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  • Peeking the contents on screen? How?You will have to forgive me for growing up on the C64, but I know I can peek the location of a character (1024 is top left from memory) and the peek …

    ... chip (the ULA) stepping in to read from it can slow down ... is stored, then comes your BASIC program, and somewhere above that ... stores the variables for your BASIC program, and the stack space ... 're not corrupted by the BASIC interpreter.

    Other ...
    joefish joefish August 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Missing in ActionThe more I go in my loft the more I find "Missing in Action" files . Trouble is I am new to this. I have done the tzx's for them but cannot upload th…

    ... are Educational titles written largely in BASIC . AND it is these simple ... BASIC progs that I am having ... period of time and re read the Make TZX2 manuals
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio August 2015 MIA/STP/SDP
  • Was there a POKE that broke the SpectrumHi Everyone I've been recalling myths and rumours from back in the day. You know "Lunar Jetmans" trailer and that sort of thing. But one rumour …

    ... find ROM and RAM. POKE in BASIC simply writes the specified value ... location may cause the the BASIC ROM program to crash, but ... just ignored. And in fact, the BASIC program in the ROM actually does ... can occur with I/O ports when writing (OUTputting). And when ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK October 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …

    ... no assistance whatsoever to me in trying to put forward what ... put it in a EPROM programmer. The programmer can then read the ... system that the ROM is in to read and copy the data ... need is a BASIC or machine code program to read each memory ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK October 2015 Hardware
  • Bomb Munchies - preview releaseBomb Munchies Preview release Version 12th Jan 2014 [URL=http://s979.photobucket.com/user/MatGubbins/media/bmsix_zpsc33279a2.gif.html][IMG]http://i…

    ... and we are back in spectrum 48K basic mode.
    Press a ... = Kempston 55
    Inputs are read from 31, but not 55 ... this machine.

    Testing in basic first, Sinclair 1 + 2
    REMmed out line 20 (to read port 55) and still no ...
    MatGubbins MatGubbins November 2015 Brand new software
  • Contact Sam Cruise - BugWhile playing through 'Contact Sam Cruise' yesterday I happened upon a bug when I was arrested, when I moved inside the jail cell the screen scrolled…

    [quote="Nonsense in BASIC;840635"]I used to play ... my own and must of read it in a mag but no ... thought that was amazing back in the day.[/quote]

    Ersh Ersh November 2015 Games
  • Contact Sam Cruise - BugWhile playing through 'Contact Sam Cruise' yesterday I happened upon a bug when I was arrested, when I moved inside the jail cell the screen scrolled…

    ... quote="Ersh;840667"][quote="Nonsense in BASIC;840635"]I used to play ... own and must of read it in a mag but no ... thought that was amazing back in the day.[/quote]
    ... because you're still in the cell for the ... since I played this game in anger but IIR - for ...
    Nonsense in BASIC Nonsense in BASIC November 2015 Games
  • Did you choose to have a Speccy or did it just happen that way?A strange question I know, but, the reason I ask is that when we (my family) were looking to buy a computer non of my mates had computers and non of …

    ... , but I'd read it in a magazine on how ... (!) it sparked my interest in BASIC programming, so I asked ... as I'd written BASIC games big enough to ... avoid any carpeted floor) in sock feet and rubbing ... tin foil - all in accordance with Fox Electronics instructions ...
    Gwyn Gwyn January 2016 Games
  • ZX spectrum and LCD gamesJust recently I discovered this little spanish game named "El almacén", which translates to "The warehouse". [URL=http://s1063.photobucket.com/use…

    Another one, Fire: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0015756
    Source code available in Basic

    @joefish
    I've read that PyQt can generate code from GUIs made with the Qt's designer
    hikoki hikoki February 2016 Hardware
  • New version emulator ZEsarUX-4.0Hi I have uploaded a new version of my emulator ZEsarUX 4.0. You can download it from the project web page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/…

    ... today. In Windows I have an issue with sound. Read above a ... that the sound is bad in general. It has random clicks ... I repeat a key while in Basic mode, for example, the pitch ...
    pmsr pmsr March 2016 Emulators
  • Nirvana+ - Which games would you reproduce?Which games would you reproduce using Nirvana+ Early single screen or non-scrolling arcade games that could utilise the Nirvana+ engine for enhanc…

    ... and various home computer/console ports, and it's almost embarrassing ... terrible. Some are even written in BASIC!

