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  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... answer your question about the BASIC. As far as I ... , by far, the best BASIC (it was fast, had ... , had a very good manual, you could even muck ... and the worst was Commodore BASIC, in which, apart from ... in comparison to the other BASIC adaptations. I seem to ...
    GOC GOC September 2004 Games
  • 8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…

    ... it was to write own basic programs. C64 was at the ... Spectrum was broken. After reading manual I had to accept the ... of them were writing own Basic programs, because it was too ... /> Graphics and sound: C64
    Basic and playability: Spectrum

    jocu jocu September 2004 Games
  • Doom for the Speccy?I have just heard about Doom for the Speccy! Is this for real? I would love to play this as i looooove Doom (and me Speccy) Can anyone direct me o…

    ZX81!!!

    Now there's an idea... ;)

    I wonder how many levels of Doom I can cram into 1K? You DO realise what you've unleashed here, don't you... ? :lol:

    *slinks away to find the ZX81 BASIC manual*
    monty.mole monty.mole September 2004 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... by the errors in the manual, such as the author reckoning ... by trying to read the manual (tiny print on a green ... misnamed, it was actually a BASIC compiler), but this was another ...
    robert@fm robert@fm September 2004 Games
  • games written using game writng programsI was reading through some issues of crash not long back and one article was about some 16 year old that wrote Frank n stein for the speccy(never pla…

    ... someone scanned me the manual but I haven't ... the Spectrum needed a Basic Lightning, since IDEAL can ... as fast as regular Spectrum Basic.


    ... and it has no manual. Maybe you've heard ... me scans of the Basic version manual and I sent it ...
    Sadako Sadako September 2004 Games
  • Starting from scratchHello, I'd lack to have a crack at writing a Spectrum game. I have very limited programming experience from mucking around with javascript and VB an…

    ... of call is obviously the BASIC manual that came with the Spectrum ... one time, and range from BASIC programming for the absolute beginner ... .

    There were many BASIC listings in old computer magazines ...
    monty.mole monty.mole October 2004 Development
  • who do you use 1 key b.a.s.i.c?well how do you. is there a web site about it. i do not have the original instruction book. from a 14 year old kid (named matthew.......) [ This Me…

    You read the [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/documentation.html#manuals"]Documentation[/url] section, specifically the ZX Basic Manual.
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall October 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Favourite thing about the SpectrumWhat was/ or is your favourite thing/s about the Spectrum? Is it the soundchip of your favoured/owned machine, be it 48K beeper, or 128 AY the shee…

    [B]The Manual[/B]

    Such a ... + sad mates used to have basic programming compos at school.

    Yep, [B]The Manual[/B].

    Tobo.
    Tobo Tobo November 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • loading techniques I never worked outFirstly, how do games that load with LOAD "" CODE autorun? Secondly, how do you save a basic program as a CODE file (but not as BASIC compiled into …

    ... Chapters 24/25 of the BASIC manual for details):

    9999 ... save the sysvars and your BASIC program+variables, and the relevant ...
    Dunny Dunny November 2004 Sinclair Basic
  • Laser Basic Sprite GeneratorDoes anyone know how to use Laser Basic Sprite Generator? I've downloaded it from this site but I don't know what to do with it! Thanks in advance.

    ... quickly, you really need the manual to know the keyboard commands ... will only work with Laser Basic. You design your sprites with ...
    The Starglider The Starglider December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Does Anyone have any advice for me?Hey, I've just recently bought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum + (I've been looking for one for a good year or so) and I plan to be learning to program with …

    ... this website. The original ZX Basic Manual is there as well as ...
    Paul van der Laan Paul van der Laan December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Does Anyone have any advice for me?Hey, I've just recently bought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum + (I've been looking for one for a good year or so) and I plan to be learning to program with …

    ... this website. The original ZX Basic Manual is there as well as ...
    Trinity Trinity December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Does Anyone have any advice for me?Hey, I've just recently bought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum + (I've been looking for one for a good year or so) and I plan to be learning to program with …

    ... back to the topic. The manual is not a bad place ... on ebay I suppose). Speccy BASIC is very easy to pick ... /cgc2004/[/url] for the annual BASIC crap games competition. This a ... aim is to write a BASIC program that is as good ...
    Arjun Arjun December 2004 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • BASIC performance tips?Been fiddling around with an old project a little after rescuing it from tape, and I'm toying with the idea of completing it (hey, better late than n…

    ... 128k version of Hisoft's BASIC compiler and it seems to ... and error'?

