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Screenshots from my old BASIC gamesI have written several dozens of games in 90's. They haven't remained, so I show only screenshots 'for history'. Some screenshots are real, but all…
... have been written on a BASIC; gameplay was very primitive.
My last BASIC game (possibly, the largest BASIC game for ZX Spectrum ... -
Play abc files in 128K mode?I was reading a tutorial on the abc music file format, and it seems the txt file has information that might allow a simple conversion from .abc to st…
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Same scale in 128K Basic:
cdefgAB
< ... may be more attractive to Basic programmers, would be a ... -Export Spectrum music from 128k Basic to abc format
Basic. :)
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Stealth AllRAM SpectrumHaving just received a couple of new keyboard membranes to fix a couple of machines with, the thought crossed me that I should do a special project w…
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Using INPUT without clearing last two lines of screen?I'm trying to print to the 22nd row of the screen using the ol' print #0 trick. Unfortunately, I require user INPUT which seems to wipe out the botto…
... re-PRINT the data using BASIC! :)[/QUOTE]
A ... you couldn't reprint in Basic. :)
[QUOTE=Winston ... way to go. In Basic I have so many letters ... me time to master. [SIZE="1"]And yes, I've ... MC what I did in Basic.[/SIZE]
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Russian Translations...As i have once again been reminded (by the "Homebrew games" thread), there are some funky looking Russian games that I can't play due to not understa…
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Making BASIC occupy less RAM?I risk being told to search the forums and the entire archive of type-ins, but here it goes... Is there any known utility to do all the hard work of…
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PFlagsIs there an explantion somewhere of what bits mean what in the printing flags? 1 23658 FLAGS2 More flags. 1 23693 ATTR P Permanent current col…
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[SIZE=1]4 - Unused by 48K BASIC.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]5 ... .[/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]7 - unused.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=1]-------------------------------[/SIZE]
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I am currently playing......Don't know if there's been a thread like this, but I can't find one.... Having seen all the different threads asking people if they've played such a…
... game file (usually the largest file size on a download site) and ... -
MAME-can anybody help?I downloaded MAME and a test rom successfully but I can,t get the rom running. Anybody know why?
... need the one with the largest file size for any of them ... -
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…
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gLoaderPayload.putdataintlit_min(CODE_OFFSET); // 23759+basic size
gLoaderPayload.putdata(':');
gLoaderPayload ... ' could be replaced by any basic-printable character, but I didn ... -
z80 Helper?When you are programming with z80 do you get 'lost' you are in the middle of making a routine and you can't remember which registers are holding val…
... first thing popped would be "largest block size".
Without all ... -
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…
... memory, what is the largest 9999 line BASIC program that could be ... -
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 …
... for when a Basic listing becomes over a certain size and starts ... -
Compiling BASIC programs using Hi-Soft CompilerThis might get me nowhere, but it's worth a try... I'm writing a game in Spectrum BASIC - hopefully, for Simon's CD compilation, if he'll have it - …
... writing a game in Spectrum BASIC - hopefully, for Simon's ... Spectaculator/SPIN running Hi-Soft BASIC compiler. I've been ... just superbly until the size of the BASIC program crept above 14K ... test the compiled program whilst BASIC program and compiler were still ... -
Printing in 64 columns, from Basic?Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any known machine code utility that allows something similar to PRINT AT that can be called fr…
Not strictly a Sinclair Basic question but... Is there any ... that can be called from Basic but uses 64 or maybe ... />
I'm creating small Basic programs that allow me to ... to 15 x 15 in size. Being able to visualize the ... 's easy to call from Basic? Thanks! -
Vector font in BASiCHi guys) Some fifteen years ago I saw a quite short BASIC prog that could simulate a vector font with size/ thickness/ italicization params. I remem…
... short BASIC prog that could simulate a vector font with size/ thickness ... a'la vector font in BASiC.
