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  • Message to all programmersHello folks, more and more programmers in the recent time are using special loading routines for their Homebrew-Software. This makes their game runn…

    ... non-commercial activitiy, even proofed by the financial goverment. So downloading ... and I agree to improve if people feel hurt because of ... make my work easier if we would have Basic loaders, not only ...
    Hood Hood August 2010 Development
  • Z80 Machine Code Question...Hi Folks, I know not strictly a BASIC question but I have started to learn Z80 machine code - 25 years too late! :smile: I have been reading a book…

    ... of lessons, most lessons are followed by an example where you single ... you can directly enter instructions if you want. Some examples change ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • US minister planning to burn Koran in the USWhat an eejit that Koran burning minister is in the states. I'm not the greatest fan of organised religion myself, but even I can see how offensive …

    ... that Danish magazine which was followed by many threats and incidences. I ... so on. Very funny, and if it is offenseive, then why ... were helping J. K. Rolling, by (a) buying the books to ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2010 Chit chat
  • Help and Advice with DivIDE PlusHi Guys, Really struggling to get any reliable actiivty with my DivIDE Plus and am looking for some pointers. I am trying to get it to work with on…

    ... Q1) Using a pencil eraser followed by alcohol to clean contacts seems ... S6's edge connector by removing PCB from case ... 10.87v (voltage fluctuates by 0.1v so will avoid ... to drift upwards (maybe by 0.5v over a ... component?

    Q8 ) If Yes to Q7, should I ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz September 2010 Hardware
  • Beepola v1.01A new version of Beepoa, v1.01, is now available for download from:- [URL]http://freestuff.grok.co.uk/beepola/Beepola_v1.01.00.zip[/URL] (650KiB) …

    ... Music Studio engines and determined by the pattern tempo setting (lower ... note played per row (eg. if channel 1 is C-1 ... second blast of C-1, followed by a 0.02 second blast ...
    ccowley ccowley October 2010 Announcements
  • Worst gaming decisions ever?In a different thread, I mention what, to me, is probably the single greatest mistake in the history of computer/console games design ever. Here are …

    ... . Here are some more, followed by what I consider the worst ... This games was supposed (by fans) to be the spiritual ... have been much more, if it'd had the depth ... utterly wonderful to play. If you can't separate Bioshock ... to ful health even if you've nearly died ...
    The Starglider The Starglider October 2010 Chit chat
  • Alien8 will not run on Divide?I can't seem to get Alien8 running on my 128+ with Divide. I have the original tape and have loaded into an emulator to create a snapshot, (.z80) an…

    ... switch the banks by accident. This is DEADLY if the stack pointer ... will not happen if you select 48K BASIC as this disable bank ... uses USR0 Mode by default, which is like 48K BASIC, but enables ...
    LCD LCD October 2010 Hardware
  • Microdrive problem?I recently aquired a micro-drive, Interface 1 and some brand new cartridges + the original manual, so i thought i'd rig it all up and see what it …

    ... in.

    what happens if you reboot the spectrum then ... /> PRINT p [enter]

    followed by

    RUN [enter]
    guesser guesser October 2010 Hardware
  • A display of Speccy AwesomenessIf you were to make a 5 minute video to show how awesome games could look on the Spectrum, what would you include? You have 30 seconds for each clip,…

    ... choice of the isometrics, closely followed by WTSS
    [B]Chase HQ ... was happening on screen so if I was doing a vid ...
    Morkin Morkin October 2010 Games
  • A display of Speccy AwesomenessIf you were to make a 5 minute video to show how awesome games could look on the Spectrum, what would you include? You have 30 seconds for each clip,…

    ... choice of the isometrics, closely followed by WTSS
    [B]Chase HQ ... was happening on screen so if I was doing a vid ...
    chop983 chop983 October 2010 Games
  • Transferring games into MicrodriveLast week a big pack of empty microdrive cartridges arrived, and now I'm ready to playing with my little microdrive equipped speccy. One of my aim w…

    ... ]

    Load test24832 first followed by test16384.

    BTW +3 ... 768 BYTES needed to keep BASIC alive...

    So next ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Manipulating attributes...Hi Folks, I have written a routine that allows a blue bar to be scrolled up and down a list to select an item. Each item in the list occupies two l…

    ... : read Color(f): Next f, followed by a DATA statement...

    if nothing else...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil November 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • New tool: ZXBOOT.EXE[B]ASM[/B] is proud to present the first release of ZXBOOT.EXE: [url]http://www.4shared.com/file/NP-FVOSf/zxboot__beta_.html[/url] ZXBOOT is a comma…

    ... occupies the first 6912 followed by the system variables at ... as a copy because if any of those 17 ... looking for repeated regions. If a region can be found ... Here is an example; if the last 256 BYTES of ... counter for those BYTES. If the depacker continued then it ...
    ASM ASM November 2010 Announcements
  • 48k Out of memoryIv just had a 48k Speccy arrive today. The keyboard wasnt working right so I changed that. Now when I tried to load Cyclone it started to load ok fo…

    ... RAM chips require replacing so if you can work out which ... , 0 : PRINT PEEK 32768
    followed by
    POKE 32768, 255 : PRINT ... and 255 for the 2nd. If you don't get 0 ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz November 2010 Hardware
  • ZX BASIC and garbage collection...Hi Folks, I was thinking about using the following approach in a program I am writing: [CODE]DIM d$(100,50) LOAD "NAMES" DATA d$() ... DIM d$(50,25…

    ... to actually read the Sinclair BASIC manual - the follow gem ... direct command. LOAD is first followed by a filename, which is ... />
    On execution, the BASIC searches for the named array ... Number array: or Character array: followed by the name appears and the ...
    jp jp November 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • joysticks?Is this ok [url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Flash-Fire-Joystick-Atari-Commodore-Spectrum-MSX-Etc-/280598083389?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item4154f2f73…

