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  • FOR vs LET (speed)Hi dear friends. A question for you 10 FOR I = 0 TO 10 11 PRINT I 12 NEXT I 10 LET I = 0 20 PRINT I 30 LET I = I+1 40 IF I < 11 THEN GOTO …

    ... target of a GOTO/GOSUB/NEXT statement which must ...
    Jumping forwards will be faster because it can just follow ... it gets to the right line.

    EDIT: ... length of the previous line as well so it ... of the currently edited line changes. Would add 2 ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter October 2021 BASIC
  • FOR vs LET (speed)Hi dear friends. A question for you 10 FOR I = 0 TO 10 11 PRINT I 12 NEXT I 10 LET I = 0 20 PRINT I 30 LET I = I+1 40 IF I < 11 THEN GOTO …

    ... value, step, termination value and line/statement number to jump to ... faster if you put each FOR statement on it's own line ... f

    will be faster than this

    10 ... to find where line 20 is in the first one. The 2nd ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter October 2021 BASIC
  • FOR vs LET (speed)Hi dear friends. A question for you 10 FOR I = 0 TO 10 11 PRINT I 12 NEXT I 10 LET I = 0 20 PRINT I 30 LET I = I+1 40 IF I < 11 THEN GOTO …

    ... the earlier statements in the line to find the next statement ... be faster than poking that value since it knows where the first ... statement is (once it finds where the line is ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter October 2021 BASIC
  • Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…

    ... system (command operators, eg. PRINT, GOSUB, etc. stored as one byte ... the interpreter a bit faster at decoding a line of BASIC for ...
    dmsmith dmsmith March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Strongest aspect of Spectrum BASICWhat would you say is the strongest aspect of Spectrum BASIC compared to other BASICs on other micros at the time. I think it might have been the Fun…

    ... system (command operators, eg. PRINT, GOSUB, etc. stored as one byte ... the interpreter a bit faster at decoding a line of BASIC for ... BASIC certainly wasn't was faster. Cramming everything into 16K may ... because they typically parsed the line on input and stored it ...
    AndyC AndyC March 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... . (That doesn't mean your first adventure that accepts 5000 verbs ... colourful pictures aimed at a first time writer, and drawings that ... , very inspirational. As you said first 15 pages will whet ones ... a huge line in it which mimiced the ON GOSUB command which ...
    dmsmith dmsmith April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Any adventure game frameworks written BASIC ?I remember INPUT published a simple adventure game, with about ten locations. It was all written in BASIC, but it provided a program framework one co…

    ... , very inspirational. As you said first 15 pages will whet ones ... a huge line in it which mimiced the ON GOSUB command which ...
    Timmy Timmy April 2022 Sinclair Basic
  • Carpul Tunnel - Are Sofware Manufacturers Accountable - Yes Microsoft I'm looking at you!!!I use Microsoft office a lot, to be compatible with all others who use it and because for all its faults its best at what it does. However, I have…

    ... ago when I had to first move away from just doing ... />
    For at least the first 5 years of the 1990s ... command line, using Vim text editor etc. Its just so much faster ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk April 2022 Chit chat
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... an inc hl on this line. Too many beers to explain ... INC is a wee bit faster than a 16 bit INC ... a lot should be optimised first obviously.

    I think ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 Development
  • How to disable the "scroll?" message?Hello. I'm a beginner Z80 assembly programmer and I decided to make a ZX Spectrum game to practice my skills and gain some more experience. I curr…

    ... ,0-255)


    ; FIRST value/char is CHANNEL-INFO ... is used as entry notice first value will be skipped so ... the screen (wraps to next line), but I don't think ... screen but will be way faster than the ROM routine if ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter June 2022 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…

    ... /> exx
    jp puts ; faster than jr puts, 1 byte ... af, af'
    ; clear bottom line
    ld hl, SCRBUF_BASEADDR + # ... 5 ; 5 keys per half-line
    jr .nextkey
    ... /> str_error db "ERROR: " ; use first byte of key_tbl_symshift as terminator ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 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…

    ... af'
    ; clear bottom line
    ld hl, SCRBUF_BASEADDR + ... 5 ; 5 keys per half-line
    jr .nextkey
    exx ; faster
    jr print_list_loop
    < ... />
    ; aligned data first
    ALIGN 256
    alignedsectionstart ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 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…

    ... af'
    ; clear bottom line
    ld hl, SCRBUF_BASEADDR + ... 5 ; 5 keys per half-line
    jr .nextkey
    exx ; faster
    jr print_list_loop
    < ... />
    ; aligned data first
    ALIGN 256
    alignedsectionstart ...
    Paradigm Shifter Paradigm Shifter September 2022 Development
  • Help with my first emulatorActually, when I say 'first' that's a bit of a lie - I used to own a mac and had Macspectacle which was dandy. Now, however I have a PC running Windo…

    Actually, when I say 'first' that's a bit of ...
    Jeff Jeff August 2001 Emulators
  • The first spectrum gameThe spectrum was released in 1982,and originally came with the horizons tape so in reality the very first spectrum game had to be thru the wall on th…

    ... so in reality the very first spectrum game had to be ... is what was the very first game for the spectrum to ... i read somewhere that the first comercial game was infact invaders ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr September 2001 Games
  • What was the first thing you did with your spectrum?This is like an addition to Stuarts topic what made you buy your spectrum,,,,ok what i want to know from you lot is when you got your speccy home,or …

    ... ,or unwrapped what was the first thing you did with it ... set it up?
    My first thing i ever did was ... experiance...so what was the first thing you lot did with ...
    Andy Gurr Andy Gurr August 2001 Games
  • line routineWondered if anyone can help me out. I have been programming a 3d graphics library for the spectrum, in Machine code. The line routine that I have i…

    ... Machine code.

