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  • Pretty CrashesTo make a 48K spectrum crash spectacularly and beautifully enter the following into basic. Also works on a 128k in 48k mode though not quite as prett…

    Try usr 484 in 128 basic on an amstrad +2. That ...
    absorbentgnome absorbentgnome October 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • +3 Joystick interfaceI have just purchased a +3, never had one and I wanted to here the 128K music on my games. I know the built in JS ports are wired differently, so do…

    ... a +3 - anything generic port 31 will be fine. Not sure ... have the ROM carts plugged in tho - IF2 and the RAM ... may work as a simple IN 31 port but it's your ...
    DEATH DEATH October 2006 Hardware
  • VB Emulator UpgradeHas anyone upgraded the VB 6.0 open source of either VBspec or VB81 to the free VB Express 2005 Edition? [url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/expr…

    ... tool for learning to program in Visual Basic, as well as a ... full version of Visual Basic. But Visual Basic Express Edition is ... many features that make Visual Basic programming easier than ever ... step through the lessons in the Visual Basic Guided Tour. When you ...
    Dunny Dunny October 2006 Emulators
  • How to save TZXGreetings to all. I am starting to move on from just games into some testing of home made programs. Although I could have done that in ancient tapes…

    ... sure to have 14 'x' in the REM statement, as this ... make sure your in 48k mode, if in 128 BASIC type SPECTRUM before ... . LINE 1 will make the basic header autorun from line 1.
    FrankT FrankT October 2006 Emulators
  • Print routine for BASIC (or BASin)For anyone interested there's a crappy binary here to print characters from BASIC at pixel positions. Import the binary at 60000, USR 60000 to initia…

    ... cannot imagine how streams work in programming.[/QUOTE]

    ... stream".

    Streams in Sinclair BASIC are in fact [i]the same ... There's something about horses in there too - I gather they ... that's not implemented properly in the ROM.

    Dunny Dunny October 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Oh so BRIGHT!What is the SLOWEST way to change the attribute area to BRIGHT? It has to be legit! No meaningless instructions or doing stuff for the sake of it. …

    ... facility doesn't exist in Sinclair BASIC! By a sheer fluke ... to crash and burn in the general case.[/QUOTE]< ... of having to put code in for reviews... I always ... put in a slight error to ... ve obviously not upgraded your BASIC ROM with my clever ...
    icabod icabod November 2006 Development
  • Recursive functionsA while ago Phil demonstrated a nice example of recursiveness in a DEF FN function. Sadly it doesn't appear to be online anymore and I have difficult…

    ... the smallest disk one step in the chosen direction.
    2 ... to end stack

    In Sinclair BASIC just about 5 lines
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • Recursive functionsA while ago Phil demonstrated a nice example of recursiveness in a DEF FN function. Sadly it doesn't appear to be online anymore and I have difficult…

    ... as base for recursive function in Sinclair Basic.

    Sub hanoi_start ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2006 Sinclair Basic
  • divIDE - +3 only or what??Guys, I've been let to believe that the DivIDE interface only works with the +3/2a. Looking at a website last night, the info there sugested it woul…

    ... Spectrums) and will even work in 128K BASIC mode (subject to the ...
    rwap rwap December 2006 Hardware
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... />
    The idea is in the basic loader for your program, after ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous December 2006 Development
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... absolute address in memory after having loadded it in using Basic. What is ... roof ) which you scroll about in ... doing things... ...then go to ... is on screen and blits in the missing pixels using the ... />
    I'd be interested in developing it for 20MHz as ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong December 2006 Development
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... on, which was a mistake in hindsight.

    [QUOTE ... absolute address in memory after having loadded it in using Basic. What is ... roof ) which you scroll about in ... doing things... ...then go ... Mayhem Accelerator is not emulated in SimCoupe. I've spent ...
    Quazar Quazar December 2006 Development
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... I am using implemented in Sam Basic ( of all things ... br /> I realise chucking in timer routines to slow it ... memory bandwidth! ) but in theory, it should work ... Accelerator is not emulated in SimCoupe. I've ... SIAC sounds quite reasonable in price, its a funny ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong December 2006 Development
  • Small C on Sam help neededI'm trying to make good on some of my old developments that fell by the wayside and one of them uses Small C. The reason I stopped was down to not h…

    ... what I am using implemented in Sam Basic ( of all things ) that ... up with a benchmark for BASIC, Sam C, Assembler ... I can ... =DonkeyPong]SIAC sounds quite reasonable in price, its a funny really ... , into one case. Generally the basic SIAC is the Sam motherboard ...
    Quazar Quazar December 2006 Development
  • Wanted: z80 asm routines...for the Sam. This call goes out to Colin and others who know how it should be done. If you look on the Sam C disk you can see the implementation…

