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  • Compiling Basic to MCHello, I have a lot of long Basic programs. These are mostly strategy programs, good but slow. I was thinking about how to speed them up without com…

    ... is able to compile Sinclair BASIC "as is", as the language ... bet is Boriel's ZX BASIC (where you have to adjust ... integers and everything goes faster) followed by Hisoft BASIC 1.2 for +3.
    na_th_an na_th_an February 2011 Development
  • Found a great ZX BASIC textbookProgramming Arcade Games for your Spectrum, by Adrian Jones. Found this in a second-hand bookstore over the weekend and if you're anything like me,…

    ... in various bits of BASIC, know your way round ... through the subset of BASIC you need to make ... and so on are followed by ten complete game listings, ... machine code sequences - entered by cunning manipulation of REM ... after you venture beyond BASIC. There's also a ...
    Danforth Danforth February 2009 Sinclair Basic
  • BASIC Listing for loading screens then gameCould someone explain the code required to load a screen image followed by the game file please? I've lost my notes on loading the game (which I thin…

    Could someone explain the code required to load a screen image followed by the game file please? I've lost my notes on loading the game (which I think was CHAIN "") from a BASIC listing..

    Thank you..
    zeropolis79 zeropolis79 March 2011 Development
  • BIN2BAS (load BASIC text into emulator) utilityI've nearly finished testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from a text file in any emulator which has a "load binary" option. I was wo…

    ... testing this. It allows a BASIC program to be loaded from ... ];a BASIC line starts with an integer 1-9999 followed by a space ... [/strike]
    ;a BASIC line with ... 's the first line)
    ;BASIC lines may be inserted/changed ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2013 Sinclair Basic
  • SE Basic IV Buffy v4.1 source (WIP)I've been doing a major refactor on the SE Basic source and I'd appreciate a code review from anyone who has time to look at it. I've almost certainl…

    [code]; --- BASIC LINE AND COMMAND INTERPRETATION ... THE 'MAIN PARSER' OF THE BASIC INTERPRETER
    org 0x1b17
    followed by class-0

    ; ... if so
    cp ':' ; colon?
    jr nz, expt_1num ; jump ...
    chev chev October 2013 Development
  • ZX-Modules app reportZX-Modules app report If You are interested, I want to report about the state and progress about my ZX-Modules programs. I would like to report at l…

    ... -commands in one line, separated by colon ( : )

    Well, not enough ... labels just at the beginning, followed by the important column data, comments ... SNA reader now recognizes the BASIC program and variables area, as ...
    clausjahn clausjahn July 2014 Emulators
  • assembler for PcHi guys, I'm in the process of teaching myself machine code, and wondered if there is a good pc program for writing code. Or is the best thing to use…

    ... other values with a semi-colon. For example if you' ... type the drive letter followed by a colon and press enter. In ...
    * Enter the command "cd" followed by the full folder path, you ... will load and run the BASIC loader, followed by your machine code routine ...
    GReW GReW December 2014 Development
  • OK... Another name the gameYeap... notorious bJohnnyBravo is back with the name the game :)... OK... here it goes... Should be very old(maybe written in basic)... all I can r…

    ... very old(maybe written in basic)... all I can remember is ... (I think each step was followed by a beep!) and then buying ...
    bjohnnybravo bjohnnybravo June 2003 Games
  • Scrolling string variablesCan anyone help me with this for a program I'm writing on the spectrum. There was a command in speccy basic that would let you scroll a string variab…

    ... was a command in speccy basic that would let you scroll ...
    LET A$="ABCDEFG"
    followed by this command would leave A ...
    Neil^P Neil^P December 2003 Games
  • How do I save to tape, as it wereSo I've written my game, I've written a loading screen, I want to now put everything together with a loader etc so that it is the same as loading str…

    ... from tape.

    ie. Basic prog load "" code 16384, then ... 32768

    Followed by the screen

    Followed by the game
    robpearmain robpearmain October 2004 Development
  • Iron Maiden Attacked At Ozzfest by Sharon Osbourne, or The Anger Of The BeastI'm angry about this. And if you are an Iron Maiden, or metal fan for that matter, you should too. Iron Maiden's final Ozzfest 2005 performance was…

    ... a premeditated assault organized by insiders. Dickinson also ... departure was followed by an onstage appearance by Ozzfest founder and ... /> [ This Message was edited by: usspeccyfan on 2005-08-27 ... /> [ This Message was edited by: usspeccyfan on 2005-08-27 ...
    usspeccyfan usspeccyfan August 2005 Chit chat
  • TLOTRD - compiling problemsOk guys! A new demo for 'The Legend Of The Red Dragon' is nearly finished (just need my bro to draw some artwork as I'm using sample images from the …

    ... . The SCREEN$ loads, followed by the menu (written in BASIC and about 5k ... the level (again, written in BASIC and about 14k in size ... good ol' C Nonsense in BASIC error. The earlier versions of ...
    pottyboy pottyboy October 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Microdrive FormattingHo hum, yawn, microdrives - my favourite subject... ;) I?ve been doing some tinkering around, and have noticed that issuing a FORMAT command (with t…

    ... line of BASIC, or by directly entering FORMAT with a BASIC program ... ? with remnants of the BASIC program. The size of the ... a ?clean? format with BASIC present? I'm currently experimenting ... first line of BASIC being a REM statement followed by 594 spaces...< ...
    jp jp November 2005 Development
  • How to recover data from old Microdrive cartridges?I have 17 Microdrive cartridges that I filled with games (some listed in the "Missing in Action" section of this website) about 20 years ago. My or…

    ... * gives 2 minutes of grinding followed by "File not found" - but I ... eventually, and one 4 line BASIC program.

