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  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... apart from a gorgeous looking keyboard, I'd be getting a ... Basic efforts would have more space to use. BUT when I read ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch April 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... (still being made mostly for basic Spectrum!), maybe then it will ... commercial quality games even in basic.

    We shall see ... to get more colourful and faster graphics with limited amounts of ... graphics still have to be read from memory whether it's ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... br /> Do you even read what i'm writing here ... 5-10, but 50 (read: FIFTY) titles from the ... in software made for [i]basic[/i] Spectrum!
    [/quote ... quite easy. The Next is faster and has hw sprites. ... misinformation campaign. Please go read how it's done in ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter Launchedhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835143999/zx-spectrum-next

    ... the video system has to read data from memory using this ... this really matters, as the basic machine has already been developed ... new graphics done by the faster CPU unobstructed.
    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 …

    ... that they could do some basic formatting like cursor placement, underline ... was brought together with the keyboard. The windows command shell will ... fgets() and sscanf() to read terminal input instead of scanf ... You were using scanf to read some of the line and ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous May 2017 Development
  • Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly​ I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…

    ... 130

    is 30% faster than:

    100 GOTO ... />
    Let me insist: in BASIC programs is more efficient to ... the keyboard, this is for me the main defect in BASIC games ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic May 2017 BASIC
  • Flicker free animation in BASIC, is it possible ?With all my various noodlings in BASIC and indeed with my so far limited assembly​ I keep coming up with the same issue. How do you do animations wit…

    ... reading the keyboard in a language as slow as BASIC is essential ... number of tricks, such as faster keyboard routines, placing any code that ... start of the program for faster line number lookups etc all ...
    Dunny Dunny May 2017 BASIC
  • Beginner's z88dk help rqdI'm struggling to get my first z88dk C program to compile. My program is this: #include <spectrum.h> int main() { zx_border(INK_BLACK); } …

    ... and easy to read because it will be basic C. But I ... clearly something to do with keyboard and screen I/O I ... /> You would also read input devices like the keyboard, mouse, joysticks directly ... using the input library to read input devices directly.
    < ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous June 2017 Development
  • are there any machine code to basic converters?i know it sounds stupid but for amature programmers like me it would be great. i could speed up the basic on an emulator and it would give me more of…

    ... assembler registers would be Basic variables so INC ... They are program which read codes of Z80 instructions ... As PC is much faster than Spectrum and has ... and convert it to Basic this way. Commercial ... much bigger as each Basic instruction using variables, numbers ...
    Ralf Ralf July 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • ZXBaremulator v1.2Hi!, I've released ZXBaremulator v1.2. The new release add a few features and removes a limit. :) The new version can be downloaded from projec…

    ... the emu starts faster?
    I dunno where I read that the ... user doesn't use the keyboard until ...
    hikoki hikoki August 2017 Emulators
  • ZXBaremulator v1.2Hi!, I've released ZXBaremulator v1.2. The new release add a few features and removes a limit. :) The new version can be downloaded from projec…

    ... the emu starts faster?
    I dunno where I read that the ... user doesn't use the keyboard until ...
    rich_chandler rich_chandler August 2017 Emulators
  • 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. …

    ... today. To read a key from the keyboard in BASIC I have been ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Thought this would be simple... Z80Hi Folks, Started to read "Beyond simple BASIC, Delving Deeper into your ZX Spectrum" by Dilwyn Jones. This is a great book and I came across the…

    ... up the following demo in BASIC so I could get ... not bad speed wise for BASIC and even handles the ... REM ------------------------------------------
    110 REM ZX BASIC Mouse Cursor Demo
    120 ... S=NS
    280 REM Read Keyboard
    290 REM Only Cursor ...
    Paddy Coleman Paddy Coleman September 2017 Development
  • 48k Issue 6a Very sick indeed.Hi Guys. I have a 48k Issue 6a board that shows a white screen with grey border. The white screen has three black squares spaced equally on the le…

    ... . Beware however that some will read low, due to them being ... the number keys of the keyboard).

    Once you have ... started running the machine code BASIC interpreter program from the ROM ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK October 2017 Hardware
  • Help with a TIMEX TC2048 and memory problemBought a 2nd hand Timex TC2048 but unfortunately I detected a problem with the machine which is preventing it from working properly. I believe it …

    ... fitted have an equal or faster access time, it normally makes ... not, have you tried using BASIC to POKE values at addresses ... PRINT "address ";a;" wrote ";d;" read ";PEEK a
    60 NEXT ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK December 2017 Hardware
  • Can you tell me Games which benefit from Recreated Keyboard Game Mode (Mode B) setting?Can someone tell me Games which benefit from Recreated Keyboard Game Mode (Mode B) setting? I yet only successfully tried games with QWERTY-Mode s…

    ... . Are you sure? I've read that both modes work via ... and typing Basic. The other mode works like a regular keyboard for ... play games than the pc keyboard mode.
    hikoki hikoki December 2017 Hardware
  • Witchcraft: Nirvana, Bifröst and such[url="http://www.rgcd.co.uk/2011/10/buzzsaw-zx-spectrum.html"]"When considering this next to nearly every other ZX Spectrum game though, Buzzsaw is l…

