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  • Can't Get My Simple Code To RunHello again, I'm trying to run the following simple code: [code] org 32768 main ld b, 21 ; x coordinate is …

    ... you CLEARed, But for 64k memory 65535 is a last byte ... to something like 25000, then in Basic CLEAR 24999, LOAD "" CODE (it ...
    Bedazzle Bedazzle October 2017 Development
  • Custom Menus on the ZX Spectrum +3Today, my Friends, i have the pleasure of presenting a program i have written which gives a set of custom menus on the +3. The main features of my p…

    ... as version 0.2
    In the following version (v0.3 ... a sort of "cascading" menu, in order to have more functions ... Toolkit; e.g Free Memory or a Clock in the title bar near ...
    The_Bert The_Bert October 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Custom Menus on the ZX Spectrum +3Today, my Friends, i have the pleasure of presenting a program i have written which gives a set of custom menus on the +3. The main features of my p…

    ... a few things out in the open that i' ... .ext" +[ENTER][/i] ), Trace, Free memory, a Clock display, and possibly ... As much code tucked away in Page 4* or Page 7 ... using a minimum of common memory (say 2-3K perhaps ... and music.

    In any case, I'm almost ...
    The_Bert The_Bert October 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Clever, yes. Useful? Not so sure. Re: LOAD ""CODE gamesI was always curious about how the (few) games that require that you type LOAD ""CODE, rather than the usual LOAD "" worked, but only just now decide…

    ... ;928267"]Yes, LOAD""CODE back in the days definitely served as ... load a header in BASIC and then PEEK the relevant memory locations to ... prevented you from breaking into BASIC or using the MERGE command ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore November 2017 Development
  • Clever, yes. Useful? Not so sure. Re: LOAD ""CODE gamesI was always curious about how the (few) games that require that you type LOAD ""CODE, rather than the usual LOAD "" worked, but only just now decide…

    ... ;928267"]Yes, LOAD""CODE back in the days definitely served as ... load a header in BASIC and then PEEK the relevant memory locations to ... prevented you from breaking into BASIC or using the MERGE command ...
    Timmy Timmy November 2017 Development
  • Help with adding graphicsHi, After like 20 years or so I started playing again with Spectrum stuff, especially programming. I tried to dig into machine code, but apart f…

    ... to code a little game in BASIC. Here it is:
    BASIC (at some point it ... and then returning to BASIC.
    I also ... file in Basin's assembler and assemble it to memory ... before running the game. After that the graphics will show in ...
    sfg sfg December 2017 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... scrolling can also be achieved in BASIC games by resorting to calling ... to copy and move screen memory around. If you understand ... thread [/url] about copying memory from BASIC, you could work something ... arcade games with Spectrum style BASIC.
    If it has ...
    p13z p13z January 2018 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... scrolling can also be achieved in BASIC games by resorting to calling ... to copy and move screen memory around. If you understand ... thread [/url] about copying memory from BASIC, you could work something ... arcade games with Spectrum style BASIC.
    If it has ...
    digital digital January 2018 Development
  • i need a sideways scrolling program written in basicso like ghosts and goblins it scrolls along with the player. i had help with this before in making a tunnel game but this time i need it to be a able…

    ... to store whole screens in ugd strings and putting ... lot of memory. You could use a BASIC array to ... Alternatively, you can use arrays in BASIC to store strings that draw ... sideways you just fill in the blocks or columns ... or DIM an array in BASIC to store a map ...
    joefish joefish January 2018 Development
  • The R-Tape loading Era. An Easter story?R-Tape loading era Nostalgia's a funny thing you know. You might remember what at the time seemed a damn nuisance, only to recall it much later…

    ... Although most computing teachers in the 80s (and indeed ... having done computing studies themselves in many cases.
    ... /> I went to college in 1980 for my 4 year ... we learn to program in Basic. Thats how I ended ... and most of the free ones were after 5 ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch March 2018 Chit chat
  • 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…

    ... not as familiar with memory allocation on Speccy as ... how to do some basic machine code to define ... basic code - and how to form all of that in ... in Basic alone and based on the above reference to 25k of memory ... make some smaller Basic programs in the meantime to ...
    TidusRenegade TidusRenegade April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... the system variables, the screen memory, the UDGs, the calculator ... 30, which is also in memory as part of the ... you a long L$ for memory.

