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z88dk sp1lib with fzxThe numbers dont seem to display properly? fzx by itself works [quote] // for targets supporting fzx // zcc +zx -vn -startup=31 -O3 -clib…
... preserve A-Z for a font,
Do i look up ... to have "make" and some basic unix utilities to build the ... -
How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…
... in ROM and used by Basic.
We can assume ... that 99% of Basic games and some assebler games ... code. And they can have font stored anywhere.
A ... try visually to find the font.
Some emulators allow that ... -
How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…
Nippy = fast . Basic functions are not fast. If ... all the characters from a font ( above piccy for Knightlore does ... . If you are dependent on basic functions what happens if the ... -
How to automatically find the character set in a gameThis is all completely new to me, so please be patient. I've done some reading up on how character sets are handled by the Spectrum. I understand tha…
... uses a fancy variable width font or something like 6x8 then ... reasons really. Besides being slow, BASIC relies on stuff like IM1 ... -
Speeding up PRINT code in ROMHi Folks, I seem to recall that someone stated the PRINT command is rather slow because it has to handle screen and printer printing - is this cor…
From BASIC or machine code? You could ... , optimised to use their own font, and not waste time checking ... -
how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic?how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic? i know there r only supposed to be 21 but is there a way of getting more in basic? i know its doable…
Redefine the font.
For instance, you ... an UDG, then change the font, print characters corresponding to the ... want, then change back the font:
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30 ... can search WoS archive for BASIC games I created in the ... -
how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic?how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic? i know there r only supposed to be 21 but is there a way of getting more in basic? i know its doable…
... the highest address that the BASIC system can use. It needs ... as using an alternative font in Spectrum BASIC. It can be frustrating ... numbers right especially when the font changes and you can't ... /50721/new-game-wordblaster , a BASIC game I wrote that uses ... -
how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic?how do i get more udgs on the spectrum in basic? i know there r only supposed to be 21 but is there a way of getting more in basic? i know its doable…
... as using an alternative font in Spectrum BASIC. It can be frustrating ... numbers right especially when the font changes and you can't ... -
Tatung Einstein FontSome more ripping... [img]http://www.drumfu.com/TatungEinsteinFont.png[/img] Can be downloaded [url="http://www.drumfu.com/TatungEinsteinFont.z…
... 's a pic of the font in that Manic Miner 'Final ... Barrier' topic of this font in use) , I can only ... said that the BBC Micro font in Mode7 (teletext mode) also ... viewing in Basic.
Its not actually a bad font at ... -
Tatung Einstein FontSome more ripping... [img]http://www.drumfu.com/TatungEinsteinFont.png[/img] Can be downloaded [url="http://www.drumfu.com/TatungEinsteinFont.z…
... here: http://mdfs.net/Apps/Font/img/SysFonts/
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BASIC' project that i'm working ... and use them directly from BASIC with the help of some ... new BASIC commands.
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Speccy in IndiaAlways was wondering was zx spetrum whidespread there since 1982 to 1992 and untill nowadays ? India is a multi-million country and there clearly wer…
I've seen evidence of a zx Spectrum in India.
