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  • printing a fixed number of decimal placesDoes anyone have a bit of code that will print a number with a fixed two decimal places? The example below should demonstrate the function, but the S…

    My guess would be that floating point inaccuracies are accumulating from your "STEP 0.1".

    I'd do string manipulation on INT(a*100) instead.

    LET s$=STR$(INT(a*100)): PRINT s$( TO LEN s$-2); "."; s$ (LEN s$-1 TO )
    mjwilson mjwilson September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Location of variableHi everyone When basic makes an array how to you find out the location in the ram of where the data is stored. :) Also, does it store the values in…

    That's a good point - to be careful about variables ... directly on full 5-byte floating point numbers directly in memory from ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • logical operators and the calculator stackI was wondering if there was a utility which would provide the list of commands needed for the ROM calculator to evaluate a logical expression. For e…

    ... your variables would were all floating point values).

    ... ld (CH_ADD),de ;CH_ADD will point to the beginning of this ... and (more important) build the floating point "hidden" values, needed later ... (CH_ADD),hl ;let CH_ADD point again to our ready to ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2010 Development
  • logical operators and the calculator stackI was wondering if there was a utility which would provide the list of commands needed for the ROM calculator to evaluate a logical expression. For e…

    ... as it doesn't need floating point values, or interact with BASIC ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix September 2010 Development
  • Keyboard mapping...Hi Folks, This is probably going to be one of those daft questions but... On the emulators (Spectrum and CPC) why are the keyboards not mapped to t…

    ... . Also you get a weird floating point error from time to time ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2010 Emulators
  • Keyboard mapping...Hi Folks, This is probably going to be one of those daft questions but... On the emulators (Spectrum and CPC) why are the keyboards not mapped to t…

    ... . Also you get a weird floating point error from time to time ...
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause September 2010 Emulators
  • 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…

    ... because Sinclair BASIC is comparing floating point numbers when you use variables ...
    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…

    ... aren't bytes, those are floating point numbers which are at least ...
    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…

    ... aren't bytes, those are floating point numbers[/QUOTE]

    Actually ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas October 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • ForthTrying to search for FORTH programs and FORTH articles within the forum is proving to be a complete nightmare!! If I search for FORTH in Infoseek I …

    ... computer.

    I need floating-point maths as I'm trying ... ). The extra libraries (graphics, sound, floating-point, trig functions, Logo and assembler ...
    Jimmy Jimmy October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ForthTrying to search for FORTH programs and FORTH articles within the forum is proving to be a complete nightmare!! If I search for FORTH in Infoseek I …

    ... address the topic of "No floating point arithmetic"...
    jp jp October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ForthTrying to search for FORTH programs and FORTH articles within the forum is proving to be a complete nightmare!! If I search for FORTH in Infoseek I …

    [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008967"]White Lightning[/URL] was based around Forth, though I never got very far with it. I don't think it did floating-point stuff though.
    joefish joefish October 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…

    ... /> [/code]

    64 BIT floating point audio pitch scaling routine based ...
    ASM ASM October 2010 Development
  • Oscilloscope Speccy ProgramHi all, I remember very well in the old days when my Speccy was my single computer (around 1992) that I have had an oscilloscope software. This uses…

    ... the window as a reference point.

    The Spectrum is ... sampling rates as 32 BIT floating point multiplication is required.

    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…

    ... float-overflow floating point overflow (default on)
    float-denorm floating point denormal (default ... off)
    float-underflow floating point underflow (default ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Announcements
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... noticeable in the editor, the floating point, and the character printing routines ...
    chev chev December 2010 Hardware
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... software that uses the ROM floating point routines would be to implement ...
    chev chev December 2010 Hardware
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... software that uses the ROM floating point routines would be to implement ...
    Rebelstar Rebelstar December 2010 Hardware
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... the ROM's floating point routines. In the Spectrum ROM, floating point routines are ... the program counter (PC) point to 0x0028 (as in the ... program that uses the ROM floating point routines would get a speed ... not a great deal of point in doing it ... unless ...
    chev chev December 2010 Hardware
  • Funny clip with some Spectrum gamesSeems like one of the video clips mentioned by Mr BEEP (in the Spectrum in the movies/tv topic) has found its way to YouTube: [youtube]TtnZXjsc1zs[/…

    [QUOTE=Pilsener;500734]Quite funny that he pulled out an abacus instead of using the C64 for his calculations.[/QUOTE]

    It's more reliable...

    "Look ma, no floating point errors!"
    ZnorXman ZnorXman December 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • yeah - unix for zx spectrumI started a new hobby project. An operating system for ZX Spectrum. A unix clone. Talked to my friend about it and he asked me what if after I'm done…

    ... and 32 bit arithmetics and floating point),

    the integer stuff ... is an asm 32-bit floating point implementation in z88dk now but ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Development
  • Is converting Microdrive formats possible???Hi. First post. I'm a long-time Speccy owner, was lost, but found my way home! :D I have a Disciple as well... Now to my question, but first the …

    ... either as there was no floating-point available. In comparison, the Laser ...
    omelette omelette January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASin Problems etc.Hi Folks, Paul has asked me to open this thread to document any outstanding issues that we find within BASin. No guarantees that Paul can/will fix …

    ... files generates an Invalid [B]floating point operation error[/B]
    [*]If ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman January 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Need in beta-taster`s helpHello to all. I have developed hard-soft emulator of ZX Spectrum 48, but there are problems in work. My topics is: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.or…

    ... 16-bit integers instead of floating point.

    PRINT -255
    point are wrong.

    You ...
    Jimmy Jimmy February 2011 Emulators
  • Converting a decimal number to binary...Hi Folks, Been thinking about ways to convert a decimal number to 8 bit binary and came up with the following: [CODE]100 REM ----------------------…

    ... /> ; Decimal to floating point
    ; -------------------------
    ; This routine finds the floating point number represented ...
    mcleod_ideafix mcleod_ideafix February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Recent talk of developing new SpectrumsHi all, I can see from a few threads on here that some Wossers like Vasil and Aien 8 are interested in developing more powerful Spectrums or improvi…

    ... functions (trigonometric one COS, and floating point ones as well I think ...
    wilsonsamm wilsonsamm February 2011 Hardware
  • Saving space...Hi Folks, Looking for ways to save some memory in a program I am writing. In a number of places I have the following code: [CODE]xxxx PAUSE 1: …

    ... is 5 bytes for the floating point internal storage plus 1 byte ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Saving space...Hi Folks, Looking for ways to save some memory in a program I am writing. In a number of places I have the following code: [CODE]xxxx PAUSE 1: …

    [QUOTE=Paddy Coleman;513370]Ouch so every literal number in the code is 5 bytes for the floating point internal storage plus 1 byte for each digit displayed?
    [/QUOTE]

    Yep, plus one more byte also ;)
    Woody Woody February 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…

    ... as all the maths remains floating point with it. On the other ...
    Matt_B Matt_B February 2011 Development
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