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Who's NEXT?How about having a category just for Spectrum NEXT owners? I got mine on Monday, its the original issue, plain jane and quite enough for me to ge…
Go to it Mike!!!
And the dedicated forum for Next users is also a really good idea as a bunch of us should be getting the V2 machines fairly soon. -
ShortagesWhile there are some more serious shortages in the UK (eg. of fuel due to panic buying), some of the following seem very inconsequential to mention: …
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Retro Game Comparison Blog.So, here's a shameless plug for my blog, which should interest some of you. Then again, it's not biased towards any particular system, so it might no…
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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 …
Yeah, I would expect the FOR-NEXT to be the faster of the two.
With any loop, it’s also faster if it is near the beginning of the program compared to the end.
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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 …
The FOR version caches some info about ... says: "Control variable of a FOR NEXT loop".
I wonder ... is later used as a FOR/NEXT loop construct, does it have ... case, it uses same format for all 1 letter numeric variables ... -
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 …
My understanding was that FOR NEXT was always surprisingly slow compared to LET and GO TO. I've not done the benchmarks as suggested above but I'm standing by my position. :-) -
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 …
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 …
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I think the FOR NEXT loop is slightly quicker - its recommended in this article about writing faster BASIC programs:
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halt ; wait for next vblank
IF TIMING
inc de ; next pixel row data
; are ... carryon:
inc h
; next row
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... /> ENDIF
halt ; wait for next vblank
IF TIMING
inc de ; next pixel row data
; are ... carryon:
inc h
; next row
djnz .loop
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... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... /> djnz .loop1 ;repeat for next 12*2 bytes
...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…
... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... /> djnz .loop1 ;repeat for next 12*2 bytes
...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…
Top row is done now anyway. Rest should be easy I guess, but the beers have kicked in and nested loops in ASM are confusing and hard
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... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... /> djnz .loop1 ;repeat for next 12*2 bytes
...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…
... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... /> djnz .loop1 ;repeat for next 12*2 bytes
...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…
... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... /> djnz .loop1 ;repeat for next 12*2 bytes
...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…
... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... /> djnz .loop1 ;repeat for next 12*2 bytes
...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…
... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... /> djnz .loop1 ;repeat for next 12*2 bytes
...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…
... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... stack
push hl ;next
push hl ; ...
push hl ;next
push hl ; ... /> djnz .loop1 ;repeat for next 12*2 bytes
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