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Did you know that OBD II Code Readers can be bought new very cheaply?I got mine before Covid struck and the cheapest one was about £10 .Most cars built after about 1997 have an OBD II port hidden away usually under th…
... fault is . They will break if you unplug them while the ... cheaper Code Readers are very basic and more specialist ones for ... got 3!
Even if you do not do the ... . And if a fault is easy to fix you can then always ... -
Fighting Warrior's protection systemThis is one of those bizarre cases where cracking the loading system is orders of magnitude more fun than playing the game. (Indeed, discovering I wa…
... post an entire annotated disassembly if anyone's interested, but ... The code block after the BASIC overwrites all the system variables ... to point to the BASIC calculator's workspace which ... standard CALL 0556 headerless loader, then executes : "10 STOP: REM ... -
What Good Serious Successful Software Was Written Exclusively in 128K BASIC?I realize now that 128K BASIC has its serious enthusiasts . But I know very little about this type of BASIC . What good titles were written exclusi…
I realize now that 128K BASIC has its serious enthusiasts . ... little about this type of BASIC . What good titles were ... written exclusively in 128K BASIC without any machine Code ? ... software written using 128K BASIC .I wonder if this question was asked ... -
BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum - possible?I have never used a Cambridge Z88 - but I understand it was Z80 based and had a functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the…
... functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the ... and teletext, but correct me if wrong?), and designed for the ... Z88 screen size. I wonder if it could be made to ... of modification? Does anyone know if this has ever been attempted ... -
Plastic "aluminium" Pi 4 Cases. ( If it bends like plastic ......)Light ,bendy and "mouldy" Chinese Pi 4 cases!! I saw one of these plastic PI 4 cases on Ebay . It looked plastic to me ( the moulding marks) . I q…
... not buy it.
Then I saw a similar Pi4 ... the giveaway plastic MOULDING marks .If I want to get a ... level of customer service.But if it had been correctly described ... -
is a arduino uno / nano fast enough to talk to a specie ?my current project is to load games onto the specie via SD card / Arduino uno / nano although i suspect that the micro controller will not be able to…
... the correct first byte and then 20 or so random ones ... on the buffer chip but then it only receives one random ... board. i am only using basic to read the IN on ... in place of the rom if i get any success at ... -
How to return to basic properly from ASMI am messing around with a fast stack copying routine. But I am getting "A: Invalid argument" error when I later return to basic. I know you h…
... when I later return to basic.
I know you ... IY register before returning to basic but my code at the ... not use it.
If I save all registers on ... as IY when returning to basic. I think one of the ... -
Standard Development LibrariesSo after some time away I decided to re-register after a Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/SpectrumNez/status/1578158361236963328) led me to a Visu…
... of this then.
The question is if anyone has ... me trying to replicate. If not then seems it would be ... I don't know if anyone is a particular ... similar things before but if there is anything more ... particular aspects of say BASIC ROM or using the ... -
Emulators for .TAP & .TZX FilesCan someone help. I have recently started playing Spectrum games on my PC but I am having severe difficulty loading *.TAP & *TZX files. It comes up…
Try to make a .TAP file yourself. Save a simple BASIC-program and re-load it.
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Emulators for beginnersAs a beginner to this I might be being a bit stupid but do you need the old tape game to play it still or can you download them off the web and play …
... use them on an emulator if you like.
Then start the emulator, and load ... . If you select a tape file then you must then load ... , though if you do have a problem then just post ... 't worry about asking basic questions, we were all ... -
PSI ChessHi, Anybody out there remember the game "PSI Chess" by The Edge? Well, there seems to be no problem finding a snapshot ot tape image for this game …
... added a few bits of basic stuff on algebraic notation in ... the mode with "I" (if necessary) and then:
Hold "M ... save. Then press break for 5 seconds until you get Basic. Now ... into the program. If the program has not overwritten BASIC, or protected ... -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... programming full-stop - if you can't understand BASIC all that well ... basic, (poke 32767,63 : poke 32768,100 : poke 32769,201)
Then ... .
Poke that in then USR 32767 again.
This ... an instruction. It then reads more memory if it needs to ( ... -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... 256 onwards. If it was used on its own then the first ... the interger of the result then take away 256*your interger ... BC to confirm this from BASIC.
