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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. …
... *ever* saved a program from BASIC before?? You poor soul! Well ... late than never! :) Start typing in those BASIC programs like crazy man! -
The new GP2Xpectrum releases threadYeah, I know the thread title isn't exactly too original, but I've decided that just one post to hold all updates makes more sense than a lot of smal…
... it's Gp2xpectrum's "fault" in this case.
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Beautifully programmed gamesJust watching the bobby bearing tzx and admiring the beautiful programming involved. Which other games would you say had asthetic programming opposed…
... written a sequel, Worldshaker, in blitz basic, with hundreds of original blocks ... -
Best beginners guideHi folks One of the girls in work is looking towards learning the very basics(1) of programming. She has never written any type of program or even a…
... for me. I think Spectrum BASIC is a good start because ... more quickly than a modern BASIC dialect.
The ... . All that can be done in Speccy BASIC. Once the conceptual knowledge ... seeing the stack getting overwritten in the debugger. It really teaches ... -
A New 21 UDG Plotter BASIC ProgramHello All, Here goes... My first proper Spectrum program for 20 years! And the reason why I've been asking about multiple banks of UDGS recently. …
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The files now work in 128K as well.
I ... 's area 65200 that crashes in the basic and compiled programs.
A New 21 UDG Plotter BASIC ProgramHello All, Here goes... My first proper Spectrum program for 20 years! And the reason why I've been asking about multiple banks of UDGS recently. …
... 's area 65200 that crashes in the basic and compiled programs.
in the basic loader to make space ... ? I believe that causes Spectrum basic to relocate the stack, but ...A New 21 UDG Plotter BASIC ProgramHello All, Here goes... My first proper Spectrum program for 20 years! And the reason why I've been asking about multiple banks of UDGS recently. …
... you executing a CLEAR xxxx in the basic loader to make space ... ? I believe that causes Spectrum basic to relocate the stack, but ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... can. You can index in array as in s2[5] but you ... scroll. Is there an equivalent in c of doing...
in ZX Basic"
20 for n ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... is a scrolling text message in ZX Basic"
20 for n ... *were* doing the equivalent :) The basic string slice operation creates a ... instruction for the byte copy. In general the library routines will ... be written in asm and will be smaller ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... is suitably short.
In the case of the above ... moved to a different location in the program to solve that ... no bitwise operators nativley available in Sinclair Basic - would've been very ... handy in this case!
...New Spectrum HardwareHi all. Well its Friday so it seems as good a time as any (business is a bit slack at the moment) to start up a thread about creating new Spectrum ha…
... non-Amstrad code in SE Basic. In fact the SE Basic editor is probably ... that you could include it in the Open ZX ROM. Drop ...Machine CodeHi all, I want to get a machine code/assembler/dissasembler program from the WOS archives. But what in your opinion would be the best to get? I don`t…
... 128K machines. The fault is in the way it sets the ... 768 instead of 767 bytes in the BC register.
Load ... it in 48K mode and then POKE ... not survive the NEW command in 128K BASIC.Machine CodeHi all, I want to get a machine code/assembler/dissasembler program from the WOS archives. But what in your opinion would be the best to get? I don`t…
Yes I have just loaded it back in 48k basic then used MF3 to put the pokes in then re-saved it back to tape.
So now it will be more usable in 128k mode then by doing that?Machine CodeHi all, I want to get a machine code/assembler/dissasembler program from the WOS archives. But what in your opinion would be the best to get? I don`t…
... just loaded it back in 48k basic then used MF3 to ... put the pokes in then re ... .
Try it online in the WOS Archive/Utilities/Z ... 'Q' to return to BASIC and then PRINT PEEK 23296 ... blue paper is 15. In 128K BASIC 23296 is the paging ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... , my understanding of FOR loops in ZX BASIC was incorrect.
in that case fixed that problem.Hidden messages whilst loading gamesHi all, Was having a chat with my mate about old speccy games and remembered that pausing the loading on some games and then printing gave strange m…
... , Scooby Doo) contain messages in the Basic loader. Some guy who's ...Hidden messages whilst loading gamesHi all, Was having a chat with my mate about old speccy games and remembered that pausing the loading on some games and then printing gave strange m…
... , Scooby Doo) contain messages in the Basic loader. Some guy who's ... Stuart Middleton. [url=http://equ.in/ox/spectrum/eggs/stuart_middleton.php ...Sherwood ForestAre we absolutely sure this game was made by Delta 4? It doesn't mention the company anywhere in the game, there's no mention of it on their [url=htt…
... was a youthful experiment in writing adventures in ZX Basic - thank goodness Gilsoft ... ! "
That's not in itself proof that the GI ...Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... program and you got
in the BASIC.
Other option ... code block larger than the BASIC-prog
Then LOAD ...Using a multiface to exit to BasicBack in the days I was always fascinated with the idea of getting access to BASIC listings inside a program or game. I was able to work a way around …
... RANDOMIZE USR 0[/code]Numbers in listings are stored funny: First ... program from the "visible" numbers in your BASIC.
You ... 1 LOAD "" SCREEN$
(in memory, decimal: 000 001 005 ... CODE : RANDOMIZE USR 0
(in memory, decimal: 000 002 015 ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... u$ as a string (Nonsense in BASIC), so you need more logic ... . I'm still occasionally thinking in BBC Basic, where a comma causes ...Project: M.u.l.e.Wokani came up with a great idea about trying an open-development approach for spectrum games, and I thought why not try with a game I have under dev…
... & 0x38; // get player colour in paper
sp1_IterateUpdateRect(&r ... br /> uchar *screen; // +8 address in display file where this tile ... different from anything normally done in Sinclair basic, but you should be ...Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... ' at the same time. But in practice after playtesting it doesn ... be negative, but it seems in ZX-BASIC that "0 OR -1 ... , instead of simply changing trajectory in mid-air and making a ... it seems to pleasingly blend in with the magenta border.
Oneliner contestHello to you all, I dare you to make a program on 1 BASIC line. Here is the place to sent your ONELINERS [url]http://www.zxspectrum.00freehost.co…
... =Digital Prawn;213439]it seems in ZX-BASIC that "0 OR -1 ...Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…
... I had to convert the Basic-Loader (also add disk ... did it last time in pure Basic. Using TAPER I did ... TAP File in Basic and SAVE to Disk also in Basic. Any way ... work with it and exchange Basic Loaders.
... the systems not possible in another way as it ...Disk problemsHello Spec-chums, we are producing a disk magazine called SCENE+ (for about 10 years now) and we distribute it for various disk systems (Opus, +D, MB…
... I had to convert the Basic-Loader (also add disk ... did it last time in pure Basic. Using TAPER I did ... TAP File in Basic and SAVE to Disk also in Basic. Any ... work with it and exchange Basic Loaders.
... However, it can be done in more "sneaky" ways - ...My thousandth post - and a request for help...[FONT=Arial Black][SIZE=7][COLOR=Red]1[/COLOR][COLOR=Yellow]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Lime]0[/COLOR][COLOR=Cyan]0[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Well, seeing as this i…
[QUOTE=gasman;214773]No it isn't...[/QUOTE]
Are long variable names not allowed in 128k basic?
