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A touchy subjectHello people, having spent most of this morning and yesterday laughing hysterically at all the posts from a certain "ahem" troll I feel I must ask (a…
... would have a "BIOS" written in compiled BASIC.
And the ... -
A touchy subjectHello people, having spent most of this morning and yesterday laughing hysterically at all the posts from a certain "ahem" troll I feel I must ask (a…
... would have a "BIOS" written in compiled BASIC.
And the ... miles, that he mentions working in his company isn't me ... -
A touchy subjectHello people, having spent most of this morning and yesterday laughing hysterically at all the posts from a certain "ahem" troll I feel I must ask (a…
... would have a "BIOS" written in compiled BASIC.
And the ... -
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…
... ever used the math library in Sinclair BASIC. If you haven't ... -
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…
... the mask.
Unfortunetly (sp?) basic doesn't have an AND ... command for the screen to basic.
But that would ... break its Sinclair BASIC compatibility - which is not good ... on screen anding (NOT AVAILABLE IN SINCLAIR BASIC!!!)
100 AND 1 ... -
C# emulatorHi, I wanted to branch out and get a little better with C# so I think I need something meaty to do to keep me going....so an emulator seemed a reaso…
... memory to blank and load in your ROM.
< ... at the address held in PC, incrementing your ...
From there add in keyboard, sound, tape reading. Add a ... of the z80 core, work in your contention.
< ... /> It's easy *in theory* but in practice, as Phil says ... -
C# emulatorHi, I wanted to branch out and get a little better with C# so I think I need something meaty to do to keep me going....so an emulator seemed a reaso…
... memory to blank and load in your ROM.
< ... at the address held in PC, incrementing your ...
From there add in keyboard, sound, tape reading. Add a ... of the z80 core, work in your contention.
< ... /> It's easy *in theory* but in practice, as Phil says ... -
What should be the base address to set for my codeHi, I am new here and I have a simple question but one which I have not found an answer to. When I am developming my programs what should I set th…
... /> place CLEAR 32767 in your BASIC.
The BASIC is thereby limited ... below 32768.
When your BASIC grows to big (or uses ... oF MEMORY error.
In that case you must replace ... to make room for the BASIC. -
Switch from 128k BASIC to 48k BasicHello, Is there a way to start off running a program in 128k basic (so that you can use the ramdisk facilities) but then switch back down to 48k bas…
... a program to do this in the Alchemist archive. AFAIK It ... machine code, but stored in a BASIC REM statement and easily called ... from BASIC.
From the catalogue ... -
Sprite adviceHello. So, I'm slowly getting to grips with Z80 assembly - currently equal parts frustration and enjoyment. Now looking for some advice to help shift…
... moment, pressing fire (SPACE) results in a constant stream of bullets ... bnm-SS-BS
in a,(254) ;read keys
bit 0 ...
ld (shipfire),a ;store in shipfire variable, and
call ... -
Switch from 128k BASIC to 48k BasicHello, Is there a way to start off running a program in 128k basic (so that you can use the ramdisk facilities) but then switch back down to 48k bas…
It's a simple RANDOMIZE USR in Beta BASIC y'know. You can swap back and forth from the 48K and 128K editors to you hearts content. Although running your program in 128K mode will probably have disastrous consequences. -
GacDid anybody at WOS write a good adveture with GAC? I spent hours making adventures with it and thought it was a really good product and nearly finish…
I tried the SAM Adventure System.
And you thought typing in 48k BASIC programs was fiddly...
Interactive fiction is hard to do well, no matter what you use, though. -
Machine Code noviceHi, I'm starting to learn machine code and wanted to know if you have to use some sort of program to write machine code? Thanks,
... a series of DATA statements in Speccy BASIC, and poke them into ... -
Machine Code noviceHi, I'm starting to learn machine code and wanted to know if you have to use some sort of program to write machine code? Thanks,
... a series of DATA statements in Speccy BASIC, and poke them into ... -
Egghead IV on Zx Spectrum +3Egghead IV does not work on Zx Spectrum +3 in 128 mode. You have to switch to 48k mode or in "spectrum" mode. Do anyone know how to fix this (maybe …
guesser: by default? How do you load it? Do you go into 48 basic and load or do you load in 128 basic?
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EightyOne and CF cardsInspired by obo & piters discussion regarding imaging of flash card, I've added reading/writing to real disks to EightyOne. Hopefully it should allo…
... 24999. Is this a bug in my emulation?
[QUOTE ... =piters]Maybe problem is in LBA emul.... However it shouldn ... the LBA sector number in the multisector read/write function. Just uploading ... -
"Real Tape" mode?I'm trying to use RealSpec32 and Klive's "Real Tape" mode feature, but I can't get my tape player to play correctly. Am I doing something wrong? Fo…
... use either the Line-IN or the Mic ports on my Audigy ... to use? As I stated in a thread I made regarding ... -
Calling ROM routinesFirstly, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this in, but I wasn?t quite sure under which heading is best fitted. I?m trying to figure out how…
... /pop bit, pass the parameters in the correct registers and call ... /> which shows that the value in the E register is the ... one will jump to a basic line (given line number) and ... asm when STOP is executed in the basic program. Very nice. -
What was *the developers'* choice?While reading this forum, I came to a question which I have never thought about. What was the developers' choice of language back in 80's? are all…
... ones, were written in Sinclair BASIC. Here's a ... games written in a mixture of BASIC and assembler ... a few that used BASIC compilers. [I]Frank ... was written in a language other than BASIC or assembler ... from Mastertronic, which was written in Pascal.
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…
... use the 128k models built-in RAM disk using z88dk ;) I ... to call a specific subroutine in the BASIC loader which loads new ...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…
... to call a specific subroutine in the BASIC loader which loads new ... C program, not the associated basic program).
Here ... code.
Keep in mind that Basic expects the IY register ... , for example). Also some basic commands will mess with the ...SAM Juggler Animated GIFWith a freshly hacked version of SimCoupe to dump image streams (using the patch Si Owen posted to CSS over three years ago ;)) I give you the SAM Ju…
... because it was so slow in IE, and didn't look ... work towards proper video recording in MRLE format, which might finally ... sure it's available in all the different ports. I'll be ...SAM Juggler Animated GIFWith a freshly hacked version of SimCoupe to dump image streams (using the patch Si Owen posted to CSS over three years ago ;)) I give you the SAM Ju…
... work towards proper video recording in MRLE format, which might finally ... sure it's available in all the different ports. I'll be ...What a stupid www site[url]http://www.c64vsspectrum.com/[/url] pityful.
... clear winner, by this time in 1989 the Spectrum was showing ... PC's at that point. In the same way that I ... could compete with Mike Tyson in a few rounds of boxing ... Commodore.
It's all in how you read it.ZXLFN - storing tape header in a long file nameHi lads ;) Couple of months ago, the group of guys interested in divIDE software development has came up with an interesting idea - store tape heade…
... not create a header in memory and read that when loading? If ...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 ...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 ...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 ...Whats the slowest game?By this, I mean, what game has the slowest response time. The Hobbit takes a fair while to draw some of its picures, and you have to wait quite a bi…
... =ewgf]This is discussed briefly in Your Spectrum issue 20 (from ... which was unplayably slow just in keyboard input. Mystery of Arkham Manor ...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.
