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  • Blimey!Someone (tragically, it's not me :sad:) is selling a rather rare NES game, [B]Nintendo World Championships,[/B] on ebay. [url]http://www.ebay.com/it…

    ... game.

    And in case you haven't clicked ... ripped off, and someone has written in biro "Mario" on it. ... been no crime worth reporting in Britain this week) - [ ... the thread too, but in fairness to me, I ... wandering and trying to fill time by doing things ...
    ewgf ewgf January 2014 Chit chat
  • FBSThis is one of those things that is more like an experiment than a real project. I was trying to do this in BASIC, then realised my BASIC was too ru…

    ... in BASIC, then realised my BASIC was too rusty, so I ended up written ... it in C ...
    Timmy Timmy February 2014 Development
  • From RAM to dim v$() "video buffer" SPEED UP!Hi! This question is related to "quick RAM copy using LET in Basic" ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=44296[/url]). Wel…

    ... "quick RAM copy using LET in Basic" ([url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org ... to end...

    This routine load/converts/make my v ...
    Hark0 Hark0 March 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Learning a programming language from scratchSome advice please... At work I use an Excel/Calc spreadsheet of my own making to get address information from various csv/txt files I download ever…

    ... 's far better than typing in addresses manually, which is the ... as the formulae I've written in Calc, but I can just ... any language apart from Sinclair BASIC, but can usually hack my ... best place to start? Visual Basic? C#? Python? Something else ...
    leespoons leespoons March 2014 Chit chat
  • Game codeHi Quick questions. Would a game such as manic miner of the hobbit have been written just in basic or will it have been assembly? Also these slow …

    Hi

    Quick questions.

    Would a game such as manic miner of the hobbit have been written just in basic or will it have been assembly?

    Also these slow loading screens? Basic or assembly?

    Thanks
    username username April 2014 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Read Data from memoryHi there. Not been on this scene for a long time. Does anyone know how to do a routine to read data from memory(peek..etc) rather than using lines of…

    ... know how to do a routine to read data from memory ... lines of data in basic...

    My normal routine is this
    davepierce07 davepierce07 May 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Fast Condition TestingHello my friends, I have been writing some input and string handling routines in BASIC lately - yeah I could write them super fast in C/ASM via z88d…

    ... - there is something wholesome in writing them in BASIC

    So ... string array, before the routine is called the array is ... /> So that initializes the next routine for processing
    [code]< ... br />
    However, the above routine is slow to execute or ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 November 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Did anyone sign on in the early 80's?I was listening to the Half Man Half Biscuit album Back in the DHSS and I'm a bit confused about the line ?He hands me my Giro every two weeks? in th…

    ... Man Half Biscuit album Back in the DHSS and I'm ... my Giro every two weeks? in the song All I Want ... i was on the dole in the late 90's my ... if when the song was written in the 80s whether you got ... is a Postman or works in the Jobcentre.

    [youtube ...
    festershinetop festershinetop March 2015 Chit chat
  • Lisp InterpretterStefano came across a Lisp interpretter written in C and had a go at compiling it. I decided to try to make an if2 cartridge for it and was succes…

    ... across a Lisp interpretter written in C and had a ... I was unable to fill in a lot of links ... ve included all the goodness in one zip:
    ... psychologist game that was everywhere in the 80s.

    One big flaw in this implementation is there is ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2015 Development
  • Under development: SETO TAISHO VS YOKAIAfter having been defeated by Funky Fungus, Seto Taisho, the crockery general, returns to Japan with its dreams of glory now shattered. However, duri…

    ... , the country has fallen in turmoil. Awakened by the ... levels, written in M/C from scratch (no more compiled BASIC).
    in several languages;
    - game ... demo is currently only available in English.

    Please ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu December 2015 Announcements
  • SUC-Session magazine is back, get it here for freeHello friends of the Spectrum, based on the results of our voting, we have created our new magazine and we invite you to download this issue: G…

    ... mag, we cannot fill it alone. In order to motivate ... work:
    1) Send in an article, 2 coins ... it
    2) Send in own programs, previously unreleased. ... means, if you send in just one article per issue ... but with sending in a own written program or writing ...
    Speccyman Speccyman December 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Help! I'm learning Machine Code...Having decided to take the plunge and learn to machine code a while ago, I have started in earnest using the much recommended 'Mastering Machine Code…

    ... ago, I have started in earnest using the much recommended ... manage a successful return to BASIC without crashing."

    ... I enter this in (via some DATA statements in BASIC, starting at address ... /> Also, no doubt I've written it clumsier than it need ...
    namtip namtip February 2016 Development
  • 'Solaris' text adventure game - Softel 1983Its a fairly trivial topic but I just wondered if anyone else has encountered this problem with this game. Played this text adv game many years ago i…

    ... adv game many years ago in the 80's on original ... and nothing that I typed in seemed to work. 15 years ... the coding as it was written in Sinclair Basic and just need to ... and I would be interested in obtaining a copy, if possible ...
    paul2015 paul2015 July 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Game - Strange Kitchen (Boriel version)Further Greetings, O People of the Spectrum! This is Strange Kitchen written in Boriel ZX Basic. You have to prepare recipes by destroying unwant…

    ... This is Strange Kitchen written in Boriel ZX Basic. You have to prepare ... before. Finish all levels in one game for the ultimate ... Beta version of Strange Kitchen in normal Basic + CharADE, you might ... !). But I found Boriel Basic recently and I'm happier ...
    textvoyage textvoyage September 2016 Brand new software
  • Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…

    ... screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • The state of source level debuggingI was just wondering if we can put on a table everything we collectively know about source level debugging for ZX Spectrum to get an overview of curr…

    ... achieved what everyone can do in FUSE debugger for years.
    There is a debugger folder in SDCC! And it does contains ... /> A Russian ZX Spectrum emulator, written in C# can now “talk GDB ...
    tstih tstih October 2016 Development
  • A BEEP program I want to make in Basic. Helpful remarks gratefully receivedI want to explore the possibilities of the BEEP command. So I need to be able to try different combos of pitch/duration and sequences of same. I'm tr…

    ... be able to type this in 'on the fly' to modify ... even if it ties me in knots.