    Is it ...
    Ron101 Ron101 December 2005 Hardware
  • ROM paging questionAssuming the Spectrum 128 memory map and port addresses, but two custom ROMs in place of the normal Editor and BASIC, what is the most efficient way …

    ... of the normal Editor and BASIC, what is the most efficient ... doesn't matter which one) followed by a DEFB with the address ...
    chev chev January 2006 Development
  • New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…

    ... UDG editor is set up by default, but it's quite ... any binary file to the BASIC as DATA statements.

    followed by line 8100. (Arjun Nair)
    Dunny Dunny April 2006 Emulators
  • New - BASin r13a is available for downloadHi all, Here's the latest BASin. Mostly just bugfixes, but also now has the upgraded UDG editor which can now edit multiple UDGs on one editing gri…

    ... UDG editor is set up by default, but it's quite ... any binary file to the BASIC as DATA statements.

    followed by line 8100. (Arjun Nair)
    Dunny Dunny April 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • CLEAR does not RESTORE the DATA pointer??According to the Spectrum manual, one of the things that a CLEAR command does RESTORE the DATA pointer. Either it doesn't actually do this, or some…

    ... of Data" appears!

    BASIC bug, or error in manual ... ]
    then RUN (123 appears), followed by GOTO 10 (456 appears) - you ... pointer simply isn't restored by the CLEAR command.
    trellis trellis September 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • No sound in SPIN in 48K BASICI'm using an Acer Travelmate 5310, with Realtek HD audio. When I start SPIN (0.666) in any of the 48K modes and press a key, I get a click, followed …

    ... key, I get a click, followed by complete silence, even including BEEP ...
    zeem zeem November 2007 Emulators
  • Breakpoints and other questionsSome games have LDIRs, LDDRs, ANDs and XORs before they jump to the real start address (and some other stuff that I don't understand yet). If I want …

    ... of unprotected games containing a Basic loader, screen$ with header and ... blocks with header as well, followed by a Randomize Usr. For games ...
    zxbruno zxbruno June 2008 Emulators
  • Home Computer (Advanced) Course?Hi all Going through some boxes of mine, I found a pretty large number of a magazine called the "Home Computer Course", followed by the "Home Comput…

    ... called the "Home Computer Course", followed by the "Home Computer Advanced Course ... in the UK, and the basic format was that all the ...
    Gorky 99 Gorky 99 March 2009 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Learning C for z88dkI've never gone much beyond basic, a little bit of z80 assembler, and some Delphi which I had lots of help with. I've forgotten 99% of what I learne…

    ... 've never gone much beyond basic, a little bit of z80 ... quite so self explanatory as Basic.

    Are there any ... of source. This could be followed by another version using more complicated ...
    mulder mulder April 2010 Development
  • Converting TRD-Dos into TapHello, there are still many programs appearing on TRD-Dos or SCL format and users of normal Spectrum cannot run them. Of course I know about emulator…

    ... are first the boot-program followed by the game or demo. Unlike ... programs there isn?t a BASIC and then CODE-file, but ... one file which includes the Basic start and code in REM ... not work and even the Basic is unreadable when I MERGE ...
    Speccyman Speccyman January 2011 Development
  • fast font engine possible?inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for gui and having done some of the work on this in the past i wonder if it …

    inspired by the recent "proportional font" thread for zx basic and ideas for ... then font header would be followed by table of widths (1 byte ...
    tstih tstih May 2011 Development
  • Find-Fill-Copy functions for BASICThere's not much going on here, so here's three m/code routines to provide some data manipulation functions which are otherwise slow to do from BASIC…

    ... otherwise slow to do from BASIC.

    * find array 'a ... routine addresses can be calculated by the BASIC program; see lines 15 ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • editing strings with INPUT LINEHere's the latest in my unpredictable series of utility routines. This one I needed for the SAGE game editor; it emulates INPUT LINE l$ but with the …

    ... enhancement from "joining lines of BASIC" (but not the joining bit ... would need altering as the BASIC editor uses the E_LINE area ... ,hl
    ld (hl),$0d ;followed by ENTER
    ld (K_CUR),hl ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Encode two positive int numbers into one?Hi guys) Recently I've been trying to simulate short lists in Basic, but the point is that using limited values, say, 0-99 or 0-999, I remembered ho…

    ... to simulate short lists in Basic, but the point is that ... ]big = A * 1000 + B[/CODE] followed by [CODE]A' = big [B]DIV ... easy MOD equivalent in ZX basic;
    2) is it really ... the most Basic-efficient way?...

    I ...
    NRA NRA June 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Biturbo 2 turbo loader now available for general useAfter tinkering with its code, extracted from a TZX of one of the infamous Italian S.I.P.E. "tape magazines" which published hacked games for the Spe…

    ... returns to the following BASIC command by calling the CHECK-END ... I wrote 'BTvalues', a simple BASIC utility, to help you in ... ;
    [*]write a simple BASIC program to load, first of ... POKES followed by a RANDOMIZE USR 65338 command;
    [*]save your BASIC ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu February 2013 Development
  • Unspecified Custom Loaders IdentifiedThis thread specialises in loaders which are considered to be "Unspecified custom loaders" according to the Infoseek engine. These loaders (after som…

    ... colour, or has a small BASIC block in standard colours before ... -loader warning or notice followed by a short BASIC block with a header ... ).

    [b]Additional:[/b] By the way, this loader was ...
    Swevicus Swevicus February 2013 Infoseek database
  • Speccy clearout - GamesI'm having a big clear-out of a lot of Speccy stuff, so part one is the software. (followed by hardware at a later date) If anybody is interested in…

    ... part one is the software. (followed by hardware at a later date ... Conversion tape #2
    Laser Basic (Ocean)
    Laser Compiler (Ocean ...
    bobs bobs March 2013 Sales
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