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  • Help With AY Music Program in BASICHi, last year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording AY Music. I thought it would be easier than learning how to use Soundtracker…

    In terms of note lengths, it ... ]
    If you need it in seconds just divide by 50 ... that instead, especially important in Sinclair BASIC where the programs runs slowly ... ] and [ /CODE ] tags to post BASIC in the forums.
    GReW GReW December 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • Definitive list of games incompatible with +2A/+3 and of compatible versions (if any)I am trying to compile the definitive list of games which are incompatible with the +2A and the +3 and of their compatible versions, if they are pres…

    ... Amaurote 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 2:9" error after the ... Austerlitz 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 1500:3" error after the ... Gallipoli 128K: Returns "C Nonsense in BASIC, 22:1" error after the ... Otherwise switch to 48 BASIC in order to load it with ...
    Alessandro Grussu Alessandro Grussu March 2016 Games
  • ZX Basic interpreter in the Forum Postings. It would be so nice to do this in our forums [basic line=1] 10: BORDER 1: PAPER 6 20 FOR N = 0 to 7 20 PRINT "Happy Birthday Dear Joe Bloggs…

    Actually, what would be nice is a simple control which just displays the BASIC in the correct (sinclair) font :)

    D.
    Dunny Dunny April 2016 Feature Requests
  • A Spectrum emulator for the C64Recently I found this, a emulator that runs ZX Spectrum BASIC on a Commodore 64. It was made in 1985. I remember reading about it in a magazine. Curi…

    It doesn't appear to be an emulator, but a re-implementation of ZX Spectrum Basic in a Commodore 64, there is quite a difference between these two concepts.
    RMartins RMartins July 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Question - SAMS Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate GuideHi all, I just acquired a T/S 2068 and the a book that came with it is, SAMS Timex Sinclair 2068 Beginner/Intermediate Guide. On page 18 of thi…

    ... a large source of software in Britain, a large existing user ... (the ts1000 was repeatedly slashed in price).

    As ...
    As for compatibility, all Basic programs will work with few ... is less RAM available for Basic in the ts2068 so really large ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2016 Hardware
  • Empire - port of trs80 basic programBack when I was a little kid, I had the opportunity to play around with a trs80 model 1 with level 2 basic. One of the games I often played was call…

    ... br /> [code]
    BASIC listing in .BAS = 29,671 ... BASIC in REMs)
    BASIC program in RAM = 21,478
    variables in ... VARS = 2,242 (details in ... = 530 (349 lines in .ASM)
    Print64_FN ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny August 2016 Brand new software
  • Hacker QuestionHello hackers, as some of you might know, I am supervising the work on converting games from TR-Dos or TAP to the +D or Opus disk format for our SC…

    ... the actual numbers with in this particular loader. In other loaders these ... the marker byte used by BASIC in this context to indicate a ... useful routine that lists the BASIC program with all the real ...
    Hikaru Hikaru August 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Game - Air ApparentHello, It's me again, this time around my offering is a SEUD project that I've been tinkering with for around a year called 'Air Apparent'. …

    ... recover from a quit to BASIC in the SEUD editor, RANDOMIZE USR ... of PAPER and INK colours in the map editor. I found ...
    LoadingScreech LoadingScreech September 2016 Brand new software
  • Where does the BASIC program sit 48K Spectrum memory?Hi there First post so be gentle, I've had a spectrum since the 80's and have recently started programming it for fun again. I wrote the followin…

    ... ! Here's the Joefish code in one listing, type RUN then ... /> I've done the equivalent in BASIC in the past but it's ...
    textvoyage textvoyage September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • POKE taking a variable amount of time...Hi Folks, Does anyone know why the following POKE statements seem to vary in their execution time? [code]100 POKE 60000,10 110 POKE 60001,16…

    ... to get two parameters from BASIC in to my machine code routine ... . My thoughts are POKEing them in to two memory addresses. The ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • POKE taking a variable amount of time...Hi Folks, Does anyone know why the following POKE statements seem to vary in their execution time? [code]100 POKE 60000,10 110 POKE 60001,16…

    ... to get two parameters from BASIC in to my machine code routine ... or convenience of use from BASIC.