    I was ... gunshots (its hunting season here in VA) from a distance and ... analyzer, so as to help in having some idea of how ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch November 2016 Chit chat
  • How to get more than 21 UDG's in BASIC?So with graphics mode under the G cursor how many UDG's can you do from BASIC is it 21? It's all POKE 65368 and above and it's sequential ABCD.... an…

    ... 's can you do from BASIC is it 21? It's ... do I call them from BASIC ?
    ivanb303 ivanb303 November 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Arcade Game Designer for ZX Spectrum Next/Timex 8x1For those of you who are not members of the Spectrum Next or AGD Facebook groups, I've released a new editorless AGD compiler. While it has been des…

    ... been designed with the Next in mind, it will work ... tool which takes a program written in AGD "BASIC" and creates an assembler ... than the versions I've written on the Spectrum and CPC ... type in the data manually, Spectrum BASIC-style. The compiler is written in C ...
    jonathan jonathan December 2016 Brand new software
  • Jump AlgorithmAfternoon all, trying my hand at a liitle basic coding ( it's a quiet work day :) ) and wondered if anyone has coded a platformer type jumping routin…

    ... my hand at a liitle basic coding ( it's a quiet ... coded a platformer type jumping routine in basic.

    I came up ... just goes up and down in diagonals and frankly looks s ...
    Saboteur Saboteur March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • How to separate a character from a number in a string?Hi I've been writing a kind of logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a$ from INPUT and then draws according to what you give it. Say you w…

    ... kind of logo type program in BASIC that takes a string a ... the next character it reads in the string a$ is a ... get confused or "r100u10". Thanks in advance :)
    ivanb303 ivanb303 May 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • SkoolKit 6.0SkoolKit 6.0 has been released. SkoolKit is a set of command line utilities for disassembling Spectrum software, into assembler-friendly ASM forma…

    ... friendly HTML pages. It's written in Python, and runs wherever ... command (which converts the screenshot in a SCR/SNA/SZX/Z80 ... py --basic[/i] (which lists BASIC loaders and other BASIC programs in a ... an [i]EQU[/i] directive in ASM output)
    [*]Support ...
    SkoolKid SkoolKid May 2017 Announcements
  • The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…

    ... reasons why I fell in love with Speccy Basic is because I ... fairly simple it can be written in the same way as you ... mean.

    The various Basic manuals I've read don ... line like Dunny sent me in the BASIC thread produces the same ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch May 2017 Chit chat
  • ZX ROM in 64 characters a lineDear ZXS users, I am glad the today's release is not only concerning MB-02+ as it is normally the case with me, but it concerns really everyone, sinc…

    ... patches which make ROM print in 64 characters a line. The ... will be for those programming in BASIC since two times more information ... -02+ I placed the patch in the autoexe, so after the ... my BSROM reports itself already in 64 chars a line:))
    Hood Hood June 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • z88dk : FIle Handling in C on the +3e environment under Win 764bitHello my fellow WoSers! I am wondering if someone can help me solve this little pickle of z88dk / Windows using +3e Filesystem. So a little inf…

    ... />
    here is the basic of basic C code

    [ ... Mouse
    MEDIA : 128MB (256mb in 8 Bit) Compact Flash Hard ... and read from this space in BASIC, by saving programs and variables ... and exits safely back to BASIC - sadly no output on the ...
    Zetr0 Zetr0 June 2017 Development
  • Hey grandma!HOW TO SUCK EGGS! I always wondered about that saying 'teach your grandmother to suck eggs'! Blow them, yes, but suck? If you've never blown an e…

    ... you're getting into coding in Basic, squared (graph) paper is ... - mainly thanks to quirks in Basic working out what the instructions ... Sprites, klutzy chr graphics in particular, its faster and ... rather than the usual laborious fill in the grid type programs.< ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch June 2017 Chit chat
  • A Neat Redefine Keys RoutinePreviously, I’ve only shared this routine with a couple of people via PM, but I’ve now decided to make it public. I optimized it for size, so it uses…

    ... />
    The routine weighs in at 283 bytes and defines ... /> [code]
    ;Redefine Keys routine
    ;By Ast A. Moore ... /> call 8859 ;inside ROM routine BORDER ($2294)
    call ...
    ;A crude debounce routine to prevent
    ;registering keys ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore October 2017 Development
  • Control De Sprites - simple exampleHi, I have been looking for a routine to use Sprites in basic. I found Control Dr Sprites, which looks really powerful, but the instructions are in S…

    ... been looking for a routine to use Sprites in basic. I found Control ... powerful, but the instructions are in Spanish, the example looks very ... />
    I also tried mega basic, but could not figure out ...
    Rickper1974 Rickper1974 October 2017 Development
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