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The BASIC ISRFirst of all, excuse me if my blatant ignorance about this topic makes me write some nonsense :) The thing is that I'm finishing a game in mixed BAS…
... in mixed BASIC and Compiled BASIC (the pure BASIC part is to manage stuff in ... the RAM disk back and forth, the Compiled BASIC part ... I'm working in BASIC and I need to stay in BASIC (for the ... RAM disk stuff) - I know that BASIC has ... -
Bug in CONTINUE?I've found this anomaly in Spectrum Basic, but I don't remember have seen it in lists of ROM bugs: 10 FOR i=1 to 3 20 PRINT i 30 IF i=2 then PRINT a…
I've found this anomaly in Spectrum Basic, but I don't remember ... have seen it in lists of ...
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Boulderdash style game in compilationHello, I remember playing a boulderdash style game that came in a compilation. The game's graphics were rubbish (looked like it was written in BASIC…
... boulderdash style game that came in a compilation.
The game ... (looked like it was written in BASIC) but the gameplay was great ... />
I thought it came in a compilation of 50 games ...Back in the 80'sIn the late 80's I had all these friends who also had a Spectrum and we would gather at someone's house to play games in turns or 2-player games, rea…
In the late 80's I ... s house to play games in turns or 2-player games ... spectrum magazines, try to unprotect basic loaders, type apps and games ... remember my first Pacman written in Basic, for eg. Did any ... All those tapes with simple basic+m.c. routines games and ...Paging MemoryAny idea why this short piece of code doesnt work, just crashes. I am just messing with paging memory in and out (not achived this yet) and reading t…
... am just messing with paging memory in and out (not achived this ... BC, NN Hardware Memory Switch
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line editing in emulatorhi, it's been a very very long time since i messed around in basic on the speccy.. wrote a couple of games back then on the original machine.. and w…
... time since i messed around in basic on the speccy..
wrote ... ? how come there's lines in my listing which i cannot ... get a low pitched beep in return..
i had ...It's a trap!So I got a CPLD (not the eventual one I want to use for the ethernet project - rather, one I actually have here and now, an XC9536 in a PLCC44). And…
... interpreting the line of BASIC at CH_ADD. As a ... stuff that's normally illegal in BASIC into a program.
... the Spectrum ROM's memory map as a jump ... I can find a location in memory which no one *ever* ...
would result in the code in the real ROM entry ...ANNOUNCE: BASin r14 is up. New SCREEN$ paintbox included.Hi all, Well, I can't sit on this any longer - so I've released it. Let's all get a good testing session going, eh? You can get the new BASin [url=…
... tool which tells you where in memory the current line is stored ... BASin, either directly into memory or translated into BASIC. It can import ... , and the original line remains in BASIC memory. This may break other stuff ...Help with maze in Sorcerer's Mountain.:-? Does anybody out there know how to get out of the maze in SORCERER'S MOUNTAIN a text adventure (with some pictures) written by Martin Sykes and r…
... get out of the maze in SORCERER'S MOUNTAIN a text ... realeased in for the Spectrum in 1984? The program is written in basic but ...MB02+ software and system developmentsThe following text was (before last modification) first published here: [url]http://www.sintech-shop.com/forum/board.php?boardid=20[/url] As discuss…
... computer with a well designed Basic and with a tape input ... disk content is fully implemented in basic and there is no need ... software as a snapshot into free MB02+ RAM and to switch ... be formatted without destroying drives in the neighborhood.
5 ...BASIC Keyword ReferenceRealised that the Sinclair Basic section would be a better place for discussion of BASIC keywords, so for reference the old thread is in [thread=2005…
... lists the keywords available in Sinclair BASIC
as ... commands in 48k BASIC. The
keywords are listed in ... the various controls available in BASIC using the keyboard.
in specific colours within strings in a BASIC listing.
...Advice needed please!Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of this question but I'm programming a simple adventure game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple …
Hi, Sorry in advance for the 'Noobness' of ... game in basic and was wondering how to save multiple screens to memory ... can tell i'm not in the same league as everybody ...Worst graphics ever?There's (yet another) thread about the best Spectrum graphics, so here's one about the worst. Of course, if you want to be fair then a "worst" graphi…
... I mean, a 1983 type-in listing can perhaps be forgiven ... a 1984 Quill-ed, where memory was very limited. But a ... graphics, but considering it's in BASIC, then it's perhaps excusable ...Microdrive CATIs there a way in Basic to obtain any more useful info on the contents of a Microdrive? File size, head info for example? Also, is it possible in ge…
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Also, is it possible in get a CAT of a ... ? Or read it out of memory somewhere?
