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FOR 1 TO 0 - Execute "no times"?I checked a couple of basic variations, and generally a for loop executes at least once, even if you create a negative loop without step -1. But in s…
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That covers all MS BASICs (MSX BASIC, GW BASIC ... can find the same thing in any MSX BASIC manual, any GWBasic, ...
The fact is that most BASIC programmers out there are Visual ... stay true to how most people would expect a ... -
64x48 full colour graphicsHow feasible is this? Could an interrupt-driven routine be used to, for example, fill the top two thirds with a 64x32 blocky picture and leave the bo…
[QUOTE=Ralf;641790]Ready. Runs in a loop, takes about 400 ... still most interesting. To this time I saw 4*4 pixels only in ... . That's a really cool thing. -
80x24 mode (Timex required)Hopefully Martijn will be adding this to the archive soon, but until then grab it here: [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15659782/BASIC80.zip[/url] Th…
... to be paged in. In 80x24 mode, SE BASIC IV tells ... amount of room for BASIC. All it would take ... , if it was available in BASIC or a kind of " ... /> You missed the most important thing which is full low- ... very well supported either. Most of the early software was ... -
Spectrum 128 toaster and divide incompatibility problems with some demos and games.Okay so I got this thing now. It?s my first Spectrum ever. [img]http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/2016/speccyl.jpg[/img] [url]http://img824.image…
... the bus you may be in luck. But...
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* ... +2B can have RAM in the first 16K which ... alternate BASIC ROMs like SE BASIC.
The most important thing for ... . This is noticeable in things like audio glitching ... -
real value of some of these books as learning aids?Ok, I admit perhaps it was a late night and frustration. :???: I could have been hallucinating when i was doing the typein. But I think not.. [url]…
... gw03/basfill.htm"]simple fill in BASIC[/URL] posted by one ... s interesting from the standpoint it's performing recursion in Sinclair Basic, this ... two circles, the program most likely would have run out ... demonstrated in nathan's link. This one can do most area ... -
WibbleBibble's Basic threadHi in an attempt to keep my questions from spamming the forum. I think its better to put them all in one place. Thanks everyone so far, I feel I am …
... many games that are written in basic i can study.
< ... Vickers books. will be finished in a day or so.
interesting..
Go to ... the programs in the archive.
Interesting thing i noticed in magazines - ... -
Top 10 most important countries for the Spectrum game-wiseUsing infoseek with a little spare time and playing with the releases in each country, the results are somehow a little surprising, although I have u…
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It was an interesting read, Bruno.
I ... , which would instantly discourage most teenagers interested in coding.
... would you choose? Good thing of it was that kids ... games for small money. Bad thing was that all the software ... -
Spectrum in black TS1500 case with grey "Sinclair ZX Spectrum" labelAt the Spectrum30 event yesterday, someone had brought a Spectrum like object with an unusual case and I never did find out whose it was or where it …
... that details the full ts2000 basic, including additions like SOUND ... I mentioned earlier. But most interesting of all is this little ... the shelves here -- in Canada -- starting in 1983) was originally ... locate it in case it contains anything interesting. I don ... -
Please, tell me something more about: ROTOTRONICS WAFADRIVEWhat do you think about Wafadrive? Was it a successful product in the 80's? [youtube]2yjEyoOeJrI[/youtube]
Here's an interesting point of view ... it).
In other words, it was ...
Incidentally: yes, most tapes have snapped, especially the ... point though - possibly the most important of all....
... all, that's the most important thing.
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Boriels ZX CompilerI'm trying to compile a very simple program and I keep getting the error: unexpected end of file. Here's my code: [CODE]10 cls 20: let n=0 22 do 2…
... may be true in some trivial cases, it fails most of the ... opens some interesting possibilities as well.
Whereas in C++ you ... , that's not the most substantial thing what's wrong with Python ... -
Typing in type-in gamesWhat are people's memories of typing in game listings from magazines and books? Pain or pleasure? I used to quite enjoy tapping them in, seeing how …
Most of the time was frustrating, after hours of typing in, imagining how ... was (as I said before, most of the time) crap.
most important thing is I learnt a lot of BASIC just by tiping in ... , searching in ... -
Not exactly the most accurate but...[url]http://youtu.be/e28ZpLwrzU0[/url] I did it using cheap software and don't have any degrees or qaulifications and am an amateur.
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I probably could do most of that in Spectrum basic ... began with this kind of thing. I remember making a series ... . ET flew over the houses in his space ship, hit a ... -
Code execution logging/profilingAs revealed in [url="http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41666"]this thread[/url], I'm adding support for reading code execution l…
... SkoolKid;668475]It would be interesting to see how your dynamic ... found from a USR 32768 in BASIC, but not reachable from ... snapshots, but most turned out to be written entirely in BASIC!