Look at my ... 't particularaly good at taking BASIC and making optimised machine code ... -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... Splitting 16384: As cyborg explained, "If you want to work out ... interger of the result then take away 256*your ... the number.
If u r using an assembler ... a sample:
BASIC:
LET A = 2
If required, we could have ... -
How do i learn to programAll the years i had a computer the only one i could program was the Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and when using extended basic with its so simple sprite…
... Splitting 16384: As cyborg explained, "If you want to work out ... interger of the result then take away 256*your ... the number.
If u r using an assembler ... a sample:
BASIC:
LET A = 2
If required, we could have ... -
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... start typing in your own basic programs - I still miss ... couple of games in sam basic, which was really powerful, ... an ST and then an Amiga 600 then 1200 then an accerlator ... are fun using it - if that makes sense. I liked ... , i just use it, if it breaks down, i'll ... -
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... the sake of argumentation then? In the light that ... been argumenting so fiercly if it wasn't just ... interested in playing other persons basic games. I was thinking ... . Playing other persons crappy basic games isn't fun. ... heirloom.
If I'm at a garage ... -
Your favourite machine apart from The SpectrumI've asked this on a couple of other sites, so now it's time to ask it here: what is your favourite machine, forgetting about the Speccy? For me, it'…
... have been sold with a basic front end that was ... ve been argumenting so fiercly if it wasn't just ... creatively"
Well if people wanted to do something ... couldn't do standing alone then they'd buy the ... to any mass philosophies. If I did I'd certainly ... -
Spectrum +3 tape to discHi I have ZX Spectrum +3 and about 20 blank disks, I need to know if there is a way to copy games from tape to disk i.e a basic program I could write.
BASIC will only work on the 10% of the retail stuff that isn't copy protected and will be utterly useless for multiload games.
If you don't know how to hack then get someone else who does to do it. -
blew up my 128i did it - damn. i accidentally reverted the polarity of the power power supply, so ended up with a blown 5v stabilizer, which i replaced, but there …
If it's just the modulator, ... to beep to see if it's alive! If you can get ... to the 48k basic and issue a beep command), then you know ... -
ZX48k terminal...Hello everybody, I thought someone might help me. I connect my good old ZX48k to my PC via serial (IF1) link, and I was trying to write a little term…
... out why but if you feel like it the BASIC scan code ... for an instant response but then frankly your program is in ... -
PAW questionThis may not be the right place but anyways there it goes: I've been trying to figure out how to import graphic files in .SCR format in the PAW parse…
... LD DE,2048*screensize +256; if you want to use 1 ... screens screensize is 1, if you want 2/3 ... br /> This is a very basic rountine that is inflexable and ... choose the size.
If you're wondering why you ... basic, SAVE "SCREEN" CODE 16384,6912, load the SCR then ... -
Best way to codeHi, I've been using Zeus Assembler to code MC programs so far. Nothing fancy just the odd scroll left or animation stuff. Wot I'd like to know is, …
... intrupt to read the keyboard. If you use your own intrupt ... program is doing normal BASIC (or MC if started). It was just ... , Y simoultanesly. If not, then normal program went on. If so, then the following ... in the ISR.
If you want a simple IM2 ... -
WANTED: tape replacement for +2?Any tape replacement possible for a +2? My +2 works wonderfully but the incorporated datacorder is simply worn out and won't load ANYTHING. Dirty sig…
... to BIN 11100111.
If output is then 191,255,191,255 ... .7 V.
The BASIC program used above is relatively ... smaller then result will be always 255, if delay is longer then result ... 254 is typed at a BASIC prompt, the speaker is called ... -
Anyone Recognizes This Loader?Hi there! I live in Argentina. I have a -dead by now- CZ Spectrum (a ZX clone made by an argentinian company, Czerweny, which used to make... Excell…
... and saved the screen then a complete memory dump ... where possible and then save
a BASIC loader, followed by ... to the decompressor routine (if you knew where to ... put it and if there was spare space) ... main spectrum memory and then continue loading the rest ... -
Loading with CODEHi all! I last played speccy games back in '91. that's when it died IMHO. It's good to see people are keeping the dream alive with emulators and util…
... "" CODE - as simple as that. If you're unfamiliar with a ... keyboard, and how it tokenises BASIC keywords, however, you should first ... )
I (CODE)
Then press ENTER and either start ... ironically very, very much a BASIC program!