    Thats very helpful of you, I haven't found an OPEN style command in the BASIC part of the documentation yet, it seems the only thing I can do is LOAD ( the entire file into memory! ) which isn't ideal.
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong January 2007 Development
  • funny thing I found out!so this week end I was cleaning up stuff and found out a briefcase filled with drawings and stuff and in the midle of all that I found out a "plan"/"…

    ... was planning on writing it in Laser Basic with the Laser Compiler ...
    andrew_rollings andrew_rollings January 2007 Games
  • DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…

    ... forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.*

    in the future (eg. esxdos), ... to some change). We are in discussions with Pavel (the ... try to use it in 128K BASIC Mode or on a ... long as you use 48K BASIC mode only (and use ...
    rwap rwap January 2007 Development
  • DivIDE and RWAP's DiwIDE*Opps, sorry, wrong forum, this thread must be in hardware topic.* I was planning to get a divide from Rwap, but I'm too afraid of long way the devi…

    ... try to use it in 128K BASIC Mode or on a ... - it goes into 48k basic (with paging turned ON - ... you wrote USR0 into 128 basic).
    I am ... why would the 128k basic compatibility be so important. ... VERY compatible in the current release (minus 128k basic).
    ...
    Tom-Cat Tom-Cat January 2007 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…

    ... already been requested -by me- in the alternative thread for basin ... pointless to use that commands in a basic program, because you will ...
    Arda Arda January 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Cool BASIC tricks and tips!Following on from Dunny's excellent suggestion of a compendium of BASIC tips + tricks, I believe it would be better to have a topic dedicated to it. …

    ... years ago I had pride in cracking basic loaders and doing my ... Q,A,O,P using IN instead of INKEY$?
    I ... and move the mouse pointer in the diagonal position, something that ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…

    ... remix/trainer of Batty in the following way (using ... TRD and convert the BASIC loader to a TAP ... asm loader is contained in the BASIC one so we need ... lowest in memory is at $66FF (26367) so our BASIC loader ... br /> In other words, we end up with a BASIC loader like ...
    StuBruise StuBruise January 2007 Games
  • New: authoring tool infoAnother feature was added to Infoseek tonight: authoring tool information - e.g. games authored with GAC, PAW, Quill, 3D Game Maker or Platform Game …

    ... be to look for 'watermarks' in the game files.
    PAW ... "A PAWed game o hacker" in the BASIC loader.

    However ... number of games with "PAWOVR" in their file, which would indicate ... example the adventures from Traveller in Black.
    So, um, should ...
    mheide mheide January 2007 Infoseek database
  • NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…

    ... do a recrack and [i]in theory[/i] it worked ... blocks I dumped) but in practice there was a slight ... the M/C loader embedded in the BASIC loader is at $5D6D ... preference is to use a BASIC loader if at all possible ... say it isn't practical in every case!

    ...
    StuBruise StuBruise January 2007 Games
  • EightyOne site down?Has anyone else had problems trying to get onto Mikes site?

    ... want to use the microdrive in Timex mode, I have to ... activate it in 48k, 128k or +2 mode ... to load CP/M discs in +3 mode.
    -Speed. ... if we're talking about Basic, but you have to type ... commands letter by letter (like in Beta Basic, the 80-lec.rom ...
    zxbruno zxbruno January 2007 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... ON A GOTO is implemented in Sinclair Basic like so:

    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • basizx newsHello. I've uploaded a new version of basizx. Now there is also an Amstrad CPC incarnation, able to LOAD and SAVE +3 basic files in disc. And the I…

    ... s not derived from Microsoft Basic :-) Several early magazine ... can be done in Sinclair basic and not in other Microsoft derived ... difference in speed compared to similar machines when running BASIC.< ... lists of lines. Sinclair Basic does not, meaning searching ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous February 2007 Development
  • Sam Revival magazine issue 16 now out! [Sam CoupIssue 16 of Sam Revival magazine is now out! This issue features the full Sam game 'Colony' on the coverdisk, which was written by Derek Koselo. Col…

    ... whatever, does that mean that in a sense a Spectrum or ... of what could be done in GamesMaster, it was a like ... in look and feel :) I wouldn`t mind bench marking Master Basic ... command took last year in SAM Basic and Master basic and it`d ...
    CKay CKay February 2007 Announcements
  • 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..…

    ... of how to do a basic editor have a look ... ' and have it directly in the BASIC program. You could even ... and have your editing menu in the other.

    ... screen it will be similar in length to the original. ... , if you can write in another language such as C ...
    Mr. Anonymous Mr. Anonymous 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…

    ... ]Well back in the day everything I wrote with Sam Basic was ... is laughable in any other context than 8-bit Basic :) and yeah ... , I used to do a lot of games in ... SAM Basic `back in the day` and they ...
    CKay CKay 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…

    ... is laughable in any other context than 8-bit Basic :) and yeah ... , I used to do a lot of games in ... SAM Basic `back in the day` and they ... a series of macros, so in theory it should be reusable ...
    DonkeyPong DonkeyPong February 2007 Development
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