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  • saving part of a BASIC programHere's a short routine to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it can be merged into a program and then used to save sub-routines, etc. to …

    ... to save part of a BASIC program. The idea is that it ... can be merged into a program and then used to save ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny September 2011 Sinclair Basic
  • Run BASIC program by R. USR xxxxxGuys, please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting with line 10. I'd like to start it by RANDOMIZE USR xxxxx. Which paramete…

    ... , please help. Suppose I have BASIC program in my Spectrum 48K starting ... that would start BASIC interpreter to process my program.

    Rgds ...
    MrShhh MrShhh March 2003 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Getting basic program listings into a text fileHi - can anyone tell me if there is an easy way of getting basic program listings out of an (any) Spectrum emulator and into a text file on your PC? …

    ... an easy way of getting basic program listings out of an (any ...
    jacobmph jacobmph March 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • How To Upload BASIC program To WOS archiveIn 1987 when i was 15 years old,i wrote a program in BASIC on my Speccy 128 called ART STUDIO..yeah i know Its the only basic program i have ever wr…

    ... old,i wrote a program in BASIC on my Speccy ... />
    Its the only basic program i have ever written and ... able to rescue the program from the original cassete ... at the time using the program wot i wrote ;) ) ... and the MAIN program.
    It loads in ...
    M.A.F M.A.F March 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Help with a basic programI'm doing a very small basic program which I know is bloated, but it works. (I have limited basic knowledge compared to most on here). I just wondere…

    ... 'm doing a very small basic program which I know is bloated ... it works. (I have limited basic knowledge compared to most on ...
    Nonsense in BASIC Nonsense in BASIC August 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • What is the (hypothetically) largest 9999 lines BASIC program possible?If the Speccy had infinite amounts of memory, what is the largest 9999 line BASIC program that could be made? (in K and amount of instructions) (Yet…

    ... is the largest 9999 line BASIC program that could be made? (in ...
    ZnorXman ZnorXman February 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Switching 48/128 modes within a BASIC programI'm not sure what use this would be; ie. being able to switch between 48k and 128k modes and back again from within a continuously running BASIC prog…

    ... from within a continuously running BASIC program, but as it's been ... to 48k modes while the BASIC program continues to run. Unfortunately, when ...
    Battle Bunny Battle Bunny July 2012 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic program malfunctionHello. Please does anyone know why this basic program 10 LET x=0 20 LET x=x+0.1 30 print x 40 if x<>1 then goto 20 50 STOP does not properly work o…

    Hello.
    Please does anyone know why this basic program

    10 LET x=0
    20 LET x=x+0.1
    30 print x
    40 if x1 then goto 20
    50 STOP

    does not properly work on the speccy?
    Saltor Saltor June 2014 Sinclair Basic
  • Saving BASIC program from Spectrum to PCSo I did something stupid. I started writing a program on the Spectrum, and before I knew it I am on line # 1430 of my BASIC program. I now have had…

    ... stupid. I started writing a program on the Spectrum, and before ... on line # 1430 of my BASIC program.
    I now have had ... tapes). Can I save the program on my PC?
    I ...
    Seeker Seeker April 2017 Hardware
  • Is there a simple way to type a Spectrum BASIC Program into notepad, save, then open in emulator?Hello. I have two emulators 1 under linux:- Fuse. 1 under windows 7 :- spin, also downloaded and run zx-editor. I just want to be able to type in …

    ... able to type in a BASIC program using notepad or editor, without ... .
    However, loading in a basic file from notepad or zx ...
    rholduser rholduser March 2020 Sinclair Basic
  • Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …

    ... can try it with a large BASIC program like Football Manager online.< ... , and, furthermore, the BASIC program proved to be saveable without ... the structure of BASIC programs, patch up the hole with ... equivalent) statements in your program or is it mainly "code ...
    GOC GOC August 2004 Development
  • 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…

    The BASIC program sits just after ... will only allow the BASIC program to expand up to address 39999. ... 65535 store the user-defined graphics characters A-U.
    ... the little bit of BASIC that loads first and ... />
    But from BASIC, there is no easy way ...
    joefish joefish September 2016 Sinclair Basic
  • My new Lovecraft-inspired game, "In the Walls of Eryx", is almost ready for release!Bit of back-story first: I regularly go to sleep while listening to a Lovecraft-audiobook-filled playlist that I've created on Youtube. In August, I …

    ... to do but the BMP2SCR program keeps messing up the shading), and save ...
    The Lone Magpie The Lone Magpie December 2016 Announcements
  • Microdrive woesHi there! Just managed to pick up a 2nd hand Microdrive and interface one... Came with an introductory program which doesn't seem to load. Since its…

    ... a bug whereby loading a large basic program when there is insufficient free ...
    Geoff Geoff March 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • a poke to change fonts??hi ppl, there wasnt some poke in basic to change the look alike of the fonts of speccy?? I guess I did things like that in eighties.. also, there…

    If you only use BASIC, you don't really need ... .

    Just state in BASIC the next command and every ... the memory reserved. Your BASIC-program may grow up to almost 32K in ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP October 2002 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …

    ... paging...

    In 128K BASIC the operating system sometimes
    large BASIC program would occupy this area, it ... corrupted.

