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  • Prince of Persia in an actual Spectrum?Prince of Persia is one the best games programmed for our Speccy in the last 10 years, but I think originally was written for TR Dos, although there …

    ... put a rather simple credit in the BASIC loader.

    Anyway ...
    nekdo123 nekdo123 July 2006 Games
  • Prince of Persia in an actual Spectrum?Prince of Persia is one the best games programmed for our Speccy in the last 10 years, but I think originally was written for TR Dos, although there …

    ... game? There are no message in the basic loader, the loading screen ... . It seems to run fine in Pentagon 128 mode, tilted ...
    MinerWilly MinerWilly August 2006 Games
  • A Public Service AnnouncementThis thread is here for anyone to plug brand-new websites. I'll read it, so you'll get at least some marketing/exposure out of it... I'll start the …

    ... is that the COMMAND function in the BASIC compiler I am using ... I will incorporate a mod in beta build 1.3.
    Where's that AY chip gone... Where's that AY chip gone... August 2006 Announcements
  • Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …

    ... the Nokia NGage Gamming phone in them. I beleive this was ... writing a fruit machine game in HiSoft BASIC isn't exactly that ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Games
  • Steve Davis Snooker 128k?I'm in the middle of an, erm, interesting discussion with a bloke on AtariAge. The long and the short of it is he's claiming to have written a 128k …

    ... a text only quiz game in ST Basic which doesn't (as ... protection - lens lok?) and Quazatron in action when I was a ...
    djtez djtez September 2006 Games
  • How to load Dies irae (an exodus demo)?it sits in my harddisk over a year, it always hangs at RED loading screen. I tried it with more than 10 emulators but no avail. According to the poue…

    I have got it to work, first you need to be on a 128k, but in usr 0 mode.
    go to 128k basic, and type usr 0 *enter* the speccy should reset and start up back in tokenised basic, then just load"" and it should run :-)
    guesser guesser September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • How are people developing?Are most coding on actual HW or under emulation, or cross developing?

    ... To code in BASIC I fire up the emulator in 48 BASIC mode, I ... 3, load the sources in +3 BASIC and compile it from ... there.

    Back in ... bummer. And I coded in BASIC, I can't imagine ... the hassle of coding in assembly on a real, ...
    na_th_an na_th_an September 2006 Development
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... -2).

    OK, Speccy BASIC may not be as structured ... easily write a structured program in Sinclair BASIC and a sloppy one ... in Pascal.


    I ... was a nice language... Everything in CAPITAL LETTERS, easy to read ...
    chaosmongers chaosmongers September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... lack of Sinclair Basic - such functions are present in better Basics and ... . I never wrote a BASIC program that was too large ... is possible to write them in Sinclair BASIC, albeit a *lot* slower ... bit manipulation, but surely no BASIC in the early/mid eighties did?
    ewgf ewgf September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... some tricks to speed things in Sinclair Basic:

    Using POINT ...
    piters piters September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... and a lot used BASIC too - and for the ... programmed anything for work in Pascal until Delphi ... A level project in it; BASIC and assembler were ... the decent games written in BASIC seem fairly spaghetti-like ... is the assertion that BASIC programmers are tainted with ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... some considerable advantages over BASIC, though BASIC isn't a language ... which seperates Pascal & BASIC is Pascal has been ... language - however Compilable versions of BASIC do exist.[/FONT]
    ... br /> [FONT=Courier New]In 1982 BASIC was at it's height ...
    CP/M User CP/M User September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... duplicate that level of optimization in the compiler itself since ... introductory compiler text I read in school. The code emitted ... instructions to complete some task in a basic block. I've read ... to encode asymmetric register usage in instructions to help the ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... to complete some task in a basic block.[/quote]
    ... encode asymmetric register usage in instructions to help the ... tackle the much larger problem in the code generator.
    ... While this is commonly discussed in the theoretical world, few compilers ...
    JamesD JamesD September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... language for absolute beginners is BASIC (not VB). You're trying ... being functionally equal: no. ZX BASIC can't do pointers nor ... hash/Python dictionary/C# Hashtable in ZX BASIC, and still be able ... to store arrays, hashes and scalars in ...
    NickH NickH September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... language for absolute beginners is BASIC (not VB). You' ... a very small subset of BASIC too: LET, IF...THEN ... that everything you type in should have an immediate ... functionally equal: no. ZX BASIC can't do pointers ... you can do pointers in ZX BASIC. What else do you ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... language for absolute beginners is BASIC (not VB). You're trying ... being functionally equal: no. ZX BASIC can't do pointers nor ... hash/Python dictionary/C# Hashtable in ZX BASIC, and still be able ... to store arrays, hashes and scalars in ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... some of us code in Sinclair BASIC and in BASin not because we ... limitations and/or practical use in the modern world but because ... nothing to do with Sinclair BASIC because it's outdated then ...
    Arjun Arjun September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... 's nothing wrong in using Sinclair BASIC for beginners if ... choose - in response to some comments that BASIC is pointless ... then waded in, and informed us all that BASIC (and in particular, ... be made in Sinclair BASIC, and that anyone using Sinclair BASIC was ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... more? - that you wrote Basin in non-Basic... Very 'unexpected' - hahaha.
    Basic on multiGHz machine is really ... on Speccy. How many in % is such in compare to hunderts of ...
    piters piters September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... more? - that you wrote Basin in non-Basic... Very 'unexpected' - hahaha. < ... choose Sinclair BASIC. We were discussing why BASIC was chosen in the first ... so I put him in front of BASIC (on an emulator, ... style IDE and BASIC, which is quick to code in.
    < ...
    Dunny Dunny September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... Arjun says that programs Speccie Basic from hobby and makes ... not strictly against Sinclair Basic, just wouldn't recomment ... programmed this year something in Sinclair Basic. And honestly, I ... real, reasonable, considering other things in World.
    There ...
    piters piters September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... write whatever programs we want, in whatever language we feel most ... comfortable in. There are no deadlines, no ... of us got into programming in the first place. I don ... of hobby superior to programming in Sinclair BASIC? Why should we have ...
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... topic………[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial]BASIC was the obvious choice for ... />
    [FONT=Arial]10 PRINT “Basic Rocks”[/FONT]

    [FONT ... harder than drawing a circle in C64 basic.[/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial ...
    dasteph dasteph September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Sinclair Basic Vs PascalWith the rise of the structured programming movement (Jackson et al) was it wise to put the Basic programming language into the Spectrum. By this ti…

    ... wrote a program in C that did some basic stuff like string ... 'd used (any version of) BASIC.

    [code]
    # ... was when I started programming in Sinclair BASIC), I would have given ... with piters - I think Sinclair BASIC is an excellent language for ...
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2006 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    ... value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would ... trying to escape memory contention in BASIC. You can't. The ... ]Also, which is quickest for BASIC maths operations

    ... usually the quickest way. BASIC stores them in both display friendly format ...
    Matt_B Matt_B September 2006 Development
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    ... protects upper memory but not in 128K BASIC.
    I would still ... /> 'Eliza' in the WOS archive is a 1978 Atari BASIC program that ... works just as well in Sinclair BASIC. (There are hundreds of ... readily.

    The version in WOS is street-wise.
    Geoff Geoff September 2006 Development
  • Which would be fasterSay you want to use a variable value of 0 to 255 in a BASIC program, which way would be fastest? Say for arguments sake you wanted to use two variabl…

    [QUOTE=JamesD]If you use a fixed address it has to convert the address from a string[/QUOTE]

    No, it doesn't... number literals in a Basic listing have the integer form embedded alongside them.
    gasman gasman September 2006 Development
  • TZX filesI copied a spectrum tape program onto my PC as a .wav file and used a converter to convert it to a .tzx file. The DOS window appeared during conversi…

    ... on the +2a(128k) in +3 BASIC. Does this matter, or do ...
    sonic91 sonic91 October 2006 Emulators
  • Font centering problemA while back today, I started coding a simple Othello/Reversi game in BASIC, with the precious aid of BASin (great tool, hope it eventually becomes b…

    ... (vertical) pixel pos is possible in Basic - with PLOT for instance (very ... what can be simpler made in machine code than in Sinclair Basic.
    piters piters October 2006 Development
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