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  • Selling this item. Look at the excellent question I've had:[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5189433819&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V…

    ... was having a bash at basic programming on the spectrum I ... screen came hello Terry you ****** followed by every swear word I new ...
    swordheart swordheart April 2005 Chit chat
  • saving to asmMy another question... I know I can save part of Spectrum memory to .bin file. However I would like to save it (or convert .bin file)into .txt file w…

    ... beginning with .byte command followed by numbers separated by commas, so i could ... tap) file wich includes a BASIC loader that will do a ...
    AE.Vasconcelos AE.Vasconcelos May 2005 Development
  • Game endings..which are your best / worst ones?I'm not sure how valid this is on a spectrum site considering the memory capacity of the machine,but were there any games out there with any good gam…

    ... prose, your score/rating, followed
    by a simple animation of your ... so it's a very BASIC ending but at least you ... the
    message "RACE OVER" followed by "GAME OVER"! Bah!)

    jil jil May 2005 Games
  • Help with loadingI made a simple input game, and saved to tape/verified it (I bought the spectrum for ?1 at my church fete on saturday) and when I go to 'loader' on t…

    ... need to go into 128 BASIC and type LOAD "". Press play ... go into 48k BASIC and type LOAD"" (done by pressing J and ... ). Load your program. Press K followed by enter when loaded to view ... />
    [ This Message was edited by: pottyboy on 2005-07-04 ...
    pottyboy pottyboy July 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • unreleased spectrum protection system - any use any more? also pokerama sourceDon't know if anyone's interested in this. During my days hacking games for Your Sinclair and Crash (and Sinclair User for a while) I had a pet proje…

    ... of bytes saved by the turbosaving code, followed by a sync ... you've got one basic bit then it loads ... 't incorporate it into basic and move it to ... incorporating the code in the BASIC :)

    [quote]
    [ This Message was edited by: Woody on 2005-10-04 ...
    Woody Woody October 2005 Development
  • XLR-8 mastering software and BASIC loader demo ready for inspectionI've got a TZX of stuff to have a look at if anyone wants to, ummm, have a look at it. Is there somewhere I can upload to? (Martijn?) Cheers

    ... had a look at the BASIC program (using a couple of ... the word HELLO appearing occasionally, followed by garbage. This is the extent ... />
    [ This Message was edited by: Necros on 2005-11-22 ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton November 2005 Development
  • Selling this item. Look at the excellent question I've had:[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5189433819&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V…

    ... was having a bash at basic programming on the spectrum I ... screen came hello Terry you ****** followed by every swear word I new ...
    Resident0 Resident0 January 2006 Chit chat
  • Lesser used BASIC commandsAre there any interesting articles or books that explore some of the lesser used BASIC commands/functions e.g. DEF FN, IN, OUT etc? The Spectrum BAS…

    The SPECTRUM ADVANCED USER GUIDE by Adrian Dickens, Mark Plumbley and ... . The memory map holds the BASIC ROM, system variables, etc. ... must be a single letter, followed by a ?$? if it will return ... />
    [ This Message was edited by: Blondin235 on 2006-03-11 ...
    Blondin235 Blondin235 March 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Introduce yourself[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]This is the thread to stop by & introduce yourself.[/FONT][/SIZE]

    ... thinking. I'd started working by then at an Air Charter ... of writing a database in basic (on the Vic-20 I ... from there in 2002 quickly followed by divorce in 2003. Now work ...
    beanz beanz April 2006 Chit chat
  • How powerful were the Moon-landing computers?I've meant to ask this before, but I got sidetracked; does anyone know how powerful the computer(s) NASA used in the 1969 Moon landings were, in comp…

    ... are also known) used a basic display and a 'DSKY' keyboard ... date, press the 'noun' button followed by a number. The keyboard and ...
    Lee Fogarty Lee Fogarty April 2006 Chit chat
  • Interface 1 DetectionThere are two assembler methods of detecting an IF1 published on Jonathan Harston?s webpage [url]http://www.mdfs.net/Info/Comp/Spectrum/ProgTips/Int…

    ... of the routines followed by a RET back to basic.

    It ... before the RET...

    By updating ERR_NR before I RET ... a nice clean exit to basic when an IF1 is not ...
    jp jp May 2006 Development
  • ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…

    ... sprite colouring function, called by sp1_IterateSprChar(), colourspr() follows and ... the IY register and Basic's interrupt service ... which keys are scanned by the keyboard joystick ... column directly followed by the second column directly followed by the third ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2006 Development
  • Sintech titles no longer denienced!8 years after the initial denience ( June 1998 ), the 3 Ultrasoft titles that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=Sintech"]Si…

    ... ]Bear in mind that Spectrum BASIC doesn't do integer numbers ... point by default.[/QUOTE]

    That's not true -- spectrum basic ... ascii string of digits followed by 14 and then the 5- ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2006 Games
  • Sintech titles no longer denienced!8 years after the initial denience ( June 1998 ), the 3 Ultrasoft titles that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=Sintech"]Si…