    ... buttons on the stick so if that's what you're ... Cruiser was definitely my fave followed by the competiton pro
    Rebelstar without a cause Rebelstar without a cause December 2010 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Why doesn't my loop work?Can anyone help me understand why my loop doesn't work? Is it to do with how DEC HL affects the flags? [code] ; Read 32k bytes from port 191 as fa…

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP;499310]See [URL]http://www.z80.info/z80time.txt[/URL][/QUOTE]
    That list has quite a few errors, for example there exist no
    RetroTechie RetroTechie December 2010 Development
  • Loading a screen in to memory...Hi Folks, I want to load a SCREEN$ in to memory and save it out to RAM disk without it being displayed on the screen. I am worried about over writi…

    If you do a CLEAR 32767 then there's no need to use CLEAR for a higher address again. Using CLEAR 32767 means that all memory from address 32768 to 65535 is reserved for you and won't be used by either BASIC or the stack.
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan December 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Loading a screen in to memory...Hi Folks, I want to load a SCREEN$ in to memory and save it out to RAM disk without it being displayed on the screen. I am worried about over writi…

    ... =Paul van der Laan;500849]If you do a CLEAR 32767 ... and won't be used by either BASIC or the stack.[/QUOTE ... to loose that memory from BASIC. Basically I want to safely ... non-video RAM back to BASIC for use.

    Paddy
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman December 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • Reliving christmas pasttommorow im thinking of reliving my speccy christmasses and loading up a speccy game on real hardware (the rubber keyed 48k lovely just like my origi…

    ... +2 back in christmas '87. Followed by Street HAwk and Frankie goes ... original tapes but not sure if they'll still work. I ...
    zx1 zx1 December 2010 Games
  • looking for a tap2wav coded in Python, Perl, Ruby or Luasince some months i started this project - [url]http://nitrofurano.altervista.org/experimental/webcampictureson8bitcomputers/index.html[/url] the pr…

    ... high pulse 667 ticks long, followed by a low pulse 735 ticks ... can safely skip this detail if you want.)
    gasman gasman January 2011 Development
  • I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…

    ... , or getting sliced to pieces by those rotating blade walls you ... is still the classic Blades, followed by the Nemean Cestus, you can ... blades that you pick up. By the time you get them ... end by now...

    [spoiler]I can't remember if this ...
    Bermondsey Bob Bermondsey Bob January 2011 Chit chat
  • looking for a tap2wav coded in Python, Perl, Ruby or Luasince some months i started this project - [url]http://nitrofurano.altervista.org/experimental/webcampictureson8bitcomputers/index.html[/url] the pr…

    ... .parse_args(command_line)

    if (not tmp_file_list):
    parser.error ...
    # Add leader:
    if JAMESW_METHOD: # JamesW method
    # ... 2168 T-states at 0x0 followed by 2168 T-states at ...
    SyX SyX January 2011 Development
  • Skooldaze TooDear WoSsers, Thanks to Skoolkid's disassembly I'm attempting to write a new "improved" version called [B]Skooldaze Too[/B]. As part of the improvem…

    ... /> EndIf

    If Word$=Anything on the ObsceneList ...

    If Word$=PupilName then
    If Pupil Present in ...
    EndIf

    If Word$="cheat" then
    Call ... teachers with obscenities added, followed by the name of a ...
    kgmcneil kgmcneil January 2011 Development
  • +2A/+3 compatibility fixes thread!It might be a good idea to keep these fairly common +2A/+3 compatibility fixes (and requests) in a single thread for quick reference ;) Let's start …

    [QUOTE=Alien 8;505545]48 Basic, and they both load fine.[/ ... 'd understood that selecting 48 BASIC would disable access to the ... press CURSOR DOWN three times, followed by ENTER! - just a technical exercise ...
    jp jp January 2011 Games
  • +2A/+3 compatibility fixes thread!It might be a good idea to keep these fairly common +2A/+3 compatibility fixes (and requests) in a single thread for quick reference ;) Let's start …

    ... 'd understood that selecting 48 BASIC would disable access to the ... press CURSOR DOWN three times, followed by ENTER! - just a technical exercise ...
    Alien 8 Alien 8 January 2011 Games
  • Where's it all going?[Rerouted from 'Assembler Intricacies' in Development Forum] [QUOTE=Timmy;506104]I don't think we're in disagreement here. As I've said it's a niche…

    ... possibilities open up. Likewise if you embrace mass storage ... today have an equal, if not lower, boredom threshold. ... and never erases anything. If several sprites overlap, the ... exactly once: background graphic followed by lowest priority sprite... up ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How the spectrum generates the video from ramHi everyon, I know that most people here allready know this but i think i found out how the spectrum acctually dispalys stuff and why the LD x, (HL)…

    ... has to pause the cpu if there is a conflict and ... this is called contention. By having a physically separate chip ... have to buffer a write if the disp device needs to ... ,y coords to some registers followed by an ascii code and the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous January 2011 Hardware
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... would need to be designed by first running a palette editor ... 64 bytes for the palette followed by the 6912 bytes for the ... recreated.

    Oh, and if the maintainer of the ULA ...
    jonathan jonathan February 2011 Emulators
  • More colours II (Was: Most popular new features?)The suggested 4xCLUT multi-colour solution never took off.

    ... 64 bytes for the palette followed by the 6912 bytes for the ... /> [QUOTE=jonathan;510285]Oh, and if the maintainer of the ULA ...
    guesser guesser February 2011 Emulators
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