One of the "unofficial" cable TV resellers was using one to hand type out a service announcement. In Sinclair BASIC with the distinctive font and cursor. This was around 1993. -
How do I convert a .z80 snapshot to a tape file?I've been fiddling with this for a while but can't get it to work reliably. I use Marvin to write short BASIC and assembly programs that uses .z80 in…
... execute the SAVE command in BASIC, then choose Save As from ... few lines of code in BASIC dedicated to just that. The ... SAVE "Loader" LINE 10: SAVE "font" CODE 50000,768[/code]
When I was reviving the BASIC version of [i]Yankee[/i ... -
Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…
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Why can't you make a BASIC program as big as you want?Let me rephrase that. Is it possible using BASIC to write a program that can be multi part? In other words one that can LOAD lets say a story, in se…
Hi Mike. There you have another open source game
http://zonadepruebas.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=8206&p=77969#p77967
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Proportional-width fontsFor reasons that are still not quite clear to me (because I’ve always loved typography and design,) I never bothered to write a proportional-font rou…
... found in basic. And then there's the windows font editor and ... -
Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…
... compression, and doing it in BASIC -- compression costs time and adds ... about 25K to use for BASIC programs (but I never tried ... if you want a fancy font to show your texts (there ... -
How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
... one plane is trivial in BASIC, it just requires more UDGs ... redefine the character set - the font - but that's a more ... -
Are there any games/apps developed in Pascal or others?After talking to a friend of mine about a Hi-Soft Pascal I now wonder whether there are Speccy software pieces made [i]NOT [/i]in Basic, C, nor edito…
... the spectrum community are very basic and cannot create libraries so ... , tritone music, beeper effects, proportional font printing and so on. In ... -
How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…
... moves them around. Your BASIC code is free to do ... to do this in Sinclair BASIC at all. Load a ... higher than anything that Sinclair BASIC can do, that's ... features like sprites (which Sinclair BASIC doesn't even have) ... they're part of the font. I can show you ... -
printing to the screen using pokei remember there being a way to print to the screen using pokes, which would allow you to print a character anywhere in the 175x255 matrix. can anyon…
... ) is at z88dk/libsrc/_DEVELOPMENT/font/fzx - and if you don ... different language (C instead of BASIC) - it is a great oportunity ... * probably write a routine in BASIC that would do it, but ... a strong point of Sinclair Basic, it would be painfully slow ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... a text adventure project in Basic. However, the files provided ... tape (together with any FZX font of your choice) and ... br /> pasmo --tap --name Sinclair font.asm Font.TAP
pasmo --tap ... /> and loader.bas is the basic code provided in the first ... -
FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…
... loading the driver and the font first is useless (and slower ... />
[code]cat loader.tap Font.TAP FZXdriver.TAP > truc ... use it with Boriel ZX Basic, if it's possible. Otherwise ... -
Good Beginners Basic BookMy 10 year old son would like to learn basic programming. Can anyone suggest a good book or books that would help? There are a lot in the archive a…
... a window, let alone the font, color, size, format, and other ... case with a limited ZX Basic, yet the aforementioned [i]BasinC ... .net/Program/Editor.aspx"]small basic[/url] and find its syntax ... -
How much can you get into 48k?Todays experiment was to see how long, how much text, a PRINT statement will hold. I filled it up with * and counted them and got 689 chrs. Almost 22…
... per line the new font will take memory space ... using a small bold Windows font and combining text and ... want to use in your basic program, because I think ... . You have the actual Basic program taking up so many ... you 10 lines of BASIC program for each location.< ... -
SpecBAS really needs a manual!That Word doc that I converted to an RTF for you Dunny and ASH-II, is still somewhat sparse. I spent bloody hours PLOT/DRAWing a landscape to steer m…
... (and like AT, uses a font-sized grid to do its ... many characters (of the current font - they can also be any ... Spectrum - although 95% of Speccy BASIC code will work, you have ... -
What tooling to use to start zx spectrum game programming?Hi, I owned a zx spectrum when I was young and would like to get back into game programming on the zx spectrum. As time has passed I have ran away…
... Windows tool that has the font, graphics, map and sprite position ... simple scripting language inspired by BASIC but if you don't ... -
How to write a simple C+asm horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial, z88dk)[b]How to write a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b] [b]Note:[/b] This tutorial has multiple parts... I am still writing but this first pa…
... the 8 bytes of the font into the screen.
basic version now.
Before ... (y,3)... Remember the spectrum basic has its Y coordinate first ... . Remember this line in the BASIC version? We literally copied it ... -
How to write a simple C+asm horizontal scrolling game (Tutorial, z88dk)[b]How to write a simple C/asm horizontal scrolling game[/b] [b]Note:[/b] This tutorial has multiple parts... I am still writing but this first pa…
... was not aware off the basic lines i realy would have ... me slow in C. Basic is so ... basic and direct.[/quote]
font, and without it, screen$ would ...