    ... , it's cut off because BASIC is slow enough anyway, without ... 's best to have a read of one of the books ... offset, and two bytes are read. Because you've set up ... have the Speccy's BASIC interpreter and keyboard support still running, then ...
    joefish joefish January 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • IN instruction on emulatorsHi everyone I wrote: 10 PAUSE 0 20 PRINT IN 63486 If i press 1, result is 190 instead of 254 (i used FUSE and Spin) If i press 2, 189 (253) i…

    ... br /> You need to read beyond the first paragraph ... /> [quote]
    The keyboard is divided up into 8 ... Now compare that with the BASIC listing in the first ... is pressed, the value read from the port is ... br /> Since you can’t read individual bits from a port ...
    Ast_A_Moore Ast_A_Moore March 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • ZXBaremulator v3.H(ikoki) BetaHi, Thanks to a Recreated ZX kindly donated by Hikoki, I've added support for it to ZXBaremulator. Now two keyboards can be connected to the PI…

    ... quote]

    NONSENSE IN BASIC

    [/quote]
    A game can read the keyboard so many times per ... keyboard sensitivity depends of every keyboard.

    When keyboard is ... all emulators using an USB keyboard.

    So ...
    zx81 zx81 April 2018 Emulators
  • INC not working as expected in LoopHi, i have been working on this for around 2 weeks now and Ive read myself into a hole. I am trying to increment HL. HL is referencing a display …

    ... ] assembly language is compared to BASIC. It can very easily run ... to realise that reading the keyboard will tell you if a ... ]pressed[/i] since you last read it - if the key is ...
    AndyC AndyC April 2018 Assembler
  • Have I got a mystery for you!All morning I worked on this set of 12 UDG's to draw a better looking tank. I created the UDG's and wrote the program in Basic using BASin for Beginn…

    ... cant or wont read any BASin files saved in Basic as .BAS ... it easier to manipulated with keyboard controls.
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch May 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Better keyboard = better sales ?Just a random thought. I want to start this by saying although I did not have a + model new, I was never really a fan of this keyboard as it was n…

    ... Electron due to the "proper" keyboard.[/quote]
    [/quote]

    BASIC. Even better, I bought mine ... the way the ram was read or something ? I realise ... bit more.

    The keyboard was quite nice though, similar ...
    spider spider August 2018 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Non-repetitive RNDHi guys) Perhaps, some of you already encountered a situation, when one needed a set of [b]unique [/b](pseudo-)random values, say, from zero to 25…

    ... . On the ZX Spectrum, for BASIC you can use the frames ... not affect one another. The faster astable multivibrator feeds ripple counters ... , ready for the CPU to read. This is not as good ...
    1024MAK 1024MAK December 2018 Sinclair Basic
  • Need the title of the Sinclair Basic manual to look for itI had a copy but I've lost the USB chip it was on! I need it to look up commands because some Basic programs I looked at all used the command MOD and…

    ... to see how the ordinary keyboard works, whats good is that ... out and they say its faster too which is good for ... know there wasnt any Sinclair Basic example.

    I'm ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch January 2019 BASIC
  • Short Sinclair BASIC tutorialsHello, if anyone is new to Sinclair BASIC (the built-in ROM one) or feeling the need for a refresh there are (currently eleven) quick 'Under 5 m…

    ... Hour BASIC for the BBC microcomputer"
    Which I read over and ... over again before even touched a computer keyboard ... .amazon.co.uk/30-Hour-BASIC-ZX-Spectrum/dp/0860823946
    SKR SKR March 2019 BASIC
  • Short Sinclair BASIC tutorialsHello, if anyone is new to Sinclair BASIC (the built-in ROM one) or feeling the need for a refresh there are (currently eleven) quick 'Under 5 m…

    [quote="SKR;951270"]I learned BASIC from the book
    "30 ... Hour BASIC for the BBC microcomputer"
    Which I read over and ... over again before even touched a computer keyboard ...
    LoadingScreech LoadingScreech March 2019 BASIC
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... to save RAM though? I read somewhere in the last few ... remember where unfortunately) that Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum will still ... integer for instance. I also read that the ROM will use ... drawing is only a little faster than my Spectrum version.
    patters patters April 2019 Brand new software
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... to save RAM though? I read somewhere in the last few ... remember where unfortunately) that Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum will still ... integer for instance. I also read that the ROM will use ... prints the string a bit faster.

    [quote="patters;952078 ...
    IvanBasic IvanBasic April 2019 Brand new software
  • Brain 8I am glad to present my new "experiment" in Sinclair Spectrum 48K BASIC. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17_wCFWaAl5diIVt3rPLTbKhxDmPmYmOs/view?us…

    ... prints the string a bit faster.[/quote]

    TAB 32 ... could escape variables in Sinclair BASIC and have them enumerated at ... plus side, I can now read huge sequences of CHR$ data ...
    patters patters April 2019 Brand new software
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