Cheers ...Basin feature requestsI know dunny does not ask for those requests, and he is mainly coding basin for himself, I still want to list my requests here, in case if he's bored…
... to list my requests here, in case if he's bored ... can look for them up in the future for my projects ... saves memory. Making tapes needs extra work (save/load functions in basic). Basin ... , own icon.
5. Memory Manager
As requested before ...Fastest way to decide which pixel to paint in order to draw a straight line(after I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided to ask this in here) in fact, I want to accelerate a car towards a direct…
... I saw "Bresenhams circle algorithm" in development forum, I decided to ... ask this in here)
in fact, I want ... pixel. since target changes position in every iteration, so a new ... fastest method to do this in basic?BASin r14c - maintenance releaseAfter the recent discussions, BASin has been released as version 14c. It's only a maintenance release, and some of the really big new features are un…
... =2]BASin thread[/url] in the Sinclair BASIC forum.
... of your current mouse position in screen memory to the paintbox's ... to the binary number. (Nonsense in BASIC)
Fixed - A small ... user, which are parsed for BASIC functions, now accept the $ ...Developers developers developers developers developers!OK, I think it's at a stage where someone else can also have a go at doing things with the Spectranet. If you've not been following the hardware foru…
... is. If you're in this situation...well, the ... is programmable from the Spectrum in software) and 128K of ... ve already hinted at this in the Hardware forum, but ... in there. I'm going to loan out (on a free ... to support socket programming in BASIC but it won't ...About Chess games & BASICIs it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?
Is it possible to write a chess program in BASIC? Does it exist in the archive?8-channels music in games/demosHello there. Currently we are working on scrumbling out music engine from ZX-7 editor (8 channels from BEEPER) and using it in your own games or dem…
... Mister_Beep-A_piece_of_disaster.mp3[/url] easily in own programs and for now ... compiler/player. He wrote in some article on the beginning ... fitting music and its procedure in RAM.
For now ... and it works without it, in BASIC, without problems.
Also ...Girlfriend's computerI'm on my girlfriends computer atm -- one which she has asked me to sort out. It is a Vista computer which has reportedly slowed down since she fir…
... and a load of buttons in the system tray that no ... out in the task manager I watched the amount of free memory grow ... to begin swapping it's memory?
She has asked ... , each a meagre 32 gigs in size, labelled ACER and DATA ...Help! An IP problemMy mate is a member of a well known file sharing site whose name I won't say in case they randomly google for mentions of their name and match this p…
... means the same number, as in basic algebra. Any alterations I've ... COLOR][I].
Feel free to change your password to ... many different IP addresses in your account in the future, we reserve ... know, please change your password in the premium zone using the ...DATA BIN - How to read the contentOkay I hit a snag with my Image to ZX Spec program that the plot/draw command eats too much memory. So I want to use DATA BIN to insert converted jp…
... /draw command eats too much memory.
So I want ... insert converted jpeg graphics into memory, however after reading the +3 ... memory to screen (Graph mode will allow me to see it in BASIC ... call print on a memory location range in a for loop). Can ...The ZX App StoreI was watching one of those iphone adverts and got to thinking Hmmmmm what if you could do something like that for the speccy. Ok heres the idea, if…
... little usefull program you wrote in basic then you could upload it ... course this would be entirely free of charge, but anyone could ... chance to show off your basic skillsZ80 'EXX' ConfusionI was working on a little Z80 routine last evening, and, having run out of registers, resorted to sticking one of the values into a memory location a…
... of the values into a memory location and doing a ... my use of a memory location and the stack ... minimal code gives a 'Nonsense in BASIC' error!
Here ... a few bytes to a memory buffer, deliberately using HL ... as both a memory buffer pointer and as ...Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…
... RAM, and then a routine in BASIC (yeah, I'm a masochist ... , do all the modifications in BASIC, fix the BASIC header using POKEs and ... . routine to save the modified BASIC listing.
And ... ve never tried to compile BASIC listings that use VAL extensively ...Mass storage - why backup battery?I wasn't sure to post this under "hardware" or "development", but here goes: There are these mass storage devices for ZX Spectrum, and on many desig…
... some additional commands for use in BASIC, to access files, maybe ... technique called bank switching comes in. Any experienced coder will ... but Flash memory is used for that too, in the form of ... ve seen this mostly mentioned in combination with software called ...
