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Retargetting the Z88dkWell, I'm asking here because it's come up before, and I assume someone here might know the answer... I'm trying to retarget the Z88DK for the Z80 b…
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Retargetting the Z88dkWell, I'm asking here because it's come up before, and I assume someone here might know the answer... I'm trying to retarget the Z88DK for the Z80 b…
... ;177441]You may be gratified to know that I got printf ... it did). As for the integer stuff I can now dump ... some of the string routines like 16 bit to hex conversions etc ... ! There is a nice feeling to see everything fit together, especially ... -
Database + web programming queryI was thinking of the best way to implement the a book type-ins database thingy, and I thought something along these lines would be nice and simple: …
... integer)
title (varchar(255) - i.e. a string of up to ... to keep)
typeins
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id (integer)< ... 255))
book_id (integer - points to an id from the ' ... author (varchar(255))
status (integer, probably...)
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Database + web programming queryI was thinking of the best way to implement the a book type-ins database thingy, and I thought something along these lines would be nice and simple: …
... integer)
book_title (varchar(255) - i.e. a string of up to ... to keep)
typeins
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typein_id (integer ... ))
*book_id (integer - points to an id from the ... (varchar(255))
status (integer, probably...)
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Anyone good at VBA? Need helpHope someone can help. I have a file called models.txt which is just a list of items, e.g. Car Toaster Wheel etc. i.e. each line is separated by a …
... /> Dim FileHandle As Integer
Dim FName As String
Dim TextLine ... As String
Const FilePath ... /> MsgBox "There are no items to list.", vbCritical, "Hmm!"
End ...Anyone good at VBA? Need helpHope someone can help. I have a file called models.txt which is just a list of items, e.g. Car Toaster Wheel etc. i.e. each line is separated by a …
... read a whole file to a string variable. The function ... Integer, _
sData As String, _
saData() As String ... br />
'Read file to variable sData
iG = FreeFile ... For lPtr = LBound(saData) To UBound(saData)
oCbo.AddItem ...Anyone good at VBA? Need helpHope someone can help. I have a file called models.txt which is just a list of items, e.g. Car Toaster Wheel etc. i.e. each line is separated by a …
... /> ' Parameters: cboComboBox - Combobox to fill
' strPathToFile - Path to file
'--------------------------------------------------
Dim iFileHandle As Integer
Dim strTextLine As String
On ...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…
... /> In Basic you have integer, floating point and string variables. Sinclair basic ... the basic interpretter automatically converting to integer / floating point as needed.
integer, adding 1 to "pi" means move ahead one integer, equivalent to adding 2 to ...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…
... special variable declarations unique to z88dk. A "normal" integer variable declaration, as ... "int_seed" is the two-byte integer stored at address 23672, and ... [/I] is a pointer to the string message to print (remember strings in ...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 not creating the s2 string in the binary but does ... thought the forgotten semicolon after string s1 was the problem as ... linking to the math library (-lm, for floating point math only; integer ... and I suspect is linked to this string thing.
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…
... two parameters: the C string to be broken apart (a ... lines contained within a string to be printed might have ... rightmost column coordinate)
// s = string to print, can contain:
// \n ... the cases match the integer or byte under text ...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…
... Blit the stuff from buffer to screen ////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////< ... 9:Converting pointer to integer without cast< ... 9:Converting pointer to integer without cast
to convert a pointer to an integer ...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…
... n); // append int to end of string
extern void u_AppendLong ... long n); // append long to end of string
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... address equal to the address of the string plus the ... converts an integer into an ascii string (similar to basic's ...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…
... get it to go from left to right only or to go back ... simple string variable for the mother ship, also tried an integer flag to ... second choice, which is to add sound to the game.
