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  • "ZX80 Brain" RPN CalculatorIt is at times like [url=https://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/54176/depression]when threads such as this are posted[/url] that I get the…

    ... t fill with junk in 128/+3 BASIC. (It's annoying ... the "ZX80 Brain" calculator in the authentic ZX80 font!)< ... seven-segment character set, in bright red to look ... the Spectrum's functions in BASIC, I've just made ... correct flags, trying to read the exponent as a ...
    The Mighty Dopethrone The Mighty Dopethrone March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • 48K vs 128K BASIC, I prefer the keyword entry system how about you?Being brought up with the 48k rubber and 48k+ I find the keyword entry system really fast and enjoyable to use. When I've played around with the 128k…

    ... that, the entire basic language was on display ... in basic as a kid because of it - I never read ... pokers.

    In conclusion, there is stuff ... basin) to write any basic. The fast key ... in the early 80s since I think nearly all home computers' basic ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... being made mostly for basic Spectrum!), maybe then it ... imaginations, probably due in no small part to ... era commercial quality games even in basic.

    We ... hardware sprites were invented in the old times to ... still have to be read from memory whether it ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... , i do have something better in mind.)

    [quote=" ... -era commercial quality games even in basic.[/quote]
    So, basically ... graphics still have to be read from memory whether it's ... br /> i'm not sure in what alternate reality things completely ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • The trouble with good code isLots of times I've come here to ask for help and always got it pretty promptly. Which is wonderful and one of the reasons why I don't think there's a…

    ... , because nobody else needs to read it.. :P[/quote]
    Ehm ... -to-understand but 'fuzzier' steps. In assembly, that's [i]perhaps ... needed! Write the bulk in BASIC, add in a few assembly blocks where ... -friendly, comes at a cost in terms of raw performance, RAM ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie May 2017 Chit chat
  • Minidisc and tap/tzx playerHi I have 2 questions: Is there a player for Windows that can play tap/tzx files (The old links for winamp are no good) I have tried to save to min…

    ... proper cable for the sound) in basic but when I try to ... idea if this will run in Windows, or not. DOSbox should ... in a way which makes it difficult for a Speccy to read ...
    Mysterion Mysterion May 2017 Hardware
  • endless runner project..So I'm thinking of writing a small tutorial series on writing games for the speccy in C, and figured that an endless runner would be an easy example …

    ... they could do some basic formatting like cursor placement ... codes). As you know in basic you can print certain ... in your program. I changed to using fgets() and sscanf() to read ... were using scanf to read some of the line ... better way is to read the whole line into ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Development
  • z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …

    ... do all the loading in basic before the c program ... can just fread() or read() a file to address ... return 9000;" and then in your basic loader you run the ... 9000 to load something in basic and then it could ... :zxspectrum"]Interfacing to zx basic[/url]". I have no ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • z88dk : Support FunctionsJust a quick one here, I am looking to doing some dirty dirty code with C and load a screen$ file from the disk using "system( command )" - yes I …

    ... kind of string manipulation in ASM / BASIC before on here ... need to know where in BASIC such variables would be ... the variable is not declared in basic, it will be created ... a string from that in basic by PEEKing each character ... a time. I'd read a bit at a time ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • Thinking about my gameAnother long post, I'm afraid. Somewhere on this Forum is a short chunk of text I put up as a sample of what I'd like to turn into a text adventu…

    ... afraid that no one would read my overlong post but ... ahead and get back to BASIC. you could try some ... engines to let you display in 42 characters a line, ... you can already achieve it in BASIC. It's just a lot ... (and i just typed that in 5 minutes)
    [code]< ...
    Timmy Timmy July 2017 Chit chat
  • are there any machine code to basic converters?i know it sounds stupid but for amature programmers like me it would be great. i could speed up the basic on an emulator and it would give me more of…

    ... registers would be Basic variables so INC A in assembler would be ... LET A=A+1 in Basic and so on.

    read codes of Z80 instructions and ... it not on Spectrum in Basic but on PC in C++ or whatever ...
    Ralf Ralf July 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • is there a sprite editor for the pc that lets you import pics and save them as spectrum udgs?is there a sprite editor for the pc that lets you import pics and save them as spectrum udgs or sprites into memory?

    ... hex for your READ/DATA statements in BASIC or defb in asm.

    dbolli dbolli August 2017 Development
  • Just watched Paul Jenkinsons's spectrum chanel and now want to write code againPlease assume for the purpose of this thread I know nothing... I want to look to write games on the spectrum but want to develop and test on my wi…

    ... />
    You can have some read at this thread, when Tommy ...

