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+3 Disk drive motorHi, I'm creating a disk file menu selector. I was wondering how to turn off the +3 drive motor and the motor timeout check from Basic (poking the co…
... out, a simple CLEAR 49151 from BASIC will take care of that ... .
Next, from your machine language calling routine ... paging operations, and return to BASIC.
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+3 Disk drive motorHi, I'm creating a disk file menu selector. I was wondering how to turn off the +3 drive motor and the motor timeout check from Basic (poking the co…
... out, a simple CLEAR 49151 from BASIC will take care of that ... .
Next, from your machine language calling routine ... paging operations, and return to BASIC.
For a few ... -
external drive +3I recently bought an external drive kit for my +3 [url]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111267120287?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649[/ur…
... 720K floppy disk in +3 BASIC, if it is formatted externally ... on the +3, just not from BASIC. There are various utilities that ... -
New games - should they be 48K or 128K?Here's a question for new games - which machine should they be developed on? If I write a game for the 48K Spectrum, is it appreciated that it will …
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PC to +3 communicationsHi I'm going to explore the abilities of my +3 to communicate with a PC. The "natural" ways to do that would be via serial or parallel link. I've b…
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Apart from the pin-out of the ... . This can even be done from BASIC. But because the parallel/serial ... -
ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…
... 'd separate the attribute map from the tile map for each ... to make them stand out from the background. It didn't ... part as I never graduated from BASIC, UDGs and PRINT so I ... -
Loading data from 128 memoryAfter all these years I have come across the LOAD! in 128 basic for storing/restoring data in the 128 memory. How do I go about implementing this in…
... how it can be called from m/c.
Personally ... be able to use SAVE! from basic to load stuff into memory ... able to load a block from tape into the main bank ... to access the uncontended banks from a known location. This might ... -
TAPlist - the emulator versionI've got this working reasonably well; there's just a couple of small extra features which I want to add. (Recall that TAPlist writes a formatted lis…
... straight line-by-line conversion from BASIC to assembler, but it's ... . To use it, LOAD the BASIC program which you want to ... -
Spectaculator & GENS4Im using Hisofts Gens 4 assemler with Spectaculator and getting an error: [B]Bad Name[/B] when I try to assemble and save the file to a TAP. Assemb…
Spectaculator & GENS4Im using Hisofts Gens 4 assemler with Spectaculator and getting an error: [B]Bad Name[/B] when I try to assemble and save the file to a TAP. Assemb…
... I save to a TAP from the emulator (or real Spectrum ... , do I drop back to Basic and save using SAVE "NAME ... code to TAP and calling from Basic does something, not quite what ...Learning Machine Code the +2a wayHello again all, I thought I'd ask in this forum as the other categories seem less relevant. I keep re-reading the thread below with the advice given…
... get the classic AY sound from the Spec as is you ... I'd then be running from BASIC to an amp to a ... would increase the latency delays from source to sound.
But ...Totally random idea for the hardware nuts to exploreWhen it comes to multi-player games, how hard would it be to generate a second display from a single Speccy, instead of trying to link up machines, s…
... expect it to be used from BASIC, and from machine code you should ...RS232 on Spectrum 128KDoes anyone actually use the RS232 port on the Spectrum 128K? Is there anything useful that can be done with it? I know about the keypad with the Sp…
... play sounds on that instrument from BASIC.
RS232 requires a ...Interface 1 putting me in 48kHi All, I have a 128 toasty with interface 1 connected to a PC via serial. If I save a basic program using 'SAVE *"b" LINE 10', all is well. If I …
... can't PEEK ROM.0 from BASIC as it will always have ...Interface 1 putting me in 48kHi All, I have a 128 toasty with interface 1 connected to a PC via serial. If I save a basic program using 'SAVE *"b" LINE 10', all is well. If I …
... can't PEEK ROM.0 from BASIC as it will always have ... additional hardware or software apart from the IF1.