    Also ... it takes memory as you're further in the game ... write a multi-part game in BASIC instead. But if you ...
    Timmy Timmy April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... if this is 48k basic or 128k basic - on the multiple times ... 30k characters is not achievable in Speccy Basic or than BasinC can ... /128K, but in BASIC both machines only have 48K of memory. It also ... when it runs out of memory, and you might just reached ...
    Timmy Timmy April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • ZXBaremulator v3.H(ikoki) BetaHi, Thanks to a Recreated ZX kindly donated by Hikoki, I've added support for it to ZXBaremulator. Now two keyboards can be connected to the PI…

    ... with the way it types in BASIC . It works as a ZX ... Spectrum pretty well . I typed in the joystick routine but had ... Pi less than £30 and free software : so about £65 .00 ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio April 2018 Emulators
  • Opus Discovery not WorkingHello hope you can help, or if this thread goes well that you also find the answers you are looking for... I have an Opus discovery that does not …

    ... screen, I get the nonsense in basic message - very annoying as I ... equ.) instead, [b]but not in the LM317 positions[/b] on ... the PCB. [/quote]
    In that case I will leave ... you wade through it) From memory I got one of the ...
    hedge hedge April 2018 Hardware
  • Will a snapshot (.sna) save my UDG's?If so can anyone recommend a site to put it up at where it can be retrieved or linked to? I spent all bloody day making a pretty crappy tank with mov…

    ... sticks them into the emulation memory?
    I sometimes use the ... UDG editor in BASIN that lets you turn ... DATA statements for POKEing programmatically in BASIC. Though the option to do ...
    joefish joefish May 2018 BASIC
  • 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…

    ... , or embed it in Boriel's Basic and just use compiled ... of handy little routines in the Library in the Wiki for ... loads from specified memory positions and poke those in basic before running the ... routine with a usr call from basic ...
    Gedlion Gedlion September 2018 Development
  • Creating Graphic AdventuresI was interested in creating a graphic text adventure on my pc, drawing the images in zxpaint, then exporting it as a zx spectrum game. What options …

    ... tried using the extern command in paw and i was going ... images thus not having a memory restriction problem. unfortunatley i never ... adventure game written in basic, altered it and used basic to call the ...
    digital digital November 2018 Development
  • Getting an even random numberWhat would be the best, simplest way to do this ? I was thinking of say: A = RND*100 Then a conditional along the lines of: IF A / 2 <> I…

    ... /> 1. Read a value from memory address X (practically a random ... you can implement it similarly in basic. I guess the random function ... just reading a byte from memory.
    arttu arttu November 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …

    ... another comparison (albeit in using a program written in BASIC again) on BEEBEM ... emulator I typed in the same ... Mhz. Either the BBC Basic is very optimised or the ... writing just one byte to memory, but the CPC is working ...
    AndyC AndyC December 2018 Hardware
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... since every single byte counts in BASIC, for memory. In this case, both versions ... BASIC on the Spectrum will still allocate 5 bytes in ... 150 characters. This saves memory and prints the string a ... saves memory since the DATA can be avoided in the BASIC list ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • +3 - beeper sounds but no AY musicHi guys I am repairing a plus 3 revision 2 board that had no sound at all. Using schematics from https://zxnet.co.uk/spectrum/schematics/ I manage…

    ... be a subtle problem with memory or a logic controller, but ... all the +3s own memory tests and the retroleum diag ... ROM memory tests pass with flying colours ... try entering the same code in BASIC. See if that makes a ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore May 2019 Hardware
  • border effectsive been playing around with border effects like 10 border 1 20 border 2 30 pause 1 40 goto 10 ,etc i even wrote one in machine code. …

    Good examples, in BASIC codes :)
    But I would ... .
    My examples are purely in codes, as if not for ... />
    And note that contended memory is used.
    Which is ...
    azesmbog azesmbog May 2019 BASIC
  • Can I record binaries from any emulator with Basic commands, machine code, macros or something?Hello I do not know if this is the right place to put this question Normally with ZXSpin if I want to save a binary file, I'm going to: file ->…

    ... In fact, it's the only format the Spectrum BASIC can ... emulators can collect during a BASIC or machine code.
    ... has like 48K of memory. If you want to ... then just save the whole memory in a "big" 48k file, ... . (I don't know, in some other program.)
    ...
    Timmy Timmy June 2019 Emulators
  • Can I record binaries from any emulator with Basic commands, machine code, macros or something?Hello I do not know if this is the right place to put this question Normally with ZXSpin if I want to save a binary file, I'm going to: file ->…

    ... /> 1) we make the program in Basic or ZXBasic de Boriel with ... need binary files (pieces of memory with bytes)
    3) We ... program that creates the binaries in memory and the binary files with ... program with Boriel's ZX BASIC or in pasmo, etc, without the ...
    maeloterkim maeloterkim June 2019 Emulators
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