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In need of a Poke (ooer!)Back in my very basic Basic days, machine code was a scary thing. I think I advanced as far as 'LD HA' (or something!) before giving up. However, so…
Back in my very basic Basic days, machine code was a scary thing. I ... tried to break into the loading
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ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
... creating strings with perfect screen wrap
Clipboard ... .. function
LOAD CODE/DATA/SCREEN$ etc all functional.
Supports loading and saving to .tzx/. ... support via the IN instruction, enabling machine code routines to get ... -
ANNOUNCE: BASin Release 12 ready for downloadWell, after a rather large break, BASin's latest incarnation is ready for public use. Probably. BASin is a Sinclair Spectrum development environme…
... creating strings with perfect screen wrap
Clipboard ... .. function
LOAD CODE/DATA/SCREEN$ etc all functional.
Supports loading and saving to .tzx/. ... support via the IN instruction, enabling machine code routines to get ... -
Help with loading knowledgeHi. I'm new to spectrum coding and have a few questions to do with how the spectrum loads programs. You press LOAD "" and play the tape, and it find…
... this code automatically executed to load the loading screen?
After the loading screen theres ... blocks to the correct places in RAM?
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XLR-8 Mastering utils: quick heads-upFirstly, only do this using an emulated 48K rubberkey at this stage because that's all it was ever tested on. "LOADER MAKER" - "First decrypter" - p…
... to put the control characters in yourself. Once it's ... puts the machine code part of the basic into the screen area which ... )
"SCREEN$ DESIGNER" - firstly, load the loading screen. After a short ... there is NO ERROR TRAPPING in this because it was only ... -
Creating a loading screen in 80'sToday painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loa…
Today painting a picture using a computer is easy with mouse, scanner etc. But in the 80's it was harder. So, how did "game artists" create their loading screens twenty years ago? Did they use lightpens or some kind of scanner? -
In Machine Code, what is the quickest way to sort bytes?I am playing around with some ordering of sprites, where I want to order them by vertical position. I used some Rodnay Zaks code to order some bytes…
... some bytes, and it works in "descending" order. I am ... having difficulty ordering them in ascending order (Changing "jr ... c,noswitch" gets it stuck in an endless loop.
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R: Tape Loading ErrorCan anyone explain how the Speccy knew that the loaded code was corrupt? I thought that in machine code every byte could be a instruction, so how wou…
... corrupt? I thought that in machine code every byte could be a ... it was getting garbage when in theory even a corrupt program ... most of the my Tape Loading Error errors occured right at ... /> Apologies if this is covered in another thread - I had a ...Running code from the display memory?Is it possible to run machine code from the memory area used by the display file? If you were really out of memory and some part of screen is not u…
Is it possible to run machine code from the memory area used ... memory and some part of screen is not used, would it ... to black/black, load some code in the display area and run ...How did games started with LOAD "" CODE auto-start?Some early games (l remember for example [B]Galaxians[/B] from 1982) was loaded with LOAD "" CODE, which in one single block first loaded the loading…
... LOAD "" CODE, which in one single block first loaded the loading screen, then rest ... of the game code which then ... display file in memory (due to the game loading both screen and code together ...Amaurote & Zub -- missing TZXs?With reference to [url=http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=209176&postcount=11]this post[/url], the TZX of Amaurote at WoS is of the…
... 't check to see which machine it's running on, displays ... ! and LOAD ! to hide the loading screen until it's fully loaded ... does, however, have some machine code embedded in the BASIC loader which it ... I couldn't find one in the TOSEC set. Is it ...How could you hear if loading BASIC or MC?When loading a Spectrum program from tape you could usually hear from the sound if it is a BASIC or is some machine code program *. My question is, w…
... hear the differens?
In BASIC I assume that the ... (e.g. PRINT) was represented in memory by some kind of ... in memory (and to tape) look about the same as a machine code ... to the sounds, I think loading machine code sounds hard and tight, and ...Looking for a type-in.I remember a type in program of a sliding block puzzle. It used code to shift the screen blocks. At the start of a game you could select how many m…
... jumble the pieces of screen up. The screen area that was used ... that drew some geometric patterns in for the puzzle though.
machine code window scroll routines scattered around ...Watching screen while debugging???I'll try to state my problem clearly, but I don't know if I'll succeed ..:) I load a Spectrum program into emulator (it doesn't matter which one at …
... enter debugger. In debugger you can execute machine code instructions (or ... instructions writing data to screen memory. It works ... suddenly,after many instructions,all screen is refreshed.
in any emulator, to watch changes to screen immediately ...Help loading OPUS data block ?Hi folks, A while back I obtained a Daton Software Card Games compilation which will be in the next Vault update: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/inf…
... compilation which will be in the next
... br /> For instance the loading screen for WHIST which loads ... /> 20 LOAD *1;"WHIST$"CODE : RANDOMIZE 47912: LET Z ... br /> LOAD *1;"OPUS$"CODE: RANDOMIZE 40000: LET Z ... I think there's a code in the filename.
Blake's 7I've got an idea for a Blake's 7 video game for the 128K Spectrum (Only problem is I can't code in neither machine code or Sinclair BASIC, so I will …
... is I can't code in neither machine code or Sinclair BASIC, so ... Music?: Yes (B7 theme tune in AY form and other tunes ... when presented with the Continue Screen.