So I had to force myself to stop writing them for ...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…
... get it to go from left to right only or to go back ... simple string variable for the mother ship, also tried an integer flag to ... Anyway, I'm not suggesting to choose between both versions, but ... proposing to finish a second "game". ...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…
... would be used to hold an integer representing the current ... a small (up to 8 bytes) string as "+1-1 ... direction out of that string. This is still better ... what is logically equivalent to the above, given more ... adding your further optimisations, to see how much space ...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…
... array or string could be set up to allow for ... if the player enters an integer out of bounds on ... I may revert back to the optimised version 2 ... combat" element, perhaps to allow multiple key presses via ... would have to be completely changed to something like ...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…
... INPUT prameter is integer 'q', representing quantity of items to buy. Negative ... need more logic to check for the string length to make a safe ... conversion to integers. I suppose ...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…
... to be written. You'll note that this entire line involves integer ... () is used (C is always integer arithmetic unless there is a ... present in z88dk's string library) memopi() to copy the 6-byte ... can be identified by an integer from 0-9 (as documented ...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…
... br /> [/code]
The integer sequence chosen is no accident ... score, which fits inside an integer) but the total score must ... to be examined. The non-standard "memswap()" function is found in string ... It turns out to be useful to be able to visit all the ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... does* have separate float and integer types -- it's just ... it :D Integer types are automatically promoted to float when ... the better ones. The string slicing, syntax checking on ... go, powerful numerical (and string) expression evaluation are advantages ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... does* have separate float and integer types -- it's just ... it :D Integer types are automatically promoted to float when ... the better ones. The string slicing, syntax checking on ... go, powerful numerical (and string) expression evaluation are advantages ...What did Spectrum BASIC lack (and was BBC BASIC so good?)Over the years, I've read in various multi-format magazines, that BBC BASIC was probably the best BASIC available on an 8-bit machine. I've never use…
... the Spectrum. To that it added amazing powerful string slicing, powerful ... br />
Oh, string slicing, I'd forgotten about ... the BREAK functionality. Desirable to trap misplaced BREAK key ... faster than even Apple's Integer BASIC. That would mean ...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…
... -known functions found in "string.h"; if you need ... /wiki/doku.php/library:string"]z88dk wiki[/URL]. Although ... an integer at the end of the string passed to it. ... values must be restored to play properly. So, the ... will be added to the to-do list as something ...Benchmark timeWell, the BASIC benchmark posted in Creative Computing back in the 80s came up as a topic on the AtariAge forums. The article is available online an…
... ^y where y is an integer so "let a=a*a ... /> Atari basic employs string slicing as opposed to LEFT$,MID$,RIGHT$ used ... strings to be fixed size when declared. Sinclair basic performs string slicing ... ^y where y is an integer is a special case), whether ...DEF FN DirectivesI am looking at using some machine code functions from the DK Graphics Pack. They are machine code but they are called via Basic with the function de…
... B$ parameters get copied to somewhere in memory by ... BASIC and DEFADD set to point to that memory.
... traditional BASIC format. To set an integer number, just set ... character coz it's a string, then $0E, then a ... the address of the string (xxxx) and the ...searching for ASM bookI am searching for a book with simple examples of assembler code. I found one, but i cant remember where.. i forgot even the title.. it was a scanned…
... strings.h :- subroutines for C string manipulation (strlen, strcat, strcpy, ... on the revision numbers to see the asm source. ... stdlib.h :- things like ascii to integer conversions (atoi, atol) and ... generator (rand), and ascii string to any number base conversion ...BASin r14d - Final bugfix for the r14 seriesOk, there's not a great deal to "show" here, as most of the work has been going on "under the hood" so to speak. And there's been a [i]lot[/i] of wor…
... translation of BASIC to z80 - the best way to handle it, ... can convert expressions to RPN for compilation to z80 - that' ... .
How should string slicing be handled? How about ... figuring out which should be integer?
Optimisations?
...Sinclair BASIC compiler for PC?Boriel's compiler is very powerful but it isn't meant for Sinclair BASIC, and the old compilers in the archive have their limitations: BASIC listing …
... it would be possible to save the entire data ... around it is useful to do all loading and ... /> compiled code sets some string or integer then "call" basic line ... error will cause return to machine code. as STOP ... returning from basic subroutine to mc. and this is ...Goldfinch - an open software stack for mass storageYep, another pet project of mine to compete with all the others I've started. But hey, if I didn't get distracted by things like this I'd just get di…
... two characters of the fopen string:
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... parity, etc from the filename string. In the latter case it ... the divide driver parses the string "1:hexdump" as the ... level direct interface to the driver embodied in an integer file descriptor ...
