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New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…
... back to it at some point (and any prospect of it ... is an unsexy difficult one (floating point maths), so I'm not ... -
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Here's a first attempt at trying idea (c). Namely, prices are generated randomly on arrival at a planet, and the goods bought have to be chosen carefully.
Prices are now stored in ... -
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... "item.quantity" would work, using floating point INPUT to a numeric variable ... -
What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
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What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... of the huge overhead of floating point when you don't actually ... was useful too - the earlier point about programmers checking their code ... -
What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... had it's own unique point.[/quote]
For a ... computers didn't even have floating-point BASICs, and those that did ... to some machines not having floating point... actually, only earlier BASICs didn ... -
Leave AY Chip alone guysWould you have a go at a child with down syndrome? No, thought not. AY has Asberge Syndrome, it's a form of Autism - think of that please before y…
... are differences too, but the point is, VB is probably worse ... BASICs default to single-precision floating point.
"However, Visual ... essentially a 64-bit fixed-point number with 15 digits ... the right of the decimal point. This can be accurately used ... -
Leave AY Chip alone guysWould you have a go at a child with down syndrome? No, thought not. AY has Asberge Syndrome, it's a form of Autism - think of that please before y…
... are differences too, but the point is, VB is probably worse ... BASICs default to single-precision floating point.
"However, Visual ... essentially a 64-bit fixed-point number with 15 digits ... the right of the decimal point. This can be accurately used ... -
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... soon).
The last point, Z80 DMA is natural companion of ... Z80 CPU. In fact, not only ... Spectrum can gain benefit of Z80 DMA, also ZX 81, CPC ... -
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... The last point, Z80 DMA is natural companion of Z80 CPU. In ... Spectrum can gain benefit of Z80 DMA, also ZX 81 ... ]
Yes z80 dma makes for faster data ... benefit to having such a z80 dma device. For example ... double density because the z80 on its own is ... -
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... /> It appears to be a floating point bug in the standard ZX ... -
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... ]It appears to be a floating point bug in the standard ZX ... -
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... 48K ROM, to fix the floating point issue so we can use ... had crept in at some point. The expression [b]l-s ... -
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... in order to avoid the floating point issue as previously discussed. -
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[QUOTE=Digital Prawn;220559]I will investage why this is happening, maybe there is a funny character in the "AI move string" again?[/QUOTE]
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... correct. Maybe it's another floating point bug?[/QUOTE]
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But , yes some other floating point issue could well be the ... -
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... the contents of the starting point of the valid move. Actually ... " is always true at this point, but clearly it must not ... version did not show any floating point errors.
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Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... /> This is a really good point. I left the basic source ... calculates "a^2" as two floating point series calculations (EXP and LN ... -
Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... ]This is a really good point. I left the basic source ... calculates "a^2" as two floating point series calculations (EXP and LN ... -
Channel redirectionHi! I need help regarding the following problem. I want a BASIC decoder running on Spectrum, written in assembler. I found the great *LIST routine […
... of channel stuff, but the (floating point) number printing routine in ROM ... -
Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…
... the 5 bytes of the floating point representation of 23769 ! Indeed, 23769 ... -
Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…
Hey, you don't think we're going to give up that easily do you? :-)
Haven't had chance to try this yet, but inspired by [url=http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html]Brian Raiter's even more evil ELF hacks[/url], I wonder ... -
basito: CPC Basic interpreterHello. I'm writing a Basic Interpreter compatible with the Amstrad CPC series Locomotive Basic. It's still in a very early development stage, but al…
... control and basic's basics, floating point routines will be required. I ... know of any open source floating point package usable. -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... version, because of introducing a floating point number into the string. However ... -
New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…
... version, because of introducing a floating point number into the string. However ... -
Porting more adv games to the ZX SpectrumIf anyone is up to the task, I'd love to see a port of some of my other games on the ZX Spectrum. I myself need to find a manual for Sinclair BASIC b…
... BASIC program may depend on floating point math and you'll need ... -
A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …
... inferred, the default type Float (Floating Point) is used.
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A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …
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... for putting this together! The floating-point bits in particular are a ...ELITE: 7.30pm tonight on FiveBoth Braben and Bell were interviewed, but not at the same time.
... can practically use double precision floating point numbers in a game. It ...