    Your method is ... read the parameters of a BASIC function, so you can use ... to access the contents of BASIC variables directly from machine code ...
    GReW GReW September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Akalabeth gamei found now that someone ported an ansi-basic game (coded in 1979?) to msx-basic - what about a zx-spectrum basic version of it? ;) https://plus.goo…

    ... the line numbers of BASIC executed when that particular ... executes 16 lines of BASIC in order to work out ... the two graphics defined in the DATA statements ... always use the same basic graphics data as distance ... 1, just divided in proportion to the distance ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…

    ... "delete" elements from a Spectrum BASIC array (Java has something called ... track of invading aliens!).
    In the Spectrum, you can resize ... declare it at one size in the program and redeclare it ... of y > 21 in normal BASIC. In Boriel ZXBasic, you can use ...
    textvoyage textvoyage October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • Arrays in BASICHi so I'm making this crappy game and I wanna store the screen positions of some UDGs in in a 50x2 array cause I have 50 characters. So I made the ar…

    ... "delete" elements from a Spectrum BASIC array (Java has something called ... track of invading aliens!).
    In the Spectrum, you can resize ... declare it at one size in the program and redeclare it ... of y > 21 in normal BASIC. In Boriel ZXBasic, you can use ...
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • IBM made Sinclair computers, surely not?Unsure if this has been discussed before so apologies for being thick but a curious line from this book, page 73, states that from 1983 Sinclair prod…

    ... -figure price tag.

    In fact, probably very similar to ... nearly all the other requirements: BASIC in ROM, cassette port, beeper sound ...
    John Elliott John Elliott December 2016 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum spare parts : "endangered" and functional "extinctions" only It struck me how some Spectrum spare parts or parts that were used with Spectrums and that were commonly available are no longer available . The em…

    ... cost effective , was however pretty basic in some ways . So how should ...
    harriusherbartio harriusherbartio April 2017 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum spare parts : "endangered" and functional "extinctions" only It struck me how some Spectrum spare parts or parts that were used with Spectrums and that were commonly available are no longer available . The em…

    ... cost effective , was however pretty basic in some ways .[/quote]
    Although ... a card edge connector there in the first place is dumb ... used, is near 100% like in the ZX Spectrum's case ...
    RetroTechie RetroTechie April 2017 Hardware
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... , which probably numbered in the few thousands in the beginning. Software ... in fact a lot of retirees, who never progressed past basic ... . When OS64 came out (basic in the 512x192 mode) many people ... runs on the basic Spectrum to convert in the first place ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... , which probably numbered in the few thousands in the beginning. Software ... in fact a lot of retirees, who never progressed past basic ... . When OS64 came out (basic in the 512x192 mode) many people ... easy to support in software made for [i]basic[/i] Spectrum!< ...
    Lethargeek Lethargeek May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • 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 …

    ... example in Basic. Okay, you have the same stuff in asm. But in asm ... the same sort of thing in Sinclair Basic in the recursive DEFFN functions ... somewhere on these forums.

    In ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Development
  • Is it possible to add a listing to a screen?I made this picture (see next message for link) deliberately in the bottom half of the screen hoping to be able to have another display in the upper …

    ... showing how to store pictures in the listing so that they ... quickly, just using BASIC. (The "LET d$=s$" in line 199 does ... />
    The three short routines in SPECcopy.BAS are saved on ... ", "sc3". The other lines of BASIC in the demo have to be ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny June 2017 BASIC
  • What's the FUSE keypresses for BREAK?I am forever getting stuck in a program with no STOP option, usually mine that I forgot to put that option into and ran a test forgetting the consequ…

    ... for you to enter something. BASIC's INPUT command doesn't ... with those who wrote Spectrum BASIC. In the meantime your solution of ... with a report H STOP in INPUT in line 40:1, which ... why it stopped, and where (in the first command of line ...
    thricenightly thricenightly July 2017 Emulators
  • 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…

    So on the assumption I want to write zx basic in a decent editor and see it execute in a emulator on my pc, whats the best route.
    wbm wbm 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…

    ... pixel jumps using speccys built in gfx
    [code] 20 PRINT ... is room to play with basic in this context..Dont know how ... you go with the built in character set, but it could ...
    wbm wbm August 2017 Development
  • What (Speccy) game are you currently playing ?(Quite a few threads on what youre listening to, watching etc) What Speccy game are you currently playing ? After playing a LOT of Invasion of the …

    ... like Millionaire. It's pretty basic (in truth, most speccy management games ...
    Maroc's Other Projection Maroc's Other Projection September 2017 Games
  • The Sword of Ianna from RetroworksNow available to download, enjoy this masterpiece ;) http://theswordofianna.retroworks.es/en/download-2/

    ... 2 and it exited to BASIC. In SPIN +3 used this file ... that can only be forged in the tomb. Hope that proves ...
    R-Tape R-Tape October 2017 Brand new software
  • The Sword of Ianna from RetroworksNow available to download, enjoy this masterpiece ;) http://theswordofianna.retroworks.es/en/download-2/

    ... 2 and it exited to BASIC. In SPIN +3 used this file ...
    Andre Faria Andre Faria October 2017 Brand new software
  • Strange behaviour in very simple ASM program.Someone sent me this and it shows something strange. Here's the BASIC listing [code] 10 CLEAR 32999 20 FOR n=33000 TO 33009 30 READ a: POKE n,a …

    Okay so do it in +3 BASIC in an emulated +3 and it runs fine. Do it in a +2A and it resets. Very weird! :D
    ivanb303 ivanb303 October 2017 Development
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