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Ways to use double buffering in basicI was meddling with woody's print stream code where you can print characters at any pixel location on screen. I was playing with 12 sprites, very ann…
... =Crisis]There is another artikel from tony baker about streams, he ... it is useable from basic altough its not real basic ofcourse
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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. …
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To use Kempston Mouse from basic:
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2Button JoystickHey guys, Is that possible to make a TS2068 recognize the 2nd button on a regular MSX joystick? Other features, including diagonals workd perfect, j…
Wow!
Thank you guys...
So if I just change the wires on the controler and plug gnd and fire buttons onto the second button, it should work?
Still, I would have no access to the second button from basic, right?
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Timex Sinclair 2068Hi guys. This is my first post here, the first of many, I hope.. :) I have a Timex Sinclair 2068 but don?t know much about it. It was given as a gif…
... to write playable games even from basic using these hardware sprites ... not possible to do them from basic. Also, hardware sprites do ... speed.
MSX1 basic is actually quite good. I ... prefer the unique variation of basic that sinclair made available ... -
Wanted: z80 asm routines...for the Sam. This call goes out to Colin and others who know how it should be done. If you look on the Sam C disk you can see the implementation…
... these commands are the standard BASIC
streams -5 to ... #2,"P" command is executed from BASIC prior to running your program ... correct call to the corresponding basic function:
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Noob to Z80 needing +3 helpI'm quite new to z80 programming, but i'm attempting to write some kind of windowing system that will run alongside BASIC on my +3 with Kempston mous…
... off the end of the basic line from your machine code routine ... somewhere defining whether we started from BASIC or directly (so i know ... i safely "exit" to the basic editor?
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NEW games for you chaps (and girls too) ;-)Okie, did some .TAP versions of NEW original games that were only released on TRDOS disk format. Some of you might have seen some (one or two are eve…
... against doing any block loading from basic because it was easier for ... break any basic loader and also break $556 loader from machine code ... is no room for a BASIC loader either so you have ... "files" - if I cannot use basic loaders, which again, is almost ... -
Complex DRAW command?After looking at some Speccy code I noticed that the DRAW statement is used to draw lines (or it looked that way). On the Coco, the LINE command was…
... something more like the other BASIC.
It's a simple ... adventure games, simple 3D animation from BASIC and it takes less space ... LINE, DRAW or PLOT (Applesoft BASIC) statements.
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PAW tests - help and discussion :)Hello my friends :) I have started to make some tests with PAW and I must say I'm very pleased and surprised at the great program. I will be posting…
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The sentence GET PEN FROM BAG doesn't work. :( Examining ... something to simulate the INPUT from Basic in PAW, or will I ... -
Cybernoid editorSo, my long tern goal is to make my own Cybernoid or Rex like game (see an ancient thread about Sprite advice)...but my skills are somewhat lacking..…
... removing the custom loader from [url]ftp://ftp. ... possible to write a BASIC program to remove the ... saving the code blocks from BASIC, rather than farting around ... thread properly and a BASIC loader version probably wasn ... rock now, unless a BASIC program to dump the ... -
16k Spectrum.How come emulator's in 16k mode don't provide 32 ram-pack support.
... it returns back to the BASIC interpreter as normal.
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This will switch from BASIC to Forth. YOu would put ... are created by MicroSource as BASIC variables (e.g. after ... statement). Similarly, you can use BASIC variables directly in the assembly ... -
Total amount of memory on a Speccy ?I wonder............ The C64 (excuse me for saying that name in here. I'll hereby name it just "it") has 64k, while only 38k, or so, is available f…
... of memory instead 128K ?
From MC you have access to ... RAM, just not linear. Even from Basic may access (at least 128K ... Speccy has Ramdisk).
From Basic you may access whole 48K ... 't ?
So much from me...
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TV Modulator. Can it be repaired?Is it possible, to repair tha TV modulator (after removing it) if it gives wavy picture? I replaced both transistors (tr1/2) and both electrolytic ca…
... done intensive MC testing, just from BASIC. Everything I know says it ... .
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E-mail from Dom MorrisA few weeks ago I started a thread about a possible ethernet interface for the Speccy. This week I saw Dom Morris page about zsock for the z88 and I …
... , that's a (great) name from the past!