    The line routine that I have implemented ... out there have a fast line routine, plese email me.
    rtunes rtunes October 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX PC InterfaceA couple of weeks ago ( or is it months already? ) I told you to built an interface between Speccie and PC through the parallel port. After making so…

    ... since the PC is much faster than Speccie I can read ... with Spectrum and harddisk. The first object is to make the ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2001 Hardware
  • Assembler code from tutorial, problem!I was wondering if anyone could help me decipher this z80 assembler code? ORG 60000 LOAD 60000 EA60 21BCEA LD …

    ... />
    This is only the first section of the code, but ... having trouble
    understanding the line at EA63. Is this loading ...
    Duxbuz Duxbuz August 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IF1 LAN socketsI finally put my hands on a couple IF1's... I have a couple questions about the network sockets, however. First of all, are you supposed to stick "mo…

    ... about the network sockets, however. First of all, are you supposed ... you connect line 1 to line 1 and line 2 to line 2, or ...
    Alessandro Tommasi Alessandro Tommasi March 2001 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The First Game You WonWe all remember what game we first won. And chuffed we were at such an momentus achievement. So come on then, what game was it? Mine was (on the S…

    We all remember what game we first won. And chuffed we were at such an momentus achievement. So come on then, what game was it?

    Mine was (on the Speccy) Pyjamarama. And as soon as I won it, I rushed back and done it all again :)
    GeeKay GeeKay March 2002 Games
  • Speccy Ringtones for your mobile :)Hi guys Im sure i cant be the first person to think of this, but with the aid of a few software packages, I spent this weekend converting some class…

    ... sure i cant be the first person to think of this ... each string on a single line in a separate text file ...
    Anonymous Anonymous March 2002 Games
  • Sharopolis's QuizHere you are folks, My quiz, edutainment at its best. This is the first quiz I've compiled so sorry if its too easy or hard or whatever. Some of the…

    ... best.
    This is the first quiz I've compiled so ... Rand And Poke Next Rand Gosub Rem Run Or Next. What ...
    Sharopolis Sharopolis July 2002 Games
  • Quiz 14(ish)- Giddy up horsey.. whooo! Ok, 10 quick fire questions.. Some cryptic - you`ll have to unravel the clues to get the game name, Some are description of the game. Others are in…

    ... CANNOT alter your answers - your first posting/email will be used ... will not be accepted - the first answer to the question will ... slove a puzzle?
    Claw Line and Cinder Bank are further ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins July 2002 Games
  • Quiz - my first attempt!And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz... 1. All answers give 1 point unless otherwise stated, for a total of 33 points. 2. Give your answers excl…

    And so it is! My first attempt at a quiz...
    < ... .

    15. In the first level of this game, the ... the latter.

    26. First-person Pac-Man clone. See ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu July 2002 Games
  • Realtime Tape Loading, Windows Speccy EmulatorHi folks, I'm very impressed by the amount of Windows Speccy Emulators that have been popping up this year !. What with Spectaculator, ZX SPIN, and…

    ... be first to implement realtime loading of tapes via the line-in ...
    Andrew Barker Andrew Barker August 2002 Emulators
  • ZX Spin 0.3 ReleasedStandard Cut'n'Paste from CSS post again! I can't get to my webpage, so I've uploaded SPIN0.3 to WOS, Alt.Binaries.Comp.Sinclair, and also Daren Pea…

    ... Files should speedload a touch faster) and
    the graphics are ... handling now brought further into line with RamSoft's spec.
    Dunny Dunny September 2002 Emulators
  • ANNOUNCE: vbSpec v1.60The latest, greatest, most wonderful and beautiful release of vbSpec, the free Spectrum emulator for Windows, is available now from:- [url="http:/…

    ... />
    It goes faster -- at *least* 10% faster on most setups.
    Added command line snapshot/tape/rom loading support ...
    Chris Cowley Chris Cowley November 2002 Emulators
  • ZXF issue three is publishedHello everyone, A festive issue three of ZXF is now awaiting your downloading at [url="http://www.zxf.cjb.net."]www.zxf.cjb.net.[/url] The actual P…

    ... should now be a little faster and more reliable than for ... hesitate to drop me a line at mail(at)cwoodcock.co ... 'ZXF letter' in the subject line.

    Enjoy!
    woodcock88 woodcock88 December 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • "La Abad?a del Crimen" - English versionOK, I've started a new thread for this, as the discussion about "La Abad?a" in the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=vie…

    ... 't butt in, in the first place, one of the Spanish ... which appear in the status line, are not quite as simple ... extra bit set in the first and last characters or something ... is. ;)

    Anyway, first things first. I think it's at ...
    Ed Ed February 2003 Games
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