    ... ]That's not true -- spectrum basic mixes integers and floating point ... ascii string of digits followed by 14 and then the 5- ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks July 2006 Games
  • Sintech titles no longer denienced!8 years after the initial denience ( June 1998 ), the 3 Ultrasoft titles that [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekpub.cgi?regexp=Sintech"]Si…

    ... ]That's not true -- spectrum basic mixes integers and floating point ... ascii string of digits followed by 14 and then the 5- ...
    nekdo123 nekdo123 July 2006 Games
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... ,000, Apple still commands 26% followed by IBM (17% and Tandy/Radio ... strong version of basic (better that anything offered by Commodore, eg) ... a beginner. The version of basic was excellent and I found ... a really weak version of basic. The disk system was the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…

    ... the decline, as evidenced by the commercial magazines' moving ... And I hated the new BASIC interface. Typing was terrible, as ... speed up the notoriously slow BASIC. In fact, it was ... immediately followed by the printer buffer and the system variables in BASIC, ...
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • TAP conversion project?I was wondering if there's any concerted effort to produce TAP versions of games only available in TZX or Z80/SNA/SLT format? Or are snapshots consid…

    ... whole of the Spectrum ROM followed by the first $B43 bytes of ... :

    MERGE "" the BASIC loader and you'll see ... Therefore, we know that our BASIC loader should jump here once ... similar program). Enter the following basic BASIC loader (adapted from the one ...
    StuBruise StuBruise September 2006 Games
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... use. Could be done in BASIC.

    If you just ... see #FF this will be followed by two numbers, quantity and code ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…

    ... at first because it is followed by 10 seemingly random bytes until ... A9), which is then directly followed by screen 4 and 5 (32 ... relevant locations completely separately using BASIC, then save as code, ... ...unless you force it to by POKEing $711C $BD, $711D $ ...
    48K 48K February 2007 Development
  • If a C64 can do it...Forgive me if this isn't the right section. We've seen coders surprising us over and over again with excellent demos and things that a few years ago…

    ... Ie POKE address,data in Basic. All Basic variables, all C variables ... up 5 bytes in Sinclair basic and some math libraries ... implementations. Strings in basic consist of a length followed by a list of ... global variables (all vars in Basic are global, ie visible ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2007 Development
  • 16k Spectrum.How come emulator's in 16k mode don't provide 32 ram-pack support.

    ... it returns back to the BASIC interpreter as normal.
    ... (say at line 1000) followed by a bunch of FORTH commands ... 5) "Labels" are created by MicroSource as BASIC variables (e.g. after ... ). Similarly, you can use BASIC variables directly in the assembly ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2007 Emulators
  • Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…

    ... home you can recreate it by using an emulator to ... following data to disk (address followed by length):

    $4000,$ ... prefer). Then use the following BASIC program to load it all ... be enabled if loading from BASIC anyway). However this definitely loads ...
    StuBruise StuBruise June 2007 Games
  • Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…

    ... home you can recreate it by using an emulator to ... following data to disk (address followed by length):

    $4000,$ ... prefer). Then use the following BASIC program to load it all ... be enabled if loading from BASIC anyway). However this definitely loads ...
    DEATH DEATH June 2007 Games
  • Help hacking Split PersonalitiesI`ve been hacking away at Split Personalities for the purpose of putting new screens and graphics (items). The current screen is at 41187 and is 160…

    ... a packer for yersen in basic by loading your screen which you ... that address in the program by doing a search for #e3 ... see where a screen ends by checking ix when it breaks ... . First is the byte data followed by attributes. To see where the ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous July 2007 Games
  • Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …

    ... Zombie Zombie about dropping into BASIC without needing a Multiface :)[/quote ... , from the Tipshop (great site, by the way!).


    followed by CAPS, and an input prompt ...
    ewgf ewgf August 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…

    ... copied to somewhere in memory by BASIC and DEFADD set to point ... number stored in the traditional BASIC format. To set an integer ... " is the next variable name, followed by the "$" character coz it's ... , and calling the FN from BASIC. Just look at the address ...
    icabod icabod December 2007 Development
  • Minigame Compo 2007Hi there, also this year, there'll be a minigame competition, open to all 8-bit computers and consoles. It consists on writing games whose size (…

    ... can be placed directly in BASIC line number and length -& ... which are occupied by BASIC LINE NUMBER and BASIC LINE LENGTH
    ;such basic loader will ... 9 bit offset
    ;followed by variable length encoded match length ...
    Fikee Fikee January 2008 Development
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... please, followed by bridge.[/QUOTE]

    Too bad Sinclair BASIC didn't ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas February 2008 Development
  • 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=…

    ... .bas file. Spectrum's BASIC allows this, AFAIK. I' ... declares 6, and is then followed by 12. I assume it' ... file is broken, possibly by an earlier version of BASin ... I've fixed it here by telling BASin to [i] ... #13#10 as expected by notepad. BASin loads these fine ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2008 Emulators
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