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What is the "SPECTRUM" keyword on a 128K?The 128K replaced UDG characters T and U with new commands; PLAY and SPECTRUM (or possibly the other way around.) The manual ([url="http://www.wor…
... command, or select 48K BASIC from the start menu, ... back to the 128K BASIC editor mode, other than ... /> Now, if you load this in 128K editor mode, and ... channel data is in different address in different roms. I ... ONERR routine is placed in the ZX Printer buffer, ... -
Was there a POKE that broke the SpectrumHi Everyone I've been recalling myths and rumours from back in the day. You know "Lunar Jetmans" trailer and that sort of thing. But one rumour …
... find ROM and RAM. POKE in BASIC simply writes the specified value ... location may cause the the BASIC ROM program to crash, but ... just ignored. And in fact, the BASIC program in the ROM actually does ... exists, poking random values in it's registers may cause data on ... -
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Once done, load in SpecEmu
Options, Options, Input ... and we are back in spectrum 48K basic mode.
Press ... the pads.
Load up Bomb Munchies
Press ... machine.
Testing in basic first, Sinclair 1 + 2
Full-screen 32 columns bicolor engine NIRVANA+I'm glad to announce the release of [b]NIRVANA+ ENGINE[/b], providing support for bicolor graphics (multicolor 8x2) in 32 columns for all standard Sp…
... e,0x00" is a dead load and it's eliminated here ... save the value of changed registers in inlined asm. You'll always ... optimizer and if NIRVANA_start() affects registers, may cause bugged code to ...1985-2015.A topic where we can review games released on the Speccy 30 years ago, or, anyway, talk about that year.
... .worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/screens/load/t/gif/Thermo-NuclearWar.gif ... the duffers released during 1985 in order to see if any ... was reviewed by Angus Ryall in Crash. As this seems to ... whole game is written in BASIC and in his review Angus describes the ...Weekend Project - AKA - Spectrum PI MKIOk, after my disapointment with the ZX Vega it made me want to build a simple Raspberry PI build to support a vision that is right for me. Here is…
... directory, then when you load the SD card into ... RaspBerry Pi, whatever was in that directory will be ... automatically available in the Boot directory of ... kids how to program in BASIC on the old TV... ... cursor that lingers needlessly in the top left corner, ...Problem with BC corrupting after DJNZJust for fun, I'm messing around trying to get the level maps from Lemmings to display on the screen with machine code. It's been ages since I did an…
... /> LD (HL),A ; LOAD THAT ADDRESS WITH THE ATTRIB ... /> Includes the code to load Lemmings levels from the tape ... me. The snapshot one in the archive always crashes. ... The one written in C that takes windows ... it will be mostly in basic. This m/c routine ...Best Z80 Assembler for PC?There's probably already a thread for this so if somebody could please point me at it I'd appreciate it. If there isn't then please respond here wit…
... TAP with a BASIC loader. This should load code as it ... CODE files but without a BASIC loader.
Now ... for how to do this in *NIX or DOS:
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Then try and load it in an emulator.
load' call into the ROM ...128K programmingDoes anyone know any good resources on assembly programming for the 128? All I'm after is an "idiot's-getting-started-guide" on how to utilise the…
... to load and run at 0x8000 and do a CLEAR 32767 in BASIC ...128K programmingDoes anyone know any good resources on assembly programming for the 128? All I'm after is an "idiot's-getting-started-guide" on how to utilise the…
I believe there was also a way to set banks and then load the data from BASIC into every bank.
I wonder if that's actually easier to use, especially for people who wants to load data in other ways.Help! I'm learning Machine Code...Having decided to take the plunge and learn to machine code a while ago, I have started in earnest using the much recommended 'Mastering Machine Code…
... them from decimals. So in this case, you could ... assembler would handle this. In theory it would mean " ... your code with data statements in BASIC - waaay to tedious. Get ... a text file, then in a console (cmd.exe ... tap file you can load on your Speccy/emulator ...Reading PC text files from BASIC!I was playing around with my DivMMC Enjoy! and managed to work out that it's dead easy to load PC .TXT files into the Speccy - I've got them viewable…
... the load, save and print routines in Tasword are written in BASIC and the ... allows saving of code blocks in the same way the Speccy ...Reading PC text files from BASIC!I was playing around with my DivMMC Enjoy! and managed to work out that it's dead easy to load PC .TXT files into the Speccy - I've got them viewable…
... could output a TAP with Basic programs, one for each HTML ... .
The Basic program will be very simple ... , with all the text in print instructions. That way you ... each, do an INPUT and load the next Basic program. :-)Are turbo loaders worth it?I found turbo loaders fascinating and I've spent quite some time disassembling and trying different types, and they work great when I load the games …
... ones. Alkatraz ones first load a bit BASIC block and then had ... the fancy screen loading) and in some cases (most?) they actually ... a turbo loader that can load safely in any cassette).