< ... identification) I'll include BASIC areas in the map, but should ... -
ZX7: an "optimal" LZ77 packerAbout 20 years ago, I started a M.Sc. in Computing, planning to work on data compression. Although I quickly changed to another subject for a number …
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3. Cut the 2 interesting blocks of this file with ... the loading screen during the most part of the loading time ... />
I use the shortest BASIC loader of Paolo Ferraris, download ... to do the block load in BASIC, because LOAD"name"CODE is ... -
Microcontrollers and the SpectrumBeing unusually busy lately, I didn?t get a chance to comment at the time on a remark in an older thread, but I shall take the liberty of doing it no…
[QUOTE=Zetr0;676393]Some very interesting stuff Dan,
I ... Atari machine. The nice thing about the project is its ... used, which is though most probably necessary in this particular case, because ... interface, for which then, most likely, a SD card based ... -
1983-2013.Ok, it's 1983's thirtyversary, the first real spectrum year, as 1982 was only a brief appetizer, so i'm going to play some of those old games, i'll p…
... speeches. all the descriptions are in humorous rhyme, and the playability ... technically limited. anyway, probably the most original text adventure from 1983 ... me but it's a basic thing that results slow even when ... which is not a negative thing in my view. i can't ... -
divide and pcb making in generalI'm looking to get the 100nf caps for the divide , but not 100% what ones to get as I couldn't find an actual divide part list.. except the obvious p…
... divide pcb's made properly in a factory. as I ... up. I've got most of the parts for it ... if I did em all in one lot. it's ... />
the scoring thing sounds the most viable thing really :) . I guess I ... br />
it's been interesting to source parts due to ... -
Terry The Turtle-Progress VideoMy second and last JSWed game before finishing my S.E.U.D project and moving on to A.G.D Finished game will have 128 screens and the mission is to ge…
... game is quite difficult in some areas as it ... fun working on unusual and interesting level designs though and ... giant frogs which are 32x48 in size and have animated ... is by far the most difficult thing to animate so far ... but i have thrown in a few retro game ... -
What is this???? :OLooking in ebay, I found this!: [url]http://www.ebay.it/itm/Simulatore-di-Spectrum-per-Commodore-64-128-Retrocomputer-cassetta-/290861910864?pt=Retr…
... quite useless to emulate worse Basic than the spectrum one.< ... isnt easy, even in machine language.
Spectrum Basic is natively slower ... about 70% of original spectrum basic speed, with lots of ... to 1541 disk, was the most useful thing.
It helped me ... -
PlayStation 4 AnnouncedAs widely expected, Sony have unveiled the PS4 at an event in New York: [url]http://www.computerandvideogames.com/392432/playstation-4-is-official-so…
... at the store, played an interesting game on it. Can't ... "math[B]s[/B]", the interesting thing is that it was spelled ... ]
To be fair, in most* cases, when there's a ... think) dictionary, which was streamlined in it's spelling (Color instead ... -
Spectrum 48k clonesI saw this website today and numerous 48k Spectrum clones. [url]http://zxspectrum48.i-demo.pl/clones.html[/url] A couple of them are really beautifu…
... some new things, especially in section seven (Italian scene) ... the most Didaktik Gama and TK95.
One interesting thing I ... noticed is the price of Spectrum in Italy ( ... I remember that used spectrum in Yugoslavia 1984, cost about ... -
The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
... Games Contest (?)
Worst thing about it is that... 1 ... 's BASIC!) 4) Most of the code was stolen from games in BASIC games ... you will see in 2 or 3 parts but most people won ... they should increase the speed in an emulator (and even then ... -
The Official Crap Games Competition 2013 Thread!Just to announce that the 2013 CGC is OPEN! [IMG]http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/daveyboyhughes/cgctitle2_zps77591934.jpg[/IMG] And for th…
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Worst thing about it is that... 1 ... 's BASIC!) 4) Most of the code was stolen from games in BASIC games ... -
X128 and EMS memoryI installed x128 emulator (latest v0.94 build) on my old notebook Intel P1 266MHz MMX, but I have one problem. It seems that the x128 is very sensiti…
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In reality animation is really smooth ... emulator WinApe.
But, my most interesting discovery is Wouter Ras Acorn ... especially like the way in which lists basic program.
Really great ... -
Altered Beast - Help with Level 1 BossI am playing this underrated game (IMO) and I think one of the problem with me getting far in the game is the first boss! Is there any way he doesn't…
... a lot at one point in the past, I got to ... losing a lot of energy in the levels, before the bosses ... slaughtered, so the most important thing is staying healthy in the level on ... again as I think its interesting although a little bit slow ... -
List of useful POKEs?Hi all. :smile: Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of a thread/file somewhere here containing a list of useful POKEs? Stuff like POKEs to make …
... all the useful ones. Back in the day I remember I ... 23562 before starting coding anything in BASIC, but can't remember the ... change the first BASIC line to 0. Worse protection in the world ... because most if not all interesting ones are on the ZX BASIC manual ... -
Finders Keepers+I know a few of you are interested in this project so I thought it was about time I started a proper thread for it rather than just slipping bits int…
... few of you are interested in this project so I thought ... this will have been seen in :-
Thread: The ... I can have full confidence in my disassembly I can get ... thing :)
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Type-in BASIC contest on Reddit.Not sure how WOS-legal it is to mention/link to other forums, but Reddit is having a contest on r/retrobattlestations, asking readers to type a speci…
... that gonna be a manual thing
with an internet ... Tunemaker (some corrections for Tunemaker in July & Dec'92).
in which the animation is almost ... 's still all in BASIC, but I basically rewrote most of it so ... -
A few questions about ZX Spectrum assemblyHi, I have a few questions about ZX Spectrum assembly language programming: - What's the best assembly tool for ZX Spectrum? I tried a bit the ZXSpi…
... tutorial? The examples provided in that page don't explain ... at the 30000 address.
In BASIC i checked the code with ... it anymore.
Another thing: Any chance to save the ... Option B) most closely resembles how programmers back in the day prepared ... -
ROM Routines Quick ReferenceSomebody was asking about calling ROM routines a few days ago, and it just so happens that I compiled this handy-dandy quick reference for same over …
... in different places or even in different ROMs (ie. not in the 48k BASIC ... ROM) in the 128k models but ... would have thought the most useful thing would be to note which ...