    The 48 BASIC system is very robust but ... in the middle of your program when it is listed.
    Geoff Geoff August 2004 Development
  • Basic corruptionDoes anyone have any tips or solutions for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts to get corrupted due to paging... I remember …

    ... , but the rest of the program
    >can always be ... can try it with a large BASIC program like Football Manager online.
    program.

    [ This Message was ...
    Geoff Geoff August 2004 Development
  • Games in machine codeHi everyone, How do go about doing multiple shots like a machine gun, do you have to store every x and y position of each bullet? When you kill som…

    ... had strange things happen, like graphics messing up and sound distortions. Some games ...
    sekrets sekrets November 2010 Development
  • Override AUTOLINE start?Hi there, Is there a poke that prevents a BASIC program from auto running, when it was previously saved with the LINE command? Cheers, Steve

    ... /> Save the header of a large basic program
    (larger than the code ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP November 2010 Sinclair Basic
  • My new Lovecraft-inspired game, "In the Walls of Eryx", is almost ready for release!Bit of back-story first: I regularly go to sleep while listening to a Lovecraft-audiobook-filled playlist that I've created on Youtube. In August, I …

    ... to do but the BMP2SCR program keeps messing up the shading)[/quote]
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas December 2016 Announcements
  • Numeric arrays: floating point or integer?I've just started programming a game in Sinclair BASIC (see the thread 'UFO Defence Command' in game ideas, although I'm going to call it ZXCOM ;) ).…

    ... the arrays within the BASIC program, you end up with two copies: one ... BASIC initialisation (or, better still, keeping it in a separate program)? Your program ...
    Georgeo Georgeo September 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • Numeric arrays: floating point or integer?I've just started programming a game in Sinclair BASIC (see the thread 'UFO Defence Command' in game ideas, although I'm going to call it ZXCOM ;) ).…

    ... the arrays within the BASIC program, you end up with two copies: ... BASIC initialisation (or, better still, keeping it in a separate program)? Your program ... are saved along with the BASIC program.
    This method ... the size of the program ever so slightly (i ...
    The_Bert The_Bert September 2017 Sinclair Basic
  • How to stop a flickering character erasure?I'm trying to figure out how to build a moving sprite. Eventually it will be made up of several UDG's. However its early days yet so I'm experimentin…

    ... - thinking about that NEXT Basic program you put up? I am not impressed ... however powerful this version of Basic is, its not user friendly ... like the original Sinclair Basic.

    I'm ... whatever its called and the Basic I've already covered. I ...
    mik3d3nch mik3d3nch May 2018 BASIC
  • 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…

    ... year I started writing a BASIC program for making and recording ... **
    1258 REM ** doubling up on keys will work **
    graphics look.
    2172 REM *** ... Sound FX keypress, move up one effect, draw waveform ...
    RetroPhase2014 RetroPhase2014 December 2015 Sinclair Basic
  • 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…

    ... reproducing them below. The program itself is about 40k but ... up loading on a real machine.

    Original basic ... Besides costing
    a large initial investment, they also cost ... (this helps to prevent large yearly price fluctuations). To
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous July 2016 Brand new software
  • Printing UDGs in BASICAfter looking a little through Winer Milly's code, it struck me that I might be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by replacing: FOR a=0 TO 31: PR…

    ... be able to speed up my Cybernoid editor by ... ? I am coding the BASIC program in a Text Editor ( ... TextMate with a Sinclar Basic plugin).

    ... I have all the tile graphics stored in memory location in ... a way that lines up where the pointer is ...
    48K 48K March 2007 Sinclair Basic
  • Looking for an extended BASIC graphics routine from mid- to late-80sHello all, This is my first post here so please go easy. This is basically a cut-and-paste job from comp.sys.sinclair where I've had no luck with an…

    ... I've discovered a small BASIC program that makes use of both ... commands from a typed-in BASIC extender program. Alas the machine code ... based loosely on the Turtle Graphics elements of Logo, and ... their syntax, or recalls a graphics extension routine that might be ...
    denali denali May 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Just wrote my first useful working Speccy BASIC program in years...A nice UK National Lottery number generator. And not just any lotto number generator either. This one generates 8 lines of 6 numbers without replace…

    ... picking his lotto numbers (tearing up 49 pieces of paper with ... word wrapping) and fire it up. Who knows - you just might ... program in that language. Now that I've succeeded in Speccy BASIC ... />

    10 REM lotto program to pick
    20 REM ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick November 2008 Development
  • CellularBasicPro - enhanced BASIC interpreter for mobile phones and devicesDownload location : [url]http://code.google.com/p/cellularbasicpro/downloads/list[/url] Features of cellularBasicPro include : - Extensive mathem…

    ... Color (RGB) color graphics.
    - Fast double buffered graphics support.
    - ... /> - Subroutines and Functions support.
    - Large BASIC programs support.

    CellularBasicPro ... programming hobbysts that want to program on the go small ...
    yossik yossik August 2009 Announcements
  • Tutorial - learn machine code in 30mins[B][I]Message from the moderators[/I] - bigjon has requested that readers' attention be drawn to a better version of this tutorial, one which is easi…

    ... Spectrum basic, and the ZX Spin emulator.
    Make yourself a large ... for main section of program as opposed to graphics data etc
    basic program.

    CHAPTER 3 - move ... 53 again!
    To clean up the score at GAMEOVER insert ...
    bigjon bigjon November 2009 Development
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