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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. …
[QUOTE=Dr BEEP;171915]I would do it like this:
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DEF FN h$(x) = "0123456789ABCDEF"(INT(x/16))+"0123456789ABCDEF"(x-16*INT (x/16))
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Dr Beep, that is a very cool lateral solution, which even I understand! :-) -
speccy +2 rgb socket driving me crazy!until today I was using RGB pins 1 and 2 for composite out. Tonight I suddenly get mad and decided to build a proper RGB Scart cable. Having read P…
... +5v, not a signal line) you can probably do it adequately enough ... />
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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…
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Audio input on a +2would it be possible to connect an external tape recorder to the socket at the back,or would something bad happen?
... , site them carefully so they do not interfere with the edge ... when there's no tape signal is usually due to RF ... some benifit if connected between signal and ground. By small, I ... small electret mic elements, the signal is normally filtered off using ... -
Audio input on a +2would it be possible to connect an external tape recorder to the socket at the back,or would something bad happen?
... when there's no tape signal is usually due to RF ... +2As developed the problem, I do not know, but that was ... -
Zx Spectrum Laptop (again)I've been reading all the old treads about a possible portable speccy. I even found the one about the Speccy Laptop. But it seems there's a lot of ne…
... ]Yep. I may have to do that, if a want better ... where you feed the video signal, not RF.
That and ... spend you battery on heat, do you?
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Getting scr addresses from x and yCould someone please tell me how to calculate the 8 screen addresses corresponding to a character printed in basic at coordinates x and y? For examp…
... )=16384+x+(y-INT (y/8)*8)*32+INT (y/8)*2048 ... faili.. ..
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toasted soeccysHello, ive jsut bought a pair of speccys on ebay (one 16k issue 2 & a prob 48k issue 3) unfortunaly the genius who sold them tried to see if the wor…
... would otherwise allow) is to do with the TV refresh, rather ... refresh. You can't programatically do anything about the DRAM refresh ... hardware is ignoring the /RFSH signal. Software has no way of ... -
TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
... the modulator - could be the signal going into the modulator isn ... ![/QUOTE]
I'll do that but I've replaced ... -
TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
[QUOTE=gtsamour;177381]I'll do that but I've replaced ... the PCB out, you can do all kinds of things actually ... gonna lock into the "best" signal and then drift with the ... thinks it has the best signal, quite often it doesn't ...