Joystick Support: Kempston ... Yes - Alkatraz Loader
Loading Screen: Blake's 7 Logo (Series ...BASin Loading ScreensHi all, I've got a code for a program from the 2nd Issue of INPUT magazine and I wanted to create a loading screen for it. I've tried making the scre…
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I've got a code for a program from the ... a loading screen for it.
I've tried making the screen file in ... BASin, which is also where I inputted the code ... there's some sort of code to make it load..
Missing artist CG (several loading screens)The loading screen for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Bronx+Street+Cop$&pub=^Code+Masters+Ltd$&loadpics=3"]Bronx Street Co…
... this CG also made the loading screen for [URL="http://www. ... 27s+Elephant+Antics$&pub=^Code+Masters+Ltd$&loadpics= ... ] which is also not credited in that listing.
... [/img]
Also in [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org ...CJ in the USA (missing artist)The loading screen for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^CJ+in+the+USA$&pub=^Code+Masters+Ltd$&loadpics=3"]CJ in the USA[/URL…
... loading screen for [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^CJ+in ... +the+USA$&pub=^Code+Masters+Ltd$& ... amp;loadpics=3"]CJ in the ... www.worldofspectrum.org/showscreen.cgi?screen=screens/load/c/gif/ ...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…
... but... Is there any known machine code utility that allows something similar ... 15 in size. Being able to visualize the entire grid on screen ... : PRINT : PRINT : NEXT V[/CODE]
I even thought ... many 40 and 64 column machine code routines out there but, ...Code breaker by Paul DobieHaving a sort out over the rainy Bank Holiday and in the bottom of a box from the depths of a cupboard found an old C15 tape. On it is 'Code Breaker…
... the rainy Bank Holiday and in the bottom of a box ... .
On it is 'Code Breaker' by Paul Dobie. It ... in basic judging by how slow it plays, but has a loading screen ... experimented with old tape deck in the back of the PC ...Resolving USR entry point into a data + m/code block?Well, I had another look at that Merlin listing and decided that blowing up the faint page made it possible to read everything (with a struggle). How…
... problems with it, in that the loading instructions don't ... instructions expect 8768 bytes of CODE - there are 9594.
in the instructions.
machine code. So my question is ... to start the machine code?Machine code issue...Hi Folks, My trials with MCODE continue and I am stuck. I wrote the following program in BASIC to simply POKE an attribute byte in to a "box" on th…
... byte in to a "box" on the screen.
[CODE] ... br /> RETURN [/CODE]
This code works perfectly and is ... it.
[CODE]MCODE Version
Parameters:
CODE]
When ...Loading BASIC programs stored as "bytes:"Hi all, I have a question regarding loading BASIC programs, that I managed to save as machine code (I suppose) when I was a child, as a result of e…
... regarding loading BASIC programs, that I managed to save as machine code (I ... a result of experimentation with CODE, LINE etc. I'd ... 48k stores BASIC programs upon loading them. Does someone know how ... to proceed in this case?
...Hacking the O.C.P Full Screen Editor/AssemblerIf you have been reading my posts recently then you will know that I am eager to have the sourcecode I wrote for the Spectrum during the period 1988 …
... .C.P Full Screen Editor/Assembler was published in 1983 and written ... . I worked around the cassette loading/saving issue by using the ... to copy the object code to the screen (location 16384) so I ... development PC hard-drive in .DSK format. In total, I have saved ...ZX Flight - flight simulator (Basic)Yesterday I found this BASIC flight simulator on an old tape. Obviously this is a my type-in from an old ex-Yugoslavian magazine from mid 80s. I did …
... a few errors and add loading screen, so it now works ... Basically, its the landing situation in low visible environment, 2000 feet ... which is also mostly done in the basic), we can say ... this program would look like in machine code, accelerate your emulator 10 ...New game: Stamp QuestHappy new year speccies! [URL="https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0ByxiMYbPnlUdMTQ0MmZlMDctMTNjNS00NmJhLTg3NTQtMTU3ZTQwY2ViZWMx&hl=en"]https://docs.goo…
... at my first game done in assembly (loading screen above), it was based ... . I'd be very interested in getting some feedback on the ... on the subject of writing machine code. That man deserves a knighthood ...The short blocks loaded in Jet Pac(Hope this have not been previously discussed. If so, my apologies) Is there any reason why Jet Pac loads three short blocks after the main block? I…
... of LOAD "" CODE after the loading screen, for one single LOAD ""CODE 24572 : ... when assembling the NMI code in ROM and in fact, they patched ... a single M/C instruction. In fact, the value poked ... should look something like: LOAD ""CODE 245772: POKE 23728,233: ...Dig dug/Mr Do type gameA few years back my cousin had a battered old tape with a Dig Dug/Mr Do type game on it. It had apples you could push/drop and a snake that chased …
... , it had a loading screen and was written in machine code which leads me to ...BOB the Screen BuilderHere's my first attempt to use that tokenising idea from "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27p…
... "more on storing mazes" in a screen designer - "[url=http:// ... ; ASM program listings. The machine code routines & workspace are located ... room as possible for screen definitions (there's about ... in 128k mode.
The central idea is that each screen ...
