVE ... In short, if a BBC BASIC / machine code program runs ...
    Jimmy Jimmy August 2008 Development
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    ... t mean ROM printing routine. i understand that you ... in terms of a routine that will probably be ... put into the ZX BASIC routine library, I'll take ... and speed for a fill routine (perhaps in small and ... /> 3>a proportional printing routine.

    As ...
    Gedlion Gedlion June 2010 Development
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    i'm not writing much basic (especially zx basic compiler -- i hate python ... take a look at proper basic integration though. wait a couple ... ".

    btw. "fill routine" -- is it the routine similar to art studio ...
    Ketmar Ketmar June 2010 Development
  • Hi Res Print Routine neededHas anyone seen code for a print routine with pixel accuracy? That is print(y,x,CHAR) that allows 0 < y < 192 and 0 < x < 255 - that takes a charact…

    ... 'm not writing much basic (especially zx basic compiler -- i hate ... br />
    btw. "fill routine" -- is it the routine similar to art studio ... up being called from Sinclair Basic. They will be functions ... and or subroutines for ZX BASIC - and that really means ...
    Gedlion Gedlion June 2010 Development
  • Help! Reverse engineering a Spectrum game[deleted]

    ... over again to do the basic requirements for you. You ...
    10 - A solid fill routine that is optimised when plotting ... br /> 17 - A line draw routine, optimised when drawing one pixel ... A fast screen address lookup routine, that is; pixels to display ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Devils CastleJust looked at this in the archive , i think it only went on today , its another great game , similar to the 1st section in journeys end or like a gr…

    ... or copy-fill routine? I mean who limited you to use BASIC only ...
    NRA NRA November 2011 Brand new software
  • real value of some of these books as learning aids?Ok, I admit perhaps it was a late night and frustration. :???: I could have been hallucinating when i was doing the typein. But I think not.. [url]…

    ... did they fill the colours? was it just a routine that scanned ... .uk/gw03/basfill.htm"]simple fill in BASIC[/URL] posted by one ...
    Morkin Morkin August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • real value of some of these books as learning aids?Ok, I admit perhaps it was a late night and frustration. :???: I could have been hallucinating when i was doing the typein. But I think not.. [url]…

    ... uk/gw03/basfill.htm"]simple fill in BASIC[/URL] posted by one ... in Sinclair Basic, this is a very poor flood fill implementation. The ... on the stack and the fill routine exits gracefully if memory is ... quicker if you relax your fill shapes to convex polygons only ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • filled shape creating codeDevelopment is continuing well on a resurrected project of mine from about 20 years ago. Speed and size optimizations are going well along with displ…

    ... 's a specific one, then fill could be optimised to the ... fill routine is quite neat. I converted it for Boriel's ZX Basic ... : [url]http://www.boriel.com/forum/how-to-tutorials/fill-routine ...
    Gedlion Gedlion October 2013 Development
  • Spectrum Utility Routines Compendium (pending)I couldn't make up my mind into which section to put this, so it's ended up here for some tenuous reason. I haven't forgotten about this. I've been …

    ... /> ** A painter (enclose & fill) routine
    ** Check if two rectangles ... /> ** Full 16*16-digit BASIC multiplication
    ** Print a ...
    ** Random point screen fill
    ** Spectrum 48k ROM ... a given length into a BASIC program
    ** SCREEN$ ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2013 Announcements
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    ... /pfill.zip"]recursive pattern flood fill[/URL].

    The ... a few lines, even in Basic. But they are totally unusable ... figure being filled and secondarily, fill steps are done in pixels ... To make it safe, the fill routine accepts a parameter that limits ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2014 Development
  • Flood Fill IssueHi Folks, Came across the following Flood Fill routine by John Metcalf: [code]; scanline fill by John Metcalf ; call with d=x-coord, e=y-coo…

    ... 59999 (Y) before excuting the fill routine.


    [code]EA60 ... /> [/code]

    The amended BASIC program now reads:

    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman August 2017 Development
  • im looking for a fill routine written in basici know this would be slow but i want to tinker with it to produce something else.

    Try this recursive fill routine from BASin source ... ZX Spectrum emulator running a BASIC Fill Demonstration
    #
    routine written in Sinclair BASIC using recursion ...
    #
    # A BASIC FILL ROUTINE - an example of recursion in ...
    dbolli dbolli July 2018 Development
  • ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…

    I have written my own fill-routine.

    I have it ... low as possible. A simple fill routine isn't the problem. Ths ... every plot and you would fill the whole screen the stack ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2003 Games
  • ArtistryIn my younger days (and to a certain extent, now) I was always intrigued about how the loading screens were constructed. Back then I'd assumed it was…

    ... /> I have written my own fill-routine.

    I have it ... /> Anyone still intrested in this routine????

    It is the ... /> This routine will work in almost all figures to fill. Only a ... with vertically 1 pixel to fill going up and down MIGHT ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP August 2003 Games
  • Making a mapI should learn Z80 assembly, but I don't have the time (really busy) and I feel like making a game. I've tried with Colt which gives me enough speed…

    The fastest way is to calculate the screenaddress directly and use this address to calculate the ATTR-address.

    I have a routine for my FILL-routine. Need to search for it. Will try to place it here.
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2004 Development
  • Help required to calculate screen addressesDoes anyone have some code that calculates the screen address one pixel below the given address ? Is it best to use a lookup table ? Any examples of …

    ... an article about the pattern fill routine which contains information on the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous November 2004 Development
  • Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…

    I have written a fill routine that will fill from the PLOT address given by the USR call.
    CALL is something like this : PLOT INK USR START;10,10
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2007 Development
  • Vector drawing routines.Anybody could point me to some sort of vector drawing package of routines, callable from BASIC? With "vector drawing" I mean to draw 2D pictures with…

    ... ]I have written a fill routine that will fill from the PLOT address ... happy with fast line and fill routines, so I can write ... !

    And if the routine does pattern fills, it would ...
    na_th_an na_th_an October 2007 Development
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