    Berzerk is one ...
    Rebelstar Rebelstar June 2016 New game ideas
  • Nirvana+ - Which games would you reproduce?Which games would you reproduce using Nirvana+ Early single screen or non-scrolling arcade games that could utilise the Nirvana+ engine for enhanc…

    ... and various home computer/console ports, and it's almost embarrassing ... ). There was an MSX version in 1987 but it never made ... terrible. Some are even written in BASIC![/quote]
    Pogo was a ...
    leespoons leespoons June 2016 New game ideas
  • Nirvana+ - Which games would you reproduce?Which games would you reproduce using Nirvana+ Early single screen or non-scrolling arcade games that could utilise the Nirvana+ engine for enhanc…

    ... and various home computer/console ports, and it's almost embarrassing ... terrible. Some are even written in BASIC!
    [/quote]

    Other ...
    morph morph June 2016 New game ideas
  • Why didn't I RTFM when I was a kid?!?!?!I've just been reading this: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXSpectrum128Manual/sp128p09.html And it got me thinking 'Why didn't I Read The F*%…

    I read the Spectrum + manual when I ... , apart from a few things in BASIC that I could fiddle with ... might as well have been in Lithuanian. Of course I was ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek July 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Had enoughAfter approaching another weekend full of enthusiasm towards WoS and how it's heading, and spending most of it fighting spam and online abuse, I have…

    [quote="Nonsense in BASIC;869185"]Lee said on the 3rd of July in this ... for correction! I've re-read the original post and I ...
    moroz1999 moroz1999 July 2016 Updates
  • Basic Screen Shadow QuestionHello, I've been porting a game to the Spectrum from another platform. So far so good and I have per pixel screen scrolling working really nicely …

    ... screens at #C000 this should in fact be #D800. Right ... to make it easy to read.

    [quote=" ... the 128 ROM system/BASIC is often a source of ... but only used to program in BASIC back then. I hadn't ... is to navigate around in terms of memory management.< ...
    pointblnk pointblnk August 2016 Development
  • New Game (2016 revival): A Yankee in Iraq (1992)Hello everyone, Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot-em-up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I…

    [quote="Ast_A_Moore;53207"]...

    In an effort to revive the ... how to load a headerless BASIC file to reduce the overall ... not done already (haven't read the writeup yet, but I ... of a game I did in BASIC back in the day too. I ...
    RMartins RMartins August 2016 Brand new software
  • Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…

    ... ! Here's the Joefish code in one listing, type RUN then ... =65344 TO 65367
    120 READ j: POKE i,j: NEXT ... /> I've done the equivalent in BASIC in the past but it's ...
    textvoyage textvoyage September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…

    ... at a good speed just in BASIC, as the original source ... file is just in BASIC. I also want to ... speed up the graphics in BASIC by reducing the number ... of steps in the PLOT/DRAW calculations; ... X*0.91397849,-Y
    READ X,Y
    DATA ... ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • UDG generator doesn't work, why?Typing in the UDG generator from the manual I get integer out of range when I run it. I'm going nuts trying to figure out whats wrong. Can someone pl…

    ... a complete moron at programming in Basic. All these clever suggestions from ... too simple and you can read it out of the many ...
    Timmy Timmy October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Best place to start learning assembly on WOS ?So I'm pretty new at this forum but not the Speccy so my BASIC is pretty good. I can see lots of resources on WOS for doing machine code/assembly but…