Back ... the external 3.5" drive FROM BASIC and would allow the full ... was possible to copy files from A: to d1 and back ... -
Where to start?Hi all, I wanna start coding something for the speccy. I have good experience at C/C++ and some other languages. I have coded asm on pc too, and ma…
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Where to start?Hi all, I wanna start coding something for the speccy. I have good experience at C/C++ and some other languages. I have coded asm on pc too, and ma…
... bit values into the individual registers from the usual use of the ... :-)
I stay away from self-modifying code unless it ... main reasons I stay away from self-modifying code is that ... -
Printers for Spectrum +2 and +3It seems that the only printers availables for ZX Spectrum were ZX printers and compatibles (connected through the expansion bus), but Spectrum +2 an…
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Pussy: Love Story from TitanicDoes anyone else have the full version of this game which has a demo in the archive? I have the TR-DOS disk image but I can't get it to run. I can g…
Judging from those screenshots, your ... might try is select 128 Basic, enter "usr 0" ( ... quotes), then on the 48K Basic command line:
RANDOMIZE ... you run TR-DOS commands from Basic - occasionally you get programs ... 't like being run from the DOS prompt itself, ... -
Interface 1 with 3.5" floppyHas this been done or can it be done? Using an interface 1 and a powered 3.5" floppy disk drive (with a modified cable) instead of a microdrive?
... file loads, if a BASIC program called "something" ( ... ). You can load or save from basic, with:
... 204
5 MANICMINER BASIC LINE 10
6 ... Pn might only be for BASIC programs, not code).
BASIC command system, so that ... -
Russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48kThe classic russian clone of ZX-Spectrum 48k [URL="http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spectrum/Leningrad48k/Leningrad48k.htm"]http://sblive.narod.ru/ZX-Spect…
... an instruction is fetched from any place of RAM ... called only from BASIC ROM, another - from TR-DOS ROM. BASIC's ... know what ROM we came from.
1818VG93 is ... bits 6 and 7 from #7FFD to set additional ... 128k machines (384x304 originates from need to work in ... -
Faster Pussycat, yer man (UDG)Right we are almost into a game area. Ive started to play with UDG and by using bins and pokes I can redesign graphics to my hearts content. Now Im…
[QUOTE=mulder;192597]Doing this from Basic is way too slow. The ... -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... using your favoured method (eg. from DOS: copy /b screen. ... ). Then use the following BASIC program to load it all ... which just wipes the loader from memory and enables interrupts, which ... already be enabled if loading from BASIC anyway). However this definitely ... -
Cannon BubbleHello! I would really like to transffer this game ( [url]http://cezgs.computeremuzone.com/eng/card.php?id=14[/url] ) to my REAL +3 disk drive. Becau…
... using your favoured method (eg. from DOS: copy /b screen. ... ). Then use the following BASIC program to load it all ... which just wipes the loader from memory and enables interrupts, which ... already be enabled if loading from BASIC anyway). However this definitely ... -
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. …
... never *ever* saved a program from BASIC before?? You poor soul! Well ... never! :) Start typing in those BASIC programs like crazy man! -
Idiots guide needed for idiotI thought I would try and give a basic compiler a go. The trouble is that I have tried both hisoft and mcoderIII and it just doesnt seem to be worki…
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I think the hisoft basic compiler is generally regarded as ... using compiled basic in ZXSF magazine, which you can download from
Some examples of compiled basic games that can give an ... of what can be done from basic:
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Demoscene on WOSHi. I was just having a look through the WOS database, and was wondering (partly as a result of another thread pointing out the The Lords have grante…
... permission, it's a "Yay" from me... it was all classed ... provided 32x32 and 64x32 printing from BASIC).
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Spectrum Amstrad printer leadHi, just been doing a search on the Spectrum+2A/+3 printer leads. Now as I understand it the Amstrad CPC464 and CPC6128 printer leads are compatible…
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A challenge thats probably impossiblehere's a challenge for all you coders. Given a snapshot, is it possible to create a program to sniff out the original start address for the game that…
... the game may have loaded from, say, a speedlock and as ... last machine code entry point from BASIC, not the game.
IY RegisterIve got a really bizarre bug, and I have only just started using the IY register. I seem to remember reading somewhere in a programming book, to neve…
Now that rings alarm bells. I am calling the code from basic, but its within the code where the problems are occuring. What does IY do with regards to basic?