I've got ... /> 1440 PRINT "THEN, WRITE YOUR BASIC LINES TO"
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File size in 128K RAM diskHi Folks, Is there a way to get the size of a file stored in the 128K RAM disk from within a BASIC program? Many thanks Paddy
Hi Folks,
Is there a way to get the size of a file stored in the 128K RAM disk from within a BASIC program?
Many thanks
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Lame BASIC BEEPer editor - alphaI like music, like BASIC and find all current music utilities complicated. Since I enjoy Sinclair BASIC so much, I came up with a simple BEEPer edito…
I like music, like BASIC and find all current music ... complicated. Since I enjoy Sinclair BASIC so much, I came up ... few other things...
[SIZE="1"][COLOR="LemonChiffon"]P.S ... way over my head.[/COLOR][/SIZE] -
Copying Files in +3e BASIC (not using COPY command)Hello there my fellow WoS'ers Yet again I find myself in need of guidance, I am sooo close to getting my prototype up. I am writing my own byte cop…
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thats about the size of it, b$ and c ... something like this under +3e basic?
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smooth movement in basicWas trying to figure this out myself but i would like to be pointed in right direction now :-). How do I make something move in Basic without gettin…
... I make something move in Basic without getting flicker. 1st i ... is a flicker on any size and any udg over 8 ... split second.
My sinclair basic knowledge is VERY limited but ... try make some games in basic 1st. -
The largest game worldThere's a comparison of the area size of open world games at; [url]http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/aperturesilence/blog/a-relative-size-comparison-…
... a comparison of the area size of open world games at ... /profile/aperturesilence/blog/a-relative-size-comparison-of-game-world-maps ... be about sixteen times the size of JC2!
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MOVE_M Object Movement Manager for BASICAs moving things around on the screen is usually the slowest part of a game written in BASIC, I've been pottering around with this routine to handle …
... /> DISPLAY defines object types, size, movement, range, colours
BASIC:
REM To ... ; MOVE_M moving object control for BASIC
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Very rare Spectrum ZX-81 clone 1982 LAMBDA 8300 = BASIC 2000 vintage computerFor sale a very compact size 1982 computer Lambda 8300 known also as Basic 2000 in good condition. This computer is very rare. I haven't tested it si…
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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…
... model 1 with level 2 basic. One of the games ... came across the full basic source and decided to ... it over in C. Basic being basic, there's a lot ... add to the program size but I managed to ... machine.
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BBC Basic on the ZX Spectrum - possible?I have never used a Cambridge Z88 - but I understand it was Z80 based and had a functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the…
... functionally equivalent version of BBC BASIC ( I'm guessing minus the ... designed for the Z88 screen size. I wonder if it could ... -
ANN: SP1 for Z88DK (aka splib3, Sprite Pack v3.0)Well it's finally arrived, after a month of "a few days from now" release deadlines. SP1 is the lastest version of splib, a flicker-free software sp…
... like C, Pascal, Fortran and Basic were king. A language is ... type contains a table of size N (determined by you). When ... (a min heap) or the largest item in the array (a ... item (min heap) or the largest item (max heap), and to ... -
The Only Reason Sinclair Succeeded (Provoking Controversy)Although I love my Sinclairs dearly, I think that the only reason they succeeded was because at the time most people did not know any better (factori…
... a strong version of basic (better that anything offered ... who were buying in largest numbers anymore, it was ... beginner. The version of basic was excellent and I ... power to video display size is about at the ... really weak version of basic. The disk system was ... -
Calculating the address of a pixel?Hi Folks, Is there an easy/quick way of calculating the memory address of a pixel? So for example, if I wanted to "plot" pixel at screen coordinate…
... in machine code than in BASIC)
It is in many ... Color!
Sinclair took the largest ULA ferranti did at the ... choose ANY block of ANY size you're stuck with three ... fixed-size blocks. Even the linear frame ... -
Thanks for the memories... is it 16k or 48k? Hi. At three different flea markets in Gothenburg, Sweden I found just as many Spectrums... (and a ZX81! [img]/__forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif…
... out the size of their RAM-memory?
Most basic-dialects ...