    The manual's quite good, but it ...
    Lee Tonks Lee Tonks February 2005 Development
  • BASIC performance tips?Been fiddling around with an old project a little after rescuing it from tape, and I'm toying with the idea of completing it (hey, better late than n…

    ... to get back OT :): Profiling BASIC is an interesting idea, but ... the compiler, as opposed to BASIC. As for profiling machine ... those instructions and the corresponding BASIC line in order for ... />
    Which leaves us to 'manual' optimization :). If it's not ...
    GOC GOC February 2005 Development
  • MSX to speccy ports?World is full of speccy conversions for MSX, many of them worse than speccy original. (argh) There are MSX games which have converted to other syste…

    ... from university of VIC 20 BASIC Programming manual writers.
    chaosmongers chaosmongers March 2005 Games
  • 48k Spectrum+ ManualThe DK Manual that came with the 48k+. Not the 128k manual, the speccy plus version. I can't believe that we don't have the scans of this thing onli…

    ... , and better than the Plus manual in all but two respects ... really get to grips with BASIC, thn you could get a ... />
    The rest of the manual was utter shite tho, I ... in some of this manual to BASin's manual, and those 2 ...
    Dunny Dunny March 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • New Compo IdeaI've had this idea and would like to know what do you think about it. I think that most of us here know how to code in BASIC. The problem with Specc…

    ... in VARS for start of BASIC and POKE the first two ... ]

    ====================

    * General BASIC tips
    --------------------

    * Place ... contains various flags controlling the Basic system and generally should not ...
    na_th_an na_th_an April 2005 Development
  • 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. …

    ... Spectrum praktische tips,programma's, BASIC 1e druk 1983" (appendix 6 ... .org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanappa.html"]fine manual[/url].
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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. …

    ... from BASIC, though I have scribbled notes in my +2a's manual ... *must* have used them from BASIC, as I couldn't code ... 'll add it to the BASIC faq.

    D ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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. …

    ... levels of BASIC programming. If it's not in the manual (or ... my first contribution to the BASIC section at WOS.

    Dunny Dunny April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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. …

    ... 's mentioned in the speccy manual too, in the demo program ... get the correct value from BASIC short of issuing a DI ...
    Dunny Dunny April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • Kilroy's Caravan CapersWell, my entry for the comp.sys.sinclair crap games compo 2005 is now available for download at: [url="http://www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/speccy/cgc2005/…

    ... the snippet of BASIC code in the +3 manual that lets you ...
    BigBadMick BigBadMick April 2005 Games
  • RND not random?I recently wrote a simple Alien style game where the bad guys shoot you at random, it works fine, but after a while the Variable that is supposed to …

    ... /> (I sounds like the orange BASIC User Manual!)

    Summary: The ...
    BloodBaz BloodBaz April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • 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. …

    ... I last tinkered with Sinclair BASIC and I was pleasantly surprised ... hours going through the Spectrum BASIC Manual when I was very young ...
    Ian Hamilton Ian Hamilton April 2005 Sinclair Basic
  • BBC Radio 2Working on your own allows you to listen to what the **** you like all day. Although I listen to many CD's Tapes and Records("Daddy, Whats a record?"…

    ... of the BASIC programs in the original Orange ZX Spectrum manual available ...
    Geoff Geoff May 2005 Chit chat
  • Look At This Baby anyone got a lower numbered speccyI just missed out, but underwurlde is a seller so it will be on again, but i wont be able to afford it then. It looks like a grey keymat ?? Do you th…

    ... of Chapter 18 of the manual.

    As revealed by ... his 1982 book "Exploring Spectrum BASIC",
    Line 30 did not ... other mistakes that make the manual sought after.

    [ EDIT ...
    Geoff Geoff June 2005 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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