in the BASIC block. That will spare ...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 ... switch to 48 BASIC in order to load it with 48K music ...Ultimate games with short machine code files loaded lastThis is a bit geeky, you've been warned! I remember early Ultimate games loaded from tape had the ascending beeping noise, a "Please wait" message, …
... implies:
- If you load the code at the original ... would avoid disassembling unless you load it at 24572 (crappy ... doing something between the last LOAD "" CODE and the PRINT ... - The loader is embedded in BASIC and encrypted (in Alkatraz, it takes some ...Help needed with MIA software with custom (?) loaderHi, I've got into my hands recently a bunch of Polish educational software which are unknown MIA on WOS. I believe they are protected with some…
... /> 0x5B2A RST 20 ; in the C register whilst (ROM ... present command are executed in turn. Any required separators ... 0x5B42 LD BC,5B3A ; Pre-load the machine stack
... 1C8A ; REPORT-C - Nonsense in BASIC (ROM)
;Handle CLEAR< ...Some Graphic Coding & Audio help.Hello my fellow WoS'ers I am in the process of writing some code for graphical purposes - I have Z88DK raring to go but I do not know how to take…
... space (in your mind) just after the display file to load data ... from disk. This way you recoup memory lost to basic ... in a character array like "unsigned char buffer[1024];" and load ... I would load all the data into banks needed in basic before the ...New Game (2016 revival): A Yankee in Iraq (1992)Hello everyone, Way back in 1992, I wrote a shoot-em-up called [i]A Yankee in Iraq[/i]. The entire game was written in Sinclair BASIC. Recently, I…
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In an effort to revive the ... figured out how to load a headerless BASIC file to reduce the ... of a game I did in BASIC back in the day too. I ...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…
... 10 CLEAR 30311: LOAD "" SCREEN$: POKE 23739,111: LOAD "" CODE: RANDOMIZE ...
Sinclair BASIC holds numbers twice in two different formats: text ... to find hidden numbers in BASIC loaders, as a form ... a way of saving bytes in the BASIC loader?
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…
... 's roughly equivalent to the BASIC instruction:
[b ... in machine code. There are particular letters and combinations of 'registers ... of one of my routines in BASIC would be:
[ ... Now if you ran this in BASIC (use [b]GOSUB 1000[/b ...UDG generator doesn't work, why?Typing in the UDG generator from the manual I get integer out of range when I run it. I'm going nuts trying to figure out whats wrong. Can someone pl…
... complete moron at programming in Basic. All these clever suggestions ... 't a clue about registers, stacks,interrupts etc. etc ... for me to ask my basic Basic questions?
... easier(?) to do in hex or binary using ... d rather stick to Basic even if it does ...Best place to start learning assembly on WOS ?So I'm pretty new at this forum but not the Speccy so my BASIC is pretty good. I can see lots of resources on WOS for doing machine code/assembly but…
... you've been POKEing addresses in BASIC and using decimal numbers. ... just worked out in decimal, whereas in hex it would ... maths using just integer registers? Or do you want ... what your code does in half as many bytes ... hanging round the forum in the first place! 8 ...Graphics program in AssemblyHi so I think I'm getting the hang of this so I've done this program. It writes directly to the screen. I'm using ZX Spin. [code] LD HL,16384 LD B,…
... /> So I tried to load this from BASIC by POKEING the DATA ... 'm doing something wrong.
In the DATA statement I have ...how to load machine codeI'm reading Jon Caldwell's how to write Spectrum games but can't enter the code! Here's an example:_ LD BC, (score) Call 6683 I tried putting…
... man, you invoked a massive load of nostalgia for me :)
in Basic :) And it was not only ... explanation that you need to load a special program to be ... able to program in assembler. It was obvious for ...how to load machine codeI'm reading Jon Caldwell's how to write Spectrum games but can't enter the code! Here's an example:_ LD BC, (score) Call 6683 I tried putting…
... , you invoked a massive load of nostalgia for me :)< ... b]LD A,3[/b] in Basic :) And it was not only ... that you need to load a special program to ... ]very[/b] briefly mentioned in the Spectrum manual (Chapter 26 ... There is no assembler built in to the Spectrum, but ...How to get more than 21 UDG's in BASIC?So with graphics mode under the G cursor how many UDG's can you do from BASIC is it 21? It's all POKE 65368 and above and it's sequential ABCD.... an…
... . Is how to load the custom characters from my BASIC listing. ie ... at the start of my BASIC program
subroutine at line ... rest of the game written in BASIC follows.
[code]
5 ... ,60:CLS
rest of BASIC listing etc..
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how to fix instructions on screenI have a problem with my sequencer. I want the top half of the screen to stay fixed but allow the note values to print without pushing the instructio…
... by J.Clark Scott in my efforts to understand machine ... code. In it he explains about the ... of some of the Z80 registers, so to play it ... instead of 2, to load into the A register.
registers in the revers order of which ...how to load machine codeI'm reading Jon Caldwell's how to write Spectrum games but can't enter the code! Here's an example:_ LD BC, (score) Call 6683 I tried putting…
... contains the interpreter for BASIC, all the LOAD / SAVE functions and ... then the storage of your BASIC program starts. So you have ... instead of the five bytes BASIC uses.
Other ... when programming the Commodore 64 in BASIC you only have half the ...how to load machine codeI'm reading Jon Caldwell's how to write Spectrum games but can't enter the code! Here's an example:_ LD BC, (score) Call 6683 I tried putting…
... contains the interpreter for BASIC, all the LOAD / SAVE functions and ... then the storage of your BASIC program starts. So you have ... instead of the five bytes BASIC uses.
Other ... when programming the Commodore 64 in BASIC you only have half the ...