    As for prototyping in Basic - how are you going to ... stuff that requires speed that Basic doesn't have? Things like ...
    Ralf Ralf August 2017 Development
  • 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. …

    ... today. To read a key from the keyboard in BASIC I have been ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... knocked up the following demo in BASIC so I could get my ... not bad speed wise for BASIC and even handles the ... ------------------------------------------
    110 REM ZX BASIC Mouse Cursor Demo
    120 ... S=NS
    280 REM Read Keyboard
    290 REM Only ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • Floppy drive fixI know this might be a long shot but does anyone know or does anyone fix floppy drives I ha e an nous discovery and the controller on the floppy driv…

    ... is a sector read/write routine which is loaded in RAM together ... )
    The system provides instructions in BASIC for working on these tables ... /> Line 20 resets the table in RAM, line 22 then 'points ... just skips a few positions in the table which hold lesser ...
    roko roko December 2017 Wanted
  • IN instruction on emulatorsHi everyone I wrote: 10 PAUSE 0 20 PRINT IN 63486 If i press 1, result is 190 instead of 254 (i used FUSE and Spin) If i press 2, 189 (253) i…

    ... .[/quote]
    You need to read beyond the first paragraph then ... key is pressed, the value read from the port is %1x111111 ... />
    Since you can’t read individual bits from a port ... reset the unwanted bits in BASIC (it’s trivial in assembly), but the ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…

    ... need to read up on how to do some basic machine code ... to basic code - and how to form all of that in a ... such a game was possible in Basic alone and based on the ... and maybe make some smaller Basic programs in the meantime to get ...
    TidusRenegade TidusRenegade April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…

    ... are stored somewhere too, in case someone RETURNs), ... RESTORE 9000 + location*10: READ L$
    30 PRINT L ... READ the L$, the DATA stored in line 30, which is also in ... memory as you're further in the game.
    < ... a multi-part game in BASIC instead. But if you ...
    Timmy Timmy April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Need Some Basic HelpHi all, I’ve decided to give programming in Spectrum Basic a go again (bit of nostalgia trip!) and I’m trying to develop a CYOA style game. How…

    ... . The BASIC PROG-space for Hotspot Hillock is 11kb (in RAM), ... have some assembler routines in it (counted in VARS_space) that's just ... which couldn't be done in BASIC, just rather more slowly.
    read a second tape header block).
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny April 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • ZXBaremulator v3.H(ikoki) BetaHi, Thanks to a Recreated ZX kindly donated by Hikoki, I've added support for it to ZXBaremulator. Now two keyboards can be connected to the PI…

    ... keyboards.[/quote]

    NONSENSE IN BASIC

    [/quote]
    ... to the USB device in less than time indicated ... pressed == 6 transactions in Game mode, in QWERTY mode is different ... />
    A game can read the keyboard so many times ...
    zx81 zx81 April 2018 Emulators
  • How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…

    ... Hikoki I ran that program in BASin and looked at the ... the code. I got 'nonsense in Basic' when I transferred the .SNA ... of line numbers. Fuse couldnt read the file as downloaded which ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch May 2018 BASIC
  • How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…

    ... I ran that program in BASin and looked at ... the code. I got 'nonsense in Basic' when I transferred the . ... line numbers. Fuse couldnt read the file as downloaded which ... who has a good Basic Sokoban in the the archive. I ... It's all packed in two lines to speed ...
    hikoki hikoki May 2018 BASIC
  • Have I got a mystery for you!All morning I worked on this set of 12 UDG's to draw a better looking tank. I created the UDG's and wrote the program in Basic using BASin for Beginn…

    ... cant or wont read any BASin files saved in Basic as .BAS files ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Getting an even random numberWhat would be the best, simplest way to do this ? I was thinking of say: A = RND*100 Then a conditional along the lines of: IF A / 2 <> I…

    ... assembly, too. Basically:
    1. Read a value from memory address ... you can implement it similarly in basic. I guess the random function ...
    arttu arttu November 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Reading DEFB for backgroundsHi all I suppose the question is kind of silly but I'm a completely newbie with assembler :-S I'm drawing some side backgrounds with ZX Paintbrus…

    ... : equ 9[/code]
    Then in your code, you can use ... 's like LET width=9 in basic. But it's not a ... a source listing easier to read. And if you need to ...
    FrankT FrankT December 2018 Assembler
  • Z80, and 6502, in comparisonI was wondering about how each of these compared in terms of performance. The Commodore 64 had a 6502 @ 1MHz, and graphics processor VIC which took …

    ... another comparison (albeit in using a program written in BASIC again) on ... BEEBEM emulator I typed in the ... br />
    The Locomotive BASIC on the Amstrad CPC is ... CPC suffered from poor game ports, because some software houses ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK December 2018 Hardware
  • Need the title of the Sinclair Basic manual to look for itI had a copy but I've lost the USB chip it was on! I need it to look up commands because some Basic programs I looked at all used the command MOD and…

    ... , and if you have read any BASIC manual you'd have noticed ... defined a DEF FN function in BASIC to simulate the MOD function ... wrirtten the MOD function in ZX Spectrum 48K BASIC as DEF FN ... PRINT, LET, GO TO, etc. in general with any command that ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic January 2019 BASIC
  • FZX: a new standard format and driver for proportional fonts[B]FZX[/B] is a very compact and efficient (although extremely flexible and powerful) standard format to create new fonts for the ZX-Spectrum. It sup…

    ... to use FZX in a text adventure project in Basic. However, the ... files provided here are in .asm. < ... I include them in a tap?
    I've read in the first ... loader.bas is the basic code provided in the first post:
    farvardin farvardin January 2019 Brand new software
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