    ... how to do some very basic coding many years ago by ... friend. Now I could have read any books you want to ... didn't learn to code in BASIC by reading from a book ... either, I typed in magazine listings and learned by ...
    DEATH DEATH October 2016 Development
  • The state of source level debuggingI was just wondering if we can put on a table everything we collectively know about source level debugging for ZX Spectrum to get an overview of curr…

    ... /> 1) ...to use unused bytes in ROM.
    2) ...safely ( ... somehow rewire one RST jump in ROM to our debugger, ... The debugger (PC side) would read your binary file (.IHX, .BIN ... just before giving user control in Basic (with basic screen Sinclair Research Ltd ...
    tstih tstih November 2016 Development
  • Noob's guide to joysticksWhy on earth would I be asking this *now*, I hear you all scream? The answer... curiosity. Back in the day all I ever had was a +2 and Sinclair's …

    ... got back from IN 31 using BASIC, since Sinclair BASIC wasn't designed ... /> You can do an IN to read half a row (5 keys ... 't. This is how you read keypresses or the Sinclair joysticks ...
    joefish joefish November 2016 Hardware
  • how to load machine codeI'm reading Jon Caldwell's how to write Spectrum games but can't enter the code! Here's an example:_ LD BC, (score) Call 6683 I tried putting…

    ... [/b] in Basic :) And it was not only me, I read at forums ... to be able to program in assembler. It was obvious for ...
    Ralf Ralf November 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • So where is the random number in the Speccy ?So I am messing around with ZX Spectrum Assembler and I want a random number. I looked up previous posts and one of the links said that random number…

    ... 't change because it's in [b]Read O[/b]nly Memory ... start of the INT routine in the BASIC interpreter.

    There ... is a routine in the ROM ... programmers - it's just a BASIC interpreter that people have reverse ...
    GReW GReW November 2016 Assembler
  • how to load machine codeI'm reading Jon Caldwell's how to write Spectrum games but can't enter the code! Here's an example:_ LD BC, (score) Call 6683 I tried putting…

    ... [/b] in Basic :) And it was not only me, I read at forums ... to be able to program in assembler. It was obvious for ... [b]very[/b] briefly mentioned in the Spectrum manual (Chapter 26 ... "There is no assembler built in to the Spectrum, but you ...
    GReW GReW November 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • how to fix instructions on screenI have a problem with my sequencer. I want the top half of the screen to stay fixed but allow the note values to print without pushing the instructio…

    ... assembly instruction mnemonics with BASIC commands and functions is ... The microprocessor can only actually read, write, subtract and add ... humans to read, we use mnemonics. When combined in a defined ... called 'A'.

    So in BASIC, it is similar to LET ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK November 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • A BEEP program I want to make in Basic. Helpful remarks gratefully receivedI want to explore the possibilities of the BEEP command. So I need to be able to try different combos of pitch/duration and sequences of same. I'm tr…

    ... was trying to learn BASIC back in the day I'd ... effect that I could incorporate in my program, without actually ... TO 32800
    125 READ a
    130 POKE ... is stored at 32768 in memory and is called ... than trying to do it in BASIC.

    Anyway I ...
    Morkin Morkin November 2016 Chit chat
  • A few questions about sound and keys in BASICIf I want sound in my BASIC game I have to use BEEP right ? It seems to lock up the CPU for far too long . On Arjun's page I found how to use CALL 94…

    ... simultaneously.

    In BASIC the IN command can be used to ... check the 8 keyboard segment ports ... way too slow. IN's more useful in BASIC for joystick control, ... referencing a particular bit 'n' in BASIC:
    [code]
    [ ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny December 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • how to load machine codeI'm reading Jon Caldwell's how to write Spectrum games but can't enter the code! Here's an example:_ LD BC, (score) Call 6683 I tried putting…

    ... [b]LD A,3[/b] in Basic :)[/quote]

    Ditto. I ... I first read it, I tried entering the source code in BASIC too ... missing some secret "Assembly" mode in the speccy. It wasn't ... reached the hex editor code in the book that I realised ...
    Arjun Arjun December 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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