PEEK 23611 ...esxDOS v0.8.5 released (with TR-DOS emulator)Yup, you read right! Now with TR-DOS emulation! More info and download here: [url]http://www.esxdos.org/[/url] Enjoy :)
... files are hidden, but visible from basic ".ls"...). Then please copy max ...Best book for learning assembly programming on ZX Spectrum?Hello, I'm currently learning BASIC programming from ZX Spectrum BASIC programming manual. After I learn BASIC, I would then like to learn assembly…
... any rate, and takes you from basic assembly instructions to what you ...AMX mouse emulationI'm trying to add AMX mouse emulation to Spud but not getting very far. I can get a reaction to button presses but nothing to moving the mouse. …
... interrupts by placing the values from the pc mouse directly on ... moved the coordinates boundary check from someplace else into the ISRs ... PIO works.
From [url]http://nocash.emubase.de ... the kempston can be used from basic without any extra sw required ...Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …
... bitwise operators using the method from Toni Baker's book.[/QUOTE ... the subject "Bit Operations in BASIC: AND,XOR,OR,BIT,RES ... on, those functions are pure BASIC. I did do a set ... m/c routines to call from BASIC, which are also in the ...Fast and easy read/write of attributes?What are the fastest or easiest ways to check the attributes of tiles on the screen, in BASIC? It seems to be a great way of storing object info. …
... actually do that if printed from BASIC; they just print a '?'; and ... /or quicker way than that from BASIC.
A game I ... all the printing is done from BASIC (although keeping track of all ... the positions is done from assembler).
The ...UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
... and doing the SAVE command from within the emulator.[/QUOTE]< ... PC based sinclair basic". As it directly support from pc files (and ... LOAD "" token from basic and then trap it from the rom).
from the editor still checks for ...Upper case in INKEY$Hi, how I get upper case in INKEY$ ? Is there a POKE ? Thanks.
... there is a very impressive BASIC version of [I]Manic Miner ... how Caps Shift was detected from BASIC.
I didn't ...UDG tricks?I always enjoyed using [URL="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ZXBasicManual/zxmanchap14.html"]UDGs [/URL]for the 'sprites' in my games, when I coded th…
fastest Sound FX methods in ZX BASIC?Right now I'm doing an alternating footstep sound in my game using this following Beep statement. [code]beep 0.008,-4 + tog+tog+tog+tog : let tog=1-…
... audible. To do the same from BASIC would pepper your code with ...I wonder what this is?Just having a browse on ebay and came across [URL="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191216974918"]this[/URL], I wonder what its for?
... got sections highlighting products from the past - from 1988 you could still ... SAVEd, LOADed or COPYed [sic] from BASIC.
Requires ZX81 and ...New Spectrum User - Inveterate UpgraderI've been asking a few questions about my Speccy, which is the first I've owned despite my advancingh years. I was a C64 kid, but please don't hold …
... try a long BEEP command from BASIC and see if you can ...Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
... used a Wiznet W5100 so from a hardware perspective I'm ... looking at serving some very basic HTML for fun, and hopefully ... easy as writing a wee basic prog on the Spectrum that ... />
Documentation on handling sockets from BASIC is here [url]http://spectrum ...Spectranet updateHi all It's been a busy summer, and in any case I've wanted a little bit of a break from doing Speccy stuff to avoid it getting old (pun intended). …
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Documentation on handling sockets from BASIC is here [url]http://spectrum ...analysing program variable usageIf I wanted to count the number of times each variable is referenced while a program is running (not the number of times each variable is referenced …
... /> call GetLetter ;C =letter from BASIC (lower case)
jp ... ,CheckMatch ;passed end of BASIC variable name
bit ... /> call GetLetter ;C =letter from BASIC (lower case)
ld ( ...Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?
How did you pass by the BASIC-call to MC?
I see NLINE directly loaded with code, where is the start from BASIC?
